The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-23 00:00:00

_MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK,

There is no material alteration to notice with re-
gard to the Molney Market. The supply of capital
is abundant, an d while in the discount market the
lowest rate is 4 y?er cent., it is only 2 per cent. on the
Stock Exchange. The demand is also restricted to
Lombard-street, where a feeling of tightness is pre-
valent. The fact of another parcel of gold being
sent into the Bank, with the improvement in the
Foreign Exchange, is but a slight relief to the mar-
ket, the influence of adverse interests being much
the strongest. The very circumstance of commer-
cial failures every now and then being announced,
promotes an uneasy feeling ; and as reports are
current in consequence of other houses being in dif-
ficulties, there is but slight chance of any imme-
diate improvement.

About £40,000 in gold was sent into the Bank
o England yesterday.

The remaining 290 boxes of specie on board the
Malabar, which sunk iu Galle harbour, have been
recovered.

The City of Washington has arrived from New
York with £85,800 in specie.
The traffic receipts on the Dutch Rhenish Rail-
way for the week ending 31st ult. amounted to
£9,751, being an increase compared with last year
of £1,308.

Increased activity was exhibited in the Cotton
Market at Liverpool yesterday, and prices were
very firm. The sales were 12,000 bales.
The half-yearly meeting of the Southampton
Dock Company has just been held, when the re-
port, which stated that the number of vessels which
entered the docks during the six months ending
30th June was 1,356, measuring 312,416 tons, was
adopted.
The English Stock Market to-day has presented
a very quiet appearance, owing to the indisposition
evinced to effect dealings either for transfer or
on speculative account. No alteration of impor-
tance has taken place in Consols, which are
quoted 92t, / for money, and 92/ 93 for the
6th proximo. The New 3 , per Cents, are

steady, at 931 ; the Reduced are firm, at 9311 ;
Bank Stock is heavy, at 2311 ; India ditto has im-
proved to 217-1 ; ditto 51 per Cent. Enfaced Paper
has receded to 1011,0 and Exchequer Bills remain
at par to 3s. prem.

Very few transactions are recorded in Foreign
Securities, and prices show no important variation.
Turkish 6 per Cents, are 74 to 741 ; ditto New,
601 to 60-1-; and the 4 per Cents. are steady, at
1001 ; Brazilian, at 100 ; and Portuguese, at 44.
Spanish 3 per Cents. are flat, at 48i ; but the Cer-
tificates remain at 53.

The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 2
prem.; the Thames and Mersey, rt prem.; and
the Universal, 1 prem.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1860. 1859.
Great Western
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton 21,043 20,190
Midland
South. Eastern
Great Northern .. 27,411 27,391
Laneashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter 7,373 7,803
North-Eastern • 42,884 41,817
West Midland
Edinburgh and Glasgow 10,065 7,164
Glasgow and South-Western 8,621 7,793
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada

These returns show a continued steady im-
provement in the receipts of most of the pin-
cipal lines. On the Great Western it amounts :1
to £2,450 ; the North Western, £5,231 ; the South
Western, £2,776 ; the Brighton, £853 ; the Mid-
land, £3,580; the South Eastern, £1,586; the :1
Great Northern, £2O ; the Lancashire and York- st
shire, £4,823 ; the North Eastern, £1,067 ; the :I
Edinburgh and Glasgow, £2,901; the Grand
cot
Trunk of Canada, £3,784 ; and the Great Western st
of Canada, £387. st
st,
Business in the Railway Share Market has been stt
moderately moderately active, and the very favourable charac-
ter of the traffic returns, together with the improve- :I;
ment in the weather, has given an improved move- sit,
ment to prices. Great Western, Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, North British, North- sti
Eastern (Berwick), and South-Eastern have ad-
vanced ss. ; and Brighton and West Midland 10s.; t,
North Western and Caledonians declined 55., and :ft:
London and Blackwall 10s. s(

The Foreign lines were at quite nominal rates, no
business being recorded.
In the Colonial Market Great Indian Peninsula
declined 55., and Great Western of Canada im-
proved ss.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
in modorate request at former quotations.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93a I i t
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent.
Ditto 51 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 1858 96k
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 8
Ditto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account, 6th Sept .. 93
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 11d
Ditto £5OO par 3 p
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1860
Chili= 6 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent .. 821
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account •• •
Peruvian 41 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. • •
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St ..
Ditto 41 per Cent 931
Ditto i per Cent., 1859
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Spanish Cora. Cert. of Coup. not funded 54 6
Turkish 6 per Cent .
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols' Money '
Ditto Account, September

POLICE INTELLIGEII7CE-(THIS DAT.)

MARLBORO UGH- STREET .
USEFUL CAUTION—THE MUFFIN MAN AGAlN.—Ed-
ward Parsons, a fellow well known to the police, w
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with loitering aoutGroass-
Tenor-square, with skeleton keys in his possession, for the
purpose of committing a felony.
A large white basket with a piece of gireed, thes prisonern
green
baize, similar
t c nand thus
s
t
to those used by muffin-men, was prodw?h e
using this means of gaining access to the Ica
to the plate.
Sergeant Bason, 12 C, said that a little after 4 o'clock
the previous afternoon ke saw the prisoner, who had the
basket produced on his arm, in front of the house 34,
Grosvenor-square, and as he passed him ho observed a key
in his hand, but the prisoner noticing him, pretended to
be counting some halfpence. The prisoner then crossed
Davies-street and Berkeley-square, and when near 34,
Davies-street, he dropped something down a cellar flap,
and on his stopping and asking what he had had in his hand,
he said only some halfpence, but on a search being made two
skeleton keys were found.
A butler at 11, Grosvenor-square, said he had seen the
prisoner trying the area gate, apparently with a key, but
thinking he had come from one of the tradesmen, took
little notice of him. He afterwards recognised him in cus-
tody. _ _

Sergeant Cole, 23 C, said the prisoner was a regular pro-
fessional hand, and he believed he had had 4 years' penal
servitude. A quantity of plate had been taken by persons
going down areas with baskets like that produced—repre-
senting themselves as muffin men, venders of china, kc.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for 3 months with
hard labour.

A few days since a man was committed from this court
for a similar offence.

A HEAVY GAS BILL.—The New York corre-
spondent of the Mobile Iluister relates the following :
Recently a gentleman returned from Europe. He had been
absent with his family seven months. He paid his gas bill
the day be left, and the house had not been opened for seven
months, yet when it was the gas man took a return from
the meter, and a bill was made out for 52 dole. Mr. Grinnell
went and complained to the secretary, related the circum-
stances, and threatened exposure ofsuch a barefaced robbery.
He refused to pay the bill. " Very well, sir," said the secre-
tary. Mr. Grinnell went home and told his wife. " Pay
it," said she. " Why so ?" said he. " Because," said she,
" the day we left New York I had to go back to the house
for some article I had forgot. The window-shutters were
fastened ; I lit the gas. The other day,
I found it still burning." The bill wa •
gas flame had been burning for seven mownhthens. we returned,
8 paid, for a steady