The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-11 00:00:00

31ONEY 111 A

7TI NEWS

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The ordinary requirements of trade, and the pre-
parations for the £2,650,000 Victoria Railway
debentures to be tendered for this afternoon, have
kept the money market in an active state. Not-
'withstanding the large aggregate sum paid away
at the Bank of England since Monday riorning in
the shape of dividends, the available supplies still
appear exceedingly limited, and the rates charged
for accommodation show very little variation.
The inquiry for loans in the Stock Exchange
has Slightly augmented, owing to the settlement of
the monthly account in consols.
Letters from Liverpool report that the cotton
market yesterday closed with a rather dull appear-
ance; and only 4,000 bales were sold, at about pre-
vious rates. In the Railway Share Market a fair
amount of business was transacted, and prices were
firmer.
The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Massilia,
Which leaves to-day, will take out £2,000 in gold
to Alexandria, and £26,000 in gold and £219,965
iu silver to Bombay, making a total of £247,965 ;
the whole of which is transmitted on private ac-
count.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
generally a trifle higher.
There were no bullion operations at the Bank of
England yesterday. The silver by the Panama
has been delivered, but not yet sold ; the market is
therefore very q uiet, and bars are nominally quoted
8a• lid. per ounce standard.
The market for Pablic Securities is rather flat,
although there is very little alteration to report in
'Woes, Consols bt'ing 941 f for money, and 94Z- A
for account. There is an expectation that the
Money Market will yet assume a more unfavour-
able aspect. The Ne w Threes are 924 931; and the
Reduced 92f 93; India New Loan remain at 104'4
163; ditto Debentures (1859) are firmer at 97; but
tbelionds are flat at ss. to ls. dis. Exchequer Bills
41'e 10s. to 13s. prem.
The transactions in Fe reign Securities have been
rather limited, and prices tend down wards. Turkish
6 per Cents. are 751 to 76 ex div. ; ditto New,
61 to 614; Dutch 21 per Cents. have receded to
t° 651 ; Mexican, to 211 a; Chilian 3 per Cents.
marked 711 ; Brazilian 5 per Cents. have
hilproved to 991 100; ditto 41 per Cents. (1858
remain at 91.

The Oeean Marine Insurance Shares are 2,1 I
Prem., and the Universal ditto, y -a prem.
A downward movement has taken place in the
Railway Share Market, owing to the heavy tone
in the English funds. London and Black wail,
South-Western, and Stockton and Darlington
have declined 55.; Bristol and Exeter, Caledonian,
Great Northern A Stock, North-Western, Midland,
and South-Eastern, 10s.; Great Western, North-
e.stern (York), 155.; and Lancashire and York-
shire, XI—
, In the Foreign and Colonial Markets business
has been inactive, and prices remain unaltered.
Lombardo-Venetian realise 11a ; Great Luxem-
bourg, 61,- 7 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 34 35 ;
great Western of Canada, 12} 122,
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
WI at about previous rates:

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK,
Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92 3 2/
Per Cent. Consols Annuities
1 ", 3 per Cent. Annuities
-11,(tia Stock
riuitto 5 per Cent.
D!tto Debentures, 1859
itto Bonds, D.,000 —
~,litt,) under 1.,000
`i rtgols for Account (May 9) ....
Ochequer Bills, £l,OOO, 11d l2 10 13
~itto 4500 lO
buitto Small, 11d.
Brazilian
FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
6 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1839 & 1859
~, Ditto 4f per cent., 1858
'iallian 6 per Cent
h Ditto 3 per Cent.
°lexicon 3 per Cent.
...,obitto Account
t' rtuguese. 1853, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 421
Ditto A.ccount per Cent —
761 5f
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
butch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent 6sk
TWO O'CL OCK.
Cons6ls, Money
Ditto Account . 941 1

t 4 The French Minister of War is occupied with
improvement of the cavalry. It was perceived in Italy
that the cavalry was not as efficacious during that cam-
ittign as on former occasions. This arose from the fact of
ir infantry soldiers being armed with rifles, by which
,:4eY were enabled to reach the cavalry at a long distance,
ire.1.1.(1 thus destroy the efficacy of their charge. Alansouvres
be tried at the camp of Chalons and at Luneville,
.gleh it is hoped will restore to the cavalry their ancient
erevige.
General Dieu, after several months of extreme
14ff:ring, died yesterday in Paris of the wounds he received
f')°lferino. The Emperor paid a visit to his bedside only
el'r days ago. Before his death the general expressed a
1:13e that the 74th Regiment, which he headed at the mo-
eld When he fell, would fire a salute over his grave.
LDETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY POISON.
esterday morning Mrs. E. Clark, aged 30, residing in the
];tOrnden-road, attempted self-destruction by swallowing a
hge quantity of sugar of lead. She was conveyed to St.
IC,c'toas's Hospital, where Mr. Claptor rendered every as-
ea lance, but she [remains in a very precarious state. No
8,,,e is assigned for the rash act.
Ttii‘-ttINESE SKILL.—At the ordinary meeting of the
26411,_ cheater Literary and Philosophical Society, March
b.Zo, 1860, the President, Wm. Fairbairn, Esq., F.R.S.,
)i•,:eibited two large pans of cast iron, procured by Mr.
erthThe ington from China, where they are used for Lioiling
metal, which was at the strongest part only ono
of an inch in thickness, possessed considerable mal-
IC"ity. Mr. Fairbairn stated th o
at the art f making sach
ktte castings of thin ntetal was unknown in England. --
lelianits' Magazine.
,
L'kE NEW TELEGRAPH TO AMERICA.—Some
versation took place at a late meeting of the Manchester
ttiry and Philosophical Society, respecting the proposed
I:igtaph to connect Great Britain with America, by using
T, r • Gisborne74.„/Ic t
t Greenland, and Labrador as intermediate stations.
, he original projector of the Atlantic
thvegraph, said that the fears which had been expressed
by " the cable would be destroyed on the coast of Labrador
kasgrounded icebergs, were not warranted. He was inti-
ICeIY acquainted with the locality, and although there
an immense number of icebergs which grounded on the
t, some, as he had himself observed in 70 fathoms of
.the
yet, as at Newfoundland, there were inlets of water
lai„'ke middle of sufficient depth to secure the cable from
Jul.—Mechanics' Magazine.
thi:EoLooisTs' ASSOCIATION.—The committee of
aociation having determined upon conducting occa-
-46,7' excursions to different places of geological interest, a
tia„°e, number of the members availed themselves on Mon-
ki.'„Last of the facilities afforded by the South-Eastern
titi:lway to visit Folkestone with a view to examine the
15,,‘a of this particularly interesting part of the coast. The
TCY was under the guidance of the President, the Rev.
tips etas Wiltshire, Professor Tennant, and others. They
lit several hours on the shore, investigating the chalk,
OP Muds, and gault, and procured a considerable number
totoaracteristic fossils, and thus brought the abovenamed
aioations practically before the student, affording him a
11134 correct idea of the rocks and their contents than a
vary of geological works.
The LOATING THIRTY MILES ON A CAKE OF ICE.—
t' K green Bay Advocate relates a thrilling ice adventure :
the ri!lrY Martin and Isaac Gagnon, one with a load of hay,
Otheree
. with a load of corn-meal, were travelling on the
;444 Little Bay de Noquet. About four o'clock p.m. they
t} cvered a crack which cut them off from the shore, and
147 t. the ice on which they were was floating. them out
Green Bay, towards Death's Door. They unhar-
ot,w'ed their horses, and let them go, and took the box off
19kt'L Of the sleds to use in case they got into the
50% At midnight, being exhausted, they lay down to
tc.,l9llnder the lee of a hummock of ice. In the morning,
1,4g-Lght o'clock they saw land which proved to be Wash-
qker4, Island, and they landed outside Death's Door. They
heap mix been driven 30 miles across the bay in one of the
e
ota „ISt gales that ever blew. The horses, after being
%eif‘l, followed the men In their rambles on the ice until
ta, 'lig to a weak place they went in. Two hours later,
leisthe horses swam up to the cake on which the men
tt'ent his head on the ice, and looked beseechingly,
e :3' could not help the poor brute."
N't):TtrltE OF PRISONERS ESCAPED FROM A GAOL.
11'11,4 lee men, named Presshouse, Douglas, and Rawlins,
Iheit wete incarcerated in the Newcastle gaol, made their
oe,Pc during the night of the 27th of October. Press-
el` having been lamed in the attempt was re-captured
-1110 night by the chief constable, Mr. Sabbage. The
,tll4B have remained at large until the present time. On
self 4Y night, however, Insi:octor Elliott and Selby Paw-
the detective force, encountered Douglas as he was
14.1? e /I,lllgEt a public-house. From the desperate character of
• ,11 with whom they had to deal, to seize and pinion
151.tvtit"04; the work of a Noment ; no doubt to the astonish-
itktie the bystanders. The necessity for this sharp
• No,, at once maxifested itself, for, seeing the fix
111.1°11 hwa placed, he at nce attemted to
'Andse into his coat pockets,o p but which he was
tot, Ate('
Itkat from accomplishing by the act of the offi-
O wkaTentioneC. Having handcuffed him their atten-
td peentwn tohis pocket, when from the. outside right-
%tre,rt of coat they took a loaded pistol, and from
414 rem 'Pocket the same garment another pistol, loaded
cookci. Of the other prisoner, Rawlins, no
t 4 Trit Let lafen found.
ce:1144 01VIICOMING PRIZE FlGHT.—Heenan, .
ford th,enFauthanapion, was observed on Saturday to pro-
- ti a small station between Bletchley and Bed-
fePtoija Ilot)urpose, probably, of training. On Monday,
qilthe Firer, chief constable of Bucks, obtained warrants makeg ension of both Heenan and Sayers, which
' tetyinto execution in case either of them should
keatimeo aPpearance in the county under such circum-
kit° ren.der likely a breach of the peace,