The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-21 00:00:00

1110NEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

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CITY. Two, o'CLocK.

The accounts from the manufacturing districts
notice a slight improvement during the past week
in one or two of the principal branches of trade.
At Leeds►there has been a better tene in the woollen
•loth market; the purchases, however, have been
limited. The manufacturers, nevertheless, are fairly
emplOyed. At Manchester the late unfavourable
advices from the East have given a very heavy tone
to the market, and business in India goods has been
almost suspended. For the home markets the tran-
sactions have also been limited. At Leicester there
has been more activity in the demand for home con-
sumption and for exportation ; but little alteration
can be reported in the lace trade at Nottingham.
The various hardware trades of Birmingham,
Sheffield, and Wolverhampton have shown symp-
toms of improvement.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market, on Saturday,
business was rather inactive, and prices were about
the same,, The Railway Share Market closed with
more animation, and quotations exhibited a decided
improvement.
There is a moderate demand for money in Lom-
bard-street, and the Bank of England authorities
are obtaining a fair share of business. This shows
that there is very little difference between the
official minimum, and the rates current elsewhere.
At the forthcoming meeting of the London
Chartered Bank of Australia, a dividend of 3* per

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cent. for the last half-year will be proposed.
Further additions are being made to the stock of
bullion in the Bank of England, about £105,000
having been received there on Saturday. The ex-
port demand being very quiet, the specie received
from Australia, America, &c., is chiefly sent into
that establishment; and it is satisfactory to notice
increased consignments from New York, the ex-
change on London having attained a point that
enables the shippers to realise a profit from such
transactions. Further supplies are expected at an
early date from Australia, as several vessels must
have made considerable progress in their passage
home.

There has been very little animation in the
market for Public Securities today, and pre-
vious quotations were scarcely, maintained,
Consols being 911 a for money, and 91.1
for account. There is still, however, an
absence of buoYancy, the advices from the
Continent not- being of a character to inspire con-
fidence. The dealings in money stock are very
moderate. The New Threes and the Reduced are
firm, at 93 I. India Loan Debentures have receded
to 061-.. Exchequer Bills arc ss. to Bs. prem.
A moderate business has been recorded in
Foreign Securities, and prices are steady. Turkish
6 per Cents. are 741 to 742 ; ditto New, 571 to
671 ; Spanish Deferred are firmer at 37 ; Mexican
at 211; Portuguese at 444 ; Sardinian remain at
844 ; and Dutch, 4 per Cents. at 1009 101 ; Bra-
zilian 41 per Cents. are flat at 901 ; and the Scrip is
dis.

The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21
prem.; the Thlmes and Mersey ditto, 1 prem. ;
and the Universal ditto, / prem.

The dealings in the Railway Share Market
have been limited, but a' slight advance has been

apparent in values. North-Western, Midland,

and North-Eastern (Berwick), have improved ss. ;
Great Northern and Brighton, 10s.; and Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 15s. ; South-Eastern have
declined ss.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
also shown rather more buoyancy. South
Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian are steady at
and Buenos Ayres and San Fernando realise 64 ;
Grand Trunk of Canada have improved to 334, and
East Indian to 101 A, 102.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con-
tinue inactive ; Bank of Australasia have improved
about 55., and London Joiut Stock, 53. ; Red Sea
Telegraph have declined ss.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock - 228
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 931 3
3 per Cent. Comas Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock. ..
..
Ditto 6 per Cent. . • lo6i
Ditto Dchentures, 18.58
Ditto 1859
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under.ii,ooa _ 10 5 d
Comols for Account (6th June)
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
'itt.o £5OO 8
Ditto Small
POttEIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1858 9O! q 1
Ditto Scrip, 1860 a
Chilian 41per Cent
Mexican. 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853, 44
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St —
..
Ditto 4i per Cent. 97
Ditto 3 per Cent
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 perCeut.
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
roach Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent —
Ditto Certificatce, 4 per Cent.

O'CLOCK.
ConFoie, Money
Ditto June Account . 94f

THIS DAY'S SIIIPPLYG.

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LONDON, May 21:—Wind this day at noon—Notth-
East; light, pleasant breeze, and fine, clear, warm
weather.

PLYMOUTH, May 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Royal
Bride, from 'New Zealand, and proceeded for London.
Bailed—Raleigh, for Bombay.
OPP FALMOUTH, May 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
Reslin Castle, from Sierra Leone ; Amanda, from Porto
Rico.

NEWPORT, May 19.—Wind S E.—Sailed---:John N.
Cushing, for Singapore.
FLEETWOOD, May 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Mary
and Adeline, from Savannah.
QUEENSTOWN, May • 20 .—Wind IV, S.W.—Sailed
Arabia, for Halifax; Glasgow, steamer, for Now York;
Palestine, screw steamer, for Quebec.

(11Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning.

Wind N.
Arrived, May 19—Cambrian, steamer, from London;
Atalanta and Despatch, steamers, from Jersey ; Duke of
Cornwall, steamer, from Dublin.
Arrived, May 2d—Eliza, from Sligo. -
Sailed, May 19—Duke of Cornwall, steamer, for Dublin;
Argyll, steamer, for Carentan.
Sailed, May 20—Pera, steamer, for Alexandria.
(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.

Wind E.S.E. ; tide first hour's flood; weedier fine.
Arrived, May 20—Fortuna, from Taragona ; Jacoba,
from Groningen ; Mary Ann, from Auckland ; Rapid, from
Landscrona •' Desina Margrete, from Groningen ; Mary
Anne, from Dantzic.
Sailed, May 20—Panther, steamer, for Boulogne ; Baron
osYl steamer, for Antwerp; Peninsula, steamer, for Cadiz.
DEAL, Monday Morning.

Wind N.N.E. • fine.
Passed —Speed;vell, from London, for Jamaica ; Forester,
rara ;
from London, for St. Vincent; Prince Albert, from Lon-
don, for Jamaica; Lady Sandy, from London, for Demo-
Mary Winch,from London, for Cardiff; Tot a, screw
ateamor, from London, for Malta ; White Mouse, from Lon-
don, for Lisbon; Marco Polo, brig, from Leith for Genoa.

PARMA MENTA RY VICISSITUDES.—Some surprise
may possibly he excitcd when it is stated that since the cope -
Mencement of the year 1354, 347 gentlemen then in
house of Commons have ceased to have a share in the
whichdeli-
berations
have occurred from time to time during the six years in the
constitution of the house have been still more numerous ;
but several temporarily-ejected members have succeeded in,
obtaining.re-election in other quarters, and of those and of
others who have sat in the house only a few months we
haYe taken, pro hac vice, no account. Of the 317 gentlemen
no longer M.P.' s, 247 represented English; 11, 'Welsh ; 31,
Scottish ; and 53, Irish constituencies. Death, of course, has
been busy during the period under review, but at least two-
thirds of the changes noticed are due to hustings' influences
and the inability. of members to sustain the wear and tear—
pecuniary and I:,hysical—of Parliamenta7 life. The desire
for change ?ppeurs to prevail most strongly among borough
constituencies, 108 of the 247 English variations having
occurred a mouc, boron gh members ; but as the ratio of Eng-
lish boroughs to English counties is as 119 to 144, the dis-
proportion is not, after all, EO very great. Still county
members appear to enjoy a longer term of Parliamentary
existence, and changes in counties are not, as a rule, of so
sweeping a nature as in boroughs. Thus the following
English boroughs, each having two members, have now
wholly different representatives as compared with 1851:
Aylesbury, Barnstaple, Bath, Beverley, Boston, Busking-
ham, Cambridge, Chippenham, Cockermoutli, Colchester,
Deionport, Dover, Greenwich, Guildford, Harwich, Has-
tings, Leeds, Leicester, Leominster, Maldon, Manchester,
Marylebone, Newark, Northampton, Nottingham, Penryn
and Falmouth, Preston, Ripon, Rochester, Sandwich,
Southwark, Stmderland, Truro, and Windsor. Our ge-
neral conclusinca which may be drawn from an analysis of
the last six years is, that the avers e dura.ion of a Parlia-
mentary life is abeat 12 years,