The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-07 00:00:00

MONEY MARKE7' AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The accounts from most of the manufacturing
districts.represent that, during the past week, there
has been little change of importance in the general
state of trade. Rather more activity has prevailed
in the woollen cloth trade of Leeds, owing to the
favourable alteration in. the weather. A fair in-
quiry has existed for goods at Manchester, suitable
to the East India and China markets ; for the home
demand, however, business has been inactive. Piece
goods at Bradford have been in moderate request,
but wools and yarns remained inactive. At Leices-
ter the various branches of the hosiery business
have been dull ; an improvement, howea er, is anti-
cipated owing to the beneficial change in the
weather. The iron trade of South Staffordshire
has shown little alteration
,; and business at Bir-
mingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton has con-
tinued dull.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market, on Saturday, the
transactions were rather less extensive, but prices
were firm. The sales were estimated at 8,000 bales.
Within the last day or two a slight increase has
been perceptible in the inquiry for money, which
may be accounted for by the requirements of the
trading classes who, in many cases, refrained from
obtaining the accommodation they needed until
after the Bank directors had met on Thursday, as
there was some expectation of a decline in the rate
of discount. The terms, however, have not been
influenced by this additional activity, and a further
reduction is fully anticipated; gold continues to flow
into the Bank, and the next return, it is imagined,
will also exhibit a falling off in the other securities.
The Edinburgh, from New York, has been an-
nounced this morning with £20,230 in specie.
A call of 12 florins per share has been made by
the Directors of the Dutch Rhenish Railway, pay -
able on the Ist September next.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £506,614, and the exports £228,079,
exclusive of the following shipments direct from
London to the Continent during the week ending
Thursday last :

Cold coin, Calais
)) Hambro'
71 Boulogne 240 „
~ Belgium .. 106 „
„ bars Hambro'
„ Boulogne 5,250 „
Silver coin, Calais 60 „
„ „ Belguim
1, ~ Boulogne 1,600 „
„ Hambro'
The market for public securities remains in a
quiet state, and during the next few days the liqui-
dation of the account will engage the attention of
the members. It is probable, also, that the
tendency of values will be influenced by
the necessary arrangements ; and already the
effect of some of the preliminary movements
does not apar to have been altogether
favourable, rather a heavy tone being exhibited.
Consols have been 951- for money and the 9th
inst., and 951 2 for June, but they are now 95 to
951 and 951 a respectively. The New 3 per Cents.
are steady at 931 1; the Reduced at 94 I; Bank
Stock jias improved to 226 2272; India ditto has
receded to 219 ; ditto New-Loan to 106 i 5 ; ditto 5
per Cent. Enlaced Paper is firmer at 98a ; ditto
62 per Cent. ditto at 1041 ; Exchequer Bills, Os.
to 82. prem.

In Foreign Securities a moderate amount of
business is recorded, but prices generally are de-
pressed. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 77 to 771 ; ditto
New, 62 to 621 ; and- the 4 per Cents. have receded
to 1011 ; Portuguese, to 45i; Mexican, to 214 ;
Spanish, to 4S-} a ; and ditto Deferred, to 371 38,1 ;
Brazilian 5 per Cents. are steady, at 1001; and ditto
41 per Cents, at 91t.
The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21 3
prem.; the Universal ditto, 4 4 prem.
The transactions in the Railway Share Market
have been rather more active,'and prices have
shown more firmness. Eastern Counties, Great
Northerns, Brightons, Midlands, North-Eastern
(Berwick), and South Easterns, have improved
Se., and North British 10s. Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton have declined ss.
In the Foreign and Colonial market& there has
been little change of importance. Lombardo-Vene-
tian, with £2 more paid up, are quoted £l3 ex-
dividend. East Indian, Great Indian Peninsula,
Grand Trunk of Canada, and Great Western of
Canada, realised about former rates.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con-
tinned dull, but no change of importance took place
in values. Union of London realised 25 to 25/
Bank of Australasia, 701 ; Peninsular and Oriental
Steam, 80.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
353er.Cent. Reduced Annuities 93f a a
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
** .• 219 i2l
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 5 par Cent.
Ditto 5} per Cent. lO4l i /
Ditto Debentures, 1858 - 961 7
Ditto, 1859
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO 5 10
Dittolßonds under £l,OOO
Consols for Account (May 9) i 95.1 1 5
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brasilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Scrip, 1860
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
z
Milian 41 per Cent B6l
Mexican 3 per Cent., Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 . —
Ditto Account
Russian 6 per Cent. 1822, £ St —
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent
Sardinian 5 per Cent. Account..
Spanish 3 per Cent. Account
• Ditto Now Deferred 3 per Cent Account 381 7i 81
Turkish 6 per Cent..
Ditto Account ...
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cont. mel i
Dividends on the above payable in London.
THREE O'CLOCK.
95 /
95 1

77i i

Consols, Money ...
Ditto Account .

VIENNA, May 2.—Private letters from Caschau
fully confirm the information given relative to
M. Zsedenyi. That gentleman is permitted
to have breakfast, but no supper. On the
28th of April, a judge and a commissary, who
were attended by several agents of the police, went
to the house of a barrister at Trieste and took from
him all the papers belonging to Baron Bruck which
they found in his possession. The majority of the
Vienna papers continue to insist on the perfect
innocence of thri late Minister of Finance; but it
hardly admits of a doubt that the Government is in
possession of evidence which leaves no doubt of his
complicity with some of the persons who are in
arrest.

A private letter says the 15th of this month is the
day fixed by the Turin Parliament for the debate on
the treaty concluded between the King of Sardinia
and the Emperor Napoleon for the, cession of Savoy
and Nice to France. It is said that the Deputies
Itatazzi, Garibaldi, Migiiettti, and others of their
party are determined to make a strong opposition
to the ratification Of the treaty, but it is certain
that notwithstanding their opposition the treaty
will be ratified by an overwhelming majority.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
members of the College having undergone the necessary
examinations, were' admitted licentiates in midwifery at a
meeting of the board on the 4th instant, viz. :—Messrs.
Thomas Charles Steuart Corry, Belfast, diploma of mem
bership dated Oct. 2, 1846; Edgar Shaw Blaker, Lewes,
Sussex, April 15, 1859; Edward Adolphus Brown, East-
wood, Nottinghamshire ; Charles Whiston Hind, Swindon,
'Wiltshire, Dec. 5, 1645 ; John Woodman, Exeter, Devon,
April 17, 1860 ; Edmund Holland, Rugeley, Staffordshire,
April 19, 1860; William John Hunt, Sheerness, April 19,
1860; Alexander George Davey, Walmer, April 13, 1860;
Edmund Strickland, Kirby Moorside, Yorkshire, April 20,
1860; Henry Grant Sutton, Ilminster, Somerset, April 17,
1860; Harrison Hanna, Belfast, May 11, 1852; and Wm.
Thomas Salmon, Canada, July 18, 1859.
THESE SEAMEN.—We trust our lives to these
seamen, and how nobly they fulfil their trust They are
under heaven, as a providence for us. Whilst we sleep,.
their untiring watchfulness keeps guard over us. All
night through that bell sounds at its season, and tells how
our sentinels defend us. It rang when the Amazon was on
fire, and chimed its heroic signal of duty, and courage, and
honour. Think of the dangers these seamen undergo for
us ; the hourly peril and watch ; the familiar storm ; the
dreadful iceberg; the long winter nights when the decks
are as glass, and the sailor has to climb through icicles to
bend the stiff sail on the yard. Think of their courage and
their kindnesses in cold, i t tempest, in hunger, in wreck I
" The women and children to the boats,"' says the captain
of the Birkenhead, and, with the troops formed on the
deck, and the crew obedient t, the word of glorious com-
mand, the immortal ship goes down.—" Cornhill M'aga:ine"
/or May.