The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARXB2' AND CITY IVETV,S.

CITY, Two o'CLom.

The payments of the 4th of the month have pro-
ceeded in a satisfactory manner, the mercantile
communit?having been enabled to provide for their
engagements on easy terms. Several circumstances
have •occurred to stimulate the demand for money
and to impart firmness to the rates of discount, but
there is still an absence of pressure, and bills are
negotiable at least I per cent. under the Bank of
England minimum quotation.
The rate of discount at Vienna has been raised
by the Bank of Austria to 5,-1, per cent.
On the 15th inst. an instalment of 15 per cent.
becomes due on the New Russian Loan, and on the
16th of 8 per cent. on the last Canadian Loan.
There was a meeting yesterday of the creditors
of Messrs. H. Brooks and Co., manufacturers of
pianoforte " actions," when it was stated that the
liabilities were £37,740, and the assets £36,093.
The meeting was adjourned for a fortnight to
enable a committee to investigate the estate.
A large amount of business was recorded in the
Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices
were firm. The sales were estimated at 18,000
bales. The Railway Share Market closed with an
active appearance, and quotations exhibited a fur-
ther improvement.

There has been rather more activity in the mar-
ket for Public Securities, and increased buoyancy
has prevailed-Consols having risen to 93Z- 1 for
money, and 93 for the account. This improve-
ment has been caused by an advance in the value of
the French Funds, and more favourable tenour of
the advices from the South of Europe. India Stock
remains at 218; ditto New Loan is firm at 1031 2;
ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper at 961 ; and the
Debentures are flat at 962; Exchequer Bills have
improved to ls. and 4s. prem.
Increased activity has prevailed in the Foreign
Stock Market, and prices have further improved.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 73i to 741 ; ditto New,
56 to 561; and the 4 per Cents. have advanced to
1012, Mexican to 22Z 1, Brazilian 42 per Cents.
to 871 1, Sardinian to 841, Russian Scrip to 11
prem., Spanish 3 per Cents. to 481, ditto Certifi- .
cates to 61 1, and Peruvian 3 per Cents. to 73-a ;
ditto 41 per Cents. are firm at 941, and Venezuelan
at 24.
The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 11 21
preen. ; the Thames and Mersey, I Z- prem. ; and
the Universal, 1 a prem.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :-
1860. 1859.
Groat Western-
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton 19,951 20,006
Midland
South- Eastern
Great Northern 27,133 28,429
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter 7,097 7,865
North-Eastern
North British
West Midland
Dublin and Wicklow . 2,626 2,559
Edinburgh and Glasgow 6,845 6,687
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada
The above returns, with one or two exceptions,
owing to competition, are generally favourable.
On the Great Western, there is an increase of £653 ;
the North Western, £1,031; the South Western,
£3,578 ; the Midland, £2,456 ; the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, £5,042; the Edinburgh and Glasgow,
£158; the Grand Trunk of Canada, £3,195; and
the Great Western of Canada, £8,812. On the
Brighten there is a decrease of £55 ; the South
Eastern, of £968 ; and the Great Northern, of
£1,295.
Business in the Railway Share Market has shown
rather more activity, and prices have generally ex-
hibited an upward tendency, owing to the favour-
able character of the traffic returns. Great Western,
London, Chatham, and Dover, South-Western, and
South-Eastern, have improved 10s. ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, and North-Western, £1 ; North
Eastern (Berwick) and Midland, £1 ss. to £1 10s.;
and West Midland, £1 10s. to £2.
The Foreign lines were quiet, although prices
were well maintained. South Austrian and Lom-
bardo:Venetian advanced to 111, and Great Luxem-
bourg to 71.
In the Colonial Market the Canadian lines have
been very buoyant. Grand Trunk have advanced
to 4 ; and Great Western,l to 1 ; East Indian
improved 1.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
shown no change of importance in prices.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
India Stock .. .
Ditto 6 per Cent lo3a i
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent.
Ditto 5 per Cent .
Ditto Debentures, 1858 961
I at,. Bonds £l,OOO
Consols for Account, 11th Oct .. 931 ±
India Stock for Account —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
Ditto £5OO 1 4 p
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1860 B7l i
Mexican 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Peruvian 41 per Cent
Dittorotito Account
R 3
(Uribarren), 41 per Cent.
Ditto_Dusi
stti
Russian
n sAccountper per
..
73
Cent
Cent. 1822. £ St
Ditto 41 per Cent. Scrip, 1860
It pm
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
84
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
48
Spanish Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded 6ll
Turkish 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto Now Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian 5 per Cent. Ex. 10 Florins 5ll 21
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent 64/
Ditto Certificata, 4 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money , ................. 931 931
Ditto Account .................. 931 93±

HORRIBLE DEATH IN A BAKER'S OVEN.—A boy
named Frederick Drake, son of a baker, of 57, Princess-
street, Lambeth, met with a fearful and fatal accident on st
Wednesday morning last. At the inquest held on his body :
last evening, by Mr. Langham, in the Westminster Hospital,
st
it appeared that his father had cautioned deceased from st
going on to the oven, because on the previous Sunday some
dust had fallen in. Robert Lawrence, in Drake's employ-
ment, said he was with the deceased a little before 8 on
Wednesday morning last. The deceased, as usual, went on 61
the crown of the arch for some wood to light the kitchen at
fire. The father was out at the time. He (witness) took
up a board of bread into the shop, and while placing the
loaves round the shop on the shelves he heard frightful
screams proceeding from the bakehcuse, and being joined
by his fellow servant they ran down stairs, and found that
the poor boy was in the oven, but owing to the dust and
smoke they were unable to extricate him for a space of about
three minutes. The jury returned the following verdict •.
" That the deceased died from the effects of burns, conse-
quent on falling into an oven, and there was considerable
neglect in not having had the oven repaired."
THE EARL OF DERBY.—To his jockeys Lord
Derby is liberal, but not foolishly extravagant; and so de-
lighted was he with the exquisite manner in which Alfred
Day handled the 'cowardly Dervish at Goodwood in his
race with Arthur 'Wellesley, that he
isfmeonrptthohretioaminntian,h
cheque y
maelaswauforrse
a hundred pounds in recognition of it. Frank Butler's
services, which
iw heree:e ueceretaeiendly.invehryte
esteemed ; and, f
to mitigate the horrors of that system of trafficking in
human flesh, which has been so long in force in the
asLtehrde
Jockey Club, and which is nothing but a remnant of a
he will earn. for himelf the ratitude
barbarous age,
of cur jockeys, and be
turf.
racing recognisedlew
Wilberforce of the turf.
Derby is well read, for his whole insoulis
sport and of
him it is said that he once addressed the Speaker of the
House of Commons as Mr. Clerk of the
bCoueern
ofratranin
rsse.
00enedan h-
other occasion, also, when it might have
ehe, u
duppaiooe
was broken down with a speech of four h
China, full of blue-book details, taking hold cng
peer's arm, he inquired, as he left the house, weehaatetwivoeuilnd
win the Two Thousand, and was immediately
discussing the merits of the field as he had beelniebnefokreenign
analysing the motives of our Ambassador at g
ne
Freed from political care, Lord Derby, contrary toegtieearar-i
opinion, we will admit, is no longer the fierce aristocr p
liamentary debater, but the genial, good-natured man_ o_fethe
world, full of fun, ever ready to appreciate a joke, ande_dess.
to every move on a race-course, as he is on the h.
board of fit. Stephen's. And if the walls of John ,Scott
octes"
s
parlour could speak, they would reveal many a Is.
that would rival the " Ambrosianm" of Blackwood, as the
mighty minister, sunk into the sportsman, sat up with his
"
trainer till the light broke sufficiently to enable them to try
their horses. The turf has been held to be a degrading
pursuit; but while its leader, whose domestic virtues are
on a par with his public worth, and who is as capable of
replying to Count Cavour, in Italian, at Turin, as he is tilp
M. Thouvenel, at Paris, in French, and is the patriot who
entertained 14,000 Volunteers, at his own expense, on a
recent occasion, the British sportsman may well be proud
of the ascendancy of the turf over the public mind, and
trust the day may be far distant when the Racing Calendar
shall appear minus the name of the LArl of Derby,--.gaily s
MagaZinffOr October,