The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-03 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The accounts received from most of the manufac-
turing districts continue very satisfactory, although
the advices from China and the East have caused
rather less activity during the past week in goods
suited to those markets. The woollen cloth trade,
at Leeds, has been exceedingly brisk for the time
of year, and a fair amount of business has been
done in goods, both for the home and export de-
mand, the mills in the neighbourhood being in full
work. Worsted yarns at Bradford have been in
steady request, but there has not been quite
so much activity in the piece goods department ;
prices, however, remain steady. The demand for
India goods at Manchester has been affected by the
late advices from the East, and less buoyancy has
been apparent in the general market ; no material
change, however, could be recorded in rates. At
Leicester the worsted hosiery trade has been ex-
ceedingly brisk in all its branches, large orders
being on hand, which it is difficult to execute owing
to the shortness of stocks. The iron trade of
South Staffordshire has continued moderately
active, and at Birmingham, Sheffield, Walsall, and
Wolverhampton a steady business has been done in
most branches of manufactures connected with the
neighbourhood.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday
business was moderately active, and about 10,000
bales were sold at previous rates. The Railway
Share Market closed quietly, and prices were un-
altered.

Increased activity was reported in the discount
market last week, and the rates of accommodation
indicated an upward tendency, although the actual
movement was unimportant, first-class bills being
freely negotiated at, the Bank minimum of 21 per
cent. A large amount of commercial paper will
arrive at maturity to-morrow, the 4th of the
month; the preparations for these engagements
and the usual expenditure at the close of the
quarter fully account for the stimulated inquiry
for money, but as the demands thus created are
merely of a temporary character, the market may
speedily relapse into the easy and quiet position
lately reportea.

The amount of specie exported by the Ceylon for
the East is £123,004, which is smaller than was
anticipated, owing to the absence of remittances on
Government account. The following are the parti-
culars, viz.:—£2,62o, sovereigns, to Ceylon ; £BOO,
ditto, Madras ; £15,447, gold, to Calcutta ; £5,340,
dollars, to Penang ; £13,450, ditto, Singapore;
£75,582, silver, Hong Kong ; £7,065, dollars,
Shanghai ; and £2,700 in doubloons to Manilla.
Of the total amount £104,137 is in silver. Gold is
still flowing into the Bank of England, £32,000
having been received there on Saturday. It is pre.
bable that the next return will show a further aug-
mentation in the metallic reserves. Moderate
quantities:of specie continue to arrive from America,
the Europa having been announced this morning
with £90,200.

During the early part of the day the market for
English Securities presented a buoyant appearance,
and business took place at a rise of o per cent. The
improvement, however, was merely momentary, a
reaction having been produced by some speculative
sales. Consols at one time touched 95i buyers,
but they have since relapsed to 951 a for money
and account. Indian Loan has slightly advanced,
viz., to 101 and 101 k. Indian Debentures, 1859,
have been 95,1, and Exchequer Bills, 235. to 265.
prem.

The foreign market is also a shade flatter. Turk-
ish 6 per Cents. are 83f, 84-1 ; the New ditto 69, 70►
and the 4 per Cent. Guaranteed, 1021. Russian 44
per Cents, have been dealt in at 9911, and the Scrip
at 4 discount. In Venezuelan, Peruvian, Chilian,
and Buenos Ayres Bonds a few transactions have
been recorded, but they have produced very little
effect upon values. Grenada New Active are 18,
and the Deferred si. Mexisan stoek is rather flat
at 23}:.

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
moderately active, and prices, in some instances,
have shown an improved movement. Bristol and
Exeter, Caledonian and Great Western, and South
Eastern, have improved 55., and South Western,
10e. Edinburgh_ and Glasgow declined about 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial:undertakings have also
been in fair demand and at advanced values in
several instances. Paris and Lyons have improved
to 361 1, and Sambre and Meuse to 61 1. Per-
nambuco are 101, and Great Luxembourg 71.
East Indian have advanced to 1001 ; Great Indian
Peninsular to 971; Grand Trunk of Canada to 38
and 381 ; and Great Western of Canada to 141 y.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares re-
main steady at about previous quotations. Canada
Land improved to 114 and Van Dieman's Land
to 15.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT OITE O'CLOCK.
31per Cent. Consols Annuities
India Stock
Ditto, 1859, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Loan Scrip, 5 per cent
Ditto Debentures, 1858 —
Ditto, 1859 .
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Ditta under £l,000
( onsols for Account (Oct. 11)
E xchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid .. 26 3
PkISEB OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Chilian, 6 per Cent lO3l a d
Grenada New Active, 31 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred 5l
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Peruvian 4f per Cent —
Ditto 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4i per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent. -
Ditto Scrip,
Spanish 3 per Cent —
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Venezuela 2i per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 1 per Cent. l5
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Luteh Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent —
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.

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Consols TWO O'CLOCK.
, Money 9st
Ditto Account (Oct.) 951

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE AT BIRMINGHAM.—
At three o'clock on Saturday morning a frightful tragedy
took place in Dale-end, Birmingham, a part of the town
much frequented during the Michaelmas fair. It appears
that at the above hoer a party of men and a number of un-
fortunate females were turned out of the public-houses in
the neighbourhood, and shortly afterwards they commenced
fighting in the street. The noise attracted the attention of
the police, and on the officers going to the spot nearly the
whole of the men and women ran away, and they found
lying on the pavement an unfortunate young man
named Dutton. On lifting him up it was found that he
had been mortally stabbed in the groin, and before medical
aid could be obtained he expired, and was removed to the
Bell Inn. A few yards from the spot where the unfortu-
nate man was found, the police discovered a female lying
in the road with her throat dreadfully cut. She was at
once taken to the General Hospital, where her recovery is
considered doubtful. The whole affair is involved in mys-
tery, and the police have as yet obtained no clue to the
perpetrators of these outrages. Dutton worked at Messrs.
Heaton's coin and tube works in Bath• street, and lived
with a widowed mother in Belmont .row. The deceased
and a companion named Blick had been drinking at various
public-houses, and on leaving the Star vaults in Dale-end,
he mat his end in the above tragical manner.
JOHN DAY'S VISIT TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
—The connection between him and the old Duke was never
weakened on the Duke's side, and but for one instant in
John's ; and well it might, when his Grace thus broke on
his astonished ears, after a race, with "Your'e a thief, John
Day ; you're a thief I" "My Lord, what have I done to
displease you ?" ' " You stole that race !" John's thefts
after this fashion were perpetual, and, in fact, he was, per-
hAaspsthe never quite so great as in the colours of Whittlebury.
blind man said, when, after groping among the
many colours, he at last felt scarlet, " It stirs my blood like
a trumpet." On all occasions he was a very dashing
better, and On
he was considerably astonished
in consequence, and never more so than when he
got on Coronation, and found three minutes after,
when every eye was on him in his canter, and he dare
not dodge, that he ought to have laid £5OO to £2OO
on his horse precisely the other way. John's aversion
to the name of Ireland is on a par to that in which he
holds Gaper, and arises from the firm impression he has
of the great amount of man-shooting which goes on there.
His great story, about the difference between "paying
po
and receiving," is very characteristic, andints a fine
moral ; and perhaps a better judge of racing and of two-
year-olds especially, on whom he is not so hard as he
metropolis, was
once was, does not exist anywhere.by the etro
The day he was,
perhaps, seen most in his glory
when, after calling at Carlton-terrace, he
.I?roceeded
through the Hall of William Rufus, with
his white cravat
and his immortal umbrella, in search of the Premier, in
the Commons. The policeman on duty was quite cal-
lous to the explanation, Day ;" and he had
to sit on a stone bench ,6 I'm John
contemplating the cartoons,
reflecting how his lad had won his trial, till Lo
r and
En-
field *cognised him, and brought him and the noble
' owner of Illiona together, the result of which was that
his lordship wrote to the right man that time, and John
departed in triumph.—Silk and Scarlet. .By the Druid.