The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The discount market continues in a very quiet
state, the inquiries for commercial purposes being
unusually limited. The expectation of a decline in
the Bank of England minimum induces the mer-
cantile public to defer their discount operations
as much as possible until after the weekly meet-
ing of the directors.

About £102,000 in gold was taken into the
Bank of England yesterday.

The bar silver 133, the last West India steamer
has been disposed of at ss. Old. per oz, standard.
The Foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
exhibited a slight decline in the rates on Ham-
burgh, Paris, Frankfort, Vienna, and Trieste.
Gold is now about 6-10ths per cent. dearer in
.London than in Paris or Hamburg.
The half year's interest on Victoria Government
Debentures has been announced for payment.
It has been notified by the Cape Town Railway
and Dock Company that the half-yearly guaranteed
interest, at the rate of 6 per cent., will be payable
on and after the 10th proximo.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday the
demand continued active, and prices remained
firm. The sales were 15,000 bales. The steamer
Edinburgh, which left to-day for New .York, con-
veyed 13,000 bales of first-class American cotton
on freight.

It is expected that the Bank of England return
to-morrow will show a large increase in the bullion,
no less than £416,000 in gold having been taken
into the establishment since the date of the previous
balance-sheet. A further supply, it is expected,
will be purchased by the authorities to-day.
Rather more buoyancy prevailed this morning in
the market for English securities, which was partly
attributed to the impression that the minimum rate
of discount will be reduced to-morrow (Thursday)
to 31 per cent. The tendency of the Funds
was also favourably influenced by the large
quantities of gold daily taken into that esta-
blishment, while the absence of any circumstance
was also considered a feature in favour of prices.
A temporary demand for stock on speculative
account under these circumstances produced a rise
of -} per cent., but it has not been maintained, the
quotations having receded to their previous level.
Consols for money have been 931 1, but they are
now 931 A ; for the account they have receded from
936 94 to 931 The New Threes are firm at
911 y ; the Reduced at 911 1; India Stock remains
at 221; ditto 5 per Cents. at 1031 11; Exchequer
Bills, June, are 4s. to 7s. prem.

No important variation has taken place in
Foreign Securities, and a fair amount of business
is reported. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 831- 834 ;
ditto 1858, 681 691 ; Mexican are flat at 231 a ;
Spanish at 49i ; and Grenada Active 16k; Portu-
guese are firmer at 471 ; Italian 5 per Cents. at
704 ; and Venezuelan 3 per Cents. are steady at 20;
Chilian 41 per Cents. have improved to 833.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been of a very moderate character, and prices have
experienced a farther depression. Great Westerns,
Midlands, and North Eastern (Berwick), have de-
clined ss. ; and Lancashire and Yorkshire and
North Westerns, 10s. ; South Westerns and South
Easterns, howe-ier, have improved ss.
For the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
was a fair demand at full prices. Lombardo-
Venetian, San Paolo, Bahia, and San Francisco
improved ss. ; and Grand Trunk of Canada, 10s.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are a
shade firmer. London and Westminster realise
66,1 ; New South Wales, 35 ; Crystal Palace Stock
34 to 341.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICE -
3 per Cent.:Reduced Annuities 9lf 1 i
3 per Cent. Conswls Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9lf i 1 I
!ndia Stock .•
Ditto 5 per Cent.
limo Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto 1859
Bank Stock for Account 235
ur4.,,,ts for Account, Oct. 10 94 3/
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
March

Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d
D,tte £5OO
Ditto Small

June.
47 pm

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Chilian 6 per Cent
Ditto 4f per Cent.
Mexican 3 per Cent

Ditto Account
New firenada Active, 3t per Cent.
Peruvian 4t per Cent ..
Ditto (Uribarren), 4t per Cent. .. 95} •
Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853 . —
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 18b6,'7,'9, and '6O —
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822. £ St ..
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859..
Spanish 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 6 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 2sf.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money 93f
Ditto Account

The Courrier de Bayonne, of the 13th, says :
The Prince Imperial took his first bath in the sea yesterday
morning. He was accompanied by the Empress. A hatter
of Biarritz, whose daughter was born on the same day as
the Prince Imperial, recently received orders to attend at
the Villa Eugenie to supply a hat for the young Prince. The
Empress kindly inquired about her little goddaughter, and
desired to see her. The little girl was accordingly the next
day taken to the villa, and was there presented with a hand-
some bracelet, which will, no doubt, be carefully preser'ved
as a souvenir of her august godmother.

VISIT OF MR. S. LAING TO MANCHESTER.---The
Right Hon. S. Laing, the Finance Minister to India, is
about to visit Manchester before returning to that country
to resume his official duties, to have an interview with the

hamber of Commerce, the Cotton Supply Association,
and the Cotton Company, with the view of ascertaining
their opinions as to the best means her Majesty's Govern-
ment in India can adopt to meet the wishes and promote
the interests of the cotton trade under existing circum-
stances, and to confer with them generally on the position
of our commercial relations with that country. Mr. Laing
visits Manchester, we understand, at the invitation of Mr.
Bazley, M.P , and the conference will take place to-mor-
row, at the Town-hall.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—A most shocking oc-
currence took place in the county of Durham, at a farm-
house in a hamlet called Marwood, about a mile and a-half
from Barnard Castle, on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Gibson, a
farmer, had gone from home for the day, leaving in the
house a servant-man named Kidd, a youth about 14 named
Lettle, and a servant girl named Middleton. A loaded gun
had hung up in the kitchen, as is very usual in farmhouses
about that part of the country, and the boy had got it
down and pointed it at Kidd, who had threatened to thrash
him if he did not put it away at once, and he went as if to
put it in its proper place ; but the boy, instead of doing so,
had renewed the cap on the gun, and went out into the
yard where the girl Middleton was standing. He then de-
liberately pointed the gun at her and fired, the shot
entering her side, and killing her on the spot. Kidd, upon
hearing the report, ran out, and found the girl lying in her
blood, and immediately rode off to Barnard Castle for the
police and surgeons. On their arrival they found that the
girl was dead, and that the boy had fled. Steps, however,
were taken for his capture, and he was apprehended during
the night.
A BLONDIN RIOT.—BIRMINGHAM, Tuesday.—
About 20,000 persons of the better class assembled at As-
ton park yesterday to witness Blondin's second ascent.
The " hero of Niagara" was advertised to cook an omelette
on the rope, and to carry a man
over. The former feat he
was unable to accomplish, as his cooking apparatus
on the way, but the second he accomplished
safely, was lost
and with
it terminated a performance of an hour's d e •
Order
was well preserved within the enclosure ofi4lenj-
park, but
there was a tremendous crush outside the entrance, which
the staff of policemen were utterly inadequate to quell.
A mob of " roughs"
attempted to force a passage through the
turnstiles at the gates just as it was growing dark, and
being repulsed by the police, who were mounted, they
broke down the r alings and fences and set fire to them,
and, arming themselves with stones and bludgeons, com-
menced a violent attack upon the police. Several of the
constables were severely wounded on their heads and
faces by the contact of sharp stones, and a valuable
horse, ridden by a policeman, had its leg broken, and was
obliged to be shot. Finding his force utterly incompetent
to suppress the riot, Inspector Wilson, the officer in charge,
despatched a messenger into the town for reinforcements,
and Superintendent Legget, in the absence of the chief,
sent down by omnibus and train a large number of hastily -
collected policemen to the scene of the riot. A large num-
ber of the ringleaders were subsequently captured, and the
injuries of the wounded policemen were promptly attended
to ; four of them are very seriously hurt. Seven of the
leader 8 in the riot were taken before the county magistrates
At Ashton to-day and remanded,