The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

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CITY, Two o'CLocK.
• During the past week there has been very little
Improvement in the general state of trade through-
out the manufacturing districts. At Leeds there
has been no material increase in the dealings in
has
cloths. At Bradford a more active inquiry
1118 prevailed for spring goods, but the operations
have not been extensive. At Manchester the ad-
vices from America have almost caused a suspension
of business, and the tone of the market has in some
the
been influenced by the late suspensions in
1.1110 Levant trade at Marseilles. Business at
'cleester has been of a more favourable character
owing to the improvement in the weather. In the
hardware
districts there has been little change to
notice, business at Birmingham, Sheffield, and
Wolverhampton having been confined almost ex-
clusively to home requirements.
~A. fair amount of business was reported in the
14verpool Cotton Market on Saturday, and prices
continued firm. The sales were 10,000 bales.
To-morrow, the 30th inst., a call of £2 per share,
amounting to £50,000, is due on the Cape Town
Railway and Dock Shares.
About £82,000 in gold was withdrawn from the
13unk of England on Saturday for exportation.
The Seine has arrived from the West Indies with
487,643, nearly all in silver.
meeting of the creditors of Messrs. C. A. and
,r,Ferguson,P of Mill-wall, will take place to-morrow
the 30th inst.

A steady business is transacted in the general
„ niscount market, but as accommodation can be
btained as low as 41 per cent., the inquiries at the
teak of England are still compiratively limited,
During the next few days, however, more firmness
~,Itud activity are expected, owing to the Stock
'cdrehange settlements, and the preparation for the
4gagements due on Saturday next, the 4th of the
mouth, which are undersrood to be rather exten-
sive.
A moderate business has been transacted in the
market for. Public Securities to-day, but speculation
continues dull in consequence of the operators
being disinelined to enter into extensive engage-
tents while American affairs remain in such an
Uncertain state. Consols, however, in consequence
of a few sales, have receded to 911 d for money and
account. The New Threes and the Reduced re-
re-
main at 9O ; Bank Stock has declined to 231, and
India ditto to 222, but Exchequer Bills are steady
at 4e. to ls. die.

Foreign Securities have been dealt in to a
hilted extent at about former quotations. Turkish
6 per Cents. are 704 4 ; ditto, 1858, 531 t. Spanish
me firm at 491 j; ditto Deferred have receded to
lit. Portuguese are 47, and Russian 3 per Cents.
61/ 62.
The preparation for the settlement of the account
are now in progress in the Railway Share Market.
The dealings, however, are limited, and prices have
not varied to any important extent. Caledonians,
'great Westerns, and Great Northerns, have ad-
Ina/iced 55.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midlands,
IQ South Easterns, declined 55.; and North
Xastern (Berwick), 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial Markets have con-
tinued very inactive, and prices have been in most
Instances steadily maintained. East Indian have
receded about I, and Grand Trunk of Canada I.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
t'untinued very dull. London and Westminster
realise 67 to 671-, Ottoman Bank have declined to
16k, and Peninsular and Oriental Steam brought

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
138.11 k Stock
Z Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 904 90
Nov" Par Cent. Consols Annuities
' 8 per Cent. Annuities 9O i
India Stock. •• 222
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Consols for Account, May 9 .. 911
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid.
D ttr, £5OO 4 1 dis
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK
Brazilian.s per Cent
Ditto * per Cent., 1860 B7t 7
Portuguese, 3 per Cent.. 1853. •
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St ..
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859....
Spanish 3 per Cent..
tin Nnur Ticsfarrari
°Panish Cert. of Coup. not funded....... 5i
Dividends on the above payabe in London.
TWO O'CLOCK
Consols' Money 9l/ 4
Ditto Account 9ll i

TPESTNINSTER SCI-100L-THE REMO-

VAL AGITATION SETTLED.

On Saturday, a meeting of old Westminster
Scholars was held in the schoolroom, Little Dean's-
Yard, for the purpose of considering the report of
the committee appointed in June last to confer with
the Dean and Chapter on the state and condition
of the school and college, with a view to improve
them on their present, or to ascertain a fit and
proper site elsewhere. The Very Rev. the Dean of
Westminster occupied the chair. The committee
bade, in regard to the first portion of their inquiry,
nineteen proposals to the Dean and Chapter, the
substance of which was that there should be a free
Communication between Great and Little Dean's-
yard, and that a railing should be the fence
between the latter and the college garden, which
.should be open to the boys • and the cricket ground,
111 Vincent-square, should be planted with trees, and
ft covered play-ground made at the school, in lieu
13_f the cloisters; and the school itself should better
°e glazed and ventilated, better warmed in cold
'weather, and generally kept in better repair ; that
the discipline of the school be retained as hereto-
fore ; that the Westminster play should be retained;
and that the head and under masters should be
Westminster men. To most of these recommenda-
tions the Dean and Chapter had:given their assent.
They, however, declined to remove the obstructions
between Great and Little Dean's-yard, or to allow
the boys into the college garden. With respect
to the play, the statutes of the college required
the performance at Christmas of a Latin and
English play, either tragedy or comedy, by the
Scholars and choristers, with a view to their im-
Provement in pronunciation and action ; but in car-
rying out that rule they thought they were bound
to remember that the moral and religious interests
of the school must be their first consideration. The
appointment of the masters was not vested in the
aapitular body. With respect to the second part of
the inquiry, there was a difference in the commit-
tee's opinion, but they were unanimous in thinking
that, even should it be desirable to change the site
Of the school, there were not available funds suffi-
cient to enable them to carry out that object on
even the moderate scale recommended by the Dean
and. Chapter. The report having been presented to
the meeting by Sir David Dundas,
The Dean of WESTMINSTER said, on behalf of
the Chapter, they renounced all purpose and in-
tention of changing the site of the school—(cheers)
—and threw themselves heartily into the endeavour
to make the dormitories light and comfortable,
and had already provided a covered play-ground
for the use of the boys. (Cheers.)
Sir D. DUNDAS, M.P., considered that the best
thanks of all present were due to the Very Rev. the
bean, for calling them together to consider how
the school was to be improved.
The report having been adopted, the proceedings
terminated.