The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-08 00:00:00

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The money market remains in a very quiet state,
and the quotations continue to range +, to 7, per cent.
under the minimum of the Bank of England. The
directors have held their weekly court, and have
separated, as expected, without announcing any
further change in their discount regulations.
A further supply of gold, amounting to £84,000,
Was purchased by the Bank of England authorities
yesterday.
The directors of the London and Blackwall Rail-
WaY have determined to propose a dividend at the
rate of 24 per cent. for the half year.
The Bremen, which left Southampton yesterday
for New York, took £15,000 in gold from England
and £1,747 from Havre; and the Edinburgh, from
Liverpool, conveyed £3,000.
The failure was announced yesterday of Messrs.
Beater, Dennant, and Reep, trading as Messrs.
iJames Coster, Beater, Dennant, and Reep, ware-
nnnsemen, of Aldermanbury. The liabilities are
estimated at £lBO,OOO to £200,000, and the assets
are also expected to prove considerable. The with-
drawal of the capital of Mr. James Coster, who
died a few years since, is supposed to have accele-
rated the event, although the cause assigned in the
_Circular issued to the creditors is a series of heavy
losses, and delinquencies on the part of the two
Irincipal clerks.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday busi-
ness Was not so active, and prices tended down-
Wards. The sales were estimated at 8,000 bales.
A quiet tone has pervaded the Market for Pub-
lie Securities to-day, and the quotations have under-
Due very little change, Consols being 903 for
transfer, and 901 for the account. During the
early part of the day rather more buoyancy pre-
/ailed, but the variation has scarcely exceeded 1.16 th
Per cent. The New Threes and the Reduced re-
main at 901 =7,-; Exchequer Bills, March, are firm
at 17s. dis. ; ditto June, steady at 4s. dis. to par.
In the Foreign Market the dealings are of an
average character, and prices continued firm.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 79 to 801; ditto, 1858,
711; ditto £lOO Bonds 72 ; ditto, 4 per Cents. 1001.
Chilian are flat at 101. Peruvian, Uribarren, have
improved to 87,t, 881; ditto 3 per Cents. to 741 ;
Sardinian to 79i ; and Dutch 21 per Cents. 631 64.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round Bgures as under :-
Great Wes 1861. 1860.iern X53,244 £52,587
North-Western
,
South-Western
Brighton
Midland2B,4sl 23,684
South-Eastern
llth-Eastern
Great Northern 28,491 30,055
28,172 27,421
ta!leashh'e and Yorkshire
tstn and Exeter 8,105 7,890
orth-Eastern . •
anchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 15,988 14,788
North British
g.„8011th Wales
`-/a,reat South and Western of Ireland
grllaburgh and Glasgow 7,397 1,U03
and Trunk of Canada .. 12,490 10,430
eat Western of Canada
These returns show some rather unfavourable
features, particularly as regards the lines in the
manufacturing districts. On the North Western
therei is a decrease of £2,616 ; on the Midland,
Ai
:4't 074; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, £2,622;
-1," on the South Eastern, £1,564; on the Brighton,
in?wever, there is an increase of £4,767, owing to
e attendance at Goodwood Races. The South
western,
shows an increase of £1,186 ; the Great
£657 ; the Great Northern, £751 ; the
North Eastern, £642 ; the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, £1,200 the Grand Trunk of Canada,
421060 ; and the Great Western of Canada, £238.
A moderate amount of business has been tran-
sacted in the Railway Share Market to-day, but
prices have been in some measure influenced by the
hfavanrable traffic returns. Lancashire and York-
lre, :North Western, Midland, North Eastern
,Berwick),
s, and Stockton and Darlington declined
; Eastern Counties, 10s.; Great Northern, 15s. ;
and Great Western, £l.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
Was little change of importance. South Austrian
and
, Lombardo-Venetian advanced to 17k ; San
.s..saule to 21; Great Western of Canada to 114;
b'r;ast Indian declined to 911 1 ; and Bombay and
43aroaft to 941.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares re-
main inactive at about previous quotations.

baw_ BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
*J
t 2,, Stock
Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9Ol 1
`:Per Cent. Cons@ls Annuities
*;ew 3 per Cent. Annuities
'llanuities, 30 yrs, expire Sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth .April, 1885 l5l
4tii a Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent.
Ditto 5 per Cent. ' 941
Ditto 51 per Cent.
-Ditto Debentures, 4 per. Cent., Oct., 1863 961
Ditto ditto April, 1864 9
461
Ditto Bonds £l,000
Ditto under £l,000
illoll.Rols for Account,
(lia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
June 3I p. ct
g 1.
: jut:pi:mar Bills,u £l,OOO,
, 2d Mar.
2d.—
P.
day
4 dis
/N b'tto £5OO .. 11 dis par
:1.1. i.ttFo_ par
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
:ql?Litoo
euitots_
4teesr,
Cent. 6 per Cent
, :
bb i A perla e r Centc en t
.iiii..tta:ttao;33B2 •
3 j?er Cent
70
tile,d.r grew Consolidated
raAccount .. 22f
Dinoll4i per Cent
3(tribarren), 42 per Cent.
krciitt: per Cent.
Dit 'all per Cent ...
/ to Ace +
Liz,,,_
._, min.,
j)7l b per Cent ..
Ditit? Account
Ditto' IN ew Loan
bitt_ Account
llitt° £lOO Bonds
1, °Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
1\4'44 Dividends on the above payable in London.
'ltto Cent Exchange 12 Guil.
.1
Certificatcs, 4 per Cent.
- -

Coueo~sTHREE O'CLOCK.
Ditto Sept.
90i
-uitto Sept. Account

o 4111tARIAN OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—A vacancy
qrfs •
t, In the office of Chief Librarian to the House of Lords
'4e decease of Mr. Leary, who filled the appointment for
some
Years with exemplary ability and urbanity.
iilc-,,:ttBGED INFANTICIDE IN THE STREET. Ar:
Ca`..e4 Was held yesterday at the Bank of EnglanddTavuetr,
to-riallatidge-place, Paddington, by Mr. Brent,
male
eepchild
I:o:tnder, on view of the body of a newly-born
thm
corner of
exposed in an extraordinary manner at
41Id Star-streets, opposite the Royal Standaerd
last Saturday morning, by police-constable 158 .
the
elnference was that the child. had been murdered, but
Pt vidence of Dr. J. S. Beale, of Paddington-green, who
erlZed a post-mortem examination, went to show that
mat as not sufficient proof that the lungs had ever been
ln& 'Verdict accordingly.
e.. 0 ;11t1LATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.—The
Utti.telted returns show that the population found in the
s'l-ingdom at the recent census, not reckoning army,to
29, "a'inr merchant seamen who were abroad, amounted
sfa%;'26B, an increase of 61 per cent. in 50 years, notwith-
grilllß that we have been planting nations by a vast ni. -
76
atlen; The census found here 14 077,189 males, and
14,954 ,
g9',-,401 females—an excess of females over. males of
The over plus of women and girls in England
141';'' fill all LiverpoolP and Leeds ; in Scotland, all Edin-.
114,11; Ireland, all Belfast, Watertord, and Wexforid
tietje are IG towns in the United Kingdom with a popu ao-f
41idenleeedag 100,000, and 6 parishes in the outskirts
Vith With such a population—one of them (St. Pancras)a
h
hitejerY nearly 200,000 (198,882). The number of -
alie,gnnses in the United Kingdom is .5,154,985, which
Ws a house to every 5.6 persons.
toiltt,l.4 BY THE EXPLOSION OF A PARAFFIN
4'l L."--141.* G. S. Brent, deputy-coroner for West Middle-
laii'd',rastituted an inquiry yesterday at the Bank of Eng-
eitrue2erh, Cambridge-place, Paddington,
Ann Stokes,
intthecir-
aged 7e es attending the death of Mrs. Mary
Harrow 6 Years, late resident of 18, Desborough-p ace,
Witne:r°ad• It was shown from the evidence of severalt
eftrirri that on the 26th ult. deceased, while in the act
keiferiz_ing a paraffin lamp, accidentally dropped a
au e,,Tat.eh into the fluid, by which it was ignited, and
the apartleh followed.' 'rho burinng fluid set fire to
aion
b -ell,/ and to the clothes of the deceased. Her
do wish bmeing in the room at the time, in his efforts to ex-
of Air. Reines, got very severely burnt. The shrieksd
(1.4ickh,,714 Mrs. Stokes alarmed the neighbourhood, an
well as ureught the assistance of a number of persons as
114bduse,tWo fire engines. After some difficulty the fire wasd
dto:t:a,faryan,dB the two unfortunate sufferers were remove
linsPital, where Mrs. Stokes died on Thurs.-.
and r:m the effects of the injuries she had sustained-,
',.'t-olces still remains with but faint hopes of re-
thet-'par It was generally admitted by the jury and others
the explosive a" n. lamps
fr
were very dangerous, in consequence of
ota bm.„
mp,eau by spirit. used. Verdict, " Death
se the accidental bursting of a paraffin