The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-04 00:00:00

11,02VE1 MARKET AND CITY IVE TVS.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The progress of business in the manufacturing
districts during the past week has continued inac-
tive, and little change of importance can be re-
corded. At Bradford, however, there has been a
fair demand for fancy cloths on French account.
`ine woollen trade at Leeds has been dull, and at
Manchester prices of both yarns and cloths have
tended upwards. A moderate business has been
done in worsted hosiery at Leicester, and at Not-
tingham a fair inquiry has been experienced for
cotton fabrics. At Birmingham, Sheffield, Wolver-
hampton, and most of the hardware districts there
is no material alteration to record.
Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market on
Saturday was extremely dull, and prices fluctuated
considerably. The sales were barely 2,000 bales.

At the Bank of England, on Saturday, there
were no bullion operations of public interest.
The Niagara, which left on Saturday for Halifax
and Boston, took out £25,400 in specie.

The traffic receipts of the Northern of France
Railway from the Ist of January to the 21st ult.
amounted to £2,019,028, showing an increase of
£86,226 compared with the corresponding date in
1860; and on the Paris and Orleans Railway the
returns for a similar period were £2,273,139, or
£157,825"m0re than last year.

Within the last day or two the demand for money
has been slightly augmented, but this was fully
expected owing to the preparations for the numer-
ous mercantile bills due to-day, the Bth of the month.
The liquidation of these engagements is making
satisfactory progress, as up to the present time no
embarrassments of importance have been recorded.
Owing to the extreme caution with which the mer-
cantile community have recently conducted their
operations, and the facilities offered to them for
obtaining accommodation, credit is remarkably well
maintained, and the settlement of accounts is gene-
rally completed without much difficulty. Although
the inquiries have temporarily increased, the rates
continue easy, and 21 per cent. is still the a/erage
charge for first class securities.

At the meeting of the National Savings Bank
Association the report presented stated as follows :
--" The business of the Association shows a steady
and progressive increase, the more encouraging as
having taken place in unfavourable times ; it has
produced during the past year £4,278, as against
£3,300 the preceding year, and £1,960 the year
previous ; while your directors have succeeded in
reducing nearly every item of expenditure below
that of the preceding year. The attention of your
directors is still earnestly directed to the object of
retrenchment, where it can be judiciously effected.
The number of branches open is 80, four having
been closed as not being sufficiently remunerative.
The depositors during the year have increased
9,934, the number being 31,423 as against 21,489,
or at the rate of 191 per week. The amount de-
posited was £53,060. The subscribed capital is
£20,872, and the number of shareholders 772. The
investments of the association have been made with
all care and consideration as to security, and no
loss has occurred during the year."
The Market for English Securities opened steadily,
but sales on speculative account having taken place
a decline of 8 per cent. has ensued, Consols which
had been 93k 1, being now 93 931 both for transfer
and the 7th inst. The quotations for the Decem-
ber account are 931 8. The New Threes and the
Reduced are eteady at 911- 2 ; Exchequer Bills,
June, have risen to 16s. and 17e. prem. ; Bank
Stock has declined to '228 ; India ditto is firmer at
226 k and 227; ditto 5 per Cent., 1051, ; and the
Bonds, 12s. to 15s. prem.

In the Foreign Market the principal movements
have been the improvement in Buenos Ayrian and
Venezuelan Bonds, the former having advanced 21
per cent.—viz., to 881, and the latter to 22i 1,
being 1 per cent. higher. Turkish 6 per Cents. are
794 80 ; ditto, 1858, 672 8 ; Mexican are firm at 28k;
Sardinian at 82, and Italian remain at 1674.

A moderate amount of business was transacted
to-day in the Railway Share Market, in some
instauees, however, prices are a shade flatter,
Eastern Counties and Lancashire and Yorkshire,
receded 55., and Great Northerns, £l, Midlands,
however, advt./iced about 55., and North Westerns,
and South Eastercs realised. Previctug ratan_
The Foreign and Colonial lines were in fair
request. South Austrian uad Lombardo-Venetian
have improved about it. Great Luxembourg, Bahia,
San Francisco, Recife and San Francisco, San Paulo,
East Indian, and Calcutta, and South Eastern were
a shade flatter.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con-
tinued in fair demand. Ottoman Bank brought
171 ; London and Westminster, 70 to 74. Electric
Telegraph improved to 961, 96k; and Oriental
Inland Steam to 6.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9lB -8 a.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9ll 8 i
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.. 15 9-16
India Stock &&
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Loan Scrip, 5 per cent
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent. 9B
', Ditto 51 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 984
Ditto 1859
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
itto under £l,000
Consols for Account, liov. 7 93k t
March I June.
17 16 pm

Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d.....
D•tto £5OO —
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 41 pet Cett., 1852

Ditto, 5 per Cent., 1839 & 1859 99a
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent.......... •• . .
Ditto Account
Ditto Deferred
IVlexican, 3 per Cent. ..
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 . —
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, and '6O 47
Ditto Account
1i ussian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St • •
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 59 ex div
sardinian 5 per Cent. .........
SI anish Cert. of Coup. not funded.. 6
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, 5 per Cent., 1861.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account, Dec 5. 934 i