The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-27 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY IVEIi7S.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Although the demand for money may be ex-
pected to increase, in consequence of the prepara-
tions for the payments due at the end of the month,
and half-year, the discount market continues quiet,
and there is no alteration to report in the rates
charged for accommodation. Six per cent. is the
nominal quotation for the best bills, but business is
nevertheless negotiated at 51 per cent., arid there is
an ample supply of money for commercial purposes.
A further sum of £5,000, in gold, was taken into
the Bank yesterday.
The Shannon has been announced from the West
Indies, with £534,200 in specie.
A large amount of business was transacted in
the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and 12,000
bales were sold, 4,000 of which were on speculation
and for export, at very firm prices.
A meeting was held yesterday of the creditors of
Mr. J. H. Cohn, East India merchant, when it was
resolved to accept a sum of £22,000 in three instal-
ments, extending over three months, in satisfaction
of claims amounting to £60,000.
A meeting of the Canada Company took place
to-day, Mr. C. Franks in the chair. A dividend
was proposed and agreed to of £4 10s. a share, free
of income tax.

There was a meeting to-day of the London and
Provincial Marine Insurance Company, when the
proposed payment of interest at the rate of 5 per
cent. was agreed to, the surplus on the under-
writing account being £39,320.

The official returnsrelatingio Trade and Navi-
gation for the five months ended the 31st May,
1861, have just been published. From these it
appears that the total declared value of exports from
the United Kingdom during that period was
£49,780,532 against £52,783,535 in the like period
of 1860, being a decrease of £3,003,003. The
principal decrease has been in beer and ale, cotton
manufactures, cotton yarn, earthenware, hardware
and cutlery, linen manufactures, woollen manufac-
tures, and woollen and worsted yarn. The im-
ports during the same period have been large
as regards hides, leather manufactures, potatoes,
provisions, rice, silk manufactures, tallow, corn,
flour, unrefined, sugar, tea, and tobacco, but
smaller in raw cotton, spices, sheep and lamb's
wool, cocoa, coffee and wine. The shipping accounts
exhibit an increase in the amount of ton-
nage employed in the foreign trade for
both the entries inwards and clearances out-
wards, but in the coasting trade during the
same period no material alteration is apparent in
either the n umber of ships or the tonnage employed
either inwards or outwards.
The market for Public Securities continues firm,
at the improvement of -4. per cent. recorded yester-
day afternoon, Consols being 891 y for money, and
89 I for the account. Business, however, is very
quiet. The New Threes and the Reduced An-
nuities have been in moderate request, at steady
rates, viz., 88: I-. Bask Stock realised 230; the
5 per Cent. India Loan, 98: 111- ; and the 51 per Cent.
finfaced Paper, 1001 ; India Bonds were steady,
at 10s. discount, and the March Exchequer Bills
were quoted 10s. discount.

In the Foreign Stock Market business has con-
tinued dull, but prices have shown more firmness.
Grenada Active Bonds brought 151; Piedmontese
5 per Cents,, 731 ; and Dutch 4 per Cent. Certifi-
cates, 991. Turkish Bonds were moderately active
at 72 ; for the old 6 per Cents. 56 for the Loan of
1858, and the £lOO Bonds of the latter advanced to
591.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

Great Western
£44,657 £46,824
North-Western
South-Wes tern
13righton 21,273 19,209
Midland
2
South-Eastern
Great Northern 24,071 25.532
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Iris* and Exeter 7,303 7,682
North-Eastern
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 11,889 12,437
6,496 6,383
North British
South Wales
.ctitlburgb. and Gi-lasgu,,
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Great Western of Canada
These returns show a falling off on several of
the chief lines.in the manufacturing districts. On
the Groat Northern there is a decrease of £1,461;
on the North Western of £3,185 ; on the Midland
of £1,125; and on the Great Western of £2,167.
'he Lancashire and Yorkshire show an increase of
£725; the South Western of £3,012 ; the Brightons
of £2,064 ; the North Eastern of £3,910; the South
Eastern of £302 ; the Edinburgh and Glasgow of
£161; the €cottish North Eastern of £407 ; the
Grand Trunk of Canada of £2,419 ; and the Great
Western of Canada of £686.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been chiefly in connection with the liquidation of
the account, which is now in progress, and prices
have in some instances shown a slight downward
Movement. Caledonians, Great Westerns, North
Westerns, South Westerns, and Midlands have de-
clined ss. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
Unproved 55., and Lancashire and Yorkshire and.
South Easterns 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have been dull,
without any material change in quotations.
Antwerp and Rotterdam realise 58 ; Great Western
of Canada, 101 ; Grand Trunk of Canada 182;
and Scindes 1001.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
are flat. London and Westminster realize 67! ;
Canada Land have declined to 108 ; English and
Australian Copper were 3a ; Peninsular and
Oriental Steam declined to 681.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
4 per Cent. Reduced Annuities BB 1
a per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cont. Annuities BB i
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent. 9Ba I
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 6f per Cent.
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
vitto under 13,000
Consols for Account, July 10 ..
India Stock for Account B9l—
Ditto 5 per Cent.
March. 1 Juno.

Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d
D. rt., £5OO
Ditto Small
10 die
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
liew Grenada Active, 31 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Turkish 6 per Cent
.. 72
Ditto Now Loan
Ditto £lOO Bonds 59%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12
nitte tlertificat6s, 4 per Cent. .. 99}
Aleiraontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25 francs.. 731
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money B9i a
Ditto Account 893 I

THE LATE MR. BRAIDWOOD.—The melancholy
death of Mr. Braidwood has created great sympathy in
Edinburgh, of which city he was a native, and where he
first distinguished himself in the management of fires. Mr.
Braidwood was the son of a respectable tradesman in the
scotch capital, and was born there about the year 1800.. In
1824 he joined the police establishment there, and under-
took the organization of a regular fire brigade. Before his
plans were far advanced, and before he had either his force
or his engines in working order, occurred the great confla-
gration of 1824, the most memorable and extensive fire in
the annals of Edinburgh, and in which a great part of the
High •street, including the steeple of the Tron Church, was
burnt down. At this
fire
those qualities of cool detelvirmrinßatriaonid,wgoroedatfirdsatreinxldg,biatnedd
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the fires of l management which he has so
often put totgohodicrhre-
the metropolis. A
Published in 1832 on the causes and meansP pamphlet
fires first gave him more than local celebrity, and led to his
removal to London. Many stories are still told of the in-
trepidity and presence of mind he displayed during the
eight years he was fire-master at Edinburgh. On one oc-
casion he carried first one barrel of gunpowder, and then
another, through the midst of a fire from a cellar through
ironmonger's shop, thus preventing, at the utmost per-
sonal risk, an explosion which might have caused great
destruction of life and property. On another occasion,
above 30 years ago, he narrowly escaped the sad fate which
ultimately befell him, being struck by some of the frag-
-lents of a falling roof, in consequence of which he was BO
much injured that he had to be removed from the scene.
tb. • Braidwood may be said to have left to his native city
hie legacy of a well appointed and well organized brigade,
a 5 plans having been fully matured before he left, and
ve that time well carried out.
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