The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-13 00:00:00

but still sketchy imagining by Henry Tidey :
this time, as the title indicates, from Ossian.
Gazing upon J. M. Popling's (No. 286) " Mariana
in the South," one cannot but recognise the appro-
priateness of at least two lines of the quotation
affixed to it in the catalogue :
444 4 Is this the form,' she made her moan,
That won his praises night and morn?' "

T.
Beautiful at once in idea and in executionennyson
is Harri-
son Weir's (No. 203) " Tho Voice in the Night "
upon a spray of dogrose or sweetbriar, under the
stars, a warbling nightingale ! Beautiful too in
their way are Mrs. Harrison's (No. 179) " Cowslips,"
and (No. 186) " Primroses."

HONEY MARKET AND CITY NEW&

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CITY, Two o'CLocrc.
The progress of business during the past week
in the manufacturing districts has continued
unfavourable, the advices from America having
caused an almost suspension of operations in goods
suitable to those markets. At Manchester com-
plaints are generally expressed at the dullness of
trade, the few dealings entered into having been
chiefly for immediate home requirement. No im-
provement can be reported in the demand for
cloths at Leeds, and several of the mills have been
only working "short time." At Bradford and
Huddersfield the business done has been of the
most limited character, without any change of
importance in prices. In the hardware districts
the operations have not been extensive. At
Birmingham, however, there has been rather more
enquiry for rifles for the American States.
A moderate amount of business was reported in
the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday, and
prices were steady. The sales were 8,000 bales.
There were no bullion operations of importance
at the Bank of England on Saturday.
The arrivals this morning have been rather ex-
tensive, including the Kent from Australia with
£104,220 ; La Plata from the West Indies, £84,600
Alhambra from the Peninsula, £3,818, and the
Niagara front New York, £240.

Later advices from Australia report the depar-
ture of the following vessels with gold for this
country, viz., the Boreas, with £41,972 ; the
Prince of Wales, with £88,604 ; the Themis, with
£94,376 ; and the Yorkshire, with £144,500, in
addition to those previously announced, with an
aggregate of about £500,000 now at sea.
A meeting of the Submarine Telegraph Company
is being held for the purpose of electing directors,
and considering the recent acrimonious and defama-
tory statements circulated against the management
of the company. A protracted discussion is now
going on.

There is very little alteration in the demand for
money, notwithstanding the quietude of trade, and
the restricted operations in the manufacturing dis-
tricts. At the Bank of England the inquiries are
very numerous, as the terms asked for accommoda-
tion in the open market are slightly in excess of
the minimum of that establishment. The flow of

sovereigns to America naturally tends to impart a
firmer tone to the quotations, as its continuance must
necessarily stimulate an upward tendency.
There has not been much animation in the
market for public securities to-day, but a slight
improvement has taken place owing to the more
favourable tendency of the advices from America,
which have induced a few purchases on specula-
tive account. Consols are 91i for money, and
92 to 92 for the 6th proximo. The New Threes
and the Reduced are steady at 893,- ; ditto 5 fper
Cent. Indian at 1011, and Exchequer Bills having
improved to 4s. and 3s. dis.
The dealings in the Foreign Market have been
moderate. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 70-3- 71 ;
ditto 1858, 551 56; Mexican have improved to
221 3 ; Grenada, to 16 ; Portuguese, to 47: ; and
Sardinian, to 811 ; Spanish Deferred aro steady at
421 ; and Brazilian 43- per Cents., 874.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been of a rather restricted character. Prices,
however, have been firmer, in sympathy with Con-
sols. Midlands, North-Eastern (Leeds), and South
Easterns have advanced 55.; and Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and North-Westerns, 10s.
The Foreign Lines were quiet—South Austrian
and Lombardo-Venetian, however, have further
advanced per cent., being dealt in at 15:. Paris
and Lyons, Dutch Rhenish, and Bahia and San
Francisco realised previous rates.

In the Colonial Market there was no material
variation. Grand Trunk of Canada improved 10s.,
East Indian and Great Indian Peninsula remaining
at previous quotations.
Joint Stdck Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
are flat. London Chartered of Australia receded
ss. to 10s. ; Chartered of India, Australia, and
China, 55.; Union of London, ss, ; Crystal Palace
Stock was steady at 311, 311.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B9/
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities B9l I i
India Stock
••
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per. Cent. —
Ditto 5/ per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 1853 96i
Ditto, 1859 . ... 94
Ditto Bonds £1,0001859 2O 16 dis
Consols for Account, June 6
India Stook for Account —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, ltd 4 7 dis
Thtto LE.OO 4 dis
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Beazrilian 5 per Cent ..........
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1851.....
Mexican 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
New Grenada Active, 31 per Cent.
Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853.
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St ..
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859....
Sardinian 5 per Cent. ..
Spanish 3 per Cent. —
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Passive .. 161
Turkish 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
65 f i
_Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian 5 per Cent. Ex. 10 Florins.. 4B
Consols, Money 9
THREE O'CLOCK.
1a /
Ditto Account 9la 2

REFORM MEETING IN EDINBURGH.--A nume-
rously attended public meeting of the working men of
Edinburgh, presided over by the Lord Provost, was held on
Friday evening, for the purpose of discussing the question
of Parliamentary reform. A resolution was unanimously
passed, expressive of regret and indignation at the aban-
donment of reform by her Majesty's Government, such
abandonment being regarded as a violation of distinct and
repeated pledges by the Ministry, and as injurious to the
best interests of the country. It was also declared that no
measure of reform would be satisfactory that does not em-
brace the £5 burgh and £lO county franchise, vote by
ballot, and a redistribution of members in proportion to
taxation and population ; and it was resolved unanimously
that Mr. Black, M,P., having in his recent votes and
speeches deserted the cause of reform, the meeting had no
confidence in him as a :representative, and was of opinion
that he ought to resign. A committee was appointed for
the purpose of organising a reform association.
A GRATEFUL OFFERING.—The seamen visiting
the port of Blyth, in Northumberland, ha.ve sent an addi-
tional donation of £6, contributed in small sums varying
..onm threepence upwards, to the National Lifeboat Install-
tiof k
owW_nho better than seamen can appreciate the comfort
g where to run for a lifeboat when on a lee shore
and no port of refuge near. When vessels are overtaken
by an
shelter Off-shore gale of wind on our north-east coast, no
is often afforded tfrheemtie
until
ti they reach Yarmouth
Roads, where, alas! too
o four outlying frequently bodies of their un-
happy crews are found floating
but where, let it be said to the horroreßand-banks ;
lifeboat service,
the lifeboats of this important institution
in performing the noblest deeds to
sufferivarehoften engaged
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on on six
months' leave of absence from his comm d .
an in India._
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