The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-18 00:00:00

MONEY lIIARE.ET AND CITY BEMIS'.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

From the manufacturing districts accounts are
of a rather more favourable character. At Man-
chester the advices from India and China have
caused a slight increase in the demand for goods
suitable to those markets. The woollen trade of
Leeds, Huddersfield, and Halifax, however, has
continued inactive, and only a limited improve-
ment can be recorded in the hosiery and lace
trades of Leicester and Nottingham. In the
hardware districts, viz., at Birmingham, Sheffield,
and Wolverhampton there has been little change
of importance, the chief dealings being confined
to the requirements of the home trade.
About £68,000 in gold was sent into the Bank
of England on Saturday.

The traffic receipts of the Great Western Rail-
way of Canada for the week ending Ist instant,
exhibited an increase of £829 compared with the
same period in 1860.

The tendency of the Money Market continues
favourable, and an immediate decline in the
minimum rate of discount is expected in commer-
cial circles as well as at the Stock Exchange. It
is inferred from the progress of events during the
last few days that a further considerable improve-
ment has taken place in the resources of the Bank
of England, since the date of the last weekly return,
some large additions having been made to the bul-
lion, while the bulk of the discount business has
been negotiated in the open market, where accom-
modation has been obtainable at reduced quotations.
The Seine, which left for the West Indies to-day,
conveyed only £660 in specie.
A large amount of business was recorded in the
Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday, and prices
were fully supported. The sales were 20,000 bales.
There has been less activity in the market for
public securities to-day,-but the quotations have
contined steady, Consols being 911 to• 92 for
transfer, and 921 Z for the 10th proximo. The
easier tone of the money market still gives support
to values, but the position of American affairs
checks purchases on speculative account.
India 5 per Cent. Loan is 1004 4 ; ditto 5 per
Cent. Enfaced Paper remains at 94Z ; ditto 5i per
Cent. at 1001 ; Exchequer Bills, 2d. per diem are
ls. to 6s. premium.

A fair amount of business has been recorded in
Foreign Securities. Turkish 6 per Cents. have
improved, 741 751; ditto, 1858, 55,k. Spanish have
receded to 487,-; and Mexican to 241 Q. Buenos
Ayres 6 per Cents. are 881 and 90 ; and ditto
Deferred 27*.

The dealings to-day in the Railway Share
Market have been on a rather limited scale, and in
most instances have shown a downward movement.
Caledonians, Great Westerns, Lancashire and
Yorkshire, North Western, Manchester, Sheffield
and Lincoln, and South Easterns have declined 55.,
and West Midland, 10s, ; Midland, South Western,
North Eastern (Berwick) realised previous rates.
In the Foreign and Colonial lines business has
continued very dull, without any change of im-
portance in values. East Indian and Great Indian
Peninsula, however, have slightly improved.

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
continued at about previous values. Oriental Bank
realise 50; London and Westminster, 631 a ;
Ottoman Bank, 181 ; and Royal Mail Steam, 50.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Cous*ls Annuities
•91i 2
India Stock .. -
Ditto 6 per Cent .
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto 51 per Cent
__
_19.9.2

Itto Debentures, 1868 O5l-
Consols for Account .. 92a
11c1.

Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO
Ditto Small

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK
iirazilian 5 per Cent
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent..........,.... 90 88;
Ditto Deferred

2d.
1 6 pm

Chili= 6 per Cent. lO2
Ditto 41 per Cent,
qesican 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. • •
Ditto Account
Russian 5 pet Cent. 1822, £ St .. --
Ditto 3 per Cent, 1859 .. .. 611
ipanish 3 per Cent...
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK,
Consols, Money 91i 2
Ditto Account

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—( This Day).

MARLBOROUGH-STREET

NOVEL USE OF OMNIBUSES.—PUBLIC-HOUSES ON
WHEELS:—William Cummins, of 2, Blue Cross-street,
Leicester-square, was charged before Mr. Beadon with
hawking and selling spirits between the hours of half-past
ten and half-past eleven the previous (Sunday) morning,
contrary to the statute 23 and 24 Vic., cap. 114, sec. 197.
Inspector Webb, of the C division, said that from infor-
mation he received, he went the previous morning to
Great Portland-street, accompanied by Sergeant Joy, 9 C,
and Butcher, 127 C, and he there saw the prisoner in com-
pany of two other men. He told him that he must con-
sider himself in custody for hawking gin. He denied
doing so, but on his putting his hand into the prisoner's
coat pocket, he• took out a half pint measure, and on telling
him he had something in his breast pocket, he took
out a bottle containing about a pint of gin,
and a dram glass. The prisoner said the gin was
purchased by some omnibus men, and that he was
going to serve them with it. He eonveyed the prisoner to
the station, and went back to the Blue Post public-house,
No. 2, Great Portland. street, and he there found in a
shutter-box attached to the outside of the house a pail with
bottles in, which had contained beer and gin. He said the
men had purchased the gin and beer on Saturday night,
and that it was left there for convenience.

Butcher, 137 C, said ho want on Sunday morning to the
Regent-circus, and saw several persons gott into an omni-
bus and the defendant after them, some of the persons
being connected with omnibuses and others not. Ho saw
the prisoner serve them with gin and beer. He (Butcher)
then got into the omnibus, and was served with a glass of
gin, for which he paid the prisoner 2d. There were four
persons in the omnibus at that time, and they were all
served by the prisoner.

Mr. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, who appeared
for the prisoner, said ho could not resist a conviction, but
the prisoner had, he believed, been the tool of others.
Mr. Webb said the gin was paid ls. 4d. a pint for, and
retailed at the rate of 3s. 2d.
Mr. Beadon inflicted the reduced fine of £2O or six weeks'
hard labour on the prisoner.

ROBBERY AT THE ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Frederick
Nevring, a young man in the employ of Mr. W. Donald, of
the St. James's Hall, was charged with stealing some
plated spoons, the property of his employer.
In addition to the spoons mentioned in the cnargo there
was reason to believe the prisoner had stolen other
articles.

The prisoner was committed for six months with hard

labour.

THE WEATHER.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS.