The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-21 00:00:00

NO.NEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Most of the manufacturing districts during the
past week have exhibited little variation as regards
the prospects of trade. The woollen business at
Leeds has been dull, and few transactions have been
reported either in the warehouses or cloth halls.
The production of light fabrics, however, is still
actively carried on and all the available looms
in the neighbourhood are in full work. At
Bradford worsted yarns continue at full rates, but
for piece goods there has been only a limited
inquiry. The wool market also remains exceed-
ingly firm, and prices show an upward tendency.
There has been a fair amount of business doing in
the hosiery trade at Leicester, and all useful articles
are in request, but fancy descriptions continue
exceedingly dull ; and at Nottingham cotton
hosiery is in good demand ; manufacturers
have extensive orders, and a good spring
demand is fully anticipated. From Manchester
the accounts are not very satisfactory, owing to the
unfavourable advices by the recent Overland Mail.
The late advance of 11d. to 2d. per piece on India
goods, however, has been fully sustained, but the
demand during the week has been far from active.
At Birmingham a considerable improvement has
taken place in the general prospects of business,
more particularly in the export trade. At
Sheffield and Wolverhampton the recent ame-
lioration noticed has in a great measure
been supported, more especially in the iron
trade, large orders for rails for the East Indies
having been given out, and the demand for tools
for the American and Russian markets has been
active. For the home demand, however, there is
still a very limited inquiry,
The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed
rather heavily, and prices were unaltered. The
sales amounted to 8,000 bales. In Railway Shares
Only a limited amount of business was transacted,
and quotations tended downwards.

The demand for discount accommodation con-
tinues moderate, and at present not the slightest
change can be reported in the terms charged by
the bankers and brokers. As these still range as
low as 2 per cent., the applications at the Bank
are limited, and hence the diminution in the
private securities held there. At the end
of the month a temporary impulse may be given to
the demand by loan instalments, the liquidation of
Speculative accounts at the Stock Exchange, and
commercial payments, but the supplies of capi-
tal are too excessive to admit of an immediate re-
action in the terms for loan or discount facilities.

The Arabia, from the United States, has brought
414,900 in specie.
The English Stock Market still remains in a dull
and heavy state. Business is at the present
moment unusually restricted, and with the excep-
tiQn of a few purchases for investment,
which give some strength to the market,
the transactions are unimportant. Consols
have been 951 1 for money and account ; they after-
Wards receded s per cent., viz., 95 to 951, but are
new a shade firmer, being 951 1. The New Threes
and the Reduced Annuities are 951 1 ; India De-
bentures, 981 ; Exchequer Bills, 355. to 395. pm. ;
and India Bonds, 15s. to 20s. prem. Bank Stock
is 229.

Foreign Securities are also rather flatter, but a
fur amount of business has been reported. Turkish
6 per Cents. are 891 to 901 ; ditto New, 791 80 ;
and ditto Scrip, 61 to 6 dis. Spanish 3 per
Cents. Deferred are 30 ; ditto Passive, 9 ; Russian
5 per Cents., 113 ; Mexican, 201 ; and Peruvian 4
per Cents., 921 931. The New Austrian Loan is
quoted 1 to 1 discount.
In the Railway Share Market prices have sym-
pathised with the increased heaviness in the
English Funds, and most of the principal lines
show a further decline of about Ito 1 per cent.
Bristol and Exeter and Great Western have
receded ss. Edinburgh and Glasgow, South Western,
Midland and South-Eastern, 10s. ; and Caledonian,
Norfolk, and North British, £l. The foreign and
colonial lines are inactive. Lombardo-Venetain
have declined about ss. ; and Great Luxembourg,
OS. ; Etst Indian have receded 10s. ; Great Indian
?eninsula, ss. ; and Grand Trunk of Canada have
improved about ss.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
steady. Bank of Egypt have improved ss. ; and
Union of London ss. Peninsular and Oriental
Steam, 10s. ; Electric Telegraph have receded 10s.;
and Canada Land, 10s.

Bank
BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Stock
3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 955/
tPer Cent. Consols Annuities
Now 3 per Cent. Annuities 9 4 4
aiong' Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 —
Ditto 30 Years expire sth April, 1885 lBl
India Stock ' —
Ditto Debentures 9Bl
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,000
Consols for Account 954 1
March June.
P'lcilequer Bills, £1 000 2d. & lid.. 3.5 7 i 3,5 9 5
Ditto £5OO ' ' 36 39 5
Ditto Small, 14d 35 35 9
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto 1852, 41 per Cent. 937,
Ditto 1858, 41 - -I- Cent 93'

1
'`.lt
Mexican 3 per CentPe)
20
Ditto Account
Peruvian 41 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent ll3
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Sardinian, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent. —
. Ditto Account
441 1
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
1 Ditto Passive
Turkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account .. 901 1
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto 2d Issue
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch E h 12 G'l 21 Cent
ac ange,. W. . per
Ditto Certificates,. 4 per Cent.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money 95
Consols for Account

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN GLASGOW.—On Thursday'
night the large manufacturing premises of Messrs. Ran-
dolph and Co., engineers, of Glasgow, were destroyed by
fire. The property consisted to a great extent of machinery
in the course of manufacture, and the damage done is esti-
mated at £70,000. The greater part of it is covered by in-
surance.

CLEVER CAPTURE OF BURGLARS.—The Peter-
borough police, under the charge of Mr. C. B. Edwards;
made a very clever capture of two professed burglars, who
broke into the house of the vicar in Peterborough on
Sunday evening, the 16th of January, carrying off all the
vicar's plate, &c. Through the well-laid plans of this
officer the plate was found and restored, and after a close,
sharp, and energetic pursuit for several days, the burglars
were at last apprehended in a low beershop in Birmingham,
and have since been committed for trial. It is to be hoped
that by these prompt measures the frequent Sunday. even-
ing robberies, which of late have been so frequent in the
Midland counties, may be effectually stopped. Great credit
is due to the perseverance of the police, under Mr. Ed-
wards, as well as their activity in bringing the thieves to
justice.
STATUE OF FEARGUS O'CONNER.—The Notting-
ham Town Council have given a site in the Arboretum for
the erection of a monument to Feargus O'Connor. A few
more examples like this would truly put statues out of
fashion, for no man in modern times has been more success-
ful than O'Connor in misleading poor, ignorant people,
and involving them in loss and misery.—Sliqffield Inde-
pendent
TAMPERING WITH DAVY LAMPS.—On Thursday
Patrick Ramsay, John Smith, and Thomas Temple, pit
lads, employed at Horton Colliery, were ordered by the
South Shields magistrates to be locked up for three days,
charged with tampering with., their Davy lamps down the
pit. It seems they had unlocked their lamps out of pure
mischief, and of course endangered the lives of the men
working in the pit.—Newcastle Chronicle.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE HUNTING FIELD.—
Campbell B. Browne, Esq., late Lieutenant in her Majesty's
98th Regiment, whilst hunting with Lord Stamford's
hounds on Friday last, in taking a fence immediately after
crossing tho Tollerton brook, caught his foot against a post,
lost his scat, and was thrown with great violence on the
ground. Ho proceeded to a farm-house, and medical as-
sistance was procured from Nottingham. He was removed
thence to Nottingham Park, his brother's residence, where
he lingered till Saturday, when he expired.—Stantford
.lifercury.
The council of the Royal Society has ordered
twenty-five guineas to be placed in the hands of a committee
to procure a testimonial for Auguste Balmat, of Chamouni,
in order to record their appreciation of the important services
rendered by him to many scientific explorers around Mont
Blanc. The testimonial into be presented to Balmat in the
name of the Royal Society.
Music.—Father Anselmo Sehnbiger, a monk in
a convent in Germany, states that he has discovered a key
to the different systems of musical notation in use in the
mi idle ages. He explains this discovery in a memoir on
St. Gall's celebrated " School of Singing," a work sup-
;►sed to have been written before the 12th century.—
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