The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-05 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock.

ELECLION OF .L01?1) MAYOR.

CLOSE OF THE POLL.—(THIS DAY).
his afternoon, on the occasion of the final close of the
poll, a number of electors assembled in the Guildhall. At
four o'clock the poll clerk closed the books amidst some
slight cheering.

Mr. NOTTIDGE then came forward and said, on behalf of
the committee who had conducted the election on the
part of the Lord Mayor, he begged to thank the livery
for the triumphant :manner in which they had re-
turned him at the head of the poll. He thought there never
was an election for Lord Mayor which so clearly showed
the expression of public opinion. A. band of
gentlemen, without the slightest pretensions to
electioneering tactics, had, he was happy to say,
carried their cause to a successful issue, opposed as
they had been by a talented and well organised electioneer-
ing body. The Lord Mayor's election had been brought
about without the aid of a single paid canvasser, and he
bad been returned by a majority of over 1,100. He had
also the happiness of informing them that they had returned
the Lord Mayor free of expense. (Cheers.) As not one
farthing of the expenses would come out of his pocket, and
the committee intended to present the honour to the Lord
Mayor as an expression, on the part of the livery of Lon-
don, of the manner in which he fulfilled the functions of his
office during the year coming to a close. It was important
during the ensuing year, which would be a very eventful
one, that a man of good sound common sense for their
chief magistrate should be appointed, and the gentleman
who would fill that office was all that could be
desired. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He was not a man
who had not been dropped on fortune's hill—his honour had
been to mount it—(cheers)—and they might rest assured
that the Lord Mayor would add additional honour to the
office they had conferred upon him. (Cheers.)
The following numbers were then exhibited as the final
state of the poll :
Lord Mayor
Laurie
Muggeridge
Hale
••••
Mechi
3
Mr. Potter, of Farringdon-street, said he did not think
that the manner in which the election had been conducted
reflected much credit on the livery of London. He had ye
to learn what the Lord Mayor had done to merit his elec.
tion to a second year of office.

The speaker continued his remarks, but before he had
come to a conclusion the whole of the assembly had quitted
the hall.

410NEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The completion of the monthly settlement of com-
mercial accounts has not:been succeeded by a dimi-
nution in the demand for money, the market of
to-day presenting rather an active appearance,
and the rates are rather firmer in consequence,
although the best description of mercantile secu-
rities can yet be negotiated at 31 to 3! per cent.
Letters from Paris report continued firmness in
the Money Market there, and the opinion prevailed
that the Bank of France will be compelled to main-
tain a restrictive policy.
A further distribution of £3, making £4l on
each £5O share will be made by the liquidators of
the Western Bank of London, payable on the 14th
instant.

A meeting will take place on Friday next, to
appoint a committee of bondholders of the Turkish
Loan of 1858.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday busi-
ness continued rather active, and parcels remained
firm. The sales amounted to about 10,000 bales.
A large quantity of gold, viz., £155,000, was
taken into the Bank of England yesterday.
The Foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon in
most instances exhibited a slight advance.
The directors of the Bank of Turin have advanced
their rate of discount to 61 per cent.

The business of the London and County Bank- 8,
in,7 Company will be carried on at their new
881,
premises in Lombard-street, on and after the 7th
sb
inst. st,

The suspension has been announced of Messrs. I st st
i
Sowerby, Tattoo, and Co., silk mercers, with liabi-
lities estimated at £50,000.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £842,000, and the exports £95,500. ei
Business in the market for Public Securities has et
been particularly quiet, and no change of import- st
ante has taken place in the quotations, Consols
being 92j4-' 93 for transfer and the 10th inst., and St
939 4 for November. The New Threes are flat at
90-Z- 918, and the Reduced at 909 ; the 21. per "„
Cents, are 771 ; Exchequer Bills, March, remain at :I
par to 3s. prem. ; ditto, June, at 7s. to 9s. prem. ;
India Scrip is steady at 1034, but the Bonds are
heavy prem.

In the market for Foreign Securities the trans-
actions have been of a limited character, and prices
in some instances have slightly declined. Turkish sti
(
6 per Cents. are flat at 841 to 85 ; ditto, 1858, st st(
steady at 681 691; and Sardinian at 81 ; Mexican :1((
have receded to 261; Spanish Certificates to 51; stt(
and Venezuelan to 20:-; Brazilian are firm at 99L It(
The operations in the Railway Share Market have stc
been limited, and prices have exhibited rather less
stc
buoyancy. Great Westerns have declined ss. ; ri`(
North-Westerns and North-Eastern (Berwick) 10s.; etc
and Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midlands and South- I
Easterns, 15s. ; Norfolks have advanced 10s., and
Great NOrtherns, £l. etc

The Foreign and Colonial lines continue inactive Bt4
—South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have ;t:,
declined to 168 ; Great Western of Canada
brought 98; East Indian 1011 f-,, and Great Indian
Peninsula 981. eti

Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
continue dull, and little variation of importance
took place in prices. London and Westminster
have advanced to 68 ; Crystal Palace realise 34,
et.
and Oriental Mail Steam 41 5.

BaITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICKS.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 904
3 per Cent. ConsAs Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9l 90k
New 2.1 per Cent. Annuities 77t
India stock, ~•, •. .. —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Loan Scrip, 5 per cent
Di 11, Bonds £l,OOO
Bank Stock for Account
11 pm
t.ozasols for Account, Oct. 10
Exchpaner Bills, Ll,OOO, 2d .... .. March June.
par 3pm 9pm
Ditto £5OO .. par 3pm
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PitICES.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent .
Ditto Account
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded... 5/
urkish 6 per Cent Bll
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Account .
201
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Coneols, Money ..
Ditto Account ....... TWO O'CLOCK.
924
3
3
Ditto . 993-i i

THE CORONERSHIP OF
wWEST MIDDLESEX.—
A rumour is prevalent that Mr,
whose health has
sottle,i:s about to resign
recently been in an unsatisfactory satakleY'.
illtr. 1. 11. Wakley,
this important post, and that
be nominated for
a member of the medical profession, ;
also been named
the office. Several legal gentlemen have
as probable candidates,
The Bank of Turin have raised their rate of dis-
count to 61 per cent.
Mr. Charles Tilt, the publisher, died last Satur-
day at his house in Pembridge-gardens, Bayswater,
EL,.m
61. He had retired from business for some years,

About X 155,500 in bar'gold (half Californian and
half Australian) was bought by the Bank yesterday.
A PERILOUS ASCENT.—On Thursday last George
Matthews, a carpenter, in the employ of Mr. F. H. Fisher,
builder, of the High-street, Salisbury, performed the ad-
venturous and perilous feat of ascending to the summit of
Salisbury Cathedral spire, for the purpose of ascertaining
What repairs and painting were necessary to be done. After
he had reached the top he climbed up and got astride the
vane, which he turned round. The courageous fellow sub-
isequently mounted the iron cross above the vane, and
waving his cap to the spectators stood upon the bar at that
giddy height perfectly upright. The ascent to the top of
the spire, it may be mentioned, is accomplished on the
outside by means of small iron handles securely fixed to
the spire. The height of Salisbury spire has been stated in
a ome accounts to be as much 410 ft. Mr. Fisher, clerk of
theorks of the Cathedral, says the height of the spire is
nearly 3991 t. 10in., being about 34ft. 10in. higher than St.
Nos,