The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-07 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The accounts from the manufacturing districts
continue satisfactory, although little activity has
been apparent in the general demand for home use.
At Leeds the tone of the cloth market has been
good, and an average amount of business has been
done in light fabrics. The export trade is not
active, but the manufacturers, on the whole, are
well employed. At Manchester goods suitable to
the Dutch and German markets have met with a
fair inquiry, and, owing to the advance in
the value of cotton and the scarcity of stock,
prices have shown an upward tendency. India
goods have been in rather limited demand, but
prices continue firm. The market for piece goods
at Bradford has been inactive, and prices are
nominally unaltered, but the manufacturers are
generally well engaged upon contract orders, and
in the stuff department a large amount of business
has been done. The woollen hosiery trade at
Leicester has been very quiet, and the few
dealings reported have been for the purpose of
sorting up stocks. In cotton hosiery, however,
business continues very active, and full prices are
current. In the iron trade of South Staffordshire
there has been no material alteration. A steady
business has been done, and prices have been fairly
maintained. At Birmingham more activity has
prevailed in most branches of business connected
with the town and neighbourhood, and there is
comparatively little want of employment among
the operatives. The hardware business at Sheffield
and Wolverhampton has exhibited symptoms of
activity, and some large orders from the United
States, as well as from the various German markets,
has caused more activity in the trade. The home
demand, however, has been very quiet. The South
Yorkshire coal trade is also very inactive.
The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed
with a very firm appearance, and prices of all
descriptions were extreme. The sales were esti-
mated at 10,000 bales. In the railway shares only
a limited amounted of business was transacted ;
quotations, however, tended upwards.
The Money Market is rather quieter, but there
is still a steady inquiry for discount accommo-
dation. Very little alteration can be reported
in the terms charged for negotiating first class bills,
and they have lately ranged at such a low
point, that the temporary variations of d or
per cent, now reported attract scarcely any
remark in commercial circles. It is imagined, how-
ever, that an immediate impulse will be given to
enterprise of various descriptions in the event of a
settlement of political disturbances abroad, and in
that case more firmness in the rates of discount may
be experienced.

The market for English Securities opened with
increased buoyancy this morning, the announce-
ments in the Moniteur having created renewed
confidence. Some large purchases have been
effected, which promoted an improved movement.
A further rise would no doubt have occurred
but for a supply of money stock, and the operators
are now awaiting the receipt of further telegrams
from the Paris Bourse before they enter into fresh
transactions. The aggregate improvement has now
been considerable, and occasional reactionary symp-
toms may be experienced, as parties who •bought at
lower prices may be induced to realise profits. It
is satisfactory to find that a much better feeling
prevails, which will, no doubt, continue, if nothing
should occur to reproduce the depression lately
experienced. Consols have been 96 to 961 for
money, and 961 to 961 for the account. The New
Threes are 96;1- I, and also the Reduced Annuities.
Exchequer Bills are 345. to 38s. prem., and India
Debentures 981 to 99. Bank Stock is 228 to 230.

A fair amount of business has been recorded in
the Foreign Securities, and owing to the rise in
Consols prices are generally at a decided improve-
ment. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 911 to 921;
ditto, New Loan, 781 to 79 ; and the 4 per Cents.,
103. Spanish Deferred are 30 to 301 ; Sardinian,
80 ; French 41 per Cents., 97 ; ditto 3 per Cents.,
68 75 ; Mexican Stock is 201 ; and Venezuelan
Bonds have risen to 431

The Railway Share Market this morning has ex-
hibited rather more activity, and prices generally
have been firmer. Great Western and South
Eastern have improved ss. ; Bristol and Exeter,
Eastern Counties, Great Northern, Lancashire and
Yorkshire, North Western, South Western, Mid-
land, and North Eastern (Berwick), 10s. The
Foreign and Colonial lines are also at slightly im-
proved values. Lombardo-Venetian have advanced
ss. for both the Old and New Shares ; Grand Trunk
of Canada, 10s. ; Great Western of Canada, ss. ;
and Great Indian Peninsula, ss.
Joint-St•ek Bank and Miscellaneous Shares show
little variation from previous values.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 961
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 96 t
New 2/ per Cent. Annuities
India Stock

Ditto Debentures 99 £3l.
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Consols for Account.... 96k 6 51
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & lid

FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto 1858, 41- per Cent. 941 4
•
Buenos Ayres, b per Cent —
Ditto Account
Mexican 3 per Cent. 2O/ i
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent llO
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Sardinian, 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cent.
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Spanish Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded 4
Turkish 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. .• • •
Ditto Account .. 103
Venezuelan 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 41 per Cent. Ex. 25f..... 97f.
Ditto 3 per Cent. Ex. 25f 6Bf. 75c. 69 25
THREE O'CLOCK.

.Consols, Money 9si 6
Consols for Account ... 951 6

THE CIVIL SERVICE.--General Post-office.—Mr.
J. E. Munns has been appointed postmaster at Ashford,
vice Mr. Tunbridge, resigned. Customs—A supernumerary
clerkship is vacant in the receiver-general's office, vice
Weeks, promoted. Mr. C. S. Cartwright has been pro-
moted from principal pay clerk to be chief clerk in the
receiver-general'sne office, London. Mr. James Cook has
promoted from third clerk to be principal pay clerk in
ditto. Mr. W. Watt has been promoted from second to
first class landing waiter in Glasgow , Mr. C. M. Spalding
has been promoted from third to 'second class landing
waiter in Glasgow ; Mr. It. G. Anderson has been promoted
from fourth to third class landing waiter in Glasgow. In-
land Revenue Department--Mr. Hugh Freeling has been
promoted from the class of junior clerks in the legacy and
succession duty office, Somerset-house, to that of second
class superintendent of wills, in place of Mr. Conrad Ruc-
ker deceased. Stamps and Taxes Branch—The surveyor-
shi of taxes at Northampton has become vacant. Ireland
—A clerkship has become vacant in the solicitor's .office,
inland revenue, by the retirement of Mr. Stormont.—
Civil Service Gazette.
IMPUDENT ROBBERY OF A FARMER AT BRISTOL.
--Yesterday one of the most impudent robberies was perpe-
trated in Bristol by two men, one of whom had the temerity
to personate Mr. Miles, the banker, and M.P. for East
Somerset, by means of which fraud he succeeded in robbing
a Somerset farmer of £BO. The farmer, Mr. John Perkins,
of Walton-in-Gordans near Clevedon, had gone to Bristol
to attend the fair, and in the course of the afternoon went
to the bank to deposit £BO. As he was looking at the name-
plate in front of the premises, a " very gentlemanly man"
stepped from the door and accosted him in familiar terms,
though he did not recognise the stranger. They entered
into conversation, and on the farmer stating the object of
his presence in the street, the "gentleman" said, "How
very odd I I have just been in myself to put in a couple of
hundred pounds, and my old friend Miles is so busy on ac-
smut' of the fair that he has begged me to come again in
half an hour." The gentlemen then proposed that they
should repair to the Rummer Hotel. They were sipping
their liquor and talking over agricultural prospects when
another " most respectable gentleman," but older than the
other came in. " God bless my soul," said the first, " here
is Mr. Miles," and rushing from his seat and shaking the
other by the hand, he exclaimed, "Miles, how are you I
should have been down with you in time, and then, pointing
to the farmer he said, "Here is another gentlemanwho is just
going to deposit £BO with you, and we will come down
together." Mr. Miles at once prOte:lted that he should not
think of such a thing, that as his friend had been down
once he could not permit him to go again, and as for the
farmer, he (Mr. 1\ tiles) was only- too happy to render
service to any of his constituents. 'I f the gentlemen would
oblige him with their deposits he would step into the bank
and bring them back the proper receipts. The gentleman
at once gave his roll of notes and the farmer his eighty
sovereigns, with which "Mr. Miles" left. Some minutes
having elapsed without the return of Mr. Miles, the gentle-
man suggested that he might be detained by customers,
and *posed that he should run down and get the receipts
himself. He left, avowedly with that intention, but it need
hardly be told that the farmer has never since seen the re-
ceipt or his money, the banker or the gentleman.