The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-03 00:00:00

gives us a pleasant picture of the great poet's de-
clining years. There is an amusing article entitled
"Some Dinners in Rome," giving photographs of life
in the Eternal City, and another which offers good
and practical advice to lady' equestrians, strongly
impressing on them the advantages of gentleness and
kindness in dealing with so sensitive and docile an
animal as the horse. There is a paper bearing the
curious and unattractive title of " The Limbo of
Infants," which we heartily commend to the atten-
tion of all our readers who have a guinea to spare in
these balmy summer days. It refers to the " Home
for Convalescent Children" at Rumbold's Farm,
Mitcham Common. The object of this excellent
establishment is to offer good air, good water, and
kind care to each child for one month. To sub-
scribers the terms are one guinea, to non subscribers
twenty-five shillings. When we recall the start-
ling fact that of the 50,000 deaths which annually
occur in London 21,000 are those of children under
ten years of age, and when we consider how many of
these thousands must come from the ill-fed children
of the poor, brought up in crowded, dirty, and ill ven-
tilated courts and alleys, we shall readily admit the
boons offered by this institution are not uncalled for
or unneeded. Truly does the writer before us say—

" To such children a summer month in the country must
be the introduction to a new world, with new heavens
and a new earth. To them, the summer month must be an
epoch in life as memorable as the first introduction to the
world of fiction or fairyland, or a first visit to Italy is to others.
Would there be any great exaggeration in a parallel drawn
between the life of a poor Lonon boy, first playing in his
native dirt, and then transferred from his bed of sickness to
a spell of country life at Mitcham, when the common is
golden with the gorse, and the fields purple with the
lavender, and the progressive life of an insect, rising
from grub and chrysalis to the winged state
And may we not imagine, that, when the season is over,
and all who can afford it leave the hot town for their travels
and their country houses, these who have helped to send
these little ones for their spell in the green fields will en-
joy the Highlands and the fresh sea-breeze with a zest pe •
culiarly their own ?"

It is wisely suggested that those who wish to extend
the benefits of this institution, without per-
sonally knowing any fitting recipients for their
kindness, may easily supply the deficiency from the
wards of the Hospital for Sick Children in Great
Ormond-street, which is always full, and which
has furnished nearly half of the four hundred chil-
dren who have spent a month at Mitcham.
The poetical contributions are above the average.
Thomas Hood gives us a mournful, though pleasing
lyric, entitled, " Home at last ;" Mary Howitt
has an interesting and well-written poem called
" Sir William Woodvill," and there are also some
graceful verses on " Sounds."

The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. Beeton,

Strand.

All fair lovers of fancy work and fashion, whose
means are not commensurate with their tastes,
should avail themselves of the unusual advantages
offered to them by this magazine, which even in these
days of cheap literature is a marvel of moderation.
The literary contents are much the same as that of
other cheap serials, the great attraction lying in the
coloured steel plate of the fashions, the coloured de-
signs for tapestry work, and the large sheet of
designs for embroidery of various kinds, and full-
sized patterns for. ladies jackets and children's
frocks. 411 these collective attractions are offered
for sixpence monthly, and consequently few can
complain that they are beyond their reach. They
are all good of their kind, and the directions
clear and,simple.

MONEY NA.R.KET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

There has been little or no improvement in the
general progress of business in the manufacturing
districts during the past week. At Leeds the
woollen trade has been exceedingly flat, and there
is little prospect of recovery now that the spring
trade is over. In Manchester the market for goods
for export to the India and China markets has
shown more activity, but the few sales that have
been effected have been at barely former prices.
The hosiery and lace trades of Leicester and Not-
tingham have continued very inactive, large num-
bers of the operatives being still out of employment.
Business in the hardware districts of Birmingham,
Sheffield, and Wolverhampton has continued dull,
and there is little alteration to notice in prices in
the South Staffordshire iron districts.

About £40,000 in gold was sent into the Bank of
England yesterday.

The steamer Indus, which leaves to-morrow for
India, China, &c., will take out £207,677, viz.,
£17,636 in gold and £190,041 in silver, which in-
cludes £lOO,OOO to Calcutta on Government ac-
count.

The Seine has left to-day for the West Indies,
with £58,000 in gold and £7,600 in silver.

The Owen Glendower has been announced from
Australia with £56,628 in specie.
At the forthcoming meeting of the African Steam
Ship Company, a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent.
per annum will be proposed.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday
business was rather active, but prices were un-
altered. The sales were 12,000 bales.

Active arrangements being in progress for the
commercial engagements arriving at maturity to-
morrow, the 4th, the Money Market temporarily
presents a firmer and more active appearance. Bills
can still be negotiated under 6 per cent., but the
reduction of the difference between the terms asked
in private channels and the Bank of England
minimum has, in conjunction with the augmented
requirements of the commercial public, led to an
increase in the number of inquiries at that estab-
ment.

A decline of y per cent. has taken place in the
English Stock Market, owing to an expected loan
for India and speculative sales. Consols have
receded to 901 1 ex div. for money, to 911 92 for
the 6th inst., and 921 a for the July account.
The New Threes are steady at 891 901. India
5 per Cent. Loan is marked 984 991 ex div. Ex-
chequer Bills are 7s. to ss. dis.
Continued quietude has pervaded the Foreign
Market, but prices are firm. Turkish 6 per Cents.
are 711 72 ; ditto, 1858, 561 1; Buenos Ayres have
improved to 91i ; Russian 43 per Cents. to Mt 92;
and ditto 3 per Cents. to 62.
The traffic receipts of the Great Western Railway
of Canada for the week ending the 17th ult. ex-
hibited an increase of £361 compared with last
year.

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
rather more active, and in some instances prices
have shown a slight upward movement; a few specu-
lative sales, however, subsequently caused a reaction.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western, and
North-Eastern (Berwick) improved ss. ; and Great
Western, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
10s. ; Caledonian, Eastern Counties, South Eastern,
and North British have declined ss.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were
dull, without any material change in values. East
Indian, however, receded about 1, and Scindes im-
proved

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
barely sustain former rates. Bank of Australasia
receded ss. ; London and Westminster, ss. ; and
Red Sea Telegraph, 53.

BRITISH FUND—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .......... 90/ at ad
.Telv 3 per Cent. Annuities, ............. 90 A 891 906
India Stock
9921
Ditto 5 per Cent 9
............................. 2
itto Debentures, 1858 96h I
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO l5 20 dis
013 SOI s for Account, June 6 ...... 92i
India Stock for Account
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FITNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859
Turkish 6 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Oividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian 5 per Cent. Ex. 10 Florins 5O
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 90$ 1 ex div.
Ditto Account 9li

DEATII IN A POLICE CELL.—This morning a
man who yesterday was taken into custody by Police-
constable F 112 in the Strand about half-past 2 for being
drunk and incapable -was found insensible in one of the
police cells at Bow-street station. ➢Tr. Painter, the sur
geon to the force, was immediately sent for, but shortly
after he arrived the man died. Yesterday the prisoner said
his name was Jerome Rudd, and he was a printer. The
coroner has been informed of the melancholy circumstance,

The amount of specie to be forwarded by the
Indus to India and China is n 07,677, of which £100,041 is
silver and £17,636 gold. The total to India is £133,832;
China and the Straits, £59,145; and Ceylon and Alex-
andria, £14,700. The Government send to Calcutta in
silver £100,040.