The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

11, •

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
During the past week there has been very little
improvement in the general state of trade through-
?lit the manufacturing districts. At Leeds there
licto been no material increase in the dealings in
Woollen cloths. At Bradford a more active inquiry
!WA prevailed for spring goods, but the operations
olive not been extensive. At Manchester the ad-
hoes from America have almost caused a suspension
°f business, and the tone of the market has in some
I°o4Bllre been influenced by the late suspensions in
4
Levant trade at Marseilles. Business at
44ioester has been of a more favourable character
r3Wing to the improvement in the weather. In the
t
grdware districts there has been little change to
ll°tioe, business at Birmingham, Sheffield, and
Wolverhampton having been confined almost ex-
clOsively to home requirements.
4 fair amount of business was reported in the
Liverpool
Cotton Market on Saturday, and prices
continued firm. The sales were 10,000 bales.

To-morrow, the 30th inst., a call of £2 per share,
,tnlounting to £50,000, is due on the Cape Town
11ftilway and Dock Shares.
About £82,000 in gold was withdrawn from the
illtok of England on Saturday for exportation.
The Seine has arrived from the West Indies with
487,643, nearly all in silver.
A. meeting of the creditors of Messrs. C. A. and
4* Ferguson, of-Mill-wall, will take place to-morrow
the 30th inst.
~,.A steady business is transacted in tile general
discount market, but as accommodation can be
l'btained as low as 4,1 per cent., the inquiries at the
ink of England are still comparatively limited,
"ring the next few days, however, more firmness
d activity are expected, owing to the Stock
Exchange settlements, and the preparation for the
engagements due on Saturday next, the 4th of the
month, which are undersrood to be rather exten-
A moderate business has been transacted in the
'market for Public Securities to-day, but speculation
'outinues dull in consequence of the operators
berg disinelined to enter into extensive engage-
ments while American affairs remain in such an
uncertain state. Consols, however, in consequence
a few sales, have receded to 914 for money and
leftunt. The New Threes and the Reduced re-
main at 901; Bank Stock has declined to 231, and
India ditto to 222, but Exchequer Bills are steady
4t 48. to ls. dis.

Foreign Securities have been dealt in to a
'lrnited extent at about former quotations. Turkish
43Per Cents. are 701 -I; ditto, 1858, 531 I. Spanish
414 firm at 491 I; ditto Deferred have receded to
lit. Portuguese are 47, and Russian 3 per Cents.
431162.
The preparation for the settlement of the account
&now in progress in the Railway Share Market.
411 e dealings, however, are limited, and prices have
110 t varied to any important extent. Caledonians,
treat Westerns, and Great Northerns, have ad-
/anced ss. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midlands,
and South Easterns, declined 55.; and North
eastern (Berwick), 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial Markets have con-
nued very inactive, and prices have been in most
'lnstances steadily maintained. East Indian have
receded about 4, and Grand Trunk of Canada 1.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
tontinued very dull. London and Westminster
4ittise 67 to 67f, Ottoman Bank h:-.ve declined to
18t, and Peninsular and Oriental Steam brought

Bank
BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
.433,k Stock
i Per Cent. Reduced Annuities -90 90 891 90
NPer Cent. Consols Annuities
r_eW 3 per Gent. Annuities 9O * 90
'wile Stock OO .. 222 24
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 6 per Cent.
Ditto 5i per Cent lOO4
tato Bonds £l,OOO —
ditto under 51,000
t'biols for Account, May 9 .. 91, 4 I
trlequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid.
Ditto £500
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
'l'azilian 5 per Cent
Ditto iti per Cent. 1858
„Ditto 4 per Cent., 1860 B7} 7
44.ezican 3 per Cent
• rtuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853. .. 47
Aussian 5 per Cent. 1822, £St .
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859
c▪
ardinian Z per Cent
6Panish 3 per Cent. •••• 44 I
Ditto New Deferred... 4l;
~ Ditto Passive
4Panish Cert. of Coup. not funded sf
4 llrkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.

THREE O'CLOCK.
'Connie, Money 9l/ /
Ditto Account 9l/ /

krsTMINSTER SCHOOL-THE
VAL AGITATION SETTLED.

On Saturday, a meeting of old Westminster
eholars was held in the schoolroom, Little Dean's-
/ard, for the purpose of considering the report of
the committee appointed in June last to confer with
the Dean and Chapter on the state and condition
at the school and college, with a view to improve
them on their present, or to ascertain a fit and
toper site elsewhere. The Very Rev, the Dean of
Westminster occupied the chair. The committee
made, in regard to the first portion of their inquiry,
tineteen proposals to the Dean and Chapter, the
Nbstance of which was that there should be a free
communication between Great and Little Dean's-
ptrd, and that a railing should be the fence
etween the latter and the college garden, which
!'bould be open to the boys • and the cricket ground,
In Vincent-square, should be planted with trees, and
-covered play-ground made at the school, in lieu
';_f the cloisters ; and the school itself should better
be glazed and ventilated, better warmed in cold
"Weather, and generally kept in better repair; that
the discipline of the school be retained a' hereto-
fore; that the Westminster play should be retained;
and that the head and under masters should be
Westminster men. To most of these recommenda-
tions the Dean and Chapter had given their assent.
4iley, however, declined to remove the obstructions
between Great and Little Dean's-yard, or to allow
the boys into the college garden. With respect
;','? the play, the statutes of the college required
9e performance at Christmas of. a Latin and
-v-,nglish play, either tragedy or comedy, by the
scholars and choristers, with a view to their im-
Provement in pronunciation and action ; but in car-
rying out that rule they thought they were bound
to remember that the moral and religious interests
of the school must be their first consideration. The
appointment of the masters was not vested in the
eapitular body. With respect to the second part of
the inquiry, there was a difference in the commit-
tee's opinion, but they were unanimous in thinking
that, even should it be desirable to change the site
of the school, there were not available funds suffi-
tient to enable them to carry out that object on
even the moderate scale recommended by the Dean
litkel Chapter. The report having been presented to
the meeting by Sir David Dundas,
The Dean of WESTMINSTER said, on behalf of
the Chapter, they renounced all purpose and in-
tention of changing the site of the school—(cheers)
"—and threw themselves heartily into the endeavour
to make the dormitories light and comfortable,
and had already provided a covered play-ground
for the use of the boys. (Cheers.)
, Sir D. DUNDAS, M.P., considered that the best
thanks of all present were due to the Very Rev. the
Dean, for calling them together to consider how
the school was to be improved.
The report having been adopted, the proceedings
terminated.

Miss- Coutti comes to town to-day from Holly
;Age, Highgate, for the season.
THE ODD MAN.—In the parish of Cambuslang,
in Scotland, the population has been ascertained to amount
to 3,647; the females numbering 1,823, and the males 1,824.
A schism has taken place in the Baptist chapel
at Southampton, the pastor of which is the Rev. Mr.
SPurgr on, a brother of the London preacher of that name.
The schism has arisen respecting doctrinal points. Ths
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, and about 300 of his adherents,
remove to the Carlton-rooms until a new chapel is built.
The London Mr. Spurgeon Ns ill preach in Southampton
text Wednesday, and assist his brother in inaugurating
%he new movement there. It is in contemplation to build
a new Baptist chapel in the centre of the High-street,
Southampton.
The prizes destined for distribution among the
btembers of the Crystal Palace Art Union attract a constant
crowd round the glass case in which they are ?xhibited. The
Pictures are all original and copyright, and the qua!!ty and
artistic value of the prize lists are sufficiently testified by
the fact that the talents of David Roberts, Durham, Monti,
Calder Marshall, and Miller, have been called into requisi-