The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-04 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

A new farce, entitled " Paul Pry Married and
Settled," was produced for the first time last even-
ing. It has evidently been written either by or for
Arr. C. Mathews, as in him centres the whole of the
action. His pourtrayal of the illustrious Paul as a
married man is highly comical, and created im-
rnensa laughter, and therefore the end aimed was
arrived at. Certainly no other actor on the boards
could produce similar effects.

Mr. Booth appears on Monday next as Sir Giles
Overreach. This gentleman's performances and the
new comedy "The Soft Sex," have attracted very
large and fashionable audiences during the week.

NEWMARKET RACES—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM)
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Allezy Pondemeul
Blackcock

Picnic
OCTOBER HANDICAP.

Monk

Nineteen ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 30 SOVS.

Arab

Estrelda.
MATCH—Colares beet St. Bernard.

MONEY. MARK ET AND CITY NEWS'.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Bank of England return, completed to the
2d October, is not of quite so satisfactory a charac-
ter as was generally anticipated. The bullion
shows a slight diminution, and there is a decrease
of upwards of a million sterling in the reserve of
notes. The other securities, also have been aug-
mented, consequent upon the preparations made to
meet the engagements due on the 4th of the month.
The public deposits, owing to the payment of offi •
cial salaries and other disbursements usual at this
season, have been lessened by about a million,
while the active circulation has consequently been
largely augmented. The other items of the balance-
sheet exhibit little change of importance; they
will be seen in the subjoined table:—
Active Circulation. £21,087,955
Increase .. 1,114,375
Stock of Bullion .. 14,124,626
Decrease .• •• •• 117,615
Rest .. • • .. .. 3,809,537
Increase .. .• • • • • 13,517
Public Deposits • • .. .. 4,909,918
Decrease .. .. 900,506

Other Deusits.. 12,115,942
Increale •• •• •• 158,134
Seven Day and other Bills .. 748,891
Increase .. 57,423
Government Securities .. 10,733,123
Increase .. 282,323
Other Securities 17,717,494
Increase .. 278,235
Notes unemployed 6,922,565
Decrease .. 1,185,350
A further small supply of good—viz., £7,000,
was sent into the Bank of England yesterday.
An instalment of 20 per cent. becomes due on the
New Indian Loan on the 22d inst-

There is rather less demand for money to-day,
ample provision having been made for the engage-
ments due to-day, the 4th of the month. The
market, however, presents a firm appearance.

During the last few days business has continued
moderately active in the markets for foreign and
colonial produce. Tea at public sale realised previ-
ous values, while full rates were obtained for sugars,
coffee, and cocoa. Rice, however, remained dull,
but a fair business was done in fruit and spices,
without any material alteration in quotations.
Saltpetre has been neglected, but increased anima-
tion has prevailed in the tallow market, prices
generally showing an upward tendency for both
present and forward delivery.

Increased activity prevailed in the Liverpool
cotton market yesterday, and prices were firm. The
sales amounted to 15,000 bales.

The market for Public Securities has under-
gone very little variation to-day, the few dealings
entered into for transfer and speculation having
failed to influence prices to any material extent.
Consols have been steady at 921 93 for transfer,
about 93 for the 10th inst., and 93-} for November.
The New Threes are firm at 918; the Reduced
steady at 901 91 ; Exchequer Bills, March, at par.
to 3s. prem. ; and the June flat at 7s. prem. ; India
5 per Cent. Loan has improved to 1038, but the
Bonds remain at 1 le. to 13s. prem.
A fair amount of business has been transacted in
the Foreign Market, and prices show no important
variation. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 841 to 85 ;
ditto, 1858, 68/ 69 ; Mexican have been 24, but
are now 26i e ; and Spanish are fiat at 498 ; Buenos
Ayres have improved to 86 ; Brazilian to 991 ; and
Venezuelan are firm at 20t.

The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been limited, and rather less firmness has been ex-
hibited in prices. Eastern Counties and Midlands
have receded 55., and Caledonians and Great Wes-
terns, 10a. , North Eastern (Berwick) and South-
Easterns have improved 55., and Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 10s.

The Foreign and Colonial lines continue at
steady rates—South Austrian and Lombardo-Vene-
tian. however, advanced 55., and East Indian, Great
Indian Peninsula, and Punjaub brought former
prices.

Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
exhibited rather more firmness. London Joint-stock
improved 55., and Royal Mail Steam, 10s.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9Ol 1
per Cent. Conswls Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9Ol 11 1
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5l
`ndia Stock ... ••• •

Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto Bonds £l,000
..7 olts o 1 s for Account, Oct. 10 , „ 93
March.
'achequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d par
Ditto £5OO .. par
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent . 994
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1860
3 uenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Chili= 6 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent
Equador New Consolidated
'lexicon 3 per Cent ..
Ditto Account-
Spanish 3 per Cent...
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded.. 6
urkish 6 per Cent ..
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 92f 3
Ditto Account

June .
7 pm

MISS HARRIET MARTINEAU IN "ONCE A WEEK."
—There used to be a larger proportion of artists and poets
among us than there are likely to be again ; for, as know-
ledge and taste have advanced, the need of cultivation is
more generally perceived, if not by the aspirant, by the
public. Verses wonderful for a milkwoman no longer excite
an interest ; and the poetry of ploughboys is prized, if at
all, for its keen and clear reflection of nature, and not be-
cause it proceeds from a ploughboy. Elliott of Sheffield
proved that good poetry wins fame for a blacksmith as for a
nobleman or gentleman ; but the self-made men among the
poets are, and will be, fewer and of a higher order than for-
merly. 'We do not look for a Burns twice over ; but of Bloom-
fields and Clares we shall hear less than our fathers.d id ; and
mere rhymesters, like some who made a great noise in the
last century, are obliged to withdraw their pretentions, as
we see in the instance of Close of Kirkby-Lonsdale, who
would once have been a great man for life, after the Prime
Minister had spoken of him as being in the same category
with Burns."

THE QUEEN'S PRIVATE VISIT TO FETTERCAIRN.
—The ladies of Fettercairn are wroth that the Queen
should have stayed over all night in the village without
their knowing it or seeing their Sovereign. Some, too, who
keep lodgers are thinking over the appearance and looks of
certain gentlemen who resided with them on that memo-
rable night, with a view of seeing whether they may have
been among the honoured. At one house, where a stranger
slept, the good lady orderei all the bedclothes to be religi-
ously put by, and preserved for ever and ever, in the hope
that the stranger was the gallant Prince Louis of Hesse,
which he wasn't. On being undeceived she called out from
the top of the stairs, in an agitated but effective manner,
" Jeanie, woman, wash th' oboes, the chield was only a
commercial traveller."—Caledonian Mercury.
THE ASSASSINATION AT NEWCASTLE.--The in-
quest upon the body of Mr. Mark Frater, collector of as-
sessed taxes, who was brutally murdered on Tuesday morn-
ing in Blackett-street, under circumstances already detailed
in The Sun, was opened at the Eldon Arms Inn, on
"Wednesday evening, before Mr. Hoyle, coroner The jury
returned a verdict of wilful murder.

AN ADDRESS TO RAILWAY PORTERS.—The
Gloucester lotirnal has the following :—A wag,
who sent a
cask per railway, a few days ago, and who had heard some-
thing of the propensities of railway goods porters, added
the following caution upon the address
Ye railway chaps perhaps may think
This cask is beer—taste not—'tis ink I"
EVERY LITTLE HELPS.—A Berlin correspondent
of the Independence says :—" The agitation for the Ger-
man fleet increases in extent every day. The Committee of
the National Association at Coburg has just forwarded to
the Minister of Marine at Berlin the sum of 10,000 florins,
destined for the construction of gunboats. A brisk sub-
scription is going on at Berlin, and, indeed, all through
saermaay."