The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-08 00:00:00

210 lay MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLooK.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts
ar e still of a very unsatisfactory character, and the
intervention of the Easter holidays has caused a
further depression in the home trade. Business at
'Vlanchester has been exceedingly dull, and but
little change has been produced by the reduction in
the rate of discount. The woollen trade in the
.West Riding of Yorkshire has continued exceed-
ingly dull, and at Leicester and Nottingham little
Or no improvement can be reported in the hosiery
and lace trades. In the hardware districts, viz.,
at Birmingham, Sheffield, Walsall, and Wolver-
lampten, the stagnation noticed during the last
'I"W weeks has been by no means diminished. The
meetings of the ironmasters will commence at Bir-
mingham on Wednesday next.
A large amount of business was transacted in
the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday, and
iPtie.e tended upwards. The sales were fully 20,000
Dales.

The Money Market remains in a very quiescent
state, with a tendency towards increasing ease, con-
"'Met upon the extreme supplies, and the mode-
;ate character of the enquiries. The payment of
the April dividends is now producing some effect,
4nd it is generally expected that lower rates will
14°1113r prevail.
A further sum of about 80,000 was sent into
the Bank of England on Saturday.
The Oneida has arrived from the Brazils with
44,746 in specie.
An instalment of 30 per cent., amounting to
4900,000, is due to-morrow on the last Indian
1,
"'citn, but the greater portion has been paid in an-
ticipation.
To-morrow a call of £2 per share, amounting to
£60,000, is due on the South Yorkshire Railway
40 shares.

There has been a heavy market for Public
a.
oleurities to-day owing to the unsettled appear-
!lee of the continental politics, which have led to
I,', continuance of speculative sales. Consols are
therefore depressed, at 911 4 for money and the
19th instant, and at 914 for the 9th May. The
New Threes and the Reduced have receded to 89/
°O, and Bank Stock to 227 ex div. ; India 5 per
_Cents. Loan is 1001- 1, ditto New Scrip 1001 ; and
.:zoliequer Bills are 3s. die.
An average number of dealings have been re-
(*Ned in the Foreign market, but prices generally
are very depressed. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 73
14) 74; ditto 1858, 531 to 534; Mexican have
receded to 23/ 24 ; Sardinian to 812 ; Spanish
?Salve to 161; Brazilian 5 per Cents. to 99; and
ditto 41 per Cents. 85d1 Russian 5 per Cents. are
marked 1021.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
beets very limited, and a further decline has taken
Place in the rates current for most of the principal
British undertakings. Caledonian have receded ;
Eastern Counties, ; Great Western, I ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 4 ; North Western, 4 ; Midland, 4;
North Eastern (Berwick), d ; and South Eastern,*:
tendon and Brighton, however, have improved *.
In the Foreign Market no dealings of importance
'ere recoried, and prices were nominally a shade
Satter.
The Colonial lines were fiat. Grand Trunk of
Canada declined £1; East Indian, ss. ; and Great
Western of Canada and Great Indian Peninsula
barely sustained previlus quotations.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
Were in very limited request. Agra and United
Service Bank brought 781 ; Oriental Bank, 49* ;
Triglish and Australian Copper, 3; ; and Red Sea
Telegraph, 18.

b BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRIORS
J(ttd Stock
:Per Cent. Reduced Annuities B9l 90 891 ex dr
;Per Cent. Consols Annuities
t 2"? 3 per Cent. Annuities
••.gia Stock. .. ............ •. •
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto Scrip ............. ._....
Dino Entaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 6 per Cent.
ditto Debentures, 1858 96
Ditto 1869
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO —
Ditto under £l,000
risols for Account
`4ollequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d 7 dis
D rt.° £5OO 7 dis
Ditto, Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1860
Lhilian 6 per Cent
Ditto 4} per Cent,
4exican 3 per Cent
bbitto Account
'erirvian. 41 per Cent ..
„Ditto Account
4t 94/
ussian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St .. 102} 1/
Ditto 41 per Cent. ...
Ditto 1860
Sardinian 6 per Cent. , —
, bitto Account
%)Itnish 3 per Cent... c.
Ditto p •
1, . same
41:jush 6 per Cent .. 73t
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
t Dividends on the above payable in London.
lach Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent —
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money
Ditto Account • • 91i

THE WEATHER.

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