The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK,

During the last few days a moderate amount of
business has been transacted in the Foreign and
Colonial Produce Markets. Sugars have fully sus-
tained previous values, while a slight advance has
been established in the rates realised for good and fine
descriptions of coffee. Tea has been without any
material change in price, and the operations in rice
and spices have been limited. For saltpetre there
has been a more active inquiry at fall values, and
the operations in tallow have been, to an average
extent, at steady quotations for both present and
forward delivery.

An active enquiry prevailed for most descriptions
of cotton in the Liverpool Market yesterday, and
prices, in several instances, were again rather
higher. The sales amounted to 10,000 bales.
A large supply of gold, viz., £140,000, was taken
into the Bank of England yesterday.
The latest advices from Australia state that the
following vessels have left England, viz., the
Copenhagen, with £54,096, Prince of Wales
£39,108, True Briton £129,196, and the Latona
•with £29,628.

The America, from Boston, has brought £2,000
in specie.

There is a decrease of £2,758 in the traffic re-
ceipts of the South Eastern Railway, and of
£2,077 on the Brighton for the past week.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
pointed Thursday next a settling day in the
Scottish Australian Mines (new shares), Yuda-
inamutana Copper Mining Company of South Aus-
tralia, London and South of Ireland Direct Tele-
graph Company ; and Thursday, the 24th inst., in
the Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool, and
the Montes Aureos Gold Mining Company, and
dealings in the first four are to be officially recorded.
The Rio de Janeiro City Improvement shares fully
Paid. are also to be marked in the official lists.
Telegraphic advices from Turin state that the
StAscription for the 20,000 shares in the Italian Ir-
rigation Canal Company, which were reserved for
Italy, was opened on Friday, and that in three
days the number applied for was 24,000. In conse-
quence of this intelligence, it is notified that the
London list will be closed on Saturday next. The
•hares are zl5,- prem.

The prospectus has been ussued of the Great
Copper Lode of the Huacayvo Company, with a
proposed c%pital of £200,000, to purchase some ex-
tensive and valuable mines, adjoining the State of
Sonora, on the Gulf of California. The prospects of
the undertaking are considered highly encouraging,
and the shares are quoted =7; .2- prem.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.
Two O'CLOCK.

A RUSSIAN LOAN.

A new Russian Loan is stated to be in contempla-
tion. The amount is stated at £10,000,000 in a 4-1
Per cent. stook) at the price of 85.

The market for Public Securities, to-day, is
rather heavy, in consequence of the impending
negotiation of the Russian Loan. Sales have been
laressed, and a decline of per cent, has taken place,
Consols being 931 for money, and 931 94 for the
Bth proximo. The New Threes and the Reduced
were 921 ; Long Annuities 15-1:1; and Exchequer
sills 18s. to 21 prem.; Bank Stocks was 237 239 ;
India ditto, 227; ditto 5 per Cent., 10874 _a ; ditto
5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 103/ 8 ; ditto 51 per
Cent. 108-1 s ; and ditto Debentures 1001
Very few dealing have been recorded in the
Foreign Market, and prices show no important
variation. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 802 81; ditto,
16'58, 701 71; Mexican are flat at 328 33 ; Spanish
beferred steady at 432 ; ditto Passive at 191 ; but
the Certificates have receded to 7f 1 ; Venezuelan
have risen to 244- 1. The New Scrip is 21
prem.; and the Egyptian, 11 7, prem.
In the Railway Share Market business has con-
tinued dull, and the variations have barely exceeded
to per cent. North Westerns, Midlands, and
North Eastern (Berwick), have declined 55.; and
London and Brighton, 10s. ; Great Westerns, and
torodon and Blackwall have improved Ss., Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover 10s., and Eastern Coun-
ties 15s.

The foreign lines are inactive but firm. Great
14uxemburg have improved to 131 ; Sambre and
Meuse to 9-Z- 10k ; and Bahia and ban Francisco are
Steady at

In the Colonial Market Great Western of Canada
hulain steady at 12 ; East Indian have declined
to 1031 104 ; Great Indian Peninsula realised
102 and 1021, and Great Southern of India 1011.
Joint Stock Bank Shares remain without mate-
zial variation. London Joint Stock realise 36 ;
Oriental Bank, 53y 541 ; Provincial of Ireland, S7l;
Ottoman Bank, 251; and Union of London, 311 8.
The Alliance Bank Shares are 41 51 prem. ;
11 prem.; Northern Counties, 22 3
Prem. ; and British Columbian, 21 / prem.
Miscellaneous Shares, generally, were inactive.
South Australian Land, however, improved to 33.
Peel River Land brought 551, and General Steam
I\tavigation declined to 25/ I.

BRITISH FUNDS--ONE O'CLOCK.
11., ink Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
4k,per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92+ 1
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 ls+ +
India Stuck
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent lo3+ IT
Ditto 5i per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 1001
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001 f
Consols for Accounts May 8 ..
ltchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent lB 21
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
%Man. 6 per Cent
~.Ditto 4k per Cent .
Mexican,- 3 per Cent
Ditto Acco nt .. 32i 3
4tussian 5 per Cent 1822, £ St —
e, Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860
Spanish 3 per Cent
r itto New Deferred
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. —
Ditto New Loan —
Po Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Irertezuela, 3
per Cent
Ditto Account ..
24+ i
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
...
931/ 93 &
•• 4

Consolst, Money
Ditto Account

PRICE OF GOLD.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling.
°ll comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
bout 5-loths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4261 per mark,
,itid the short exchange on London is 13.68 per £1 sterling.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
5-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 111; to 112 per cent., and the premium on gold
%bout per cent. At these rates there is a profit on the im-
portation of gold from the United States.

It is rumoured that Captain Gordon, M.P. for
Berwick, is about to retire from Parliament in consequence
of the feeble state of his health.

With the exception of Frankfort, where the rate
is 2 per cent., the terms for money arc now lower in Lon-
don than at any of the continental cities. At Paris the
Charge is 3 per cent. with a downward tendency, at Ham-
burg it is 2/, at Brussels 3, and at Amsterdam 31.
In consequence of the Government of India
having advised the recommencement of the worke on the
aubbulpore line of the East Indian Railway, the com-
'Any are about to issue for that purpose £2,000,000 in
.420 shares, with the usual guarantee of 5 per cent. These
2hares will be denominated the H Extension Shares.
A DEVONSHIRE SHOOTING Box FOR THE PRINCE
or WALES.—It is understood (says the Western Morning
News) that the negotiations which have occupied some time,
respecting the purchase of a shooting box in Devonshire for
Ills Royal High/less the Prince of Wales, are completed, and
that a few preliminaries only are required to transfer Wer-
rington-park from the ownership of the Duke of Northum.
herland to that of the future King of England. The park
is an occasional residence of his grace, and lies about a mile
and a half front Launceston—one portion of it is in Corn-
wall, but the seat is in Devonshire, The park is supposed
to have been in existence for about 600 years., and about
the fourteenth century was the pioperty of the great Or-
'44h, Duke of Devonshire.