The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-24 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There has been a steady demand for discount
accommodation to-day at full rates.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £lBO,OOO, and the exports £1,300,000.
About £120,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
of England yesterday.
At the ensuing meeting of the London Chartered
Bank of Australia proprietors a dividend will be
proposed of 4 per cent. for the half-year, and the
reserve fund increased to £60,000.
A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent., together
with a bonus of 1 per cent,, will be declared by the
directors of the Commercial Dock Company, at the
meeting on the 13th proximo.
A moderate amount of business took place in the
Liverpool Cotton Marketyesterday, and prices were
steadily maintained. The sales were 4,000 bales.
Subscriptions are invited for a Lausanne and
Fribourg Railway 6 per Cent. Loan, amounting to
£285,000 sterling in bonds at 95 per cent„ and
representing £300,000 stock. The loan to be repaid
in seven years by a sinking fund, and the principal
and interest are guarranteed by the general revenues
of the Canton of Fribourg, besides forming a first
mortgage on the Railway from Lausanne via Fri-
bourg to the frontier of Berne (about 54 miles in
length). The loan is to be applied to the comple-
tion of the railway, of which 20 kilometres are now
open for traffic.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY .

Two O'CLocx.

The English Funds opened this morning with a
firm appearance, but subsequent sales led to a de-
cline of 1 per cent., which, however, has since been
recovered, and Consols are now 931 t for money,
and 92:1 for the account, less the dividend. The
Nevr Threes are 01 ; the Reduced, 911; and
Enchequer Bills 108. to 14s. prem. ; India 5 per
Cent. Loan, 1091 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced
Peeper, 1021, 1031 ; and ditto Bonds, 28s. prem.
A fair amount of business has been transacted in
the Foreign Market, and prices show more firm-
ness. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 801 81 ; ditto,
1858, 701; ditto New Scrip, 21 11 prem.; Egyp-
tian, 1 d prem ; Russian 5 per Cents., 971 ; ditto
Now Loan,l prem ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 54.1 ; ditto
Cvrtificates have advanced to 91 ; and Mexicans
are 314 2.
The operations in the Railway Share Market
have ,continued moderately active, and prices
are generally a shade firmer. Great Western,
South W extern, Midland, North Eastern (Berwick)
improved 55.; Great Northern A Stock, North
Westerns and South Eastern, 10s. ; and Lancashire
and York shire, Ll ; Brightons, however, de-
clined 10s.
The Fore sign and Colonial lines remained dull.
South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian, however,
have improve d to 211, and Great Indian Peninsula
to 103.
Joint Stock Bank Shares remained inactive at
about previous quotations.
In the Miscellaneous Market Crystal Palace Stock
improved to 33-,1 34 ; Peninsular and Oriental
Steam to 691 ; e tnd Rio de Janeiro Improvement
to 26-1

BRITISH F lINDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 Pth• Cent. Consols , km.nuities
No* 3 per Cent, Ann cities 9ll i
India Stock
~•
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Pain r, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent.... . lo3i 2/
Ditto Bonds £l,000
Consols for Account, J 1 me 10 ... 92i
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent l4 10 pm
Ditto £500 )
FOREIGN FUN] )S--CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent...
Ditto 4i per Cent., 185 ;2-58-60
Egyptian, 7 per Cent ... .. l/
Mexican, 3 per Cent .. •
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., L ifft3 —
AAI
Ditto Account ........ ... .;
Ditto 3 per Cent., 18M, l'i , '9, and '6O 45
971
lim.si.. 5 per Cent. 1822 . C St
Ditto 3 per (eut. 1669..
Ditto, b per Cent., 1862, &I HP
Spanish 3 per Cent . •
Ditto New Deferred ... .
Ditto Passive..
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not f utaled
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 .. .
Ditto Account
Ditto 1862 (Scrip)
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 7ok a a
Dividends on the above ' payable in London.
Italian 6 per Cent., 1861, ex 2L V. —
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

We believe it is likely that the Under-Secretary- -1
ship of State for War, vacant by the lamented death of Sir 21
iienjamin Hawes, will not be fill ed up, but that the office
of Assistant-under-Secretary, 'wldch lapsed on the demise s
of Mr. Godley, will be revived.. —. Army and .Navy Gazettd.
La Patric publishes the following :—" A report Bs
was spread yesterday of the r mall of our expeditionary E
corps in Mexico. We believe w-r 3 may state that the report 1
is completely inexact. It is, moreover, asserted that the
proposed sending of reinforcem .ents has been adopted in
Principle, but that the details o f that measure will not be
settled until the news has been received of the entrance of
the French into the city of Mex ico,"
RAILWAY PROGRESS IN TALE EAST.—The require-
meats of the Board of Trade having been complied with, a
further portion of the Colne Valley Railway will be opened
for traffic between Castle Hedingttam and Yeldham on Mon-
day. The company will then hose 13 miles of line in ope-
ration. The Ramsey Railway it; about to be at once pro-
ceeded with. Fir Charles Fox is engineer, and Mr. Simpson
has contracted for the works, which are of a light and easy
character. 1
The two vacant captain's good-service pensions
will be allotted by the Duke of Somerset either this day or
on Monday. The delay which has taken place in bestow-
ing these substantial favours on. their future recipients, has
been caused by the difficulty of selecting two officers from
the long list of deserving men which his Grace has had
to wade carefully through. The service may rest
satisfied from all we have heard that the claims of every
qualified officer have in this instance been most strictly
inquired into, and although we understand that two names
have been approved of by the duke, yet it is not even im-
probable that in the course of the day some alteration may
be made, thus proving the anxiety which exists to do sub-
stantial justice.—Army and Navy Gazette.
The
acting command of the 3d Brigade at Alder-
shott will be rendered vacant by the appointment Colonelf
Haines to be Deputy Adjutant-Genex al in hel , in s
cession to Colonel Brownrigg.—Army and Navy n
Gazettsuc.-
Colonel F. P. Haines, of the Bth Regiment, now
=sting as Brigadier at Aldershot, will be the new Deputy
Adjutant-General in Ireland, in succession to Col. Bro -
tigg, who, as we stated some weeks since, reverts to half-
1J 'ay, Col. Haines has earned a high reputation both as a
imental and staff officer, his services in the field are most
di sti'nguished, and his qualifications for his new post, both
as a soldier and a gentleman, are undeniable. Should an-
al ter case of difficulty arise like that with which the name
of \his predecessor has been so unfortunately associated, we
fei ii sure that Col. Haines will deal with it in a way to bring
n'oither discredit on the administration of the law nor per-
pl 'exing troubles to the door of the authorities at head-
quarters.—Army and .Navy Gazette.
Captain F. H. H. Glasse, C.B. (1846), will, it is
at ated, sueceed Captain Frederick Hutton as senior naval
officer at Bermuda. Captain Hutton's time expire on the
Uth inst. Captain Glasse recently paid off the Terrible in
excellent order.—Army and Navy Gazette.
COLLISION AND Loss OF LIFE ON THE RIVER.—

Yesterday morning, at an early hour, a fatal accident oc-
curred on the river off Grays, to a waterman named James
Jury, residing at Gibson-street, East Greenwich. It ap-
peared that the deceased, and a man named Breslau, were
proceeding down the river in a small boat, which was at-
t ached by a rope to a screw steam vessel. The boat was
by some means run down and completely smashed by a
steam tug, and Jury was struck into the water and drowned;
but Breslau saved his life by clinging to the rope until
a sssistance was rendered.
The directors of the Madras Irrigation Company
aye issued their report, to be submitted to the meeting on
tl.Ae 29th inst. It mentions various fav,,urable facts con-
nected with the undertaking.
Captain Minchin, formerly of the 51st Light
Infantry, and Quartermaster Hendry of the 9th Depot
B attaliou, have been appointed Military Knights of Wind-
s or.—Army and Navy tiaette.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. Her Majesty's
3migratioi? Commissioners chartered yesterday afternoon
t following ships--the Utopia, of 949 tons, belonging to
!dews. Barned and Co., Liverpool, to sail from Plymouth
for Keppel-bay, Queensland, at £l5 9s.ld. per statute adult,
passengers on such day as
to be ready for the reception of
the Commissioners may appoint between the 14th and 24th
of July next ; and also the Jsisper, belonging to Mr. Henry
John Hall, of London, to sail from Gravesend on the 23d
o f June next for Natal, Cape of Goad Rope, at £1319e. 6d.
pe r statute adult.