The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-28 00:00:00

MONEYMARKET.

CITY NEWS-YESTERDAY.

The discount market continues easy, although
bankers are occupied with the adjustments usual
at the termination of the half-year. Good bills
Were taken to-day at 21, to 2i per cent. At the
Bank of England business was limited.
The accumulation of gold in the Bank of Eng-
land continues ; the amount taken there to-day was
£150,000, making a total of £26%000 since the last
return.

The India Five per Cent. Stock has receded to
1081 to ex div. Exchequer Bills were steady at
Os. to 9s. prem. ; and India Bonds at 18s. to 225.
prem. The rupee paper was well supported.
Turkish Loan scrip was last quoted 3f to I prem.;
do. paid up 71k to Z ; Egyptian, 3 to 31 prem. ;
do. paid up, 85 to I ; and Russian, Z toy dis.
Both Turkish and Egyptian were considerably
lower than in the morning. The former was pre-
judiced by a fall in the Mires Bonds, which closed
at 66 to 67, after descending lower.
The foreign exchanges this afternoon were firm,
with rather a favourable tendency.
Some excitement was occasioned this afternoon
by the announcement of the arrival of the Persia,
with later news from New York. The exchange
comes quoted rather lower, at 1173, and the pre-
mium on gold at 61 per cent., the rates recently
touched having been 118 and 73 respectively. The
prices of public securities at New York are said to
be slightly lower.
The excitement in the Liverpool Cotton Market
continued to-day, and prices were again quoted
higher. The sales of the day reached no less than
25,000 bales, while those of the week represen t the
almost unprecedented total of 158,870 bales.
At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Rentes
opened at 68.27 and closed flatly at 68.213 for
money, and 68.35 for the account, being t- per cent.
lower than yesterday ; money is scarce at 3if per
cent., the minimum
of the Bank of France.. At
Vienna and liamburg
at Fr the rate is 5 ; at Turi,a, 41; ;
and atankfort, 2; at Amsterdam, 4; at Bertha, 3i ;
Brussels, 3 per cent.
th The Government contract for rum was taken on
e 25th inst. by Messrs. Thos Lowndes and Co.,
30,000 gals. ; Messrs. Ruck
and Co., 20,00,0 gals.
CITY NEWS THIS DA:Y.

CITY, TWELVE 0' CLOCK.
A quiet tone pervades the discount mar] Eet to-day,
and the rates are Since Monda exceedingly easy.
been about y last the imports of s!?ecie have
£974,400) which includes
brought by the Shannon from the West Indies
this morning, and the exports about £3 97,000.
£254,000
The ordinary meeting of the City Bark proprie-
tors will take place on the 15th proximo.
A call of £2 per share has been me,de by the
directors of the Bahia Gas Company, payable on or
before the 21st July next.
The dividend warrants on Italian 5 per Cent.
and Russian 41 per Cent. Bonds will be paid on
and after the Ist proximo.
The coupons o
Bonds of the n the Ist Preference 6 per Cent.
nounced for Northern Railway of Canada are an-
payment.
Subjoined is a list of the railway calls falling due
in July next, so far as they have yet been ascer-
tained :

Call per sh.
Caine Palley and Ralstead 5 per cent.
~
/2 10 u
pref. ..........................
Lancaster and Carlisle •£lOO q per
Cent. pref. ......................
Manchester, Sheffleld, and Lincoln 20
0 0
New £lO 5 per Cent., 1862 ........
London and 131ackwall 4} per cent.
Otto
pref £6i shares,
man .......... ..
. ............
...
Paris and Orleans New , 1862 ...
.............
Stockton and .....
South Eastern 5 per ct.; Aug 1861..
Darlington Act, 1855
and 1858 ........................

1 0 0

1 10 0
2 0 0
3 0 0
1 10 0

2 0 0

•••••••••••......

i
CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The official returns relating to the trade and
navigation of the United Kingdom. for the past five
months have just been issued. From these it ap•
Pears that the total declared value of the exports
have amounted to £47,645,238, against £49,780,532
fl
the like period of 1861, showing a decrease of
2,235,294. The chief falling off has been in cot-
ton, yarn, cotton manufactures, haberdashery, and
millinery, machinery and sheep and lambs' wool.
The importations of the principal articles have been
larger during the five months in fiax, provisions,
saltpetre, tallow, coffee, sugar, and tea, but there is
a decrease as regards raw cotton, wheat, barley,
flour, and wine. The shipping accounts exhibit a
decrease in the amount of tonnage employed in
the foreign trade as regards the entries
inwards, but there is a slight increase with
respect to the clearances outwards. In the
coasting trade during the same period there
has also been a falling off both as regards the entries
inwards and the clearances outwards.
The English Stock Market to-day has been quiet,
the transactions having been very limited, and the
quotations have undergone no change of import-
ance. Consols are 91! t for transfer, and 91.1 I for
the account. The New Threes are 911. I, and the
Reduced 94 1; Exchequer Bills 6s. to 9s. prem. ;
Bank Stock has declined to 234 ; and India 5 per
Cent. Loan is fiat at 1081 I. Business in the Foreign Market has been quiet,
and prices continue depressed. Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1854, are steady at 84 / ditto, 1858, are fiat at 70
i ; ditto New Scrip is at 31 I
prem. ; and
at -1, i dis, ; Spanish Deferred are 441 ; ditto Corti.
and Russian
teates, 9 $; Egyptian Scrip is 3,1 i
Venezuelan are firm at 24.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
exceedingly dull, and prices generally show a fur-
ther downward movement. Caledonians have de-
clined about 10s. ; London, Chath D,
15s. ; and Lancashire and Yorkshiam, and
re, Ll. over
Northerns, however Great
have improved about 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained
inactive. Great Luxemburg have receded to 13/ i ;
and Grand Trunk of Canada to 201 21k; East In-
dian realised 106: ; Great Southern of India, 1031 ;
and Madras 5 per Cents., 103.
Joint Stock Br
and Miscellaneous Shares re-
main without any material variation.

BRITISH FUNDZZiosnia.
PRICES.
................. 234
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .................. 9911 New 3 per Cent. Annuities .............. 911 I
India b tOCk
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent......
Ditto 5 per Cent lO3/
Ditto 5i per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct.,
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Ditto dittoloo
April,99l
Ditto ditto
Aug. 1864 or 66
9100
Consols for Account, July 10 ...
I
. 6 9
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent ..... 6 9
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3
tgyPtian, 7 per Cent
84 I
„Ditto, Paid up Scrip
.. 82t
t4Tivian 3 per Cent
'_R ian 5
._
Ditto 4i per Cent 1822 £ St
per Cent 9ll
1)..,,i;t,t? Per Cent ,1859
i.p-Lialia 6,p_er Cent., 1862. Scrip i I die
- per cent Ditto NAecwl
Deferred
Ditto
Spanish:Cerct. of C
441
Turkish 6 per ce4111)• not funded
_Ditto 6 per Cent. 18.854
841 4
Ditto 1862 (Scrip)
.. 58
I'l°ll
Ditto, Paid up Scrip ,-,.„7 Venezuela, 3 per c ent.
Ditto Account .
Dividends on.iie. a.ov
e •
payable in London.
Austrian 5 per Cent
Consols, Money TWO O'CLOCK.
Ditto Account
9914 1
T-

'he Queen and royal family suffered a great
melancholy
accession of grief
inte ief yesterday morning by the receipt of the
lligence of the death of Major-General the
Hon. R. Bruce. Enjoying the entire confidence and the
sincere regard and esteam of the Queen and Prince Consort,
General Bruce was intrusted with the char gef the Pince
of Wales as his governor, a trust which he
discohargedr with
fidelity, good judgment, tact, and kindness rarely equalled.
Upon the receipt of the intelligence of the dangerous state
of the general's health up,n Thursday evening, the Prince
of Wales immediately made arrangements to go to London
to visit his revered friend. His itoYal Hi go
left Os-
borne at 7 o'clock yesterday morning, before the sad intelli-
gence had reached Osborne by telegraph,