The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-19 00:00:00

DIO.N.EY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocu.

The Money Market remains in a quiet state, with
a steady demand for commercial purposes, and the
terms accepted by the Joint-stock establishments
and private firms continue to range a fraction below
the Bank of England minimum.
The bullion operations at the Bank of England
yesterday comprised the withdrawal of £lB,OOO in
gold.
The Pera which leaves on the 20th inst. for the
East, will convey £126,397 in specie, the greater
portion of which is in silver.

In the Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon
there was no change of importance.
Gold is now about 1-10th per cent. dearer in
Paris, but 2-10tlis per cent. cheaper in Hamburg,
than in London.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday a
steady demP.nd was experienced at former prices,
and the sales reached 8,000 bales, 4,000 of which
were for exportation and on speculation.
The half-yearly meeting of the Oriental Inland
Steam Company took place to-day. The report
stated that the additional steamers in the service
of the company were being satisfactorily employed
on the Ganges and Indus Rivers, and that the mail
service was easily performed. In due time the
company would occupy their natural position as
Oriental General Carriers, both by land and water.
A large increase was anticipated in the general
river traffic of India, and measures would be taken
to open up the channels of internal trade in all
directions.

There has been very little business in the English
Stock Market to-day, and the Funds have remained
without the slightest alteration. Consols are 92a
93 for money and the account, but the quotations
are very little better than nominal. Notwith-
standing the continued paucity of business, how-
ever, the market upon the whole exhibits a firm
appearance. The New Threes and Reduced are
93i 4f the 5 per Cent. Annuities 109; Exchequer
March, 13s. to 16s. prem. ; and ditto, June,
15s. pram ; Bank Stock is 241 2421 ; India ditto
224 226; ditto 5 per Cent. 1064 ; ditto 4 per Cent.
ILlfoeed Papet 89 ; ditto 5 per Cent. 1011; and
ditto Debentures 991.
Rather less animation has been apparent in the
Foreign Market, and lower prices have been cur-
rent for several of the principal stocks. Turkish 6
Per Cents, are 841 4 ; ditto, 1858, 74/1 ; Chilian
1031 ; Equador 18-a' ; Mexican 341 35 ; Portuguese
47i ; Russian 102 ; Spanish 534 ; ditto Passive 20 ;
d itto Certificates 81; Venezuela 26 ; French 41 per
Cents. 99f. ; and Italian 5 per Cents. 681. The
Ottoman Loan is 651 66.
Business in the Railway Share Market has con-
tinued moderately active, but prices have exhibited
a downward tendency. Eastern Counties, Great
Northerns, Great Westerns, and. South Westerns
declined 55.; Caledonians, Lancashire and York
Shire; North Westerns, and South Easterns, 10s.;
and Midlands, £l.
The' Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
also shown less firmness. Austrian and Lombardo-
venetian
have declined to 194 ; Great Luxembourg
have improved to 101 a ; Grand Trunk of Canada
have receded to 254; Great Indian Peninsula to
1001; and East Indian remain steady at 102 and
1021,

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
sustain about previous rates. City Bank realise 96;
London and County, 401; Oriental Bank, 541;
Union of London, 31t 32; Crystal Palace Stock,
32 to 321.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Lank Stock
a per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93i 4
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 934 t
5 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent B9
Ditto 5 per Cent. lol}
_Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863

Ditto ,
ditto Aug. 1864 or 66.99 t
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent .... 106 i

. -
March. ' June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d 16 13 pm 15 pm
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small l6 13 pm 1 15 pm

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent, 1852
Chilian 6 per Cent lo3f
Ditto 41 per Cent - Bs±
Xquador New Consolidated
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account .
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St lO2
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 6l/
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
_Ditto New Loan
Ditto Acco Aat
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. ..... ...
Ditto Account
Te ne :me 1a , 3 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Relates, 41 per Cent,, Ex. 25f 99f.
Italian, 6 per Cent., 1861 6B/
TWO O'CLOCK.
Console, Money
Account

"COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam
Antwerp ........."
25 40 25 45
11.t'aEtprtaiistb:11(; ..g.h
Brussels 25 40 25 45
_ 13 7t 13 8
....
' ******
Short. 25 12f 25 171
Marseilles
3 Months. 25 40 25 45
Fran kf 25 40 25 45
'Viennaort on Maine —118 k
14 5 14 15
Trieste
Fetersbur h
.32/ 32f,
Berling
Madrid 4
Cadiz
Le horn — 25 52} 25 57/
Milan 25 50 25 55
Genoa — 25 50 25 55
Naples
Palermo — 120 120 k
Messina -120 k 120 k _
Lisbon — 521 521
Oporto — 521 521
Rio Janeiro
Now York
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars 0 0 0
Silver in Bars (Standard) 0 0 0
South American Doubloons 0 0 0

COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS.—The bill to
amend the law relating to the recovery of damages by work-
tam and servants, and of compensation by the families of
workmen and servants killed by accidents, brought into the
House of Commons by Mr. Ayrton and Lord Robert Mon-
tagu, has been printed. It provides that whenever any
workman or servant shall be injured in consequence of
his
not master,d. or any other person employed by his master,
be
wchgany act or providing anything which may
requisitehcirproper, or doing any act or providing
anything
mayokr b,
or
be improper, in or for carrying on
w
the undertaking,
b
business in
employedi n o r aboutby
or
anw ich
such workman or servant shall
shall
master ac-
count of his master, !then such workman
be entitled to recover from his or servant
i
r damages for such n-
jury by an action at law; provided always, such injury
shall not ha'-re been suffered in consequence of any wilful
act or omission of a fellow work-man or fellow servant for
which such fellow workman or fellow servantis punish-
able
as a criminal offence, and provided also, such
action
shall be commenced within twelve calendar months
after such injury shall have occurred. Further:—
That whenever the. death of any workman or servant
shall be caused by a wrongful act, neglect, or default,
which, if death had not ensued, would have entitled such
workman or servant to recover damages under this act, then
and in every such case the person who would have been
liable to an action for damages if death had not ensued shall
be liable to an action for damages according to the provi-
eon of the said recited act.
SLEEP WALKING.—A curious case of somnam-
bulism occurred lately at Stokesley. A poor woman named
Alice Thubborn, commonly known as Elsy IVapps, who
has been in the habit of working for a farmer named Wm.
Smith, dreamed that her master had gone to call her up,
and to tell her that her mistress had broken her leg, and
that they had a cow calving. The poor woman was awoke
I:s' a thorn in the hedge catching hold of her cap, and
herself out in the lane fully dressed, with her work
1401 s in her hand. and about a quarter of a mile from her
cottage. Onreturning she found the door locked, but the
,key in the door. She had risen, dressed herself, unlocked
the door, and then locked it after her, but not taken the key
out, and walked out of the town before she awoke, which,
out for the thorn, she might not have done until she had
reached her destination,—York Herald.
An Irishman being'asked why he wore his stock-
-
teed
juivaeor iansgse v,
idoeouemt,. ”replied, " Because's there's a hole on