The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-07 00:00:00

IVIONEY MARKET.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is rather less inquiry for discount accom-
modation to-day, and the rates continue to range s
as low as 21 per cent. for the best bills.
A sum of £25,000 in gold was withdrawn from
the Bank yesterday.
No material alteration was perceptible in the
continental exchanges yesterday afternoon.
Since Monday last the imports of speeie have
been about £1,087,000, and the exports £1,038,600.
The second series of public sales of colonial wool,
which commenced on the 2d May, were concluded
yesterday. The quantity offered amounted to about
95,749 bales. There was a large attendance of both
home and foreign dealers, and a considerable quantity
was taken on foreign account. Prices, however
exhibited a downward tendency, the decline being
ld to 12d per lb. on good and fine descriptions, and
2d to 2id per lb. on inferior qualities, compared
with those realised at the February and March
auctions.

The report of the Queen's Hotel Company,
Upper Norwood, states that•the profits during the
year were £5,476, from which £3,041 is to be set
aside for a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent.,
which will leave £2,435 to be carried forward.
The traffic receipts of the South Austrian, Lom-
bardo-Venetian, and Central of Italy Railway for
the week ending the 27th inst. amounted to £57,162
against £51,253 at the corresponding period of last
year.
A moderate amount of business was transacted in
the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices
were steadily supported. The sales were about
8,000 bales.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

Two O'CLOCK.
Business in the market for Public Securities has 19'

been rather dull, and the quotations have indicated
a little heaviness. Consols are 91i 92 for money
and the 10th, and 92 921 for the July settlement.
The New Threes and the Reduced are flat at 011 a ;
Exchequer Bills, at 4s. to 7s. prem.; India 5 per
Cent. Loan is 1071 9 ; ditto 4 per Cent. Enfaced
Paper, 92 ; ditto 5 per Cent., 1034 ; and ditto 51
per Cent., 1094.
Foreign Securities have been dealt in to a mode-
rate extent, but prices in some instances have shown
rather less firmness. Old Turkish 6 per Cents. are
821 ; ditto 1858, 701 ; ditto Scrip, 2* 31 prem.;
Egyptian Scrip is steady at 1t- / prem. ; Russian,
41 per Cents. are 91/ 92 ; ditto New Scrip, I 1
prem. ; Sardinian are 811 ; Italian, 711 ; and
Spanish Certificates 8* 9.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings con-
tinued rather inactive, but a slight advance has
taken place in prices. Eastern Counties, Great
Northerns, Great Westerns, Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, and Midlands have improved ss. ;
Caledonians, 10s. ; and London, Chatham, and
Dover, £l.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were
in moderate request. Dutch-Rhenish brought
171 ; San Paulo, 81 ; and South Austrian and
Lombardo-Venetian 228 ; East Indian have im-
proved to 1061 107; and Great Indian Penin-
sula, 1041 105.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
remain at steady quotations. National Provincial
of England have improved to 1311 ; London Joint
Stock to 361 ; Chartered of British Columbia de-
clined to 41; and London and County to 371 381 ;
Peninsular Oriental Steam have improved to 711;
and Crystal Palace Stcck to 331.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
1 per Cent- Reduced Annuities 9l/ i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9ll 1 1
New 2} per Cent. Annuities 76/
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 92
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 51 per Cent.
_Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto dtito April, 1864 99/
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
)itto under £l,000
Consols for Account, June 10
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent .. spm
Ditto Small
:FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES,
Cbilian 6 per Cent —
Ditto 4i per Cent „„ 831 41
Egyptian, 7 per Cent
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, and'6o 46/.
_Russian 5 per Cent 1822 £ St ..
Ditto 41 per Cent 92 1/
Ditto, b per Cent., 1862, Scrip
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 931
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto 1862 (Scrip) 3k 2a
__.

Ditto, Paid up Scrip
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, ex 251. 7ll
TWO O'CLOCK
Consols, Money ..
Ditto Account

CAPE MAILS.--PLYMOUTH, Friday.—The Union
Company's Cape Royal Mail steamer Dane, Capt. Hoffman,
arrived here to-day from Southampton, and having taken
on board the usual monthly mails for Ascension, St.
Helena, and the Cape, proceeded on her voyage in the
afternoon. She takes out also the usual general cargo and
40 passengers.
SALMON FISHING ON THE TYNE.—One of the
chief impediments to the development of salmon breeding on
the Tyne has been the dam at Bywell, the property of Mr.
W. B. Beaumont, M.P. It was proposed to remedy the
matter by the erection of a weir ladder, but the Fishery
Commissioners, who have insrected the place, recommended
the total removal of the obstruction, and Mr. Beaumont has
in the most handsome manner intimated his, intention to
reply with their request.
We are requested to state that the Bishop of
London will not hold his usual weekly levee at London
House, St. James's-square, on Tuesday next, the 10th
inst., his lordship being engaged throughout the week at
Fulham Palace with candidates for his general ordination
on Trinity Sunday,
THE CROPS IN NORTH NOTTINHAMSHIRE.—The
wheat crop, especially on the clay lands, is most promising.
On some of the sands the wire worm and grub prevail, but
not to such an extent as seriously to lessen the general
yield. Most of the crop has a highly promising appearance,
and much of it is fast preparing to shoot, Both the late
and the early sown barleys have progressed in a highly
satisfactory manner, and the yield promises to be above the
average. Up to the present time also the bean and the pea
crops are all that can be desired. They have hitherto
escaped all kinds of filth, and are fast approaching that cri-
tical time, the blooming season, which almost always gives
the turn either for weal or for woe to this part of our agri-
cultural produce. During the present season immense
breadths have been sown with potatoes, principally of the
early or second early kinds. These have mostly come up
well, and manifest no appearance of lurking disease. The
crops of grass and seeds are unsurpassably good.
DEMOLITION AND BURNING OF RIRTON HOUSE,
BATIPILTE.—This ancient fortalice, situated hard by the
"Auld Kirkyard" of Bathgate,has been in the of
itiernoliti.n some weelsa past, by
itc, ;Ise o Its present pro-
prietor, Capt. Hart Taylor, who,rumoured, is about I
night last some
to build a new house. On Wednesday
boys had lighted a fire in the lower part of the house, and
the chimney, being full of
'soot, went on fire. The
tames ignited some crows nests built in a hole
at the top of the chimney, which again communicat-
ing with the sailing, a considerable portiocnomoftahteivteolpy I
flat was burned. The damage done
was comparatively
trifling, in time, it
but had the fire not been dic
might have been serious enough, as BailievJohnstone, factor
an the estate, and a builder and farmer in Bath gate, had a
much
large quantity of oats in the second floor, which, after
exertion, was saved. This old h use had an existence in
the time of Bruce. It was thoroughly repaired and anew
'wing added in the year 1599 by one Alexander wiSharp,the
then proprietor, and with whom the noted Archbishop
Sharp The house .theSecond's time was somehow of Charles
might have stood for ages to
built very strongly, the ground oor ocmomehe,owh
having
inntige cbt tee:ll
fl consisting of three
massive arches, and the walls being from four to six feet
thick.—Scotsman.
Puss IN A NEW CHARACTER.—A Kirkcaldy
correspondent sends us the following :—" An interesting
illustration of the curiosities
of natural history occurred
the
other day at Is. irkcaldy.
had been put among the. A duck's egg, by some mistake,
eggs which a hen was at the time
hatching. The chickens, however broke their shells five
or six days before the d
aatd, elviht
cahltzrance t hnthey
uaek ling
and no sooner had the alien
flew at it. An Archangel
usage
of
which nursingu a family of kittens, seeing the ill-
'victim, carried it duckling
was the object, seized the little
off to her own nursery, laid it beside her
kittens, and ha,,
interest as if it haderhesein uce tended it with as much care and
species. Duekey eetet., a genuine member of the feline
wimina ; and, although iPterectlY contented with its new
never fails to return to it, g:aves her at intervals to be fed,
we believe, have been equZern2 protector. The kittens,
and maniffst no signs of kuiZo'si:a, to their new playmate,
"Y."---Scotstnan.j