The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-12 00:00:00

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Owing to the expectation of an increase in the
Bank rate of discount, the Money Market during
the morning has remained in a state of suspense.
Transactions have been delayed until after the de-
cision of the Bank Court can be ascertained. There
still appears to be an abundant supply of money in
the hands of the banks and discount firms, but the
large efaux of coin must have trenched upon the
reserves of bullion, and it is consequently imagined
that the authorities will deem it expedient to adopt
some measure of restriction.
There has been a meeting to day of the London
and Tilbury Railway Company, for the election of
directors.

The Latona, from Melbourne, has arrived to-day
with £29,600 ; the Atrato, from West Indies, with
£215,300; and the' City of Baltimore, from New
York, with £85,500 in specie.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1862. 1861.
Great 'Western
-N £64,231 56,440
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton
2,332 17,794
-14lidland
South-Eastern .............. ...
23 306 V,381
Great Northern . .
6 074 22,940
Lancashire
and .•. • •
31,964 00,
Bristol and Exeter ... 38
North-Eastern
'Eastern Counties
Manchester, Sheffield,"andLincolnshire 14,295 14,997
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Great Western of Canada 8,606 6,953
These returns are in most instances of a very
Satisfactory character, arising chiefly from the extra
passenger traffic caused by the Whitsuntide hon.
days. On the Great Western there is an increase
of £7,791; on the North Western, of £9,047 ; on
'the South Western, of £11,007 ; on the Brighton,
of £10,558; on the Midland, of £3,553; on the
South Eastern, of £925; on the Great Northern, of
£%,134; on the Eastern Counties, of £2,394; and
'on the Great Western of Canada, of £1,653. The
iancashire and Yorkshire, however, shows a de-
crease of £4,231 ; the Nortb Eastern, of £1,338;
and the Edinburgh and Glasgow, of £571,

CITY NEWS, THIS DAY.

Two O'CLocK.
The alteration which many persons imagined
'Would be made to-day in the minimum rate of
discount has not been realised. The directors of
.the Bank of England, however, held rather a pro.
tracted meeting, and the question of an advance
was no doubt fully considered. Although they
have not deemed it necessary to make an immediate
'change, it is still imagined that an alteration will
be announced at an early period.
Continued heaviness is perceptible in the English
Stock Market, prices being a per cent. below those
current the preceding afternoon. The unfavour-
able state of the weather and the adverse specie
ni.)vement have tended to create the prevailing
depression. Consols are 911 t for transfer, and
911. for the 10th proximo. The New Threes and
tb.e Reduced are fiat at 911 ; Exchequer Bills 2s.
to ss. prem. ; Bank StOak is firm at 236 ; India
ditto at 231; ditto 5 par Cont. Loan remains at
1071 1.
Increased dullness has prevailed in the Foreign
Market to-day, and quotations have shown very
little change. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are 821
821; ditto 1858, 691 701; ditto New Scrip, 2i 3
prem. ; Egyptian Scrip is fiat, at 18 prem.; Italian
5 per Cents. are heavy, at 7l d a ; Mexican, at 311 ;
and the Spanish Certificates at 9 ; Brazilian 5 per
Cents. remain at 1001.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been exceedingly limited, and little ehange of im-
portance can be reported in values; in some in-
stances, however, a slight improvement has taken
place. Great Westerns have advanced about 55.;
and North Western and South Essterns, 10s. ; Mid-
lands have declined about 52.
The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit little varia-
tion in price. Bahia and San Francisco are steady
St 171 ; Recife and San Francisco. at 14i; East
Indian have declined to 1064 1064 ; Great Indian
Peninsula realise 104 i ; Great Southern of India,
1021 ; and Madras 5 per cents., 1024.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
neglected, and prices remain nominally unaltered.
BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock 236
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 94 * *
91
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .......t 1 t
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., ,880 9li 1
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 1.5 5-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent lO7l 1
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 5% per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 99%
Ditto • dtito April, 1861 99%
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO .
Consols for Account, July 1091~ %
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent 5 2
Ditto £5OO ....
Ditto Small
5 2
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent
Ditto 4% per Cent.,
91i
Egyptian, 7 per Cent ................. .
Ditto Paid-up Scrip ..........
84it 3% 4
Italian 5 ner Cent. (Maremmana Railway)
Ditto Scrip ......................
Mexican, 3 per Cent ............... 31
Ditto Account
......
Peravi'm 3 per Cent
Ditto (Uribarren), 4/ per Cent. . • 921
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. ....... 46a
itosian 5 per Cent 1822 St
Ditto, 6per Cent., 1862, Scrip
Ditto, Paid up Scrip
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive..
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account , 70
_Ditto 6 per Gent 1858 7O 69%
Ditto Account .. 1
3
Ditto 1862 (Scrip) ............. .21 I
Ditto, Paid up Scrip
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian 6 per Cent., 1861, ex. 25f.
71a C 2
O
Consols' THRE E
Money
Ditto
Account
AD

_AILTERY AND MURDER.—A young man named
Roudet, of the commune of Tourtres (Lot-et-421u
married a few months back a girl aged 17, and having
his suspicions awakened by the light behaviour o
f his young
a_rone h
),
had
wife, pretended that he was forced to absent himself for a
few days; and then unexpeetEdly returned in the middle of
the night armed with a double-barrelled gun. On crossing
the threshold of his room he observed by the light of the
moon two persons rise from the bed ; he immediately fired
both barrels, the first charge striking, the stranger under
the chin, causing death instantaneously, and tho second
wounding his wife almost in the same place. She never-
thelsss had sufficient strength to get up and obtain assist-
ance, but died in a few hours after. Roudet at once pro-
ceeded tq the town of Tourtres and gave himself up as a
prisoner. The stranger was discovered to man, named David, a farmer in the be an unmarried
neighbourhood.
Since the eat nei
ension of the limits of Faris, all
the railway termini
quently any Inerehaudi are
se to witbin the walls of the city, conse-
capital t 9 be sent by rail must enter the
ive at the r ailway stations ; and should
.the
articles be subject to a duty, it is necessary to de
ieposit at f
intended the
octroi the amount to which they would be liabl for consumption in. Paris, which is only returned after con-
siderable delay, on proof of the goods having arrived at their
destination. To remedy this state of things the merchants
in the environs of Paris have petitioned the Minister of the
Interior to cause each railway company to establish a goods
receiving station outside the fortifications to avoid those
inconveniences.