The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-29 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock.

THE LIVERPOOL GRAND
NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE.

Weights published a.

t 3 p.m, January 29.

Age st lb ! Age st lb
Cosmopolite a 12 5 Premier a 9 10
Penarth..
Jerusalem........ a 11 7 O'Connell 6 9 8
Medora ..... a 11 7 Hermit
Bantam....
Queensferry
Freshman a 11 0 Farmer from Kerry) 5 9 8
Heads or Tails
Huntsman
Anatis..
Jealousy
Bucephalus
The Rug
Red Rover . 6 10 7 Margery Daw
Doubtful
Yorkeo
The Clown • ' 10 6 Xanthus
Thomastown a 10 4 Harry 6 9 5
Ben Lomond.. alo 4; Leading Article
Shanbally .. alo 4' General Bosquet
Yorkshire Grey.... a 10 4 Blaek Rose
Master Bagot. a 18 4 Link Boy
Bridegroom
Red Robin ...
Johnny a 10 2 The Youth
Gizors ....... 5 10 21 Killigrew
Brunette .... a 10 0 Levity
Willoughby
Uncle Ned a 10 0 Corona
Comet .. a 10 0 Folly
Red Wing a 10 0 Nelly 6 9 0
Broomstick
Rosicrucian
Alectryon
Scribbler
Cairo
Lincoln
The Emperor :' a 9 12 Yellow Girl
Duhallow
Playman
The Dane
Pine Apple
Yaller Ga 1........ a 9 10 Conrad
Sutherland
The Greek 6 9 10 King William .... a 8 7

Forfeits to bo declared on the 6th February, at 12 noon
to the Clerk of the Course only, at Chester.

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

There is a steady demand for discount accommo-
dation to-day at previous rates. The available
supplies continue largely in excess of the require-
ments bf the commercial public, whose transactions
are still conducted on a very limited scale.
About £12,000 in gold was taken from the Bank
of England yesterday for exportation.
The West India steamer La Plata has brought
£182,000 in specie.

The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon
exhibited a slight advance iu the rates on Amster-
dam and Hamburg.

A dividend of 3,1-i per cent. will he proposed at the
forthcoming meeting of the Electric and Interna-
tional Telegraph Company.

The Consolidated Copper Mining Company of
Cobre at their meeting yesterday, declared a divi-
dend of £1 per share.
Gold is now about three-tenths per cent. dearer
in Paris than in London, and about one-tenth per
cent. cheaper here than in Hamburg.
At the yearly meeting of the North British
Australasian Company. a dividend of 71 per cent.
Was declared.

A. fair amount of business was transacted in the
Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, at full rates.
The sales were 8,000 bales.

The tenders for the £1,000,000 Victoria Railway
6 per cent. Debentures were opened yesterday, and
the applications reached a total of £6,100,000. The
lowest offer was £92 13s, Gd., and the highest
£lO5 Ils. 'Applicants at and above £lO2 16s. 6d.
will obtain their full share ; those at £lO2 165.,
however, will only receive about 14-15ths of the
amount asked for. The minimum was fixed at
101, and the Debentures are already quoted 1031 d.
There was a meeting to-day of the United Mexi-
can Mining Association. The report was adopted,
and the directors were authorised to place the
undertaking under the new Limited Liability Act.
At the meeting of the Royal I\l6l Steam Packet
Company held to-day, Mr. IL C. Childers, M.P.,
'as elected a director.

The transactions in the English Stock Market
this morning have led to rather an unfavourable
fluctuation, a decline of a per cent. having taken
place. Indications of weakness were perceptible
yesterday afternoon, and on the appearance of
Sellers this morning prices speedily gave way,
Consols being dealt in at 921 93, and afterwards
921 1 for money and account. The New Threes
and the Reduced have receded to 922- t. Exche-
quer Bills 19s. prem. Bank Stock has declined to
2402. India ditto is firm at 224 and 226 ; and
ditto 5 per Cent. 1051 1061.
In the Foreign Market Mexican Stock has expe-
rienced a further rise of rather more than 2 per
cent., owing to the character of the proceedings at
the meeting yesterday, the latest price being 32f,
33k. In the several othersecurities very little change
has occurred, Turkish 6 per Cents. being 834 84t,
and ditto, 1858, 74 to 742 ; Russian 5 per Cents.
are 98t; Spanish, firm at 53t 2 ; and ditto Defer-
red at 421. The Moorish Loan is 51 prem.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
not been very extensive, and chiefly connected with
the liquidation of last monthly account. In prices
the, variations have been unimportant. Caledonian,
Great Western, and Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln have declined 55,, and Midland 10s.;
Eastern Counties and North-Western have im-
proved is., and North-Eastern (Berwick) and
South-Eastern 10s.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
'exhibited little change of importance. South-
:Austrian and Lombat do-Venetian, however, have
improved 4; Grand Trunk of Canada, ; andlGreat
Western of Canada, 1; East Indian have declined 1.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
remain in moderate request at about previous quo-
tatio •ns. Crystal Palace Stock have declined to 31i ;
and Peninsular and Oriental Steam to 681.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank :Rock
3 per Cont. Reduced Annuities 92a I
3 per Cont. Consols Annuities
:New 3 per Cent. Annuities 921 I
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 9-16 i
:India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
...T)itto 5 per Cent
I.,itto 51 per Cent 0.
U. tto Bonds £l,OOO
!Mt to under £l,OOO
Co nsois for Account, Feb. 6 93 2/
March. June.
Xxchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 19 16 19
Ditto £SOO
I) itto Small
- -- --

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FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Et .azilian 5 per Cent
Et tenos Ayres 6 per Cent
`ll, ilian 6 per Cent. _
= Ditto 41- per Cent ,
Ale sican, 3 per Cent ll / 3/ 21 2/ 3
I )itto Account
I Tem% - Grenada,
2 per Cent
1 ent vian 41. per Cent
~

... .
:Dia o (Uribarren), 41 per Cent.
Portugitese 3 per Cent., 1853.
Russia/1 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St
.. 98,1
Intto 3 per Cent. 1859
Pa nigh 3 per Cent .. 60i
53k 3
f Atto Account- ....
'Ditto Now Deferred
.Ditto Passive
Tit rkish 6 per Cent. B4
I )itto New Loan ....
Diitto Account
I) itto £lOO Bonds
pat( ) Guoranteed, 4 per Cent lo4k
Dividends on the above payable in London.
nuiciil 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil.
'Ditto 4;ertificatcs, 4 per Cent. .. i .
'ltalia* 5 per Cent., 1861 61t
THREE O'CLOCK.
Cons.slg, Money ...... ,
Ditto Account
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From Waterford it is reported thatche crew of
the Indian Ocean, wrecked at Queenstown, ere taken off
bet ore she went to pieces by the Europa.
,Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
1-office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Idl ads, and from the Governor of Canada. Despatches
vve3 se sent to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Yisli Inds.
'.ter Majesty's Commissioners for the Interna-
aonal Exhibition of 1362 held a meeting at their offices in
tt ,e Strand yesterday.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, TIIES-
AY, Jan. 28.—Admissions en payment, 913; ditto, by
5 ason tickets, 761; total visitors, 1,704.