The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Although a large number of Australian and In-
disn engagements had to be provided for to-day,
the demand for money has not been influenced to
any great extent, Etna accommodation is still
obtainable on terms a fraction below the Bank
minimum of 2 per cent.
About £5,000 in gold was withdrawn from the
Bank of England yesterday.
The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon ex-
hibited a slight advance in the rates on Hamburg
and Vienna.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £316,700, and the exports £408,600.
The dividend on American 43- per Cent. Bonds
has been announced for payment.
_ . .

Considerable excitement prevailed in the Liver-
pool cotton market yesterday, and prices exhibited
a further advance of -Id. per lb. The sales were
fully 20,000 bales.

A remittance of £1,107 has arrived from
Guayaquil on account of the Ecuatorian Dividend
Fund.

The East and West India Docks, with their
up-town warehouses, have been certified by the
Associated Committee of Fire Assurance Offices, and
are now placed on the lowest scale of premiums.
At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Rustat
Browne, merchant, &c., it was resolved to wind up
under a deed of inspection. The liabilities were
stated to be £25,592 and the assets £17,111.
Continued quietude has prevailed in the Market
for English Stocks to-day, and the variations have
been unimportant. Consols are 928 93 for transfer,
and 93 for the account, being rather less buoyant
than they were at the close of business yesterday
afternoon. The New Threes are steady at 931 ;
the Reduced at 931 1- ; Exchequer Bills, March,
14s. to 17s. prem. ; and ditto, June, 15s. to 19s,
prem., being firmer; Bank Stock is 241 ; and
India 5 per Cents. are 1061 1,1.
In the Foreign Market business has not been so
active, but prices show firmness. Turkish 6 per
Cents. are 841 851 ; ditto, 1858, 751 76 ; Mexican
have improved to 351 ; Equador to 198 1- ; Sar-
dinian to 801; and Italian to 681 d ; Spanish re-
main at 531 ; ditto Passive, are 201; ditto Certifi-
cates 71 4; and Venezuelan, 651.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
moderately active, and in several instances a
further slight improvement has taken place in
Prices. Caledonians, Eastern Counties, and Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire have improved 55.; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Midland, North
-Eastern (Berwick), and South Eastern, 10s. ; and
North Western, 15s ; Great Westerns, however,
after their late advance declined about 55.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remained
without any material variation. Bahia and San
Francisco brought 15i 16. San Paulo improved
to ; Grand Trunk of Canada to 251 Z. Great
West ern of Canada realised 128 ; East Indian 1018
102 ; Great Indian Peninsular 101; and Bombay
and Baroda improved to 1001 100 k.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
have been dealt in to an average extent, without
anY material change in values.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cant. Reduced Annuities 93/ 1
per 393 1 21
Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities..
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
D;tt,) Bonds £l,OOO
ConsoJs for Account, March 6 93
March. Juno.
-Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 14 17 15 19
Ditto £500
Ditto Small l5 19
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent, 1858
Equador New Consolidated
Alexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent.' 1822, £ St —
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 .. 611
'ardinian 5 per Cent. Bo} 80
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto LIN Bonds 771
"Venezuela, 3. per Cent .. 251
Ditto Accouzit
Dividend:3 on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2/ per Cent., Exchange 12 Gail 651
Italian, 5 per Cent., I 861 6Bl 1
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
A., ~,,u-. 4

COURSE-0F EXCHANGE.—YESTEIIDAY.
Amsterdam
11 181
Ditto
11 18/
Rotterdam
• •
25 37i 25 40
Antwerp
Bt asses ''' 25
13 3771 25
13 45
8
Ilarnbeurzh
/ 25 181
War's- Short. 25 12,,
25 4 5
Dittoi
3 Months. 25 37i
,5 45
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 1181 119
14 15
Vienna
14 14 10
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14 15
Berlin *
-- 32!
3_210
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Milannoa ............
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Rio Janeito oMew York . ... —
eign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9
xian. Dollars
Silverc in Bars (Standard)
South American lioubloons 0 0 0
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25 55
25 521
25 521
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120
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521

'HE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF Two CHILDREN IN
LrliT.—The investigation was resumed yesterday at the
rent's Tavern, Preston-next-Faversham, Kent, touching
the
mysterious death of two children, named respectively
Edward George and Lucy Jane Wraight, who were found
dead in their mother's arms without any previous illness.
Ihe inquiry had been adjourned for the result of the analy-
sis of the stomach of one of the deceased children by Dr.
Taller. After hearing Dr. Taylor's report, and some fur-
ther evidence, the jury found a verdict to the effect that the
deceased died from having some sleeping or composing
medicine administered to them, but by whom or for what
Purpose there was no evidence to show.

FATAL ACCIDENT FROM THE INCAUTIOUS USE OF
FIREA.RIM—On Saturday last the elder eon of Mr. Noah
Creasey, farmer and dealer, of Syleham, a lad not quite 10
years old, shot his sister, aged about 12, under most dis-
tressing circumstances. From the various reports in circu-
lation, it appears that the lad came into the room where his
sister was, with a loaded gun, and said he would shoot her,
arid aiming the gun at her head, fired and killed her on the
spot.—ijury and Norwich Post.
In the arrangements made for the Prince of
Wales's reception at Vienna, every care has been taken to
avoid even the appearance of any political object being in-
cluded in the visit. The invitation to make use of the Hcif-
burg has been accordingly declined with thanks, and it is
probable that, if the embassy can find no adequate accom-
modation, his Royal Highness will stay at an hotel during
his two days' residence in the capital.
An improvement of between 1 and 2 per cent.
which has occurred during the past few days in the Russian
funds, is attributed to the circumstance of a new Finance
Minister having been appointed.
it is reported at Paris that Mr. Slidell has had an
interview with the Emperor Napoleon, and has handed to
Thouvenel a note professing to
give the names and
tonnage of 400 vessels which have broken the blockade.
It has been suspected that the railway interpreter,
Ce ecarini, who is accused of having instigated the assassi
nation of the foreman, Smith, at Velletri, has owed the
im-
munity which he has hitherto enjoyed to the circumstance
of his being a Bourbonic recruiting agent ; but, whether
this supposition is correct or not, that legitimist rank has
not been allowed to stand any longer between the offender
and the ends of justice. The individual in question has
been imprisoned at last, ample time for escape having been
allowed him if he had been so intentioned.
In the last number of the Stern Zeitung of Berlin
appears a translation of Tennyson's dedication to the late
Prifles Consort. The original is rendered with a warmth
rtncl fidelity that do credit to the poet who has attempted so
difficult a performance.
TWo CASES OF SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER IN
T. PANC/tA.s.—During the last few days, information hasr
i‘
been received by Mr. Brent, deputy coroner, from r.iltrraY, summoning officer of the parish of St. Pancras, of
the
discovery of the bodies of two infants in the parish,
11 were found under the following circumstances
.211!, a male, was picked up by Mason, a constable of the S
in Camden-square Camden-town. It was partly
Wrapped up in a piece of brown' paper, and was in a partial
ate of decomposition. The other, a female, was found in
e Polygon, Clarendon-square, and was tied up in a similar
,tece of paper. Near the same spot, a few weeks ago,
o
ther body of a newly-born infant was also met with.

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Share!
Railways. Paid. Closing Business
Pricks. Done.