The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-02 00:00:00

.111,).AEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Continued activity is experienced in the general
discount market, and full rates are paid foe com-
mercial bills, as well as temporary loans, at the
Stook Exchange.
Gold is now about 5-10ths per cent. dearer in
London than in Paris and Hamburg.
The London Dock premises have been
certified by the Associated Fire Insurance offices as
entitled to he put on the first-class insurances.
A further supply of „C 45,000 in gold was taken
into the Bank of Engl and yesterday.
The Seine, which left to-day for the. West Indies,
took £25,000 in specie.
No material alteration was apparent in the foreign
exchanges yesterday afternoon.

The third and last of the biddingsfor bills of ex-
change on India took place yesterday, when the
tenders for £400,000 were opened in the presence
of two members of the Indian Council, and of the
Governor and Deputy. Governor of the Bank of
England. The official minimum teclared was for
bills on Calcutta, ls.llld. per rupee, and on Bom-
bay and Madra‘.3, 25., being the same as on two
former occasions.

A call of 25 percent., amounting in the aggregate
to -.C75,00ef, became due to-day on the Bombay and
Baroda Railway 5 per Cent. Debentures.
In the Cotton Market, yesterday, very little busi-
ness Was transacted, but prices were steady. • The
sales were 2,000 bales.
There is a decrease of about £7,000 in the traffic
receipts of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
for the past week.
Very little fluctuation has taken place in the
English Stock Market, and the dealings have been
restricted. Cansols are obout 93,3 a for transfer, and
931 for the account. Speculation continues very
4'4, attention being chiefly directed to new securi-
ties. The New Threes and the Reduced are steady
at 92 4 ; Exchequer Biiis at 17s. to 20s. prem.;
India Stock is 2241 ; and the 5 per Cent. 1081 if,.
Foreign Securities have been rather depressed,
and the dealings have again been restricted.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 84 1 ; ditto, 1858, 711 ;
Mexican have receded to 341 35 ; Spanish, to 53 ;
ditto Passive, to 191; and Italian 5 per Cents., to
061. The Moorish Scrip is firm at 61 1- prem.
Brazilian 41 per Cents. are at 93, and Venezuelan
at 241. The New Turkish Scrip is 21 1 prem.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been of a limited character, and a further slight
decline has taken place in prices. Great Northerns,
North Westerns, and South Easterns have realised
6s. ; North Eastern (York), 155.; and North Eastern
(Berwick), £l.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings are also
a shade flatter. Great Luxembourg have receded
to 13i ; Sambre and Meuse to 101 ; South
Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian are firm at 201 ;
ast Indian realise 1041 ; Great Indian Penin-
sula, 1021; and Grand Trunk of Canada, 251.
joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
111 Some instances a shade firmer. London and
South African have advanced to 10 ; London
Chartered of Australia New Shares to 250; and
Crystal Palace Stock to 36.

The shares of the Alliance Bank of London and
Liverpool have risen to 71 prem. ; and of the Impe-
NI Bank to 11, prem.

BRITISH FUNDS--ONE O'CLOCK.
s'Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92A 2 f
9 aPer Cent. Consols Annuities
3 per Cent. Annuities....
224 f
a stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent lO3l 3
Ditto 5/ per Cent lOB/ f
Ulf t, Bonds 13,000
Consols for Account, April 10
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent 2O 17
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
trazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 4/ per Cent., 1558.. ~
. Dit 41 per Cent, 1860
4exictoan, 3 per Cent
lb" Ditto Account
-4;iailari.2.l ,:lorilh Scrip
-( eruvian 4 per Cent
Ditto 3 per
„ Ditto Account
t:lissian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St 99a t
Ditto 3 per Cent. 18.59 .. 62 lk
Panish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
„.. Ditto Passive
Zurkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account!
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 66/
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
93a i
Ditto Account . .......

CURSE EXU IL TIANGE.—YESTEDAY.
AmsterdO am OF
...... Short. 11 161 11 17
Rotterdam Ditto
11 18± 11 184
Antwerp ..... •••• • • • 25 52± 25 57±
11,,n1ssels — 25 52± 25 57±
Paris
13 8± 13 tit
raris Short. 25 25 25 35
, larseilles nitro
25 b 0 25 65
a Frankfort on Maine —
13118 i 95 14190
Tries
.I. lieste
•-.• 13 95 14 0
l'etersburgh
130 _ 321 32t

,erlin -
Madrid
Nadia
thorn — 25 65 25 60
llan. — 25 524 25 571
Genoa—
— 25 521 25 57F
aPles
k, aler " - 1191 120
I Ina
44,isbon —52 t
,;'Porto — 521 63k
v4lO Janeiro
p 410,, York
o ...
Ai reign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9
eXican Dollars
tver in Bars (Stndard)
°lllll American la ,ou /cons