The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-16 00:00:00

CITY NEWS-THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The discount market continues steady, and a large
amount of business is still reported.

The dividend coupons on the Imperial Russian
Loan of 1859 will be paid on and after the Ist

proximo.

An extraordinary meeting of the New Granada
Company has been called for the 29th inst., for the
purpose of confirming special resolutions passed at
the last meeting for the winding up of the affair.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :-
1862. 1861.
Great Western ....... ....£6 ',534 £59,512
Great Eastern
Great Northern
North- kV eAern
South- Western
South-Eastern 27,3,7 23,257
Brighton
Midland
aneashire and Yorkshire 32,050 34,817
North- Eastern
Bristol and Exeter
Manchester, Sb,ffield, and Lincoln 14,853 16,343
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Glasgow and South-Western
These returns are in some instances of a rather
unfavourable character. Great Westerns, however
show an increase of £3,022; Great Easterns of
£1.387; North Westerns of £5.674 ; South
Westerns of X 2.839 ; Brightens of £2,813; Midlands
of £685; and North Easterns of £3,087; Great
Northerns show a decrease of £1,328 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire of £2,767 ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln of £1,490; Edinburgh and Glasgow
of £861; and Glasgow and South Western of £lO5. I

Two O'CLOCK.
The Liverpool cotton market continues quiet to-
day ; sales about 1,600 bales.
At Paris this morning, Three per Cent. Rentes
opened at 71f. 20c., showing a rise of i per cent.
since yesterday.

The funds which closed yesterday at a decline of
k per cent., receded another k per cent this morn-
ing, but the market is now a little firmer, and Con.
sots which have been 93f for money to 93f a for
the 6th proximo are now 931 a, and 93: respec-
tively. Business has continued dull, and it is evi-
dent that an effect is still produced by the move•
ments of the Paris Bourse, although the Rentes, ac-
cording to the telegrams just received are steadily
recovering. The New Three per Cents. and the
Reduced are 911 92; Bank Stock is fiat at 237 ;
India ditto at 227 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Loan, 1081,
In9k ; Exchequer Bills, June, 235. prem.; and
ditto, March, 18s. to 21s. prem.
Foreign Securities have shown no important
change, and a fair amount of business has been ne•
gotiated. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are 82 83;
ditto, 1858, 68.1 691 ; the New Scrip is firmer at
prern.; and the Consolides, 88k s ; Italian 5 per
Cents, are heavy at 72 ; Egyptian firm at 881
89 ; ditto 2d issue, 871; Mexican, 33i ; Portu
guese Scrip, 2.4 prem. ; Russian, 12- prem.;
Sloinish Passive, 22 1; and ditto Certificates, 91.
The dealings in the Railway Share Mirket con-
tinued very limited, and, in most instances, prices
exhibited a slight heaviness. Great Eastern, Great
Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and South
Western, have receded 55.; and North Western
and Midland, 10s.

The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without
any material change in values. Great Indian
peninsula realise 1041 I; East Indian, 10611 and
Seinde, 1044.
Joint,-Stock Bank and Miscallaneous Shares con-
tinue ;inactive at about previous rates.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
:3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 03i ! .4 9 I
New 3 per Cent. Annuities ,ll/ 9 2 14 24
Nev, '4 per Cent. Annuities 764
Annuities, 30 yrs, 4 4xpire 6th Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 4
India Stock ' 227
Ditto .5 per Cent.
.. 109 81 95 .1-
Ditto Rnfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
944
I)itto 6 pet Cent.
Ditto 6/ per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent.,Oct.,o 1863 1004
Dittoo
ditto April, 1864 101 5
Ditt ditto Aug 1864 or 66 101 5
Ditto bonds £l,OOO -.. . Aug.
Consols for Account, Novi 6......• ••• • • • 28
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Ct... 20 Jun 5. March.
Ditto .£5OO ...18 21
....... —3Ditto Small .................... 23
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian. 5 per Cent. _
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ........ 95k
Equador New Consolidated
.B-zyptian, 7 per Cent BB5 9
Ditto, Second Issue, £6O pd
. s
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 874
Mexican, 3 per Cent
331 1
Ditto Account
28
New Grenada, 2 per Cent ..
1/9 79
Ditto Land 'Warrants
Ditto ex over-due Coups. and Hectares 105
Ditto Deferred
Peruvian 49 per Cent ..
Ditto (Uribarren), 44 per Cent. .. 98
Ditto 41 New, 1862, A Scrip, £53 paid.. 14
Portugut Ise 3 _
per Cent., 1853
Dittois Scrip, £l5 pd .. .. 2i 1
'1 'i4n 6 Per Cent 1829 £St • ---
Ditto 3 pet Cent., 1859
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862, Scrip, £3218s pd 1
c.
9 i_ _
Ditto Paid up S ' .
•..
Spanish 3 per Cent, ..
Ditto A ecomit
Ditto New Deferred„ ....
545 a a
Dpiitt,tooptse,;oizt... -65
not :i. ........ .
. unded
Spanish Cert. of Coup:
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account ......
Ditto 6 per Cent.,1862 ...... .
~...„
Ditto, Paid tip Scrip ............. f. 6..? . P..a.id
1•
68 4
VenPzuela, per Cent. .......
Ditto Account
D'.vidends on the above u:;;able*ln• 12,11 i i
Dutch 24 per Cent., Exchange 12 Gni'.
D;t'ertifies, per cent. ........ 102
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f.
Ditto Account
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 44 per Ct. Ex. 4s. 81
T [MEE 0' oLOcit.
1
Consolp, Money
93! i
Ditto Account . .

A WORD FOR THE CHILDREN.—Let me speak
;11 the highest terms of the benefit conferred on children by
lee •
'm
t g them run about as they will in a rough and ready
ind of garden, where they may work their own free wills
ig, plant, sow, build, and play,! just as they like, without
beitl subject to the annoyance of being confined to the
gravel, and forbidden under severe pena:ties to place a foot
°ll the beds,
freedom. 'They It is an education in itself to them, this wild
learn a thousqnd things that books will
never teach them; the use of their limbs, the use of their
are Bore
readiness of resource, and quick appreciation. They
to realise in vivid action every event of which they
tear or read, d •
an thus indelibly fix their knowledge on their
"41 memory,—Grace a To*,