The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-08 00:00:00

`ITS NE TVS. I SILi RE 1V

:3ITY, Two o'CLooK.
There is still an active demand for discount
accommodation both at the Bank of England and
in Lombard street, and 33 per cent. is the lowest
rate for the negotiation of even the best descrip-
tions of commercial bills.
About £3,000 in gold was withdrawn from the
Bank of England yesterday.
The foreign exchanges yesterday exhibited no
chr.nge of importance.
The directors of the North Staffordshire Railway
Company propose a dividend at the rate of 3 per
cent, for the past hale-year.

A meeting of the Thames and Mersey Marine
Insurance Company has been convened for the
26th inst.

Continued quietude prevailed in the Liverpool
Cotton Market s esterday, and prices were without
any change of importance. The sales were 5,000
bales.

Since Monday last the imports of specie have
amounted to about £270,200, and the export to
£109,000.

A call of £2 per share, amounting together to
£50,000, became due to day on the Cape Town
Railway and Dock Company's shares.
The traffic receipts of the Northern of France
Railway for the past week amounted to £47,445,
against £46,640 last year.
The half-yearly meeting of the Victoria (London)
Dock Comp iny will take place on the 27th inst.
The transactions in the Market for Public
Securities to-day have been rather restricted.
Consols have beel dealt in at 92; 93 for transfer,
and at 93 93- for the 6th proximo, but they are
now rather flatter, being quoted 921 d and 921 93
respectively. The New Threes and the Reduced
are firmer at 931 4 ; Exchequer Bills, March, are
fiat at 10s. prem. ; ditto, June, at 10s. to 14s. prem.
India Stock is 224 and 226, and ditto 5 per Cent.,
1061, being buoyant.
The dealings in the Foreign Market have been
to a moderate extent, and prices have shown no
Material variation. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 841 ;
ditto, 1858, 751 76; Mexican are steady, at 348 35;
qua.dor have improved to 181. a ; Spanish, to
544 1; ditto Deferred, to 431 1; ditto Passive, to
198 h ; ditto Certificates, to 7:1 81; and Italian, to
671 Venezueian remain at 25;.-1- ; and the New
Moorish Scrip has been dealt in at 51 and 58 prem.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
b'''en limited ; prices, however, have exhibited
little change of importance. South Westerns and
South Eisterns have improved 55.; Great Wes-
terns 108.; and Eastern Counties £l.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remained
dull, without material variation in values. South
Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have improved
t 0 20; Great Luxemburg realise 101 ; Bahia and San
Francisco, 152 ; Great Western of Canada, 12Z- 8 ;
East Indian, 1011 1021; and Great Indian Penin-
sula, 1003.
4. /"°int. Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares eon-
linue inactive, but at steady rates. London and
County realise 43-1 44; Ottoman Bank, 20 to 208;
Union of Australia, 411 ; and Peninsular and
Oriental Steam, 691 to 70.

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BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
„Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 94
6.l‘z Cent. Consols •Annuities
Ind
ls'
3 per Cent. Annuities 93/
a Stock
Ditto 5 er Cent.
Ditto Epnfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent lOl
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 991 !
\Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
I)itto under £l,OOO .....
23
Con 23 6
s.ols for Account, March 6 . 93 /
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... March. Jung.
14 10
Ditto Small — 10
Ditto £5OO ..
FOREIGN FUNDS— 10 pm 10 pm
CLOSING} PRICES.
Obilian 6 per Cent ..................... Ditto 41 per Cent ..................
Equador New Consolidated
. lmperial Moorish Scrip . ...... ..... ............... 1 kexican, 3 per Cent ..................
Ditto Account
34 541
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St
.0
9
Ditto Account . . 9 83.'
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 . 61
Spanish 3 per Cent 54/
oitto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
19/
Spanish Cert.. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent.
Ditto New Loan'
Ditto Aeon nt /
Ditto £lOO 80nd5,,,, 751771
Venezuela, 3 per Cent Dl! to Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
*tell 21 per Cent., Ehan
'tf'. Certificates, 4 per Cent ge.
.12 Guil.
....... 102 a 11
Itt es
en, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f loof.
talian, 5 perlB6l 6'a
Two 0'(! LOC
Consols, Money
1 Account
9292/ 3