The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-22 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The demand for discount accommodation con-
tinues very quiet, and the rates remain without
alteration.

About £35,000 in gold was withdrawn from the
Bank of England yesterday.
The foreign exchanges, yesterday afternoon, ex-
hibited a slight decline in several instances.
The official returns relating to trade and naviga-
tion for the 12 months ending the 31st December,
1861, have just been published, from which it
appears that the total declared value of the exports
amounted to £125,115,133, against £135,891,227
in 1860, showing a decrease of £10,770,094. The
principal falling off is shown in beer and ale,
cotton manufactures, cotton yarn, haberdashery
and millinery, hardwares and cutlery, linen manu-
factures, woollen manufactures, and woollen and
'worsted yarn. _ _

The importations of the principal articles were
larger for the same period, as regards hemp, leather
manufactures, tea, provisions, rice, and tobacco, but
smaller in raw cotton, flax, raw silk, and tallow.
The City of Washington from New York has
brought £134,241, and the Tagus from Lisbon
£3,375 in specie.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
amounted to £204,000, and the exports to £382,000,
Continued activity prevailed in the Liverpool
Cotton Market yesterday, and prices were very
firm. The sales were 10,000 bales.
Notice has been given that the Exchequer Bills
dated in the month of March, 1861, with the in-
terest due thereon, will be paid off on the 11th
proximo, when the interest will cease.

The shipping accounts exhibit a slight increase
in the demand of tonnage employed in the foreign
trade of the United Kingdom for the entries inwards
and also for the clearances outwards.

In the coasting trade for the like period there is
a snuill addition shown in the amount of tonnage
employed for both the entriesinwards and clearances
outwards:

The Funds closed yesterday at a rise of 1 per
cent., and an additional improvement of per cent.
was established at one time to-day but it has since
been lost. Consols, which have been 931 1, are
now 934 7.4 for money and the 6th proximo. The
New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 931 8 ;
Indian 5 per Cent. 1064 to 1071 ; ditto Enfaced
Paper, 51 per Cent., 108 ; ditto Debentures, 9 91-
100. Exchequer Bills, March, have risen to 17s.
20s. prem. ; ditto, June, to 18e. 225. prem.
A rather active business has taken place in the
Foreign Stock Market, and prices are buoyant.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 84 1, ditto 1858, 741 5 ;
Mexican are firm at 341 i ; Portuguese at 461 47.
Russian have advanced to 1021; Spanish to 531 ;
and Italian to 681 The Moorish Loan is steady
at 51a prem,; and the New Italian Loan is to 1
rem.

Increased firmness has been apparent in the
Railway Share Market, and prices generally have
tsilown an upward movement. Ualedonians, Eas-
tern Counties, Great Westerns, and North Eastern
(Berwick), have improved ss. ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and Midland, 10s. ; South Eastern,lss.;
and London, Chatham, and Dover, £l.
The Foreign and Colonial lines were in moderate
favour at steady rates. Great Luxemburg, however,
improved 10s. ; Dutch Rhenish, Bahia and San
Francisco, Recife and San Francisco, San Paulo,
Great Western of Canada, Grand Trunk of Canada,
and the East Indian undertakings remained at
previous rates.
mint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares ex-
baba little variation, prices, however, are a shade
firmer.

, BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
t:, per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93a 1
NVper Cent. Consols Annuities
e a.
3 per C 2
ent. Annuities 93a I
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5} per Cent lOB
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 100
Ditto ditto April, 1864 994 100
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100
Consols for Account, March 6 93s I
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
March. June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 17 20 pm I Sit 18 pm
Ditto £5OO .. 17 20 pm 22 18 pm
Ditto Small l7 20 pm I 22 18 pm
-

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Chi Han 6 per Cent —
Ditto 41 per Cent ,
Rquador New Consolidated
Imperial Moorish Scrip •• • • 51 I
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
'Grenada Active
Ditto Deferred
r''eruvian 41 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853.
Ditto Account 461 7 61
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, and '60..
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St lO2l
Ditto 41 per Cent 9l 3s'
ardinian .5 per Cent.
Ditto Account ....
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred —
Ditto Account
Pi 1
.Ditto Passive
Turkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Lottn
7
Ditto Accoint
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Renter, 41 per Cent. Ex. Ex. 25f 99f. 50c.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 *
TWO O'CLOCK.
93i 1
931 i

Crsnsols, Money
Account ...........

TI IS DAY'S SHIPPING.

Feb. 22.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Easterly; s
pderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
tLeNr ID;;N7
In
loudy.

QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 21.—Arrived—City of New York,
from Liverpool, and proceeded for New
screw steamer,
York.

PLY MOUTII, Feb. 21.—Wind S.E., strong
—Arrived—
triton, steamer, from the Cape of Good Rope ; left on the
21st ult.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Feb. 22—Daring, from St. Michael's; General
Lurmel, from Pandermo ; Ellen Rose, from Bathurst
sprit of the Deep, from Shanghai ; Sylph, from Genoa.
Sailed—Racer, for New York ; Rainbow, steamer, for
Calais Holland, steamer, for Ostend.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
f Sailed—Era, screw steamer, for Bordeaux ;T. E. Lemon,
,cr Liverpool ; City of Brisbane, for Queensland—all from
.Loudou.
Passed Feb 21—Isabella Robinson, from Shields, for
+A aVannah. •

1/EATII OF CAPTAIN EDWARD BARKER PRESCOTT.
Tlra° above promising young officer, of the 33d (Duke of
) Regiment of Foot, whose death has just been
the "'lced as having occurred at Deesa, Bombay, entered
the as ,9nsign on the 15th of March, 1850, and became
0,
_matt or, be Bth April, 1853. Ile served at the siege
4'l23obastopol, Old was severely wounded on the 15th
185;,13:t' 1855. was promoted to captain on 26th Oct.,
Bervicet:d rewarde 4. with the medal and the clasp for his