The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The Money Market to-day, although quiet, has
continued very firm, 21 per cent, being the mini-
mum quotation in ordinary discount circles as well
as at the Bank of England.

Three vessels have been announced this morning
from Australia, viz., the Prince of Wales, with
£39,108; the Norfolk, with £129,988; and the
Donald 111‘Kay, with £54,696.
About £40,000, in gold, was purchased by the
Bank authorities yesterday.
The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £2.561, on account of the dividends on the
debt of Ecuador.

The interest on Sardinian 5 per Cent. Bonds will
be payable on and after the Ist proximo.
Notice has been given that Bonds of the Turkish
Guaranteed Loan of 1855, amounting to £56,000,
have been drawn for redemption.
Business was very inactive in the Liverpool Cot-
ton Market yesterday, and American descriptions
were id. per lb. lower. The sales were about
3,000 bales.

The Turkish Guaranteed Loan of £5,000,000,
raised in 1855. Bondholders are informed that
Bonds, amounting to £50,300 have been drawn for
redemption ; and that the said Bonds will be pay-
able at the Bank of England on the Ist August
next, when the interest thereon will cease.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1862. 1861.
Great Western 255,237 54,952
North-Western 83 546 86,630
South- Western
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire..
Bristol and Exeter
Icorth- E astern
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 13,561 15,532
Eastern Counties
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada
These i eturns show that there is still a consider-
able falling off in the receipts of the principal lines in
the manufacturing districts. On the North Western
it amounts to £3,084; on the Lancashire and York-
shire, to £5,342 ; on the North Eastern, to £2,502; on
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, to £1,971 ;
and on the Grand Trunk of Canada, to £1,508. The
Great Western, however, showing an increase of
£285; the South Western, of £1,229; the Brighton,
of £1,965 ; the Midland, of £531 ; the South
Eastern, of £1,415 ; the Great Northern, of £712 ;
the Eastern Counties, of £2,718 ; and the Great
Western of Canada, of £414,

CITY NEWS---THIS DAN.

Two O'CLOCK.

The annual meetiing of the Provincial Bank of
Ireland took place to-day—Sir. W. Minto T. Far-
quhar, Bart., M.P., in the chair. The directors'
report, which was unanimously adopted, referred
at some length to the distress in Ireland which had
prevailed since 1859, through the disease in the
potato crop, the scarcity of fuel, and the inactivity
of business in the linen trade, occasioned by the
AmeAcan war, but notwithstanding this adverse
state of things, the bank had made satisfactory
progress, and the directors were enabled to recom-
mend a dividend at the rate of 20 per cent. The
amount of " rest " in last year's accounts amounted
to £251,693 Bs. 5d., out of which had been deducted
for dividend, &c., &e., £143,693, to which has been
added during the year from the profits of the bank
£111,355 lls. 4d., making the "rest" now £255,048
19s. 9d. Itt was now recommended to pay an ex-
traordinary dividend of 30s. on each £lOO share,
and 12s. on each £lO share of the capital stock of
the bank, in addition to the ordinary dividend of 4
per cent., making the am ount to be then paid £2
10s on every £lOO share, and £1 on each £lO share
for the half-year ending midsummer next. A
vote of thanks to the directors and officers of the
bank concluded the proceedings.
Very little business has been transacted in the
Consol market to-day, either on speculative account
or for investment, and extreme quietude conse-
quently prevailed. The quotations for transfer
have been 931 1, and for the 10th proximo, 91i 92,
but they are now 1 per cent. firmer, being 931 /
and 92 92 respectively. The New Threes and the
Reduced are fist at 91/ I ; Bank Stock is 235 and
237 ; and India 5 per Cents. are 108/- 1091.
Very little change has taken place in the Foreign
department, and a moderate amount of business has
been negotiated. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 801
ditto, 1858, 701 ; and the Scrip of the New Loan
is steady at 2/ 1 ; Venezuelan, at 231 ; Spanish are
firmer at 54-1, ; ditto Certificates, at 81 Z. Italian
5 per Cents. have receded to 70/ I ; Egyptian Scrip,
to 1/ prem.; and Mexican, to 311 /. The Russian
Loan is 4 2 prem.

The operations in the Railway Share Market
have been limited, and little change of importance
has taken place in prices. Eastern Counties, Great
'Westerns, North Eastern (Bernick), and South
Easterns have declined ss. ; and Lancashire and
Yorkshire, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln, Mid-
land and North British have improved ss.

The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained
without material variation in prices. Great Luxem-
bourg realise 14t 24; Sambre and Meuse, 114 ;
and South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian, 217-. ;
East Indian are steady at 104 ; Great Icdian Penin-
sula at 1021 ; and Madras 5 per Cents. have
declined to 1011.

Joint Stock Batik Shares remain very dull, at
about former prices.

The Alliance Bank Shares are 51 prem. ; Im-
perial, par 1 prem.; Northern Counties, 11 prem. ;
British Columbian, 1, I prem.; and Brazilian, li 2
prem.

In the Miscellaneous Market Electric Telegraph
Stock has improved to 1001 i ; South Australian Land
realise 321 33 ; Rio de Janeiro Improvement have
declined to 261-.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll $
'per Cent. Consols Annuities 93iihli
NOW 3 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 —9la 1
IDitto for 30 yrs expire sth April, 1885 l' 3-16
ndia stuck .
Cent..: ... .. .. ........ . . .....
Ditto 5
Ditto Enfaced Pa ......... p. ... .C. ......
84
9k
84
Ditto 5 per Cent-- er
Ditto 5} per Cent ....... ..
Deb
$
Ditto entures, 4 per Cent,, Oct . ".
ditto , 1863 100 i
Aug. 1864 or 66 100
Ditto
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO ........
Consols for Accounts June 16 ........ 26
.... 92
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent„..
; ,itto Small
14
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES,
Egyptian, 7 per Cent
14
i
Italian 5 per Cent. (Nlaremmanaßailway)
Ditto Scrip 1
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853..
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856,
asian 6 per Cent. 1822 £ St
'7, ,9, and '6O N
iil
1
Ditto Account ..
'ardinian 5 per Cent.
S;'panisit 3 per Cent
parish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent , 1858 —
Ditto Account
Ditto 1862 (Scrip) 2i, i i
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 7O 1
Venezuela, 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account.
Dlyidends on the above payable in London.
Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, ex 25f.

Conßots, Money THREE O'CLOCK.
Ditto Account
92 i ox div.

The first stone of the breakwater at Castle Cor-
/let, at Guernsey, was laid last week.
HYDROPHOBIA.—About six weeks ago a mad dog
was killed, wh ch had first bitten some other dogs in the
districts, north• east of our city, including Brownstown,
Oreenridge, and Sandford's-court. The bitten dogs
having since manifested symptoms of hydrophobia have
been from time to time destroyed, but unfortunately not.
before some pigs and even a gander had been bitten by some
of
rture, them.
but some A few of the pigs and the gander died in great
to of the pigs seem to have been saved by a
timely cauterisation of the wounds. The l=ast victim was a
valuable pony, belonging to a farmer of the district, which
wag, in a week after receiving the bite, suddenly seized
ploughing and having bitten itself
a
with the disease whilst
in a frightful manner, and attempted to tear every one who
approached it was , ,of course, destroyed by its owner.—
Zilkenny Moderator.