The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NEWS YESTERDAY.
Tho reduction of £1,186,000 in the bullion of the
Bank of France, shown in the monthly return just
published, is greater even than was anticipated.
Within three months an aggregate diminution has
been experienced of £3,600,000, coincidently with
a reduction of about £2,500,000, sustained by the
Bank of England.
The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £761 16s. on account of the dividends on
the debt of Ecuador.
About 70,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from
the Bank to-day for exportation, principally to the
Continent, to pay for silver. The £Bl,OOO by the
Aloe, from Melbourne, will also be sent abroad.
The steamer Seine, from the West Indies, has
brought £109,000 in silver and £34,000 in gold.
The amount by the Borussia, from New York is
£28,000.

The steamer Great Britain, with £400,000 in
gold, and the Wellesley, with £136,500, are the
only gold vessels known to be now at sea from
Australia. The former has been out 58 days, and
the latter 85.

The Mexican dollars by the steamer La Plata
were sold to-day for China at ss. 21d. per ounce.
There is an active inquiry for silver for Bombay, to
meet which large supplies are being imported from
the Continent. The quotation for bars remains at
58. 2d.

The shipments of specie for Calcutta and China
by the Mooltan on the 20th instant will show an
increase, compared with the amount taken by the
corresponding vessel of the 4th, but will of course
be much below the enormous sum just despatched
to Bombay, the chief cotton port of the East. Some
large amounts of silver have already been insured
for transmission to Bombay by the steamer of the
27th inst.

A meeting of policy-holders in the Argus Life
office was held to-day at the Guildhall Coffee-house.
It was convened by Mr. Lewis, of the firm of Har-
rison and Lewis, and the disposition evinced was to
resist the proposed amalgamation with the Eagle.
It Was mentioned that with this view an injunction
171 Chancery has been filed by one of the policy-
holders. The result of the meeting was the appoint-
'tent of a committee to confer with the directors.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELTE O'CLOCK.

There is no change to report in the general con-
dition of the Money Market, either as regards the
demand or the rates.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have been
about £1,055,700, and the exports £1,659,500.
A further call of £2 per share, making £6 paid,
has been made by the directors of the Turin and
Savona Railway, payable on or before the Ist
proximo.

The attendance of home and foreign dealers at
the public sales of colonial wool, which commenced
yesterday, was exceedingly large. For the better
descriptions there was a good demand, at an ad-
vance of about ld. to 2d. per lb. on previous rates,
while inferior qualities barely sustained former
prices.

Two O'CLocK.
The Liverpool cotton market to-day was un
changed, and sales about 2,000 bales.
At Paris this morning, the Three per Cent.
Rentes opened at 70f. 30c., showing a fresh decline
of } per cent.
The transactions in the Market for Public Securi-
ties have been very restricted, and qnotations have
undergone no change of importance, although a
rather heavy tone prevails. Consols for money are
931 I and for account 92t- ex dividend. The New
3 per Cents. and the Reduced are flat at 911 j ;
Exchequer Bills, June, at lls. to 13s. prem. ; ditto,
March, 10s. to 13s. prem.; Bank Stock is firm at
236 and 238; India ditto, at 228 and 230, and the
5 per Cent. Loan at 1092- t.

Very little animation has been perceptible in the
Foreign Department, and prices have undergone
no change of importance. Greek Bonds have
ightly receded, the latest price beicg 169 17, and
the Coupons 71 Z. Grenada "ex all" remain at
12i 13; Mexican have improved to 33Z I; Peru-
vian Scrip is 11 dis.; Portuguese, 21 prem.; Rus-
sian ditto, I- die.; Spanish Passive 239 ; Turkish
6 per Cents. 1854, are 83 84; ditto 1858, 69f ;
and the Consolides, 37Z 38.

In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been of the most limited description, and there is no
material change to record in prices. Great Northern
have advanced 108., while North Western and Mid-
land have receded 65., and Lancashire and Yorkshire
los,

The Fore_gn and Colonial undertakings were
inactive, and exhibited no material change in value.
Great Luxemburg realised 141; Bahia and San
Francisco 191 ; East Indian 1071; Great Indian
Peninsula 1061 ; and Madras 5 per Cents. 104
to 104 i.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con-
tinued dull. Standard of South Africa receded to
44 5, and Bank of Australasia to 711 ; Berlin Water
Works brought 7/ 7 ; Royal Mail Steam, 56i 'I;
and Van Dieman's Land 13 to 13i.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92 11 4
per Cent. Consols Annuities' 931 i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 914 4
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 41per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto Aug. 18640 r 66 1001 /
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
eunsols for Account, Dec. 4....
Jun 9. March.
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Ct. .. 11 10
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small
Greek R FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
D Dittoi
itctaonAC,
~quador New Consolidated
Account
oppuoe
nnr
ts
6 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons
Cent
4
331 1
New Grenada 2 per Cent —
Ditto Land' Warrants
Ditto„r ex over-due Coups. & Hectares
rt!_ rian 41 per Cent
-D tto 41 New, 1862, A Scrip, £53 paid.. 11 4
Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Scrip, £2O paid
,
I,lsmian 5 per Cent 1822 £ St
Chilian 44 per Cent. 1860
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 604
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862. Scrip, £47 pd i dis
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 934 3
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred 461
Ditto Passive.,
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 -
bat° 6 per Cent. 1858 ..
Ditto Account
Ditto Paid-up Scrip
Venezuela, per Cent.
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 (Scrip), £43 paid 11 4 i
D..vidends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK
C D onsol
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Money, with the div.
itt Account