The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-15 00:00:00

CITY NEWS-SATURDAY.

Messrs. Fruhling and Goschen, the agents for
the Egyptian Government Loan, have notified that
the paid-up scrip certificates of the second issue can
be left tee be exchanged for bonds from the 17th to
the 23d inst.

The amount of gold taken to the Bank to-day
Was £B,OOO.

Subjoined is a list of the gold ships now on the
way from Melbourne to England, viz.: The Angle-
sea, with £28,000; the Kent, with £313,000; the
Lord Raglan, with £185,000; and the Aloe, with
£Bl,OOO. The total is £607,000. The Anglesea is
due, and the Kent may soon arrive.
The latest New York telegrams, dated the sth
inst., show that, under the effect of the prevailing
anxiety, the exchange, last reported at 1271, had
risen to 131, and was still advancing. The pre-
mium on gold had at the same time risen to 184
per cent. Public securities in many instances come
quoted 2 to 3 pa cent. lower than by the previous
accounts.

The dividend court of proprietors of the Bank of
England will be held on the 18th inst.
It is officially announced that the dividend on
North British Railway stock will be at the rate of
only 1 per cent. per annum, against 3 per cent. per
annum for the corresponding period of 1861.
The directors of the Bank of Australasia have
announced a half-yearly dividend of 245. a share,
and also a bonus of 265. a share, being together
at the rate of 122 per cent. per annum.
A half-yearly dividend at the rate of 6 per cent.
per annum is announced on the shares in the lonian
Bank.

A half-yearly dividend of 3 per cent. is announced
as payable on the shares of the New York Central
Railroad Company on the 20th inst.
A prospectus has been issued of the Adelphi
Hotel Company, with a capital of £150,000, in
shares of £lO. The object is to convert the block of
buildings known as Adelphi-terrace, Strand, into a
lirst-class hotel.

The present Australian advices mention that a
movement was on foot to introduce the cultivation
of tobacco, for which the climate and soil are con-
sidered by many persons to be eminently suitable.
The board of agriculture in Victoria have offered a
premium of £4O for the best sample. The average
annual value of tobacco and cigars imported into
the colony of Victoria during the last five years has
been £212,000, and the hope is not only that this
quantity may be obtained of colonial growth, but
also a large surplus for exportation.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

There is rather more demand for discount accom-
modation to-day, which may be partly attributed
to the revenue collections and other disbursements
usual at this advanced period of the quarter. The
number of applications is still too moderate to create
great activity, bat a perceptible increase is reported,
and the banks and discount houses are now asking
rather enhanced quotations. The general charge
for first-class three months bills is 2 per cent.,
but exceptional transactions are reported
per cent., and the consequence is a larger num-
ber of applications at the Bank of England, as
many parties give that establishment the preference
when the rates there and elsewhere are equal.
The steamer Lloyds, Captain Smith, has arrived
at Halifax from Charleston, having run the blockade
at Charleston with a valuable general cargo from
:London.

The accounts from the manufacturing districts for
the' past week were in most instances satisfactory.
At Manchester cloths and yarns were at one time
rather cheaper, owing to the inactive state of the
Cotton Market at Liverpool ; prices, however,
afterwards partially recovered. The woollen trade
of Leeds continued without material change, while
at Bradford, Huddersfield, and Rochdale there have
been some rather large speculations in winter
goods. The hosiery and lace trades of Leicester and
Nottingham continued steady; the high rates de-
manded for cotton, however, in some measure re-
stricted production. In the hardware districts, viz.,
at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton,
there has been little change of importance.

Two o'CLocK.
The Paris Three per Cent. Rentes to-day were
quoted 68f. 80c., ex coupon, being flat.
The English Stock Market has remained with-
out the slightest change of importance, and busi-
ness has continued very inactive. Consuls are 93h 2.
for money, and 931 4 for the account, There is
no new feature of interest either as regards the ten-
dency of values or the course of business. The
New Threes remain at 92 k ; the Reduced are flat
at 92; India 5 per Cents. Loan improved to 109$1
Exchequer Bills, Jane, 17s. prem. ; ditto March,
20s. prem. ; Bank Stock is 2411 and 2421.
A fair amount of business has been negotiated
in the Foreign Market, and prices in several in-
stances have shown more firmness. Mexican
Stock has risen to 311 ; and Spanish Certificates
to 6f,- s ; Italian 5 per Cents. are firm at 70k; and
ditto Railway Loan 7171 ; Portuguese are 46,1 ; ditto
New Loan Scrip, 24 prem. ; Russian Scrip is 1
prem. ; but Venezuelan 3 per Cents. have receded
to 27. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are steady at
85 86 ; ditto, 1858, 674 ; ditto New Loan 65166; ;
and the Consolides 36/ z.

The operations in the Railway ShareMrwkeitthhatheve
been moderately active,but chiefly connected
half monthly settlement. Prices, however, have
generally exhibited increased firmness. Great
Easterns, Great Westerns, Lancashire and York-
shire, and North-Westerns improved 55., and Cale-
donians, Brightons, and South-Westerns 103.
north British, however, have declined about £l.
Midlands, South-Easterns, and Manchester, Shef-
field and Lincoln remained at about previous rates.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without
change of importance. South Austrian and Lom-
bardo-Venetian are dealt in at 221; Great Luzern-
berg at 148 ; Bombay and Baroda have improved
to 1021,, 103; East Indian realise 1054 ; Great In-
dian Peninsula, 1038 ; and Punjaub, 101* 102.
Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
remain at about previous quotations. English,
Scottish, and Australian Chartered have improved
o 18: ; London and South African have declined
to 191; Oriental Bank to 531; and Ottoman Bank
are steady at 278 6 ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam
have improved to 731.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
IDitto for 30 yrs, expire stkApril, 1885 l5 1-16
ndia Stock ........ .
Ditto 6 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 941
Ditto 5 per Cent .
/
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 104 6 4
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1011 1
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 101
Consols for Account, Oct. 8 93/
March. I June.

Thelletietrtoßills £l,OOO, 3 per Ct. .. -
£5OO ..........
Ditto Small .................... 17 1 20
P°II.EIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Buenos Ayres 6
_per Cent .............. 94
Equador New
Ditto, Second Is''(ll4., Scrip ............ 90
Egyptian, 7 per Cent.,
............ 18
,ar£4o pd .......... 0
......... Railway) 71i 2i
Tl 5 ,p3e r peren " Cent
Italian
£
P opr tui t
tgouse
es er i 3p , p
xe rl5O epndt
.. ~ i. Li.
........................
43611 1 i i
Ditto, Paid up Scrip. .... • ....... •• . . 2 k
si) 5 per Cent 1822. ............ 451
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 .......• ....... .....
Ditto 6 per Cent.,1862, Scrip, £2310 . .... 60i
Ditto Paid-up Scrip ............ P 1,
Spanish 3 per Cent ... 9.1 13i
............ Ditto
New Deferred .......... --
Ditto Account ................. . .... 441 1
Ditto Passive.. , ................... .• 19$
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded ...... 9,1 i .
10
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 .. 67k 7 i 641
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 (Scrip)
Ditto, Paid up Scrip ............
2766 k 51 Gt 51
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
blttu Account 27s
Dividends on the above savable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil• • •
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. .
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex, 25f.
Consols, Mon THREE O'CLOCK,
ey
Ditto Account 93t t