The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NEWS-YESTERDAY.

The half-yearly dividend is announced by Messrs.
Thomson, Bonar, and Co., on the Russian Three
per Cent. Loan.
About £5,000 in gold was bought by the Bank
to-day.
The steamer Tasmanian will take to-morrow
£51,000 in geld and £4OO in. silver to the West
Indies.
The Australian mail steamer Madras brought
£335,744 in gold to Point de Galle, of which
£279,710 was for India and £56,034 for London.
The latter amount will reach Southampton in a few
days by the Ceylon.
The Pernambuco Railway Company have this
day placed the balance of the £200,000 of their Six
per Cent. Debentures, thus completing their re-
quired capital.
The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Monday, the 20th inst., a special settling day in
the shares of the following companies, viz. :—Lees-
wood Cannel, Gas, and Coal Company (Limited),
and the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. In
the latter instance the privilege of quotation in the
official list is accorded.
During the last few days there has been rather
more animation.in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets. Coffee at public sale realised full rates,
while sugars were in some instances rather cheaper.
Rice remained dull, without material alteration in
value. Fruit and spices sold at steady prices. For
saltpetre there has been a more active demand at
slightly enhanced rates, and in the tallow market
a slight improvement has been perceptible in the
demand for both present and forward delivery.

With regard to the Venezuelan Loan, a notice
was issued to-day by Messrs. Baring that the instal-
ment of 18 per cent. (less 3 per cent. dividend),
due on the Ist of November, will not be required
until one week after receipt of advice of the
full ratification of the contract. This is expected
by the next packet, due about the Ist of November.
A dividend of 5 per cent. for the year ending Ist
September last is announced on the shares of the
Norwegian Trunk Railway Company.

CITY NEWS---THIS DA-Y.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The discount market continues steady, and there
is a large supply of money.
The Bank of England returns, completed to the
15th of October, exhibits some important altera-
tions, caused in a great measure by the payment
of the dividends. The bullion shows a large de-
crease, while there is also a considerable falling off
in the reserve of notes. The public and private
deposits also exhibit considerable variation, while
-there is a large addition to the Government securi-
ties. The various items, and the changes they pre-
sent, are shown in the subjoined table:—
Active Circulation .. £21,659,960
Increase .. • • 290,135
1
Bullion .• 6,230,260
Decrease .. • • • • 317,896
Best • • • . • • • • • • 3,061,129
Decrease .. 586,716
Public Deposits .. 6,253,982
Decrease .. 2,079,797
Other Deposits.. 15,719,485
Increase .. • • .. .. 2,189,363
Seven Day and other Bills .. .. 735,392
Decrease .. • . .• • . 32,453
Government Securities .. 12,163,992 •
Increase 911,436
Other Securities • • .. .. 18,931,696
Decrease .. . • .. 820' 008
Notes Unemployed .. 8,431,935
Decrease .. • • 570640

Two o'CLocx.

The uneasiness occasioned by the coup d'etat in
Prussia, and subsequently by the resignation at
Paris of M. Thouvenel and the appointment of M.
Drouyn de L'Huys as Finance Minister, has now
subsided, and the Rentes having to a large extent
recovered from their temporary depresson, indica-
tions of buoyancy are once more perceptible hero.
Consols closed yesterday at 931 fi for transfer, and
93,1- I for the 6th proximo. These quotations have
been firmly maintained to-day, and a mode-
rate amount of business has been negotiated.
The New Three per Cents. and the Reduced are
steady at 918 92k; Exchequer Bills, June, 20s. to
23a. prem. ; ditto, March, 21s. prem. ; Bank Stock
2371, and 239; the 5 per Cent. Annuities have
been dealt in at 109; India Stock is 227 and 229;
and the 5 per Cent. Loan, 1091 I.
In the Foreign Market this morning a fair
amount of business has been transacted, but, in
several instances, prices have shown a downward
movement. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are 82 83;
tditto, 1858, 69-1 ; ditto New Loau, 681 ; Italian are
721; Mexican have receded to 332 ; Peruvian, 99 ;
Portuguese Scrip is flat at 28 prem. ; Russian ditto,
at 11 prem. ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 541 ; ditto Pas-
sive have receded to 211 s ; and Venezuelan are
firm at 292 8 ; Turkish Consolides are 38 I.
In the Railway Share Market there bas been a mo-
derate amount of business transacted, and, in one or
two instances, prices have shown increased firmness.
Caledonians and North Easterns (Berwick) have
improved 10s. ; Great Easterns, Great Westerns,
North Westerns, and South Westerns, ss.
.; and
South Easterns, £l.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continued dull
without any material change in values. Sambre
and Meuse realise 101 ; East Indian, 106 i 106; ;
Great Southern of India, 103 U and Madras 5 per
Cents. 1038.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares gene-
rally are a shade firmer. Imperial Bank have im-
proved to 11 ; Union of Australia to 47 ; Metropo-
litan and Provincial to 131 14 ; Peel River Land
-remain firm at 53 ; National Discount Company at
; and Oriental Inland Steam, at 81. The
shares of the London and Colonial Bank are 11
prem.; and the Standard of Africa Bank 18 y prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 914 2 3
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 931 ! 3 3
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92 13 23
5 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire .sth Jan., 1880 l2/ 3
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1093 3
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 5/ per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1013
Consols for Account, Nov. 6
June,. March.
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Ct. .. 23 20
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small —
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
_3Bl 3
Egyptian, 7 per Cent
881
Ditto, Paid up Scrip —
Id,xican, 3 per Cent
331
Ditto Account
New Grenada, 2 per Cent —
Ditto ex over-due Coups. and Hectares 108
Peruvian 4/ per Cent ..
99
Ditto Account .
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 —
Ditto Scrip, £l5 pd .... 21
Riiggian 5 per Cent 1822 £ 5t..........5t..........
Ditto 41 per Cent 93
Ditto 5 per Cent ,1862, Scrip, £32 18s pd. 13
p
Ditto Paid up Seri
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive..
Tao kish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account ..
Ditvo 6 per Cent. I;£3 .. 821 I
Ditto Account . .. 69/
.. .. .. ..
Ditto, £lOO Bonds .......
Ditto, Paid up Scrip
_72
Venezuela, per Cent. .. .
Ditto Account ....

Dividends (;, *
L2o9ldlon.
5 lo,r Cant., 1861, Ex.
.....
721
Ditto Account .......................

TWO O'CLOt;
Congo M°lleY .. 931 I
..........
....
93
Is,
Ditto Account

ltegret
RETIREMENT OF A SCOTCH JUDGE
will be deep and general throughout Scotland(says the
Rcots2nan) on learning that Lord Ivory has come to the
decision not to resume his seat as a judge in the Court of
Session. The cause, however, we are glad to learn, is not
present ill-health, but rather apprehension that his health
would fail if he were again to attempt the arduous work of
the First Division.
The Atlantic and Great Western Railway having
completed the Titusville branch to within three or four
miles of the oil wells, is beginning to derive the expected
advantages. The traffic for the third week in September is
9,484 dols, being over £3O r mile making, with 12,101
dols for first two weeks, Pe
21,588' dole against 13,450 dols for
the whole month last year.