The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-12 00:00:00

CITY NEWS, THIS DAY.

Two O'CLoorc.
The alteration which many persons imagined
would be made to-day in the minimum rate of
discount has not been realised. The directors of
the Bank of England, however, held rather a pro-
tracted meeting, and the question of an advance
was no doubt fully considered. Although they
have not deemed it necessary to make an immediate
change, it is still imagined that an alteration will
be announced at an early period.
Continued heaviness is perceptible in the English
Stock Market, prices being per cent. below those
current the preceding afternoon. The unfavour-
able state of the weather and the adverse specie
movement have tended to create the prevailing
depression. Consols are 91 for transfer, and
911 s for the 10th proximo. The New Threes and
the Reduced are flat at 911 ; Exchequer Bills 2s.
to ss. prem. ;-Bank Stock is firm at 236 ; India
ditto at 231 ; ditto 5 par Cent. Loan remains at
1071

Increased dullness has prevailed in the Foreign
Market to-day, and quotations have shown very
little change. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are 821
8211; ditto 1858, 691 701 ; ditto New Scrip, 21 3
Prem. ; Egyptian Scrip is flat, at 11- prem.; Italian
5 per Cents. are heavy, at 7l d 4 ; Mexican, at 311-- ;
and the Spanish Certificates at 9 ; Brazilian 5 per
Cents. remain at 100/.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been exceedingly limited, and little change of im-
portance can be reported in values ; in some in-
. stances, however, a slight improvement has taken
place. Great Westerns have advanced about 55.;
and North Western and South Easterns, 10s. ; Mid-
lands have declined about ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit little varia-
tion in price. Bahia and San Francisco are steady
at 17t ; Recife and San Francisco. at 14i; East
Indian have declined to 106 i 1061 ; Great Indian
Peninsula realise 1041 4 ; Great Southern of India;
102/ ; and Madras 5 per cents., 1021.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
neglected, and prices remain nominally unaltered.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 236
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9la
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities ... ,
911 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan. 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 5-16
India Stock ................
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto 51 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 99f.
Ditto dtito April, 1864 99t
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO ...... .. ........
.. 20
Consols for Account, July 10 ........... 91i Exchequer Bills Zl,OOO Cent ...... 5 2 Ditto , 3 per
£500 .........
......
5 2NDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
FOREIGN FU
Brazilian, 5 per Cent.
Egyptian 7 per Cent ..
........
Ditto Paid-up Scrip ... ..
..............
Mexican, 3 per Cent .................. 31 a
Ditto Account ...................... 31a
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. .......... 46a
'Znssian 5 per Cent 1822 £ St ..........
Ditto, Paid up Scrip • ...... 931
Spanish 3 per Cent
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
'1 urkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account .
&
Ditto 1862 (Scrip) 2 3
1 Ditto, Paid up Scrip
Dividends on the above payable in London.l
.1
Italian 5 per Cent 1861, ex 25f.
•
Consols T
Money WO9I7OILOCIi.
91 it
Ditto 'Account

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ADULTERY AND MURDER.—,A .• Soong w
Ronda, of the commune of Tonrtres (Lot-et-Garonne),
had)tilaci
married a few months back a girl aged 17,
and his suspicions awakened by the light behaviourt
himself
for aof his young
wife, pretended that he was forced to absent
few days, and then unexpectedly returned in the middle of
the night armed with a double-barrelled gun. On crossing
the threshold of his room he observed by the
fired
moon two persons rise from the bed ; he immediately
both barrels, the first charge striking the stranger under
light of the
the. chin, causing death instantaneously, and the second
wounding his wife almost in the same place. She nevert:
theless had sufficient strength to get up and obtain oasis
ance, but died in a few hours after. Roudet at once pro-
ceeded ti the town of Tourtres and gave himself up as a
prisone The stranger was discovered to be an unmarried
man, named David, a farmer in the neighbourhood.
Since the extension of the limits of Paris, all
the railway termini are within the walls of the city, conse-
quently any merchandise to be sent by rail must enter the
capital t 3 arrive at the railway stations ; and should the
articles be subject to a duty, it is necessAry to deposit at the
oAroi the amount to Which they would be liable if intended
for consumption in Paris, which is only returned after con-
siderable delay, on proof of the goods having arrived at their
destination. To remedy this in the environs of Paristate of things the merchants
rl have petitioned the Minister of the
Interior to cause each railway
company to establish a goods
receiving station outside the fortifications to avoid those
inconveniences.
PIGEON SHOOTING AT HORNSET.---W a
re
pit'geoofnthe shooting at Rornsoy.
requested to state that the
weather, till Frida
wood is postponed, on accoun
the 13th inst. (weather permitting), y,