The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-21 00:00:00

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is no change in the general appearance of
the Discount Market, and the minimum of the Bank
of England remains at 2 per cent. The idea was
entertained in some quarters that an advance. to the
extent of 2 per cent. would have been announced,
but the authorities have not found it necessary to
make any alteration. Although the demand for
money has recently increased, it is understood that
,a large number of bills has run off, and the stock ,
of other securities is consequently presumed not to
have undergone any great augmentation.
The Tagus from the Pehinsula has brought
Li ,000 in specie.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1862. 1861.
Great Western £71,694 61,468
<3reat Northern
Gnat Eastern
orth- Western 102,731 93,735
`South- Western
Brighton
Midland
:South- Eastern
Lane shire and Yorkshire 37,485 434.53
Br4,stol and Exeter 8,127 8,086
North Eastern
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 14,663 15,389
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Great Western of Canada
These returns -are, with one or two exceptions,
of a favourable character. On the Great Eastern
there is an increase of £630; on the Great Western
of £10,126 ; on the Great Northern of £4,639 ;
on the North Western of £8,997; on the Brighton
of £956; on the Midland of £5,239; on the South
Eastern of £3,228 ; and on the Great Western of
Canada of £2,212. The Lancashire and Yorkshire
however, show a decrease of £5,968; the North
Eastern of £998 ; and the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln of £726.

The appointment of a settling day in the Vene-
zuelan Scrip has been deferred until the tbrmal
ratification of the loan has been received by the
contractors.

Notice has been given that the Scrip Certificates
of the Peruvian Loan and Consolidation of 1862
will be ready for delivery in exchange for the allot-
ment letters and deposit receipts on and after the
26th inst.

The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
pointed the 26th inst. a special settling day in the
shares of the Ceylon Company, and also of the Zep-
litz Colliery Company.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The Liverpool cotton market is firm, but the ex-
citement is abated. Sales probably 6,000 bales.
The market for Public Securities is dull and
languid, owing to the contraction of business, bona
*de and speculative. The fineness of the weather,
however, combined with the easiness of money and
other favourable considerations, gives support to
quotations, and the speculators, if disinclined to
purchase, are evidently not disposed to enter largely
into engagements for a contrary movement. Con-
sols have been 93,1 ; for money, and 934 ; for the
account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities
are marked 934- e ; the 30 years Annuities, 15}
and the Red Sea Telegraph, 21; ; India 5 per Cent.
Stock is 1088 9, being firm; and the 5i per Cent,
Enfaced, 114 ; Exchequer Bills continue steady
at 20s. to 21s. prem. ; and India Bonds at 265. to
28s. plena.

Foreign Securities, generally, have been well
supported, and a fair amount of business has been
negotiated. Turkiah 6 per Cents., 1854, are firm at
86 87; ditto, 1858, 74 72; ditto New Loan Scrip,
14 to Of die. ; but the Internal 6 per Cents., after
being 35i, have declined to 34 I ; Egyptian paid-up
Scrip has riser. to 951- and 96k; and ditto, 2d issue,
is steady at 106 11 prem.; Mexican are flat at. 284
29; -Russian 5 per Cents, realised 97, the paid-up
Scrip 93f 6; the Portuguese Loan is 2 prem ; and
Italian 5 per Cents. have receded to 691. The
New Peruvian Loan is 4 1 prem., and the Vene-
zuelan par a prem.
In the Railway Share Market business has con-
tinued dull, and prices have not varied to any im-
portant extent. South Eastern and Great Eastern
have declined about 55., and North British, 108.1
Great Western and Midland, however, have im-
prov ed ss.

The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in fair
request. Antwerp and Rotterdam have improved
to 71 and Recife and San Francisco, to 172 18;
Grand Trunk of Canada are firm at 201, and Great
Western of Canada have improved to 121; Great
Indian Peninsula realise 102-1.
Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are,
in some instances, rather firmer. Ottoman Bank
advanced to 271 282 ; London and South African.
to 16i 6 ; and London and County, to 361 ; Crystal
Palace Stock declined to 342 ; and Peel River have
improved to 52/.

BRITISH FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 93s 4 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 93a 4 11
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 154
Red Sea Telegraph, 1908
India Stock
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 51 per Cent.
D bonds t' l .' 100
Ditto wider £l,000
Consols for Account, Sept. 4 931 k
Excbequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent
,itto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Egyptian, 7 per Cent., Scrip
Ditto Paid-up Scrip
1 'Ditto, Second Issue, 20 pd
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
New Grenada, 2 per Cent
Ditto ex over-due Coups. and Hectares 19
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853.
Ditto Account
Ditto Scrip
`•?.l.:ian 6 per Cent 1822 £ St
Ditto Account 971
Ditto 41 per Cent
Ditto 1860
Ditto 5 per Cent , 1862 (Scrip)
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 931 I
Sa dinian 5 per Cent.
.z.-panish 3 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive.. ... 183
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
•1 • •
Ditto Account
.Ditto 6 per ()out. 1858 .
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 tier Cent., 1882. Scrip I 11 041 0/
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 67 63 7 61
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
thvidentis on the above Payable in London.
French Rentes 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f 97f.
Italian, 5 per dent., 1861, Ex. 2sf.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 934 t

NEW ACT FOR THE RECOVERY OF POOR RATES.
—Among the new acts of Parliament just published is one
for " the more economical" recovery of poor rates and other
local rates and taxes. In future all rates due by one person
may be included in the same proceeding, and no costs are
to be allowed in cases where all the rates.could be included
in one summons, information, warrant, or other docunient,