The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-25 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NE W S-SAI URD AY.

The discount market presented no new feature.
The rates for good Mils remain at 15 to 2 per cent.
At the Bank of England the demand was cf an ave-
rage character for a Saturday.

At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Renfes
opened at 68.75, and closed at 68.70 for money and
68.65 for the account, being about -1 per cent lower
than yesterday.
The accounts from the Vienna Bourse continue to
indicate some distrust, owing, no doubt, to the ac-
counts from Italy.
The ninth call of £2, making £l9 paid, is to be
paid on the shares in the Ottoman Railway Com-
pany by the 17th October. The half-yearly meet-
ing of this company will be held on the 29th Sep-
tember.

The Poruvian agents have published the numbers
of the Uribarren and Arica and Tacna Railway
Rends which have been cancelled under the action
ol the redemption fund for the six months ending
the Ist ult.

The amount of gold taken to the Bank to• day was
£lO,OOO.

The steamer Australasian, from New York, has
brought £78,000 in specie.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The progress of business in the manufacturing
districts last week continue moderately active.
Business at Manchester, however, was in some
measure interfered with by the advanced prices
demanded for both cloths and yarns. The woollen
•trade at Leeds remained without material change,
while at Bradford and Hudderbfield them has been
more animation in most departments. At Leicester
and Nottingham a steady business has been done in
hosiery and lace goods, while in the hardware dis-
tricts, viz., at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolver-
hampton, there has been little change of importance.
Thf,re is rather less inquiry for discount accom-
modation in the general mi.rket as well as at the
Bank of England, and the rates show a tendency
towards greater easiness, although the alteration
hitherto has been of a fractional character. Never
theless, there is an abundant supply of money, and
ES there is still but a moderate demand for com-
mercial purposes, competition is stimulated, and
those who require assistance are enabled to obtain

on very favourable terms.
Notice has been given that a portion of the cou-
pons of the South Carolina Railway Bonds, which
became due on the, let ultimo, will be paid in Lon-
don daily, and that arrangements have been made
for the payment of the remaining portion in
Charleston.

Two o'CLocK.

The English Stock market has presented a more
buoyant appearance, and a few speculative pur-
chases have led to a rise of a per cent., Consols
being 931 s for money and the 4th proximo. The
transactions are still exceedingly limited, but the
continued fineness of the weather has caused a
better feeling to prevail. The New threes are
steady at:93i the Reduced flat at 834 a ; Exche-
quer Bills remain at 18s. to 21s. prem. ; Bank
Stock is firm at 239 and 240; and 5 per Cents. are
1081
Businees in the Foreign Market has been rather
less active than of late, but prices show scarcely any
change. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 85 86; ditto,
1858, 711 72; ditto New Loan Scrip, 1 t,2 dis. ;
and the Consolidea, after being 331 344, have re-
ceded to 33i; Italian 5 per Cents. are depressed,
at 6SI: 691; Egyptian paid up Scrip is 94, and the
£2O paid of the 2d issue is 9i 10i prem.; Portu-
guese Scrip is firm, at 21 I prem.; but Sardinian
have receded to 821

In the Rtilw-ty Share :Market the operations
hive b >en rather limited, but prices have, in one or
two-instann es, shown more firmness. Caledonisn
and L ,ncashire and Yorkshire hive advanced 55.,
While Great Westerns have receded ss. _ _

Tne Foreign and Colonial lines have remained
without any material change in values.
Juint- stock B (nk and Miscellaneous Shares fully
maintain previous prices. Ottoman Bank realise
291 ; Alliance of London and Liverpool, Hi a;
London and County, however, have declined to 36,1
and Lo ]don and Westminster to 781.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
13 ink Stook ....
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per C(nt. Annuities s3h 1
A I.huities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 lst
India Stock
nil- ti, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001
Conols for Account, Sept. 4
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent
Ditto £5OO ....
I)itto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLO:.3K.

Brazilian, 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Eir;ptian, 7 per Cent., Scrip
Ditto Paid-un Scrip
Ditto, Second Issue, £2O pd ..10 A 91 104 91 10f pm
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
rortugnese 3 per Cent., 1853..
Ditto Scrip, £lO pd .. .. 2$ I, f i
Ditto, Paid up Scrip' 46/
alls.,iii.n 5 per Cent 182? £ St —
Dit to' Account
Sa dinian 5 per Cent. ..
' )414 Account
Spaiti,lh Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
bitto 6 per Cent. 1858 —
I)itt, Account 7IB 2 1$

Ditto, Paid up Scrip 67.61{ 71 6i
D:vitknda on the above payable in Lonnon.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f,

TWO O'c LOC h
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 93i I

DENIZENS OF THE FOREST.—A keeper of the
forest of Chantilly, in going his rouuds a few days back,
discovered a track leading into a thicket. Following the
path to a little distance, he came upon a hut built of
heather, in which were four half-savage children almost
naked.. They were un,ble to give the names of their
parents, who were, they said, absent in &arch of wild
fruit and forest animals for food. All the articles in the
hut were two kettles, two bottles, three cups, and a looking-
glass. On the return of the keeper slme hours after with
a getidarnte, it was found that the whole of the ( ccupants
of the e:tbin had fled.

COMMERCE OF ENGLAND TEMP. HENRY
would scarcely be proper to pass from the mention of
of Malmesbury without chronicling what he re-
cords of the state of trade in other parts of England during
of a
this reign. Bristol he speaks;
nd a celebrated town,
and a port for vessels coming from Ireland
other COUD' r es." Henry 11., in the eleventha,t. h Norway,e
yearpe,
speaks
sahnoi and
sf
reign, gave the burgesses a charter. Chsste
" situated in a poor country, producing e
wheat, though there is abutidai,ce of cattle andßsfiresEtehlye poorany
live On mi k and buyer, the rich on flesh."
barley or rye is thought a dainty. Some trade with
of
Ireland supp ies the place with such necessariesi th
nature has denied to it. Dunwich is spoken of as n
tie
famous se port, stored with various kinds of riches.
Norwich was a populous town famous for its commerce.
Lynn as a city distinguished for commerce and abundaroe,
the residence of many wealthy Jews, and resorted to by
foreign vessels. Grim 4by as an emporium resorted to by
merchants from Norway, Scotland, Orkney, and theWitstern
Islands. Lincoln was one of the most popular seats of home
and foreign trade in England, in consequence of the con-
struction of a canal of seven miles inleneth, from the Trent
at Torksey to the Witham at Lincoln, which had given the
city the command of an extensive inland navigation, and
rendered it accessible to foreign vessels, Whitby, Hartle-
pool, and other places on the east coast, are spoken of as
possessing vessels; and Berwick as a noble town belonging
to the King of Scotland, and having more foreign com-
merce than any town in Scotland, and many ships.—
Capper's Port and Trade of London,
COMMERCE OF ENGLAND UNDER ALFRED THE
GREAT —lf Alfred did not establish England as a com-
mercial nation, he went far to lay a sound foundation for
Commerce. There is no doubt that he obtained geographi-
cal irformation respecting the Baltic and White Seas. He
also made great improvements in ship-building, and in the
lence of navigation ; end one of his laws shows that he
had due respect for foreigners arriving in England, for he
made regulations for their protection. In a succeeding
reign King Athelstan allured his s ibjects to engage in
commerce, by a law which conferred the rank of Thane on
every merchant who made three voyages over the sea with
a vessel and cargo of his own; but the greatness of this
reward would seem to indicate how few there were in the
kingdom who were eapnble at that time of acquiring it; for
it has been Well observed that "if many English merchants
had traded to foreign countries, or if many of them had
beFn capable of fitting out and loading vessels. this attempt
ofL Al htlstan to induce his subjects to avail themselves of
the natural advantages of their insular situation, would
have been neither necessary nor proper.'',--capPWB .fort
Ctna Trade of Lme".