The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-15 00:00:00

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
There is a stea3y demand for money to-day, a

preN ioui rates.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market, yesterday, the
transactions were again of a rather limited cha-
racter, and prices were steady. The sales were
6,000 halos.

At a meeting, to-day, of the Union Bank of
London, the directors declared a dividend of 12s.
Per'sh:lre, clear of Income-tax, for the six months
ending 31st D..:cember last.
At a meeting, held to-day, of the shareholders in
tie Bank of London a dividend of £6 per cent., free
of income tax, was unanimously agreed to.
A meeting also took place to-day of the proprie-
tors of the London and Westminster Bank, Alder.
!nen Salornons in the chair. A dividend was de-
clared at the rate of six per cont. per annum, and,
by way of further dividend out of the profits, a
bonus of nine:per cent. upon the paid-up capital.
A large quantity of rcliatal gold, viz , £125,000,
was taken into the. Bank of England yesterday.
The Foreign Exchates yesterday afternoon
were again generally rather lower.
Gold is now of about equal value in Paris and in
London, but it is about 7-10ths per cent. cheaper
here than in Hamburg.
A meeting of the English creditors of Messrs.
Froom, Gregory, and Co., merchants at St.. Peter-
sburg, was held to-day. Mr. Lloyd, of the firm of
Lloyd, Fisher, and Co., was in the chair, and
Messrs. Cooper Brothers were the accountants.
It was stated that certain English creditors had
threatened to takelegal proceedings against the firm,
and this meeting had been convened at the instance
of the debtors, to authorise an efficient accountant
to be despatched to St. Petersburg to investigate
their books and affairs. The suspension had taken
place in consequence of a speculation in tallow, the
value of which had been falsely represented,
and consequently resulted most unfavourably.
The firm was supposed to be solvent,
as their estate was considered to be worth about
£206,000, while the liabilities amounted to £200,000.
The amount owed to English creditors is £BO,OOO.
Resolutions were adopted appointing a committee
to send out to Russia an efficient accountant, and
to prepare a statement of accounts for a future
/fleeting.
The tendency of prices in the English Stock
Market this morning was rather unfavourable,
Consols having receded to 93 93k for transfer, and
to 93-k 4for the account. Speculation is quiet, and
the market is dull as well as rather heavy. The
New Threes and the Reduced are flat at 921 93;
Bank Stock remains at 239 and 241 ; India ditto
225 ; the 5 per Cent. is 1051 1061; Exchequer Bills,
March, receded to los. and 17s. prem.; and ditto
'June, 184. to 20s. prem.
Foreign Securities have shown continued firmness,
and a fair amount of business has taken place.
Turkish 6 per Cents.
are 821 ; do., 1858, 721 73;
do. £lOO Bonds have improved to 75, Mexican to
281 t-; Spanish are firm at 52 ; do. D2ferred have
advanced to 42,-, the Certificates to 62 7, and Vene-
zuelan to 231. The Moorish Loan is 4to 5 prem.
Business in the Railway Share Market continues
very dull, but a slight improvement has taken place
in prices. Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North
Eastern (York) have improved 53.; and Great Wes-
tern, Brighton, and Midlands, Ms. North British,
however, have declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
remained without material variation. Dutch
Rhenish realise 15Z-; and San Francisco, 151; East
Indian have declined to 1011.
Lint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
remained inactive at about previous rates.

BRITISH FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock .............. 239 41
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitie5,............ 93 21 i 3
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93/ $ 3
New 3 per Cent. Annuities. 921 ;3 21 3
Ar,i,u:ties, 30 yrs, expire •iith Jan., 1880
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 15 7-16
925 4 6
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
1061 6 i 5:1 G
Ditto &faced Paper, 4 per Cent B6l 7
Ditto 5 p
100 991
er Cent
Ditto 5R` per Cent ........ •
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1,43 Ditto ditto April, 1864 9fq
Di -',-, Bonds L'l,ooo-
Consols for Account, Feb. 6 ........ 1
India
Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
1
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.. June.
. March. .
17 pin 1 20
Ditto £5OO ...... 15 pm ilB
Ditto Small .................
R . ! 21
FOEIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICIB
ES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 1813
. Ditto .41 per Cent ............
, 1860 .............. 911
Mexican, 3 per Cent .................. 281 1 1
Ditto Account .................... .. 281
Peruvian 41 per Cent ................... --
Ditto Ditto 3 per Cent ....................
Account ...................... 84
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ 5t.......... 99
Ditto 41 per Cent. ................. 921
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 ................ 591 1
Spanish 3 per Cent ..................... 52 /
Ditto Account ...................... 521
Ditto Nev Deferred .................. 42$
t)itto Account ..................... 421
Ditto Passive ..................... 171 17
TSpanish Cert. of Coup. not fund ed ...... 61 7 64
urkish 6 per Cent. .................... 82+
DI )itto Account ...................... 82$
Diitto New Loan .................... 72$ I'l
tto Account ................... „ . 721 31
Ditto £lO9 Bonds' .................. 751 5
Venezielan 3 per Cent ................
Ditto Account ...................... 231 3
D:vidends on the above payable in London.
Duittotc Ce rh 2,',: per Cent
~ Exchange 12
.Guil...
3/tificates. 4 per Cent... .... .
63$
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 ..... ... . 101+
...
.......
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s. 871
THREE O'CLOCK.
Console, Money
Ditto Account .................... 93
................. 937 1 I
............—__

THIS DAY'S 31.41LEETS.

the arrivals of English wheat fresh up to this morning's
market were very small, yet the trade for all kinds was
very dull, at fully Monday's decline in the quotations of 2s
per quarter.
With foreign wheat we were well su
scri ptions pplied, and all de-
moved off heavily at fully the late reduction in
prices of 2s per quarter.
Floating cargoes of grain were dull, and the currencies
had a drooping tendency.
Malting barley supported former terms. Grinding and
distilling sorts were a heavy sale.
Malt waain slow request at late rates.
There was a fair amount of firmness in the market for
oats, and no change took place in their value.
Beans and peas changed hands slowly at barely late
quotations.
The flour trade was dull, at, in some instances, a further
reduction in prices, compared with Monday.
Owing to a somewhat extensive supply of foreign hops
on sale, our market is dull, and only tine new English
samples support previous rates.

ARRIVALS THIS '77IIEX.
Wheat. Barley. Malt Oat& Flour.
• • 430 310 1 100 1 1220 sacks.
Irish.. .....
3,950 I
I'oreign .... • • 23,270 • 9,340 5,660 4 aka'
41,090 brls.

WHITECHAPEL.
Supplies of meat are large, and the trade rules heavy.
Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d veal, 3s
8d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 8d per Blbs. by the car-
case.

THE NOTTINGHAM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—
On Monday an important meeting of the Nottinh
Chamber of Commerce was held in the
committee-roogmam at
the Corn Exchange—Me. S. Adams in the chair. The
annual report was therLread, from Which it appeared that
the Chamber had memorialised the Right Hon. T. M. Gib-
ann, President of the Board of Trade, on the subject of the
Belgian and French treaty. They regretted that the Bel-
gian Legislature had concluded its sittings without having
entertained the claims of the United Kingdom to be placed,
by a commercial treaty for the admission of the products
and manufactures of Great Britain, upon the same footing
as Prance and other more favoured nations, believing that
the true interests of both Belgium and the United Xing-
Chtinni would be greatly advanced by the recognition and
atinn of a liberal commercial tariff. In reply to the
Imbar, the Board of Trade assured them that no oppor-
tinitY Of forwarding the views of the me , orialists should
n emitted, and that her Majesty's Government were in
t.ertinicatien with the &lien Government on the sub-
ct.
,Another memorial had been forwarded to the Right
elert
~ • Lord Stanley of Alderley, Postmaster-General, in re-_
~,'"rence to the high rates of postage b. tween England and
-e rae
ce, and Praying for a reduction. A letter (the memo-
ri,_e_l. etated) might be sent to the remotest part of the United
;:nChartedOdor if only sent from Dover to Calais., The recent
t:nracrcial treaty entered into between England and
se.:e had largely increased the business between, the
he:u4.tries, and had rendered it still more desirable that
linnPeditnent to increasing transactions as a heavy
e °f postage should be removed as early as possible.