The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-30 00:00:00

MONEY _MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
There is a steady demand for discount accommo-
dation, and the rates remain unchanged. The
minimum of the Bank of England is maintained at
22 per cent., although choice bill are negotiated
elsewhere at 2 per cent. •
About £13,000 in gold was withdrawn from the
Bank of England yesterday.
The Tyne has arrived at Lisbon with the
Brazilian mails and £14,000 in specie for this
country.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market, yesterday, a fair
amount of business took place, and prices tended
upwards. The sales were 8,000 bales.
At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. G. J.
Calvert and Co., iron founders, of York, the '
liabilities were stated to be £52,105 7s. lid., and
the assets £16,619 15s. 6d,, showing a deficiency
of £35,485 12s. sd. After some discussion it was
resolved to accept an assignment to Messrs. W.
Roden, of the Shelton Iron Bar Company, and Mr.
J. Whithatn, of Leeds, under the new Bankruptcy
Act.

The revenue account of the Dutch Rhenish Rail-
way for the six months ending 31st October last,
shows that the traffic receipts were £110,955, and
the rents £2,616, making a total of £113,571. The
working expenses for the same period were £38,474
12s. ld. ; the interest on Bonds £18,957 12s. 6d. ;
and £52,083 Os. Bd. to the payment of a dividend
of 10s. Bd. per share, which will leave a balance of
£4,056 to be carried forward.
A highly influential meeting took place to day
for the purpose of forming a British North Ameri-

can Association. Mr. R. AV. Crawford, M.P., in the
chair. The following resolution, which embraces
the objects of the association was proposed by Sir
James Fergusson, M, P., seconded by the Hon.
Arthur Kin naird, M.P., and carried unanimously :
" That this meeting having carefully considered the
growing importance of B itish North America, the extent of
the British interests involved, and the desirability for Im.•
perial reasons of drawing closer the relations between the
northern country and provinces, it is of opinion that a
British North American Association should be formed,
having the following principal objects in view, viz., the
dissemination of official information regarding the material
resources of the British N,,rth American provinces, in
respect to the employment of capital and labour, the collec-
tion and placing in available forms, for the use of the mem-
bers, the general statistics of the provinces, not only con-
eerning the development of their commerce, but also as
recording the progress of the arts and sciences, and of their
social and political condition, and that it be called the
British North American Association."

The market for Public Securities opened quietly
at the reduced prices current on the preceding
afternoon, and no alteration has since oceurred,
Consols being 921 for money and account. Busi-
ness is very dull, owing to the extreme apathy
shown by the investing public as well as by the
speculators, The New Threes and the Reduced
are steady at 92;1- 1. Exchequer Bills, March, at
16s. to 19s. prem. ; ditto June, 19s. to 225. prem. ;
Bank Stock has receded to 239 and 242 ; India
ditto to 224; and ditto 5 per Cent. remains at
1051 1061.
The transactions in the Foreign Market have
been of a rather extensive character, and prices
show continued buoyancy. Mexican have again
been actively dealt in at 321 to 331, the latest price
being 321 331, Spanish have improved to 53! 3,
ditto Certificates to 61 and 71, Venezuelan to 241
and Italian to 643 65 ; Turkish 6 per Cents. are 84
to Rai
; ditto, 1858, 741 to ; and the Moorish
Loan is 53 prem.

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The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :
1862. 1861.
North-Western
Great Western •.£41,425 £41,857
71,432 78,061
South-Western
Prighton
Midland h-Eastern
Great Northern 24,443 26,267
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter
Eastern Counties
,255
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
.., 1 223996 22,499
14,291
121
~
Great Southern and Western of Ireland 7141 7,
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Glasgow and South-Western
Gran Trunk of Canada .. 12,244
Great Western of Canada 12,769 8,638

These returns show a continued falling off in the
receipts of most of the principal undertakings. On
the Great Western there is a decrease of £432 ; on
the North-Western of £6,629 ; on the South-
Western of £147; on the Midland of £2,610; on
the South-Eastern of £1,020; on the Great
Northern of £1,824 ; on the Lancashire and York-
shire of £4,537 ; and on the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln of £1,125. The Brighton, however,
shows an increase of £1,208 ; the Eastern Counties
of £756 ; the Grand Trunk of Canada of £5,981 ;
and the Great Western of Canada of £4,126.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been limited, and chiefly confined to operations
connected with the liquidation. The unfavourable
nature of the traffic returns, however, on most of
the principal lines has caused a decided heavy tone
in values. Eastern Counties, Great Westerns, and
South-Easterns have declined sa. ; Caledonian,
South' Western, and, Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, 10s. ; and Lancashire and Yorkshire,
North-Westerns, and Midlands, £l.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were
dull, and exhibited little change of importance in
prices. Great Luxembourg realise 10 ; Sambre and
Meuse, 8 ; Southern of France, 28 ; Grand Trunk
of Canada, 21.:1 ; and Great Western of Canada,
11;4 a
For Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
the enquiries are limited. London and South
African remain steady at 104.1 ; Union of Australia,
at 401; Australian Agricultural have improved to
261; and the New Victoria 6 per Cent. Colonial
Securities are quoted 1034 104.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Dank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92a 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92a 1
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 9-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent lOOl 1/
Ditto 51 per Cent , , lo6±
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account, Feb. 6
March. 921{ 1 J
un3.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 22
Ditto £5OO ...... 19 21
Ditto Small l6 19 I 19
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
_ _

Brazilian 5 per Cent
iutto 41 per Cent, 1860
Buenos Avres 6 per Cent
Ditto Deferred, 1 per Cent. 32
Milian 6 per Cent
1
Ditto 41. per Cent
Greek - 8
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
New Grenada 2 per Cent
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St
Ditto 3 per Cent. 18:59 ... 60+ 60
'ardinian 5 per Cent.77l
Spanish 3 per Cent,
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert, of COlll3. n.ot funded
Turkish 6 per Cent..........
Ditto Account .............
'Venezuelan 3 per Cent ....
74a
..... 241
Ditto Account -
thvidends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2i Per Cent.,
Exchange 12 Gu11... 611
'nitto Certificates, 4 per Cent...; lOll
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861
THREE O'CLOCK.
921
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

TME PRINCE CONSOET MEMORIAL FUND,—The
Lord Mayas' of London having invited the Mayor of Windsor
te-operate th the metropolitan committee for the purpose
of furthering the erection of a national memorial to the late
Prince Consort, a meeting was held at the Guildhall in that
town yesterday, for the purpose of adopting the necessary
measures. A. series of resolutions for carrying out the ob.
Ject in view were adopted, and a sum of between £3OO and
100 was immediately subscribed.
RUMOURED CIIANGE of FASIIION.—A report
has hem current for some days, in well-informed circles,
that the preposterous framework of hoops and cages, which
has long,- been in use to extend female dregsdi to ex
dimensions, under the name of crinoline, is going out of
fa°llio in - •travvrant
n Parts. We sincerely trust that this rumour is
true. English society takes its tone from Parisian; and
good taste has too long been outraged by the social nui-
60eQ, not to say the social evil, crinoline.—Puitch.
The Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris, accompanied
by the whole of his clergy, paid a visit the day before yes-
terday to N, Cihgi, the Papal Nuncio.

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Iraid. I Leasing Closing Business
Railways. Co. s Price. Done.
Bedford and Bletchley all i I Ln.&N.W
Birkenhead., i 100 Dn.&G.W 84 86
Buckingh • m.A..nre.. I 100 Do.
Chester &II ,Iyhead.. 100 IDo s3i 54k
Do. slper cent 100 IDo 124 126
Do. 5 , 100 Do.
Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103
Colchester, Stour Val. 100 1E.U.&E.0
E. Lincolnsh. gApr c. 100 IGt.North. 13.5 138
E.Union,llarwichShs all I E,Counts. 41 4k
Do. Woodbridge.... 100 • • • •
Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drct. 100 ....Caledon
Do. new
Gloster &Dean Forest all Gt. West. .. ..
Hull and Selby all Yk.N. Mid 111 113
Do. halves
Do. quarters
Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.& N.W 201 204
Lon. and Chat. Ext. B
6 per cent
Do. Bromley, 6 per c. all Do. ... ... • • ••
London & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 62 64
Do. Preferen e
Lon.,Tilb.& S, -t3iend 100 Peto &Co B2 64
Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 'orfolk
Do 6 pier cent lOO Do.
hinc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& 31 •4
•41
Mid. Bradford Prefer-
ence stock
Newmarkt, BuryEx I 5. 5. 6. E Counts. * 3 p
gua. 5 per cent...
NorthnAEastn. 5 p.c. all Do.
Do. 6 per cent..... all Do.
Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do.
N. Eastn—Hartlepool 110 N. E. Ber .. ..
North Western
Preston and Wyre. { all
call.i,f I 44 46
Do. i shares A. all Do. ••• • ..
I .. ..
lloystn.Hitch.& Shep. 100 Gt. North. 134 137
Shrewsby & Hereford 100 T Brassey 120 122
Do. Do.
South Staffordshire
Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 91 93
Wimbledn t Croydon, all IL.&Brgtn 81 94