The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-01 00:00:00

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CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The City, to-day, presents the appearance of a
partial holiday. The transfer offices at the Bank
of England being closed, as usual on the Ist of May,
for the purpose of adjusting the half-yearly accounts,
the Stock. Exchange is shut, and the opening of the
International Exhibition has induced the authorities
in Mincing-lane to close their respective markets,
while in the other departments of business opera-
tie,ns are reduced to a minimum.
Gold, to the extent of £40,000, was withdrawn
from the Bank of England yesterday for expor-
tation.

The Money Market today is easy and quiet, not-
-withstanding the large amount paid yesterday on
account of the Turkish Loan. Holders of the
security availed themselves to a considerable extent
of the privilege to pay up in full, in order to secure
the 6 per cent. discount allowed, and the total
amount thus subscribed has already reached
1.2,700,00.

Wednesday next has been fixed for a special settle-
ment in the New Egyptian Scrip, which is to be
marked in the official lists.

Notice has been given that £1,495 6s. 3d. has
been received on account of the New Granadian
Dividends.

The amount of the Now Turkish Stock paid up in
full yesterday was £2,700,000.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday pre-
sented a quiet appearance, and 5,000 bales were
sold, of which 500 were for export and speculation,
at rather irregular prices.

The first annual meeting of the London and
South African Bank took place to-day. Mr. J. R.
Thompson in the chair. The report stated that
business began at Cape Town on the 11th of June,
and at Port Elizabeth on the 19th September. Since
that time a branch has been opened at Graham's
Town, under the management of Mr. Henry Ander-
son ; and arrangements are being made for others
at Natal. In placing before the proprietors the
audited accounts to 31st December last, the direc-
tors have the satisfaction to state that there are
no bad or doubtful debts to provide for, and that
the net profits of the bank to that date amount to
£10,541 14s. 7d. The directors propose to write
off to credit of preliminary expense account
the sum of £1,608 65., being one-fifth of the
balance of that account; and to set apart, as the
basis of a reserve fund, £1,096 lls. 3da They also
recommend the declaration of a dividend of two
and a half per cent. on the paid-up capital, free
of income tax, carrying forward to new account,
the balance, £2,836 17s. 4d., less income tax on
the dividend now proposed. The chairman stated
that the seal of the Royal Charter was obtained
on the 17th November last, and arrangements
were previously made for the staff of officials to
leave England on the 6th May, 1861. The bank
only commenced business at Port Elizabeth in
September, so that the full time of its operations
did not embrace six months, and during that short
period the manager continued to report that the
establishment was making satisfactory progress.
The circulation of the bank on the 31st of De-
cember last amounted to .Elu,ooo, the deposits
to £52,000, and the discounts to £200,000. These
sums had subsequently increased, and the manager
stated that not a single bad account had been en-
tered in the books. A branch had been opened at
Graham's Town, and negotiations were in progress
for an establishment at Natal. The manager had
evinced the greatest activity in the interests of the
bank, and the directors had the greatest confidence
in his ability and zeal, and they now solicited the
shareholders to accord their thanks to that gentle-
man for his services. The report was adopted
-unanimously, and the dividend ordered to be paid
on the Bth inst. A shareholder considered the ex-
penses of the establishment too large for so small
an undertaking, and endeavoured to reduce the
number of directors by opposing the re-appointment
of those gentlemen who retired by rotation. The
amendment was, however, negatived by an over-
whelming majority, and the retiring directors
re-elected.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :--

1862. 1861.
North-Western £84,471 £83,139
South- Western

AAgiL9JnaM Lel 11.
;3,4§3 1§,63
Great Northern
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 14,231 16,703
North British 6,513 6,510
Great Western of Canada 10,614 11,167

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.
YES THADAY.

Bank Stock
3:per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities - 4 31 4
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92k 2 k
New 2+ per Cent. Annuities 7B
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 3-16 5-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent. mg 1
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent lo3a 3 1
Ditto 51 per Cent ..
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 100± i
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001
Dit(,, Bonds £l,000
Ditt, under £l,000
Consols for Accounts May 8 93/ 4
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent 2O 18 17
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Ditto
_Ditto Small

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FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Italian. 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway)
Ditto 'Scrip
Imperial Moorish Scrip 914
Xortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853.
Ditto Account 46
_Russian s.per Cent 1822, £ St 96f 5f 7
.Ditto ‘.; per Cent. 1859 .. 60k
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 534

Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. BOl f
Ditto 6 per Cent, 1858
Ditto Account

Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 1862 (Scrip) 2l i f
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 6Bl 1

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

CALLS TO THE BAR, LINCOLN'-INN.—The under-
mentioned were yesterday called to the degree of barrister-
t-law by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, viz. :—Her-
bort Hardy Cozens-Hardy, Esq., 8.A., London (holder of
he. Studentship of Hilary Term, 1862) ; Charles Henry
Prance, Esq., M.A., Oxford; Edward Alfred Hadley, Esq.,
M,A., Cambridge; Frederick Tomkins, Esq., M.A., Lon-
don, and D.C.L., Heidelberg ; Alan Cameron Bruce, Esq.,
M.A., Oxford ; Charles Oliver Frederick Cater, Esq., 8.A.,
Cambridge; Robert Dobie Wilson, Esq., M.A., Oxford ;
Walter Baily, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge; Edward Campbell
Browning, Esq., 8.A., Oxford ; Francis Phipps Onslow,
Esq., 8.A., Oxford; and Robert Wilmot Bradshaw, Esq.,
8.A., Oxford.
INNER TEMPLE.—The undermentioned gentle-
men were yesterday called to the bar by the HISn. Society
of the Inner Temple :—John Harrison, Esq., M.A., George
Follett, Esq.; M.A., George Emerson, Esq., M.A,, Wm.
Waldron Ravenhill, Esq., M.A., John Charles Bethune,
Esq., LL.B., Horace Smith, Esq., 8.A., Charles Evans
Newbon, Esq., 8.A., Marmaduke Wm. Whitaker, Esq.,
8.A., Charles Simpson Samuell, Esq., Richard Lewis,
Esq., Wm. Robert M'Connell, Esq., 8.A., John Edmund
Wentworth Addison, Esq., 8.A., Thos. William Fletcher,
Esq., M.A., and Montagu Stephen Williams, Esq.
CAPTAIN ROBERTSON'S RETURN TO THE CUR-
RAGHT.—Captain Robertson arrived at the Curragh on
Monday and resumed the command of his troop. His re-
ception by the men was most enthusiastic. On making his
appearance to take the command three hearty cheers evinced
the estimation in which he is held by the men of his regi-
ment. It is said that they would have drawn his carriage
from the Newbridge station had they known of his arrival.
THE CORONERSHIP FOR MIDDLESEX.—The
Bench of Middlesex magistrates having resolved that a
petition be presented to her Majesty in Council, praying
that the Western division of the county may be divided
into two districts as to the office of coroner,Mr. Humphreys,
the coroner for the Eastern division, has protested against
such division, and claims the right, in the event of the death
,or resignation of Mr. Wakley, to be coroner for the Western
division, as he is elected a coroner for the county, and can
act as such, either in the Eastern division or the• Western
division, as he has done on many occasions. Mr. Wakley's
fixed salary is £l,BOO a-year, Mr. Humphreys', £1,500.
Mr. Humphreys' protest was to be put in writing, and
referred to the Committee of Accounts and General
purposes.

SEVERE) BUT WITTY.—A barrister who was re-
markable for corning into court with dirty hands, observed
that he had been turning over Coke. " Coke 1" exclaimed
a ,waggish brother, "I should have thought it was coal i"

MONEY MARKET. SHARE MARKET-YESTERDAY.

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOLAS.

Share Railways. ! Paid.! Closing) Business
I 1 I Price. I done.
13.14 ,Ilir., Wol.. and Str. Val. all I 71 8
10 Ilost.,Sleat.,andMid.eo all 6 7
at 'Bristol and Exeter lOO 91 93 92 11
I
st .Caledonian
50 Cork' and Bandon lO9 1091 1094 1091 1
all
20 Cornwall
10 Do A 1.4 gets no div 1 all 6 61
all
10 Do. B tlll6p c.p an. has i all ..
. been paid to B. /
50 Dublin & Belfast Junc. all 41 43
25 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc all 10 11
st East Anglian lOO 22 23
at Eastern Counties lOO 58 59 541 I i
at Eastern Union, A stock 100 58 60
st Do Bdo do 100 33 40
st East Suffolk
at Edinburgh & Glasgow lOO j 90 92
at Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 I 304 311
at Glasg. and S. Western. 100 ' 102 100
10 GreatNrthn.of Scotland all 140 145
at Great Northern lOO 115 116 1154 16
st Do A stock lOO ;113 114
at Do Bdo
at . Gt. S. and W. of Ireland 100 1049 1054
at Great Western
at Do Str Val gua. stock 100 55 57
at Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 1071 108 1071 4 4
at London and Blackwall 100 58 59 504.1
at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 121 123 1221
at Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 44 45 454
at Lon. & North Western AOO 941 65 954 1 1
at Lon. & South Western 100 991 1001 1101 100
25 L'derry & Enniskillen. all 9 12
at Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 100 42/ 43 43
50 Maryport and Carlisle. all
124 Do 1 shares all
10 Iretropolifan all 9 94 94 9
at Midland
6.4.0 Do New
at Do Birming. & Derby 100 98 100
50 Mid Gt. W. of Ireland' all
25 Do. 1 shares ..... t.. all
25 Mid Kent
10 Do Cray Line
100 Newcastle and Carlisle! all
at Norfolk 1 100 67 69
at North British I 100 ; 621 63 63 1 i
at Nor.Dev.Flail&Dk.stock 100
at Do A stk ; A recs no dl
till 6 pc. has been pdß 100 ,
at Do B stock lOO
at Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 97 074 97 4
25 Do, G.N.E. purchase;l6.l3.4 45 d d
at Do Leeds ' 100 554 s 5/
st Do York
at North London , 100 100 102
10 Do new I 5 p Om
f. 16.4 North Staffordshire
10 N. and S. W. Junction all 104 114 121 1
at Scottish Central
at Scot. N. E., Aber. stock 100 48 49
st Do Solt. Mid. stock lOO 106 108
10 Shrews, and Welchpool all
at Shropshire Union .. 100 46 47
at South Devon lOO 33 38
25 S. Durham & Lane. Un all -
at South Eastern
at South Wales
at S. York. and River Dun 100 99 101
20 Staines,Wok.,andWok i all 6 7 64
25 Stockton & Darlington all 374 38/
25 Do l3 8/ 91 I.
25 Do New, 1860 6 6 64 p
st .Taff Vale.
at Do Pref. No. 1 1 100 '
50 Ulster I all 551 564
25 Do
2-10 Do
at Vale of Neath
st Victoria sta. and Pim lOO 130 135
at Waterford & KiLkenny, 100
20 West Cornwall all 61 64
20 West London
10 Do Ist class
20 Do 2d class all
st W. Hartlepool Har.&R lOO
st West Midland Oxford 100 46 48
st Do Newport 100 43 45
st Do Hereford 100 , 87 89
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