The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-18 00:00:00

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts,
for the past week, are of a less satisfactory charac-
ter, Owing to the prevalence of unfavourable
Weather, and the effect it may have on harvest pro-
spects. The woollen trade of Leeds, however, has
been steady, and owing to the smallness of stocks
on hand manufacturers generally are well employed.
Cloths and yarns at Manchester have fully sustained
previous prices. The hosiery and lace trades of
Leicester and Nottingham have remained without
material variation. In the hardware districts, viz.,
at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton busi-
ness generally has continued inactive.
The Tasmanian, for the West Indies, has taken out
£421,800 in gold, chiefly on account of the Peru-
vian Loan.

An ad interim dividend, at the rate of 10 per
cent., has been declared by the directors of the
Agra and United Service Bank, for the half-year
ending 30th June last.
The directors of the Chartered Mercantile Bank
of India, London, and China have announced a di-
.videned of 5 per cent. for the past six months.
The half-yearly meeting of the Oriental Inland
Steam Company will take place on the 28th inst.
The directors of the St. John del Rey Mining
Company (limited) have received, by a duplicate
telegram from Lisbon, the following report, dated
Morro Velho, July, 1862 :•—Produce for June,
43,660 oitavas ; cost for do., £9,315 ; profit for do.,
£7,154. Produce (11 days of July), 14,823 oit. ;
yield, 7,115 oit. per ton.
The Money Market continues firm and active.
Tull rates are asked by the joint-stock and private
'establishments for all the securities presented to
Them for negotiation, and the Bank of England
authorities are obtaining a very large share of the
bills now brought forward. There is still an idea in
aornl3 quarters that an early advance will take place
in the value of money, but the future tendency of
'affairs will greatly depend upon the extent to which
-the shipments of specie on account of recent foreign
loans may be neutralised by arrivals from Victoria,
and results of the harvest. A large supply of
Australian gold, viz , £318,460, bas just come in,
and it is also satisfactory to be able to record an
improvement in the weather, which, if continued,
will exercise a very favourable influence upon the
yield of cereal ptoducts.
There was a meeting to-day of the proprietors of
the Bank of Australasia, at which it was stated,
that the directors continue to receive from the
attperint mdent and managers satisfactory accounts
of the current transactions of the Bank. They have
also the pleasure to state that the indications of
active ant,l healthy progress in the general condition
'of the Austealian Colonies, to which they alluded in
'their last report, were becoming more apparent.
Trade was improving ; and although the price of
Wool has fallen, better rates were being obtained for
other kinds of colonial produce_ The yield of gold
from alluvial diggings had declined, partly owing
to the difficulty of procuring water, Quartz mining
Ivan being prosecuted with success ; and the dis-
coveries which were taking place of fresh gold fields,
especially in New South Wales, tend to confirm the
opinions entertained of the richness and extent of
the mineral resources of Australia. The directors
have now only to declare their intention of paying
4::_n the 14th of October, the same dividend and
"clans as for the half-year at April, being together,
at the rate of 121 per Cent. per annum, free of
income-tax. The chair was occupied by Mr. Hen-
eraoti, who, after a few preliminary and congratu-
latory remarks upon the progress and prosperity of
the bank, stated that an establishment bad been
erected a t the Forbes station, in the Sydney district,
forbeen npenod during the past six months. The coma
,13.ctereial and pastoral interests of the whole Austra-
4an colonies were in a very thriving state, and al-
though the price of wool in this country had con-
algerably— fallen in value, the increased prices in other
ec)retnedities would, it was thought, compensate for
the
losses in the former mentioned staple. The two
bills viz., the Land and Emigration—recently
passed by the Legislature of Victoria would, it was
-Considered, render material services to the colony,
by
Riving greater encouragement to emigration and
flaking the tenure of land more easily accessible
and satisfactory. The report was unanimously
adopted, and a vote of thanks passed to the
directors.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
*Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93 2/ 3k
a per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 93 21 31
Nei.. 'IA per Cent. Annuities 76!
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., ,880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 lsi
Red Sea Telegraph, 1908 . "
India Stock .. .. ....................
Ditto 5 per Cent. .... . ..
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4. . •per . *********
4
1081 WI
Cent, * 93 4
Ditto 5 per Cent. ...... ... . ...
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct: ii 4.
ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 101 1001.
Ditto
Cons,)ls for _Account, Sept. 4 ..... .
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent
Ditto £5OO ......... 20
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent ...... 102
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ........ 931
P'Yptian, 7 per Cent., Scrip
Ditto Paid-up Scrip
New Grenall„ 2 per Cent
Peruvian 41 per Cent
Ditto ('TJribarren), 41 per Cent.
rortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
"Rsian 5 per Cent 1822 £ St
Ditto 41 per Cent
Ditto 3 pet Gent., 1859
..
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 (Scrip)
931 3
Ditto, Paid up Scrip
Spanish 3 per Cent lBk
TDitto Passive.. , ..........
. urkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
Nitto 6 per Cent. 1858 -0 694 70 /
th) Account
72 _
Ditto, £lOO Bonds -,i
3,2,, i
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862, Scrip ',l,-,. 11 5± 4/
Venezuela,
Paid up Scrip ......... T 5 14 2
3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
talian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. ...... 70t I i 70
.....
THREE O'CLOCK
°°,ll;4olg, Money
Di}, Account 93 k

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Only a small amount of business has been trans-
4eted in the Market for Public Securities to-day,
ePecubition having been further curtailed, while the
°Perationsof inves,',ors have been very limited. The
tendency of prices continue unfavourable, although
he actual movement has been unimportant, Consols
being about 93 for money, and 938 for the account.
SS-2
New Threes and the Reduced Annuities are
94; and Indian ,5 per Cent., 1088108-'; Bank
—tc'ek is 240 ; and the Red Sea Telegraph An-
uit y has been dealt in at 21i.
glhe most conspicuous movement in Foreign
'euriti es is the continued decline in Turkish
/teleks t he 6 per Cet2ts., 1854, are 821 83E; ditto
868, 69 ; 'Q ; ditto New Loa Scrip 3 21 die. ; and

the Internal Debt is quoted 32i 1. Egyptian paid-
up Scrip is 941, 95; Brazilian 41 per Cents. are
932; Peruvian 42 per Cents., 97; Russian 3 per
Cents., 59; ; ditto New Loan Scrip, 2T dis. to par;
and Venezuelan, 251.

The Portuguese Loan is 2k prem.; the Vene-
zuelan, par -I prem. ; and the Peruvian 14 to 1 dis.
In the Railway Share Market there has not
been much animation, prices, however, exhibited a
slight upward tendency. Great Westerns have
advanced £l, and Lancashire and Yorkshire, Mid-
lands, and South Easterns ss. ; Great Easterns
however, have declined 15s. ;-Great Northerns £l.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings quota-
tions have remained steady. South Austrian and
Lombardo-Venetian realise 22k ; Turin and Savona,
24 ; East Indian are firm at 105 ; Bombay and
Baroda, at 1014 102 ; Great Indian Peninsula, at
1021 ; and Madras 5 per Cents., at 101! 102.
Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
continued in moderate demand. London and South
African realise 154 ; London and County, 36f ;
Union of London, 30k 31 ; Peel River Land, 521;
and Crystal Palace Debentures declined to 109 and
1090 1091.