The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-26 00:00:00

V.'

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NE WS-SKI URDAY.

The fortnightly settlement in shares and foreign
stocks will commence on -Wednesday (" continua-
tion" day) and terminate on Friday.
The coupons due the Ist September on the first
issue of the Egyptian Government Loan, as well as
the bonds drawn for redemption, are notified for
payment in tine course.
About £17,000 in gold was bought by the Bank
to day. £200,000 out of the recent arrivals has
been taken for transmission to Peru. _ _

The wheat market to-day was heavy, and prices
were quoted ls. to 2s. per qr. lower than on last
Monday.
The Liverpool cotton market to-day was again
dearer, with sales to the extent of 10,000 bales.
On and after Sept. 30 holders of East India Bonds
will be allowed, on bringing them to the Bank of
England, to exchange them for new bonds, with
coupons attached, of the same denominations, and
carrying the same rate of interest as the existing
bonds, namely, 41 per cent., subject to a reduction
to 4 per cent. on March 31, 1863.

Messrs. Dent, Palmer, and Co. have announced
that they " are instructed by the South Carolina
Railroad Company to pay a portion of the coupons
which became due Ist ult., and are informed that
arrangements have been made for payment of the
remaining portion in Charleston."

The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of £252, and the South-Eastern
an increase of £1,229.

A dividend of 53. per share is to be payable on
the shares in the Van Diemen's Land Company on
Sept. 16.

A meeting of Price's Patent Candle Company is
called for the 9th October, to declare a half-yearly
dividend.

The specie to be taken by the outward bound
Bombay mail steamer Massilia on Wednesday
amounts to £376,050, of which £2,550 in gold is for
Alexandria, £5OO in gold for Aden, and £15,600 in
gold and £357,400 in silver for Bombay.
About £250,000 of Russian gold is expected to
arrive at Hull on Wednesday.

CITY NEWS-THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The operations in the Foreign and Colonial Pro-
duce Markets during the last few days have been
of a more active character. Sugars were dealt in
to some extent, at a slight advance. For coffee
there was a fair demand, and superior descriptions
fully maintained previous prices. Rice, cocoa, and
fruit exhibited no material change in value, but
tallow continued dull, and was rather cheaper, ow-
ing to a pressure of speculative .sales, P.Y.C. on
the spot being quoted 48s. 3d., and last three
months, 495. 3d. to 495. 6d. per cwt.
The Massilia, which leaves on the 27th inst. with
the Bombay mail, will take out £376,350 in specie.

There is an increase of £252 in the traffic re-
ceipts of the Brighton Railway, and of £1,229 on
the South Eastern, for the past week.
The Dutch Rhenish Railway Company's receipts
for the fortnight ending August 15th, 1862,
amounted to £10,747 13s. 80., and for the corre-
sponding period of last year to £10,013 4s. ;
showing an increase of £731 9s. in favour of the
present year.

Two o'CLocK.

The Money Market to-day is a little firmer, and
2 per cent. is the lowest charge for first-class bills.
There is, however, an abundant supply of capital,
and the general appearance of affairs denotes ex-
treme easiness.

Speculations at the Stock Exchange continues
exceedingly quiet, the only securities in which
there is any animation being Turkish, Egyptian,
Italian, and a few of the principal railway shares.
The Funds are particularly dull, but, upon the
whole, they are Well maintained, being favourably
influenced by the uninterrupted brilliancy of the
weather, the satisfactory progress of the harvest,
and the easiness of money. Consols are 938 I for
transfer, 931, for the account, showing a decline of
about t. per cent., as compared with the prices cur-
rent yesterday afternoon. The New Threes and
the Reduced are steady at 931 ; Exchequer Bills
at 18s. to 21s. prern. ; India 5 per Cents. remain
at 108 a ; and Red Sea Telegraph Annuities are
211, being without alteration.

In the Foreign Market the dealings have been
rather restricted, and prices show no important
variation. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are flat at
842 851; ditto, 1858, 711 ; ditto New Loan Scrip
is 1 u dis. ; and the Consolides are 33 ; Egyp-
tian Scrip, £75 paid up, is 131 prem. ; ditto, 2d
issue, 120 paid, 101 prem.; Mexican Stock has risen
to 291 a ; Aroorish are 931 94 ; Portuguese New
Scrip is 22 prem. ; Russian paid-up Scrip, 931 ;
and Sardinian have receded to 82.

A fair amount of business has been transacted in
the Railway Share Market, and a slight advance
has taken place in prices owing to the continuance
of fine weather. North Westerns and South
Westerns have improved 55., and Lancashire and
Yorkshire and Midlands 10s.; Great Eastern, South
Eastern, North Eastern (Berwick), and one or two
others remained at about previous rates.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings continued
in moderate request. Recife and San Francisco
improved to 181 181 ; and Great Luxembourg
brought 141. Bombay and Baroda have improved
to 1011, 102, and Great Western of Canada to 131 a.
-
East India remain at 105, Madras 5 per Cents. at
102, and Great Northern of India at 102 and 1021.

Joint•stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
been in good demand. London and South African
realise 191; Metropolitan and Provincial, 91 ;
Ottoman Bank, 29; Bank of Egypt, 23; and
Alliance of London and Liverpool, 11k. Electric
Telegraph have declined to 1011; Royal Mail
Steam, to 55; and English and Australian Copper
to 2.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK,
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities o3t g
Red Sea Telegraph, 1908
India Stock

Ditto 6 per C0nt..... lOB/ a
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 93/
Ditto 51 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100/
aft() Bonds £l,OOO
Consols for Account, Sept. 4..
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent ~
Ditto £SOO
tiff() Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41 per Cent.. 1852.58-60
Egyptian, 7 per Cent., Scrip
Ditto Paid-up Scrip
Ditto, Second Issue, £2O pd
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account ..
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent, 931 4
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. —
Ditto Account
Ditto Scrip, £lO pd .... 21
~i9sihn 5 per Cent 1822 £ St ..
Ditto 3 pet Cent., 1859
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 931 a
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
SpTnish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
.Ditto 6 per Gent. 1858 ..
Ditto Account 7la
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862, Scrip, £lO pd 1
Ditto, Paid up Scrip ....
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French lientes, 3 per Cent,, Ex. 25f.
Con-;o1s TWO O'C LOC K, Afoney ......
Ditto Account ........... '.** • • • 93

SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM During the
week ending August 23, the visitors have as follows :
Oa
,nn, Monday,to w p rn,Tuesday,33,s9 7a n; do
n Saturday,
e d
ne
s dfraye ,
lalus,respden from
10 d
Friday, students' days (admission. to the public 6da)y, an
open
from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., 6,087 ; total, 39,684. From the
opening of the Museum, 3,155,191.
THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—SeveraI boats en-
gaged in the North Sea herring fishery have arrived at
Great Yarmouth with from three to five lasts of herrings
each. Prices have ranged at from l 4 to £2O per last
(13,200 fish). The fishery can be scarcely said to have yet
generally commenced.
The cause of M. Horace Vernet's illness is said to
be the following :—Some years ago he fell from his horse
and broke a rib, which was badly set, and a fresh fall which
he had a few weeks ago broke the same rib, and brought on
a painful and alarming tumour. Dr. Jobert de Lamballe
was obliged to perform an operation, which appears to have
succeeded, and 448 le4 t 9 an improyennut.