The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-10 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NEWS-YESTERDAY.

The half-yearly interest is announced on the shares
of the Riga•Dunaburg Railway Company.
About 70,000 sovereigns were taken from the
Bank today for transmission abroad, principally to
Portugal, on account, it is stated, of the recent loan.
There were no bullion operations.
The Edinburgh, from New York, has brought
£20,000 in specie.
The telegrams received from Vienna of the Bth
instant note a constant improvement in favour of
Austria in the exchange on London, which has re-
ceded to 123.35. The Five per Cent. Metalliques
are quoted at 72.20.
A call of £5 per share is announced on the shares
of the Bank of Hindustan, China, and Japan, pay-
able on or before the 4th November.

CITY NEWS-THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The Bank of England return completed to the
Sth of October is of a less favourable character, par-
ticularly as regards the bullion, and the reserve of
notes, which show a considerable diminution in
both instances. The other Securities have remained
without material change, while the Public and
Private Deposits also hay/4ot varied to any im-
portant extent. Subjoinia are the particulars:—
Active Circulation £21,369,525
Decrease .. .. 163,235

Bullion .. .. 16,548,156
Decrease • . • • 400,931
nest .. 3,647,845
Increase .. • • • • • • 5,333
Public Deposits .. 8,333,779
Decrease .. 153,055
Other Deposits.. 13,530,122
Decrease .. • • • • • • 65,215
Seven Day and other Bills .. 767,845
Decrease .. .. • • 64,446
Government Securities 1.1,252,556
No alteration
Other Securities .. 19,751,704
Decrease .. .. • • • • 39,617
Notes Unemployed .• 9,002,575
Decrease 363,670

There is no material change in the condition o
the money market to-day, the inquiries being
numerous and the quotations firm. The general
'PPearance of the Bank of England return, however,
has attracted attention in discount circles, and it
also seems to have rendered some of the discounters
less eager for the negotiation of business at the
current rates.
The guaranteed interest of 6 per cent. on the
Royal Danish Railway shares will be payable on
and after the 25t0 inst.
An extraordinary meeting of the East India Coal
Company has been called for the 30th inst. for the
purpose of authorising the directors to borrow
money, on mortgage or otherwise, for a sum not
ezceeding £25,000.
Notice has been given that all claims against the
South Sea Company are to be sent in without de-
lay.
Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets during the last few days has been rather
inactive. Tea at public sale sold slowly at about
previous rates. Sugars generally have been a
shade cheaper, but higher rates have been obtained
for coffee. Rice, fruit, and spices were in limited
request at about previous quotations. The tallow
market has been dull, and prices have slightly given
way for both present and forward delivery.

Two O'CLOCK.

"The Commercial Gas Company's half-yearly meet-
ing took place to-day—Mr. C. S. Butler, M.P., in
the ,chair. The balance-sheet presented to the
shareholders exhibited a clear profit for the half-
year of £16,000, which is an increase of £2,000
over the corresponding period of 1861. The direc-
tors in their report, which was unanimously agreed
to, proposed a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum for the six months.

Towards the close of business yesterday after-
noon the Funds dropped e per cent., and tt further
siolilar decline has taken place to-day, Consols
being now depressed at 9341 g for transfer, and at
931 84 for the 6th pros. This heaviness has resulted
from speculative sales partly based upon the Bank
of England return, which shows a reduction in the
buNion and a falling off in the reserve of notes. It
is generally imagined that a further adverse move-
ment will take place in the next two or three
returns, and the possibility of the money market
assuming, under the circumstances, a rather firmer
appearance has led to a little speculation for a fall.
The New Threes and Reduced are flat at 924 f-, ;
Exchequer Bills, June, 235. prem. ; ditto, March,
18s. prem. ; Bank Stock, 2361, ex div. ; India 5 per
Cent. Loan is heavy at 1081 1091.

In the Foreign Market the transactions have
been rather circumscribed, and prices in several
instances have shown a downward movement.
Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, 82,1 83 ex div. ; ditto,
1858, 681 ; ditto New Loan, 671 1; Mexican
Stock is firm at 331 34 ; Moorish 941; Egyptian
have declined to 89! ; ditto Scrip, £6O paid, 2d
issue, to 3 and 4 prem. ; Spanish Passive are steady
at 221 ; Venezuelan at 291 ; Dutch are 654 ; and
Italian are 73:. Turkish Consolides have been as
low as 371, but are now 37,1
In the Railway Share Market there has been
very little animation, and prices have not varied
to any important extent. Great Westerns, North
Westerns, and North Eastern (Berwick), have im-
proved 55., and Bristol and Exeter, 10s. ;7, Great
Easterns and Lancashire and Yorkshire have de-
clined 55., and Midlands 10s.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
Ares in one or two instances, rather firmer. Lon-
don and Brazilian have improved to 161; and Peel
River Land, 53.

Bank
stoILRITISH FUNDS—ONE 0'CL2036 e
CtK
3 pot. Cent. Reduced Annuities
Z div.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92/ i
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
'Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 101/
Ditty, Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO .
Consols for Account, Nov. 6

Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Ct. June. March.
18
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent
Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60
IB;ryptian, 7 per Cent., Scrip B9
Ditto, Second Issue, £4O pd
Dtpxican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent 94}
;ii,:ian 5 per Cent 1821 St .
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862, Scrip, £3218s pd. 11
Ditto Paid up Scrip
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive.. ,
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 -
Ditto Account
Ltitto 6 per Cent. 1858 • •
Ditto Account
Ditto, Paid up Scrip
Venezuela, per Cent...: —
Ditto Account ... .
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2L per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. .. —
Ditto Account

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—SHIELDS, MONDAY.
extra-
ordinary suicide
deal of excitement has been caused by the
of a young man named Thomas Reed, a
chemist,
belonging to South Shields, which took place yes-
terday. The unfortunate man took
part of the town, and, aftere giving
pulled asmall boat at the low
the man to whom the
boat belonged a shilling, h
the stream, and then shouted—,,Good
0 out into the middle of
and,
whd.lbye." He took the
boat over the bar out to sea,
water, he was observed by some men ine twelve fathoms
and
tie in
them
the steamboat
Goliah to pull off his clothes
up into a
bundle. He then placed the oars in an orderly erlmanner,
and stuck up the boat •hook, with his handkerchief
mast high, as if for mourning. H
steam-
boat He shouted to the half
men, whose suspicions that there was something
wrong
with him had been aroused, and they were making
towards
him -with their boat. But before they could reach him, b a
leaped from the boat's gunwale into the sea, having
a large stone fastened about his neck with a rope, and sank
instantly, of course, and was drowned. Upon getting hold
of the boat the steam-boat men found it all written over
with chalk, the deceased blaming his partner, a Mr. Taylor,
for being the cause of his death; but there is little doubt
that the poor creature was light-headed at the time that he
destroyed his life. The boat is in the charge of the river
police. There will be some difficulty in recovering the body.
The Surgeon-General of the Federal army has
declined
to receive homoeopathic physicians as surgeons in
the army.