The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

ET. SHARE M.

MONEY

GTY, TWELVE O'CLOCK,

An active enquiry •prevailed for most descriptions
of cotton in the Liverpool Market yesterday, and
prices, in several ;Instances, were again rather
higher. The sales amounted to 10,000 bales.
A large supply of gold, viz., £140,000, was taken
into the Bank of England yesterday.
The latest advices from Australia state that the
following vessels have lt,ft England, viz., the
Copenhagen, with £54,096, Prince of Wales
£39,108, True Briton £129,196, and the Latona
with £29,628.

The America, from Boston, has brought £2,000
specie.

There is a decrease of £2,738 in the traffic re-
ceipts of the South Eastern Railway, and of
X 2,077 on the Brighton for the past week.
The committee of the Stock Exchange-have ap-
pointed Thursday next a settling day in the
Scottish Australian Mines (new shares), Yuda-
namutana Copper Mining Company of South Aus-
tralia, London and South of Ireland Direct Tele-
graph Company ; and Thursday, the 24th inst., in
the Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool, and
the Montes Aureo3 Gold Mining Company, and
dealings in the first four are to be officially recorded.
The Rio de Janeiro City Improvement shares fully
Paid are also to be marked in the official lists.
Telegraphic advices from Turin state that the
subscription for the 20,000 shares in the Italian Ir-
rigation Canal Company, which were reserved for
Italy, was opened on Friday, and that in three
days the number applied for was 24,000. In conse-
quence of this intelligence, it is notified that the
London list will be closed on Saturday next. The
shares are prem.

The prospectus has been ussued of the Great
Copper Lode of the Huacayvo Company, with a
proposed cipital of £200,000, to purchase some ex-
tensive and valuable mines, adjoining the State of
Sonora, on the Gulf of California. The prospects of
the undertaking are considered highly encouraging,
and the shares are quoted n prem.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.
Two O'CLOCK.

A RUSSIAN LOAN.

A. new Russian Loan is stated to be in contempla-
tion. The amount is stated at £10,000,000 in a4l
Per cent. stock; at the price of'Bs.

The market for Public Securities, to-day, is
rather heavy, in consequence of the impending
negotiation of the Russian Loan. Sales have been
Pressed, and a decline of k per cent. has taken place,
Consols 'icing 933 for money, and 931 94 for the
Ith proximo. The New Threes and the Reduced
'ere 921 ; Long Annuities 151 i; and Exchequer
/lilts 18s. to 21 prem.; Bank Stocks was 237 239;
India. ditto, 227; ditto 5 per Cent., 1083 8 ; ditto
6 Per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1031 s ; ditto 51 per
Cont. 1081 ; ; and ditto Debentures 1001
Very few dealing have been recorded in the
Foreign Market, and prices show no important
'variation. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 801 81; ditto,
1858, 701 71; Mexican are fiat at 32133 ; Spanish
Deferred steady at 431; ditto Passive at 191 ; but
the Certificates have receded to 71 1; Venezuelan
have risen to 24k 1. The New Scrip is 2+
larem.; and the Egyptian, 19 d prem.
In the Railway Share Market business has con-
tinued dull, and the variations have barely exceeded
top per cent. North Westerns, Midlands, and
North Eastern (Berwick), have declined 55.; and
London and Brighton, 10s. ; Great Westerns, and
London and Black wall have improved 55., Lon-
-11011, Chatham, and Dover 10s., and Eastern Coun-
ties 15s.
The foreign lines are inactive but firm. Great
nxemburg have improved to 131 1 ; Sambre and
Meuse to 91 109 ; and Bahia and San Francisco are
steady at 17+.
In the Colonial Market Great Western of Canada
remain steady at 12+ ; ; East Indian have declined
10 1039 104 ; Great Indian Peninsula realised
102 and 1021, and Great Southern of India 104.
Joint Stock Bank Shares remain without mate-
-I'4l variation. London Joint Stock realise 36;
Oriental Bank, 533 541; Provincial of Ireland, 871;
Ottoman Bank, 251; and Union of London, 311 I.

The Alliance Bank Shares are 41 51 prem. ;
'4lperial, 1 prem.; Northern Counties, 21 3
Dl'ern.; and British Columbian, 21 prem.
kisoellaneous Shares, generally, were inactive.
south Australian Land, however, improved to 33.
Reel
River Land brought 551, and General Steam
Navigation declined to 231

Sank BRITISHck FUNDS—CLOSING PRICE 7
S.
Sto
; Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92+ 1 /
ziPer Cent. Consols Annuities
4, 3 per Cent. Annuities 92+ 1 / +
Ituities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
I,,u_jtto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 ls+ /
,ula 6 rock
-Oitto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent lO3/
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 1001 I
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001
t, Ditto date Aug. 1864 or 66 100 k +
'Uols for Accounts May 8 ..
'xehequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent.. lB 21
Ditto £SOO
tt
uio Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
BrazilianL 5 per Cent
lilian 6 per Cent
A'itto 41 oar Cent ..
eXican, :: per Cent
Ditto Acco nt
1141 Perial Moorish Scrip
11,sian 5 per Cent 1822, X St ..
Ditto Account
Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860
bitto 3 per Cent. 1859 .. 61/
Spanish 3 per Cent
oitto New Deferred
Ditto Passive --
43
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent 7i i
Ditto New Loan
bit to Account
71 701 1/
Venezuela
Guararteed, 4 per Cent •
venezuela, 3 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent* , 1861
console, Money
93+ i
Ditto Account

is
With the exception of Frankfort, where the rate
;2 Per cent., the terms for money are now lower in Lon-
°4 than at any of the continental cities. At Paris the
gbharge is 3 per cent. with a downward tendency, at Ham-
-111. it is 2i, at Brussels 3, and at Amsterdam 3/.
In consequence of the Government of India
1/itig advised the recommencement of the works on the
tilbbiapore line of the East Indian Railway, the corn-
;4,llY are about to issue for that purpose £2,000,000 in
;,40 shares, with the usual guar:into of 5 per cent. These
844r€E3 will be denominated she H Extension Shares.

A DEVONSHIRE SHOOTING Box FOR THE PRINCE
,
`VALES.--It is understood (says the Western Morning
dews) that the negotiations which have occupied some time,
h',43ecting the purchase of a shooting box in Devonshire for
tt4 Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, are completed, and
hat a few preliminaries only are required to transfer Wer-
-111
tl)aton-park from the ownership of the Duke of Northum-
ifielland to that of the future King of England. The park
44 occasional residence of his grace, and lies about a mile
1,4c1 a half from Launceston—one portion of it is in Corn-
t all, but the seat is in Devonshire. The park is supposed
tsh have been in existence for about 600 years, and about
r4l fourteenth century was the property of the great Or-
Ph, Duke of Devonshire.
0 iI,:VING,c"-BANKS.—In 44 years the Nation alDebt
°latnissioners have received from the savings-banks and
l~eudly societies of the United Kingdom, for investment
ititovernment securities, sums which, together with the
B,7eTit that has accrued on them, have amounted to
"49,385 and they have paid back to these banks and
£1,;,149,8 52. -They have also received from savings
and parochial societies in the last 28 years the sum
ti 42,457,139 for the purchase of small Government annui-
tie, not exceeding £3O each, for the industrious classes; of
this Slun £242,451 was for deferred annuities. The fund in
416 hands of the Commissioners in respect of military says
ega banks consists of £313,277 Three per Cent. Stock ; two
48 ago it was £41,000 less.

During the last few i trays a •moderate amount of
business has been trans .icted, in the Foreign and
, Colonial Produce Marko ts. Sugars have fully sus-
tained previous values, 'w'oile a slight advance has
been established in the rat( 3a realised for good and fine
descriptions of coffee. Vea has been without any
material change in price, and the operations in rice
and spices have been liat,ited. For saltpetre there
has been a more active 'inquiry at full values, and
the operations in tall() ,x 7 have been, to an average
extent, at steady quo't'ations for both present and
forward delivery.