The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-16 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The general discount market shows very little
alteration from day to day, owing to the abundant
supplies, and the limited requirements of the com-
mercial community.
Rumours are still circulated with regard to a new
Russian loan, but no formal announcement has yet
been made. is fully believed that it will be in-
troduced at a very early period.
The advices from New York state that the im•
portation of gene :al merchandise at the latest date
was equal to the, average of former seasons, and the

remunerative prices at which most of the articles
were selling prove they are in steady demand. As
they world have to be paid in gold, the exportation
of spe,.;ie, it was thought, would be maintained.
but us the total in the City banks, on the 29th
ultimo, was £6,770,600 and was gradually increas-
ing the movement was not expected to cre to an
unfavourable influence. The Money Market con-
tinued quiet and easy.
The amount of gold taken into the Bank of Eng-
land yesterday was £94,000.
No change of importance was apparent in the
Continental Exchanges yesterday afternoon.
Gold is now 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London
than in Paris ; and 11.10ths per cent. higher here
than in Hamburg.
A meeting of the proprietors of the Chartered
Bank of India, Australia, and China, will take place
on the 30th inst. for the declaration of a dividend, I
&c.

A call of £2 per share, amounting to £95,000,
became due to-day on the Ottoman Railway shares,
and to-morrow, the 17th inst., a payment of £2 per
share, or in the aggregate £200,000, will have to
be made on the San Paulo Railway.
Holders of the Imperial Moorish Loan Scrip will
be enabled to get it exchanged for Bonds on and
after the 21st instant.

Increased -Activity prevailed in the Liverpool
Cotton Marlset yesterday, and prices were slightly
higher. The sales were about 12,000 bales.
There was a meeting to-day of the Royal Mail
Steam Packet Company, when the report recom-
mending the usual dividend of £2 per share was
adop#Led.

CITY NEWS-THIS DAY.

Two O'CLOCK.

Business in the English Stock Market continues
quiet, and the daily variation is comparativelyun-
important. Consols have remained at the quota-
tions current yesterday afternoon, viz., 931 y for
transfer, and 931 94 for account. The New Threes
and the Reduced are 92i d ; Exchequer Bills 18s.
to 21 prem.; Bank Stock is 239, and India 5 per
Cent. 1087, d.

Very little change bas taken place in Foreign
Securities, and the dealings have been of a mode-
rate character. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 804 811;
ditto, 1858, 701 711; Mexican are flat at 321 33 ;
Russian per Cents, at 991- ; ditto 3 per Cents, are
steady ht 62 ; Portuguese at 46; and Venezuelan
at 241 ; Italian are buoyant at 67k Q. The New
Tutkish Scrip is 21 74 prem.; and the Egyptian
11 prem.

In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
not been very extensive, and prices have not varied
to any important extent. Lancashire and York-
shire have receded ss. ; North Eastern (Ber-
wick), 10s.; and Caledonian, £1 ; North
Westerns have improved 55., and South Westerns,
10s.; Great Northerns, Midlands, and South East-
erns remain at about former rates.

The foreign and colonial undertakings fully main-
tain previous rates. Great Luxemburg improved
to 14 and 141; Sambre and Meuse to 101 1.
Grand Trunk of Canada are steady at 241 ;-3.; East
Indian at 1031 104 a ; and Great Indian Peninsula
atloll 1021.
Joint Stock Bank Shares show little change of
importance. London and Westminster improved
to 80 and 801 Oriental Bank realise 541 ; London
Joint Stock 36 ; and London and South African
Vr-g.

The Alliance Bank shares are 41 51 prem.; Im-
perial, 12 ;-1, prem.; Northern Counties, 2 3 prem.
and British Columbia, 21 4 prem.
Miscellaneous Shares gen':Trally were dull. Rio
di Janiero Improveme-,t, fully paid up, brought 26,
and those With 5',74 paid 21 ; Scottish Australian
Investment -were at 138; and Trust and Loan
Cwillpanly of Upper Canada at 6i.

BRITISIT FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Flank Stock
3 per Cent, Reduced Annuities
a per Cent. Consols Annuities 93i / 4 31
New 8 per Cent. Annuities 02- a
Apnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880..
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April., 1885.. 15i iii
Irntia Stock •
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent., inn 3
Ditto 51 per Cent loBa
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct. 1863 100±
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864! or 66 100+ 1
Consols for Account, May 8
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent lB 21 pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brae:tian 5 per Cent ..
/..litto 41 per Cent, 1858
Ditto 4± per Cent., 1860.... 93
"hilian 6 per Cent
Italian, 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway)
Ditto Scrip
.111exican, 8 per Cent
Ditto Acco'int
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853..
Russian 5 per Cent 1822, £St .. 99i
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 .. 62
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred
)itto Account
Ditto Passive
.... 191
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
70 1
Venezuela, 3 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
24 i
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861. 671 a i I

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account ,

SHARE MARKET---THIS DAY.