The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-20 00:00:00

The foreign exchanges to-day were without
alteration of importance.
The Gazette specie statement for the week ending
Wednesday last gives the following totals, viz.:—
Imports of gold, £179,391 ; exports of gold,
£312,452; imports of silver, £353,008; exports of
Silver, £442,111.
The Government have not yet given any answer
regarding the tenders for hemp sent in on the 16th,
It procrastination which excites angry remark.
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce have
presented an address to Mr, Laing, late Finance
Minister in India. In his reply Mr. Laing held
out hopeful prospects of a good supply of cotton
from India. If the price in this country remained
reasonable, he was of cpinion that from 2,000,000
to 3,000,000 bales might be expected as the annual
quantity India would bring into this market.
It appears from a statement made at the weekly
meeting of the Mersey Dock Board, held yesterday,
that the Liverpool Dock estate during the year end-
ing in June last lost £lOO,OOO in dues on ships and
cotton, owing to diminished importation from the
United States. The decrease in the quantity of cot-
ton imported amounted on the year to 1,850,000
bales.

The colonial produce-markets during the week
have not undergone any material change, excepting
*for some of the fibres whioh recently attracted so
m uch attention. Jute, for instance, suddenly de-
clined £5 to £8 per ton when speculative holders
evinced a desire to realize, but today the inquiry
has again improved, and part of the fall is recovered.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Business has been rather quieter in the general
discount market today, but the quotations have
continued firm.

A call of £1 per share, amounting in the aggro
grAte to £50,000, becomes due on the 26th instant
on the Indian Branch Railways.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £804,000 and the exports £476,000.
The Teutonia, from New York, has brought
£10,500 in specie.

Two O'CLOCK.

The Markat for the English Funds has remained
Without the slightest variation, Consols, at the
close, being 931 a for transfer, and 932 for the
Bth prox. A very small amount of business has
been negotiated. The New Threes and Reduced
were 921; Exchequer Bills, March, 20s. to 235.
prem.; and June ditto, 17s. prem.; India 5 per
Cents. were dealt in at 1084 109 ; the Enfaced 4
per Cents., at 934 ; and the 5 per Cents., at 105.
The transactions in the Foreign Stock Market
to-day have not extended to many securities, nor
have the movements in prices been of much im-
portance. No dealings have been officially recorded
in 6 per Cent. Turkish of 1854 and 1858, but
the Scrip of the 1862 Loan has been marked
21 4 die., and a bargain was recorded at 1 dis.,
'while the latest prices were 2ld die. The Con-
aolides have dropped 1 per cent., namely, from
381 to 371 Spanish Deferred have been dealt
in at 45; the Passive have been firm at 21111 ; and
the Certificates at 9/. 10; Portuguese Loan Scrip
has been 2-1- 4 prem. ; Italian 5 per Cents. are quoted
'7Ol ; and Egyptian 7 per Cents., 901 7-74. Several
transactions have taken place in Mexican Bonds
at 34 342.

In the-Railway Share Market a moderate amount
of business has been transacted ; prices, however,
have slightly given way. Great Easterns, North
Westerns, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
have receded ss. ; Great Western and Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 10s. ; and Great Northern A Stock,
£1; Midlands, however, have improved ss. ; and
London and Blackwell, El.
The Foreign and Colonial lines are without
material alteration. Great Luxembourg realise
14& ; Grand Trunk of Canada have receded to
12k ; and East Indian improved to 1054 1061.
Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares fully
support previous rates. Alliance of London and
Liverpool have advanced to 131 4 ; Ottoman Bank
to 21 25 ; the Cambrian Consolidated Gold Mining
Shares are steady, at to _a prem.

Bank
sßtoltelkTlSH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3!per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92k 2
India Stock
Ditto b per Cent
1)Itto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 931
Ditto 5 per Cent lO5
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001
Consols for Account, Oct. 8 93a
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
March. Jung
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Ct. .. 22 20 3 17 pm
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small —

'
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Egyptian, 7 per Cent., Scrip
Italian 5 per Cent. (naremmanalßailway) 72 I
Mexican, 3 per Cent
....
Ditto Account ...............
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853.
Ditto Scrip, £l5 pd .... 2i
f til,.ittn 5 per Cent 1822 £ St ..
Ditto Paid-up Scrip
Spanlsn 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred

Ditto Account
Ditto Passive..
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded , lO 91
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 (Scrip), £5O paid 2k
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 6st
Venezuela, 3 per Cent 2B
Dividends on the above savable in London.
Italian, 5 par Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f.
Ditto Aczount

TWO O'CLOCK
Console, Money
Ditto Account .. 931
931 I

THE LONDON CABMEN.—The following regula-
tions for the future granting of licences to drivers of hack-
ney,aveca..rriages, and drivers and conductors of omnibuses,
Asionetuosftpbeen issued from Scotland-yard by the Commis •
granted to°liee;
write, la n . via. :-""" A license will not in future be
applicant-Ist, unless he can read and
and clean in his dress and person, and civil in manner
3d, if he be
language ; 24 if he be less than Ilan 21 years of age ;
under 6fotf. high, or not strong enough to re-
move the luggage
testimonials of good Cond hirers; 4th, he is to produce
have known him duurinlast g d from two householders who
character from his
the last three years, also a good
he is competent to drive em
inPtieYerr,anda certificat(ot.Bha.t,
if he be deemed unfit re b
this certificate is not requide
streets of London (N
,B.,from conductors) ; sth,
the Commissioner from
an insufierh employment by
rrrs of small
body. Upon the special application OfmiprtyP .of mind or
omnibuses, plying only on a suburban route,el
b® granted to youths who are not less o years
of may
to act as conductors of such omnibuses.,,
The notice a
algseo
sets forth that returns of all convictions against drivers
and
conductors now licensed are received from the police courts,
and are registered at the Metropolitan Poliee-office for con-
aideration before the renewal of licences :—" It has been
observed that the law respecting the wearing the metal
ticket conspicuously on the breast, although directed on
each licence, is generally neglected ; directions will there-
fore be given to the police and attendants at hackney
ofrcar-
riage standings to report any driver or conductor for the
'nee; and a repetition of the offence, or several convic-
taleorn.s for offences of any kind, as well, as a conviction for a
the ens offence, will be considered proof of the tatlaesgi of
P4•tY for a renewal of a licence."