The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NEWS-YESTERDAY.

The half-yearly dividend is announced by Messrs.
Thomson, Bonar, and Co., on the Russian Three
pvr Cent. Lean.
About £5,000 in gold was bought by the Bank

to-day.
The steamer Tasmanian will take to-morrow
£51,000 in gala and £4OO in silver to the West
Indies.
The Australian mail steamer Madras brought
£335,744 in gold to Point de Galle, of which
£279,710 was for India and £56,034 for London.
The latter amount will reach Southampton in a few
days by the Ceylon.
The Pernambuco Railway Company have this
day placed the balance of the £200,000 of their Six
per Cent. Debentures, thus completing their re-
quired capital.
The Stock Exchange Committee nave appointed
Monday, the 20th inst., a special settling day in
the shares of the following companies, viz. :—Lees-
wood Cannel, Gas, and Coal Company (Limited),
and the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. In
the latter instance the privilege of quotation in the
official list is accorded.
During the last few days there has been rather
more animation in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets. Coffee at public sale realised full rates,
while sugars were in some instances rather cheaper.
Rice remained dull, without material alteration in
value. Fruit and spices sold at steady prices. For
saltpetre there has been a more active demand at
slightly enhanced rates, and in the tallow market
a slight improvement has been perceptible in the
demand for both present and forward delivery.
With regard to the Venezuelan Loan, a notice
was issued to-day by Messrs. Baring that the instal-
ment of 18 per cent. (less 3 per cent. dividend),
due on the Ist of November, will not be required
until one week after receipt of advice of the
full ratification of the contract. This is expected
by the next packet, due about the Ist of November.
A dividend of 5 per cent. for the year ending Ist
September last is announced on the shares of the
Norwegian Trunk Railway Company.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY .
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The discount market continues steady, and there
is a large supply of money.
The Bank of England returns, completed to the
15th of October, exhibits some important altera-
tions, caused in a great measure by the payment
of the dividends. The bullion shows a large de-
crease, while there is also a considerable falling off
in the reserve of notes. The public and private
deposits also exhibit considerable variation, while
there is a large addition to the Government securi-
ties. The various items, and the changes they pre-
sent, are shown in the subjoined table:—
Active Circulation .. .. .. £21,659,960
Increase .. .. •.. .. 290,135
Bullion ,• .. .. •.. .. 16,230,260
00 00 317,896
Decrease .. 00 •
• .. .. 3,061,129
Rest .. ..
586,716
Decrease . . 00 00 00
6,253,982
Public Deposits .. .. ..
Decrease .. .. .. .. 2,079,797
Other Deposits.. .. .. .. 15,719,485
.. .. SO 40 2,189,363
Increases
Seven Day and other Bills .. .. 735,392
32,453
Decrease . • SO 00 00
2,453
Government Securities .. .. 12,16GovernmentIncrease ... .. . • .. 911.436
Other Securities .. • • .. 18,931
820,696
Decrease • • 00 00 00
,008
Notes Unemployed • • .. .. 8,431,935
Decrease . . .. .. • • 570,640

Two o'CLooK.
The Liverpool cotton market to-day was dull, and
sales about 1,000 bales.
The uneasiness occasioned by the coup d'etat in
Prussia, and subsequently by the resignation at
Paris of M. Thouvenel and the appointment of M.
Drouyn de L'Huys as Finance Minister, has now
subsided, and the Rentes having to a large extent
recovered from their temporary depresson, indica-
tions of buoyancy are once more perceptible here.
Consols closed yesterday at 93t- 4 for transfer, and
931 3 for the 6th proximo. These quotations have
been firmly maintained to-day, and a mode-
rate amount of business has been negotiated.
The New Three per Cents. and the Reduced are
steady at 911 921.; Exchequer Bills, June, 20s. to
235. prem.; ditto, March, 21s. prem.; Bank Stock
28'
2373, and 239; the 5 per Cent. Annuities have
E
been dealt in at 109; India Stock is 227 and 229; E
and the 5 per Cent. Loan, 1093 1.
In the Foreign Market this morning a fair
amount of business has been transacted, but, in
several instances, prices have shown a downward
movement. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1864, are 82 83;
ditto, 1858, 693 ; ditto New Loan, 683 ; Italian are
721 ; Mexican have receded to 333 ; Peruvian, 99;
Portuguese Scrip is flat at 21 prem. ; Russian ditto,
at 11 prem. ; Sionish 3 per Cents., 541 ; ditto Pas
sive have receded to 211 1 ; and Venezuelan are
firm at 293 ; Turkish Consolides are 38 1.
In the Railway Share Market there has been a mo-
derate amount of business transacted, and, in one or
two instances, prices have shown increased firmness.
Caledonians and North Easterns (Berwick) have
improved 10s. ; Great Easterns, Great Westerns,
North Westerns, and South Westerns, ; and
South Easterns, .El.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continued dull
'without any material change in values. Sambre
and Meuse realise 101 ; East Indian, 1063 1061;
Great Southern of India, 1033; and Madras 5 per
Cents. 1031,
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
have im-
gene-
rally are'a shade firmer. Imperial Bank
Metro o
proved to 11; Union of Australia to 47 ;
p-
litan and Provincial to 133 14 ; Peel River Land
remain firm at 53 ; National Discount Company at
73 3; and Oriental Inland Steam, at 81. The
shares of the London and Colonial Bank are 11 3
of Africa Bank 113 prem
prem.; and the Standard

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRIC E 9
.
Bank Stock . ......................... 2371 1
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .......... 914 2 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 931 1 i
1/ 21
New 3 per Cent. Annuities .... 2
5 per Cent. Annuities 109
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880.. 121 1 •
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.. 15
India stock
Ditto 5 per Cent lO9l 1
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 111 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1011
Consols for Account, Nov. 6.. .
Jun. March.
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Ct. .. 23 20
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent. _
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 951
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
cunt
Ditto A 921
Dito 1 per Ce ...nt. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 381 1
la aptian, 7 per Cent
Ditto, Paid up Scrip ................. ~: 881 n
Moxican, 3 per Cent ..................
33i
Ditto Account ..................
New Grenada, 2 per Cent .. —
Ditto ex over-due Coups. and Hectares 101
Peruvian 4f per Cent ............. ,
Ditto Account ..
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
DittooittScrip,4l,iampde
r:pclessnetpr
id
13itt, . per Cent 1822 £ St '—
Dittoll,i RRiar, 5 ,
Spaniel:::
rerCeenet;lBp62, Scrip, .E 32 18s pd l/
Ditto Account
'Darkish t6a Passive..
per Cent, 1854
541
21/ I 1 1
Ditto Amount . . 82f
Ditto 6 per Gent. 1858
Ditto Account
.....
Ditto, £lOO Bonds ..........
Ditto, Paid up Scrip ~,,•. 72 41
Venezuela, per Cent.
e Davab a in don.
Ditto Account ...................
1 l-0,1
Dividends on the..ab ...
177,, iiii, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f: . '
Ditto Account
721 1 1
THREE O'CLOCK.

93t
Console, Money
Oat
Ditto Account • •

RETIREMENT OF A SCOTCH JUDGE. Regret
will be deep and general throughout Scotland (says the
Scotsman) on learning that Lord Ivory has come to the
of
decision not to resume his seat as a judge in the Court
Session. The cause, however, we are glad to
that his health
learn, is not
present ill-health, but rather apptempt the arduous work of
treb.ension
would fail if he were again to a
the First Division. GLASGOW RAILWAY.—The
EDINBURGH AND
stock of this company has fallen in the market during the
last two days from £B5 to £Bo—uamely, 5 per cent., equal
in the aggregate to a woo a £llo,ooo,