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

CITY NE WS-YESTERDAY.

We are informed that the telegraphic advices
from Constantinople " that the dividend on Turkish
Cousolides,:due on the 13th inst., was punctually
Paid in Turkish gold," are incorrect, the fact being
that coupons which fell due on the 13th are not
really payable till the 19th or the 20th, as the Tur-
kish government require them to be left five days
for examination. Telegrams received this morning,
however, give the impression that the Government
will succeed in providing the money.
The Paris advices quote the prices of the Mires
Six per Cent. Turkish Loan at 651, which is
about equal to that of the London Loan of 1862.
At one time there was a difference of about 10 per
cent, in favour of the latter.

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About £5,000 in gold was bought by the Bank
to-day.
The corn market was quiet to-day. To effect
sales, however, less money would have had to be
taken for anything under the finest descriptions.
The cotton market was firm to-day, with sales
to the amount of 2,500 bales. The sales of the
Week have been 24,500 bales.
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,
a 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 tht Liverpool Dock estate during the year end-
ing in Jane 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
much attention. Jute, for instance, suddenly de-
clined £5 to £8 per ton when speculative holders
evinced a desire to realize, but to-day 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 to-day, but the quotations hare
continued firm.

A call of £1 per share, amounting in the aggro -
gate 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 Market for the English Funds has remained
Without the slightest variation, Consols, at the
close, being 931 T 5- for transfer, and 93. - a 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 108.1- 109 ; the Enfaced 4
per Cents., at 93-1 ; and the 5 per Cents., at 105.
The transactions in the Foreign Stock Market
to-day have not extended to many securities, nor
Lave 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 dis., and a bargain was recorded at 1 g dis.,
While the latest prices were 21 a dis. The Con-
solides have dropped 1 per cent., namely, from
384 to 371 =.4. Spanish Deferred have been dealt
in at 45; the Passive Lave been firm at 201 4 ; and
the Certificates at 94 10; Portuguese Loan Scrip
has been 24 prem.; Italian 5 par Cents. are quoted
70Z ; and Egyptian 7 per Cents., 901 Z. Several
transactions have taken place in Mexican Bonds
at 34 341.
In the Railway Share Market a moderate amount
of business has been transacted; prices, however,
have slightly given way. Great Easterns, North I
Westerns, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
have receded ss. ; Great Western and Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 10s. ; and Great Northern A Stock,
; Midlands, however, have improved 55.; and
London and Blackwall, £l.
The Foreign and Colonial lines are without
material alteration. Great Luxembourg realise
142 4 ; Grand Trunk of Canada have receded to
121; and East Indian improved to 1051 1061.
Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares fully
support previous rates. Alliance of London and
Liverpool have advanced to 137,- 4 ; Ottoman Bank
to 211 25 ; the Cambrian Consolidated Gold Mining
Shares are steady, at toe prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank .Stock
3 per ce,.-It. Reduced Annuities
3:per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Ce.nt. Annuities 92k 2
India Stock ...
Ditto 5 per Cent, •
)ittn Enfaced Pacer, 4 per Cent 931
Ditto 5 uer Cent .
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001
Consols for Account, Oct. 8 . 93a
India Stock for A,Q.count, 5 per Cent .... 1081 i
March. June.
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. (Maremmanalßailw2Y) 72 i
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853.. Ditto Scrip, £l5 pd.........
21 1
tingsia..... •• • • n b per Cent 1822 £ St
Ditto Paid-up Scrip
Spanish 3 per Cent...
Ditto New Deferred........
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive... 2O/ 1,
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto 6 per Cent ,1862 (Scrip), £5O paid 2 I- l&
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 651 i i
Venezuela, 3 per Cent .. 2Bak
Dividends on the able payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f.
Ditto Account

TWO O'CLOCK
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

THE LONDON CABMEN.—The following regula-
tions for the future granting of licences to drivers of hack-
ney carriages, and drivers and conductors of omnibuses,
have just been issued from Scotland-yard by the Commis •
sioner of Police, via.:—" A license will not in future be
gwrraintetedi to any applicant-Ist, unless he can read and
and lansgeulean in his dress and person, and civil in manner
!ge ; 2d, if he be less than than 21 years of age;
3d if he
7 be under sftf. high, or not strong enough to re-
testimonials the luggage
oee
conduct
; 4th, he is to produce
testimonials of good
have known him during the
hctl from two householders who
character from his last ast three years, also a good
ho is competent to drive employer,tb and a certificate that
in the streets of London (N,8.,
this certificate is not
if he be deemed froms such employment
; sth,
11'41
anfyor
inufirmitemployment by
the Commissioner from
body. Upon the special application of proyprieotforsmoifnedmaolrl
omnibuses, plying only on a suburban route, licences may
be granted to youths who are not less 16 years of a
to act as conductors of such omnibuses." The
notice also
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-otfice for con-
sideration 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 car-
llre standings to report any driver or conductor for the
etn"; and a repetition of the offence, or several convic-
afl?: for offences of any kind, as well as a conviction for a
the Ila offence, will be considered proof of the unfitnegis of
party for a renewal of a Uceace,"