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

MONEY MARKET,

CITY NEWS-YESTERDAY.

No gold was taken to the Bank to-day. Fifty
thousand sovereigns were withdrawn for exporta-
tion to Lisbon.

The Magdalena Brazilian mail steamer takes out
£80,183, including the above 50,000 sovereigns for
Lisbon.

From the uncertainty which prevails as to the
rumours about the Great Eastern, and ber safety,
the underwriting premiums have gone up to 20
guineas at Liverpool.

At a meeting, on Friday, of the creditors of
Messrs. Crabtree, Aked, and Co., who suspended at
Liverpool in the Brazilian trade, on the 22d ult., the
liabilities were stated at £46,287 and the assets at
only £5,627, leaving a deficiency of £40,660. The
corresponding houses in Brazil, however, are in-
debted to the Liverpool house to the extent of nearly
£50,000, and the results of the liquidation will
depend upon the winding up of those accounts. The
proximate cause of the stoppage consisted in the
failure of Messrs. Rostron and Co. A committee of
inspection was appointed.

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

Rather more activity has prevailed in the Foreign

and Colonial Produce Mariets during the last few
days. Tea, however, has continued dull. Sugars

have been in more request, and good and finede-
scriptions have slightly advanced. Coffee, rice, and
cocoa have fully sustained former prices. For salt-
petre there has been a better demand, and British
refined has been dearer. Tallow, however, has con-
tinued dull, P.Y.C. on the spot being quoted 48s. 3d.,
last three months' delivery 495. Gd., and spring
ditto 495. 9d. per cwt,

Not the slightest variation is perceptible in the
condition of the Money Market, or the tendency of
the rates of discount. There is no perceptible dimi-
nution in the available balances, and the mercantile
community are thus enabled to provide for all their
requirements on terms ranging fully y per cent.
below the minimum of the Bank of England. Even
with the facilities they now offer, the joint-stock
and private establishments are unable to provide
employment for more than a portion of the means
at their command.

The receipts on the Great Western Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 29th ult. are £791
18s. Bd. larger than in the corresponding period last
year.

Two o'CLoCK.

There has been very little alteration in the
market for Public Securities to-day, a few trans-
actions having failed to influence prices more than
1-16th per cent. Consols are about 931 tt for money,
and 932 for the Bth proximo. Speculation con-
tinues dull, and there is comparatively little de-
mand for stock for investments. The New Threes
and the Reduced are 921; Long Annuities, 15;
and Exchequer Bills, June, 20s. prem.; India 5
per Cents., are 1091 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced
Paper, 1111; and ditto Debentures, 1002,
Abt,ut an average business has been negotiated
in the Foreign Stock Market to-day, and the
changes, with one or two exceptions, have not
been important. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are
85 86; ditto, 1858, 67 671 ; and the New Loan, 2
to 11 dis., showing little change. The Consolides
are rather flatter, viz., 348 Egyptian are 901
911, and the second issue, 7 prem. ; Mexican have
improved 1, viz., to 311 ; the Peruvian Loan is
marked a dis. ; and the Portuguese is nominally 21 1
prem.; and the Russian, 1- -a prem. ; Spanish Pas-
sive are 191; Italian 5 per Cents., 69+ 701.
Business in the Railway Share Market has con-
tinued moderately active, and prices still tend up-
wards: Great Northern, Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, and South-Easterns have improved
55.; and Great Easterns and North British, 10s.
Caledonian, North-Western, South-Western, and
Midlands, sustain about previous rates.
In the Foreign Market there is little variation.
Bahia and San Francisco realise 20; Great Luxem-
bourg 141; and South Austrian and Lombardo-
Venetian have receded to 221.
The Colonial lines are firm. Madras 5 per Cents.
have improved to 104; and Great Indian Penin-
aula to 103.

.101n.tAtos+: Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
continue dulfi, but without material change in
values. Orient'..al Bank have improved to 531 ;
and London and
County to 361 37; General Steam
Navigation realise 2'67.1

BRITISH FUNDS_ONE O'CLOCK,
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities . g 3,4 t
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — -.-
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5
Red Sea Telegraph, 1908
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1861 100 k
Consols for Account, Oct. 8 931
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Ct. .. March. June.
Ditto£soo Ditto Small —
20
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Egyptian, 7 per Cent., Scrip
Ditto, Second Issue, £4O pd
Ditto Paid-up Scrip
Mexican, 3 per Cent
31i
Ditto Account
Peruvian 41 per Cent
Ditto New, 1862, A Scp, £l3 paid
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 18b3 46
Ditto Account
Itrissian 5 per Cent 1822 £ St —
Ditto 41 per Cent 9ll
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862, Scrip, £23 lOs pd 1 i -
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 93i i i
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive ,
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
_Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 ..
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 (Scrip)
Ditto, Paid up Scrip
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto 11 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 par Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f.
Ditto Account
70 ft
Consols, Money TWO O'CLOCK
931 1
Ditto Account . .

ARCH,EOLOGTCAL DISCOVERY.—In the beginning
of this year the Prussian Government sent a number of
archaaolists and artists to Athens, in order to examine the
Acropolis, the Pnyx, the Agora, the old walls of the city,
and the ports of Cantharus, Misnichia, and Phalerea,
They arrived at aome interesting results, but not equal to
those obtained by M. Strack, the King's architect, who,
without an official mission, had nevertheless joined the
Prussian Commission as an amateur. In 1859, the Archre-
logical Society of Athens had caused excavations to be
made at no very great depth on a spot once occupied by the
theatre of Bacchus, whereby a few worn-out worn out steps
cut in a rock were brought to light. With this slight indi-
cation for a guide, M. Strack succeeded in making a
plan of the probable dimensions of the theatre to
guide him in further researches. In March last he
discovered another series of steps in excellent
preservation,
Steps reservation, and six weeks later seventeen rows
Of
_tch eps and three staircases belonging to the building,
dates from the time of Themistocles. Nor is this all.
"a th° three lower rows, as well as in front of the lowest,
58 marble teats etieoattis have made their appearance, each bearing
Was
intstating the dignity of the personage for
Atheuesndheds. M. Daveluy, director of the French
whomascnhoionlsicatrti
the central seast,euthi just sent to Paris a plaster.cast of
petumrost remarkable of all by its dimen-
eions and the
with which it is adorned. On the
back of the seat there ies
are e mutilated figure of a faunus,
The legs of the seat
curved,The front
and end in the shape of
lion's paws and claws.
esoutioront above the legs is deco-
rated with a frieze, repr
inen and griffins. whose
attitudes bear a striking blaresresena to the Assyrian bas-
parnteisntscorfiption denot-
reliefs at the Louvre. Below there is
rig that this seat was reserved for the
THE NEW REGISTRATION OFFICE UNBDECCIthiITBII. E
LAND TRANSFER AcT.—Yesterday upwards of 20
ra'n in the employ of the Government were engaged at rthe
k-
late Insolvent Debtors Court, converting a part of the eets.
blishment into a registration office under the recent act on
the transfer of land. The court of the chief commissioner of
the abolished tribunal has been pulled to pieces, and several
Offices are in the course of erection. Two of the courts in
Portugal-street are reserved for law proceedings, but as
yet nothing has been determined upon. The entrance of
the new registration office will be in Lincoln's-inn-fields,
and it is expected that under an order of the Lord Chan-
cellor it Will be open to register estates before the commence-
eht of Alichaelmas term.