The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-27 00:00:00

.11101:'EY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'Ci.ocK.
The minimum of the Bank of England is main-
tained at 21- per cent., the directors at their meeting
to-day having, as anticipated, refrained from making
"37 alteration. The subject, however, attracted
very little notice either in monetary or commercial
Circles. There is still an abundance of money, and
accommodation can be obtained is the general mar-
ket as low as 21 and 21 per cent.

At a special meeting of the Natal Land and
Colonisation Company the directors were empowered
to raise £150,000 on 6 per Cent. Debentures, which
money is to be invested in first mortgages on lands
in Natal.

A small quantity of gold,viz., £4,000, was with-
drawn from the Bank of England yesterday.
The Ethiope, for the West Coast of Africa, took
£2,000 in specie.
A call of 25 per cent becomes due to morrow on
the East Indian Railway 5 per cent. Debentures.
Rather more business took place in the Liverpool
cotton market yesterday, and prises tended up-
'wards. The sales were 10,000 bales.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :--

Great 'Western.
1862. 1861.
*,,0
rth-AV t .. £41,334 £41,183
South.- e"ril

I, 4-Western
ghton
Midland 12,610 12,516
36,067 37,537
SGreat oUth-Easte
Northernrn 24,375 25,515
e
11. , Tull' and Yorkshire
,netel and Exeter 5,101 5,786
North Eatern.
North British
o.l'l,loSouth western (Ireland) 5,973 5,853
7,418 7,032
,"b w and South-Western 7,258 7,221
k2rrand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada 10,359 7,050
These returns still show a considerable falling off
11.
the receipts on most of the principal lines in the
manufacturing districts. On the North Western
there is a decrease of £3,994 ; on the Midland, of
1"470 ; on the Great Northern, of £1,140; on the
Lancashire
I\o and Yorkshire, of £4,565; on the
North Eastern, of £2,607; and on the South Eastern,
of
X 727. The Great Western, however, shows an
the: Brighton
of £l5l ; the South Western, of £1,111;
of £94 ; the Grand Trunk of Canada,
ofv
437363.
':11; and the Great Western of Canada, of
Business in the market for Public Securities has
e 0
hrittielled quiet, and the quotations have indicated
tit hi-1
ee
ss
.Consols for transfer and the 6th proximo
ac-. 932 for the April account 93a The
havetrans-
been very limited. The New Threes
the Reduced remained at 93-1 Ili; Bank Stock
saruler at 243 and 244 ; India ditto flat at 224 ;
ditto
5 per Cent. firm at 1071 ; the New 2,1- per
c
ents. realised 771.
liThere has not been much activity in the Foreign
Per Cents. are 851 851 ; ditto, 1858, 751 ;
e'ella are flat, at 341 e ; Italian, at 68Z ;
Spanish,d at 53L ; ditto, Deferred, at 43! ; and
Itte, passive, at 191; the Moorish Scrip is steady,
at
6k Prem.; end Venezuelan, at 24t. The
~tttoman
(Mires') Loan is 64i 651, and the New
1 alian about dis. to par.
a The half-yearly meeting of the Victoria (Lon-
„en) bock Company was held to-day—Mr. J. P.
er's:mod in the chair. The report was carried
unanimously without much discussion. The chair-
man., stated that the directors had received notice
that the Charing-cross Railway Company would
require their steel yard, and that the directors
Would watch the interest of the shareholders in
Obtaining the full value for their property.
The operations, to-day, in the Railway Share
-51arket have been chiefly in connection with the
arrangements for the settlement, and prices gene-
ally exhibited increased firmness. Great Northerns,
)3rightons, Norfolk, and South-Easterns have im-
l'rnved 55.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Mid-
!rands 10s. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and
""ndon, Chatham, and Dover, however, have
seceded about ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in fair
leicillest, at steady rates. Great Luxemburg realise
P; Bahia and San Francisco 16 ; Sambre and
8Z- ; Great Western of Canada have im-
e to 131-4 ; and Punjaubs to 14iii 15.
loiut-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares re-
mained inactive. Bank of Australasia, however,
unproved 155., and Electric Telegraph declined 10s.

Bank Stock FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
244 3
NeCent. Reduced Annuities 93i 1
err Cent. Consols Annuities
47 w 3 Per Cent. Annuities
21 Per Cent. Annuities 77i
bit fss°epker Cent.
107 k 7
3,.!:::::0,0
:iiillattt
per Cent
sE:faced Paper, 4 per Cent
102/
per Cent
30
`-".t ) bonds il,oou
I o _ 1 t under £l,000
i-illkols for Account, March 6 931
,ia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
March. June.
io:
.tlellequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 22
Ditto Ditto £5OO
t
Advertised i
6vertised itt Small —
17 20
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
ti .
' - i
per Cent
biador tt
'pop —0 4i pel Cent Bsk
VillNew Consolidated
7Perial Moorish Scrip sk i
•exican, 3 per Cent
13,411i8h 3 per Cent
O. New Deferred
, bitto Passive
knrltish 6 per Cent
nitto Account
bitto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO 80nd5....
Venezuela, 3 per Cent . . 24;
Dividends on the above payable in London.l
Dau 21 er Cent. Exchange 12 Gail...
lian, 5 per Cent., 1861
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
93k 1
Account

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.— A grand morning
entertainment was given here yesterday, under the patron-
age of his grace the I uke of Wellington. The.programme
10eluded the usual vocal performances, a novelty being the
appearance of the infant Koenig (who is stated to be only
eight years old), who played on the cornet-a-piston Ettley's
" Zerline Polka," in a style which stamps the young aspi-
rant for fame as a remarkable specimen of precocious talent.
!lis execution is rapid, and the tone produced is wonder-
11111Y good, looking to the tender age of the executant, who
evidently is imbued with a taste for better and more culti-
vateds
ruiilslui subjects. Mr. Steve Ethair's entertainment on the
laig.l afforded much gratification to the audience.
the performance concluded with (we quote from the bills)
viahe barrel
at
performances of the wondrous Leotard,"
oce:s,realiY outdid himself in several new feats on the
made his
At the close he was rapturously applauded, and
a }me obeisance a second time to the audience, among
whom were many ladies and gentlemen of distinction.
_ GOLD EN ROUTE FROM AUSTRALIA.—There are
Q(Picr 11 ships due in England from Australia, with gold on
board to the amount of about a million and a quarter ster-
n h.
The following are the names of the vessels and the
4111°Wit of specie on board :—The Indemnity, for London,
Out 108 days, with 12,477 ounces, of the value of £49,780;
tlhneMonarch for London, out 108 days, 42,581 ounces, va•
40,834 ; 'the clipper ship Lightning, out 99 days, for
f Liverpool, 24,040 ounces, valued at £91,160 ; the Clutha,
for London' out 101 days, 22,662 ounces, value £90,160;
Mooria for London, from Geelong, out 94 days,
14'994 ounces 'valued at £47,856 ; the Scottish Chief, for
Liverpool,out 92 days, with 4,438 ounces, valued at
—`1,752 ; Netherby for London, out 87 days, with 5,460
s3dtillaest valued at L'2l 840 ; the Queen of Nations, for Lon-
-;,00, out 86 days, with' 33,212 ounces, valued at £132,848
Southampton,' for London, out 87 days, 49,879 ounces,
allied at £177,576; the Marian Moore, for London, out 75,
1.,(14?8,' 8,287 ouces valued at £32,988 ; and the Result, for
From
out 72 Ways, 39,403 ounces, valued at £151,612.
"'HA the returns of the amount of gold shipped from Aus-
tralia we learn that the total shipments were 1,847,713
°llllaas of gold, valued at £7,390,852.
We learn by the last accounts from China that
the
'aropeen, steam transport, having on board the Siamese
ambassadors, arrived at Bangkok on the 4th January.
hey were received on the following day by the Firs King,
°n
whose mind the recital of their visit to France appeared
t 0 produce a very favourable impression.
The Emperor of Austria paid a visit three days
back to Count Forgach, Chancellor of Hungary, who has
been for some time suffering from illness at -Vienna.