The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-27 00:00:00

MONEY -MARKET.

CITY NEWS-YES I'ERDAY.

An instalment of 10 per cent. falls due on the
Turkish Loan for £:8,060,-.:00 stock on Tuesday
nest, the 13t of July, but deduction must be made
for the y( arly interest, amounting to 6 per cent.,
and for the total already paid in full.

Gold to the extent of £llB,OOO was pureased by
the Bank to-day. The City of New York has
arrived from New York with £245,000 in specie,
and the Suffolk from Melbourne with £142,000,
making together £387,000.' There is still an ab-
sence of demand for gold for the Continent, and the
accumulation in the Bank is therefore expected to
continue.

It appears that the "A" shares and debentures
of the Varna Railway Company, mentioned in the
prospectus as fully subscribed for, have been taken
by Messrs. Peto and Co., the contractors.
The half-year's interest on the Debenture Bonds
of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Com-
pany will be paid by the English, Scottish, and
Australian Chartered Bank.
The dividends are advertised on Michigan Central
Railway Six per Cent. sterling Bonds.
The Chartered Bank of British Columbia are
perfecting all their arrangements, and the share-
holders' deed is now at the bank's office for signa-
ture, in order to facilitate the commencement of
business.

The amount of gold now on the way from Aus-
tralia to England is £517,000.
The Liverpool Cotton Market was again dearer
today, particularly as regard:3 Surat sorts, but the
transactions were upon a less active scale, amount-
ing to-12,000 bales.
The Council of India require tenders for the con-
veyance of about 4,600 troolp from the United
Kingdom to India.
The remaining £8,500 of British Guiana 6 per
cent. bonds were disposed of to-day. The bonds are
in sums of £l,OOO and £5OO each, having 41 years
to run from the Ist of July next, and the minimum
was fixed at 11 per cent. premium.
At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Rentes
closed at 68.20 for money, and 68.35 for the ao
count, being a trifle lower than yesterday.

CITY NEWS-THIS DAY .
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Bank of England
return, completed to the
24th instant, shows some rather favourable altera-
tions. The influx of Australian and American gold
has caused a large addition to the stock of precious
metals, and there is also a considerable increase in
the reserve of notes. The public and private de-
posits both show a slight augmentation. The other
items of the balance-sheet and the changes they
present are shown in the subjoined table :
Active Circulation „ £2O, 584,305
Increase • • 105,685
Bullion 15,909,638
••1341,185
Increase : •
Increase .. • . •
9,6`?9, 94
Rest
•' ••• .•: 3,132,5035782
Public Deposits
Increase .. 306'6, 45,-
Other Deposits..
Increase 313,9 i 4
Seven Day and other „ 588,652
13,399,24,a
8,787
Decrease ..
Government Securities 11,084,751
Increase .. .. • • • •
20,242,910
50,000
Other Securities .. • • • •
Increase .. • • • • ..32,111
Notes unemployed .. .. • • 9,085,985
Increase .. 506,270• • • • "
The amount of notes in circulation is £20,584,305,
being an increase of £105,685; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £15,909,638, show-
ing an increase of £641,185 when compared with
the Preceding return.
At the annual meeting of the Minerva Life
Assurance Company, a dividend of 5 per cent., and
a bonus of £1 10s. per share were declared.
The operations in the Foreign and Colonial Pro-
duce Markets during the last few
days have not
been very
clined in value
extensive. Sugars have slightly de-
, while coffee realised about former
quotations. Tea continued in fair demand at full
rates. Rice, fruit, and spices, however, have
shown very little change as regards prices. The
tallow nvirket, however, has exhibited symptoms of
a reaction, and prices have improved. P.Y.C., on
the spot to 475., and for last three months to 498.
per cwt.
A further portion (10 miles) of the Cape Town
Railway was opened to Stellenbosch on the 3rd of
May.

There is no charge inCITY, Two O'CLOCK.
the a
Money Market to 'da ppearance of the
y, the inquiries being limited,
and the rates extremely easy. The continued flow
of gold into the Bank of England induces the
opinion that a further relaxation is not improbable,
and the banks and discount houses being anxious to employ their resources, are inclined to offer
greater facilities, especially to their regular clients.
Very little business has been negotiated in Public
Securities to-day, but sales have and a decline of preponderated,
per cent. has taken place. Con-
sols are 91 for money, and 91i for the account.
The New Threes and the Reduced are rather
firmer at 91 ; Exchequer Bills are 6s. to 9e.
prem. ; India 5 par Cent. Loan is flat at 1081
Very little alteration has taken place in the
Foreign Market to-day, and about an average
amount of business has been recorded. Mexican 5
per 9. are steady at 281 ; Egyptian Scrip at
1 rem
p. ; Russian ditto at 1 dis. ; and' Italian per Cents. at 711 721- ; Spanish are at ;
but the Certificates are firm at 81 ; ,flat Turkish 6 p 541
per
Cents., 1854, are 841
;• ditto 1838, 701- 71 ; and the
Scrip is 3Z 41 prem. "
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been to a fair extent, but chiefly connected with
the arrangements in progress for the liquidation.
Prices, however, have shown a downward tendency
owing to a pressure of stock on the market. Cale-
donians have declined ss. ; Great Westerns, Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, Midlands, and South-Easterns,
10s.; and North-Westerns, 153. Bristol and Exeter
and London and Blackwell each improved 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continue in
limited request. Great Luxemburg advanced to
14, and Bahia and San Francisco to 17k; Grand
Trunk of Canada have declined to 211; and Great
Southern of India to .103,
Joint Stock Bank and Nli3cellaneons Shares have
continued dull, and prices have undergone no ma-
terial variation.
The shares of the Continental Company for Boat
Building by Machinery are 1 I prem,

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING
PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9l! 4 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ........ 911
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India stock
9latita
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent — 8
1)i t-to 5 per Cent
Ditto 51 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 991 100
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
liitto under a,OOO
Consols for Accounts July 10 ...
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small

PRICES.
_
FOREIGN FUNDS
Brazn 5 per Cent. —CLOSING
901
Ditto 41' per Cent 185'2-58-60 ~
171
Equador New Consolidated
31
EgYPtian, 7 per Cent
86k
Ditto Pais up Scrip
Grenada Active
Ditto Deferred d; •• Olt 4. ,
...........
28-1 t
Mexican, 3 per Cent
281
Ditto Account ................
954
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
451 -4 6
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853..
It,,,sihn i per Cent 1322 £St .. 96t,
Ditto 3 per Cent .1859 59
1, k dis par
Ditto 0 per Cent. 1852, Scrip Spanibil 8 per Cant' 54;-
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Passive...
TSpanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
urkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto, £ICO Bonds
Ditto 1862 (Scrip) •
4k 34
Ditto, Paid up Scrip.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchanze 12 Gu11... 641 5
Italian, 5 per Cont., 1861, Ei. 25f. ........ 72h li 24
Consols,
THREE O'CLOCK.
l‘loney .......
91 _
Ditto Account ............. ...........

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DEATII OF
litcE.--(THIS DAY.) We have to regret the death of Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce, Governor to the Prince of Wales, who expired at
two a,m, this morning at St, James's Palace,