The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-03 00:00:00

The general money market, which a few days
ago exhibited so much firmness and activity, has
already relaT:sed into comparatively quiet state,
and the rates show a slight relaxation. First class
bills and also loins on Government securities can
be negotiated on easicr terms, and a greater dispo-
sition is evinced by the banks and discount firms to
employ their resources s.t the current prices.
The amount of gold taken into the Bank yester-
day was £34 000.
The Giant's Causeway, with £49,000, and the
Marion Moore, with £33,030, have arrived from
Australia. The City of Washington, from New
York, has brought £46.000 in specie.
The Pera, which leaves to-morrow for India,
China, &c., wilt take out £104,972.
The bar silver by the West India steamer La
Plata has been sold at ss. lid. per oz.
A dividend at the rate of 31 per cent. is recom-
mended by the directors of the Great Western Rail-
way of Canada, leaving £21,507 to be carried over.
There was a moderate inquiry for cotton in the
Liverpool market yesterday, and prices were
slightly firmer. The sales were about 5,000 bales.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :--

1862. 1861.
Great Western .. 150,460 £53,024
North-Western
south- Western
Brighton 13,823 19,685
Midland
South-Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter 5,833 6,304
North Eastern
Great south and West Ireland
13dinburgh and Glasgow 6,527 6,562
Grand Trunk of Canada .. 15,611 14 957
Great Western of Canada 11,193 10,363
These returns are very unfavourable, but it must
be remembered that they are contrasted with the
Pleasure receipts of Easter week, which occurred at
the corresponding period of last year.
On the Greit Western there is a decrease of
£2,564, on the North-Western of £8,885, on the
South- Western of £4,068, on the Brighton of X 5,862.

On tho Midland of 13,512, on the South-Eastern o:

Lo 820, on the Great Northern of £2,421, on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire of £7,826, and on the
North-Eastern of £3,861. The Grand Trunk of
Canada, however, shows an increase of £654, and
the Great Western of Canada of £B3O.

CITY NEWS, THIS DAY.

Two o'CLocK.

The official returns relating to trade and naviga-
tion for the two months ending the 28th February
have just been published. From these it appears
that the total declared value of the exports from
the United Kingdom during that period was
416,759,114 against £16,718,419 in the like period
of 1861, showing an increase of £40,695. The in-
crease is most perceptible in beer and ale, coals and
culm, linen manufactures, sheeps' and lambs'-wool,
141 d woollen manufactures. A decrease is, how-
ever, perceptible in cotton manufactures, cotton
Yarn, haberdashery and millinery, hardwares and
eutlery, machinery, silk manufactures, and British
spirits. The importations of the principal articles
'Were larger as respects flax, hemp, provisions, salt-
petre, raw silk, spices, tallow, sheep and lambs'-
'Wool, coffee and tea; but smaller as regards live
animals, raw cotton, quicksilver, wheat, barley,
fruit, sugar, timber, tobacco, and wine. •

The shipping accounts exhibit a decrease in the
amount of tonnage employed in the foreign trade
of the United Kingdom for the two months of
46,363 tons for the entries inwards ; but there is
an increase of 107,344 tons for the clearances out-
'Ward s.

In the coasting trade for the same period there
Vas an increase of 26,466 tons for the entries in-
Wards; but a decrease of 75,710 for the clear-
ltuees outwards, as compared with those in the like
Period of 1861. _ _

The market for Public Securities opened this
morning with an improved appearance, and trans-
actions took place at a rise of I- per cent., but it was
not maintained, subsequent sales having occasioned
a relapse. Consols were 93 94 for transfer and
the 10th inst., but they have since receded to 934 ;
and 931' The quotations for the May account are 94.
The New Threes are steady at 924- I; the Reduced,
at 921 ; Exchequer Bilk, at 17s. to 20s. prem. ;
India Stock is firm at 226 ; and the 5 por Cent. at
1081,
Business in the Foreign Market has continued
moderately active, and prices are tolerably steady.
Old Turkish 6 per Cents. are 834 84i ; ditto, 1858,
'704 71i ; the £lOO Bonds are firm at 73 ; ditto 4
per Cents , at 103 ; Itaiian 5 per Cents., at 664 ;
and Russian 5 per Cents., at 100; Spanish Deferred
are 431 ; Mexican are flat at 34; 8 ; but the
Moorish Scrip is firm at 61 1 pram.

There have been some extensive purchases of the
liev Turkish Scrip this morning, and the latest
quotations are 22 y Iy:ern.

Easiness in the Railway Share Market has con-
tinued moderately active, and a slight advance has
taken place in prices. Eastern Counties, North
Vesterns, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Mid-
ikids and North Eastern (Berwick), have improved
as.; Caledonians and South Easters, and Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 10s. ; and Great Northern, 15s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have also been
11 fair request at steady prices. Austrian and
Lombardo-Venetian
have improved 201 t; Great
Luxembourg are 139 ; Dutch Rhenish, 161
'rand Trunk of Canada have improved to 251,;
44d East Indian to 1041.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
4 shade firmer. Ottoman Bank advanced to 281 ;
140ndon and South African to 1O 11. Crystal
'alace Stock is flat at 351, and Peninsula and
Oriental Steam at 68,-.Z.

The Securities which bare attracted most atten-
x%`oll this morning have been the shares of the
Joint Stock Banks. The Alliance, of which the
allotment took place last evening, have been dealt
in at 71, but are now only 51 / premium. The
Imperial, at one time, touched 2 21 premium, but,
In this instance also, a reaction has occurred, and
the latest quotations are 11 I premium.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
t per Cent. Reduced Annuities .... 92/
313er Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire •iith Jan., 1880• •
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 ls+
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent 1(124 /
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 100
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
t\ Ditto under .01.000
1„;sols for Account, April 10... 931
'lchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent l7 20
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
il'Ar.ilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, b per Cent., 1839 & 1859 —
Ditto Acco nt.
,Milian 6 per Cent
IDitto 4/ ner Cent ....
*itaican, 3 per Cent .................. 861-
341
1 Ditto Account .
Imperial Moorish Scrip 6l I
h°ltBuguese 3 per Cent., 1853..
.I.lssian 5 per Cent. 1822, S, St ..
100
l'aniBn. 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred —
I)itt 0 Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. —
13,itto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
_Ditto 1.00 80nd5....
Venezuela,
Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
v.,senezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditty Account 241 I
Dividends on the above payable in London.
lieTian' 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f .. 100
ur ten 2!,-; per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil...
99i
:ital. I, CertMentzs. 4 per Cent.
lan, 5 per Cent., 186/ 66a

THRE E O'CLOCK.
e(ItiMIR, Money •
bitto Account

VVRECK OF A CONVICT SHIP ON THE ISLE OF
vit,"T.---About two o'clock, yesterday morning, a ship,
1)—'1-turn-convicts from Bermuda, ran on shore at Brixton.
4 11ilidentially she came between two ledges of rock on the
ng
of Y beach within 20 yards of the shore, and the whole
the crew and convicts (about 240) were got safely on
°re• The troops from Parkhurst Barracks were marched
1")11,t to take charge of the convicts, and they have been all
14tight in, and are lodged in the Juvenile Prison at Park •
tit theme They seemed all to be well off for money, and most
Zuade a great deal too free with intoxicating drinks,

ONEY MARKET. SHARE MARKET.,.-THIS DAY.