The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-20 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET,

CITY 'NEWS—YESTERDAY.
About £14.4,000 in gold Was taken to the Bank
to-day.
The Kangaroo, from New York, has brought
£lOO,OOO.
The Liverpool, cotton-market continues active at
the recent adrinnee. •
The bar ;liver brought by the West India packet
has been sold (chiefly to continental buyers) at 61d.
per on. This establishes a decline of id. from the
price realised for the previous arrival, but silver
has been extremely flat for the last fortnight. Now
tat the large amount of Mexican dollars ilas been
taken off the market, they have become scarce and
exhibit a tendency to advance.

CITY NEW ;...THIS DAY .
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Bank of England return completed to the
18th June is of a more satisfactory character.
There is a coLsiderable addition to the stock of
bullion, and also to the reserve of notes. The
Public Deposits have been largely augmented, and
there 5.-s a slight diminution in the private deposits,
and the other securities. The other items of the
balance sheet and the changes they present are
shown in the subjoined table :
Active Circulation .. •• .. £20,478,620
Decrease • • • • 211,645
Bullion • • • •
.. 15,268,453
Increase
.. • • • • .. 235,353
Rest 3,126,721
•• •• ••
Increase -• " • • 5,948
Public Deposits • . • • 9,322,949
Increase . • .• .. 497,433
Other Deposits.. .. 13,085,271
Decrease .. • • • • " 71,391
Seven Day an.d •other Bills .. 597,439
Decrease .. • • • • • • 38,937
Tiovernment Securities 11,034,751
!.<. a, Increase .. • . •• . 699,260
Other Securities 20,210,796
..
Decrease ..
945
Increase
Notes unemployed
.. 53,8,579,715
. • .. 384,465
The Kangaroo, from New York, has brought
£90,780, and the New York £80,157 in specie.
A meeting of the Bank of London shareholders
will take place on the 16th proximo, for the decla-
ration of a dividend, &c.
The Crectors of the East India Cotton Agency
have made a call of £1 per share, payable on the
14th July— next.
The half-year's interest is announced on Cape of
Good Hope Government 6 per Cents., Canada Ster-
ling Debentures, Vietoria 6 per Cents., and Russian
4-4. per Cent. Bonds.
During the last few days there has been very
little animation in the Foreign and Colonial Pro-
duce Markets. Tea, however, has maintained full
prices. Sugars have been rather cheaper ; and little
change of importance can be recorded in the quota-
tions for coffee, rice, and saltpetre. Tallow has
been dull for both present and forward delivery.
P.Y.C. on the spot being quoted 465. 9d., and last
throe months 48s, 6d. to 48s. 9d. per cwt.

CITY, Two o'oLocx.
At the annual, meeting yesterday of the Queen's
Hotel Company, Upper Norwood, a dividend of 10
per cent, per annum was agreed to, out of the avail.
able Profits amounting to £5,476.
A decline of 1- per cent. has taken place in the
Market for Public Securities, and the buoyancy
during the last few days has been succeeded by
indications of heaviness, Consols being 913 g for
money, and 911 92 for account. The unsettled
-state ot the weather
Un seems to be exerting a rather
kvourable irlauence. The New Threes remain
'at 91.-.1. ; Reduced at 911
Z $, Exchequer Bills at
10 s. to es. prem. India 5 per cent. Loan is firm at
7i 1081.
There has been very little animation in the
Foreign Market, and the principal feature has
been the further depreciation in the value of Mexi-
can, Stock, owing to the statement made by Earl
Russell in the House of Lords last night, dealings
Davin taken p
is lace at 284 f, and the latest price
27f 28. Egyptian Scrip is steady at 21 and 31
prem. ; Spanish 3 per Cents, are at 541 55 ; ditto
Passive have improved to 19} ; ditto Certificates
are firm at 9 ; Venezuelan, at 24f t ; Russian Scrip
is hearry at * f prem ; Turkish 6 per Cents, 1854,
are &Ai 83 ; ditto, 1858, 704 4 ; and the New Scrip
FAeady at 33 3 prem.
In the Railway Share Market a heavy tone has
prevailed, and most of the principal undertakings
have given way to the extent of about z to 3 per ,
cent. Eastern Counties have receded ss. ; South-
Western, Midland, and North-Eastern (Berwick),
10s.; Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire,
North-Western and South-Eastern, 155.; and
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, £1 10s.; Great
Northern, however, have improved ss. ; and
Btlton, 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained
inactive. Great Luxembourg has receded to 13;
14 ; Sambre and Meuse advanced 101, ; and East
IndAan have receded to 106.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
have remained without any change of importance.
London Joint Stock, however, have improved about
Ss.; Oriental Bank, 10s. ; Red Sea Telegraph and
Rio de Janeiro Improvement Scrip remain steady
at previous rates.

The Eastern Bengal Tea Shares are -7,- 1 prem.
and the Strand Hotel, Z Z. prem,

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
2 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll i
1 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 914 a I
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 3-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent. lO7l 84
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto .54 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 991 4
Ditto dtito April, 1864 991 i
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 994
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Uonsols for Account, July 10
99
India Stock for Aeccumt 5 per Cent ...... f6Bl
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per CP..:,..c ... 36}
DittDitto 4600 ...
o Small ................. .. 3 6
. ................... 3 6 FOWEIGN FUNDs.....ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent .
Egyptian, 7 per Cent
Ditto raid-up Scrip .................. a2l
Mexi',,an, 3 per Cent ................ :: 1
Viii to Account ...... 284 4 4
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent............ 96
'itissian 5 per Cent 1822 £ St
Ditto, 5 per Cent., 1862, Scrip ........ a
Ditto, Paid up Scrip
banish 3 per Cent
5
Ditto Account .. • 619144
I
bitto Passive.. , I
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 ..
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 1862 (Scrip)
Ditto, Paid'up Scrip
Venezuela, 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account .. 241 i
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO 0' OLOUK .
tousele, Alelle y
Ditto Accouit ........
914 2

A GORILLA TALE OF BORNEO. Some
in the jungle,
ago one of their young men was wandering
a sword. He
years
armed with a sumpitan, or blowpipe, and
beino. a hot
came to the banks of a peebly stream, and, day, he thought he would have a bathe.
He
P went into
arms and clothes at the foot of a tree, and then
eshed, he
the water. After a time, being sufficiently refr
enormous
lapced his
was returning to dress, when
ho perceived an
female ourang-outang standing between him
She advanced towards him, as he stood paralysed
bYollow
to f
prise, and seising him by the arm, compelled him
and the tree.
prise,
to a branching tree and climb up it. When he reached
her resting-place, consisting of boughs and branches wovenhe
into a comfortable nest, she made him enter. There
remained some months, jealously watched by his strange
of the
companion, fed by permit n fruits and the cabbage
palm, and rarely
ted to touch the earth with hie
This life
feet, but compelled to move from tree to tree.
continued some time, till the
tholefe ourang-ontang by.
and less watchful, Permitted Murut more liberty.
He availed himself of it to Blip '
down the trunk of the tree
and run to the place where he had formerly left his weapons.
She, seeing his attempted
eseaPe, followed, only to be
pierced,- as she approached i,
h—, by a poisoned arrow. I
Id if I would ascend the
-was to
?tides River as far as the
man's village, I might hear the atoll, from his own lips, as
he WEIA gill olives-4mM Si, 444.