The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-16 00:00:00

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
A. full, average amount of business has been
neg °Halted in the discount market to-day, and
the rate 38 have been firmly maintained.
S incv s Monday last the imports of specie have
been bout £184,900, and the exports £362,720.7
Ad vices from Australia announce the departure
of tb e following vessels with gold for England—.
*viz-, the Lincolnshire, with £194,668 ; Blue Jacket,
£lO 4,000; and the Anglesey, with £27,616.
7 :he half-yearly-dividend on the Turkish 6 per
Ce at. Loan of 1858 has been announced for pay-
,eat.

The traffic receipts of the Melbourne and Hob-
son's Bay Railway for the month ending the 19th
June amounted to £4,802 against £5,275 in 1861.

CITY, Two o'CLocic.
The Liverpool Cotton Market to-day continues
to improve. Sales about 10,000 bales.
At Paris, this morning, the Three per Cent.
Rentes opened at 68fr. 95c., being the same as the
closing price on Wednesday.
Increased dullness and depression have prevailed
in the market for the English Funds today, chiefly
in consequence of the unsettled state of the weather
and the injury it is likely to inflict upon the grow-
ing crops. Consols are about s per cent. lower, viz.,
93 for transfer and 931 for the account. The New
Threes are 931 ; Reduced, 93i; Exchequer Bills
remain at 18s. to 21s. prem.; India Stock has re-
ceded to 228; and ditto 5 per Cent. Loan is steady
at 1081.
The chief feature in the Foreign Market is a
further important decline in Turkish Securities;
dealings have taken place in the 6 per C. of 1854, at 832 82 ; of 1858, 71 691 ; andents in the
New Loan Scrip at 21 1 dis. ; Mexican Stock is
steady at 28i; Egyptian paid-up Scrip is 941 95 Grenada 2 per Cents. 261; Russian 5 per Cents.
961 97 ; ditto New paid-up Scrip 931 4 ; Spanish
; and Italian 701.
The Portuguese Loan is 21 4 prem.; the Vene-
tsuelac, par 1 prem. ; and the Peruvian 11 to 1 dis.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings
have been very limited, and a further downward
movement has taken place in prices. Great East-
erns and North Easterns have declined ss. ; Mid-
lands, 10s. ; North Eastern (Berwick), 155.; and
Great Western, ; Great Northern, however:, have
Rd'ilinced £l.
The Foreign and Colonial lines are in some in-
Stances rather firmer. South Austrian and Loin-
barqo-Venetian have improved to 221 ; San Paulo to
.91 ; East Indian. to 1041, 105 ; and Great Western
of Canada remain firm at 121.
Joint-stock Bank and Misccalaneous Shares
e7c.hibit rather more firmness. -London and South
African have improved to 151 4 ; Canada Land t 1 Q,o
73103; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam to

3 BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 9
~ Per Cent• Reduced Annuities
93 f
New Cent: Consols Annuities
93k 3 / 3
/ ew 3 per Cent. Annuities
IVlas. Stock 228
.......
108 a
I.)itto 5 per Cent, bitto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 93
1111
~... Ditto 5 ape Cent
übonsols
count, Sept.
21 18
'll(ellettuer Tdills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent
..e . FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PIRBIICES.
bql.Lador New Consolidated
.1781iiPtttoiaPn'ai7cl12uerp Cent.,
Seri')
941 5
me ii:n 6 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 72
Ivrililtet_aotiZopunertCei:t
28}
26/
. Grenada, 2 per Cent
46*
4-ortugese 3 per Cent., 1853. .
46±
sit), itto Account
1 gßian 5 per Cent 1822 £ St —
Ditto Ditto Ac,count
fo, Paid up Scrip 931 /
,„Pazji.s+4. 3 per Cent
_
'',,,13.c, eh 6 per Cent. 1854
I..P.ttio Account
Ditto 6 1
Ditto per Cent. 1858 _.bitto Account
Bonds
71 70}f 691 i I 1
Ditt ,6
Paid
oaid up Scrip 66* 73 2i 3
/ dis
1 21
Dittoo,per
5i 6± 5
P 4
Dividends on the above payable in London.
but
~
ch 2f per Cent
Exchange 12 Gull.
Ditto Certiacates, 4 per Cent.
Italian, 5 21
per Cent., 1861, Ex. 2sf.
bonsols, M TWO 0' CLO C ts. .
oney .
Ditto Account .......
93 *
........

THE LATE ACCIDENT
ITALL —The public will be
nog ad AT THE CANTERBURY
ad to learn that the accident
at first expected. He is now
'which betel Argonaud is not orfasioserious a nature as was
Y
few days will be enabled to
seams
recovering, and in a
orre ances. sume his astonishing per-
THE LATE ACCIDENT AT HIGE(BURY B
`On inquiry to-day at St. Bartholomew's HospitalARN.—
stated that the unfortunate woman, " the Peraale 1310nitdivna,s, was still in a very precarious state. She is at present lying
in that part of the building known as the Queen's iivar-dg
Under the care of Mr. Butler; but her sufferings are tills 80 acute that any surgical examination to discover the emact anv,ount of injury she has sustained is still impossible.
NEW SOUTH WALES.—DARING HIGHWAY GOLD
ItOBISERY.—One of the most daring and extensive highway
robberies ever committed in this colony was perpetrated on
the afternoon of Sunday, June 15. The gold escort from
the Lachlan, in coming down towards Sydney, was attacked
by a notorious highwayman, named Gardiner, and a band
of twelve ruffians under his command. Drags had been
upset across the pathway. Here Gardiner planted his men,
whom he commanded with great skill and daring. Volley
after volley was fired at the troopers, until all were disabled,
When the robbers secured the gold (amounting to £14,000
1:211h), and also ransacked the letter bags. The police
were •
Immediately in pursuit, but have not as yet captured
any of the desperadoes. They were so hotly pursued, how-
ever, that a pack-horse belonging to them, having 1,500
~4.Zrees of gold tied on its back, was secured by the police.
oldiner has been for a long time the terrror of the
; his depredations were carried on in a wholesale
o'en
Inver. It says little, however, for the police efficiency
ew South Wales that such a number' of men should be
Allowed to prowl about, doing just as they like. Govern-
caa_ has offered the insignificant reward of £lOO for the
vapture of each of the robbers, or a free pardon to any of
note turning Queen's evidence; but Gardiner
's men are
tot to be tempted by such paltry offers.
The
ram relating to
the following is a copy of a teleg
laying down of the electric telegraph cable by the
--attiet• hawthorn :—" Zandevoot, Aug.
11.---
e-i,ee"sfully laid and landed in Zandevoot at 7 Cable most
The last mail from New Zealand brings
.
Zetlee of the death of Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, tellv :
ace?raplished more for the improvement of colonizari
or, 444 the last 30 years than any other man of hie age,

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