The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-23 00:00:00

3/ 0 NEI' MARKET AND

CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
The discount market is rather quieter to-day,
the demand for commercial purposes having abated,
while the effect produced by the payments on ac -
can't of the Moorish Loan has ceased to influence
either the demand or the quotations. The minimum
at the Bank remains at 2 per cent., while the
terms in the open market range as low as 21- per
cent.

A moderate amount of business was transacted
in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, but
pr ices were variable. The sales were 5,000 bales.
At the Bank of England yesterday the bullion
'operations were of an unimportant character.
The bar silver by the last West India packet has
been sold at ss. lid. per cz. standard.
The Etna, from America, has brought £76,000,
and the Borussia £26,880, in specie.
A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. will be
proposed at the ensuing meeting of the Scottish
Australian Investment Company.
The market for Public Securities to-day has been
rather firmer, although the transactions have been
ether restricted. Consols, which closed yesterday
afternoon at 921 4, are now 92: 93, and the ten-
dency appears favourable. The New Threes and
the Reduced remain at 921 1:; Exchequer Bills,
March, at 17s. prem.; ditto, June, 20s. and 235. ;
Bank Stock is 242 k and 243; and India 5 per
Cent. is firm at 1051- 106.
Very little alteration has taken place in Foreign
Securities, and a fair amount of business has been
transacted. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 831 I;
ditto, 1858, 731 741 ; Mexican are steady at 29k a ;
Portuguese, at 4614 ; Sardinian, at 771 ; Spanish,
at 521 54; ditto Deferred are flat at 424, and Vene-
zuelan have receded to 231. The Moorish Loan is
44 51 prem.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under:--
1862. 1861.
Great Western
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton 13,378 11,050
Midland
South-Eastern
'Great Northern 23,629 25,381
Lancashire and Yorkshire
:Bristol and Exeter 6,016 6,353
North-eastern
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 13,128 12,735
_Eastern Counties
_Edinburgh and Glasgow 6,135 6,862
Great Southern and Western of Ireland 7,031 7,236
Great Western of Canada 11,466 7,242
These returns, in several instances, are still of an
unsatisfactory character-on the North Western
there is a decrease of £2,515 ; on the Midland of
£1,664; on the Great Northern of £1,760; on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire of £2,679; on the Bristol
and Exeter of £337, and on the North Eastern of
£2,019 ; the Great Western, however, shows an
increase of £498 ; the South Western of £1,243 ;
-the Brighton of £2,328 ; the South Eastern of
-.C160 ; the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of
£393; the Eastern Counties of £1,245; the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow of £273, and the Great Western
of Canada of £4,224.
Business in the Railway Share Market has con-
tinued rather inactive, and a slight heaviness has
prevailed. Great Westerns have declined about
15s. ; Great Northern, 10s. ; and Lancashire and
-Yorkshire, North Western, and Midland, ss. ;
Eastern Counties, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
oln, North Eastern (Berwick), and South Eastern,
Lave improved 5s

In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
liaa been little change of importance. Grand
Trunk of Canada and Great Western of Canada
realised previous prices; East Indian declined 55.;
and Great Indian Peninsula advanced ss.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
were in very limited request, and prices were with-
out material change.

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BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
'Bank Stock
242 k 3
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92} f i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92i 1
New 31 per Cent. Annuities lOO
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent. lOOl
Ditto 51 per Cent lo624Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 991 100
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account, Feb. 6 93 2A i
March. I . June.
20 3 pm
20 3 pm
20 3 pm

Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2.3
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Prazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860
.. 914
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Ditto Deferred, 1 per Cent
Usitian 6 per Cent ....
Ditto 41 per Cent Blf
I.llexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
%Grenada Active
Do. Ex over-due Coups. & Hectares lO
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 46
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, and '6O —
I )itto Account
:Russian 5 NO Cent. 1822, £ St —
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859
-ardinian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account
fipanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded 6li
'Turkish 6 per Cent. B3l
i)itto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Ditto Account . 231
Ditto 11 pet Cent l2
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861
TIIREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, 'Money
Ditto Account