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

CITY NEWS-THIS DAN .

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Bank of England return completed to the
18th June ;is of a more satisfactory character.
There is a considerable addition to the stock of
bullion, and also to the reserve of notes. The
Public Deposit, have been largely augmented, and
there is a slir:4ht diminution in the private deposits
and the ot!der securities. The other items of the
balance sheet and the changes they present are
shows in the subjoined table :
.A.ctive Circulation .. £20,478,620
Decrease ..211,646
Bullion .. 15,268,453
..
Increase 235,353
Rest •••
.. 3,126,721
Increase .. .• • • '• 5,948
Public Deposits ••• 9,322,949
Increase .. • • 497,433
Otb.er Deposits.. 13,085,271
Decrease • • • • • ' 71,391
Seven Day and other Bills ..
Decrease . 597,439. 38,937
,
Government Securities 1/034,751
Increase • • .. 699,260
Other Securities • • ..
53,945
20,210,796
..
Decrease
Notes unemployed .. ••
• .. 8,579,715
Increase • 8,384,715
The Kangaroo, from New York, has brought
£99,780, 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 directors 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, Victoria 6 per Cents., and Russian
41 per Cent. Bonds.
During the last few days there has been very
little animation in the iForeign and Colonial Pro-
duce Markets, Tea. however, has maintained full
prices. Sugars hExv e been rather cheaper ; and little
change of impwaance can be recorded in the quota-
tions for cot:fee, rice, and saltpetre. Tallow has
been dun. for both present and forward delivery.
P.Y.C. on the spot being quoted 465. 9d., and last
three months 48s. 6d. to 48s. 9d. per cwt.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

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 ,Z 5,476.
A decline of 4 per cent. has taken place in the
Market for Public Securities, and the buoyancy
during the last faw days has been succeeded by
indications of heaviness, Consols being 914 4 for
money, and 911 92 for account. The unsettled
state of the, weather seems to be exerting a rather
unfavourable influence. The New Threes remain
at 914 ; Reduced at_9l4 ; Exchequer Bills at
3s. te, 6s. prem. India 5 per cent. Loan is firm at
101 i 108 i.
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
having taken place at 284 and the latest price
is 274 28. Egyptian Scrip is steady at 24 and 31
-prem. ; Spanish 3 per Cents. are at 544 55 ; ditto
Passive have improved to 194 4; ditto Certificates
are firm at 9 ; Venezuelan, at 244 4 ; Russian Scrip
is heavy at Q 8 prem ; Turkish 6 per Cents, 1854,
are 824 83; ditto, 1858, 704 4 ; and the New Scrip
is steady at 34 8 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 4 to 4 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 6s. ; and
Brighton, 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained
inactive. Great Luxembourg has receded to 131
14 ; Sarabre and Meuse advanced 104 4 ; and East
IndiP.n have receded to 106.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
-have remained without any change of importance.
London Joint Stock, however, have improved about
55.;
Rio Oriental Bank, 10s. ; Red Sea Telegraph. and
Janeiro Improvement Scrip remain steady
at previous rates.
The Eastern Bengal Tea Shares are 8 4 prem. ;
and Me Strand Hotel, -4 4 prem,
_
BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ....... 911 4
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities . .... ../
,
New 3 per Cent. Annuities .
. ..
. . .. 91 2 11 2
.. . 914 a 1
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth.Jan ... 1880 ..
.
India
DittoStoock .fr 30 yrs, expire sthApril, 1885 15 3-16
Ditto 5 per Cent
1/
Ditto Enfacea. Paper, 4 per Cent.... 9207 8/
it
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 5I
per Cent.
Ditto .I)ebentures, 4 per. Cent., Oct., 1863 994 1
Ditto dtito April, 1864 991 4
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 994
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO .
'C onsols for Account .......
, July 10
• 92. 18
14
17
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent .. • .08/
Ditto X5OO ..... 3 6
1
Exchequer Bills Xl,OOO, 3 per Cent . •
..........
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
EEu,eaos Ayres 6 per Cent
gyptian, 7 per Cent
Ditto Paid-up Scrip, ......... ..•: . 85i 5
'ltalian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Rail; a.y.) Ditto Scrip
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
:I,lssititi 5 per Cent 1822 . £ St ..........
Ditto, per Cent., 1862, Scrip ........ 1 a
it
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 93
Spanish 3 per Cent
'Ditto Account
3Ditto New Deferred

44i
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive..
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
bitto 6 per Cent. 1858 ..
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 1862 (Scrip) 3i if i
Ditto, Paid up Scrip
Venezuela, 3 per Cent 1
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
COT-1801N THREE O'CLOCK.
Mone
94.1
Ditto Account — . 911 2
.....
A G

ORILLA TALE OF BORNEO.—Some years
ago one of their young men was wandering in the jungle,_rs
_e
armed with a sumpitan, or blowpipe, and a sword.H
hot
came to the banks of a peebly stream,
and, being a
day, he thought he would have a bathe. He placed his
areas and clothes at the foot of a
tree, and then went into
the water. After a time, being sufficiently refreshed, he
was returning to dress, when he
perceived an enormous
female ourang-outang standing between him and the tree.
She advanced towards him, as he stood paralysed by sur-
prise, and seizing him by the arm, compelled him to follow
her to a branching tree and climb up it. When he reached
her resting-place, consisting of boughs and branches woven
into a comfortable nest, she made him enter. There he
remained some months, jealously watched by i
companion, fed by her on fruits and
the ca
has
cage strange
the of
palm, and rarely permitted to touch the earth ,e ith his
feet
ontinue, but compeelled to move from tree to treP. This li
cd som time, till the female ourang-outang be-
coming less watchful, permitted the Alurut' more liberty,
p down the trunk of the tree
He availed himself of it to slip
and run to the place wherehe had for the
left his weapons.
She, seeing his attempted escape, followed, only to be
poisoned arrow, I
pierced, as she approached him, by a .
was told if I would ascend the Fades River as far as the
man's village, I might hear the story from his own lips, as
he was still alive,—)Spencer St, John.