The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NEWS-YESTERDAY.

The following gold ships are now on the way
from Australia to this country, viz. :—The Swift-
sure, with 4'191,000 ; the Orwell, with £124,000 ;
the Sussex, with. £112,000; the Formosa, with
£52,000 ; and the Marco Polo, with £43,500. The
total is £522,500, of which about £207,000 is now
due.

It appears that there is a probability of the South
Australian Government abandoniug the branch mail
service,between Adelaide and King George's Sound.
At the same time, however, the idea is revived of
extending a line of telegraph from Adelaide to
Albany, which, it is mentioned, would bring the
whole of the Australian colonies six days nearer to
.England.

An extraordinary meeting of the Pernambuco
Railway Company is called. for the 14th of August,
"for the purpose of taking the sense of the share-
holders as to the expedienQy of suspending the pay-
merit of the half-year's interest falling due on the
31si; inst."

The annual meeting of the Australian Agricul-
tural Company is convened for the 29th inst.

CITY NEWS-THIS DAY.
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Decreased easiness is perceptible in the discount
market to-day—first-class bills, of which there is
a very limited supply, being now negotiated at 28
per cent.
The Jura, from Quebec, has brought £13,700 in
specie.
To-day a call of 30s, per share became d
the South-Eastern Railway 5 per cent. shares.ue on
The traffic receipts of the Dutch Rhenish Rail-
way for the fortnight finding 30th of June, 1862,
amounted to £9,038 3s. at2d., and for the correspond-
ing period of last year to 19,993 3s. lid., showing
a decrease of £955 Os . 61d. against the present
year.
The operations in the Foreign and Colonial
Produce Markets during the last few days have not
been very extensive, and for most of the principal
staples previous prices have not exhibited any
material variation. Sugars have been dealt in to a
fair extent, but tea, coffee, tnd cocoa have remained
inactive. Rice was in ate ady request, and at the
conclusion of public sales of indigo prices were in
some instances a shade fir mer, good and fine quali-
ties closing at an advance of about 3d. per lb. on
the previous sales' rates. The tallow market has
been dull but steady, and prices were without
change of importance for both present and forward
delivery.

Two o'CLoCK.
The first ordinary 'meeting of the Metropolitan
and Provincial Bank was held to-day, when
the following report was presented :—" The direc-
tors would not have thought it necessary to call the
gether at so early a period after the
commencement of business, had not the constitution of the bank required it ; but although the statement
of accounts to be laid before the meeting embraces
Et period of ten weeks only, the directors are able to
report that very satisfactory progress has been
ade, and a large number of valuable accounts
secured. The shareholders will perceive that the
amount due by the bank, on current and other ac-
counts, is ;266,506155. 3d., and the total liabilities,
£337,228 14s. sd. The balance of profit and leas,
aftera paying all expenses to the 30th of June, is
,282 15s. Od. The directors do not propose at
present to deal with this amount, but have carried
it forward to the credit of the next half-year. The
articles of association provide that the directors
Tshould continue in office till the ordinary meeting.
hey have accordingly to submit their re-appoint-
tto the shareholders." Lord Fermoy,
who
occupied the chair, congratulated the meeting upon
the sucatess of the undertaking, and said that he
believed a very good dividend might be expected
at their next half yearly meeting. The report was
adopted, and the directors re-elected.
. No change of importance has taken place to-day
in the market for Public Securities, and the trans-
actions have not been numerous. Consols are 9218
for transfer, and 921 1 for the 7th proximo. The
general condition of the market appears satisfac-
tor
*y, The New Threes and the Reduced are
na at 911 i; Exchequer Bills at 16s. to 18s. prem. ;
India rive per Cents Loan is flat at 1071.
oftn. the poreig
Turkish 6 per a Market the dealings have been
a Moderate character, but prices continue firm.
61tto, "191 Cents. are maintained at 84; 85 ;
—5B, at 71i 3 ; ditto, Paid-up Scrip, at
Egyptian 7 per
81 69 ; Italian per Cents. have improved to 71; ;
Cent. Scrip, to 71, 1; Moorish are
961 ; Russian Scrip
92 1 ; and Venezuel,
`an' 23
dos; ; Spanish Certificates,
Inben th
very extensive, but prices generally have
in
Lancashire and Yorkbushire oyancy. Eastern Counties,
Wick), have improved Ss. ; and South-Westerns
, 108.
alined 10s. ; Caledonians, however, de-
. Business in the Foreign and Colonial lines con-
Venetian inactive. Soutk Austrian and Lombardo-
-81 improved to 221 ; Sambre and Meuse, to
8-4 9 ; East Indian remained steady, at 1031 104;
and Madras 5 per Cents. at 10014,.
On the Great Western
traffic returns for Railway of Canada the
ck th e week ending the 4th inst.,
amounted to £8 356 , against £6,061 last year.
Joint-St
o Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
haveeeu been insb good demand, and enhanced rates have
bshed. pool have i Alliance of London and Liver
•
mproved to 11* 121; London and Bra-
zilian, to 61; London and South African, to 121;
London and Westminster, 82
271 ; National Discount 1; Ottoman Bank, to Company, to 63- ; and
Peninsular and Oriental Steam, to 70.
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BUITISII FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
2 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 924 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities *******
--..
92a 5
Iti per 3 per Cent. Annuities **********
924 i
ndia stuck ...
****************
4
_Ditto 5
per
emit:
....................
Ditto
1781 71
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per . Cent, ....... 4
Debentures
Consols for Account 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 100 i
, Aug. 7 .. .
Exchequer Bills Xl,OOO, 3 per Cent .......... 192
61 i
Ditto £5OO 418
.............. 16 18
Ditto Small ........................ 16 18
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK,
Milian 6 per Cent ............... 1021
Ditto 45 per Cent ... ......
.......... Egyptian, 7 Far Cent., Scrip .... ... ... 835
......... 7/
Ditto, Paid up Scrip ......... . ...... 891 5
Italian li per Cent. (Maremmana R:ailway) 71±
MDitto Scrip... , .................. • • par ipm
exican, 3 per Cent ................ 28
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent ............ 961
New Grenada, 2 per Cent 25
.tiissian 6 tier Cent 182? XSt ~. .
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1832, Scrip .......... Lill&
Ditto Paid-up Scrip
`ardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 Der Cent
Ditto Pa;.sive..
95
Ipitnish Cert. of Coup. not funded
_
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
841
Ditto Account
.. 711
Lotto 6 per Cent. 1858
711
Ditto Account 'Ditto, 4100 Boild
Ditto, Paid up 6 Bonds
.. 681 9
Vnezuela, 3 Per Centcri ......
23
Italian, 81)1 Idn'te en the above payable in London.
Per Cent., 1861, Ex, 25f.
TWO O'CLOCK
Con4ols, mote
92A a
Ditto A.ccoll.t .. ...................
922
4
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THE IN-

-- ,iTERNAT
of visitors Yesterday was4___, payment, 57,940;
tctal, 6,6313 Season
tickets, 6,413,
THE DIVINING R0b.......T.,
x.ven
at the present day,
persons are to be foutd who believe in the efficacy of the
divining rod in the flndi ,
'3b of hidden veins of metals. A-
number of these " minral witches " or " ore smelters"
have been in Washoe, touting the ,4 little joker," and have
been the cause of the,
of dollars being spent in places
grossly unpromising. In several instances long tunnels
have been run and deep shafts stank, involving a large out-
lay of timfe
baintdofmfaorna
satillekono:hwezirebngth
of.
out-
actions
enosnotaining a solution of variozs the livelT
riaiiieenrealawatiutheka l
on end.—Californian paper.
A recent discovery of silver lodes bas been made
in the district of Capiapo, at a distance of about twenty-
four miles from Pabellon, in the upper part of that river,
which has roused the lvves. of large. returns, and given
fresh impulse to the languishing spirits of the miners, and
ndustry.--
to all business connected with that branch of i
Xanama litralci.