The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-23 00:00:00

CITY NEWS-THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £851,500, and the exports, £1,348,200.
The Australasian, from New York, has brought
£77,922 in specie.

Notice has been given that the sum of £34,721
has been applied to the redemption of 76 Peruvian
41 per Cent. Bonds, and £11,159 to the extinction
of 112 Arica and Tacna Railway Bonds.
The traffic receipts of the South Austrian and
Lombardo-Venetian Railway, for the week ending
the 12th inst., amounted to £50,966, being an in-
crease of £2,652, compared with the same period
last year. On the Central of Italy branch from
Plaisance to Bologna the returns were £3,832,
against £2,841 in 1861.

A greater demand for discount accommodation
has prevailed to-day, and although very little
alteration has taken place in the quotations, an
easier tone has been perceptible.

Two o'CLomi.

The market for Public Securities opened this
morning with an unfavourable appearance, and a
further decline of 1 per cent. was speedily re-
ported, Consols being 931 for transfer, and 93g
for account ; no variation has since occurred, and
the quotations at the close indicated dulness. The
New Threes have risen 931 cl-; and the Reduced,
931 a ; India 5 per Cents. are marked 108 a ; the
5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 103.1 1041; Debentures,
101 1011; and Exchequer Bills, 18s. to 21s. prem.
The dealings in the Foreign Market have not
been of a very extensive character, but prices con-
tinue firm. Turkish 6 per Cents,, 1854, are 85 86;
ditto, 1858, 711 72; ditto New Loan Scrip, 1 (4,
dis. ; and the Consolides, 331 ; Egyptian Scrip
is 12 prem.; Portuguese 3 per Cents, are 461 ; and
the New l oan Scrip has advanced to 2,1,- prem.;
Russian Scrip is par; and Italian 5 per Cents. are
691 y ; Brazilian, 1021. Mexican Stock has ina •
proved to 291 5, but Sardinian are heavy at 831.
In the Railway Share Market. business gene-
rally has continued inactive, but in some instances
prices exhibit an upward tendency. Lancashire
and Yorkshire, North-Westerns, Midlands, and
South Easterns have improved 55., Great Westerns
108., and South Wales £l. Caledonians, however,
have declined ss.

The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in
moderate request without any material alteration
to record in value.

Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares gene-
rally sustain former rates.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 931 h a
India Stock
Ditto 6 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent,, Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 101
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1011
Consols for Account, Sept. 4 93i
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent
Ditto £500
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent
Egyptian, 7 per Cent., Scrip
Mexican, 3 per Cent

Ditto Account ..
New Grenada, 2 per Cent
. Ditto ex over-due Coups. and Hectares 91
Portuguese 3 per Cent,, 1853 —
litto Account
Ditto Scrip, £lO pd
•. . • 21 1 A i
1-ti,,ian 5 per Cent 1322 £ St —
Ditto 3 pet Cent., 1859
Ditto 6 per Cent,, 1862 (Scrip)
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 931
Sa dinion 5 per Cent. ..
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent

Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
_Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Dittu Account

Ditto, Paid up Scrip
Dividends on the above navable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 251.-

TWO O'C LOC K
Conqols, Money
Ditto Account

THE CONDEMNED PRISONER TAYLOR AND HIS
WIPE.—Mrs. Taylor has not yet left Liverpool; and in an
interview which she had with her husband yesterday, be-
fore he was removed to Kirkdale, he expressed a desire
that she should not leave the town until after his execu-
tion, and with this wish she promised to comply. Taylor
himself manifests not the slightest contrition for the act
which caused Mr. Meller's death, and in any allusion
which he has since made to the subject he qualifies his con-
duct, and even intimates that under. similar circumstances
he would take the same parr again. Mrs. Taylor's uncle
was in Liverpool during the trial, and wo understand still
remains in the town. The father, sister, and cousin of
Taylor visited him before the trial.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—DEWSBURY, YORKSHIRE,
Friday, 3 o'clock.—One of the most alarming and destruc-
tive fires that have been witnessed in the West Riding for
some years occurred at the mills of Messrs. J. T. and J.
Taylor, woollen manufacturers, Batley, near Dewsbury,
this forenoon. The mills are adjoining to each other, and
occupy a large space of ground at Clerk green, in Batley.
One of the mills has only been built about 12 months, and
it is said that all the machinery had not yet been got into
it. The other mill has not been erected many years. By
this event some 300 or 400 persons are thrown out of em-
ploy. The origin of the fire has not yet been ascertained,
but if is said to have been caused by the fiictirn of one of
the machines. The damage is estimated at from £20,000
to £30,000, but t% portio4 of thin is covered by jPgir'
Mee.