The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-08 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CTTY NE WS-YES FERD AY.

There was a good demand for cotton to-day, with
very full prices. The sales were 7,000 bales.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange has
granted the quotation in the official list of the
shares and obligations of the Royal Portuguese
Railway Company.
The Directors of the Universal Marine Insurance
Company have given notice that they are prepared
to issue policies payable at the undermentioned
places, viz., Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Kurrachee,
Shanghae, Melbourne, and Cape of Good Hope.
The numbers are published of Three per Cent.
Bonds of the Antwerp and Rotterdam Railway
Company, which have been drawn by lot, and are
to be paid off ou the let of November nes.
The Copiapo Extension Railway shares have
again fallen £1 per share, reducing the price of the
£lO share to about £3 to £4. The shares of this
line consequently now stand at the highest discount
of any in the market.

The amount of gold taken to the Bank to-day
was £17,000. On the other hand, 25,000 sovereigns
were withdrawn for exportation.
An instalment of 20 per cent. fails due on the
14th inst. on the Peruvian Loan for £5,500,000
stock.

The liabilities of Messrs. Todd Naylor and Co.,
of Liverpool, are roughly estimated at £250,000.
Tenders will be received at Madrid on the 15th
inst. for a portion, amounting to £30,000,000 of rials
vellon, or £300,000 sterling, of the loan authorised
to be raised by the municipality of that city. The
minimum tender must be at 88 per cent. for 100
nominal value, bearing 6 per cent. per annum
interest, with 1 per cent. sinking fund. The latter
will be inereased should the financial position of the
municipality allow it.

Telegrams of the 6th from Vienna note an advance
of per cent. in the Metalliques and a decline of
I.loc. in the exchange, the movement being in each
case favourable to Austria. The quotations are
72.40 for the Five per Cent. Metalliques and 123.40
for the exchange on London.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

There is a slight increase in the enquiries for dis-
count accommodatiou to• day, and 2 per cent. is the
current rate in the general market as well as at
the Bank of England. The settlement of the Con-
sol account at the Stock Exchange is, no doubt, the
cause of this temporary activity.
A dividend of Bs. 6d. per share will be payable
on and after the 10th instant by the Alliance
British and Foreign Life and Fire Assurance Com-
pany.
Tenders are invited for a further issue of Natal
6 per Cent. Government Debentures to the extent
of £50,000. The money is required for the con-
struction of works to improve the harbour of Natal.
Notice has been given by the Universal Marine
Insurance Company that they are prepared to issue
policies payable at Calcutta, Bombay, Madras►
Kurrachee, Shanghai, Melbourne, and Cape of Good
Hope.

Two O'CLOCK.

An extraordinary general meeting took place
to-day of the shareholders of the Chartered 'Mer-
cantile Bank of India, London, and China, at which
Sir Frederick James Halliday, K.C.8., late Lieute-
nant-Governor of Bengal, was elected a member of
the board of directors.

At a special general meeting held to-day of the
shareholders of the Oriental Inland Steam Com-
pany, Col. Grimes in the chair, a series of resolu-
tions respecting the sale of shares and the date of
the anneal meeting passed at the last half-yearly
meeting were confirmed.

At the close of the English Stock Market yester-
day prices exhibited an improvement of per cent.
from their lowest point, and the transactions this
morning have taken place at that advance, Consols
being 94 for money, and 941 a for the 6th pros.
Business has been dull, the dealers and others
being chiefly engaged with the monthly settlement.
The New 3 per Cents. and the Reduced have re-
covored to 922„ d ; Exchequer Bills, June, are 20s
prem. ditto, March, 21s. prem. ; India Stock, 228;
and ditto 5 per Cent. Loan, 1091,
The transactions in the Foreign Market have
continued on a limited scale, and prices show very
little change. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are steady
at 851 86 ; ditto, 1858, at 681 69 ; ditto New
Paid-up Scrip, is 681'; Mexican have improved to
332 ; Peruvian Scrip to 11 o'4 dis. ; Portuguese
are 47; Rassian Scrip, 11 prem. ; Spanish are 541 1 ;
ditto, Passive, 221 ditto Certificates, 101 ;
Italian are flat at 72:, and Venezuelan 28129.
Turkish Consolides are 38 1.

Business in the Railway Share Market con-
tinued very inactive, and prices have remained
without material variation. Great Western, and
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln have improved
as. ; and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 10s. Great
Easterns, however, have declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remain
at about previous quotations, except South Austrian
and Lombardo-Venotian, which have receded to
221 23 ; Recife and San Framisco are firm at ISt ;
East Indian at 1061 1-; and Great Southern of
India at 103 k.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
are, in one or two instances, rather flatter. Oriental
Bank realise 53t; London and Westminster 781;
-Bank of Egypt 241 ; Berlin Water Works 5a ;
Oriental Inland Steam 8i a ; Italian Irrigation 21;
London and Colonial Bank Shares are quoted 11 2
prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 921 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 921 1
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
-Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent losk 5
Ditto 5t per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 101 k
Dtt Bonds 1..0()0
Ditto under £l,OOO .
Nov...
Consols for Account, iov. 6 .....
94
ne. March.
'Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Ct. .. 20 Ju
21
Ditto 500 .......
Ditto Small ................... ...
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent -
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ....... 95 4/
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 74
Mexican, 3 per Cent

. _
Ditto Account
New Grenada, 2 per Cent —
Ditto ex over-due Coups. and Hectares 94
Perkiviqn 41 per Cent .
Ditto 41 New, 1862, A Scrip, £33 paid .. 11 Oi
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
R.,isisin .5 per Cent 182? £ St —
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862, Scrip, £3218s pd l/
Ditto Paid up Scrip
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive..
Spitnish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 -
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 ..
Ditto Account
Ditto, Paid up Scrip
Venezuela, per Cent.
Dividends on the above nayable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f.
Ditto Account
TWO O'CLOCK
Con,4ols, Money .................... . . 94 k
Ditto, Account ..
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