The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-29 00:00:00

I.IOIVEY 111A_RKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

There is a steady demand for discount accommo-
dation to-day at previous rates. The available
supplies continue largely in excess of the require-
ments of the commercial public, whose transactions
are still conducted on a very limited scale.
About £12,000 in gold was taken from the Bank
of England yesterday for exportation.
The West India steamer La Plata has brought
£182,000 in specie.
The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon
exhibited a slight advance iu the rates on Amster
dam and Hamburg.

A dividend of 31 per cent. will be proposed at the
forthcoming meeting of the Electric; and Interna-
tional Telegraph Company.

The Consolidated Copper Mining Company of
Cobre at their meeting yesterday, declared a divi-
dend of per share.

Gold is now about three-tenths per cent. dearer
in Paris than in London, and about one-tenth per
cent. cheaper here than in Hamburg.
At the yearly meeting of the North British
Australasian Company a dividend of 71 per cent.
was declared.

A fair amount 3f business was transacted in the
Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, at full rates.
The sales were 8,000 bales.

The tenders for the £1,000,000 Victoria Railway
6 per cent. Debentures were opened yesterday, and
the applications reached a total of £6,100,000. The
lowest offer was £92 13s, 6d., and the highest
£lO5 1 ls. Applicants at and above £lO2 16s. 6d.
will obtain their full share ; those at £lO2 165.,
however, will only receive about 14-15ths of the
amount asked for. The minimum was fixed at
102, and the Debentures are already quoted 163! tt.
There was a meeting today of the United Mexi-
can Mining Association. The report was adopted,
and the directors were authorised to place the
undertaking under the new Limited Liability Act.
At the meeting of the Royal Mail Steam Packet
Company held to-day, Mr. H. C. Childers, M.P.,
was elected a director.

The transactions in the English Stock Market
this morning have led to rather an unfavourable
fluctuation, a decline of a 1 per cent, having taken
place. Indications of weakness were perceptible
yesterday afternoon, and on the appearance of
sellers this morning prices speeiily gave way,
Consols being dealt in at 921 93, and afterwards
921 y for money and account. The New Threes
and the Reduced have receded to 92°--; I. Exche-
quer Bills 19s. prem. Bank Stock has declined to
2401. India ditto is firm at 224 and 226 ; and
ditto 5 per Cent. Mil 1061.
In the Foreign Market Mexican Stock has expe-
rienced a further rise of rather more than 2 per
cent., owing to the character of the proceedings at
the meeting yesterday, the latest price being 32f
331. In the several other securities very little change
has occurred, Turkish 6 per Cents. being 834 841,
and ditto, 1858, 74 to 741 ; Russian 5 per Cents.
are 98i; Spanish, firm at 531 1 ; and ditto Defer-
red at 42i. The Moorish Loan is 5 prem.

The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
not been very extensive, and chiefly connected with
the liquidation of last monthly account. In prices
the variations have been unimportant. Caledonian,
Great Western, and Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln have declined 55,, and Midland 10s.;
Eastern Counties and North-Western have im-
proved 55., and North-Eastern (Berwick) and
South-Eastern 10s.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
exhibited little change of importance. South-
Austrian and Lombai do-Venetian, however, have
improved i ; Grand Trunk of Canada, i ; andiGreat
Western of Canada, 1-, ; East Indian have declined -1.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
remain in moderate request at about previous quo-
tations. Crystal Palace Stock have declined to 31,4 ;
and Peninsular and Oriental Steam to 68k,

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92a 4
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92 I
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 1.5 9-16 i
India Stock

Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent lOl 1001
Consols for Account, Feb. 6 93 21
March. Junl.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 19 19
Ditto £5OO .. 19 19
Ditto Small l9 19

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Chiliar'. 6 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent,
Mexican, 3 per Cent 3l 1
Ditto Account
New Grenada, 2 per Cent
Peruvian 41 per Cent ..
Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent.
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St 9Bl
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account

Ditto New Deferred 42k
Turkish 6 per Cent. B4
Ditto New Loan
I)itto £lOO Bonds
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861
TWO 0' CLO CK .
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

COURSE OF EXCIIANGE.—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 18 11 181
Antwerp..
Brussels — 25 371 25 421
llainburgh — 13 71 13 71
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine —118 k
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn — 2.5 571 25 621
Milan — 2.5 55 25 60
Genoa — 25 55 25 60
Naples
Palermo — 1191 1191
Messina
Lisbon — 511 52
Oporto — 52 52k
Foreign Gold in Bars (standard) .... „ £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
)9
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons