The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-10 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The inquiry for discount accommodation shows
a tendency to increase, and the rates are rather
firmer in consequence.

About £3,000 in gold was sent in to the Bank
of England yesterday, and £lB,OOO withdrawn for
exportation.

The Delta, sailing on Monday, the 12th instant,
with the Bombay mails, will take out £61,120 in

specie.

Since Monday last the imports of specie 'have
been about £134,000, and the exports £225,000.
The traffic receipts of the Northern of France
Railway for the past week were £51,269, against
£45,394 last year.
Very little activity prevailed in the Liverpool
Cotton Market yesterday, and prices were heavy.
The sales were estimated at 4,000 bales.

The following with regard to the tea trade is
from Messrs. Richard Gibbs and Co.'s monthly oir-
cular :—The arrivals during the past month have
been numerous. All classes of good and fine
Kaisow and Maning continue to bring extreme
rates, very little of either being still left in first
hands ; the qualities of congou arriving now are
generally of a lower class, though there are some
fair medium blackish leaf teas which find ready
sale at improved prices. Dusty broken leaf to fair
common congous have been sold at easier prices,
and Tayshan congous have found buyers to some
extent at a further depression of ld. Scented teas
are in better supply, and show some concession on
the rates of last month. Supplies of green teas of
all classes are considerable, but they still continue
to bring full prices, especially hysons and young
hysons, orders for which are brought by nearly
every American mail. The stock of tea in the
United Kingdom, we estimate at 80,000,000 lbs.,
against 82,600,000 lbs., and the quantity afloat, at
23,200,000 lbs., against 17,500,000 lbs., at the cor-
responding period last year.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

Two O'CLOCK.

A further decline of per cent. has taken place
to-day in the market for Public Securities, owing
to continuous sales, encouraged by the less favour-
able prospects of monetary affairs. Consols are
939 for money, and 92:1 1, less the dividend, for
the account. The New Threes have declined to
914 1, the Reduced to 91i t. Exchequer Bills are
steady at 18s. to 21s. prem. ; Bank Stock is 236
to 2371; and India 5 per Cents., 1091 t.

-
A moderate degree of activity has been percep-
tible in the Foreign Market, and prices have
shown no material change. Spanish Certificates
have been dealt in at 91 1, but have since de-
clined to 84; Portuguese are fiat at 451 ; Spanish
3 per Cent. Active steady at 541; and Dutch 4 per
Cents. firm at 1001, Egyptian Scrip is flat at 21
prem.; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are 801 81 ;
ditto, 1858, 701 71 ; and the Scrip has receded to
21 prem.
The Russian Loan is 1 prem.

In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been exceedingly limited, and prices have exhibited
a further downward movement. Eastern Counties
have receded ss. ; Caledonian, London and Black-
wall, and North-Western 10s., and Great
-Western 15s.

The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit little
change of importance. Great Luxemburg realise
142; Antwerp and Rotterdam 7; 71; San Paulo
84 ; and South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetikx
21; ; Great Western of Canada are flat at 121 ;
East Indian steady at 104 ; Great Indian Penin-
sula at 102 h Eastern Bengals at 1021103; and
Punjaubs fully paid up at 201.
Joint Stock Batik Shares remain without any
mat rial variation. London and County 40, and
Union of London 32; 331.

Th 9 Alliance Bank Shares are 51 prem.; Im-
perial s prem.; Northern Counties 11 2 prem. ;
British Columbian -a prem.; and Brazilian 21 I
prem.
In the Miscellaneous Market prices have been
fairly sustained. Peninsular and Oriental Steam
aro dealt in at 70 ; Red Sea and Indian Telegraph
at 19 ; Royal Mail Steam at 5U 4 ; and Austra-
lian Agricultural at 271.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 911 i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9ll 1 f
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent lo9k 1.9
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Pitto 5 per Cent
Ditto CI per Cent lO9
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto dtito April, 1864 1001
Ditto Bonds £l,000
Consols for Account, June 10
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent 2l 18 pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent. —
Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60
Egyptian, 7 per Cent
Greek
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853.
inssian 5 per Cent 1822 £ St ..
bitto 3 per Cent. 1859 .. 60 591
Spanish 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent ,1858
Ditto Account
Ditto 1862 (Scrip)
Ditto, Pain up Scrip
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f
Dutea. 2± per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil.
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.

TWO O' LO C .
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

Mr. W. F.Windham, on Sunday evening, drove
through Magdalen-stmet in a stage coach and four, accom-
panied by three females and five or s'x males, one of the
latter playing on a cornet, " The girl I left behind me."—
On Monday night Mr. Windham was, it is said, behaving
in a disorderly manner at the Porter Stores, Theatre-street,
and a policeman was sent for, on whose arrival, however,
Mr. Windham was quiet, but at the desire of the landlord
took his departure.—Norfolk .11'ems.

NEW DRINKING FOUNTAIN.—A very beautiful
drinking fountain has just been erected in the Regent's
Park, mid way between the entrance to the second park and
the Zoological Gardens. It is approached by steps, and
consists of a large stone basin, surmounted by a granite
column, five feet high ,on which, standing on a globe, is a
bronze figure of a woman with a pitcher in her hand. The
itisin
fountainhas been erected at great expense, and, situate as
the most attractive part of the park, will prove a
great boon to the thousands of country and foreign visitors
to the Zoological Gardens this year.
THUNDERSTORM AT NEWARK.—The storm Of
Wednesday afternoon last raged at Newark with astonish-
ing violence. The hailstones
ing 4oz. , a
were of enormous size, some
ferenc
of the
em weigh
Thousands ofe a
pattes fmoimeasuring 6in. in circum-
.
eglonaass were broken. But
phenomenon the most striking part of the eens on was a tornado,
of the
Mr.r e
which seemed to commence a few
mil
town, and extended as far as the plantation south-east
of
Grosve-
nor Hodgkinson, P., in the village of Winthorpe,
two miles north-west of Newark. The desolation' about
M it has
caused at Coddington in particular baffles all description.
The fine plantation on the estate of Mr. James Thorpe, of
Beaconfield House, is almost entirely destroyed, and many
of the largest and most beautiful trees in the park are torn
up by the roots and split into pieces. The gas house and
other buildings were considerably damaged. The farm..
stead of a person named Daybell, on the Coddington-hill,
was reduced almost to a heap of ruins, a great part of the
stacks being carried away and scattered in the adjoining
fields. Other houses in the village were damaged in a
similar manner. The hailstones went through the win-
dows like shot from a cannon. The hurricane continued
its devastating course direct to Winthorpe, carrying away
seven or eight tons of straw from a farmyard, and damag-
ing the buildings. At Winthorpe it seemed to renew its
fury, and tore up numbers of large trees as though they
had been gooseberry bushes. One clump of five large elm
trees, close together, were dragged up by the roots with-
out being separated. It is impossible at present to give
any correct idea of the amount of damage. The whole
was the work of a few seconds. The smell of sulphur when
the tornado had passed was almost insufferable. Very little
live stock was killed. It is remarkable that the cattle in
the fields exhibited the greatest terror before th 3 wind ap-
proached, in the manner described by travellers in tropical
countries.
The last Cape of Good Hope mail for England
contabsed 13,888 letters, of which 296 were registered, 14,761
newspapers, and 61 books.
The great horse-fair at Caen, which begins on
the first Monday in May, was exceedingly well attended,
and of the 1,800 horses brought, nearly all were sold at high
prices. The show of other cattle was smaller than usual, and
though the demand was not very brisk, prices were well
maintained,