The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-22 00:00:00

3270,V 3.1-I.7IIfET AND (PITY NB TVS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

There is still an abundant supply of money, and
the rates of discount continue easy. Owing to the
facilities offered in the open market, the inquiries
at the Bank of England continued limited.
The annual meeting of the London and County
Banking Company will take place on the 6th prox.
for the declaration of a dividend and other business.

The half-yearly meeting of the National Discount
Company took place to-day, at which a report was
read showing that the gross profits for the six
months ending the 31st ult. were £43,123 125., and
after making allowance for bad and doubtful debts,
the directors recommended an increased dividend
to the proprietary, viz., at the rate of 6 per cent.
per annum free of income tax.

There is a decrease of £2,700 in the traffic receipts
of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway for the
past week.

The Indus from Alexandria brings £1,350 in

specie.

No material alteration took place in the Foreign
Exchanges yesterday afternoon.
Gold is now about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in
Paris than in London, and 3-10ths percent. cheaper
here than in Hamburg.

There was more activity in the Liverpool Cotton
Market yesterday, owing to an export demand for
shipment to the Federal States, and prices were
firmer. The sales were fully 4,000 bales.
A further sum of £40,000 in gold was withdrawn
from the Bank of England yesterday.
The Bank' of France has reduced its rate of die-
count from 5 to 41 per cent.

The directors of the Bank of Amsterdam have
also lowered their rate—viz., to 31 per cent.
There was a meeting to-day .ot the creditors of
Mr. Frederick Meyer, trading as Charles Ogleby
and Co., oil merchants, &c., of Lambeth. The
balance sheet presented showed that the liabilities
amount to £53,244, and the assets to £58,443, leav-
ing a surplus of about £5,200 in favour of the
debtor. The statement presented was regarded as
favourable by the meeting and a resolution was
agreed to appointing a committee to investigate the
affairs of the estate, and to report as to the best
mode of dealing with the estate.
At the meeting of the London and Mediterranean
Steam Navigation Company, held to-day, the
director's report was adopted after a long dis-
cussion.

The market for Public Securities opened firmly
at the improvement established on the preceding
afternoon. Consols are 921 93 for money and the
6tii proximo. Business is very quiet, speculation
being very much curtailed. The New Threes and
the Reduced are firmer at 921 ; Exchequer Bills,
Alai-ch, 17s. prem.; ditto, June, 20s. ; India 5 per
Cent. Loan is 105! 77,-, being steady.

Rather more business has been transacted in the
Foreign Market, and priees tend upwards.
Turkish 6' per Cents. are 831.; ditto, 1858, 73i
741; Mexietn have advanced to 291; Spanish to
63 ; ditto Deferred to 43 ; ditto Certificates to 61 ;
Venezuelan to 24 ; Dutch to 651; Buenos Ayres
are 91, and the Deterred 311 1. The Moorish Loan is
41 51 preen.

The operations in the Railway Share Market
have been of a more active character, and prices
generally exhibit inc,-eased buoyancy. Eastern
Counties, Great Westerh'Et Lancashire and York-
shire, North Western, and NTorth Eastern (Berwick)
have advanced 55.; Caledoniao, Brighton, Midland,
and South Eastern, 10s.; and South Western, £l.
The Foreign and Colonial undeFtakings continue
in moderate favour at steady rates. South Austrian
and Lombardo-Venetian realise 19; Dutch Rhenish,
161 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 21; east Indian,
1011 6; and Great Indian Peninsula, 100.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
continued in fair demand. London and West-
minster improved 10s.; Chartered of India, Aus-
tralia, and China, 55.; Van Diemen's Land shares,
however, have receded ss.

BRITISH FUNDS--ONE O'CLOCK.
3pet-rent. Reduced Annuities...
per Cent. Consols Annuities ..
New 3 per Cent. Annuities..
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 9-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent......
Ditto 5 per Cent lOOl 1001
Ditto 51 per Cent
tin to Bonds Xl,OOO `n 5
Ditto under £l,OOO
C.'insols for Account, Feb. 6 93 2i
itdia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent 10,1
March. I Jun=.
28

Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d....
Ditto £5OO .. 17 :
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per. Cent, 1860
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent .....
Ditto Deferred, 1 per Cent. 3ll 1
Equador New Consolidated
Alexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account .. 29/ i 9 k
Grenada Active
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. —
Ditto Account
`ardinian o per Cent. ..
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Accouh't
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cen t. —
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account ...
Ditto £lOO Bonds: •• 761 6
-Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Dividends on th .e above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil —
Ditto Account .. 65h
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861.. I .
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols' Money
Ditto Account • 92k 3

TIIIS DAY'S ,SWIPPING.

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LONDON, Jan. 22.—Wind this' day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine. weather.

PLYMOUTH, Jan. 21.—Wind Poard,
from Demerara; Gorpen Vleet, from ,lavannah. Sailed—
lier Majesty's ship Revenge, for Qu eenstown ; her Ma-
jesty's ship Warrior, for Lisbon.

CARDIFF, Jan. 21.—Wind E.—Saile% I—Mary Ann, for
lialifax, N.S.

CLYDE, Jan. 21.—Wind S.E.—Arrived— -C. F. O'Brien,
from New York.

NEWPORT, Jan. 21.—Wind E., with snow. —Arrived—
Gleaner, from Hamburg for Callao. Sailed- -Thornhill,
for Halifax, N.S.