The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-16 00:00:00

MO °s EY NI All KET.

CITY NEWS-THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The supply of commercial bills on offer continued
very moderate, the mercantile community merely
by no
their immediate requirements, which are
no means extensive. There is, nevertheless, a
tendency to firmness, probably owing to the con-
tracted circulation usual at this period, when large
revenue collections are in progress. At 3 per cent.,
however, the mercantile public are enabled to nego-
tiate good three months bills in the open market,
as well as at the Bank of England, and short dated
Paper of a superior quality is discounted at 24 per
cent.

_ The operations in the Foreign and Colonial
‘Produce Markets during the last few days have
been of a very limited description. Sugars have
been a shade cheaper, while tea, coffee, and cocoa
have remained inactive, at about previous quota-
tions, Rice has been in very limited request, at
slightly reduced rates, while a fair business has been
done in fruit, pices, and saltpetre, on former terms.
Tallow has been in more request for both present
and forward delivery.
There is a decrease of £lB3 in the traffic receipts
Of the South Eastern Railway, but an increase of
£1,996 on the Brighton for the past week.
Notice has been given that 38 special bonds of
the Italian 5 per Cent. Loan, 1862, havo been
drawn, and
will be paid off on the Ist proximo.
The telegrams from New York by ;the Persia
111nvi- an advance of nearly 2 per cent. in the pre-
teinra on gold. The amount brought by this
steamer is £llO,OOO.

Two O'CLOCK.
The market for English Securities remains in
Precisely the same state as for several days past.
the dealings are altogether unimportant, and they
do
not produce the slightest effect upon quotations,
which continue firm. Consols are 921.1, for trans-
fer, and at 92-1 for the account. The New 3 per
Cents, and the Reduced remain at #92 f ; Exche-
quer Bills at Bs. to 12s. prem.; Bank Stock at 231
and 233; India 5 per Cent. Loan is firmer at 107 a I.
A rather buoyant feeling has pervaded the
Foreign Market, although the dealings have been
restricted. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are 831
84i; ditto, 1858,69 i 701; the New Loan, 711, and
the Consolides, 381; 39 ; Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents.
have further advanced to 98; Greek Bonds, to
t, the Coupons to 6a a ; Mexican, 311 a ; Por-
tuguese New Scrip, 4 prem. ; Spanish Passive are
231; ditto Certificates, 8a ; Italian, 71* ; and
Venezuelan Scrip has improved to 21 dis.
In the Railway Share Market the operations
have beep moderately active, but prices have, in
several instances, shown less firmness. Midlands
and South-Easterns have receded 55., and Caledo-
Inane, Great Easterns, Great Northern A Stock,
4,ndlsTorth-Wes;•erns 10s. North Eastern (Berwick),
Jaewever have improved 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remained dull.
batch Rhenish brought 171 171 ; Great Luxem-
burg, 14 ; Eastern of Bengal have declined to 106 f, ;
4" Madras 5 per Cents. have improved to 1041
1041.
juint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con-
tinuedi quiet, at about previous rates. Ottoman
Bank brought 321 ; Union of London, 33 ; London
Za Brazilian,
eam, 301 ; Crystal Palace Stock, 3%; and
(I Mail St 56i; I.

Bank St FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCIC.
R ' M (N,
ck
a"' Per Cent. lie.d.u.ced Annuities 92 1
4" Cent. Consols Annuities
4k
~ w 3 per Cent. Annuities
nnuites 30
India ex ire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5l
Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent lO5
ALtO Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct.' 1863
-Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001
Illoia. Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
achequer Bills £l,OOO, 21 per Ct.
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
qreek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons
~ Ditto Coupons -
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 73
C‘xican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853..
,Ditto Scrip, lent pd
.... 4 pm
'l'l9siao 5 per Cent 1822 £ St —
Ditto
3 per Cent, 1859 6Ol
8 "jilt° 5 per Cent., 1862
aVinian 5 per Cent.
ultto Account
1)1,4ni811 3 Per Cent —
4-'itto New Deferred
bitte Account
.1-14 • 231
Spanish Passive..
T Cert. of Coup. not funded
11,'.15i,i1 6 per Cent. 1854
iVte 6 per Gent. 1858 7O
-/-,:40 6 per Cent., 1862, Scrip, £6O pd 3 P_m
‘,.-_'-'ltto Paidup Scrip
' 70,tzue/a, 3per Cent
it
.Itt° 6 per Cent., 1862 (Scrip), £53 paid 21 dis
, Dividends on the above payable in London.
[11141115 per Cent , 1861, Ex. 25f. .
0 TWO O'CLOCK.
bit ' °ne
to AccounY t, Jan. 8 921 1

T trE TEA TRADE, Dec. 15.—The deliveries in.
-oncl
• iii°ll estimated for the week were 999,017kb.,. which is
rapm.crease of 10,3561 b., compared with the previous sta e
1 :14; NEW ITALIAN LOAN.—" The new Italian
;cn all but settled," says a correspondent of the Inde-t
his an :nee .Beige. ,4 M. de Rothschild has undertaken it a
)30'4 risk and price ; but it will not be quoted on the
arseuntil all the payments are made."
e 1 k Ativi
008 from Lyons state that the sale of raw
toNictif6..ehlt there. The merchants of Lyons, taking into
silk d
the great increase in the quantity of foreign.ld
ioR et taPorted into France, have decided, it is said, on btu -
bales oreh ()Uses for its reception. Japan produces 3,000
Italy 01 silk, being more than the produce of France and
The East produces 300,000 bales. The greater part
brd• ti;, 'irks arrive in London by the Cape of Good Hope,
Sae
8" z7B expected that when the canal across the Isthmus of
; 2colzpleted (if it ever be completed) silk from the
Ch will first arrive in France. Some considerable pur-
tea 1)f
foreign silk were made at Marseilles last week.
0W GENERAL M'CoOK LOST HIS STARS.—
(1 Pt LesPonent of the Cincinnati Commercial says :
Lat-tet'leral Bragg exposed a fact in his official report of the
to of Chaplin-hill which General M'Cook had omitted
10 rat ention. The General was looking rather shabbily here
;340136 Way of broadcloth, and was moved to Idexpain his
13r. itteas, which he confessed he would not have one if
44, bad not blabbed. A night after the battle of Chap-
1i
closed, one of Gilbert's borrowed brigades was
Vithdrawn from M'Cook 's front without his knowledg ci;
°r•
aystery was never explained, but that is foreign. His
bad been
containing his personal baggage, meantime,
1384 been ordered from the rear to his quarters, and the am-
bltrilarloe driver drove through the gap left by the vagrant
he and halted inside of the rebel lines. 'the corps of
tlti4dttlharters servants who accompanied the train were
led 11P at the same time, but some of them escaped.
double General M'Cook lost his elegant newpassants with
6tars, which friends had sent to him, and all of his
ta Whig apparel, except the threadbare and battle worn suit
abs -,116.11 he fought. His servant ludicrously describes the
aParl4.- scenes in the rebel camp, when the thin-legged and
/44,6 e-ribbed rebels attempted to envelope themselves in
hoidc°,k's enormous drawers and undershirts. They would
Padd °ut four rebels apiece and three weeks' rationsfor
hie la
The general never can get even unless he cap-
-'111)11rey Marshall."
WIII,IGIITITTL FALL INTO THE MAIN DRAINAGE
re1a,.."13.--Last evening, about 4 o'clock, a frightful occur
cier--I. Lo place at the Main Drainage Works, Back-hill,
vor.'elaok
Well. It appears that John Hennesy, one of the
Bala en) was about to descend the shaft, when ho over-
feet tceed himself and fell head foremost from a height of 40
holet° the bottom of the shalt. He was almost immediately
s
it a lient') in a state of insensibility, having been crushed
k°sp•-ca)lcking manner, and removed to the Royal Free
oFthß in' Gray's Inn-lane, but, from the serious nature
reeove;ittries, not the slightest hope is entertained of his
SE
„
Ned THE PRIEST AI'LAUGHLIN.—The pro.
action of suspension and liberation has ended in
n°thitl
el°ah.g' On Saturday last, the Right Rev. Bishop Mar-
Omau Catholic-BishOp of Glasgow, sent off a me.
haeibi °r petition to the Home Secretary, couched in
mpl terms, and asking a curtailing of the sentence,
Aries °3l the ground that the flock of the contumaciousiis
13,,,ehtietli greatly require his presence, particularly at a
Tize
the great annual festival of the Church is held.
erred
in
s .°ll, we understand, admits that MiLaughlin
.
e:Doets ; and also states the fact of his knowingthatA
eem.,elB the man who stole the cash from the letter.
Peetildr-") reply from Sir George Grey is confidently. i'x
iirtel, The petition also alleges that, considering the
Was "Lad to deal with a case of conscience, the sentence
:48eat e-aec m• severe. Laughlin meanwhile is employed,
8 the usual prison dress, in picking cotton. He
lica a great many visitors—quite a levee of sympathis-
e Priests aid
People in general,