The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-05 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NEWS-YESTERDAY.

At Paris the demand for money is easy, at 31
per cent., or y below the rate of the Bank of France.
At Frankfort, the quotation has advanced to 3. At
Vienna and Turin the rate is 5 ; at Hamburg, 41,
at Amsterdam, 4; and at Berlin and Brussels, 3 per
cent.

The bills due to-day—the 4th—appear to have
been very well met. The demand at the Bank of
England and in the discount market generally was
only moderate_ Choice paper was taken at 2? to 2i
per cent.

At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Routes
opened at 68.35, and closed firmly at 68.40 for
money, and 68.45 for the account, being -1 per cent.
higher than yesterday.
There is a rumour that some arrangement is in
contemplation for settling the claims of the Spanish
Certificate holders by incorporating them in a large
Spanish railway scheme.
The amount of gold bought by the Bank to-day
was £6,000. The £469,000 by the City of Wash-
ington, from Nest York, will reach London to-
morrow .
The steamer Parana has reached Southampton
from Brazil with £45,046 in specie.
The tendency of the foreign exchanges this after-
noon was rather unfavourable, bills being scarce.
Fribourg and Lausanne Railway Bonds were firm
at I to I prem.
A further improvement of per c
in Victoria Government Debentures.ent. took place
The ships Blenheim, Middlesex, Dartmouth, and
Conflict have been engagedconveyance of troops to Calcutta.
The Gazette specie statement for the week ending
Wednesday last gives the following totals, viz.:—
Imports of gold, £533,250
37,900 ; exports of gold,
£lver, ; imports of silver, £213,921 ; exports of
si £19,390.

CITY NEWS-THIS DAY
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
As usual on Saturda
mand for discount y there is a very quiet de-
accommodation, either in the
open market
or at the Bank of England. The
available supplies continue abundant, and, as
in the
coura® of the ensuing
be liberated, the week the July dividends will
plethora is expected to increase.
The quotations still range fully I per cent. under
the minimum of the Bank of England.
The traffic receipts
bardo- of the South Austrian, Lom-
Venetian, and Central of Italy
the Railway, for
week ending the 24th instant, amounted to
£54,214 against £50,904 last year.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £837,000 and the exports
The half-yearly dividend on the shares of the
Church of £lBB,OOO.
England Life and Fire Assurance Society
will be payable on and after the 15th inst.
A special meetin
Company has bee n g of the South- Eastern Railway
called for the 17th inst., for the
purpose of considering the advisability of creating
and issuing
n'Nv shares or stock of such amount
as shall be determined by the meeting.

An improve Two O'CLOCK.
tnent of 1 per cent. has taken place
to-day in the market for Public Securities, although
e transactions have been rather restricted. h
Con-
sols are 92 for money, 92 921 for the 10t
instant, and
proximo.d
92, 1 - for the 7th
The New
i Threes and 4the Reduced have improved
t,0.91.1 92, Exchequer Bills to lls. prem., but In
-rive per Cent. Loan remains at 1081 31.1
In Athnes;eorrae
igge:mount of business has taken place
e
Market to-day, and prices continue ,r2'l. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 84i 5;
,"...°5B, 701 11 ; and the New Scrip is 1 prem.;
Egyptian Scrip is buoyant at 43- 1 prem. ; Russian7o;
ditto,
the
)t
eia
nePiesrrhetrni
63.
c;
aptQ:s, Sardinianeaefntetsr.
beingat
have 83 1 ; and Italian at
_ceded t 0919 improvedl i.
o,
haveto
sinces4 ; and
re-
3.
In theßailway
limited,Shar
tbeen
lissomelye
Yorkshire, andMarketand
prices t he dealings
hhoawvnde
_ather
firmness. Caledonians, Lancashire and
bee he Foreign.
Great I'Vesterns and South Wales, 10s.
n doll Midla,ads have declined ss. ;an
at
pf:envdiouCsolopnriiacles.undertakin
Sambreause 174- i ; Bahia and San Francisco, 18 ; an
hutch-Rhenishg undertakings
haved
r and Meuse, 105 ; Grand Trunk of Canada
llei rlll at 24 211; Great Western of Canada atd
GI! &; East Indian have declined to 1044 ; and
a India Peninsula to 1021 1021.
a shaatits!tock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares atre-
-1114)1 linter. Oriental Bank realise 511 ; Ot o
lin ank. 251 26 ; English, Scottish, and Austra;
le Chartered, 174 18 ; Van Diemen's Land, 92
5114
Rio de Janeiro Improvement Co., 281.
~ titiq,
- per 0
Redid
FUNDS __CLOSING PRICES.
3 ent, iled,, „ - -- -
911 a 2
NP:: Cent. co4e_u Ammuttles
92 li 2i
14(17 Per UetlCAl_4l?lluities
Ditto 5 ... ........
Togi
ia Stock • -'...nutties
I.,o3tbnci.iliottlso
Small
tie 'Zet t . ..:::: : : : ::
::: : : : ..1
9 101
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Ditto 5 per n_ Paper . per Cent r
to
st t• ..... 11
erillet .lit'
July 10 92
Di,. Belle 41,0_00, 3 per Cent:. ll
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Ditto4l' 5 Per outci t-TINI)S—CLOSING PRIU-L.
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, or isi-e, „lat.
Ditto,,,„..vpti an, 7. -1),?. oilc,so'rildBast2e-cl6B -6.
°.
k
93.0? 90
fortll Ditto
Pali) ttp silt." erip - 1 ,
uguese 3 pe, (T.:13 • • ▪ 861 7 6.4
Small ilt•,lB4
tb)iitttatooonps4lapiped'
re lege
nee. la: (t". . 1. a.,2?. ..... St"
• 442
D•
, 1852, Scrip' ....
Sardi • ."
ScliP
man 6 per , ....... 4: • 921 i
I)' an
- ,-ent. ......
8 . 0 Account ..... .. ,
p,onsta
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spbatititsoh
.4(');:ietrt.t.
Turkish epret; V°l2P. not fin;d ... ....
91 10 91
Ditto Accolint 'lt. 1854 ..............
I,,itto 6 per cetii:isß• ................ 85
DittD it to A ectt . - ................
o, £lOO Bolide. ................... 71
Ditto 1862 (Scrip).. .................. 721
Ditto, Paid up Scrip •... .. ............... 1
Dividends on the. ...x.2sfa.ya.ble in I..7oOnidtn.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861,
•
e°l:llli'totlosAcicoontienyt
................... ..jr.
92° ' CLOCK.
bitt° Aug., dilt.o. ............................ ::: 9922 iii

EXPLOSION
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xi 4E LATE
_EXPLOSION AT BIRMINGHAM.—BIR"
h •1411.t1i, Friday Evening,—The adjourned inquest on
t-e
aille sufferers by the recent explosion at the percussion.- I
ca) Mannfactor of lvf
“essrs. Walker, in Graham-street,
lliralillghant heYas held before Dr. J. B. Davies, the borough
coroner, at Grand Turk, yesterday. The inquest was
I was despatched, and is ex-
proceeding When our paree Peeted to last several days, as there are a large number of
Witnesses to be examined.
ITE ETSHIRE COLLIERS.--
STRIRE OP THE S°--- RS
Radstock pits, the property
The colliers employed in the
days ago, and still
e,,f Lady Waldegrave, struck work some
is an attempt
,-e,M,4111 vat. The cause of the disagreement
ointed viewer to
"'eh has been made by
the apilliers resist, and
reduce tb
This evo._wer. 800 men
-e wages of the men.
demand the removal of the obnoxious le
d that a few days
and boys are out of employ, but it is hope
a recently-
More will ternainate the strike.
The xin,..
of the
g- Consort of Spain had
teident. Ills Majesty was walking in the groundstump
ni. a
asa de Campo, when he tripped against the stump tree, fell, and broke one of his fingers.
Genoa
is becerain met with an ac-
The affair of the Parodi Bank robbery at
more have
been
t ti on of
n arrested, including, it is said, a lady of 8 a
Bologna. g la°l's complicated. Eight persons
A. Jewish citizen of Mentz, named Goldschmidt,
has presented that town with the sum
(75,000 f.), for the amelioration of the position of its school
Masters. The disposal of that donation having been con-
of 35,000 florins_
fided to the authorities of the town, the latter have decided
on distributing the interest annually to the masters who are
the most needy of the Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish in-
fant schools.
LONDON STATUEs,--.
statues belonging to the nation contains the names of six
A return of the London
Sovereigns—Charles 1., at
Anne-cross' James 11., in
Whitehall- gardens ; Queen ,in the two Queen-
squares ; George 11., in Golden-
square ; George 111., in
Pall-mall east and at Somerset-house ; and George IV., in
Trafalgar •square. The Duke of gent' is in Portland .plece.
Of warriors there are Richard Coeur-de-Lion, in Old Palace.-
yard ; Lord Nelson, in Trafalgar-square
Wellington at Hyde Park.. corner and on Tower--,reen ; and
; the Duke of
General Sir C. Napier and Major-General Ilbavelock, in
Trafalgar-square. Achilles, in Hyde-park ; Canning, in
New Palace-yard ; and Dr. Jenner, in liensingtongardens
complete the list, unless we were to reckon the stAtues in
the New Palace of Westminster.