The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-19 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NEWS-YESTERDAY.

About 110,000 in gold was bought by the Bank
to-day, while 45.000 sovereigns were withdrawn,
including 20,000 for exportation to Lisbon. -
The Lincolnshire has arrived from Melbourne
with £195,000 in gold, and the Orwell with
£124,000, making a total of, £319,000. It is not
certain that thin amount will be despatched abroad.
The only gold ships known to be now on the way
from Australia to England are the Blue Jacket with
£104,000, and (he Anglesea with £28,000.
The Australian mail steamer brought £284,856
in gold to Ceylon, of which only about £20,000 was
for London, the rest being for India.
Messrs. Dent, Palmer, and Co. have announced
the half-yfmrly dividend due the Ist proximo, on
the Turk is'h Six per Cent. Loan of 1858.
The Stook Exchange committee has appointed
Monday, 25th August, a special settling day in the
scrip of the Portuguese and Egyptian (second issue)
l'alaa, which are to be marked with 10 per cent.
and 20 per cent. paid respectively, as well as fully
Paid up.
The demand for money continues active, both at
the Bank of England and elsewhere, and the lowest
rate for good bills in most quarters is 2 per cent.
At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Rentes
°Poned at 68fr. 85f., and closed at the same price
for money, and 68f. 95c. for the account, being sc.
better than on Saturday.
It is said that some further amounts of sovereigns
will shortly be transmitted to Constantinople on
account of the last loan, and that further moderate
withdrawals will likewise take place in payment
for Turkish Home stock lately sold in the English
market.

There is an idea in some quarters that the forgery
lately attempted upon the Bank of England may
induce a number of persons, particularly in country
districts, to change their notes for gold, thereby
temporarily reducing the specie reserve in that esta-
blishment.
The Pera, which leaves on the 20th inst., has in
`specie £215,621, of which £32,220 is gold and the
rest silver. The following are the particulars :
for Alexandria, gold, £5,000; for Mauritius, gold,
20,000 ; for Ceylon, gold, £3,243 ; and silver,
£410; for Madras, silver, £9,970; and gold,
£3,977 ; for Penang, silver, £l,OOO ; for Singapore,
silver, £4,500 ; for Hong Kong, silver, £74,600;
for Poo-Choo Foo, silver, £3,025 ; and for Shang-
bae, silver, £89,896.
The stoppage is announced of Messrs. John Ma-
son and Co., wholesale tea dealers, of Hull, a firm
of respectable standing. There is a rumour that
the estate will not yield more than about 9s. in the
pound.

The Madras Railway Company have paid into
the Bank of England since the 31st ultimo, to the
credit' of the Secretary of State for India in Council,
the further sum of £137,700 on account of the fitth
'extens'or. capital of the company, making, with the
previous payments, a total of £306,070 paid in on
lois account.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAIL

TWELVE O'CLOCK._

There is no alteration today in the demand for
money,or the terms upon which it is supplied.
The joint stock and private establishments, by ask-
ing full rates for the accommodation they afford,
are inducing a large portion of the mercantile com-
munity to take their securities to the Bank of Eng-
land.