The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NEWS YESTERDAY.

1 he reduction of £1,186,000 in the bullion of the
Bank of France, shown in the monthly return just
published, is greater even than was anticipated.
Witniu three months an aggregate diminution has
been experienced of £3,600,000, coincidently with
R reduction of about £2,500,000, sustained by the
Bank of England.
The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £7Bl 16s. on account of the dividends on
the debt of Ecuador.

About 70,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from
the Bank to-day for exportation, principally to the
Continent, to pay for silver. The £Bl,OOO by the
Aloe, from Melbourne, will also be sent abroad.
The steamer Seine, from the West Indies, has
brought £109,000 in silver and £34,000 in gold.
The amount by the Borussia from New York is
£28,000.

The steamer Great Britain, with £400,000 in
gold, and the Wellesley, with £136,500, are the
only gold vessels known to be now at sea from
Australia. The former has been out 68 days, and
the latter 85.

The Australian mail steamer Northam brought
£352,735 in gold to Point de Galin, of which, how-
ever, only £4,928 was for London, the rest being
for India and China.

The shipments of specie for Calcutta and China
by the Mooltan on the 20th instant will show an
increase, compared with the amount taken by the
corresponding vessel of the 4th, but will of course
be much below the enormous sum just despatched
to Bombay, the chief cotton port of the East. Some
large amounts of silver have already been insured
for transmission to Bombay by the steamer of the
27th inst.

The Mexican dollars by the steamer La Plata
were sold to-day for China at ss. 21d. per ounce.
There is an active inquiry for silver for Bombay, to
meet which large supplies are being imported from
the Continent. The quotation for bars remains at
6s. 2d.

A meeting of policy-holders in the Argus Life
office was held to-day at the Guildhall Coffee-house.
It was convened by Mr. Lewis, of the firm of Har-
rison and Lewis, and the disposition evinced was to
resist the proposed amalgamation with the Eagle.
It was mentioned that with this view an injunction
in Chancery has been filed by one of the policy-
holders. The result of the meeting was the appoint-
ment of a committee to confer with the directors.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELTE O'CLOCK.

There is no change to report in the general con-
dition of the Money Market, either as regards the
demand or the rates.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have been
about £1,055,700, and the exports £1,659,500.
A further call of £2 per share, making £6 paid,
has been made by the directors of the Turin and
Savona Railway, payable on or before the Ist
proximo.
The attendance of home and foreign dealers at
the public sales of colonial wool, which commenced
yesterday, was exceedingly large. For the better
descriptions there was a good demand, at an ad-
vance of about id. to 2d. per lb. on previous rates,
while inferior qualities barely sustained former
prices.

Two O'CLOCK.

The transactions in the Market for Public Securi-
ties have been very restricted, and qnotations have
undergone no change of importance, although a
rather heavy tone prevails. Consols for money are
931* and for account 92-fr ex dividend. The New
3 per Cents. and the Reduced are flat at 911 j ;
Exchequer Bills, June, at lls. to 13s. prem. ; ditto,
March, 10s. to 13s. prem. ; Bank Stock is firm at
236 and 238 ; India ditto, at 228 and 230, and the
6 per Cent. Loan at 109-,?-,

Very little animation has been perceptible in the
Foreign Department, and prices have undergone
no change of importance. Greek Bonds hays
a ightly receded, the latest price being 16/. 17, and
the Coupons 7* 17. Grenada "ex all" remain at
14 13; Mexican have improved to 33- I; Peru-
vian Scrip is 1/ 4 dis.; Portuguese, 2/ prem.; Rus-
sian ditto, 4 dis.; Spanish Passive 23y ; Turkish
6 per Cents. 1854, are 83 84; ditto 1858, 691 f,;
and the Consolides, 37t 38.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been of the most limited description, and there is no
material change to record in prices. Great Northern
have advanced 108., while North Western and Mid-
land have receded Sc., and Lancashire and Yorkshire
10s.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were
inactive, and exhibited no material change in value.
Great Luxemburg realised 14f ; Bahia and San
Francisco 191; East Indian 107 x; Great Indian
Peninsula 1061; and Madras 5 per Cents. 104
to 1041
4.

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con-
tinued dull. Standard of South Africa receded to
4i 5, and Bank of Australasia to 711; Berlin Water
Works brought 71 7 ; Royal Mail Steam, 861 I;
and Van Dieman's Land 13 to 13i.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92 11 /
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities: 931
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 91 It
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 l2l
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 41per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001 i
Ditto Bonds £l,000
Consols for Account, Dec 4 921
June. March.
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Ct. .. 11 10
Ditto £500
Ditto Small .. l3 13
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Equador New Consolidated
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons
__Ditto Coupons
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
New Grenada' 2 per Cent —
Ditto Land Warrants -
Ditto ex over-due Coups. & Hectares
Peruvian 41 per Cent -
_ Ditto 42 New, 1862, A Scrip, £5B paid
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 18b3..
Ditto 3 pet Cent., 1862
Ditto Scrip, £2O paid
.
'lllesian 5 per Cent 1822 £ St
Chili= 41 per Cent. 1860
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 6Ol
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862, Scrip, £47 pd / die
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 931 3
Spaiaish 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Passive..
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 ..
Ditto Account
Ditto Paid-up Scrip
Venezuela, per Cent.
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 (Scrip), £43 paid 12 f 1
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK
Consols, Money, with the div.
Ditto Account