The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NEWS-YESTERDAY.

A sudden rise took place yesterday in Italian
stock after business hours. Itis in several quarters
opined that this improvement indicates an approach-
ing settlement of the Roman question ; but the
better founded interpretation is that the proclama-
tion of an amnesty will remove many of the difficul-
ties by which the Turin cabinet has lately been
surrounded.

The closing quotation of Austrian Five per Cent.
Aietallics of the 2d inst. from Vienna shows an
advance 2
of per cent., and the exchange has de-
clined to 124.25—a movement of 50c. in favour of
Austria.

The cotton market was quiet to-day, with sales
to the amount of 2,000 bales. The sales of the
'week comprise 26,810 bales, and the imports
136,500, nearly all from India.
The foreign exchanges to-day were without varia-
tion of importance.
At Paris the rate of discount in the open market
is now 3 per cent. ; Vienna, 5 ; Hamburg, 3d ;
Turin, 41; Frankfort, 21, ; Amsterdam, 31 ;
Berlin, 3; Brussels, 3; and St. Petersburg, 5 per
cent.

The mail from Bombay passed Jubal on the 2d
instant.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The demand for money is steadily maintained,
and there is no variation in the rates of discount.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £786,000, and the exports £353,000.
The traffic receipts of the Northern of France
Es.ilway for the past week amounted to £63,478,
agaiust £60,306 last year.
It appears that the available balance of the Great
Western Railway of Canada for the half-year end-
ing the 31st July amounted to only £27,823, from
which a dividend of 11 per cent. per annum is
recommended, thereby absorbing £25,118. The
report (issued this morning) further states that
a very serious loss, amounting to the sum of
£6,953 15s. loe., has been incurred during the last
half-year, owing to the depreciated value of the
American currency in which this company's pro-
portion of the through rates are paid, and the ad-
verse exchanges at which remittances were made.
A portion of this loss has been incurred on local
traffic from Canada going across the frontier to
places in the United States.

Two O'CLOCK.
The Liverpool cotton market to-day was very
dull; sales about two thousand bales.
At Paris this morning the 3 per Cent. Rentes
ape.ned at 72fr. 75c., being 1 per cent. higher than
yesterday.
Continued firmness has prevailed in the English
Stock Market to-day, although very little business
has taken place. Consols, however, have been
'maintained at 931 94 for transfer and the Bth inst.,
and at 94 1 for November. The New 3 per Cents.
have improved to 921 1; the Reduced to 927,- ; Ex-
chequer Bills, June, to 20s. and 235. prem. ; and
ditto March, to 20s. prem.; India 5 per Cent.
Loan is 108/ 1091.
Business in the Foreign Market has been rather
active, and prices are tolerably well supported.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 851 861; ditto, 1858, 681691;
ditto, New Scrip par. 9 prem. ; and the Consolides
391 ; Mexican are flat at 33-1 ; Egyptian are firm
at 901; Italian 5 per Cents. have advanced to 721
739; ditto Maremmana Railway Loan to 73 ; Peru-
vian Scrip is 2 to 14 dis. ; Portuguese 47 ; ditto
New Scrip 21 prem. ; and Spanish Passive have
improved to 211 22i.

In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been very limited. Prices, however, have been a
shade firmer. Great Western, Lancashire and
Yorkshire, North Western, and South Eastern have
mproved 55,; and Great Northern A Stock declined
£l.

In the Foreign and Colonial lines the chief move-
ment has been in South Austrian and Lombardo-
Venetian, which have improved 1 to 1 per share,
being marked 23 to 23i.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares in
several instances show increased firmness.

The shares of the Royal Forest of Dean Mining
Company continue in good demand at :13 ton prem.

~ BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
‘) Per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3
„per Cent. Consols Annuities
41 e W a
3 Stpe or
ck Cent. Annuities 921 k
Indi
Ditto 5 per Cent. lOB/ 9/
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 93}
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 100/ 1/
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,000
Consols for Account, Oct. 8 93/
June. March.
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Ct. .. 20 3 20
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small —
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent
Chilian 3 per Cent.
..„ Ditto 42 per Cent B5
zg.yptian, 7 per Cent., Scrip 9O! 90
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 73
Mexican; 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
New GreniNda, 2 per Cent
Ditto ex over-due Coups. and Hectares 9&
Ditto Defei•red' s±
Peruvian 41 per Cent —
Ditto 41 New, 1862, A Scrip, £33 paid
47 11 2
Portuguese 3 pey Cent., 18b3
21
Ditto Scrip, £l5 pd
. 461
Ditto, Paid up Scrip
llusstian 5 per Cent 1822 £St —
Ditto Paid up Scrip .. NI
Sardinian 5 per Cent. ..
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive.. , 22 k 1k 2k
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 -
:Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 (Scrip), £5O paid i pm par i pm
Ditto, Paid up Scrip 6B/ 7/ 8
Venezuela, per Cent.
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 psr Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. , —
Ditto Account - 73 ± 2/
Consols, Money ....
Ditto Account .. 93/ 493/ 4
Ditto November
. 91 /

THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.—It will be
recollected that a select committee was appointed by the
House of Commons in March to inquire whether the ecclesi-
astical revenues cannot be more advantageously adminis-
tered for the interests of the Church than they are at pre-
sent. The committee sat more than 20 times, and examined
many witnesses, but at the close of July were obliged to
report that they had not acquired sufficient information to
enable them to pronounce a decisive opinion upon all the
questions brought under their notice, and that there are also
some other questions which may require further investiga-
tion. They therefore recommend the re-appointment of
the committee next session. Mr. Newdegate proposed,
but did not press, a resolution to the following effect :
That the Ecclesiastical Commissioners do not appear to
have any established system for ascertaining the locality
and condition of the worst cases of spiritual destitution in
topiulchous districts, nor any definite principle of action, by
ouht I.3hreiority of assistance shall be afforded to such cases
the commissioners and rapidly increasing funds entrusted to
oners for distribution • the committee therefore
vecommend that, if it be the intention of the House that the
Ecclesiastical Commission shall continue in its present
form, some legislative directions should be given for pro-
curing, through the intervention of the commissioners, au-
thentic information with
elsaii)dect to these cases, that the
information be periodically
before Parliament, and that
such powers be conferred upon the commissioners as will
enable and induce them to
naive
in a
mannexeceptional priority to the
claims thus established,
recognised
arnsdomewhat analogous to
parishes and
priority
that in which a legally
and places having
has been granted in favour of
the property, at the
what are termed " local aims" upon
disposal of the commissioclners.
RECEPTION OF A NUN.—Yesterday morning
the
ceremony of investing a young lady with the veil and
habit of the Sisters of Mercy, took place in the Chapel of
holy
Our Lady of the Convent in Bermondsey, in the presence
of a large number of the English Roman Catholic Clergy
and laity. Miss Stourton, the lady who took the veil, is
about 20 years of age, and a member of a highly respectable
family in the west of England.
OPENING OF THE CARRICKFERGUS AND LARNE
It,AILIYAY.—This railway, which has been constructed in a
r'ln
farsble short period of time, was opened on Wednesday
tZePublit*raffie, and three trains passed each way during
day.
hough called the Carrickfergus and Larne
Railway, it is virtually an extension and portion of the
aGreatwostNorth Eastern trunk line, and will, we believe, prove
valuable auxiliary and feeder to the Northern.
Counties Railway,
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seaon o
passage of it S termini has
already been established
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