The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The reduction in the rate of discount at the Bank
of England has caused a more buoyant feeling in
the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during
the past few days. Tea has continued in steady
demand at about previous rates. For sugars there
has been a more active inquiry, and full quotations
have been obtained for good grocery descriptions.
In the refined market the scarcity of supplies has
caused a decided advance in values. Coffee has
continued in fair request, fine descriptions having
realised higher prices, Rice has been in better de-
mand, and late rates have been refused by holders.
For saltpetre there has again been an active in-
quiry, and business has been done at enhanced quo-
tations. Tallow, however, has continued dull,
Without any material change in values, either for
present or forward delivery.
A. large amount of business was transacted in
the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices
again advanced Id. per lb. The sales were fully
25,000 bales.

A further sum of about £32,000 in gold was sent
into the Bank of England yesterday.

The steamer Pera which leaves to-morrow for
Bombay will take out £15,500 in gold, and £182,240
in silver.

The bar silver by La Plata from the West Indies
has been sold at ss. Old. per oz. standard, being a
further decline of Zd per oz.
There is no material alteration to report in the
Money Market, but the inquiries continue active,
with every possibility of becoming still more numer-
ous towards the end of the month, and full rates
are consequently demanded for accommodation.
The preparations for the engagements due on the
4th proximo may also be expected to stimulate
the demand, but the payment of the April divi-
dends which will speedily follow may create in-
greased easiness.

A call of £2 10s, per share, amounting to
£200,000, is due to-morrow on the Great Northern
Railway 5 per cent. preference shares.

There has been a quiet Market for Public Securities
to-day, and the quotations have not undergone the
slightest change, Consols being 91! for money,
and 92 to 92i for the account. India 5 per Cent.
remain at 100 ; ditto 4 per Cent. Rupee Paper is
; ditto 61 per Cent. ditto is firmer at 99,1 100 ;
but Exchequer Bills have further declined to 13s.
and 7s. dis.

In the Foreign Market the transactions have
been exceedingly moderate, and prices in some
instances are fuller. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 74;
to 744 ; ditto, 1858, 54i 54 ; £lOO Bonds have
receded to 57 ; and Portuguese to 461 ; Mexican,
however, are firm at 244, and Dutch 44- per Cents.
remain at 101.

The preparations for the settlement for the ac-
count are now in progress in the Railway Share
Market, and the transactions are of a rather limited
character. Prices, however, are steady, and in
nome instances a fractional improvement has taken
place. Caledonian, Great Northern, Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, and Midland have advanced
as. ; Great Western, and London, Chatham, and
Dover, 10s. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, North-
Western, and South-Eastern have been dealt in at
about previous rates.

Business in the Foreign and Colonial undertak-
ings has continued very quiet. Sambre and Meuse
are steady at 51, and Great Western of Canada at
111 ; East Indian have improved to 991; and Great
Indian Peninsula declined to 941.

For Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
there has been a very limited inquiry. London
Joint-Stock Bank have advanced to 301 ; London
Dock Shares declined to 52, National Discount
Company to 3,1, and London General Omnibus
Company realise 1.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
India Stock .. .
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. 77
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 1858 95
Ditto 1859 95
ConsOs for Account
Exchequer Bills, £I,OOO, 2d
I .Dltto, Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PR

2
7 13 10 dis

MexicanS per Cent 2,

.ICES.
4
'4l I

Ditto A.oCount
Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853. .. 41
Turkish 6 per Cent • . 7
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 2i per Cent —
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Console, Money 914
92
Ditto .000ount

THE TVEATIIER.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS.

This Day,
between 8 and B. E. IM. D. F. C. I. S.
9 a.m.
—— _
Nairn 29'33 43 42 • S.E. 3 7 o. 1
Aberdeen
Leith 29'45 47 44 S.W. 4 9 o. 2
Berwick 29'52 45 42 S. 4 9 f. 1
Ardrossan
Portrush
Shields
Galway 2917 46 45 S.W. 8 4 c. 6
Searboreugh 29'64 44 43 S.W. 4 7 a 4
Liverpool 20.59 47 43 S.E. 3 8 0. 2
Valenti&
Queenstown 29'48 46 45 S.W. 4 3 a 2
Yarmouth 29/7 45 44 S.S.W. 2 6 m. 3
London 2974 47 45 S. 1 9 o.
Dover 29/6 48 47 S.W. 1 7 o. 1
_Portsmouth
Portland
Plymonth
Penzance I 29'66 49 48 S.S.W. 2 9 r. 3
Jersey ! 29/9 46 47 S.W. 2 sm. 1

EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and:reduced
to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.
Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true—
not magnetic)., F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
f 1 to 9). I. Initials :—b., blue sky; c., clouds (detached) ;
~ fog. ; h., hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0.,
overcast (dull) ; r., rain; s., snow; t., thunder. A letter
repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb-
ance (1 to 9).

WIND AND WEATHER
Birmingham, S.S.E. ; dull
Boston, S. ; fine
Brighton, N.W. ; cloudy
Bristol, S. ; flue
Cardiff, S.W.; dull
Chatham, W.S.W., light;
cloudy
Cork, W.; fine
Deal, S.S.E. ; foggy
Dublin, S.W. ; fine
Dundee, N.W. ; cloudy
Edinburgh, W. ; fine
Falmouth, S.W. ; rain
Glasgow, S.S.E.; rail
Goole, N.E. • fine
Gravesend, W. • fine
Holyhead, ; rain
CONTINENTAL STA
Barcelona, E.N.E. ; rain
Brussels, cloudy
Cherbourg, E.N.E. ; cloddy
uoPenhagen S.S W ; clear
Dunkirk, N.E.f°g"
Havre, S.2_- cloudy
Leghorn, .u.N.E- f
Leipaic, S. ; fine ; °g
Lisbon, N.N.W. - fog
LyonS, W.; cloudy

REPORT, THIS DAY, 9 A.M.
Hull, S.W. ; fine
Kingstown, S.W. ' • fine
Inverness, S.W. • fine
Leeds, S.W. ; dull
Limerick, W. ; fine
Lowestoft, S.W. ; fog
Manchester, N.E. ; fine
Milford Haven, W.S.W.;
rain
Newcastle on Tyne, N.E. ;
cloudy
Sheffield, S.W. ; fine
Stockton on Tees, N.W.; fins
Sunderland. N.W. ; fine
Waterford, N.E. ; fine
Whitehaven, W.S.W.; fine
Wolverton, S.W. ; cloudy
,TIONS, MARCH 25.
Madrid, N.E. ; cloufiy
Marseilles, S.E. ; cloudy
Moscow, S.W. ; clear
Paris, S.W. ; cloudy
St. Petersburg, S.W.; cloudy
Strasbourg, 8. ; very foggy
Toulon, E. ' • cloudy
Turin, E.N.E. ; cloudy
Vienna, E.S.E. ; clear

THE GREAT RYTEfiCAsE.—Oar readers will
remember this case, which some months since came before
the Court of Probate and
Divorce,
when a declaration
Rrfoersmedsto secure a declaration
Serres, made. The next step
of
of thebe
taken►
t cl yb of
weMrs.
informed,
areof the legitimacy of Mrs. Olivewho was, it is
step
as the daughter of 11.R.H. the
uke of
will be taken
necessary Cumber-
land, the brother of George 111. ThisseP
Mr.ce legal
ri
th
as soon as funds can be provided for
the tw°i
expenses. Sir F. Kelly, Dr. Phillimore, and
ssary
well have kindly undertaken to conduct the appealwdoes-
t
fees ; but many witnesses will be required, and other heavy
outlays will be necessary to the prosecution of the suit. A
committee has been formed, composed of highly respectable
gentlemen, for the purpose of raising funds to enable Mx B.
Ryves to push her claims to a legitimate test and a final
issue; and subscriptions are made payable at Spooner and
Attwood's, Gracechurch-street. A singular circumstance
may be here mentioned. The statement has gone the round
of the papers that her Royal highness the late Duchess
of Kent was brought with great difficulty from the
Continent to this country just prior to the birth of Victoria,
our most gracious and beloved Queen. The Duke of Kent
was in great pecuniary difficulties at the time ; and it
is nearly certain that the sovereign of these realms would
not have been British born had it not been for Olive Serres,
who, at the last moment, and at great personal sacrifice,
advanced £4OO to H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, to enable him
to defray the expenses incurred by the duchess in the
journey to England. Olive Serres is dead : the Duchess of
Kent is also dead. The daughter of the former is now an
impoverished claimant for royal honours ; the daughter of
the other occupies the grandest Rd mightiest throne in all
this world 1-05toway Zino.