The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-06 00:00:00

TFil SUN, LONDON! WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1861.

MONEY .MA_REBT AND CITY IVEWB.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The inquiry for accommodation continues active,
and during the last few days the rates of discount
have exhibited greater firmness—seven per
cent. now being the minimum quotation in
the general market, as well as at the Bank of
England. The frequent recurrence of failures
has induced the banks and discount houses to pro-
ceed very cautiously, and bills, unless of a superior
description, are less easily negotiated than they
were a week ago.

A call of £2 per share, amounting to £lBO,OOO
became due to-day on the Bahia and San Francisco
Railway Shares.

Only a very small amount of business was
recorded in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday,
but prices were unaltered. The sales were 3,000
bales.

No important alteration was exhibited in the
Foreign Exchanges yesterday ; the Austrian rates,
however, were rather lower.

The Tyne has been announced from the Brazils
with £2,633 in specie.

The Great Northern Railway directors have
resolved to propose a dividend at the rate of L 6 7s.
6d. per cent. per annum, and the Midland at the
rate of 7 per cent.

There has been a steady market to-day for Public
Securities, but business has continued very quiet,
and the preliminary arrangements for the liquida-
tion occupies the attention of the dealers. Consols
are 911 Z for money, and 92 to 921 for the March
account. New Threes and the Reduced are heavy
at 91 1. Bank Stock is at 231 and 2321 ; India
ditto is 2181 ; ditto 5 per Cent., 998 ; and Exche-
quer Bills have further improved to 6s. and 3s. dis.
Long Annuities remain at 161.
The dealings in the Foreign Market have been
of an average character, but prices show further
depression. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 70 ; ditto
(1858), 56 1; Mexican have receded to 231, Spanish
to 471, and ditto Deferred to 40t, ; Buenos Ayres
remain at 931, Sardinian at 811, and Dutch 4 per
Cents. at 1001. _ _

The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been rather restricted, and a further decline has
taken place in values. Midlands have receded 55.;
Caledonians, Eastern Counties, Great Westerns,
South Westerns, North-Eastern (Berwick), and
South Easterns, 10s. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
155.; and Great Northern, £l.

In the Foreign and Colonial Markets the opera-
tions have been very limited. South Austrian and
Lombardo Venetian have receded to 12t ; Dutch
Rhenish to 12i ; Great Indian Peninsular have
declined to 941 ; and Great Western of Canada to
114.

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
have shown less firmness. Bank of Australasia
declined to 681 ; London Joint Stock to 30 ; and
Red Sea Telegraph are steady at 17 to 171-,.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll 1 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9l ) i f
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.. 161 )
India Stock
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent .
Ditto 5i per Cent 991 1001
Ditto Debentures, 1858
Consols ;for Account, Feb. 7 .. 91) 1
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 11d

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 por Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1860
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Mexican 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. , 4si
•iardinian 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
4panish 3 per Cent. ..•Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred

Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Turkish 6 per Cent .. --
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f ...
Ditto 44 per Cent.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Gun. 21 per Cent 64 3i
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money and Account 9l /
Ditto March ditto 9II /

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIG.HT.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, F. 5.

4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Major-General Sir Jas.
Hope Grant, G.C.B. to be Colonel, vice General Sir
George Scovell, G.C.13 , deceased.
9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieutenant John Evans
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Charles William Paulet,
who retires ; Cornet Charles Brome Bashford to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Evans.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Captain Alfred John Ford, from
half-pay, to be Captain, vice Richard George Coles,
seconded, having been appointed Captain Instructor of
Musketry at Hythe.
2d Foot—Ensign and Adjutant Alexander Baird to bo
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hewson, deceased.
sth Foot—Lieut. John Creagh to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Robert Moore, deceased ; Ensign William
Douglas Legge to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vine
Creagh ; Lieut. Henry Bathe to be Adjutant, vice
Creagh, promoted.
6th Foot—Staff-Surgeon William Frederick Torcato Ivey
to be Surgeon, vice George Hyde, M.D.. placed upon
half-pay.
14th Foot—Lieutenant Jahn Lenthal Davids, from the 77th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice James Franklin, who ex-
changes; Gentleman-Cadet Tredenham Fitzlierbert
Carlyon, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Thomas Charles Watson, ap-
pointed to the 56th Foot.
24th Foot—Lieutenant George Massy Studdert, from the
2d West India Regiment, to he Lieutenant, vice Henry
John Evans, who exchanges.
31st Foot—Gentleman-Cadet Henry 'William Bateman,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Tibbetts, promoted.
39th Foot—Gentleman-Cadet Charles D'Oyly Harmer,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Blennerhassett, appointed to the 41st
Foot.
41st Foot—Major Hugh Rowlands, from the 100th Foot, to
be4sth Maj or, vice Henry
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55th Foot—Sergesat-Major Timothy Dixon to be Quarter-
master, vice Samuel Millward, who resigns.
57th Foot—Lieutenant Hickman Rose Russell to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Nlajor Arthur Maxwell
Earle, promoted by purchase, to an unattached majority ;
Ensign Robert Murray to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Russell.
58th Foot—Ensign William Henry Key to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice William Bolton, who retires.
60th Foot—Ensign Richard Collingwood Robinson, from
the 15th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Gosling, promoted.
67th Foot—Ensign James Hardie Fraser to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Chas. Henry Blackley Turner,
deceased ; Ensign. George Baker to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Fraser, whose promotion on 30th Nov.,

1866, hag been cancelled:
77th Foot—Lieutenant Janiett. Franklin, from the 14th
Foot, to be Lieut., vice Xohn' Lenthal Davide, who ea-

changer.
85th Foot—Major Frederick Ernest Appleyard, from a
Depot Battalion, to be Major, vice Robert Maunsell, who
exchanges.
87th Foot—Gentlentan-Cadet Kenneth Douglas, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Hickson, promoted ; Quartermaster . Sergeant George
Barikin Freeman, to be Quartermaster, vice Henry
Thomas, placed upon half pay.