The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-11 00:00:00

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MONEY MARKET ,4 SD CITY i EWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The demand for discount accommodation to-day
has continued moderate, and the quotations have
still shown a downward tendency, which, together
with the extensive supplies of gold now taken to
the Bank, has induced the opinion in some quarters
that the minimum of that establishment will soon
be adjusted at 31 per cent.

A further large supply of gold, viz., £216,000,
was taken into the Bank of England yesterday.
No important alteration was exhibited in the
Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon.

Gold is now about 6-10ths per cent. dearer in
London than in Paris, and 7-10ths per cent. higher
here than in Hamburg.

An average amount of business was recorded in
the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday. and prices
were firm. The sales were about 10,000 bales.
There is an increase of £9OO in the traffic receipts
of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway for the
past week.

The traffic receipts of the Great Western Railway
of Canada for the week ending the 30th ult., exhi-
bited a decrease of £1,195 compared with the same
period last year.

The steamer Delta, which leaves to-morrow with
the Bombay mails will take out £7,000 in gold to
Alexandria, and £2,950 in gold, and £96,475 in
silver to Bombay.

Notice has been given that the sum of £10,673
has been employed in the redemption of 107 Peru-
vian 4-* per Cent. Arica and Tacua Railway Bonds,
and £33,056 to the redemption of 105 41 per Cent.
Bonds of the External Debt.

The market for Public Securities, to-day, has
been quiet, the excitement experienced yesterday
having partially subsided, although the full extent
of the mischief arising from the failures has not
yet been ascertained. Some of the members who
have been suspended have made arrangements for a
compromise, and in most cases it is thought that
6s. Bd. in the pound will be provided. The Funds
to-day are tolerably steady, Consols being 931
for transfer, and 931 1 for the October account.
The business negotiated, however, has been chiefly
connected with the liquidation of the account, the
recent embarr tssments having operated as a tem-
porary check to fresh speculation. The New Threes
are flat at 911 s ; the Reduced steady at 913 4 ;
the new 21 per Cents. have receded to 761 ; India
5 per Cent. Loan is 1033 3, and the New Scrip
1041.

In the Foreign Market the dealings have been
rather more numerous, and prices show more firm-
ness. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 821 ; ditto Loan
of 1858, 671 68; the £lOO Bonds have improved to
701 1; Mexican to 22,1 4 ; and Russian 41 per Cents.
to 901 ; Spanish are flat at 49,1 1, but the Deferred
have recovered to 417, 421.

Business in the Railway Share Market has con-
tinued inactive, and in most of the principal lines
a slight decline has taken place. Caledonians,
Great Westerns, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and
Midland have declined ss. ; London and Brighton,
10s. ; South Eastern, 15s. ; and North British £l.
London, Chatham, and Dover advanced 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
been dull. San Paulo realise 3, Great Luxembourg
8/ ; Bahia and San Francisco, 12/ 13 ; East Indian
have improved to 1021; Great Indian Peninsula to
991 994 ; Great Western of Canada, however, have
declined ton 1.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
continue without any change of importance. Bank
of Egypt realise 192; London Joint Stock, 32;
Union of London, 27k ; National Discount Com-
pany, 3i 4; and Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 68.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9la I 4
3 per Cent. Cons.,ls Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9ll i I
New 2f per Cent. Annuities
India ,ruck •
•• • ,•••
Ditty 5 per Cent.
Ditto Loan Scrip, 5 per cent
Diti-o Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
'aro Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 98a
(70,.i. for Account, Oct. 10 93a i. i
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
March June.
Exchequer Bills, El,OOO, 2d — 4 pm
D tto £5OO .. 1 din 4 pm
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian .5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1860 9Ol
Buenos Ayres, 6 per. Cent. ......... s —
Ditto Account
Ditto Deferred
Chilian 6 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent .. 824
Equador New Consolidated
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account

Peruvian 4/ per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent- 7B
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822. £ St • •
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent.
Ditto New Deferred —
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded 5l 6
Turkish 6 per Cent '
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £ldo Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2?-; per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil.
Ditto Account
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 4/ per Ct. Ex. 4s. 86
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 93 f
Ditto Account

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE NEAR THE CALEDONIAN-
ROAD.—Yesterday morning, between the hours of 4 and 5
o'clock, a destructive fire broke out on the extensive pre-
mises of Mr. John Squires, 22 and 23, Satterton • street, Cale-
donian-road, Islington. By the time the firemen arrived the
flames had gained possession of the factory and were attack-
ing the surrounding houses. The wood and materials burnt
were of great value. The firemen, by mounting the roofs
of the adjoining houses, were enabled to pour copious
streams of water into the blazing pile, bat the fire was not
extinguished until the factory was burnt down and the
dwelling-house considerably damaged. Messrs. Simmons
and Toplis, crucible works, in Blundell-street, and adjoin-
ing houses were also damaged. Mrs. Marlow, laundress,
lost a valuable horse and van. The loss falls on the Phoenix
Fire-office.

One of the seven gunboats ordered by the United
States Congress for the war has just been launched at Phi-
ladelphia. Her length is 108 feet 8 inches, and she is 33
feet beam and 15 feet hold. She will carry four 32-pounders
and two 11-inch guns. She will be fit for sea about the Ist
of October.

ACCIDENTS ON BOARD THE WARRIOR.—Two ac- I
cidents have occurred upon.this vessel during the past week.
The sufferer in the first case was a joiner named Hayfield,
one of the men employed in fitting up the vessel. He was
coming up on deck, and had placed his hand upon the edge
of the hatchway, when a heavy plate of iron, suspended
above, fell down upon the spot. Two or three fingers were
clean cut off, and Hayfield, falling down the h ttchway, sus-
tained other injuries. He was removed to one of the Lon-
don hospitals, and is row progressing favourably. In the
other ease, the accident happened to a lady who formed one
of a party of visitors from Gravesend. While walking along
the deck, she fell through an opening which had been care-
lessly left unprotected, a broken leg being the result.
By a decree, dated the 25th of August, the sum of
£24,800 has been granted by the French Government for
deepening the entrance and fairway of the port of Boulogne,
so as to permit steamers to enter at nearly all times of the
tide. This has always been a part of the general scheme
of improvements in course of execution at Boulogne, but
its immediate realisation was scarcely expected, and the
announcement is regarded as a satisfactory response to the
improvements the South Eastern Company
have carried
out at Folkestone. It is of considerable importance to our
international communications, and will afford the means of
conducting the services between Folkestone and Boulogne
at nearly fixed hours, at a comparatively early date.
THE BRAEMAR GATHERING. —T his famous old
Highland gathering took place on the usual stance in front
of Braemar Castle on Thursday. The gathering of this year,
though, on the whole,very successful,was not one of the best
of its kind, probably, in a great degree, owing to the absence
of her Majesty, who, to the regret of all, did not honour the
gathering by her presence. The Princess Alice, however,
was present along with Prince Alfred, Prince Leopold, and
Prince Arthur. Prince Louis of Hesse also, who only arrived
at Balmoral the evening previous, was present, and remained
until the games were finished. The men of both clans were
after the games entertained at dinner by their respective
chiefs—lnvr.rcauld in Braemar Castle, and the Fife men in a
building belonging to Mr. Hunter,Fife Arms Hotel, Braemar.
At both the cheer was ample and substantial, and the pre-
vicus exertions of the day made it welcome to all. The Earl
and Countess of Fife and Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson of In-
vercauld were the chief toasts at the respective places, and
were of course received with genuine Highland honours.
In the evening a ball was held in the hall of the Castle,
Which had been very tastefully decorated for the occasion.

SHARE MARKET.-(THIS DAY).