The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-19 00:00:00

MONEY AIA.RICET AND CITY .N.EWS.

CITY, Two o'CweK.
The inquiry for discount accommodation to-day,
as usual at the close of the week, has been very
moderate, and the rates have remained without the
alightest variation. The banks and discount houses
are still unable to find full employment for their
resources, and the commercial public are therefore et
in a position to negotiate their securities on very
reasonable terms.
About £65,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
of England yesterday.
The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon
were in most instances a shade lower.
The Ceylon, which; leaves to-morrow, the 20th :I',
inst., for India, China, &c., will take out £72,041, st
of which £1,090 is in gold, and the remainder in t'
silver.

Since Monday last the imports of specie have stci
been about £561,200, and the exports £280,000. stc
Continued activity prevailed in the Liverpool stci
Cotton Market yesterday, and prices were very firm. st(
st(
The sales amounted to 25,000 bales. stc
The report of the directors of the Great Eastern sst`,
Railway of Clnada which has been issued prepa-
ratory to the !meting, states that the receipts st<
on capital account for arrears of calls, &c., etc
during the last half-year were £20,340, 8t(
making the total returns on the 31st of
July last £5,213,097, while the expenditure
to the same date represented a total of £4,980,128, stl
leaviLg a balance to the credit of capital of about
£232,968. The severity of the last winter added
st
very heavily to the working expenses, although
st a.
the traffic has considerably increased. The revenue
account shows a surplus of £18,373, which the
directors recommend should be carried to the credit
1
of the current half year.

In the English Stock Market, to-day, the trans-
st'
actions have again been of a limited character, and et,
led to no alteration of importance in values, Con- siittl,
cols, for money, being steady at 921 1, and at 92d Qt
for account. Indian Securities attract most :t
attention, and the New Stock has further improved. st
The New Threes are firmer at 90-a- ; the Reduced 8.1
steady at 901 e ; Bank Stock is at 233 ; India 52
per Cent. Loan has advanced to 1041 2 ; ditto New 19
Scrip to 1044 ; Exchequer Bills, March, are firm st(
at 4s. prem.; ditto, June, flat at 7s. prem.
Business in the Foreign Market has continued st,
moderately active, but prices, in some instances, et:
show less firmness. Turkish 6 per Cents. are heavy sti
at 8111 ditto, 1858, 692; but the £lOO Bonds st
have improved to 711 ; and Sardinian, to 811 a ;
Mexican remains at 26; Chilian 414-- per Cents. at :tt
84,1 85 ; and Portuguese are steady at 477.
Business in the Railway Share Market has con-
tinued very dull, and but few changes of im-
portance can be recorded. Lancashire and York- .t
shire have advanced 10s.; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, ss. ; and North British, ss.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were 17,
moderately active at about previous rates. Great
Luxembourg brought 9 to 91 ; Bahia and San 8'
Francisco, 13. East India have declined to 1011 ;
and Great Indian Peninsula have improved to 99
and 991.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
remain inactive ; Union of London, however, have
improved to 271 ; Berlin Water Works realise 41 a ;
and Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 69.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICEN
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9Ol 1
i per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9oa t
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.. 151
India Stock OO ••
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Loan Scrip, 5 per cent
Ditto' Entaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 98k
Ditto 1859
Consols for Account, Nov. 7
March. June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d..... 4 pm
D,tto £5OO .. 4 pm
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING FitICES
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent. ......... 0. • • •
Ditto Deferred
Chilian 6 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853. 471
Ditto Small 47±
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822. £ St ..
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 6ll
Sardinian 5 per Cent. .... Bl+
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded 5l
Turkish 6 per Cent ..
Ditto, Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London.
' TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 92+ 1
Ditto Account

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAN
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 1 12 1/
Antwerp
Brussels - 25 65 25 70
liamturgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 65 25 72±
Frankfort on Maine — 1191 119±
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 328. 32±
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz —
Leghorn —
Milan —
Genoa . _
Naples
Palermo
Messina —
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro —
New York —
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard),...per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars ... „ 0 0 0
Silver in Bars (Standard) 9 9 0 5 01
South American Doubloons

481
482
25 80
25 80
25 80
391
118 k
52
O2h

481
481
25 85
25 85
25 87/
391
1181
1181
52/
52/

SWIIIIIIIIN G.

DEEEPOOT, THH INDIAN, AND BECRWITH, THE CHAM. I St
PION SWINIMER.—The match between Beckwith, the
champion, and Deerfoot, the Indian, for £25 a-side, to swim
twenty lengths of the Westminster Bath, the Indian re-
ceiving a quarter of a minute start, and which was to have
taken place on Wednesday next, has terminated in a for-
feit. The Indian. has been tried in one of our baths, and it
has been found that he could not turn in them ; conse-
quently he would have no chance with such an accom-
plished and powerful opponent. His backer therefore has
forfeited the £lO down, and, although at present will not
make any fresh match, as Deerfoot requires rest, yet on
some future occasion ho will be prepared to match the
Indian to swim the English Ll.Gnipion in " open water"
any distance, and for any sum he may 111 a to name.

THE THREE R's.—At a case in a county court
at Norfolk, the plaintiff's wife gave the following account
of her
plan of bookkeeping :—She was no scholar, but
marked
her h _ down on a door the amount for goods served, and
husband entered them in a book when he came home
from work at •
ling, a sm a 110
unoeingefho She made a large round 0 for a shil-
and a short :for sixpence, a long mark for a penny,
chalks off
rubbed all the and she was sure she had
them, so that they did off when her husband had entered
get twice entered,
LATEST FROM THE ARCTIC RCTIC REGIONS.--Lovers of
arctic navigation will gladKbeaneo to hear that Dr. Hayes, who
attended the late Dr. n
fhis last voyage in search of
Sir John Franklin, and whoUnitedaterwards proceeded to the
North in the little schooner
Upernavik, in Greenland, in
safety. States, has returned to
Arctic Hayes
Regions(wh os e
account of his strange adventures tpher.
has been so much admired) sailed frno
9th of August, 1860, northwards, arrivedandtep:pernavik on the
of September at Winter Harbour, about eight on the 27th
of Cape Alexander, where the party erd miles north
about 78 deg. There, during the winter, ae4eint latitude
of animal life was found, no less than 300 reindeer having
been brought on board, and many more were killed buatvin-
slimed on shore. In addition to these, about 60 blue foxeseon
and 20 hares were slain. Of the animals many were very
fat. fat. The astronomer Sontag died while absent on an ea
ex-
cursion in December alone with the Greenlander Hans, the
same who, it will be remembered, accompanied the steward
Morton in his expedition to the supposed " Open Polar
Sea" of Kane, and who, smitten with the charms of a Cape
York beauty, afterward, abandoned the expedition, and re-
mained among the natives at Cape York. Dr. Hayes him-
self undertook an excursion with sledges, on the 4th of
April, 1361, from which he returned on the 28th of May,
having reached, as it is asserted, the high latitude of 821
deg. No " Open Polar Sea" was found, but only the
streams of open water not unusually met with on the coasts
of Greenland, On the 15th of July the schooner was got
(Alt of Winter Harbour, and reached lipernavik on the 31st
of August, whence Dr. Hayes hoped to sail for New York
on or about the 6th of September. The doctor is said to
express his desire again to be able to proceed to the North
with screw steamers.