The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-27 00:00:00

3101STEY NARK ET AND CITY NEW 'S'.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Although the demand for money may be ex-
pected to increase, in consequence of the prepara-
tions for the payments due at the end of the month,
and half-year, the discount market continues quiet, 8'
and there is no alteration to report in the rates
charged for accommodation. Six per cent. is the 8
nominal quotation for the best bills, bat business is
nevertheless negotiated at 51 per cent., and there is
an ample supply of money for commercial purposes.
A further sum of £5,000, in gold, was taken into
the Bank yesterday.

The Shannon has been announced from the West ;
Indies, with £534,200 in specie.
A large amount of business was transacted in
the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and 12,000 6
bales were sold, 4,000 of which were on speculation st
and for export, at very firm prices.
A meeting was held yesterday of the creditors of st
Mr. J. H. Cohn, East India merchant, when it was f g
resolved to accept a sum of £22,000 in three instal- st,
roents, extending over throe months, in satisfaction st
of claims amounting to £60,000. st
st
A meeting of the Canada Company took place st
to-day, Mr. C. Franks in the chair. A dividend st
Was proposed and agreed to of £4 10s. a share, free et
of income tax. et,

There was a meeting to-day of the London and stock
Provincial Marine Insurance Company, when the 25
proposed payment of interest at the rate of 5 per stoc2s
,
cent. was agreed to, the surplus on the under- 1°
writing account being £39,320. 1
The official returns relating to Trade and Navi- B,3t`
gation for the five months ended the 31st May, St
1861, have just been published. From these it
appears that the total declared value of exports from
the United Kingdom during that period was
£49,780,532 against £52,783,535 in the like period
of 1860, being a decrease of £3,003,003. The 81
principal decrease has been in beer and ale, cotton st;
manufactures, cotton yarn, earthenware, hardware
and cutlery, linen manufactures, woollen manufac-
tures,
and woollen and worsted yarn. The im-
et,
ports during the same period have been large stt4
as regards hides, leather manufactures, potatoes,
provisions, rice, silk manufactures, tallow, corn, 19.
flour, unrefined, sugar, tea, and tobacco, but st,
smaller in raw cotton, spices, sheep and lamb's
Wool, cocoa, coffee and wine. 'The shipping accounts
,t
exhibit an increase in the amount of ton- st
nage employed in the foreign trade for :ft
both the entries inwards and clearances out-
81
'Wards, but in the coasting trade during the
same period no material alteration is apparent in
either the number of ships or the tonnage employed 81
either inwards or outwards.
The market for Public Securities continues firm,

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at the improvement of 11- per cent. recorded yester- :tt:
clay afternoon, Consols being 891 f•-T for money, and
891 t for the account. Business, however, is very
quiet. The New Threes and the Reduced An- 12
tuities have been in moderate request, at steady
rates, viz., Mt I. Bask Stock realised 230; the sl
6 per. Cent. India Loan, 981 ; and the 51 per Cent.
Enfaced Paper, 1004 ; India Bonds were steady,
at 10s. discount, and the March Exchequer Bills
si
Were quoted 10s. discount.
In the Foreign Stock Market business has con-
tinued dull, but prices have shown more firmness.
Grenada Active Bonds brought 151 ; Piedmontese
5 per Cents,, 734 ; and Dutch 4 per Cent. Certifi-
cates, 991. Turkish Bonds were moderately active
at 72 ; for the old 6 per Cents. 56 for the Loan of
1858, and the £lOO Bonds of the latter advanced to
591.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1861. 1860. A'
North-Western
Western £44,657 £46,824 8
85,617 88,802
South-Western
Brighton 21,273 19,209
ltlidland
south-Eastern
Great Northern 24,071 25,532 st,
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter st
7,303 7,682 st
37,733 et
41,
2Corth-Eastern
kanchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 11,889 12,437 st
North British
South Wales
..
Edinburgh and Glasgow 6,110 5,949 st
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada
These returns show a falling off on several of st
the chief lines in the manufacturing districts. On I
the Great Northern there is a decrease of £1,461; st
on the North Western of £3,185 ; on the Midland
of £1,125 ; and on the Great Western of £2,167. 1
The Lancashire and Yorkshire show an increase of .
si
£725 ; the South Western of £3,012 ; the Brightons
of £2,064 ; the North Eastern of £3,910; the South
Eastern of £302 ; the Edinburgh and Glasgow of
£161; the Scottish North Eastern of £407; the °
Grand Trunk of Canada of £2,419 ; and the Great
-Western of Canada of £686.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have :1
been chiefly in connection with the liquidation of Bsl
8
the account, which is now in progress, and prices '
have in some instances shown a slight downward ss
Movement. Caledonians, Great Westerns, North g
"Westerns, South Westerns, and Midlands have de- s,,
clined ss, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln st
improved 55., and Lancashire and Yorkshire and
:tt
south Easterns 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have been dull,
without any material change in quotations.
st
Antwerp and Rotterdam realise 5Z ; Great Western
of Canada, 103 ; Grand Trunk of Canada -181; st
and Scindes 1003.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
are flat. London and Westminster realize 6771
Canada Land have declined to 108 ; English and
Australian Copper were 31. ; Peninsular and 8
Oriental Steam declined to 681.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES,
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities BB4 i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities BBa a I
India Stock . ... —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enlaced Papor, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 53/4 per Cent.
uitto Debentures, 1863 —
Ditto, April, 1864 .... 95i
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
ii.tto under £l,000
etraols for Account, July 10 .. 891 i
India Stock for Account
Ditto 5 per Cent.
March. June.
Bxtb.equer Bills, £l.OOO, 2d lO dis
D tto £5OO
10 dis
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Mexican 3 per Cent
bate Account
4'letit- Grenada Active, 3f per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Peruvian. 43/4 per Cent .. 95
Itnssian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St • •
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859....
Turkish 6 per Cent .. 2 11
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds 593/4
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21r per Cent, Exchange , 12. Guil. ..
plltto Certificates,rtificatcs, 4 per Cent
'eanaontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25 francs 731
THREE O'CLOCK

Consols, Money y 891
Ditto Account B9l I

TIIE INSURANCE FORGERIES.—Yesterday morn-
ing, at the City Police Court, Edward Williamson was
brought up, charged with extensive frauds and forgeries
Committed by him, whilst agent in this city for the Royal
Exchange Insurance Company. Two fresh charges were
brought against him, differing mainly from the one already
heard in the circumstance, that in the latter no fire at all
had occurred, whilst in the present cases fire had occurred.
In the one case a fire happened, on the Ist April, at the
house of Mr. Hermann Dessaeur, who was insured for
£l,OOO. Mr. Dessaeur estimated his loss at £l2 ss. ; but
the prisoner represented to the insurance office that the
claim was £363 Bs. Gd., and received a Lill for that amount.
The second case was that of a fire which occurred at the
house of Mrs. Mary Yates, Oldham-road, who was insured
for £1,700. On the 13th January a fire occurred at Mrs.
lates's, the damage done being about £l7. The prisoner,
returned to the office a claim of £423 108. 6d., and that sum
"was Paid. In the former of these cases Mr. Hodson, the
valuer, was represented as having charged £7 Ils. Cd.
whereas he only charged £1 Ils. 6d., the " 1" having been
altered into tt 7 ~ and in the latter the charge was £1 lls.
6:1,' which the prisoner altered by putting an "0" after the
The prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes.—
-I/lane/tester Guardian of yesterday.
C Munich letter of the 21st says :—Yesterday,
looriZ von Leiningen, a captain of cavalry in the Bavarian
ilatti de' was married to the daughter of a brewer at Munich,
eitizeen I:lossulan, by which marriage the daughter of a
England E °J. aimich becomes allied to the Royal family of
,