The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-31 00:00:00

LONEY MARK ET 41 ND CITY I/EIVS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Money Market continues to present indica-
tions of improvement, and although bills can now
be negotiated at 31 per cent., increased easiness is
anticipated.

About £16,000, in gold, was purchased by the
Bank of England yesterday.

No alteration of importance took place in the
Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
amounted to about £631,300, and the exports to
£169,200.

A fair amount of business was reported in the
Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices
were firm. The sales were about 12,000 bales.

There was a meeting yesterday of the creditors
of Messrs. James Coster, Beater, Dennant, and
Russ, warehousemen, to consider the legal question
whether the executors of the late Mr. James Coster,
who claim £129,265, are entitled to rank upon the
estate as creditors in a like manner to the trade cre•
ditors who represent about £84,328. After a
lengthened discussion resolutions were passed to
wind up under a deed of inspectorship, and a com-
mittee of 11 was appointed who will take proper
legal advice on this and any other questions that
may arise.

The market for:Public Securities has been quieter
to•day, but it has shown continued buoyancy.
Consols having closed at 921 1 for money and the
10th September, the dealings have been limited.
The New Threes are firm at 921 g; the Reduced
at 928 i ; Bank Stock is 235 ; India New Loan
Scrip, 1044 I, being rather higher; ditto 5 per
Cent. Enfaced Paper, 961 ; ditto 51 per Cent., 1044;
Exchequer Bills, March, are 3s. dis. ; ditto June,
7s. to Bs. prem.

Very little alteration has taken place in Foreign
Securities, and the dealings have been moderate.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 79i ; ditto, 1858, 68/ to
69; Mexican are firm, at 21* e ; Peruvian, at
1001 ; Equador, at 15 ; and Spanish, at 491.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been limited, and in some instances a slight decline
has taken place. Caledonians have receded ss. ;
and Great Northerns, Lancashire and Yorkshire,
31lidlands, and North-Eastern (Berwick), 10s.
South-Easterns have advanced 10s.

In the Foreign Market prices have been steady.
South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian are firm at
171 17k; Dutch Rhenish, 14?,- 141 ; and Great Lux-
embourg, at 81 81.

Messrs. Bell and Sons give the following quota-
tions in American Securities :
Redeemable. Prices
United States 6 per Cents..... 1867-1868 80
Do. 5 per Cent Bonds .. 1874 71 73
Kentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds.. 1868-72 68 70
Maryland 5 per Cent. Bonds 65 70
Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Stock 70 72
Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Bonds 1877 68 70
Virginian 6 per Cent. Bonds —'46 47
Boston 41 per Ct. Strlg. Bonds 83 85
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. .. 1875 81 83
Illinois Central 6 per Cent. .. 1875 77 79
Do. shares, 80 dols. paid .... 39} 38} die
Michigan Central 8 per Cent.. 1869 80 82
Do. do. shares
New York Central 6 per Ct ,

1883

82 84

not convertible
New York Central 7 per Ct ,
convertible, from June 15,
1857-59 1864 89 91
Do. do. shares 6B 70
New York and Erie, 7 per Ct.,
Ist mortgage
Do. do., 2d mortgage 1859 92 94
Do. do., 3d mortgage lBB3 78 79
Do. do. convertible 1862 50 55
Do. do. shares 2O 21
Panama 7 per Ct., Ist mort
gage Str. Bonds, not cony.. 1865 98 100
Do. do., 2d do.
The Colonial lines continue at steady rates. East
Indian have advanced to 1021, and Great Indian
Peninsula to 991 994 ; Great Western of Canada
remain steady at 9i 10, and Scindes at 102.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
have continued dull, but at steady rates. Bank of
Egypt realise 191 1 ; London and Westminster 661 ;
Crystal Palace Stock 341 342; and South Australian
Land 33.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
•1 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92;
7.3 uer Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92; 1
Endia Stock ••
Ditto S per Cent.
Ditto Loan Scrip, 5 per cent
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto 51 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 41859 Cent., Oct., 1863 98a
Ditto
)1s tor Account, Sept. 10
InMdia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent .... 103 k
March. June.
Escheaner Bills, £l,OOO, 2d 3 die 78 pm
Ditto £5OO 3 dis 7 8 pm
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FTTNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Equador New Consolidated l6
Blexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Peruvian 4f per Cent ..
Ditto Account 100
92
Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent. ..
Spanish 3 per Cent
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded.. sf
I urkish 6 per Cent 791
79
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
69
Ditto Account
1 f 9
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
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Consols, Money ........
Ditto Account .................. 92t

THIS DAY'S SILIPPING.

LONDON, Aug. 31.—Wind this day at noon—W.S.W.; i,io
light breeze and fine clear sultry weather. 2s.
SUNDERLAND, Aug. 30.—Arrived—Henrietta, from
Quebec. Sailed—Sad, for l'•f_w York. 1
1
OFF HURST CASTLE, Aug. 31.—Sultan, (s.s.), from st(
Lisbon.
OFF STARCROSS, Aug. 30.—A brig, supposed to be the et(
Jenny, of Montreal, I
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 30.—Arrind—Token, from Bermuda. I
OFF PENRITH, Aug. 30.—Arrived—David Chaplin,
_t(
1
from Miramichi. s
SII
CLYDE, Aug. 30.—Arrived—Virginia, from Mauritius ; at,
_ --1, - from New

tsi, (s.s.),

John Sydney, from Quebec ; Econonal
York.
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 30.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—
H.3/I.S. Geyser, from Plymouth ; H.M.S. Nautilus, ditto.
Sailed—Theodore, for St. John's, New Brunswick. a
SHIELDS, Aug. 30.—The Liberty brig, of this port, was s,
in contact last night with the Panther, of Ipswich, and lost
foremast, bowsprit, bows stove, and drove on Tynemouth
Rocks, but was towed off. Another account says it was the
Faithful, of Ipswich.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning,

Arrived—Havre, steamer, from Havre ; Sultan, steamer,
from Lisbon ; Maria and Cheshire Witch. from Swansea.
Sailed—Effort, for Sunderland; Henry, for Goole; Fox,
for Charlestown.
(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 30—Veritas, from Guernsey; Tar, from
St. Kitts.
Arrived, Aug. 31—Annachen, from Smyrna ; Moselles,
from Antwerp ; Concurrent, from Iquique ; T. F., from
Le Viver ; Helsinger, from Nyhann; Aurora, from Porto
Rico.
Sailed, Aug. 31—Ottawa, for Quebec ; Start, steamer,
for Brussels; Oliver, steamer, for Dantzic.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed—Quickstep, from Shields, for Constantinople
(not, as reported, Cruiser, from Harwich, for Shoreham).
Anchored—Owen Glendower, for Bombay ; Samuel, for
Malta ; Elm, for Bathurst ; Lady Emma, for Port Natal ;
Victoria, for Havannah—all from London ; Baron Killmar,
from Shields, for Trieste.
Outward bound preparing to sail.

PAPER MAKlNG.—Numerous patents have been
taken out for making paper from different substances, some
of a rather curious character. For instance, Mr. Jennings.
of Great Tower-street, has proposed to make paper from the
fibrous parts of fish, and obtains also from the same material
a size, for sizeing paper. Mr. Frederick Brown, City-road,
obtains a fibrous pulp suitable for the manufacture of paper
and other useful substances from the leaves and fruit of the
citron, the orange, and the lemon tree. M. Castelain, of
Oxford-street, and M. Vasserot, of Essex-street, Strand,
propose to make paper and millboard from a pulp extracted
from liquorice root. Dr. Collyer has obtained a patent for
manufacturing paper from the refuse of beetroot, which is to
be obtained in large quantities on the continent, where the
manufacture of beetroot sugar is extensively carried on.
Great difficulty has arisen in the practical working of these
and similar patents from the operation of the excise regula-
tions, which have always had a tendency to cripple enter-
prise, and preserve the established routine in those branches
of manufacture which have been subject to the obnoxious tax.
In some cases the new raw material proposed by inventors
may not be producible in sufficient quantity to be practically
available. In others it may be too costly, or, for reasons
which the public in general would be unable to appreciate
without a tedious explanation, it may be unavailable. But,
:after every allowance for such exceptions, there can be no
doubt that immense quantities of available material, other
than rags, really exist. Not only is straw produced in this
country to the extent of some 30,000,000 tons annually, as
the refuse of the grain we grow, but there are, in different
parts of the world, and especially in our vast Indian terri-
tories, a great variety of fibrous plants, many of which will
probably be made available in the manufacture of paper.—
Quell's Illustrated Family Paper.