The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-03 00:00:00

ZONEY MARKET AND CITY .NETV,S.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Money Market has remained in a very
qiiescent state, tho liquidati,ni 01116 iJ-
day, to-morrow being the 4th, having failed to
stimulate the inquiry, or to influence quotations.
The commercial accounts now in course of settle-
loont are limited, owing to the recent contraction
of trade.

About £B,OOO in gold was sent into the Bank of
England yesterday.
Foreign
important alteration took place in the
°reign Exchanges yesterday afternoon ; the rates
ox
Antwerp and Vienna were rather lower.
The Mexican dollars by the Seine have been sold
at 88id• per oz.
The Indus, which leaves to-morrow for India,
China, ‘2:e-, will take out £94,488 chiefly in silver.
.„ The Tyne has arrived from the Brazils with
45,875 iu specie.
31 At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. H.
rooks and Co., pianoforte-action makers, the pro-
position to pay 7s. in the pound in addition to the
4s. ed. already paid, was unanimously agreed to.
e liabilities were stated at £34,800 and the assets
at £12,518.
la the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday busi-
ness was moderately active, and prices were steady.
The sales were estimated at about 8,000 bales.
The Master of the Rolls has determined to make
4 call of 15s. per share on all the contributories of
the Electric Telegraph Company in Ireland, now.
Winding up in Chancery.
The annual meeting of the Royal Insurance
Company took place yesterday, when a very satis-
factory report was read. showing that the fire
nepartment had made a further large advance, the
revenue from premiums amounting last year to
,262,977- This is an increase over the preeed-
ug year of £34,663, and' over the year 1858, of
£66,829 being an advance of 34 per cent. in
tWO years. It appears from the Parliamen-
tary returns that the increase of duty paid by
the Royal was more than double that of any ether
company. The profits last year on the fire and
general branches amounted to £41,067, from which
a,dividend and bonus of 7s. per share has been de-
tared. In the life department the premiums
have been £15,079, an increase of £1,993
ever the new premiums of the preceding
rear. Since the close of last year also a
remarkable momentum seems to have been given to
this branch, for in the first six months of the pre-
sent year the report declares the new premiums to
have increased over those of the corresponding
Period in the year 1860, by no less than 50 per
Cent. This great advance is considered to have
arisen mainly from the disclosure in the last
(Which was the bonus) year of the entire of the
affairs of the company, illustrating by coloured
diagrams showing the mortality experienced by
this office in comparison with the various known
standards. Frankness of this kind is sure to win
that popularity which this company appears de-
servedly to enjoy.
The transactions in the market for Public Secu-
rities to-day have been very much restricted, but
Previous quotations have been well maintained,
Consols
being 90k k for money and the 7th instant,
and about 904, for the September account. The
:ew threes remain at 901 I; the Reduced at
the New 21 per Cents., 75; Exchequer Bills,
March, 13s. to Bs, dis. ; ditto, June, 4s. to 3s, dis. ;
Sank Stock is firmer, at 233 and 235.

moderate amount of business has been trans-
Wed in the Foreign market, but prices are not
quite so firm. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 781 to 79 ;
ditto, 1858, 694- to 70 ; ditto £lOO Bonds have re-
ceded to 70.1 ; Mexican to 229 ; and Portuguese to
461 ; Russian have improved to 1021 ; Chilian 6
Per Cents. are heavy at 101; and ditto 41 per
Cents., 811.

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
inactive, a firmer tone, however, has prevailed.
Great Northern, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Mid-
lands, and North Eastern (Berwicks) have im-
proved 55.; and Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln,
15s.

The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in
ery limited request without any material change
In Prices.
for Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
here has been a moderate enquiry, and previous
Prices have been fairly maintained, Union of
1441stralia have improved 10s., and Crystal Palace
Stock declined ss.

to BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
b.k Stoc
r
Pet Cent. Reduced Annuities 9O 4
Isilet' Cent. Consols Annuities
INT '9. 3 per Cent. Annuities 904 1.
1 evi 24 per Cent. Annuities • 75
j~4a Stock .. ,
I,tto 6 per Cent. • 994 4
Vito) Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
-Oitto 5 per Cent. 944
0 Oat() Debentures, 4 Aug.ent., Oct., 1863 78
'42iols for Account, . 7 904 1
2d Mar. p. day I June 3/ p. ct
lel'ecliter Bills, £l,OOO, 2d 8 dis
Ditto £5OO l3 dis
Ditto Small

4 dig
3 dig par

p,_. FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
'ullian 6 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent Bll
k •
extcan 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
I"brtuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Russian 5 pet Cent. 1822, £ St ..
, Ditto Account
4nrkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 9O t
Ditto September 'lOl

, COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YEsTERDA. V.
''", terd
, Ditto
ttotterda
tweat m
,rusrp 25 621- 25 70
ii Ss
'aurgh
Paris
t,-lairs3itet°illes
"%
3 Months. 25 67i 25 72/
25 67/ 25 72/
Nl.aakfort on Maine — 119; 119/
le,-
• Qua
;erste
ter?Faburgh 33i 334
ka:
Cadiz
tee,
kil,'
44
Iszi,,,:aea
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kV:1110
Zi%1,3:1111a ,
ICQ't
I°
o 1%, -alleire
' W York .. ••
ikeciejegn Gold in Bars (Sta:dard)....per oz. £3 17 9
ve an Dollars
do rin Bars (Standard) 0 5 Oi
Ilth, )1
American Doubloons
T- •
h

481-
484
25 go
25 72
25 721
394
1171
1174
521
52±

481
48/
25 85
25 771
25_77f

391
117 k
118
5'2
52i

RE HARVEST IN WlLTS.—Reaping ,as cotn•
Z".ced for some days past in the neighbourhood of Sails-
,l7, and it only requires a few consecutive dry sunshiny
V's to make harvesting operations pretty general. As a
~,,,"41e, the crops are reported to be promising, although the
4.:1148 and rains have produced the same effect in this part
the country as in many others. A fine dry season now
al°,4ld, however, produce a great and rapid improvement,
remove all anxiety as to the productiveness of the
'Neat crops in this locality.
11°RSE-SHOES AT OAKIIAM.—The Norman hall
,f,...4.°Nv used for the county courts. The wall is nearly
t":vered with horse-shoes, some of which of gigantic proper-
.°4B. This arises from an old custom, that, whenever a
1)0/' visits the town, ho is made to contribute a horse-shoe.
I the recent visit of the Archinological Institute, the ens-
edai an, with great alacrity, seized upon the president, and
14collered, or, as a vulgar member said, soon "nailed" his
r.• Du CIIAILLU'S GORILLAS.—Those whose avo-
larit-,,"' may not enable them to visit the zoological gal-
telly; 't the British Museum may feel interested to know
tl ',three fine specimens of the gorilla, all killed by M.
‘,haillu, are now in the window of the Field office, in
tie Strand, where they have temporarily replaced Mr:
OfraalltleY Berkeley's splendid bison. These are specimen„
gorilla full-grown male and female, and a young female
had ' These skins are roughly stuffed, and have as yet
the I,ll°.ue of the care bestowed upon them which has made
rlng of the Gorillas, at the Museum, a work of taxi-
a
4pe"„..'"c al art. They are, however, undoubtedly very fine
and imerls, and serve to give an excellent idea of the size
itipa.Wer of this terrible ape. Even in the shrunken state
tio which he now appears, the large raale exhibits proper-
on.n of chest, shoulders, and arms far exceeding the bulk
f matt,
au, and one can easily imagine what a formidable
I;.v '''.l43r he would be when that skin was filled up with
rillg bone and muscle,—Critic.