The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-24 00:00:00

ONEY MARKETi

AN!)

-OMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, Two o'CLooK.
As intimated some days since, the Stock Ex.
change has been closed today by order of the com.
Inittee.
In the general Disount Market there continues to
be a very active demand for money both at the
tank and in Lombard-street, and 6 per cent. is the
current rate for oven the finest paper, although
there is a slight increase is the supply of capital.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
lit:counted to £299,900, and the exports to £576,077.
The share certificates of the Baugparah Tea
Estates Company will be exchanged for the bankers'
receipts on and after Tuesday lux,.
The directors of the Assam Company have an-
nounced an interim dividend at the rate of 8 per
cent., payable on the 24th inst.
There were no bullion operations at the Bank
yesterday,

A slight downward movement took place in the
foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon.
Messrs J. Travers and Sons, in their weekly cit..
eular, make the following remarks on the Money
Market at the close of the year :—" It is remark-
able that, atter all the anxiety and pressure of the
Year, and the apprehension that was at one time
expressed in several quarters that the worst would
tot be witnessed until November and December,
Nye now find ourselves actually restored to what
may almost be considered a normal position.
The bullion in the Bank is about £lOO,OOO in
eXcess of its amount at the same date of
1863, and the reserve is stronger by haif
million while, at the same time, there
Is the important consideration that the tendency,
unlike that which prevailed last Christmas. is still
towards improvement. But it is not the position
of the Money Market on this side, favourab►e
though it be, that is the chief cause of congratula-
tion. Twelve months ago the bullion in the Bank
of France was reduced to a point lower than had
ever been known, and with such a fact in view,
them could be no hope of money remaining even in
moderate supply in London. Now the bullion in
the Bank of France is double the amount at which
It then stood, and the rate of disc)unt at that
establishment was accordingly reduced on
Thursday to 41 per cent., a state of ease not
experienced at any time within the past year and
a quarter. In London the rate still remains at 6
Per cent., and no expectation is entertained that
any fresh reduction will be adopted until the be-
ginning of the year, but unless some wholly
bulooked-for change of tone should occur in the
interval, there seems every probability that a return
to 5 per cent. may then be temporarily witnessed.
Whether during the year 1865 any continuance of
moderate rates can be looked for is a point that will
be regarded with much doubt."
The following is Messrs Mecatta and Goldsmid's
list of the latest prices of bullion :—Bar gold,
77s 9d per cz standard ; do Parting, 778 lld ;
doubloons, Spanish, 74s to 75s per oz; do Mexican
end South American, 73s 9d to 745; United States
eagles, 76s 2id to 3d; bar silver, 5s lid to f d per
ex standard, nothing doing; do,:containing 5 grains
of gold and upwards, 5s lid; Mexican dollars,
63 Old per oz, last price.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

YESTERDAY.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Per Cent. Consols
„ Do Account, Jan. 10
t per Cent. Reduced .. 881 i
A„,,ew 3 per Cent BBl 1
oew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 . ...
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 —
4nnuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 —
Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
c•ltchequer Bills, £l,OOO, &per Cent..... par 3 pn2
Do £5OO

.. Do £lOO and £2OO
'''olk England Stk, 51 per. Ct.
o Account..
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
tadia Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 Shut
Do Account
Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 ....
Di Account
Da 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 —
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do 5i per Cent., May, 1879 ..
Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866
Du boucle/A.OW -
Do under £I,OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
tastrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
r,izilian 5 per Cent
Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do 1863 B3l
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Do Account.... , —
Hbilian 6 per Cent.
uolorabian 6 per Cent
Cuba, 6 per Cent. -
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
"itnish 3 per Cent., 1825
Do 5 per Cent, 1864
~Ii)o 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid pm
'ooador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
-Do, Provisonal Land Warrant.,
'B'Vptian 7 per Cent 951 6
Do, Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 1864 941 5
Do Scrip, £l5 paid .. i 1 pm
"reek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons..
Do Account
Do Coupons
i.,De Account
4Uatenaala 5 per Cent. ..—
it Do 18 and 1859
ilalian 5 per Cent.(Alaremmana Railway) —.
exioan 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do 1864
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — dis
Do Scrip, £53 paid
uDo French Scrip, Ex. 25f 200 dis x d
'xi oorish Imperial 5 per Cent
e.,." Granada
Do 2 per Cent.....
Do Deferred
D 0 Land Warrants (Hectares)
Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 —
Do do Aug., 1866 —
cJrusian 41 per Cent
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) .. —
Do 41 per Cent., 1862 ..
p Do Account
ortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 .. —
Do Account ..
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3..
bDo Account .. 481 71
mqssian 5 per Cent 1822, £ St., BBf
Do 41 per Cent., 1850 .. 871 7
Do 1860 —
P,O 3 per Cent 1869
"0
, •
5 per Cent, 1862
bc 1364
4 Do Scrip, £65 paid
4rdinian c per Cent ....
9 Do Aecount —
knieh 3 per Cent
120 Account 4Bl
Do New Deferred
Dois Account
Do Passive
ii.,130 Account 32i 1 1
Panish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Tl.lO Account .. 141 14 1
*edish, 4 per Cent. —
Itsrkish 6 per Cent. 1854
~"0 Account
4-0 6 per Cent.;lBsB
,(10 Account 7Ol f
Do 0 £lOO Bonds —
lt,)0 6 per Cent. 1862
:Jo Account . 721 1
~,'°o £lOO Bonds..
",„0 6 per Cent. 1863
"0 Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. .. lOO
Venezuela,,, 3 per Cent.
"„0 Account
.',.0 6 per Cent., 1862
,1-.;0 Account
~"0 6 p Cent., 1864 ,. 411 f 4
"011 per Cent
A Dividends on the above payable in London
ill:Arian, 5 per Cent. Ex. 10 Florins.
IPean 41 per Cent., 'Ex. 25f
4.,.t\ch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil —
lii,"o 4 per Cent. Certificates
It-(1!1011 Rentea, 3 per Cent ........
i:ala, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs..
411 0 Account
rix., Irian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct.Ex 4s.
'411101148e, 6 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
THREE O'CLOCK.
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P.

TAL ACCIDENT IN A CHAPEL.--On Thursday
ti quest was held in Myddelton-street, Clerkenwell, on
tb;,,b°4 of Mr Samuel Harris, aged 61 years, a master
qt,'",ter and undertaker, who lost his life whilst engaged in
iiriag a cistern at Woodbridge Independent Chapel
tot Jury thought the trustees of the chapel were to blame
1, "4v/in such a ladder to be in use. They returned a
)etli f. g
,E1(1,1 c- of "Accidental death." The coroner ordered the
Aer to be destroyed.
lvt,t FEMALE HERO.—An octogenarian named
ka." 'N3erring, has died at Burnham. The old lady was
tvh ett with her first husband at the battle of Trafalgar,
ikeet;Neleion exterminated the navies of France and Spain.
tlf thlequently recounted many of the most stirring events
lotitha! Period, and was never tired of telling that she
Iktetthe blood from the shirt which the gallant admiral
'4611 he received his fatal wound,