The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-07 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Now that the preparations for the settlement
of the Consol account are completed, the condition
of the money market appears easier, and the bill
brokers are more freely negotiating firet class bills
at 61 per cent. The demand for monetary accom-
modation has fallen off, and as no firther orders
for gold on continental accounts are known to be
on hand, a more favourable feeling has been engen
dered in financial circles.
About £3,000 in bar gold was taken into the
Bank yesterday.
The City of Washington has arrived from New
York with £9,000.

The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day are in round figures es under:-
1864. 1863.
Great Western £55,268 £50,626
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern
Great Northern ..
Lancashire and Yorkshire.. 36,740 32,520
Bristol and Exeter 5,365 6,340
North-Eastern
Manchester, Suffield, and Lincoln..
North British
Scottish North Eastern 5,046 4
.816
Glasgow and South- Western
These returns, compared with those of the same
period of last year, are in most instances exceedingly
favourable. On the Great 'Western there is an in-
crease of £4,642 ; on the Great Northern of £3,994 ;
on the Great Eastern of £3,660 ; on the Lancashire
and Yorkshire of £4,220 ; on the North Western
of £7•398 ; on the Swath. Western of £2,276 ; on
the Midland of £3;868 ; on the North Eastern of
1:,31059 ; and c n the South - Eastern, of
•'"„'3 The North British, however, shows a de-
crease of lad, and the London and Brighton of £l4B.
The British and American Exchange Bankizg
Corporation held i:s first ordinary meeting to-day-
Mr. Gordon presided. The directors had previously
stated in their notice convening the meeting that
no business would be submitted till March next,
when the accounts would be presented, but they,
in opposition to their own proposal, brought for-
Ward a motion to re-elect themselves in
a body, without giving the usual notice.
The meeting appeared desirous to re-elect the direc-
tors separately, which, being opposed to the original
Motion, occasioned a demand for a ballot, end an
angry discussion ensued, which was continuing
When the report left.
Messrs. Willis, Gant, and Co. have announced,
on retiring from business, that their New Zsahand
line of packets will be transferred to Messrs. Green,
Robinson, and Co., and that the insurance traneae-
tions of the house will be contiaued by Mr. Barker
as heretofore, under the firm of Willis, Barker, and
CO.
An Anglo Italian Bank, which has been for some
time in preparation, will, it is said, be shortly intro-
duced, all the preliminary arrangements having been
Completed. Sir James Hudson and Baron Ricasoli
Will be members of the board of direction.
The biddings for £500,000 in bills on India took
Place yesterday at the Bank of England. The pro-
portions allotted were-to Calcutta, £270,000 ;to
i37bay, £210,000; and to Madras, £20,000. The
erniultira price declared was, as before, ls. llid.
Pon Bombay, °ll
Calcutta and Madras, and Is. 1 ltd.
albElY• The applications within the limits
8. amounted to £3 in^
v)000. Tenders on Calcutta at
2 will receive about 13 per cent. ;on Bombay,
ati 2. about 34 per cent.; on Madras, at
AO. 1 •
41'1 about 60 per cent., and all above these
prices in full. On the 17th ult.. when the biddings
limits for £400,000, the applications within the
amounted only to £1,240,000, and tenders
" eale.tt
thoge n at ls. 114 d. received about 9 per cent.;
Mad,, -1113°Inbay, at 2s. Old., in full; and those on
"48' at 18. 111 41., about 60 per cent.
Th
a e shere list of the British Nation Fire Insur-
1211,eke Pftpany will bo closed on Tuesday next, the
• `" inst., for London, and on Thursday, the 14th
Inst., for the country.

Two o'CLocit.
At the Paris Bourse this morning (according to
41'. Reuter's telegram) the Three per Cent. Rentes
Were quoted at 66f. 75c.
Not much activity is noticeable to-day in the
S'Qek Exchange Markets, where few unimportant
e-hanger have occurred. The English Funds show
"Imams of heaviness, although the more favour-
able German telegrams at one time lent additional
Strength to quotations. Consols are 91 s for money,
and 911 )4 for the February account. The New
Th. reed and Reduced Annuities are 90 ; Exchequer
1.31118, 38. die. to is. prem.; Bink of England Stock
18 marked 235 236 ; India Stock, 219 ex. div.; do.
5 per Cent. &faced Paper,lo4; and do. Bonds, par
to 38. prem.
The business negotiated in Foreign Stocks this
morning has not been large, and the variations have
not been important. Mexican remain steady at 36!
; Greek Bonds, at 241
show an advance of / ;
the Canyons continue firm at 11; Spanish Passive
are again 34k ; the Certificates hive declined
;
A' !.° 14 I ; Turkish Consolidee are worse, et
"I and the Confederate Loan is steady at 38
40.

In the Railway Share Market business has been
exceedingly dull. A firmer tone, however, prevails,
"tag to the favourable traffic receipts on most of
the
Lincoln ;
ffi
Pr'ncipal lines. Manchester, Shreld, and
Soot , and Metropolitan, have improved 10s., and
h "tern 58. Lancashire and Yorskhire, and
South Western, have each declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit little
Change of importance.
Ban} and Miscellaneous Shares generally exhibit
firmer tone. Alliance have advanced to 461,-- ;
toto of India, Australia, and China to 39t, 'ku National Shipping Company are quoted par
Coe Prem.; Pacific steam 11 11 prem. ; Contract
poration, 21 3 prem.; and Australian Shipping,
prem.

BRITISH FUNDS--ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
d per
ittCent. Consols ......
Conccount Peb. 4.. • • ............ 91 1
New ............ 91
3 per . Reduced .................. 91i
3 per Cent . .......... 91i 1
Exchequer Bills, Zl,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent. per
Ditto 1;500 ............ Ipm 3 dis
Ditto 1100 and £2OO ...... Ipm 3 dis
IndINDI&N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
ia Stock, 1874 ................ 219 x d
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent......
Ditto 4 per Cent .................
Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 18'72 .......... 104
1.) ..„ bonds t I,uoU .................. 3 Pm
Dittos uder £l,OOO .................. par
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLO'LIk.
tkeuttrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ............ Ditto 1859 .............. --
razilian 5 Der Cent ...................
bitto 1839 and 1859 -
..., Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-68-60
8
'lv ptian 7 per Cent
I.)itto, Second Issue ........
'eek 5 per Cent. 1824-5, ex-Coup,ns..
Ditto Acc0unt.............. . ........ 24k i
kekican 3 per Cent .... ......
pi)itto Account
t',r,vian 3per Cent.
Dittollltt Account
KADitto4i per Cent., 1862
ecount ...................... 85/ 6
111tuese 3 per Cent., 1853 ......
Ditto
itttto Account..
-Lo 3
Ditto
4Per Cen.,, ~ 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3
1
Spanish 3ee'nult i
47
Ditto P Per
Cent
Ditto A4tiawe
34k i
count
SpirititoshaCceert. of . Coup.. ...
not funded .. —
Tntkish 6
elZ3kut. 1854 —
Ditto Ace
Ditto eunt .......... ....
Lto 6 per t 1858.
bit.to.,, Accounetu •
70 69
Di
I). " 6 per Cent. 1862
-Itto A„,,_
-,ount b!tte, £l.OO Bonds
11)pto 6 per Cent. 1863 ............. 0 —l)!..t,t? Guaratteed, 4 per Cent.
v '',o Debentm•es, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
e4ezuela 3 Per 'cent.
oitto 4., •
2A
1)1, count
1,40 6 per Cent 1852 -
..itto
Account Cent.
56
66
b Dividends on the above payable in London.
'llll per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull
Ditto 4 ''
101 i
ttmi.-= per Cent. Certificates
,''atl, 6 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 PTancs —
67a
''''tto per
.. ........
TWO O'CLOCK,
1)Di1XElf)18tto Accon
Mo e 91 1.!
uL
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