The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-12 00:00:00

WIONIY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The inquiries for money to-day have been rather
leis active at previous quotations.
A further sum of £15,000 in gold was taken into
the I3snk yesterday.
There was no alteration of importance in the
foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
amounted to £368,600 and the exports to £748,600-

Two o'CLocK.

In French 3 per Cent. Rentes, according to Mr.
Reuter's telegram, business was transacted in the
Boulevard last night at 68f. 70c., in consequence of
divers rumours. To-day at 11.30 they were quoted
at 69f., none of the rumours current having as yet
been confirmed. The last quotation received is
68f. 92c., -aneasy.
There has been a general curtailment of specula-
tive business at the Stock Exchange, which may
be partly accounted for by the intervention of the
Jewish holidays. The quotations, however, have
continued to manifest considerable firmness, much
support being given to prices by the upward ten-
dency of the French Rentes. Consols are 927
for money, and 937 4 for the account. The New
Threes are 92 4 ; the Reduced 92-4. 1; Exchequer
Bills, par to 3s. prem.; and India 5 per Cents.,
1081
The movements in the Foreign Market to-day
are rather important, although the business trans-
acted is not extensive. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854,
are 941 951 ; do., 1858, 701 do,, 1862, 711 ; do.,
Consolides have improied to 538 s ; Mexican to
422 ti ; Spanish Passive to 368 7 ; the Certificates,
131 Z-; but Greek have receded to 371 3; the
Coupons to 171 181 ; Portuguese to 491 i; and the
Confederate Loan to 31 to 29 dis.
In the Railway Share Market increased depres-
sion has prevailed. Great Western, Lancashire and
Yorkshire, North Eastern (Berwick), and South
Eastern have each receded 55., and South Western
and Metropolitan 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained
'very inactive, without change in values.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have fully sus-
tained former rates. Chartered of India, Aus-
tralia, and China realise 351 36 ; English, Scottish,
and Australian Chartered, 221 8 ; London and
Brazilian, 46; Crystal Palace Stock is steady at
39 ; General Credit and Finance are quoted 48 ;
Hudson's Bay Company, 9Z ; and London Finan-
cial, 125, 13.

„ BRITISH FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
Bad Stock —
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3
New
Cent. Consols Annuities
3 per Cent. Annuities
New 3,'2 per Cent. Annuities
Ne
w 2i per Cent. Annuities...
5 per Cent. Annuities
&nnuities, 30 yrs, expire Bth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908.
India Stock
Ditto 5 pee Cent lOB4 a
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
Ditto Bonds £l.OOO
Ditto under £1,000..
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account, Oct. 8 934 1
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 24 per Cent par 3 pin
Ditto £5OO ..
Ditto Small

FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 1813 ..
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Chi lian 6 per Cent. —
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825.. —
Dutch, 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders
Equador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent —
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant. —
Egyptian 7 per Cent —
Ditto, Second Issue -
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account 37i it I
Ditto Coupons —
Ditto Account l7l 1 18
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 801
llexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Peruvian 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 ..
Ditto Account ..
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account....
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 —
Ditto Account 491
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 93t
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 . 90/ 1
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1.'32
Sardinian S per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
.oitto Account —
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account .. 36 5i 61
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account l3l
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account..
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account 7O/
Ditto, £lOO Bonds 74
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account 7ll 1 1 1
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £l9 16s 8d pd.
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent —
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account --
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account 5Bl _

_
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 42 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2} per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 651
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 25f —
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Es. 25 francs —
Ditto Account 72A

Consols, Money TWO O'CLOCK.
Ditto Account 93a
93a t

Liverpool Cotton Market--This Day.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
Very firm. Quiet. Sales, 8,000 bales or more;
imports, 240.

The CUCKOO, OR THE CUCCULUS ZANORUS, is a
very quaker-like dressed individual, slate-grey,
white end black, being the prominent colours of its
feathers. The hen cuckoo generally lays her eggs, which
are not larger than a skylark's, in the nest of some other
',mailer bird, but only one in each nest, leaving the y,ung
birds to be brought up by their foster-parents. Some
writer relates a Swedish anecdote in connection with the
cuckoo, accounting, in the following ingenious manner, for
her having no time to build her nest. He says that imme-
isliately on the arrival of this bird, all the young maidens,
the first time of hearing her note in each year, are in the
habit of asking the question, " How many years before I
marry ?" The number of times the bird cries " cuckoo'
in reply is received as the answer, and the poor cuckoo is
kept so fully employed by the Swedish spinsters in deter-
mining the duration of their single blessedness that she has
no time to attend to her own domestic affairs, and conse-
quently drops her eggs into the nest of the hedge-rparrow,
yellowhammer, pied wagtail, and the meadow pipit.
WILLS.—The will of the Hon. Robert Curzon, the
elder, of Hagley Hall, near Rug ele Staffordshire,
and Parham Park, near Staying, S
Y'
London Ca by his eldest son ussex,
the sole executor. The testator, '
the Honwho died at Robert Curzon,
a s
tph reo v e
aged in
London t9hoe
lla,
had represewed in Parliament the borough of Ulitheree,
which seat he retained for a neriod
of
formerly colonel of the StaeirdshireV3o4luynetaeresr.s, ainied uses
Sheriffy .
y" and was deputy
held the
fsister
first of the
lieutenantoffice or th at count
of High
younger
Fon of the late Viscount Curzon, by Dorothy first Earl Grosvenor, and cousin of Earl Ra;e
tied, in 1808, the Right Hon. Harriet Anne ' dtahnirtemenatrh-
Bareness de la Zouche, to whom ho leaves a life'
interest all his moveable effects. The will of General Sir Johnli!il
bury, K,C.11., of Charles-street, Berktley-square,
was
proved in the London Court by his relict, Lady HanburY
(the daughter of Sir N. Rycrott, Bart.), sole executrix.
The personal property was sworn under £20,000. This
gallant military officer was colonel of the 99th Foot, and
attrained the age of 81. His military orders and medals he
ves to his 11, phew, Lord Bateman. The win of Mr.
Frederick
the Ltioenacillitchooke, of Hornsey, Middlesex, was proved in
personalty. The exe-
cutors aelC"urt, under £lOO,OOO
brother!:, Messrs. Thomas Hitchcock, M.D.
executed blai.,,itehecck,, and Alfred Hitchcock. The will was
eeeci erbruary last, and is purely of a family nature.
zvetcs,