The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The continuous withdrawal of gold from the
Bank of England is inducing greater caution
among discounters, who are fully aware that
money will get dearer, unless the efflux should be
arrested. There is every probability of further
large shipments of gold to the Continent, and of
silver to the East, and full quotations are therefore
now required for the negotiation of commercial bills.
Very little business has been transacted to-day
under the minimum of the Bank of England.
The Wave of Life, from Australia, has brought
£56,000, and the Tartar, from Lisbon, £2,147, in
specie.
At the annual meeting of the Ocean Marine In-
surance Company interest will be paid at the rate
of 5 per cent., leaving £179,287 to be carried for-
ward against current risks and liabilities.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts
for the past week are generaily satisfactory. There
has been rather more doing in the woollen trade of
Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, and Huddersfield, prin-
cipally in spring goods. At Manchester the de-
mand for checks and yarns had slightly increased
far the India and China markets, while the hosiery
and lace trade of Leicester and Nottingham has
shown symptoms of improvement. In the hardware
districts—Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolver-
hampton—there has been rather more animation in
most of the principal departments.

Two O'CLOCK.

The Liverpool cotton market to-day opened
quiet, pending the arrival of the American and
Indian mail; sales about 3,500 bales, at unaltered
rates.

A further decline of 5 per cent. has taken place
to-day in the market for the English Funds, owing
to speculative sales encouraged by the adverse
specie movement, and the possibility of its soon
leading to a further disturbance of monetary rela-
tions. There is, in fact, an idea that the rate of dis-
count must shortly be increased, unless the efflux of
gold and silver should not immediately subside; and
as a sudden cessation can scarcely be expected, sales are
pressed, and prices, therefore, give way. Consols
are now quoted 921 for money, and 921 I for the
account. The New 3 per Cents. and the Reduced
are steady at 92-I ; Exchequer Bills 6s. to Is.
prem. Bank Stock has risen to 237, and the Indian
5 per Cent. Loan is 1081 -a.

A rather buoyant feeling has continued to per-
vade the Foreign department. Egyptian have been
well supported, the Ist issue at 961 97, and
the 2d issue at 962 97 ; Greek Bonds re-
main at 16;4 ; Mexican Stock rose to 321 33,
but has since reacted to 322 4 ; Portuguese
3 per Cents., 1853, realised 471 7; ; do., 1862, 461 7 ;
Russian New Loan has receded to 95 -1-; Spanish
Passive have again been actively dealt in at 26 /
and the Certificates at 101- 7; ; Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1858, 701711, ; do., 1862, 661 67; and the '-'onsolides
404 ; Ita,ians are buoyant at 698 8 ; and Venez-
uelan New Loan at 61.

Business in the Railway Share Market continued
nether inactive, and in one or two instances prices
exhibited rather less buoyancy. London, Chatham;
and Dover receded 10s., and North 'Western Os.,
Metropolitan, however, improved 10s., and several
of the other principal lines dealt in remained at
about previous rates.

The Foreign and Colonial lines were without
material variation. Bahia and San Francisco
brought 21 ; Recife and San Francisco, 191 ; Great
Western of Canada was steady at 129 ; East
Indian declined to MI ; and Great Indian Penin-
sula improved to lost.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares re
mained without any material variation in values ;
Alliance of London and Liverpool realise 247 i; Bank
of London, 1011 102 ; Ottoman Bank, 34k; and
Union of Australia, 491 50. Crystal Palace Stock
were steady at 311; National Discount Company
at 82. Piel River Land brought 54; and Trust
and Loan Company of Upper Canada, 6.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock 237
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 921 1 1
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
.
Ditto 5 per Cent 1081
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 95
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 1001
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001
D.tt , Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account, Feb. 5 92k 1 4 1
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 6
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small 7
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Equador New Consolidated l6l
Egpptian 7 pei Cent 961 7 61 7
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms l6l 1 i B
Mexican 3 pei. Cent -
Ditto Account 321 3 21
New Granada 2 per Cent 2Bl i a
Ditto Land Warrants . Ot
Ditto ex over-due Coups. & Hectares 13 i
Ditto Deferred
Peruvian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 1862
Ditto Account..
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 1862......
Ditto Scrip, £25 paid 2l -I- pm
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Scrip, £56 Bs. paid ll pm
Sardinian 6 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account..
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account .. 86/
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
1 )itto Account 7Ol 1
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1852
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gnil 651
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f —
Ditto Account
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 921 1

PALAIS DES ARCHIVES.—The works for reno-
vating and enlarging this building continue with-
out intermission. They consist in erecting a new gallery
on the side towards the Rue des Quatre-Fils, and in pre-
paring the rooms for the Sigillographic and Paleographic
Museum, which will be opened during the present year.
The entrance will be in the grand pavilion of the old Hotel
de Soubise, in the vestibule of which there was formerly a
magnificent staircase with a curiously-wrought iron balus-
trade, and a ceiling painted in frisaille by Brunette. This
staircase has been replaced by one in the style of the Re-
naissance, which many persons will perhaps think inferior
to the old one. At the top of this staircase is the entrance
to the Tresor des Chartes; formerly the guard-room, a noble
hall 24 metres long by 10 wide ; it is fitted up with' cases
along the walls, and round it runs a gallery supported by
light wooden pillars. At the end of this spacious apartment
is placed an iron press containing part of the collections.
This press was made by order of the Constituent Assem-
bly.
(1710) to contain the apparatus for making the
assignats. It is let into the wall, closed by double
doors, and formerly had secret locks, which have been sup..
pressed. Among the objects it now holds aro Merovingian
diplomas, autographs of Charles V., Queen . Elizabeth,
Charles V. of Germany, &o. ; a letter from Soliman 11, to
Francis I. (1528). This letter, written in gold and blue cha-
racters, on thick vellum, is enclosed in &brocade bag. Then
there is the roll of St. Vital, a very curious document.
In
'the middle ages, when an abbot died, the event was an-
nounced to all the different monastic houses in the kingdom
by a messenger carrying a long sheet of white parchment,
rolled, as was then the 'custom, on a stick. On this parch-
ment, the album of these days, all those to whom it was
sent used to write a few words of condolence. The Roll of
St. Vital, hero preserved, contains, under date of the con-
vent of Argenteuil, some Latin verses which are supposed
to have been written by Heloise, then abbess of that convent.
Lastly, in one of the compartments of this press are the
keys of the Bastille, those of several conquered cities, and
a multitude of very curious articles which are to be placed
in glass cases in the new museum.

The jetty of the part of Suiot-Va.lery-en-Cans
(Seine•lnferieuro) has just been destroyed by the
sea. The damage done is estimated at 300,000 f. A part of
the jetty on the western side of Treport was also carried
away during the same gale. Tho beach in the neighbour-
hood of that town presents a moat melancholy aspect. The
road which ran along the coast no longer exists; the balus-
trade has been swept away in several places, and the whole
is covered With pebbles and salad WB►sl49Cl UP by the sea,