The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-17 00:00:00

ONE y MARKET

AND
COMMERCTATi INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
An easier feeling in discount circles has been ap-
parent this morning,
but the rates continue firm at
ul per cent. The settlements at the Stock Exchange
are e°ll3pleted and the influence of the cessation of
demand from this quarter is now being favourably
experienced by the mercantile public.
About £5,000 in gold was taken in, and 100,000
sovereigns were withdrawn from the Bank yester-
day.

In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
'here was no material change.
211° Egyptian Commercial and Trading Company
a new undertaking deriving considerable im-
Portance from its introduction by several eminent
41eteantile firma in this country and on the Con-
`nent, including the International Financial
:cietY. Its object is the development of corn-
erne with Upper Egypt, Nubia, the Soudan, and
sad
countries, as weh as the borders of the
4141. Sea, by establishing trading relations with
bese districts. Agencies are to be appointed on
both coasts of the Red Sea, and the operations
Of the company will extent from Cairo,
1113 the Nile, following the courses of the
,White and Blue Nile, whilst communication will
be carried on between the interior and the Red
°ea and its east and west coasts. The company
Will buy or exchange the produce, consisting of
eatton, coffee, sugar, rice, tobacco, gums, oils,
I°ol7, Benne, beeswax, ostrich feathers, gold dust,
elk indigo, &o. The Viceroy of Egypt is assist-
ing the mercantile public of his dominions by means
of subsidiesand telegraphic communications between
the principal towns, and thus rendering important
services in developing his country's resources.
4avamces are to be made to the cultivators of the
toil, who, it is said, can well afford to pay tour or
'tve per cent. per month for monetary accommoda-
tion, and this department of the company's business
Will not be the least important and lucrative. The
Capital is fixed at £2,000,000, which is to be raised
by £2O shares. Three-fourths of the amount has
been already subscribed.
Mauritius Government 6 per Cent. debentures
for £400,000, one half in bonds having ten years
to run, and the other half in bonds having 15 years
to
run,were offered to public competition by the Agent
Qeneral for Crown Colonies yesterday. The miLi•
mum declared for the former was 105, and for the
latter 106 i. The application for the 10 years' bonds
amounted to £122,400, of which £107,800, ranging
from 105 to 1081, was allotted, leaving £92,200
'indisposed of. The application for the 15 years'
bonds reached £299,200, of which £285,700 were
at and above the minimum, and the whole £200,000
Was disposed of at prices ranging from £lO7 3s. 6d.
to £ll3 2s. 6d. The crown agents intimated their
Willingness to treat the highest of the rejected ten-
'Zara for the 15 years' bonds as applications for the
balance of the ten years' bonds, if the persons in-
tere3ted so desired.
At the annual meeting to-day of the shareholders
of
the South Australian Company, Mr. Edward
tatvett, M.P., in the chair, the report, recom
ending .the payment of the usual dividend, viz ,
iBPer cent. per annum, or 355. per share, on the
ctth July and 15th January next, was unanimously
carried.

Two O'CLOCK.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram6B the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were
70u, 68165 c. Heavy.
The transactions in the English department of
the Stock Exchange continue circumscribed, and
th
i:e3' have not led to any change in values, Consols
eing 92 k for money, and 92k 4 for the account.
Speculation is restricted on account of operators
d
e'otide their almost exclusive attention to foreign
;tide and railway shares. The New Threes and
educed Annuities are 91i 8. A transaction has
taken place in the 30 Years Annuities, 1855, 148 15.
The India 5 per Cent. Loan is quoted at 1071 to
10
~811 the Debentures are 100 k 1, and the Boads
48. to 168. prem.
General heaviness prevails in the Foreign De-
partment, and business is rather quiet. Turkish 6
der Cents., 1862, are 711 72 ; ditto Consolides,
44 51 ; Mexican, 372- I ; Greek, 39 391; ditto
Coupons, 184 19; Spanish Passive, 348 353; ditto
Certificates, 121 e ; Italian, 721 k; Grenada, 16 ;
l'ortuguese, 491 ; the Confederate Loan, 2to 1 dis.;
Iltd the New Venezuelan Loan, 1 to 1 prem.

- -
In the Railway Share Market the operations
hove been of a very restricted character. Great
western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland, and
South Eastern have each improved about 58., while
London, Chatham, and Dover have declined 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings generally
remain without any material variation.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
are, in one or two instances, a shade firmer. Bank
13t Australasia New Shares realise 311 ; London
and_ Brazilian, 421,-; Peninsular and Oriental S team,
6i• International Financial Shares are quoted
-8 prem, ; London Financial, 28 Ti prem.; General
`dredit ditto, 2i I prem. ; and the Egyptian Com-
tercial and Trading Company, 24 21 prem.

, BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
,tiank Stock
•232
" per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 91/ 1
3,,,per Cent. Consols Annuities
'''ew 3 per Cent. Annuities
4.enuittes, 30 yrs, expire 6thlan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l4 15
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 2ll
India Stock ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent
1)44) DebentUres, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
.„ Ditto :ditto) Aug. 1864 or 66 1001 1
u'tto kiutids £l,000
C Ditto under £l,OOO
48°18 for Account, July 9 .... 12 pm
921 4
March June.
teb.eciu,er Bills, £l,OOO 2} per Cent 2 dis 1 dis
Ditto £5OO lpm
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
ati 5 per Cent
li
4Ditto 4i per Cent. 1852-58-60
~!nos Ayres 6 per 'Cent 2.58-60
ul.tto Account 96
bellsb. 4 per Cent., 1863
loclllador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l7i
---'gt,ptian 7 pet Cent —
ci Ditto, Second Issue
ri.,eelt 5 per Cent., 1824-6, ex-Coup•mis —
Ditto Account
I,Ditto Coupons.. l9l t 181 t 19a
;liaa
n 5 per Cent, (Maremmana Railway)
e
'At Mean 3 per Cent
ti,.Ditto
Imperial 3B/ 1 71 8
ooris 5 per Cent
view Granada l6
Ditto 2 per Cent. —. Ditto Deterred
rartr.rigva 4h per Cent.
Ditto 4} per Cent. 1862
-)into Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
'Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 491 i
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 5B/
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 .. 931 i 3
hanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive
35 4h 5h 5
Ditto Account 1
',knish Cert. of Coup not funded
"„Ptish 6 per Cent. 1854
—__o i h i
-Ditto Account ..................... • uzx
Ditto 6 1.! per Cent.. 1858
. 70i I t itto Account .....................
Ditto 6 per Cent, 1862
_llit
2 1
Ditto Account ...................
~Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
''etlezuela, 3 per Cent • ,
Ditto Account.... .. .
bitto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account s9a I 9
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex, 25f 99
Latch Di per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. 721
Ditto Account 721
Ditto Scrip, 1863, £l44s. paid 24 pm
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols; Morey
J)itto Account 9`,a
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