The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-24 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The demand for discount accommodation has
slackened, and the rates for the best bills are 31 to
38 per cent.

During the last few days a moderate amount of
business has been transacted in the Foreign and
Colonial Produce Markets. The public sales of
tea have proceeded without any material change
in prices. Sugar has been in fair request, at steady
rates, while full prices have been obtained for coffee
and cocoa. In rice, fruit, and spices the operations
have been to an average extent at about previous
quotations. Tallow has been in better demand, and
prices have tended upwards for both present and
forward delivery.
The Oriental Hotels Company is an undertaking
recently brought forward, for the purpose of pro-
viding the chief towns and seaports of India and
China with suitable hotel accommodation. It is
said that throughout our eastern empire there is a
very great deficiency in this respect, and that the
European population, which is annually on the in-
crease, is loud in its complaints against the pro-
vision it finds for lodgings, &c. In the
first instance it is intended to erect esta-
blishments at Bombay and Point de Galle,
and after these buildings have been completed others
are to rise up in Madras, Singapore, Kurrachee,
Ike. The directors are principally gentlemen con-
nected with India, either by its civil service of its
trade. The nominal capital of the undertaking is
fixed at £250,000 (half of which is to constitute the
first issue), in shares of £lO each.
Some important alterations are exhibited in the
Bank of England return for the week ending Wed-
nesday last, the most conspicuous being a consider-
able failing off in the Other Securities, to the repay
went of advances aud the increased facilities offered
in the open market, which have had the Effect of
diminishing the number of inquiries at the national
establishment. The bullion and reserve of notts
are smaller, but an early influx of gold is not im
probable. Subjoined are the particulars :
Active Circulation .. .• £21,603.305
Increase .. • • 64,290
Bullion .. • . 14,62. ,872
Decrease .. 129,004
Rest ..
3 303 461
Increase •• •• •• •• 26,432
Public Deposits 5.386.948
Increase .. .. 438,49 I
Other Deposits..
.. 14,675,625
Decrease .. 1,706,289
Seven Day and other Bills 627 07
Decrease •• •• •• •• 28,674
Government Securities 11,006,888
Decrease 40,000
Other Securities .. 19,871,886
Dec ease .. • 1,036,747
Notes Unemployed. .. • 6,814,715
Decrease .. 182,365

Two O'CLOCK.
The Paris Three per Cent. Rentes, this morning,
according to Mr. Renter's telegram, opened at 67f.
46c. ; business better.

Business in the English Stock Market has been
very limited, but quotations nevertheless are ex-
hibiting increasing firmness under the favourable
influence of better prices from the Paris Bourse,
and that affairs on the continent may yet assume a
less warlike tendency. Console have risen nearly I,
and are now marked 92/ 93/-- for money and ac-
count. The New Threes and Reduced are 92/ 931 ;
Bank Stock is 2371 and 239 ; India Stock, 225
and the 5 per Cent. Loan, 108 ; the Debentures'
are 100, the Bonds 19s. prem., and Exchequer
Bills ls. to 4e. premium.
There is very little alteration in the Foreign
Market, and business is rather quiet. Turkish 6
per Cents., 1862, are 641; do. Consolides, 49/ 50;
Mexican, 361 ; Greek, 33/ 34 ; do. Coupons,
15/- /; Spanish Passive, 321. s ; do. Certificates,
12/- ; Portuguese, 48 ; Russian, 92/ 93 ; Italian,
701 e ; Egyptian, 103 9; and the Confederate Loan,
31 to 3 die.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been very limited; a firmer tone, however, has pre-
vailed. Great Eastern, Lanc,shire and Yorkshire,
North Western, North Eastern, York, and South
Eastern have improved 55., and Caledonian, 15s.
The Foreign and Colonial Lines have exhibited
little change of importance in values.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue dull at
former quotations. International Finencial Shares
are quoted 41 to 41 prem. ; London Financial, / to
prem. ; General Credit, 6 to 1 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK,
Bank Stock .......................... 239 7+
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ........ i,3 21 3/
a per Cent. Consols Annuities .......... 92f 3
Now, 3 per Cent. Annuities ............ 93 21 3/ 21 3
Nev 3i per Cent. Annuities ..........
New 2+ per Cent. Annuities .........
India Stock .......................... 225
Ditto 5 per •Cent .................... 108/ 8
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent......
Ditto 5 per Cent
........
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto
ditto April, 1864 100
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO .................. 19 pm
Consols for Account, Aug. 6 .......... 921
March
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2 i per Cent.. 3 1 pm
Ditto Z5OO ..............
Ditto Small ......................
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent ...................
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
.......... .... Ditto 4+ per Cent., 1852-58-60 ...... 93101
satienos Ayres 6 per Cent ..........
Ditto Account —93
Egyptian 7 pet Cent.... ""••103/
~
Ditto, Second Issue
...... 103
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup,ms.. :
Ditto Account .. 34 31
. Ditto Coupons lsa it
ttalian 5 per Cent. (Itilaremmana Railway) 79 New Granada ls#
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent 471
, 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62
Ditto Account
Ditto sCent. 1862
tiardinian
.............. — 2
8 Ditto Account ..ttish 3 per Cent
Pe
Ditto
.New Deferred .. —
• u° Account ..
. 48
thtto p____ ................... but_ '.„4.131ve
epan.....ccoum.... . .
I,urkialihe6ert. of Coup not funded
per Cent. 1854
Ditto per
. .... • 94 3
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858.
Dr),ltttot°
6Ae,-"--^ ui,it...
per Cent
—67 k i
Ditto Account.. ..
!?1:32;17.dt;1;;
Ditto Guar
Venezuela, 34r-teed'
4 • 1031
Per eclat
Ditth 6 per Lent., 1862
Ditto Accou:
56/
Dividends ................... Dutch 2 per Cent.,l2lllep;i,abo:jei payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent 18
.) 61, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account
Ditto Scrip, 1863, £2l 48. 6d. . paid i Pm
TWO O'CLOCK.
C°334rttl:,,„l‘_roguney
...it August Account
.. 92/ 3
...

June
3 pm

3 pm

iiverpool Cotton Alarket--This Da

Netrrmes TELEGRAM.)
A strong The,rket.
Sales to-day will probably
reach 7,000 bales.--Sales of the week, 52,240 bales,
including 11,400 on speculation, and 9,190 for ex-
portation. Quotations of fair Orleans, 241 ; ISl°-
bile, 24; Upland, 231. Estimated Middling Or-
leans. 221 ; ;
Upland, 21. Estimated
fair EgYPtianl 21• Stock. 261,700 bales. Ac,nal
export, 9,192. Surat, 11 to 20. Imports of the
k 6 195 bales.
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SHIPPING_ Day. Day.
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LONDON, July 24,—Wind this clay at
40031.....50uth.
Westerly; moderate breeze, and tine weather, 'but rather
cloudy.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
PLYMOUTH, Friday, 10 ft,
Ris Netherland Majesty's war steamship
.A,rdjoeutne•
nue, 178 men, from Ho!kind, for the colonies, put into the
Sound this morning to caulk topsides.
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning,
, Arri ved—
M aDadocrt, from Cadiz; Cricket, from Cork; Mersey,
trota Port .
Sailed—Diana, for Charleston; Mary Ann, for Cardiff,