The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-27 00:00:00

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Tw O'CLOCK.
At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr.
69t. 40c,
R'euter's telegram, the 3
per Cent. Renter were
A moderate amount of business has been trans-
acted to-day in the market for the English Funds,
but it has not led to an
ri y material variation in
pces. The tendency, however, has been favour-
able, and Consols are 924 I for money and account.
The New 3 per Cents. are steady at 911 ; the Re-
duced at 911; Exchequer Bills have improved to
4e. and 9a. prem ; India Stock to 228 and 230 ; and
the 6 per Cent. is steady at 1091
A firmer tone is perceptible in the Foreign Mar-
ket, but the transactions have not been extensive.
Egpptian Bonds are 971 ; Greek, 281 showing
steadiness; and the Coupons remain at 131 ;
Italian, at 704 71; the Railway Loan realised 761;
Portuguese New Loan, 48; Russian ditto, 951;
Spanish Pasfive have risen to 301 a ; the Cern&
ewes remain at 101 1; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854,
871 ; do., 1858, 63 ; do., 1862 70 fl ; and the Con-
aolides, 471 3-7,-; the Confederate Loan is 14 21 prem.
The operations in the Railway Share Market
have not been very extensive, the (leviers and share-
holders having been occupied with the ar:angements
for the settlement, end prices have nut varied to any
important extent. South-Easterns , °R ever, have
h
improved about 53., and Great-Eisterns, 63.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
has been little or no variation as regards prices;
Great Luxemburg being dealt in at 141 73-; East
Indian at 109 and 1091 ; Peninsula at 1091; and
Great Western of Canada at 111 1.
Joint Stock Bilk and Miscellaneous. Shares con-
tinued dull at about former prices.

BRITISH FUNDS... 'LOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities (11i i
3 per Cent. Console Annuities .. o2tiiii 1
INew 3er Cent. Annuities 9lB
ndia Stock. 228 30
Ditto 5 per Cent lo9i
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
limo 51 per Cent per'
115 i
Consols tor Account. May 7 2l
Exchequer Bills, £l.OOO 21 per Cent 4 8 pm
Ditto £5OO ............ 9pm
Ditto Small ....
9
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING i'pEnit ICES.
Brazilian srn Cent.
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 loot
Buenos Ayre4 6 per Cent
94i Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 39
Danish 4 per Cent., 1825
Ditto Scrip, £65 paid
Egyptian 7 per Cent
971 i
Ditto, Second Issue .... ...
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824,5,. ex-Coup.m 1
s 2Bl
Ditto Aeemint.
Ditto C •
oupons
Italian 5 per Cent. 01,iretnmana llailway) 761
NMexican 3 per Cent
ew Granada
15
Ditto 2 per Cent ................. -
Ditto Deferred.
portivian 41 per Cent. ..... .. .. ....
Ditto 4) per Cent. 1862,

.. ....... 871
.. .
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ..........
Ditto 1862 .... 43 7i
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St .............
•;--.1
Ditto 4} per Cent ~ 1850
Ditto 1860
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
Sardinian o per Cent.
51
Spanieh 3 per Cent
WI
Ditto Passive
SPanish Cert. of Coup not footled
i
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 .
87 7
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
68
Litt° £l.OO Bonds
7o !
Ditto '6
per Cent. 18..)2
I.)itto Account 7oi 1
_
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent 1862
Ditto 11 per Cent.
twiati,Dsividends on the above payable in London.
Ditto ACCeoruraCte•tt:: 1861, Ex. 25 francs
.. .
7-1
701
.................
C.insols, ivir,
TfIREE O'CLOCK.
.oiitn Acco'llif3Y .................... 922
..
tt......_____t ........... ............ 921 g
LiVerPooi---6-0-Cto-- ---7------). Market Day.
(11;;;;7ELEGRA111.)
Quiet. Sqles, ab,„::B
5,000 bales. Import, 1 461 •
previously, 8,019.
, '
The Halifax ;;;.--Tote Pb------a,,, ; st. inc:
hall at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning' l --- `ll Lue r i€CN
tiate Mr. Stansfeld has been threatenre'd with-l(1tio the present••
0 opposition,
nor is any expected.
dour Journal are
The ugliest rumours, sayri the r
heard at the arsenals and dockyards of the kingdom
' g
to the pressure which is being put on the xvorka'aOdwin-
-I"rknlen, who, from the most insignificant wielder and
the
Qaultuer and two and-sixpenney nail to the dockyard A 131
say'
`. This tong War."

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is a moderate demand for discount accom.
modation, and as the rate for first class bills of
three months date has been reduced to 3 per cent.,
the consequence is a very limited number of appli-
cations at the Bank of Engh.nd, where 31 per cent.
is required. The inquiry, however, may now be
expected to be slightly augmented owing to the
usual disbursements at the end of the month, the
liquidation of accounts at the Stock Exchange, and
the necessary provision for the bills arriving at
maturity early iu May.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts
for the past week have generally been of an un-
satisfactory character. Business at Manchester
continued inactive, without any material change in
the values of either cloths or yarns. The woollen
trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield has been
without material alteration, the chief des ings hav-
ing been in light fabrics. At Leicester and Not-
tingham there bas been considerable depression in
the hosiery and lace departments, while in the hard-
Ware districts, viz,, at Birmingham, Sheffield, and
Wolverhampton, a heavy tone has been generally
apparent.
,;,The Bank of Otago is the title of a new joint
stock undertaking, formed for the pu-pose of afford-
ing to New Zealand those monetary facilities which
the recent large expansion of its commercial enter-
prise now so urgently requires. Ever since 1861,
When the gold fields of Otago were discovered, the
Population of this settlement has considerably in-
creased, while the development of its trade has
greatly exceeded the most sanguine expectations of
the colonists. Its gold exports during last two years
have been almost doubled, and its wool shipments
since 1855 have increased nearly sevenfold. These
facts are put forward by the directors for the pur-
pose of demonstrating the legitimate character of
their undertaking, and the large field that is open
to them for remunera, ive operations. The cap.tal
is fixed at £500,000, which it is proposed to raise
by shares of £lOO each. The calls are not to ex-
ceed £5 per share, nor to be made at less intervals R
than three months.
On the Dutch Rhenish Railway the receipts for
the fortnight ending April 15, 1863, a d £7,977 lls. ,
period end for the correspondinmount(g per to
of last year to £7,592 45. 6ad. ; showing an in-
crease of £385 6s. 11d. in favour of the present
year.

The traffic receipts of the Great Western Railway -
of Canada for the week ending the 10th instant,
amounted to £13,558 against £lO 613 last year.
~t
The directors of the Cape Town Railway and
Dock Company, in their report to be presented at
the ensuing half-yearly meeting, state that the
line has been opened from Stellenbasch to Lap- I
Mute, a distance of nearly nine miles, and that the 1 result has been an immediate increase of more than
150 per cent, in the traffic receipts. Another sec-
tion, st
tion, from Klapmuts to the Paarl, eleven miles in
it length, was to be opened at the end of last month.
The short branch into the morning market at Cope
Town has also been completed, and promises to
add to the traffic of the line. During the twelve
Months that the line has been partially at work, the
traffic has been conducted not only with regularity
and efficiency, but without a single injury to a At!
passenger or a servant of the company. The revenu ;
receipts up to the close of the year 1862, show a
re-e 'lt'
turn of £18,364 N. 2d. The working expenses 1
,
b only
during the same period have exceeded the receipts
y £1.850 lls. 3d. Since the opening of the l!
line to the Paarl the traffic returns have increased in
from £l3 to £lB per mile, per week, g
expenses. without a
corresponding increase in the workin
ea
The capital of the company raised for the construe- it'
tion of the line amounts to L 580,000, of which
£500,000 has been subscribed as
Stock, 1:47,0 in
DEbenturea for 20 ye, re, from
April, 1862,00 and
£33,000 in debentures for a period of seven years.