The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-17 00:00:00

141NEY MARKET

AND
001IXERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
dillt '
is generally thought that the Money Market
• - in, shortly exhibit greater firmness, owing to the
effect
of foreign loans, which will have the
totehcetr
ionffl augmenting the exportation of specie.
uences are also at work which will tend
osstitnulate the demand for accommodation. The
Perations to-day are described as active, and the
rates have slightly advanced, the charge for first-
se,Ltlss bills in the open market being quite equal to
the minimum at the Bank of England.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
rl jilted special settling days in the shares of the
ly°l44ving undertakings, viz., Wednesday, 18-h
arch, in the Union Marine Insurance Company,
dealings to be marked in the official lists; Friday,
4bOth Marcia, in the Shares of the London, Birming
am and South Sttiffordshire Bank, also to be
marked‘.., daily ; and Nova Scotia Land and Gold
'''enshing &c. Company, which is not to be marked
at Present,
The Shannon, which left to-day with the West
India mai!s, conveyed 16,600 in specie.
La Plata has arrived from the West Indies with
361,707.
The New Italian Loan has been dealt in to-day
In
I 1 prem., and it is understood that a large
number of subscriptions have been already sent in
In Messrs. Rothschild. The total amount of the
°Peration is £28,000,000, of which £3,000,000 is
t° be offered in Paris, £3,000,000 in London,
and £2,840,000 in Turin, making an aggregate
(lilt £8,840,000. Of the balance, £19,160,000,
'lssers.Rothschild have agreed to hold £8,000,000,
tile, Italian bankers £3,160,000, and the remainder,
namely, £8,000,000, will be retained by the Italian
o "ernment for appropriation at some future period.
Allowing
for the interest accrued and the discount
raeered for prepayments, the price to subscribers is
need to about 69g..
Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets during the last few days has not been
'very animated. Sugars, tea, and rice have re-
mained aginedwithout alteration in prices, but coffee has
advanced. Saltpetre continued in steady
Place
while a slight improvement has taken
forward
iu the price of tallow for both present and
delivery.

Two o'CLocK.
telegram
Nris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's
the 3 per Cent. French Rentes were
tEir
• Q `'°C,, 68f. 85c.—heavy.
1C
A decline of k per cent. took place in the market
so
far
Public Securities this morning, and no subse-
rent alteration has occurred, Consols being 92k
transfer and 9244 for the account. The pre-
nailing heaviness is partly due to the introduction tc
ult Turkish Loans, which, it is thought, will y(
uereefter lead to a large exportation of specie. It
Thefirm
New Threes and the Reduced Annuities are
st'i
'arm at 90 I, and there has been a dealing in the Stf.
IO Years' Annuities at 144. A decline has taken 1
place in India Stock, which is now marked 227 etc
229,1 but the 5 per Cents. exhibit steadiness at
44,4 i /. The 51 per Cent. Enfaced Paper con- 1(
"flues firm at 112, and the 4 per Cent. Debentures 1(
hate improved to 100 k. A rise is shown in Ex- id
chequer Bills, which are quoted ls. dis. et
There is a small business in the Foreign Market,
11114 prides exhibit very little alteration. Old et
Turkish 6 per Cents. are steady at 90 1 ; do.,
69) at 68 a ; do., 1862, are heavy, at 681 69 ;1
1,8
ienezuelan 6 per Cmts. at 58 9 ; the Danish 1
et) has receded to 1 1 prem. ; Egyptian Bonds et
are 96 7; Greek have declined to 20/ ; Russian
etst
New Loan at 931 941 ; and Spanish Certificates are
Ainai at 98 3. es
In the Railway Share Market the operations
re been limited, and prices have shown a slight
downward movement. Caledonians, Great West- 8
and Lancashire and Yorkshire have receded
11.; North Western, Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln and South Eastern, 10s.; and Midland, 8,
158.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remained
dull,without any material change in values.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares were
111 some instances a shade flatter.

t BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
e•-, n
3 tut otock
3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New
Cent. Consols Annuities - 2
e"'' 3 per Cent. Annuities
annuities, 30 yrs, axpire sth Jan., 1880 —
India
for 30 yrs,' expire .sth April, 1885. 141
I:tiittttoo sper •,,ita Stock 227 29
Cent
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
51 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 1001
Ditto ditto April, 1864 100/
Consolsi for Account, April 8
cillequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 1 die
Ditto Small 1 die
13 FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
ratilian 5 per Cent ......
Danish
4slcipiper,
£l5 paid
1852-58-60
93i
4 per Cent.,1863
paid - 1 pm
•cigYptian 7 pet Cent O6l
Ditto, Second Issue
Creek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms 2Ol 1
mbitto Coupons
tslicaU 3 per Cent
Russian
Account
-ttussian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 . 94/ 31
Spanish Turkish
Cert. of Coup not funded
6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account,— ._
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account 6Bl
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1802
Ditto Account 69
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto 11 per Cent • 12k
Dividends on the above payable in London.
I •
tah
per Cent., 1861, Ex. '25 francs --1„),,r, 5
,to Account..
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money ...................... 92 /
)itto Account .......... ~ .......... 921 1

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
.I.IVERPOoL, March 17.
Strong, and advancing. Sales 1,000 (? 10,000
bales.
Import, 2,649 ; previously, 6,284.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Mon-
di% March 16 Admissions on payment, 652; ditto by
season tickets, 548; total, 1,200.
" Some time back," says the Sleek, " we called
attention to the deplorable situation of the Federal
fortress of Luxembourg, the Prussian garrison of which
Very bad terms with the population. We then
stated that several of the inhabitants had been ill-treated
by Prussian soldiers. Not only have the communal
council and the Assembly of the States complained in
'vain, but a sentinel who bad fired at and killed a
collector of town dues has returned pardoned from
Berlin, whither he had been sent after the occurrence, and
has vauntingly showed himself everywhere. What is still
more, in order that he might remain in the town after the
departure of his regiment, he has been incorporated in a
battalion of the 19th, and th,ugh he has been only one year
14 the service, he has been proposed for promotion to the
rank of a non-commissioned officer. This bravado has ex-
cited great indignation among the inhabitants of Luxem-
bourg.
QUEER CAPTURE.—A few days ago, as a crew of
Portkuockie fishermen were hauling their lines
about eight miles of Scarlet Head, and in forty fathoms
Water, their attention was attracted by a terribly intractable
°ll,Bterner which had got entangled in the line at a conside -
4°le distance from the boat. By dint of long and careful
exertion they got him almost close up, and near
enough to see that he was black, big, and In-
clined to be very obstreperous. After come hesita-
tion, they decided on having a nearer inspection of
their queer capture, and having at last got himalmost
close up
to the boat, they were considerably astonished,
and not a little startled, to see a large black face,
with an expression the reverse of pleasant on
its fea-
tures, rise slowly and deliberately to the surface and
stare at them, as if to say, "What the deuce do you
Want wi,h me P'' One of the crew, when the creature's
Should, rs were rising above the water, drove a boat-
hook into its breast, but it merely lifted its fore-paws
and pushed it contemptuously away, then turning with
a few desperate struggles broke lose from the line and
Was never more aeon. The beast thus curiously cap •
tured was a large seal, which, seeking its breakfast off
the lines had got hooked in the jaw. The distance
from the land made the capture still more remarkable.
One of the fishermen being asked what they would
have thought of •heir capture had it been in the night-
tune, replied, " Ah, sir, if it hadaa been in the daylight we
should have thought we had brought up the Evil One him-
self,"—John o'Groat Journal.