The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-16 00:00:00

ATONEY MARKET

AN
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Money Market is assuming a firmer
aspect, under the influence of an increased
demand for commercial purposes and prepa-
rations for the Italian lean. This financial
Operation, which has oecupiud attention for sonic
time past, is likely to he atm,unced at once. Indeed
it is already known that the price is 71, which, al-
lowing for the discount offered for prepayment and
other advantages, reduces the cost to the subscriber
to 69k. It appears that £3,000,000 is to be raised
in London, £3,000,000 in Paria, £2,840,000 in
Turin, by private subscription, while £11,160,000
has been taken privately, and £8,000,000 will re-
main unappropriated for some time. There is rea-
son to believe that tne affair will prove successful,
notwithstanding the large addition that has been
made to the supply of Italian securities during the
last two years,
The Car,ada, from America, has been announced,
With £44,000 in specie.
The treffic receipts of the Great Western Rail-
Way of Canada for the week ending the 27th ult.
amounted to £14,666, against £O,BA last year.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts
for the past week state that business in most de-
partments has been partially suspended, owing to
the festivities consequent upon the marriage of the
Prince of Wales. At Manchester, however, there
has been more inquiry for cloths and yarns for the
Indian and China markets, while a fair amount of
business has been transacted in the woollen districts
of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield, chiefly, how-
ever, in spring fabrics. At Birmingham, Sheffield,
and Wolverhampton there has been little change of
importance, although symptoms of improvement
have been perceptible in most departments.

Two O'CLOCK.

At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the 3 per Cent. French Rentes were
69f. 10c., 69f. 05.—ex coupon.
The prospectus of the Italian Loan has just ap•
geared, but the principal features having previously
transpired, it has not at present attracted much at-
tention.

Continued dulnness is the principal characteristic
n the market for English Securities, but prices,
notwithstanding the paucity of business, are exceed-
ugly well maintained. Consols are 92k for
transfer, and 921 Q for the account. The New
Three per Cents. remain at 90! j ; the Reduced
are fit at 901; Exchequer Bills at 4s. premium ;
India 5 per Cent. is firm 108 k /.

The transactions in the Foreign Market have
continued on a limited scale. Buenos Ayres 6 per
Cents. are heavy, at 924 ; Eg) ptian, at 96 1; ditto,
second issue, at 96; Greek Bonds are firm, at 201
21; the Coupons, at 81 9; Spanish Passive have
improved to 261 27; but the Certificates are flat,
at 91 ; Turki,,ti 6 per Cents., 1858, are 68 f ; do.,
1862, 681 692 ; Venezuelan 3 per C!nts. are 232 ;
ditto 6 per Cents., 58 1; Italian are buoyant at 70 k.

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
Moderately active, and the general tendency of
prices continues upwards, owing to the arrange-
ments in progress for the liquidation. Caledonians,
Great EastErns, South Westerns, and Lancashire
and Yorkshire have advanced 55., and London,
Chatham, and Dover, and South Elstern 10s.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
Was no material variation. Great Luxembourg
realised 15i ; Recife and San Francisco, 18y;
Western of Canada, 13 ; East Indian, 106 f ; and
Scindes, 1061. _ _

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares re-
mained without any material change. London and
South African being steady, at 26i; London and
Westminster, at '77; Alliance of Londcn and
Liverpool realise 23i; Berlin Waterworks, 74 ;
and Royal Mail Steam improved to 601.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Console Annuities ... 924 4
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 2l/
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto 61 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 100
Consols for Account, April 8 921
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 24 per Cent 4 die
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small 4 die
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Egyptian 7 per Cent 96/ 1
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 2Ol 1
Ditto Coupons
Mexican 3 per Cent ....
New Granada 134
Peruvian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent ~ 1862 ...
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto 1862
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St •—
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 92
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Pasnive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. 91
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto, £lOO Bonds 7O/
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1852
I 1
itto
Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent.
Ditto 6 per Cent., P-t'i''
Divi,ieuds on t he above payable in London.
Italian, 5. per Cont., 1061, Ex. 25 francs.. 70 1
I.).it to Amount7''
TWO O'CLOCK.
Console,
Money
Ditto Account 921 1

Liverpool Cotton Market----This Day.

(RETJTER'S TELEGRAM.)
LIVERPOOL, March 16.
Advan3ing. Excited. S ties fully 15,000 bales.
Import, 2,071 ; previously, 4,213.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF A LARGE CITY WARE-
UOUSE FROM FlRE.—Between 3 and 4 o'clock on
Saturday morning the greatest alarm was caused in Cannon-
street West, ewing to a fire being discovered in that well-
known and extensive pile of premises belonging to Messrs.
Belee and Speckley, Manchester warehousemen. The
building contained eight floors, and besides the frontage in
Cannon-street the warehouses flanked a considerabl e por-
tion of the western side of Friday-street. The discovery
was made by some of the females sleepitag in the premises
by experieLcing a dense suffocating smoke, filling the rooms
on the fourth floor, just the middle of the block of premises.
They at first were unable to tell where the smoke came from,
and they had also their doubts as to whether the building
Was on fire or not, but, in order to make assurance doubly
sure, they sent to Capt. Shaw, the superintendent of the fire
brigade, and it was exceedingly fortunate they did so ; if
they had sot, In all probability, we should have had to re•
cold the destruction of property valued at some hundred
thousand pounds s erling. Upon the arrival of the brigade
it was found that, owing to some timber beams having been
placed under one of the hearths, the heat from the stove had
ignited them, and the flames commenced burning through
the flooring and joisting towards the top of the building,
and at the same time were working downwards behind the
partition to the lower floor. The firemen, seeing the great
danger to which the property was exposed, at once set to
Work, and by zipping up the floorings and cutting away the
Wainscoting, they were enabled to get to the exact seat of
the fire, and by judiciously distributing the water they were,
after the lapse of an hour and a half, enabled to get the fire
extinguished, the damage done to the stock being incon-
siderable. The firm was insured in the Phconix, General,
Manchester, and Union offices.
BONFIRE ON THE GRAMPIANS.—The materials
for a large bonfire were conveyed by Mr. 11 'Nab,
of Delchully-house, near Loch Laggan, to the top of the
Great Donne, a lofty hill overlooking the Valley of the
Spey, in order to commemorate the ltoyal marriage-day.
About dusk nearly the whole population of the upper part
of Glenshero, numbering nearly 200, headed by a piper and
torchbearers, began to ascend the mountain. After lighting
the fire, and partaking of the refreshments liberally provided
for them, they cleared the green, and danced till after mid-
night to the stirring music of the bagpipes. All the party
descended the rugged path in safety, and separated alter a
hearty cheer for the Prince and Princess.
Tile Court Journal gives an E xclusive and the
fullest account of the Marriage, with a special plan of re-
ference for the Chapel; also, complete details of the grand
reception of the Princess Alexandra. The Court Journal
always contains the most amusing rdsuutd of the week's
events, and a vast amount of original news and information.
Stamped, 6d. W. Thomas, 26, Brydges. street, Covent-
garden, end all newsagents.
The Itaze'un Liheit,i, residing in Paris assem-
bled at a Ltnquet a few days ago to celebrate the emancipa-
tion of the serfs. M. Tourgueneff, known as a novel writer
and Poet, presided on the occasion.

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Lancaster and Carlisle, 41 per cent pf., 102
London and Brighton, 5 per cent. gua. stock, No. 1, 1131
Stockton and Darlington, C 6 per cent., 33i
PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 11}

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Great Luxembourg, 151 1
Namur and LteAe, gua. 6 per cent. pf., 201
Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 181
Sambre and Meuse, 51 per cent. pf.,

FOREIGN MINES.

Yudanamutana of S. Austral& (lira), 4
JOINT-STOCK RANKS.
Anglo Portuguese (Urn.), 3/
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Um.), 23/
Bank of London, 1156
London and Colonial (UM), 3i
London and South African, 26j
London and Westminster, 77
National Provincial of England, new, 214

MISCELLANEOUS.
Berlin Water Works, 7*
Madras Irrigation and Canal, 3i
Royal Mail Steam, 61/

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

AuKralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Mar. 21.
via Marseilles ... Mar. 15.
..irazil and Cape Verds, by British pachet. Apr. 6.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena., Apr. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Mar. 21.
via Marseilles Mar. 15.
Falkland 151and5......
Gibraltar, via Southampton Mar. 13.
India Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 21
-- via Marseilles Mar. 16.
raja (Bombay), via Southampton Mar. 13
via Marseilles Mar. 22.
Portugal.... ......
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 13.
via Marseilles Mar. 15.
:'Tewfcindland
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Mar. 18.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packot.Mar. 13.
W.C. of A tries, Madeira, and Teneride Mar. —.
13abanios, via New York
Mexico Mar. 31.
Ali 1 arts of West Ind ies,,including Chili, Peru, !Mar. H.
Contemn, and lintiAl Colniabia..

AMERICAN MAILS.—The Cunard steamer Asia,
Capt. Shannon, sailed from Liverpool on Saturday for New
York with the mails. Besides these she had a full cargo,
and also took out about 50 passengers.
A Munich letter states that the new Minister of
War has decided on making a considerable reduction in the
Bavarian army, so that from the Ist October next the War
Department will not require any extraordinary budget.