The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-24 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A fair amount of business has been transacted
this morning in the general discount market, where
the mercantile public are:obtaining accommodation
on three months' bills at six per cent., with
occasional co❑cessions of I-- under that term. The
advices received from Frankfort regarding
a panic which prevails there in mone-
tary affairs, have not as yet influenced
to any appreciable extent the market
here. Bankers and brokers, whose capital had been
lying idle for so long a time, now appear anxious
to employ it at the current rates, although they are
still evincing great prudence and unwilling to lock
it up in long-dated securities.
The 26th i❑st. has been fixed for a special settle-
ment in the City Bank new shares, and the Ist prox.
in the Land Mortgage Bank of India, dealings in
which are to be recorded in the official lists.

Daring the last few days there has been less
excitement in tho Foreign and Colonial Pro-
duce Markets. Sugar, however, has been in
steady request at fully late rates. Coffee
has been dull, and inferior descriptions have
slightly declined, while rice, fruit, and spices have
been dealt in to a moderate extent without any
material change in values. The tallow market has
been dull, chiefly in consequence of the unsettled
state of political affairs in Russia and Poland.

Two o'CLocK.

At a general meeting of the shareholders to-day
of the Hudson's Bay Company—Sir Edmund Head
presiding—a dividend of 58. per share was declared.
As the principal sales took place in January and
March, the accounts of the company were not made
up till May, and until that time arrived the direc-
tors felt it to be impossible to fix the actual profit
dividend for the year, but from the prospects of the
fur trade, and the general aspect of affairs, it was
considered justifiable to recommend the dividend
before mentioned.

There is no material alteration to note in the
market for the English Funds, the small amount of
business that has been entered into having taken
place at the quotations current yesterday afternoon.
The general condition of the market appears to be
good, an improving tendency having been induced
by the greater confidence now felt in monetary
prospects. Consols remain at 921 1 for money, and
at 91t 1, less the dividend, for the account. The
New Threes and Reduced Annuities have improved
to 901. 91 ; the New 21 per Cents. are 761; Exche-
quer Bills, 2s. to ss. dis: Bank Stock is marked
235 237 ; India Stock, 224; the 5 per Cent. Loan,
1081 109, and the 4 per Cent. ditto, 1001 _a. The
Debentures are 99, and the Bonds 3s. to 9s. prem.
In the Foreign Market there is not so much
buoyancy, and business is dull. Turkish 6 per
Cents., 1854, are 891 901 ; do., 1862, 691 70/ ; do.,
Consolides, 47/ 1 ; Mexican, 38 1 ; Greek, 31 1;
do., Coupons, 144 151 f Spanish Passive, 341 i ;
do., Certificates, 14 1; Portuguese, 481 1; do.,
New, '1 1k prem. ; Italian, 71 ; and the Confederate
Loan, 54 56.
Business in the Railway Share Market has not
been very active, but prices have shown more firm-
ness. London and Brighton hay. improved £1 ;
Bristol and Exeter, 108.; and Great Western, ss.
Great Eastern have receded 55., and Metropolitan
£l.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without
change of importance.
Bank Shares are in some instances at slightly
enhanced rates, London and Brazilian having im-
proved to 521 53; London and Westminster to 781
791.
In the Miscellaneous Market prices are also
firmer.
,Discount Corporation realise 11 4 ; General
Credit, 61 71 ; and Royal Mail Steam, 79.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Hank Stock 235 7
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92i f
New 8 per Cent. Annuities
New 3t per Cent. Annuities
New 2t per Cent. Annuities..
5 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873
onunies, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908.
India Stock, 1874 224
Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870
Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 loo± i
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 5} per Cent
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 99i
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 9 pm
Ditto under £l,OOO 3 pm
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account, Dec. 3 9ll t
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cen t 2 5 dis
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 1859 ...... —}
Brazilian 4 per Cent ................... 99/
Ditto, 1839 and 1859..... - ..........
Ditto 4t per Cent., 1852-58-60 ......
Ditto 1863 ..........
Ditto Scrip, 1863, £3O paid .......... —dis
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent ..............
Ditto Account.... —
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Cuba, 6 per Cent.

Diito 13 per Cent. ..
.hilian 6 per Cent —
Ditto 3 per Cent. —
Ditto 41 per Cent
Colombian 6 Scrip, £l5 pd —
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Egyptian 7 per Cent..
Ditto, Second Issue
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons 1—
Ditto Account .. 15 14b 15b
Guatemala 5 per Cent. -
Ditto Account • .
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 79
Mexican 3 per Cent .... —
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant —
Ditto New Deferred —

Ditto Deferred —
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Peruvian 3 per Cent. ..
Ditto Account . .. —
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account —
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account 474
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 —
DittolAccount 431
Ditto, 1863
Ditto Scrip, £lO paid....
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 9Ol
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850..
Ditto 1860 ...
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
.. 541
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent
_,Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account —
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account 34i
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account . 141 14
Swedish, 4 per Cont..— ..
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account 9O/ 891
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Acc0unt...................... 70i
Ditto, £lOO Bonds ..................
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 ..............
Ditto Account ...................... 70k 69/ 70i
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863 .............
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent........
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account —
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account: —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins.
Belgian 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 631
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Routes, 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, En. 25 francs —
Ditto Account
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

THE PRICES NOW ASKED AT CHARLESTON FOR
PROVISIONS I--Butter, which was before the war about
6cl. per lb., is now Bd. ; coffee, which was about 7Ad.,
is now 195.; tea, which was 2s. 2d. to 2s. Cd., is now about
£2 10s. per lb. ; beef, which was 4d. a pound, is now 4s. 2d.;
one reel of sewing cotton, which formerly cost about 3d, is
now 6s. 3d., and so forth.

THE MAHCGANY TRADE,—Mahogany is down
in England as well as in the United States, so that
it will not pay to cut it. Our cuttings in this colony for
the next year will not be more than one-third of the usual
quantity, and the same may be said in regard to logweod ;
so the chances for trade for the year 1861 14 this colony aro
very slim,--kionduras ,Paper.

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