The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-17 00:00:00

MONEY NARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCV.
. The money ---
market continues quiet, and business
!very inactive, owing to the expected alteration in
the minimum of the Bank of England.
There is an increase of £2,062 in the traffic
receipts of the South Eastern BeilwaY for the past
'week.

The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
pointed Friday next for a special settlement in the
shares
of the following companies, viz. :—Anglo-
13:rith'h and Forign
11tIguese Bank, New Zealand Trust and Loan,
Marine Insurance, Oil Wells
"
of Canada, and St. Cuthbert's Lead Smelting, deal.
ings in each to be officialy recorded, the three last,
however to be marked in the bi-weekly list only.
The transactions in the Foreign and Colonial
Produce Mhrkets during the last few days have nor
been very extensive. Sugars, coffee, and rice, how-
ever, have fully sustained previous prices. The
public sales of tea commence to-day, a large quan-
tity being announced for competition. Saltpetre
has continued in moderate request, while some
fluctuation has taken place in the tallow market, s.
the decline at one time being fully 2s. per cwt.
P.Y.C. on the spot, however, is quoted 445. 3d.,
and last three months delivery 465. 3d. to 465. 6d,
per cwt.

Two O'CLOCK.
At Paris this day at 12.45, says Reuters tele-
gram, the French Rentes were 70f. 45c.—flat.

The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of Egypt
took place to-day—Mr. W. Tite, M.P., in the
chair. The report, which was adopted, recom-
nlendeethat the usual dividend, at the rate of 7
Per cent. per annum for the half year (£8,750),
free of income tax, be declared, leaving £4,663
68. 10d. to be carried forward to the next account.
On the Bengal division of the East Indian
Railway the traffic receipts for the week ending
IN. °cr. 30 last amounted to £9,761, against £8,179
in: the previous year. On the North-West Pro-
,,uenee division the earnings were £3,376, against
4,392 in 1861.
The English Stock Market is exceedingly dull,
but notwithstanding the paucity of business prices
continue steady, Consols being 921 4 for transfer,
and 92i 93 for the sth prox. There is not the
slightest feature of interest to comment upon with
regard to the current of speculation and the tend-
ency of the quotations. Ile New 3 per Cents. and
the Reduced are firm at 921 93 ; Exchequer Bills
flat at ls. dis. ; Bank Stock is buoyant at 237 and in
239; India do., 227; and the 5 per Cent. Loan re- le
plains et)
at 108
For •
eiga
Securities have been dealt in to a fair
extent, and
prices have undergone no material I
change. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are firm at pt
894 904 ; do., 1858, at 736 4 ; do., 1862, 704 ;
and the Consolides, 411 42; Egyptian are buoyant 14,
at 100 4-; Greek;
have improved
Coupons to 974 -a Mexican 334 ; Moorish 94 ; st
veruvian New Loan 881 894; Portuguese 47 4;
Russian 934 4; Spanish 53 ; do. Passive, 264 ; and 6
Venezuelan New Loan 604 614.

In the Railway Share Market the operations 1,1
have been rather limited, and prices have shown a tl
downward movement. Great Eastern, London and
Brighton and North Western receded s=. Midland it':
and North Eastern (Berwick) 10s., and Manchester
Sheffield, and Lincoln, 15s. stA
Trie Foreign and Colonial uLdertakings remaintd

inactive without any material alteration in value.
Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares in
some instances are a shade firmer. Ottoman Bank
,1
have improved to 421-; Union of Australia realise 41
57; and Royal Mail Steam, 56;

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
tPer Cent. Consols Annuities .. -4 i t
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
'lLl:mites, 30 s exire bth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30yrs, expire sth April, 1885. 15/
India Stock
litto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent los}
134%4) Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 100
, Ditto ditto April, 1864 100
-.i bonds £l,OOO
C
.uittouLder £l,OOO
D°4BolB for Account. March. 5
Itellequer Bills, £lOOO, 2i per Cent 1 die 3 pm
Ditto £500
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
13razilian 6 per Cent
Ditto 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60
Chilian 6 per Cent
~,, Ditto 4i per Cent. B3l
-‘gpptian 7 pet Cent lOOl 100 /
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 6 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms 2l 11 1
~Ditto Coupons
Mexican 3 per Cent
_ Ditto Account
Zloorish Imperial 5 per Cent
'ley? Granada l3l
Ditto 2 pei Cent 3ok 1 /
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) .. 7
r ru,ian.4l per Cent. .......... ~ • • • •
Ditto 1862
Ditto Account ... BBl 9i
Portuguese 3 per gent., 1853
Ditto 1862 .. 47i 7
Ditto Scrip, £25 paid 3i pm
Illusion 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 97t
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850..
8 brim) 5 per Cent. 1862 93iiii 3 i
Vinian 5 per Cent.
c, Ditto Account B3t
°Panieh 3 per Cent
26 6
Ditto Passive
1 /
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 _
Unto Account 9O
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Acaount .. .. ..
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1852
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account,....
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f... —
Ditto Account .. • ... 691 it I i
TEIREE 0' JI.,C)CIi,
..._

COD sole, Money
_Wu() Account 92i 3

Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day.

I IVERPOUL, Feb. 17.
quiet. Saks, perhaps t,bout 2,000 bales,
p° t, 7,897 ; previously, 2,115.