The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-13 00:00:00

CONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Cl I Y. I:VELVL O'CLOCK.

The Bank of England return for the week ending
Wednesday last is not altogether favourable, but the
movements are not of magnitude. The metallic
reserves have been trenched upon, and owing to the
increased demand for discount accommodation, the
other securities have been augmented. Annexed is
our usual analysis :
Active Circulation £19,228,205
Decrease .. 461,980
Bullion .. 14,325,178
Decrease . 176,3 9
Rest . • • . • 3 666 3 6
Increase . 7,158
Public Deposits 8,673 899
Increase 637,596
Other Deposits.. .. • • • • 13,282,605
Decrease .. . 85,481
Seven Day and other Bills .. • • 573,460
Decrease 58,410
.. • • • •
Government Securities • . • • 11,193,588
Increase .. • • 48,817
Other Securities
19,805,739
Increase .. • • • • • • 1.• 6.705
Notes Unemployed .. .. 8,872,550
Increase .. 305,7 i 0
.. • •
The Council of the Think of France have reduced
the rate of discount from 5 to 4* per cent., and
owing to the increase in the stock of bullion, the
improvement in monetary affairs isespected to col-
tinne.

The large supply of Mexican dollars brought by
the Shannon has been disposed of at ss. 30. per
oz. for China

The operations in the Foreign and Colonial Pro
duce Markers during the last few days have not
b-en very extensive. Tea, sug.r, coffee, and cocoa
have remained at about previous quotations, while
a slight advance has taken place in the value of
rice and tallow, P Y C. on ihe spot being quoted
43, 9d.; June delivery, 445. 9d.; and last three
months', 46, 9d. per cwt.
On the Bengal division of the East Indian Rail-
way the treffic receipts for the week ending the
28th December last were £11,024 against £8,497
in the corresponding period of the previous year.
The earnings of the North• Western Provinces
division were £5,882 against £4,743 in 1861.

Two o'CLocK.

At Paris, this day, according to Mr. R,uter's
telegram, the 3 per Cent. French Rentes were
70f. U.

The monthly return of the Bank of France has
been published to-day, and it shows an increase
of £2,168,000 in the bullion, and a falling off of
£2,053,320 in the bank notes, and a reduction of
£2,456 000 in the discounts, and cf £1,340,000 in
the advances on the stock and shares.

The English Stock Market opened this morning
with a firmer appearance, and a few transactions
took place at a slight advance, but some sales led to a
reaction, and Consols are now 928 for money, and
921 Z for account, The New Three per Cents. and
the Reduced are steady at 902 ; Exchequer Bills
flat at 3s to ls. dis.; Bank Stock improved to
237 and 2394 ; and India Five per Cents. remained
at 1081 Q.

The transactions in the Foreign Market have
been moderately active, but prices, in several in-
stances, show loss firmness. Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1858, have receded to 681 I; do., 1862, to 681 69 ;
and the Consolidea are 421 ; ption are 961 -a,
and the second issue 9611; Mexican 311 1 ; Portu
guese New Loan is flat at 461 ; Russian ditto 944;
Spanish Passive 2611; ditto Certificates 91 ; Italian
691 I. The New Danish Loan is 11 4 prem., and
the Salvador 1.2 prem. _ _ _

The operations in the Railway Share Market
have been limited, and prices have remained with-
out change of importance. Great Western and
North British have improved about 55.; and North
Western, 10s.; Metropolitan have declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remained with-
out hiny material alteration in values.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares con-
tinue inactive, at about previous rates.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ..
New 3 per Cent Annuities
i ndia Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent loB} I
Ditto EnfacHi Paper, 4 per Cent ..
1) tto 5 per Cent
1) . . 1)(113 ' I.' I. tlf ....
Dit to u,,der £l,000
Consuls for Account, Aptil 8 92s I
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 3 1 dis
Ditto £500
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING I' Ric Es.
Egyptian 7 pet Cent 961 i 7
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms.. 201 i
Ditto Coupons
I alien 6 per Cent. (Maretnuiana Railway) 72 ±
Mexican 3 per Cent ....
Ditto Account
New Granada

Ditto 2 per Cent ..•
Ditto Deferred .. ..... .... 6.i 7
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)...... 6*
P n 1'41141 per tent.
Ditto 41 per Cent ~ 1862 ... ..
inttA) Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1863
Ditto Account 471
Ditto 1862
Ditto Scrip, £3O paid 3 i pm
Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St 9i
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account.. 531 a
IMt to Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Dirt,, Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 18,i2
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
23
Ditto Account
68i 71 8
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 26 francs.. 691
Ditto Account . . 691 1 i
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
J)itto Account 921 t

IMAGINARY NEGRO WARFARE.—The fate of the
negro, of the white population at the South, and of the
Northern army respectively will be decided in a brief con-
test, which will occur about the middle of next June, and
which we will describe as gravely and succinctly as pos.
sible :—On the Ist of April 50,000 negroes who have been
previously drilled in c arious camps of instruction, will be
debarked at Aquia Creek. Pugnacious Joseph Hooker,
foaming at the mouth from long delay, will organise them
into brigades and divisions, with the velocity of fren-
aied impatience. But it will require six weeks of
incessant toil to perform this simple teat. It is
at last accomplished. The pontoons are laid safely and
.ssed without opposition. To prevent accident toe grand
col ured division is tar in the van. Greeley, its commander,
remains at. Aquia Creek, "with a powerful g ass," after the
maniac'. of Burnside. The skirmishers of the grand coloured
divisi,n are thrown out. They deploy. The voice of an
overseer calling hogs is heard in a distant field. They rally
on the reserve. No rebels being visible, they are again thrown
forwards. They feel for the enemy, but he is not to be felt.
The fire at n thing, 50 teet in the air, and hit it every time.
The rebels bait g thus driven to their earthworks, the grand
coloured division advances at the pas de charge, singing a
Mstho :ha refrain, to storm the enemy's position, and carry
"the (Test" at all hazards. of a sudth.n. the artillery of A.
P. command botches forth a burr cane of shell and
shrapnel. 'I here is a risine of wool, as of quills upon the
fretful porcupine, under the caps of dusky brigadiers
and sooty major generals; there is a simultaneous effusion
of mellifluous perspiration fr .m fifty thousand tarry hides;
there is a display of ivory like fifty thousand flashes of
lightning; fitty thousand pairs of charcoal knees are
knocking together, and one hundred thousand Ethiopian
eyeballs are rolling madly in their socketsi like so many
drunken and distracted moons dancing in an ebon sky ;
the grand coloured division trembles like a mighty
pointer d, g on an icy pavement—there is an universal
squall, as if all Africa had been kicked upo its shins, and
at the self-same moment a scattering, as if all the, black-
birds, crows and buzzards in creation had taken wings at
once. To a man the Northern army lies prostrate in the
field, asphyxiated by the insufferable odour bequeathed to
the atmosphere by the dark departed host For a like
cause the rebel army is in full retreat to Richmond.
tary and alone, with his nose in his hand, A. P. Hill sur-
veys the silent scene.—Richmond .Examiner.
THE NEW FRENCH PALACE.—Lie Palace of In-
dustry, which is rising into form et Auteuil, pro
mites to be a very fine edifice. Arriving by the new boule•
yard, which is being constructed by the city of Paris, and
which will be embellished with parterres, rows of chesnut-
trees and fountains, the visitor will see before him an impos-
ing structure, at once light and a .lid, composed of glruis and
iron, resting on a basement of white stone. The grand facade
will present a coup d'ceil of 600 metres, or more than double
the elevation of the exposition building of 1855 in the Champs
Elysdee, and will be surmounted by a vast central dome, of
larger.dimensions than those of our own Great Exhibition,
and consequently than any other in the world .—Ones a IP fek.

BRITISH POS 4ESSIONs.
'bar ••tat (ways Paid. Price. insitiesa (o.n•
100 r $t lawren, 61 64
;oiri.,Baroda&.Cent In.
I. 104 I, 5 105
Gu. 5 per cent........
20 Do. New
20 Do. E. Shares... 5 I,‘ 14
sfilialu anti louse DUP., 4
Do. Preference
,00 intlalo,Brant,&(.lodricl
p. at. bds. Aug. 1, li 1.• 77 80
t().. Do. do. July 1, 1872 73 76
100 .o. ,io. Jane 1,1, '1 ',if 73 76
at 1,01 ; 100 0,6 105
st 'apeTown & Dock Sere) 100 t. 8 106
stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 100 100 0 7
stock last Indian, du. sp. c. for i 064 1004 1062
20 Do. do. G Ext 4
20 Do. do. H do. .. 5 ip 61 a
stock Grand Trunk of canalic tu. 1.04 la 201
100 Ist Pt, . Bonds .1 65 67
100 Do. co. deterred.—
10.. td Pre! Bona, „ 57 59
100 Di. do d ter ed all 44 6
100 uo. 3d 1' ef. stoek 40 44 42
100 Do. do. d Act r d.... . all 34 33
100 Do. 4th Pref. so k all 21 28 28 4
100 Do. do deferred all 22 24 2 .
stock GLlncliaYeniti.gua.sp.c. 100 1054 108 106
20 Do. New gua. SP. 0 l2 a 1 I
20 Do. January, 1862
stook Gt. South.of lndia(Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 0.0 102 104 1031
204 Gt. W. of Canada Share-4 all 12f 13 12f
204 Do. New ....... • •1N 74 74
100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't npt. all 100 1(2
100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. • all 93 .5
10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 lip
stock Niacin's guar~ sp. c.
stool. Do. 14 p. 0. Extensiol 100 96 98
stock Dc. 4
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2
stock Aelb.Lorp. p. o. Bud, 100
50 Nlelb. & Hobson's Bay. all 49 51
100 Do. 7 p.o. Mortg. Bds. all
40 ,Zewßr answick Canth
Class Asn 1 B ... all 3 5
N.ltl.C'da6 po Ist t bds 100 83 66
Sawi oo
cki ScinD eliii
de 0 (1. 0 6 1(.7
100 1( 4 106 1044 5
Do. do z
•• • • 2 4 fp
20 mt. Punjaub s115 a 40
at Do. Do. .. , 100 1031 1044 1014 4
a ..ck Do. indus.St. Flo.) tioo 98 too
• A GoVgIiNINI EN SECU iITIO
np.c...ta
—1877-9 f 074 1074
Do. 6p. e. Feb. &An 100 9 07
Do. dp. c. Mar. & Sen. 100 •t 5 st. 7
! Do. 3p. e. Jan.&.July. 101 r 7 98
! Do. 6 Inscribed stoci 100 95 97
• ape G. H one. R p 0,187: tot. tO9 111
Do.Ap &Oct 188. 100 113 115
- I
Do. 189 Inc 114 116
I Do. Jan. & July, 1801. 10) 112 114
Ceylon. N0v.1.61, 6 p 10
- 3Ln itius s per cent .. :00 110 112
- Na aG.v. 6 per cent. 1)0 .1 111 1104
ui 0 106 107
)(). 6p. o.Ap. &Dc 10
- IN. S.W. ov. 5 p e.,18 10, 1004 1014
Do. 5 p. c.,1371 to l 10. 1004 1014
- Do. d0.,1888 dzupwd= 100 10.' 101 104
INew Zealand 6 p sent. 100 110 112
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p.
sterling, 1875 ioo 11.'84 1074 1074
Queensland
~.Ausoi4j.,,Gv. 6 .
loti76.3tptipo 1 1 1
,00!
11133
▪ Vlo.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&J ull 100 108 110
Do. to um. Atc&Ont.. 100 114 1114 1114
R It 1 TISFI
2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 id p
lu,ur.l Amalgamated.. 21 23
ievon G. Conc. iTaviai 1 630 540
Bassett a Hogan
1 East Clogau Gold. Ltd. Is. 4d p
East Caradon ...... 1.14.1 .4 45 414
East Cant Brea....
WI Russel (Tavistk.. 7.19.0 44 6 4
,iam..kStAubyn(Gwen.) 57, 18 18
13reat South Tolg-us l7a 84
1. Wheal Voralelston 40 7 74
3renville
tierod's- Foot ..... •
1 ingston Downs 4 7.0 24 3
Lady Bertha
f
Otargaret ((Jny Lelant 34 30
—Clarke Valley..
4 \lvndy Iron Ore (Lim 2) 1 4 d
New Seton l6l 13.4 145
orth Downs 2l 3
WWI itasect(lllo.can 1.17.1 4 4 44
\'orth Wheal Crotty
i'ar Consols (st. Blazey) 14 4/ 6
10 L'rovidence(UnyLelnt.) u 42
south Caradon(StCleer) If 405 415
3. Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.0 81 41
•••. W heal Fran. (Illog,En 18.1 .9 90 9
Stray Park
6 famscr Silv.& Lead Um 44 4 1
10 Pin Crort 9 19 20 20
West Basset (Illogan) l4 124 (34
W Caution (Liskeard 5 33 35
West Seton
Wheal Basset (Illogan) ti 70 75
Buller(Redruth) 5 624 874 65
CV heal Kitty (U..Lelaut 2.0.6 7
Wheal Lud ott
heal Mary Ann (Men 164 10a
Wheal Seton . 584 245 265
; heal Treiawney (Lis.), 7 17 18
Wheal Union 3.17 5 54