The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-09 00:00:00

AIONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The inquiry for discount accommodation to day is
by no means active, but the rates show undiminished
firmness.
The Bavaria from New York has brought £28,800,
and. the Asia £119,486 in specie.
The traffic receipts of the Great Western Railway
of Canada for the week ending Feb. 20 amounted
to £14,910, against £10,474 last year.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts for
the past week have been satisfactory. The dealings
in both cloths end yarns at Manchester, however,
have been limited, although prices have shown a
slight upward tendency. In the woollen districts
of Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, a seasonable busi-
ness Was transacted in summer fabrics, while at
'irmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton, there
has been more activity in most departments.
With regard to the Silk Market the following is
from Messrs. Durant and Co.'s circular :—We have
a quiet market in silk—diving the last fortnight
especially so. The deliveries are good, and con-
sumption is supposed to be going compara-
tively well, but there is no disposition to
purchase, except particular classes—in the
meantime prices are fairly supported. The
large arrivals of last month have swelled ur stocks
to a tolerably large total, but, speaking generally,
there is no sensation of excess. It may be that the
disinclination to purchase was increased by the
knowledge that the cargo of the Colombo was to be
sold by public auction, but from the moment of the
silk reaching London, it was evident that it was far
too extensively damaged to be available for any
general purposes. The sale took place yester-
day—the silk was sold without any deduction for
increase by water, in many wises amounting to
nearly cent. per cent., and therefore at nominally
low prices—but the result to the purchasers is very
uncertain beyond that of lengthened occupation to
the mills, In China silk the transactions have been
especially small, Taysaam only being in demand.
Japan silk continues in great favour, and forms the
exception to the general quietude. In Bengal no-
thing of moment. Persian still continues in fair
consumption.

Two O'CLOCK.

At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes ranged from
701. to 701. sc.

An extreme degree of quietude has pervaded the
market for Public Securities to-day, owing to the
dulness of business and the limited attendance of
operators. Consols are quoted 921 -1 for transfer, and
921 for the account. The New 3 per Cents. and
the Reduced are flat at 901 91. Exchequer Bills,
3s. die. to ls. prem.; Bank Stock, 2381 ; and India
5 per Cents., 1081 1.
There has not been much activity in the foreign
market, but prices in several instances have tended
upwards. Egyptian are 961, 97; ditto2d issue, 961.
Greek have improved to 201, Y ; ditto Coupons are
4. Mexican Stock is 31101 ; Spanish Passive,
261, 271; ditto Certificates, 93/4„ being depressed.
Turkish 6 per Cents. 1854, are 901 ; do. 1858, 69i;
do. 1862, 691, ; and the Consolides have improved
to 42, 1. Italian 5 per Cants. are buoyant at 691.
Business in the Railway Share Market continued
doll, and the tew bargains entered into were at a
slight decline on former rates. Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and South Westerns receded 58.; North
Eastern (Berwick), and South Eastern, 10s.; and
Great Northern, 158. ; North Westerns, however,
unproved ss.

In the Foreign and Colonial Markets there has
been no change of importance.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares exhi-
bited in one or two instances rather more firmness.
London and Westminster were realt in at 77 1;
London and County at 451,1 ; Bank of Australia at
811 82; ; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam im-
proved to 731 1.

BRITISH FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New er Cent. Consols Annuities .
R
- per Cent. Annuities
90; 91 901 1
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent
108} f I
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. --
Ditto 5 per Cent
I )itto 5i per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 100
Dtt Bonds £l.uts) .... 17
Consols for Account. April 8 92f
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 1 pm
Ditto Small 1 pm 2 dis
blue Advertised 3 1 3 dis

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Ditto Account 931
EgYptian 7 pet Cent 97 61
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons l9 20 1
Ditto Coupons
liel!eau 3 per Cent ... •
Ditto Account
New Granada —
Ditto 2 per Cent ~ „ 34
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 94
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Spanish 3 per Cent:-
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account 461
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account 9Ol 1 t
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account .. 691 a
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 921 i

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

(REUTER' S TELEGRAM.)
LIVERPOOL, March 9.
Market quiet. m
No change. Sales 5,000 bales,
Import l,

flr
GAMEPRFSERVES IN AUSTRALIA.--tide have been
favoured
pre.Tinhomas Austin's gamekeeper with
a u lew details
e Ms
respecting
the gallinacea which are so care-
ftended at Barwood Park. After thinning out the cock
pheasants, so as to ensure a preper equality for the breeding
season to the dames, there
are twenty-two hens in the
breeding compartment, which have laid two hundred eggs,
otitwhichf
have got on st number,s varying 142 are placed under sitting
fowls, t h n
from 15 to 16 eggs. The partridges
admirably. There are about 20 eggs, and four
young birds are laying. These birds have become so domes-
ticated that they mingle with the ordinary fowls, and feed
from the hand. The hares, though improving in form and
*waxing fat, still preserve their shyness. The chief diffi-
culties that lie in the way of the preservation of game have
been successfully combated, as is illustrated by the remains
of ;00 eagle hawks, s me of which measure eight feet from
tip to tip of expanded wings. During the past year, 1,000
native eats came to an untimely end. The hawks still con-
tinue their depredations. The warren of wild rabbits is
now redolent of life as an ant-hill, and swarms of bunnies
are thrown off, which find their way to Armytage's old sta-
tion, up the Leigh, and down the Barwon banks, for miles
affording increasing sport to the gun. The newly imported
9.'44 are doing satisfactorily, and seem to luxuriate in their
new
abode. Snipe abound in this pastoral retreat, no fewer
than 21 brace being knocked over by one gun last week.—
Geelong Chronicle.
46 EXTRAORDINARY COUNTY.—It is a curious
circumstance connected with the principality of
`vales, the Prince and Princess of which are now being
that has welcomed, that there is one county in it (Merionethshire)
; no resident titled person of any sort—duke, mar-
quis, earl, baron, viscount, baronet, or knight. Formerly
there was a baronet in the county, but he died five or six
Yi;:rs ago, and the title became extinct. There is no cor-
poration, no rneyor, but it has one special advantage, that
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county being partly in the diocese of Bangor and partly
1/1 the diocese of St. Asaph it has two bishops to look after
2tB Spiritual interests. The county has one member to re-
present the whole of it, there being no borough in it which
the privilege of returning a representative to the House
`x Commons.

Ti E COXLODGF, COLLIERY CATASTROPHE.—The
vholo of the bodies of the unfortunate young men
and boys, ;nineteen in number, who lost their lives in the
explosion at the Coxlodge Colliery, near Newcastle, under
been
circumstances leperted in out last impression, having
been recovered, an inquest upon them was formally opened
nn Saturday, and was adjournod till Wednesday next.
PRESENTATION OF A ROYAL STURGEON TO THE
PRINCE OF WALES.—In the course of Saturday
"ftw'rnoon a royal sturgeon about eight feet long, and weigh-
ing about 2001b5,, was conveyed to Windsor as a marriage
present by the catcher, a fisherman from Chichester Har-
bour.