The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-24 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The demand for discount accommodation has
slackened, and the rates for the best bills are 34 to
31 per cent.

During the last few days a moderate amount of
business has been transacted in the Foreign and
Colonial Produce Markets. The public sales of
tea have proceeded without any material change
in prices. Sugar has been in fair request, at steady
rates, while full prices have been obtained for coffee
and cocoa. In rice, fruit, and spices the operations
have been to an average extent at about previous
quotations. TalloW has been in better demand, and
prices have tended upwards for both present and
forward delivery.
The Oriental Hotels Company is an undertaking
recently brought forward, for the purpose of pro-
viding the chief towns and seaports of India and
China with suitable hotel accommodation. It is
said that throughout our eastern empire there is a
very great deficiency in this respect, and that the
European population, which is annually on the in-
crease, is loud in its complaints against the pro-
vision it finds for lodgings, &a. In the
first instance it is intended to erect esta-
blishments at Bombay and Point de Galls,
and after these buildings have been completed others
are to rise up in Madras, Singapore, Kurrachee.
&c. The directors are principally gentlemen con•
nected with India, either by its civil service or its
trade. The nominal capital of the undertaking is
fixed at £25D,000 (half of which is to constitute the
first issue), in shares of £lO each.
Some important alterations are exhibited in the
Bank of England return for the week ending Wed-
nesday last, the most conspicuous being a consider.
able falling off in the Other Securities, to the repay
ment of advances and the increased facilities offered
in the open market, which have had the effect of
diminishing the number of inqufries at the national
establishment. The bullion and reserve of notes
are smaller, but an early influx of gold is not im•
probable. Subjoined are the particulars :
Active Circulation .. L 21,603,305
Increase 64,290
Bullion .. .. • • •• . • 14,62(:,872
Decrease .. .. 129,004
Rest
.• 3,303,461
Increase .. 26,432
Public Deposits 5,386,948
Increase 438,49
Other Deposits.. .. .. 14,675,625
Decrease .. 1,706,289
Seven Day and other Bills .. 627 07
Decrease
.• 28,674
Government Securities 11,006,888
Decrease .. 40,000
Other Securities .. • • 19,871,886
Decrease .. 1,036,747
Notes Unemployed .. 6,814,715
Decrease
.. 182,365

Two O'CLOCK.
The Paris Three per Cent. Rentes, this morning,
according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, opened at 67f.
45c. ; business better.
Business in the English Stock Market has been
very limited, but quotations nevertheless are ex-
hibiting increasing firmness under the favourable
influence of better prices from the Paris Bourse,
and that affairs on the continent may yet assume a
less warlike tendency. Consols have risen nearly 1,
and are now marked 928 938 for money and ac.
count. The New Threes and Reduced are 921 931;
Bank Stock is 2371 and 239 ; India Stock, 225
and the 5 per Cent. Loan, 108 I ; the Debentures'
are 100, the Bonds 19s. prem., and Exchequer
Bills 10. to 4s. premium.
There is very little alteration in the Foreign
Market, and business is rather quiet. Turkish 6
per Cents., 1862, are 678 I; do. Consotides, 49/ 50;
Mexican, 36i 4 ; Greek, 334 34 ; do. Coupons,
158 - ; Spanish Passive, 321. ; do. Certificates,
124- ; Portuguese, 48 ; Russian, 92/ 93 ;
Italian,
704; a ; Egyptian, 103 ; and the Confederate Loan,
38 to 3 dis.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been very limited; a firmer tone, however, has pre.
nailed. Great Eastern, Lancashire and Yorkshire,
North Western, North Eastern, York, and, South
Eastern have improved 58., and Caledonian, 15s.
The Foreign and Colonial Lines have exhibited
little change of importance in values.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue dull at
former quotations. International Financial Shares
are quoted 41-, to 41 prem. ; London Financial, / to
I prem. ; General Credit, / to 1 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 239 71
21 31.
3 ..
per Cent. Consols Annuities
921 3
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 31 per Cent. Annuities
New 21 per Cent. Annuities..
India Stock
Dittos per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. — Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto
ditto April, 1864 100
Ditto Bonds l9 £l,OOO ...........
Consols for Account, Aug. 6
.Marcn
Ditto £5OO. 92 pm
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 •
per Cent.. 3 1 pm
Ditto Small . ..............
F0RE1GN..........•..
........
PUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.....
........ .
... . —.
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-68-.60
... 93
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent ......
.. . ...
..
.. .
. --- OlttO Account 93
Egyptian 7 per Cent.. lO3l
Ditto,
.i 103 Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent 1824-5, ex-Coupons
Ditto Account 34 31
Ditto Coupons ll 1
Italian 5 per Cent(Maremmana Railway) 79 New Granada ................ l5l
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856,'7,'9, '7 '9 '6O, 62
• 2 f ) )
48
Ditto Account
RuDssian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
itto 6 per Cent, 1862 ....
Sardinian 5 per Cent..........
Oitto Account
Spanish 3 per Lent ........
_
Ditto New Deferred .
Ditto Deferred
.. 4B
Ditto Passive ....
_
_ Ditto Account::: .....
321
......
/9:panish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account .. . ,
pitto 6 per Cent. 18.58
IJ'..tto Account... ....
70
__vi.tto 6 per Cent 1862 ........
.
-Ditto Account .. ..
674 I
Dit+.-. -- Guars 4. . per ... e.n.t. ....
103 i
Venezuelat,2 pureednn .......
Di tto 6
Cent., 1862
Ditto
Account,e
56i..Di_,_,_...........
"'tends on the above payable in London.
014:11 2 per C
65
Italian e ea., Ex, 12 Guil
, . per Cent 1861 E 95 francs
70
rams
Ditto Account . , 7Ol a
Ditto Scrip, 1863, £2l 4s. 6d. paid i Pm
TWO O'CLOCK.
e°4"°lB, August
92/ 31
Ditto
................--

June
3 pm

Merl) 001 Cotton Market—This Da:

3 pm

______-
(lIEtTTEIVB TELEGRAm.)
A strong.
ft Luiarket. Sales to-day
reach '7,000 bals...-Sales of the week, 52,240 bales,
including 11 will probably
MO cin speculation, and 9,190 for ex-
portation. Quotations of fair Orleans, 24*; 1‘13"
bile, 24; Upland, 231. Estimated Middling Or-
leans, 221 7,4
Egyptian, 2 ; ."-Lobile, 211; Upland, 21. Estimated
fair 2l. Stock, 261,700 bales. Actual
export, 9,192. Surat, 11 to 20. Imports of the
6,195 bales.
week,
...........

S111;;ING --
This
Y
July 2L—Wind this day at tiaon south_
but rather
LONDON,
wi'ather)
Westerly; moderato breeze, and hue
cloudy.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
PLYMOUTH, Frida
M y, 10
His Netherland Majesty's war steam9hip Ard.inea'_ln•
glius, 178 men, from Hollnd, for the colonies:
Sound this morning to caulk topsides. , put into the
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday morning.
Arrived—Dart from Cadiz; Cricke,, ; from Cork • Mersey,
from Port Madoc.
Sailed--Liina, for Charleston; Mary Ann, for Cardiff,
BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Fday Morning.
fro4trall.ived, July 23—Cosmopolitan, from Stettin ; Goethe,
melt.
3 Arrived, July 94—Theo lor, from Pouce ; Saveor, from
ers6Y; Ospr-y, from Pomerania.
sailed, July 24—Normandie, steamer, for Dunkirk.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
ed—All the outward bound.