The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-24 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCIC.

There is no further change to report in the con-
dition of the Money Market, the demand being
moderately active, while the rates continue steady.
The Continental Exchanges yesterday afternoon
were in most instances rather higher.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have been
about £526,000, and the exports £477,000.
At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. F. Hedges,
builder and contractor, a composition of 7s. in the
pound was agreed to, payable by instalments.
It is announced that Messrs. Maitland, Ewing
and Co., in the East India and China trade, who
suspended in 1858, and discharged all their engage-
ments in 1859, have just paid interest at 5 per cent
to their creditors.

Two o'CLocK.
The Liverpool; cotton market has been rather
better, on account of the American news; sales
about 5,000 bales.

The Three per Cent. Rentes opened to-day, at
Paris, at 69f. 85c., showing no change.
The Funds are a little flatter, in consequence of
some small sales on speculative account, and Con-
sols are 92.-Z- 1 for transfer, and 922 for account
being I per cent lower. The New 3 per Cents.
and the Reduced are steady at 921 a ; Exchequer 2
Bills are flat at 4s. to 7s. prem. ; India 5 per Cents. e.
at 1081 ; and the 51 per Cent. Enfaced Paper has 88+
advanced to 113.

The most important movement in the Foreign
department has bpen.a considerable rise in Spanish
.8i
Passive Bonds, viz., 25.1 261, owing to the state- et
ment by the Minister of Finance that he is ready 18
to :discuss the question of the settlement of the 8.1
Passive Debt. The Certificates have improved to st
1.017, ; and the various other securities exhibit 21
buoyancy. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are 851 21
861 ; do., 1858, at Mt 711; do., 1862, 66167; ; and
the Uonsolides have advanced to 401 41 ; ;Egyptisn ;i;
have been in favour, and have risen to 964 971- ; and
the 2d issue, to 961, 97 ; Mexican Stock is firm
1.25

at 3231.
In the Railway Share Market the operations
continued moderately active, and prices tended up-
wards. Great Western and North Western im-
proved 55., Great Eastern 155., and Caledonian, and
London, Chatham, and Dover, £1 ; Great Northern
A Stock declined £l, and Midland Os., while Metro-
politan sustained previous rates.
The Foreign and Colonial lines were without Sha
too
material variation. stk
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares gene- 2,
rally support previous quotations.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 3-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 51 per Cent
D,ti,, bonds Cl,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 4 7
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Chaim 6 per Cent. —
Ditto 4/ per Cent
Egpptian 7 per Cent 97/ 1 61 71
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ins l6l 1
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 72i 3
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
New Granada 2 per Cent
Ditto ex over-due Coups. & Hectares 13
Peruvian 41 per Cent. ..
Ditto 1862
Ditto Account..
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 1862
Ditto Scrip, £25 paid 2l pm
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Spanish ;3 per Cent
25i 1 61 51 6
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert, of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account.. ..
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lO3l
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
- t iitto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f —
Ditto Account
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money 92
924 a
Ditto Account

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE--This Day.

LONDON, Jan. 24.—Wind this day at noon—West;
strong breeze, and cloudy weather.
OFT HURST CASTLE, Jan. 23.—Arrived—Ellora, screw
steamer, from Alexandria.

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PLYMOUTH, Jan. 22.—Wind S.N.—Sailed—Bilboa,
screw steamer, for Bilboa.
KINGROA.D, Jan. 23.—Arrived—Euston States, from St.
John's, Newfoundland.
BELFAST LOUGH, Jan. 22.—Arrived—Maria C. Day,
from New York.
On, THE NORTH FORELAND, Jan. 22.—England, from
New York.
HOLYHEAD, Jan. 23.—Wind W.—Arrived—Rita, screw
steamer, from Bilboa.
HULL, 22.—Wind S. W.—Arrived—August Ferdinand,
from Leith for Barcelona. Sailed—Carl, for Singapore;
Sophia, for Kurrachee.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, January 23—Belinda, from Guernsey; Huma
from New York.
Arrived January 24—Andante from Ancona ; Ugland,
from New York ; John Hunter, from Alexandria; Fye-
noord, from Rotterdam; Volunteer, from Boulogne.
Sailed—Holland, steamer, for Ostend; Albion, steamer,
for Boulogne.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Anchored—Aesombro, from London for Lisbon.

SPECIE IN THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN GATE
STEAMER.—A few months, ago it will be recollected,
an American steamer, known as the Golden Gate, while on
a voyage from San Francisco to New York with nearly
£250,000 in specie on board, was totally wrecked by running
on a sand bank off the coast near Manzanilla, when a great
number of lives were lost. Most of the specie was insured at

New York, San Fraacisco, and Paris, and about £50,000
at Lloyd's and at several of the marine insurance com-
panies in the City. On the news of the loss of the
ship reaching England, the underwriters interested in
the sp _cie had a meeting at Lloyd's Salvage Association
when it was determined to send a special agent to the
scene of the wreck, with instructions to employ divers
to recover the sunken treasure. Yesterday Mr. Harper.
the secretary of the association, received the following
letter from Mr. Lodge, the agent despatched to the wreck
It is dated Manzanillo, November 28 :—" I arrived here
yes erday, and find everything different to my expectations,
No specie has been recovered by the sailors. The
wreck is entirely broken xi.). Part of the gold boxes
are on shore, their contents having been plundered; and
I find Waterman's expedition reduced by sickness, death
and desertion, to a few miserable invalids &c., &c. The
gold boxes mentioned consist of portions of three boxes with
marks—B. D. £l2 25,000; G. M. 8., Boston, £86,777;
Wells,
Pays, and Co., £3,118, part of £196,500. They were
ound buried in the sand, having no marks of chafe from
washing on the beach, but showing unmistakable marks of
being opened by human aid and chisel. The portions found
will be preserved: These boxes in all probability were car-
ried ashore by pieces of the ship Boon after the wreck. The
ground once occupied by the stern of the ship is smooth
sand, and it is probable that some of the treasure is covered
in the sand. The divers have bored down in a great many
places, but have found nothing, and the chances of any
great salvage are
very small indeed. 1 intend working for a
nion-h, and in the event of desirable.
g Ihav e a small
nothing, willthentake
schooner
such steps as may seem
on which, besides the crew, I have two experienced divers
with gear and other requisites. I intend living on board,
and remaining at anchor in the vicinity of the wreck when-
ever ti.e weather will admit."
FINEWRITING. rue corresp
of Mur-
ondent of a Southern
paper commences his account of the battle
freesborough in the following terms The sun rose clear
after several days of funeral gloom, drifting the nits
which hung like silvery curtains o'er the field, dancing
and glistening along the serried line of steel, which glit-
tered in the morning light like the sparklings of count-
less
diamonds, bathing the gay banners which floated in
the front with a flood of refulgence, and rifting in golden
showers through the emerald fringe of cedars which en-
closed the field."
NUMEROUS FlRES.—Daring last night the fire-
men were called out to no less than seven fires.
The most serious one occurred in George.yard, Princes-
street, Soho, by which the workshop of Mr. J. Roberts, a
cabinetmaker, were nearly destroyed and the adjoining
premises damaged. Mr. Robarts was insured in the West-
minster Fire-office. Another fire took place in Stafford-
street, Old Bond-street, but it was soon extinguished by
the fire brigade. The others were of trifling character, and
not deserving of detailed report.