The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-04 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK

Rather more animation has been experienced to-
day in the general money market, owing to the
payments usual on the 4th of the mouth. The rates
are a little firmer, but first-class bills are still nego-
tiable at 24 and 2i per cent.

No transactions of importance took place to-day
in the bullion department of the B of England.
From the manufacturing districts the accounts
for the past week are of a less satisfactory character.
Business at Manchester exhibited less animation,
particularly in cloths and yarns suitable for the
Indian markets. The woollen trade of Leeds,
Bradford, Halifax, and Huddersfield has continued
dull, the spring trade being now over. In the
hosiery and lace departments of Leicester and Not-
tingham, however, there has been rather more ani-
mation, while symptoms of improvement have been
apparent in home departments in the hardware '
districts, viz,, at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wol-
verhampton.

Two O'CLOCK.
At the Paris Bourse this morning, the French 3
per Cent. ;Renter, according to Mr. Reuter's tele-
gram, were 691'. 70c. Firm and animated.
The upward tendency in the English Funds has
made further progress to-day, the continuance of
purchases raising the price of Console to 93a I- for
money and the 7th inst., and to 93i for the June

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account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities
have risen to 92i ; Bank Stock is 233 235 ; India
Stock 230; India 5 per cents. have been dealt in at
1091 110 ; Do. Enfaced 4 per cents., 98; Do. 5
per cents,, 1151; and Exchequer Bills ss. to 8s
prem.

A considerable degree of activity still charac-
terises the foreign market, the transactions on spe-
culative account being exceedingly numerous. In
Turkish, the feature has been a rise of about 3 per
cent, in Consolides, which have touched 521- 53,
and the latest quotations are 52i to 526. The 6
per Cents., 1854, have been marked 88 zi do., 1858,
691 70i ; and do., 1862, 71 72, being generally
higher. Mexican have advanced to 36* t, Spanish
Passive to 34 371, and the Certificates to 114 121.
On reference to the list it will be seen that the
dealings in other descriptions'have been numerous,
and that the general tendency has been very buoy-
ant.
The Confederate Loan is 11 21 prem.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been -
active, and most of the principal lines have realised
enhanced rates. Great Westerns, Lancashire and 4
Yorkshire, and Caledonians have improved 55.;
North Westerns, South Westerns, North Eastern
(Berwick), and South Eastern 10s. ; and Great
Northern A Stock and Midlands £l.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have e
been in fair request at fully previous quotations.
Bahia and San Francisco realised 201 21; Great et
Luxembourg, 141 ; Cape Town and Dock, 1101; etc
East Indian, 1091 110; Great Indian Peninsula,
110 i. etc

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares have
been dealt in to a moderate extent, without mate-
rial variation in prices.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
233 6 I
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
per Cent. Consols Annuities - 1
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock 230
Ditto 5 per Cent IO9I 10
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. 98
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,000
Consols for Account, May 7 931 1 A
Exchequer Bills, £l.OOO 21 per Cent 6 pm
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1859
Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 40
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent 172
Egyptian 7 per Cent 9B/ 9 84
Ditto. Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons..
Ditto Account.. 294 9 j 4 301
Ditto Coupons l4l 4
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 78
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 351 6
122
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent .... 34 31
Ditto Deferred 10410221 I
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) 7l 7 2
Peru vian 44 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
1862
Russian 5 per Ditto Cent., 1822, £ St 941 9
Ditto 41 per Cent ~ 1850 ....
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
Sardinian 6 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ingo Account 6l
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account 472
Ditto Passive ...
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. 122 Ili 128 12 / 111 12
rarkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — [lll 12k
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds 73
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
711 1 4 /
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lO2l
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 241 I
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862'
Dividends on the above payable in London.
lelgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f 9Bl
hitch 21 per Cent., Lx. 12 Guil 542
talian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account _ 72 1/
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THREE OTLOCIL
ronsols' Money
Ditto Account 93i

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MRS. JEFF. DATIS.—As the family habits of
Zneen Victoria are described minutely in an Ame-
ican magazine by one who evidently knows nothing about
lem, says the _Mirror, as every feature in the character of
le beautiful Empress of the French is interesting to all the
'mid. and as we have heard a good deal of " Queen Lin-
)ln," whom the New York _Herald declares to be hand-
Mler than the Queen of England, and wiser than the
:impress of the French, it may be fair to introduce a little
iention of the Queen of the South. This sketch of Mrs.
'resident Davis is by a lady's band—a hand bestowed in
larriage upon a member of the Confederate Congress,
Mrs. Jeff. Davis is not pretty, but a fine looking woman—
resees badly, in no taste. She is not much liked here, and
said to control Jeffie,' as she calls her husband. She
as several children. She takes but little notice of them.
hey go about with their clothes tossed on in any and
very style. ' She has the public affairs to attend to.' Ask
int Kitty what she thinks of that ? The President looks
reworn and troubled. He is very thin, and looks feeble
Id bent. He prays aloud in church, and is a devout Epis-
palian."
The new comedy to be produced at the Haymarket
he nitre, on Saturday next, May 9, is the production
the Countess of Gifford, and was written by her two
ars ago. Circumstances have delayed its representation
but owing to the engagement of Mr.
itil the present time,
d Mrs. Alfred Wigan at this theatre, who have characters
the comedy well suited to their talents, combined with a
at employing the principal members of the Haymarket
rePany, it has been considered a fitting moment for its
pearance before the public, while the comedy being
ritten by a granddaughter of the author of " The School
r Scandal" must add to the interest excited by its pro-
,ction.—Era.
C 411DIFF, April 30.—The coal trade continues moderately
oyant, and the shipments this month have been consider-
le. The Dare-valley colliery proprietors will shortly ship
'nEelv at this port. There is no change to report in quota-
s..r The iron trade remains without material alteration.
ge Iron work is about to be erected on the site of the
I NV hitchUrChwelolke works, and it is expected some hun-
ods of hands
)rks have jest 131 ebe employed. The Melba Griffith tin
yei:nattar.ted after a stoppage of about two
ars, and emplo
n.
There are not Ina will thus be afforded to a number of
Upon the whol things are in a fairly
isfactory state, hen
from the continent have
t as yet come up toexp
eintle,lll3tut as the season advances
is expected that an improv
wTilll
AMERICAN STEAMERS be experienced.
lowin steamers are du rltiE n
e from the
WEEK. —The
g
s week :—The Inman steam city of B
e United States
;andaltimore, from
w York, with dates to the 25th ult,
athebsteamer
my
bernian, with similar dates from Portland,
nn elwookeedd.
at Queenstown and Londonderry respectively
day morning next. The next Cunard vessel due is the
red-
tbia, which would leave Boston on the 29th ult., an
lifer on the morning of the Ist inst. : she will,
the
)' be due at Queenstown on Saturday morning n„t.
e outward-going steamers will be the City of New York,
jell will sail for New York on Wednesday next; the
rth American, for Quebec, on Thursday next; and the
1'111) for New York, on Saturday next. The Bombay
raaila an clue in Liverpool to-morrow,

SHARE MARKETS.---This day.