The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-05 00:00:00

CONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is a steady demand for money at the Bank
of England, but comparatively little business is
_negotiated in the open market, owing to the re-
luctance shown by the joint stock and private
establishments to negotiate bills even at 8 per
cent.
About 20,000 sovereigns were taken out of the
Bank yesterday for Alexandria.
The Bank of Holland has raised its rate of dis-
count to 5 per cent.
In the foreign exchanges, yesterday afternoon,
a general advance took place.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
amounted to £863,800, and the exports to
4451,990.
The report of the directors of the Bank of British
North America, to be presented at a general meet-
lug on Tuesday next, states that the business of the
bank has in some degree recovered from the depres-
sion noticed at the last meeting, although the con-
tinuance of civil war in the United States still
affects injuriously the commercial affairs of the
ecl°flies• Several failures have occurred recently in
Canadai by some of which this bank will sustain
°BB. The nrogress of the branch in Victoria, Van-
couver, and the profits realised there, have been
satisfactory, and the business transacted is of a legiti-
Inste and safe character. After providing for the
nee above referred to, the directors are ,enabled to
declare, out of the estimated net profitskthe year,
the usual half-yearly dividend at the rate of 6 per
cent. per annum, which will be payable, free of in-
ennle-tax, on and after the sth January next. • Two
vacancies having occurred in the direction by the
retirement of Henry Barnewall, Esq., (since de-
ceased), and the retirement of William Chapman,
the same will be filled up at an extraordinary
general meeting, to be held immediately after the
conclusion of the business of the ordinary general
meeting,

Two O'CLOCK.

At the Pal is Bourse this morning, according to
Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Itentes were 67f.
10e.

During the earlier hours of business there was an
improvement of about k per cent. in the market for
the English Funds, but a few sales being effected, a
relapse has taken place. The transactions have not
been numerous, and the market has consequently
presented a quiet appearance, Consols for money
are 90147 and for the account, 900 91. The New
Threes and Reduced Annuities are marked 901. ;
and Exchequer Bills, Bs. to 53. dis.; Bank Stock is
235; and India do., 221; India 5 per Cents. have
been dealt in at 1051 a 1,.
There has been a general downward movement
in the Foreign Market, and business is compara-
tively quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 69;
ditto Consolides, 441 45 ; Mexican, 321 ;
creek, 251: ; ditto Coupons, 114 12 ; Spanish
Passive, 32k e ; ditto Certificates, 13 ; Portu-
guese, 471- 48k; and the Confederate, after being
45 47, is now 46 48.

The operations in the Railway Share Market
have bee❑ very limited. A firmer tone, however,
has prevailed. Bristol and Exeter has improved
41; Great Northern A Stock and North Western,
165.; and South Eastern, ss. ; Metropolitan, how•.
"el, has declined ss.

In the Foreign and Colonial markets there has
been no change of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous shares have been in
moderate request, and quotations generally are
without material alteration.

Bonds,
FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
last • lan. 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 1859 ..............
Bank Stock 235
Bper Cent... Reduced Annuities
per Cent C 901 4'New 3 . ',., onsols Annuities
New 31Lr 'Ant. Annuities
5 per Cent.
New 21 per
eenutt,.. Annuities
Annuities, 30 Annuities
Annuities, Jan. 1873 ..
Yrs, expire eth J an.,
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
ljtt° (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908.
India Stock, 1871
Ditto 5 pet Cent. 221
1064 5
Ditto 4 per Cent. 1838 lOO
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
'Ditto 5 per Cent lO4 3
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto ditto April, 1864 991
D._ Ditto ditto 'Aug. 1864 or 66
„'Ank Stock for Account
konsols for Account, Jan. 7.. 9l 1
Lz‘dia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
leheciuer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cen t 5 8 dis
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small
Brazil an RE FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
5 e I
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 ....... —
Ditto 45 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto Ditto 1863 .. 864 4
Buenos
Seri
perlB3 £3O paid
"nog Ayres 6 Cent
Di P
tio Account . —
Dittoeki, 1 per Ceti. i..(Deferred 3 per Cent.)
t"1841 raper Cent. —
gYptia 7 per Cent..
Gri)it„t_, Second Issue
1; :, ei
t'ct 06
Cent.,ApecrcountlB24-5, ex-Coupons —
264 5/
Ditto Con
. to Account
ItDit Pons 124 114
15/4,4. 4 6 per Cent. plareiumana Railway)
xioan 3 per Cent
Dit!,o Account 335 a 4 24 31 24
e Vonsh Imperial 5 per Cent
Dit tt o
+I w ada
j jt,
ttoGran ..er
Cent. 294
,ii. t 0
Deferredp
P er, -Land Warrants (Hectares) —
...,,..
bit,'" 0 per Cent. ..
bitt'uo Account
°Ditt'o
Ditt 44 per Cent., 1862
r r c'
tb,„Account
A"e 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditt 3 ce°unt ..
itpiitio Account
paid
o her Cent., 1866, '7,'9, '6O, 62 —
Ditto
D:,...
.1,
48 1
... , 1863
4 Pm
ussian 5 per Cent. , 1822, £ St —
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 ..
Ditto 1860—
Ditto D 3
per Cent. 1859 ..
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 B7 1
Sardinian 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
SPanis 3 per Cent
Dittoh Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account 32t 35 25
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account
13 5
Swedish, 4 per Cent
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
885
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds

Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1852
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins.
Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch2l per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 4f per Cent., Et. 251....
Ditto Account
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 9O
Ditto Account 9oi 1

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT
WEEK.—Nlonday—Royal Academy, at 8 ; " Ana-
&II:IV' Professor Partridge. Entomological, at 7. Royal
Institution, at 7 : General monthly meeting. Tuesday—
thnologieal, at 8 : " The Weddos, a Wild Tribe,
Ceylon," by a Tamil Native ; " Commixture of Races,
New World," Mr. Crawfurd. Syro-Egyptian, at 71:
Roman Mensuration in the Eastern Empire." Engi-
neers, at 8 : " Cornish Pumping Engines," Mr. Morshead ;
" Closing of Reclamation Banks," Mr. Heppel. Zoologi-
cal, at 9 : " Systematic Position of Palame.lia," Mr. Par-
ker ; " Breeding of the Moruk," by the Secretary, Wed •
IlesdaY—Society of Literature, at 41. Society of Arts, at 8 :
"Recent Agricultural Progress," Mr, Morton. Microsco-
pical, at 8. Graphic, at 8. British Archosological, at 8l :
lirixworth Church," Mr. Roberts ; " Unpublished MS.
Lives of Henry V.," Mr. Bannister ; " Discovery of Well,
(3ce., St. Dunstan's Hill," Mr. Blashill. hursday—Anti-
Tlaries, at 8 : " On Early Egyptian Literature," C. W.
Goodwin. Royal, at SI : " Spectra of Chemical Elements,"
I)llHuggins ; " Acids from Cyanides of Oxy-ra4icals of
,- and Tri-atomic Alcohols," Mr. Maxwell Simpson.
-?r"lY—Aqtronemical, at B.—Athenceum,
Lord Wodehouse is about to proceed to Copen-
hagen, to congratulate King Christian IX. on his acces-
sion to th throae. He will be furnished with instructions
from the British Government relating to the affairs of the
roonarchy at thy present time.