The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-14 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The rates of discount continue steady, and the
demand, as usual at the end of .the week, is very
quiet• It is generally thought that lower quota-
tions will prevail in the course of next week.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have been
about £601,000, and the exports £860,000.
The directors of the British and Magnetic Tele-
graph Company have announced a dividend at the
rate of 5 per cent. for the past six months.
The Prospectus has appeared of the West Central
Horse and Carriage Repository, requiring a capital
of £50,000, in shares of £5 each. The object of
the undertaking is the purchase of the Holborn
Horse and Carriage Repository, and to enlarge and
Improve the same by securing the adjoining pro-
perty ; to transact the business of selling horses,
dogs, carriages, B,:c. ; and to open a turf subscrip-
tion-room. The success which has attended the
efforts of private firms leads the directors of the
present contemplated association to anticipate re-
munerative results. The sit nation of the repository
is particularly advantageous, as it is within a short
distance from the new railway station in Furring-
don-street, which will afford facilities for the safe
arrival and removal of horses and other goods.
With regard to the Budget, Messrs. J. Travers
and Sons, in their weekly circular, state :—" It is
expected that the Budget will not be introduced
until after Easter. Probably the 17th of April
may be about the date. Anticipations regarding
reductions in the tea and sugar duties are becoming
less sanguine, but, after the evidence lately brought
forward, it is difficult to believe that Mr. Gladstone
can intend any longer to maintain the vicious form
of protection involved in the differential rates on
Sugar.

From the official return issued yesterday it appears
that the revenue of the South Austrian and Lom-
bardo Venetian lines (extending over 1,323 mites),
during the week ending the 4th inst., was £35,238,
or £12,286 less than the company received in the
same time in 1862, on 1,203 miles. On the Cen-
tral of Italy branch from Plaisance to Bologna, a
distance of 91 miles, the receipts were 1;3,311
against £2,815 in the same period of last year.

The receipts of the Dutch Rhenish Railway for
the fortnight ending January 31, 1863, amounted
to £7,575 ös. 11td. ; and for the corresponding
period of last year to £7,314 18s. Hid., showing
an increase of £2OO 7s. in favour of the present
year.

Two O'CLOCK.
Paris Rentes were at 12.45 this day (says Reuter's
telegram) 70f. 65c.—heavy.
The market for the English Funds opened
buoyantly, and a rise of 1 per cent. ensued, Console
then being 921 93 for transfer, and 931. for the
account; but this improvement, which resulted
from purchases on speculation, was not maintained,
the closing prices being 92/ 8, and 921 93, respec-
tively. The New Three per Cents. have advanced
to 921 9311 the Reduced, to 921 93; Exchequer
ls. dis. to 2 prem. ; India 5 per Cent. Loan
?Main at 1081.
Continued firmness has been perceptibie in the
Foreign Market, and a fair amount of business has
been recorded. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are
supported at 891 903- ; do., 1858, at 731 4 ; do.,
1862, 69/ 701 ; and the Consolides 418 ; Greek,
201 I; do., Coupons, 9 1; Peruvian New Loan has
advanced to 88/ 894 ; Portuguese do., 47 it ; Rus-
sian, 94 1 ; Spanish Passive, 26 1; do. Certificates,
10 ; and Venezuelan New Loan, 604.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings con-
tinued moderately active, and prices in most in-
stances exhibited increased buoyancy. Great
Northerns improved 55.; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western, Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and North Eastern
(Berwick), 10e.; and Great Western 158. ; London,
Chatham, and Dover, and South-Eastern, however,
have declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonia 1 lines continued in
limited &mend, and prices remained without
material variation.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares were dull, and
exhibited no change of importance as regards prices.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3,Per Cent. Consols Annuities ..
2'.ew 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock ..
D tto 5 per Cent. lOB/ 8
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 100
Ditt .'sonde tl,tto ..
Consols for Account, March. 5
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 1 di, 2 pm
Ditto £SOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Egyptian 7 per Cent lOO/ 100
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup )ns 2oa t i
Ditto Coupons
Xexican 3 per Cent ....
Ditto Account
N ew Granada
Ditto 2 pet Cent
Ditto Deferred
,ruvian 41 per Cent. — ....
Ditto 1862
Ditto Account.
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto 1862
ltuAsian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St . 971
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850..
Ditto 4s per Cent ~ 1860 .... ......
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Scrip, £65 16s. paid i pm
Mpanieh 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account 461
Ditto Passive . •
Spanish,Cert. of Coup not funded .. 21061 6
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854.
Ditto Account .................. . .......... 9-0/
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 ..... .
.......
Ditto Account.....
73} it i
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.

talian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f —
Ditto Account 7ob
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 92i 3

The half-yearly meeting of the Peel River Land
and Mineral Company took place yesterday, Mr.
Hughes in the chair. The report was unanimously
adopted, and t he chairman stated t hat since the report
had been issued, despatches had been received from
the colony which materially influenced the favour-
able prospects of the company. Rain had fallen at
the Ellangewan station, end the superintendent
had disposed of the surplus stock of sheep.
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A Berlin letter states that King William intends
Making a tour in the Prussian provinces during the coming
spring. It is rumoured that the Ministers hope by means
of this excursion to stimulate the loyalty of the populations,
preparatory to a dissolution of the chamber, and a general
election.

PARLIAMENT IN DIFFICULTIES.--Among the slan-
derous tales told of extra-metropolitan and Welsh
Juries, is one of 12 honestmden
"Can refusing
asgosist yon givyeveornditchte
Points in which you have ,
though the case was
riig t o adeci-
sion?" the
proved.
a d,i,ffiochulntye,my lord," replied
in cc minx
Sian?" inquired the judge.
foreman, "we are 01 ogreedtlhatbtuhte
wpeladinotinffothatskpinirhede
Lis case, and we say so frank
ought to have averd i c t . " T h !a: story
illustrates o
Thursdaythetreat.
Item of the Confederate States in Parliament
light)--The index.
-lit. BREAKFAST TO MR.
DICKENS.—
Tho Nord
notices a literary breakfast given the•
other day in
' aria by M. Pitre Chevalier, to Mr. Dickens.
present AIM. Ernest Legouv6, F. Ponsari, Emile Augier, There were
P ill P
4 01 .8
chez eta,"
I,rd ' "al) "un Dickens Parisien,"
''' eY, " auteur de Dick Moon et D 8 —n, a?
Louimbassy, the English
s Illbach, and Dr. thiffe, physician to
,ivi ~,,
Th. Gautier, Francis
AI
also
and an " anal d'enfance de l'auteur de PlO ex
M. Lamartine, Jules Sandeau, and Jules Janin were
invited, but excused themselves in letters which, saysthe
lord', will remain in the archives of Dickens. "What a
dessert," it adds, "was provided for these privileged guests.,
o,
hidlle. Trebelli arrived by chance, and sang to them sundry
operatic pieces
and finally, " pour faire la digestion," this
congress of romancists" went to a photographer's and had
themselves " done."
THE GEORGE I. STATUE, LEICESTER-SQUARE.
"-The old equestrian statue of George 1., which
stood in Leicester-square, before Wyld's Great Globe, now
demolished and dispersed, usurped its position and enclosed
it within the circumference of a miserable piece of archi-
tecture, has been ju3t restored to its place. The statue is
la )w minus one of the King's legs, and looks considerably
the worse for its long incarceration in the 13! ack hole to wheh
it Was consigned so remorsely. But as a work of art the
sculpture must still be admired.

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BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Closing
shot, Railways Paid. Price. Business don.
100 kflantic &St Lawrenc, all 65 67
gm flom.,Baroda&.Cent Inu ps 1044 1(54 1054
Gu. 5 per cent..
20 Do. New
20 Do. E. Shares.. P
a/ Buffalo and La.Ke Hum, al, 5 54
10 Do. Preference ...... all 74 84
Etuffalo,Brant,&Godricl to,. n to
3 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
100 Do. do. July 1, 187*, 100 74 76
100 to. do. June 1, P 100 73 76
st leutta. ‘t S. Ea stn. (1, 100 lf 31( 5
st 'apeTown & Dock Sr( 11.0 0 8 ;09
stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. 10', l(51 6•1
stock least Indian, go. 5 p. e. in 1054 i(lit 1064
20 Do. do. G Ext... 5 1 111)
20 Do. do. H do. .. 5 4 P
stock Grand Trunk of Carr.). to 21 z 2
160 Do. Ist • Bonds -1 67 70
100 Do. uo. deferred...... all 50 55 51
100 to. (M fret. Bonds.. 411 58 60 57
100 Do. do d fer ed...... all 45 t 8
100 Do. 3d P ef. stock ... sl 42 45
100 Do. do. d derr d.... al 35 40
100 Do. 4th Pref. s o .. all ' 27 30
100 Do. do deferred.-- all 23 25
stock Gt.lndiaPeniti.gua.sp.e 100 1044 1154 1054
20 Do. New gua. sp. C... 12 4 1
20 Do. January, 1862 .. 4 4 1 1
stock Gt. South.of India(Lim
,),-uaranteed 5 per cent. u u 103 105
204 Gt. W. of Canada Share. all 13 131 134
204 Do. New ....... 74 74
100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 witlet opt. all 99 101
100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. . all 92 94
10 Indian Branch Limit_ i 1R ;ip
stock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 11.2 i (.34 103
stock Do. 4f p. o. Extensity 100 96 97
stock Dc. 4 d 0.... 100 92
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2
stock delb.Corn. ^p. c. Bud tor -
50 iielb. & llobson's Bay. all 52 53
100 Do. 7 p.c. &long. Bds. al;
20 New Brunswick Cam)
Class A cn 1 B all 3 5
N.ll.l.C'da6 pc Ist pt bds 100 83 65
Stork Scinde ..........) (tot 1(5 tog
st IDo. Delhi
Do. do 2 4 4p
20 Do. Punjaub p
st Do. Do. .• ,t , 110 03 104
stock 1)0. Indus. St. Flo.) , 98 100
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SEOU
r.o.uter. 6 p.c.J a &July
1877-81
Do. ep. c. Feb. & Au. 100 103 ;06
Do. dp. c.:l;tar...lc Sept 100 106 108
Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 10, 93 97 96
Do. 5 Inscribed stoct 100 94 96
ape G.Hope. p c,187: tot( .0, (10
Do.Ap &Oct. 1881 100 112 114
Do. 189 1(1., 113 115
Do. Jan. & July, 1891. lOn 111 113
- ,Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p ( tOr
- u itius per Cent .. 100 110 112
- Na a G,v. d per coat . 100 1( 9 111
B.tiov. p.e..i5.3L.) u; ;;; 1(.5 0 0
p. c.Ap. & Oct 10' -
- N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c., 18r. 101, 101 101
Do. .5 p. c.,1871 to 187( 10, 100 101
- Do. d0.,1888 (tupwd, 100 99 100 94
New Zealand 6p. cent. 100 109 111
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
1 sterling, 1875 lOO 106 107
,Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO c 9
b.Aus Gdp.c.lB7C.& up lOO 109 lil
o Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja...t.Jul) 100 107 109
Do. in en.c. An..tOot- 100 iIC 1104 1104 1

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