The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-07 00:00:00

ONE Y MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is a fair demand for discount accommoda-
tion to-day, at full rates.
Gold is now about 1-10th per cent. cheaper in
London than in Paris, and about 1-10th per cent.
dearer here than in Hamburg.
The latest advices from New York report the
continued easiness and abundance of money. Gold
was quoted 32 premium, and the demand was not
very active; the exchanges also were dull, and the
rates had a downward tendency. A return to
sound financial policy would cause gold and ex-
change to decline rapidly. The stock market, how-
ever, presented a more active appearance, and quo-
tations were advancing.

The Agents-General for Crown Colonies invite
tenders for a Vancouver Inland Government Loan
of £40,000, in 6 per Sent. debentures.

The traffic receipts of the Great Luxembourg
Railway, for the week ending the 4th inst., were
£3,187 against £3,732 !ast year.

Two O'CLOCK.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Bank,
held this day, Mr. Marryat in the chair, the report
was unanimously agreed to. The chairman, in the
course of some few pertinent observations, stated
that the report of the past year's operations was far
more satisfactory than could have been anticipated.
The West Indian trade had been greatly depressed
in consequence of the slave grown sugar competing
in the market with free grown. The consumption of
that staple in England in 1845, before the introduction
of slave-grown sugar, was 255,000 tons ; in 1861 it
had reached to 447,000 tons, showing an increase
of 192,000 tons, of which 135,400 tons were slave-
grown, leaving only an increase of 46,000 tons as
British produce during a period of 16 years. Cuba
bad grown, in 1847, 255,000 tons, while, in 1861,
she had increased that amount to 425,000. The
Chairman, in reply to a question, stated that the
London and Colonial Bank had not yet announced
its intent;on of establishing a business in the West
Indies. The directors were re-elected, and after
some congratulary remarks by several shareholders
respecting the management of the Bank, votes of
thanks were passed to the directors and managers,
and the meeting separated. The dividend was
ordered to be paid on the 13th inst.
Continued buoyancy has prevailed in the Market
for the English Funds to-day. The latest prices
yesterday afternoon showed a further improvement,
and this morning another rise of fully 1 per cent.
took place, Consols being 9314 for transfer and the
Bth, and 931 d for February. The important move-
ment was produced by some extensive purchases
for investment, coupled with the abundance of
money, the limited supplies of specie exported, the
trimness of the Paris Bourse, and other encourag-
ing symptoms. 1-1/ hen quotations had attained the
elevation above reported there were a few sales to
realise profits, which led to a reaction of s per
Cent. The prices are 939 for money and
the Bth inst., and 931 1 for February. A
further advance has taken place in the New
Three per Cents, and the Reduced, viz., to 934 ;
the 5 per Cent. Annuities, 1091 ; Exchequer Bills
remain at Bs. to 12s. prem. ; Bank Stock has ad-
vanced to 236; and India 5 per Cent. Loan, 1081 t.
There has been rather more animation in the
Foreign Market, and prices have been well sup-
ported. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, have improved
to 841, 851; do., 1858, 71 1 ; do., 1862, 67?-, 681;
and the Consolides 391 ; Egyptian are 951 96 ;
do,, second issue, 95 ; Greek, 167, a ; do., Coupons,
7; Mexican, 319 321, showing very little change;
Moorish, 971 ; Peruvian New Loan, 891 1 ; Por-
tuguese do., 471 4 ; Russian do., 951 961; Spanish
Passive have advanced to 241 1; and Italian are 701.
The operations in the Railway Share Market
have been restricted, but prices in some instances
show rather more firmness. Great Northern, Great
Northern A Stock, and North Western improved
108.; and London and Brighton, 15s. ; Great Wes-
terns, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and North
British, however, declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines were without
change of importance. South-Austrian and Lom-
bardo-Venetian realised 24 ; Great Western of
Canada, 12t ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 22* ; East
Indian, 1071; and Great Indian Peninsula, 106.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares con-
tinued steady at about previous prices. Alliance of
London and Liverpool realised 201 4 ; London and
South African, 251 ; Oriental Bank, 551 ; Crystal
Palace Stock brought 331; and Rio de Janeiro Im-
provement shares were firm at 29.

Bank StockBRITIM FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 236
.. 93 i 3
3
92i 3k 3 k 3
~.per Cent. Consols Annuities .. AeW per Cent. Annuities
6 Per Cent. Annuities
A.nnunies, 30 yrs, expire .sth Jan., P3BO
IDitto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 1-16
ndia Stock
DittDitto 5 per Cent
eE 1 1
nfaced Paper, 4 per Cent.
1) tto 5
itto D per Cent ................... 1054
Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 1001
rl. t
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001
~ , Bonds Xl,OOO 2B
Exchequer
for Account
-k; 92i 31
zchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent —
Ditto Small
I`, 8
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Chilian 6 per Cent 9Bl
i titto 41 per Ce,-.'

,ent
841 4
Egpptian-7-pet Cent
Ditto, Second Issue .......
Greek s.per Cent., 1824-5, •
ex-Coup ms l6l
Ditto Coupons
Mexican 3 per •Cent ......
Ditto Account ....... .
........ . 32t
1/
:\loorish Imperial 5 per. Cent
Ditto 1862
P.rtivian 41 per Cent.
..........
Ditto Account.. /
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 B9k
Ditto 1862 47/
Ditto Scrip, £25 paid.... ...
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 ....
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 ..... .......
/
Ditto Scrip, £-17 paid . 5/
Spanish 3 per Cent
pm
I >jilt) A rte ..................
ount ..................... 541
Ditto New Deferred ................
DDitto Account.
itto Pasedve ..................
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
DDitto Account, . 85,1
itto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Dividends
on the above payable in London. Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f 66
Ditto Account
Consols, Money . TWO O'CLOCK.
Ditto Feb. Account

On the Ist of January, Cornelius Hackett, aged
1118 Stare, died in the city of Armagh, possessed of
all his faculties. He was born on the property of Lord
Charlemont, in the county of Tyrone, and when the French
landed at Carrickfergus, in 1760, he accompanied his father
(being then six years of age) to the scene of action. This
proves his birth to be in 1754, and his age 108 years. De-
ceased was a sawyer by trade, and, evenuptoafew mouths
of his death, he was able to move about the street and use
the spade or rake.
Mr. Wallace, an English composer, known for
t
More than one genuine success, is at
en in Paris ter-
minating an opera intended for the ensuingpres
'rent-garden. season at Co.
The Journal du Havre announces that
.the
to teleLvraphic meteorological information organised
r'gland by Admiral Fitzroy will, for the future, be
re-
gularly transmitted to France. Yesterday the
first despatch
Was posted up in that port, containing the words, " A gale
yof
expected from the north-west" The system admiral is based upon the fac; that the telegraph is
More rapid than the most violent storm. The most terrible
hurricane does not travel more than 2,700 metres a minute;
Ro that, on
1,000
warning by telegraph seamen at a distance of
t kilometres (five-eighths of a mile each) in the direc-
ti I)rep on whare fore
the storm is taking, they would have seven hours
o , the tempest.
accounts of the weather, which came in yes-
toef7l,tye morning by telegraph, from different parts
The
wace, state that the atmosphere was violently agitated.
Ind olew Very fresh from the S W. all along the
I.lv,esteLn e.oast, and was gradually extending to the interior.
Mediterranean region is not excepted. There is a
ral aprearance of bard weather. It rained yesterday
tn"ilintl. at eight at Havre, Cherbourg, Brest, Lorient,
IN-4016011-Vendee, Marseilles, and Besancon. Rain also
fell • .
Pant 3 Yesterday.