The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The general discount market is now well stocked
with money, and its position is becoming easier, and
of course more satisfactory to the commercial
classes. Capital is not so extensively required as
it was a short time since, either for trade or other
purposes, and while it is increasing, the demand is
falling off, and the best short dated paper is hardly
negotiated at 31 per cent.
About £6,00u in gold was taken into the Bank
yesterday.
The America, from New York, has brought
£184,231.
The weekly return issued by the authorities of
the Bank of England comprises alterations which
are highly satisfactory. The bullion, which had
been gradually reduced for many weeks, now shows
en increase of £74,658. The reserve of notes has also
been slightly augmented, and the amount of the
Other Secarities diminished through the repay,
ments of advances. Subjoined is our usual analy-
sis :

Active Circulation. .. • . £22,077,365
Decrease .. 59,185
Bullion .. 14,645,269
Increase .. • .• 74,658
Rest .. .• .. 3,1.40,525
Increase 16,971
Public Deposits • • .. 4,437,83.5
Decrease .. .. • . 178,217
Other Deposits.. .. .. 15,271,262
Decrease .. .. 1,081,556
Seven Day and other Bills .. 747,101
Increase 22,956
Government Securities .. 10,945,363
No alteration.
Other Securities .. .. 19,986,456 •
Decrease .. .. 1,353,689
Notes Unemployed .. 6,499,880
Increase .. • 98,505
The annual meeting of the Queen Insurance
Company was held at the head-office in Liverpool,
on Wednesday. The directors' report, which was
adopted unanimously, was most satisfactory, bath
as regarded the life and fire branches. It appeared
that in the life department proposals to the large
amount of £55,000 had been declined during the
Year, showing the great care taken in the selection
of lives; whilst the new policies issued were larger
by £53,000 than those of the preceding year. The
premium income of the year was £16,352 ss. Id.
The rat Tlibquennial period having arrived, Mr.
J.
Monerieff Wilson, the actuary of the company,
Las made the necessary investigation into the com-
pany's affairs, and the result, as shown in the re-
port, is exceedingly gratifying. The valuation
was made on the basis of the 3 per cent. Carlisle
tables, and after a laborious assessment of every
individual policy, the actuary, in his report, states
that the bonus to be added to all policie3 entitled to
participate, " will exceed on the average of ordinary
assurers 46 per cent. per annum of the total pre-
miums paid, and will rise in some instances accord-
ing to age, as high as 65, 70, and even 75 per cent.
or the total premiums which have been received."
The high position which Mr. Wilson occupies in the
insurance profession is ample guarantee that the
large bonus thus apportioned is warranted by the
position of the company's affairs. In the fire branch
the premium income of the year was£7o,3oo 25.11 d.,
being an increase of nearly £23,000 over that of the
previous year, and this amount has been carried to
the credit of the reserve fund. A dividend at the
rate of 8 per cent. per annum was declared. Mr,
John E. Leyland, the sub-manager in Liverpool,
has been appointed secretary to the company, to be
•asiu'
pent in London, where he will devote his
—"gl
batiineee to strengthen the position of the company's
ferei:: and pay special attention to some of the
have be:ranched, which, in the case of the "Queen,"
very remunerative.
During
the last few days there has been rather
inore ectivit, inluarkete. the Foreign and Colonial Produce
has been largely dealt in, owing
to a speceiatuirr
demand for exportation, and prices
have materially
advanced. Tea, coffee, and rice,
however, have remained
at about previous rates.
The public sales
considerable ° • •
pro-
gress with f indigo have continued to pro-
nimation at the enhanced
values established a
t the commencement of the
auctions, except for superior descriptions. In the
tallow market there has not been much activity, but
quotations, for both
a
present and forward delivery,
are well supported.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have re-
solved that the 27th inst. shall be a settling day on
the following companies' shares.
are to he officially marked, butThe first named
the others are only
to be inserted in the
bi-weekly lists "—The scrip of
the Royal Sardinian Railway, the Public
Works
Credit Company of London and Paris, and the Oil
Seed Crushing Comp iny.
The first ordinary 17,,'neral meeting of share-

holders of the Bank of Wales was held to-day,'Mr.
J. L. Daniel in the chair. As the bank only com-
menced operations last INlay, sufficient time had not
elapsed to admit of a full balance sheet being given.
The report was carried, the remuneration of the
auditors fixed at £lO each, and certain clauses
relating to the management in the articles of
association espunged.

Two o'CLocK.

At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Rsuter's
telegram, the French 3 per Cont. Rentes were
67f. 15c. Heavy.
The improvement which occurred in the English
Stock Market yesterday afternoon is well main-
tained to-day. Speculation continues inert, but a
better tone prevails, and Consols remain at 93 1 for
transfer, and at 931 1 for the account, with rather
an upward tendency. Additional strength has been
promoted by the easier aspect of monetary affairs,
and the Bank of England return, which is more
favourable than anticipated. Transactions have
taken place in the New Threes and Reduced
Annuities at 91 1, the 5 per Cents. 1071 ; India 5
per Cents., 1091 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 100 i ; and
Exchequer Bills, ls. dis. to 2s. prem.
In the Foreign Market there is less animation,
but prices are firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858,
701 1; do., 1862, are 711 ; do., Consolides, 531 ;
Spanish Passive, 351 36 ; do., Certificates, 131 4 ;
Greek, 3011 311; do., Coupons, 141 y ; Mexican,
422 4 ; Portuguese, 49 1; Russian, 93 1; Italian,
7241; Egyptian, 1001 101 ; Moorish, 95 ; the Con.
federate Loan, 65 67 ; and the New Portuguese
Loan, l 4 prem.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
rather more active, and prices have in several in-
stances slightly improved. Midland, South-Wes-
tern, Great Eastern, Great Western, and Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire have each improved about 55.;
North-Eastern (Ber wick), 10s. ; and Great Northern
A Stock, £2.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
is no material change to record in prices.
Bank Shares are in fair request at about pre-
vious quotations. Imperial Ottoman realise 181 e ;
National of Liverpool, 184 19 ; India Land Mort-
gage are quoted 3 to 31 prem.; Anglo-Austrian,
par to 1 prem; and East London, 24 31 prem.

In the Miscellaneous Market there is little varia-
tion as regards values. Hudson Bay are quoted
81; London Financial, 151 i ; and Discount Cor-
poration are 8i 01, prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 236
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 91t
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 3t per Cent. Annuities
New 22 per Cent. Annuities..
5 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873
i.nnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 2l ,
India Stock, 1874
Ditto 5 pm Cent. 1870
Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 lOO/
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto :April, 1864 99/
Ditto 'ditto 'Aug. 1864 or 66 100 k
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £1,000..
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account, Oct, 8 93,1
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2t per Cent 2 prd 1 dis
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK,
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 1859

Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859.....-
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Chili= 6 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Colombian 6 Scrip, £l5 pd
Cuba, 6 per Cent. ..
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Dutch, 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant —
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l4k,
Egyptian 7 per Cent lOOl 1

-Ditto, Second Issue -
Guatemala 5 per Cent. -
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 ..
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons..
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons
Ditto Account .. 144 t
Italian b per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) 81i
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent..
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Peruvian 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account ..
Ditto 4} per Cent., 1862 -
_ _

Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853

Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 —
Ditto Account 491 9
Russian 5 per Cent.,11822, £ St 9l
Ditto 4i per Cent 1850..
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 93 I
Sardinian 5 per Cent

Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred ............. •
Ditto Account...,
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account 36 5
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account
Swedish, 4 per Cent.
Curitish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account 7Ol
•• •
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account 7ll
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £59 10s Od pd. 2i dis
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account...
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account .. 611
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins.
Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f.

,digiau pet _
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f osf.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Es. 25 francs —
Ditto Account
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

AGREEABLE ANTICIPATIONS OF AN EARTHQUAKE
IN LONDON.—Let us suppose what might he the
result in London of an earthquake similar to that of Lisbon,
and happening in the night. The single-storied dwellings
of the poor might probably remain erect, though damaged ;
but what of the four and five storied, dwellings of the
middle classes--what of the huge palaces, piled floor on
floor in the heart of London, and let out in offices ? What
cos
shops,
sothosenh
the whole
hghiecoshl
eo
Wf ho
fronts
oul houses s
o f
crackin
whichthelike
m
ike
standa
in
potsherds
o streetsn slenderd i
ds e
they
hysei
stilts
lgtosnf oco
once
overhang their bases ? Oxford-street' gRe ent-street the
Strand, and Holborn--all the buildings in main thorOugh-
fares, whose front walls stand upon plate-glass, would fall
prostrate at a blow, and choke their thoroughfares with
heterogeneous ruins and the mashed frames of humanity.
The huge Cathedra'. of St. Paul's would bury its own'
churchyard in its fragments—the Bank and the Exchange
would mingle their crumbled materials together—churches
and their many spires would fall down—the warehouses
and stone bridges on the river would block its channel, and
the breached and riven banks would again convert the
whole low lying lands into the marsh that they were in
the days of Julius Caesar ; but all putrid with dead bodies,
Water and gas supply would cease, and the great sewers
would be underground reservoirs of pestilence. A plague
would supervene, and many hundreds of thousands would
perish. The dockyards would be destroyed, and speculat-
ing despots on the Continent would gloat over the downfall
of English supremacy, and talk of invading us with the
pretext of help. The cast-iron bridge at Queen-street
would not be left for the New Zealauder, and though the
forged upper structure at Charing-cross would be inde-
structible save by time and rust, the masonry of the piers
would burst through the cast-iron casings, and leave the
bridge a wreck. And meanwhile throughout England
similar ruin might prevail, and commerce be stopped, and
famine add its presence to other evils. The transit of food
and fuel by water would cease, and the toppling down of
brick viaducts would stop for a time all railway transit.--
Once a Week.

BANNS OF MARRIAGE FORBIDDEN.—The rare
occurrence of forbidden banns of marriage occurred at
St. Andrew's Church, Stratton, Cornwall, on Sunday
last, the 18th. The banns had been published for "the
third time of asking," when a tall, middle-aged woman
rose from her seat, and in an audible voice said, " I
forbid these banns, sir." The clergyman, 'he Rev. W. B.
Marsh, thrn requested that the woman would come to him
in the vestry atter service. This she did ; and it was dis-
covered that the poor woman had only too good cause for
forbidding the banns, as she was the bona fide wife of the
loan whose banns hal b; en called for the third time that
morning

SHARE MARKETS---This day,

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOO&S.

Share Railways. i Paid.' Closing I Businear
;
Price. ( done.
. .
13.14. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. all 8 E 1
25 Blythe and Tyne.
10 Bost,Sleat,andllidaio all Al 81
st Bristol and Exeter
st Caledonian lOO 119 120
50 Cork and Bandon
10 Do. B all
20 Cornwall all 7 7k
10 Do A A gets no diN ) all
till6p c.p an.haf, tan
been paid to B.)
50 Dublin & Belfast Junc. all 39 10
25 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. all 16 17
st Edinburgh & Glasgow. 100 18 ICO
at Glasg. and S. Western. 100 108 110
at Great Eastern, Ord. atk 100 50 5t 50k 1i i
at Ditto A stock
et Ditto East Anglian at lOO 810
at GreatNorthot Scotland 100
I—_
IA Great Northern lOO 12/ 18
at Do A stock
at Do El do llOO 114 136
at Great 'Western .. lOO 651 651 651 i
at Do Str Val gua. stock 100
at Gt. S. and W. of Ireland 100 100 tt,2
at Lancashire & Yorkshire 160 1101 1111 1111 1
et London and Blackwal! 100 71 73 .
at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 111 112
at Lon., Chat., :tad Dover 100 15 (6 46 51
at Lon. & North Western 100 1021 1021 1021 i
et Lon. & So..th Western 100 101 1(2 1011 4
at (Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 100 47 48
50 IMaryport and Carlisle. all
124 Do 4 shares.
at Metropolitan all 131 132 131
at Midland
4.4.0 Do New
st Do Birming. & Derby 100 96 08
50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all
25 Do. 1 shares
25 Mid Kent
10 Do Cray Line
at North British
at Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 26 18 25
st !Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 1014 1011 lt,ll
26 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 a if
et Do Leeds lOO 571 58
at Do York
at Do Carlisle lOO
et North London
10 I Do New 5 1 2 p
4,16.4 North Staffordshire
10 N. and S. W. Junction all ilk 111
at !Scottish Central
st Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 44 46
•st Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 100 102
10 !Shrews. and Welohpooi all
at 'Shropshire Union
at South Devon.. lOO 321 33/
at ,South Eastern
st South Wales
et s. York. and River Dun 100 98 IGO
20 !Staines,Wok.,andWok all 94 10
25 'Stockton & Darlington all 364 371
25 Do l7 81 91 0
25 Do New, 1866 8 71 7/ p
at Taff Vale..
10 Do B 8 41 51 r• .
10 Do C 3 21 31p
50 !Ulster
25 I Do
12.10, , Do
at !Vale of Neath
at !Victoria sta. and Pim lOO 170 180 175
at Waterford & Kilkenny 100
at 'West Cornwall lOO
et IW. Hartlepool Har.&R , 100
at 1 W eat Midland -Oxford 100 l
at Do Newport 100 i --
at Do Hereford 100 I