The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-06 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is-a fair inquiry for discount accommoda-
tion, and the rates continue easy.

As was generally anticipated, the Bank of Eng-
land return for the week ending Wednesday is of a
more cheering character. Subjoined is our usual
analysis :

Active Circulation .. £20,070,545
Decrease .. .. • • 30,625
Bullion .. .. 13,692,136
Increase ..
_80,313

Rest .. :: :: :: :, 3,276;320
Increase .. .. .. .. 28,494
Public Deposits .. .. .. 6,351,617
Increase .. .. .. .. 934,754
Other Deposits.. .. .. .. 13,352,278
Decrease .. .. .. .. 1,062,485
Seven Day and other. Bills .. .. 638,609
Decrease .. .. .. .. 31,457
Government Securities .. .. 10,602,879
Decrease .. .. .. .. 3,769
Other Securities .. .. .. 19,297,354
Decrease .. .. .. .. 237,863
Notes Unemployed .. .. .. 7,394,280
Increase .. .. .. 107,975

The report of the .Angle-lonian Steam Navigation
Company has been issued prior to the meeting, and
recommends a dividend of 10 per cent. upon the
paid up capital for the nine months, being equal to
13-1- per cent. per annum.

During the last few days there has not been
much animation in the Foreign and Colonial Pro-
duce Markets. At the public sales of tea just con-
cluded full rates were readily obtained for good and
fine descriptions. Sugars sold freely at almost
previous quotations, while coffee, cocoa, and rice
continued in moderate request without any mate-
rial variation as regards values. Tal:ow remained
inactive, and prices tended downwards for both pre-
sent and forward delivery.
It is stated that a memorial is about to bP pre-
sented to the Stock Exchange Committee against
any settling day being at present allowed in the
shares of the British and American Exchange Bank.

Two o'CLoCK.
The Liverpool cotton market to-day opened
dull; sales about 2,000 bales.

The Three per Cent. Rentes opened to-day, at
Paris, at 70f. 45c., being sc. better than yesterday.
The Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool
held its first half-yearly meeting to-day. The re-
port stated that the balance-sheet, made up to the
31st Deoember last, showed an amount of business
acquired during little more than seven months in
London, and six months in Liverpool, which the
directors thought could not bat be very gratifying
totheshareholders,—the amount due by the Bank on
current deposit and other accounts being L 1,019,160
Os. Bd. The net profits amounted to £2,652 16s.
11d., which it was proposed to carry forward, to
be dealt with at the close of the current half-year.
The chairman moved the adoption of the report,
and observed that the meeting had been convened
thus early in order that their future half-yearly
proceedings may be held at about the same periods
of the other joint-stock banks. The balance-sheet
was made up to the end of December, and at that
date the number of accounts on the books of the
establishment was 800. Since that period,
however, they had gradully increased, and the
business generally was highly satisfactory.
The directors might:even at this early date have re-
commended the payment of a 3 per cent. dividend,
and if they had not placed down in the balance sheet
the amount due for rebate of interest, but followed
the coarse adopted by other young banks, they
might have shown their ability to pay a
7 per cent. dividend. In reply to a question,
the chairman stated that no preliminary
expenses had yet been paid, but at a future
meeting a motion for their disbursements would
be submitted. The report was then unanimously
adopted, and the retiring directors re-elected-
Votes of thanks were accorded to the directors,
and the managers of London and Liverpool, after
which the meeting separated.
At the half-yearly meeting to-day of the Medi-
terranean Extension Telegraph Company, Mr. H.
Moore presiding, the report, which was unani-
mously agreed to, stated that the receipts had mate-
rially increased, and the expenditure had been
diminished. The cables continued in excellent
order; the line between Marsala, in Sicily, and
Cape Carbonara, in Sardinia, had been successfully
submerged. The chairman remarked that a delay
had occurred in the liquidation of the debt due by
the Italian Government through the late change of
Ministry. The usual dividend (8 per cent. per
annum) on the preference shares, and 3 per cant.
per annum on the original shares, free of income-
tax, were ordered to be paid.
There has been no fluctuation to-day in the Mar-
ket for the English Funds, bat the recent advance
is very firmly maintained, and the improved aspect
of monetary affairs is promoting indications of
buoyancy. Consuls are 92: I, for transfer, and 921
93 for the account. The New Three per Cents.
and the Reduced have improved to 921; 93 ; Ex-
chequer Bills to 2s. and 3s. pm. ; Bank Stock is
236 k and 237; and India 5 per Cent. Loan re-
mains at 108 k.

A fair amount of business has been negotiated
in the Foreign Market, and prices have undergone
no important change. Greek Binds have again
been rather actively dealt in at 201 to 201, the
latest price being 20/ ; and the Coupons, S 9,
showing heaviness. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854,
have further advanced to 891 901 ; do., 1858, to
721 ; do., 1862, 671 681 ; and the Consolides 401
411 ; Mexican Stock is 331 1; Moorish 931 ex
div. ; Spanish Passive 271 1 ; do. Certificates 101 ;
and Venezuelan New Loan, 601 61.
Business in the Railway Share Market continued
moderately active, and prices have, in some instances,
shown more firmness. Great Northerns have im-
proved 55., North Westerns as., and South
Easterns 103.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares were
dull, and exhibited little change of importance in
prices.

BRITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock 238 6i 7i 8
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
knnuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 22187-16
India Stock 2
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 5i per Cent
Ditto Bonds £l,000
Consols for Account, March. 5
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 2.1 per Cent 3 pm par
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small 2 3 pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES

Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859.....-
Equador New Consolidated l6/
Egpptian 7 per Cent 991 1
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. 20k / i i 1 20 i
Ditto Coupons
Mexican 3 per Cent ....
Ditto Account 331 1
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada 2 per Cent 291 k
Ditto Land Warrants
Ditto ex over-duo Coups. & Hectares 13a
Ditto Deferred, Ex Hectares
Peruvian 4i per Cent. ..
Ditto 1862
Ditto Account .. 88 1
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ..........
Ditto Account ...................... 47/
Ditto 1862.... . ......... 47 6/
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ .. ........ 983
Ditto 4k per Cent., 1850 ........... 93
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 .............. . 641 601
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 .......... ...9 Pm
Ditto Scrip, £56 85. paid 1
Spanish 3 per Cent ..................
Ditto New Deferred .. —
Ditto Account.. - - ..
27
Ditto Passive ........
Spanish,Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account..
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account 721 2
Ditto, £lOO Bonds' 76
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent 6Bl 71 8/ 1
1011
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto 6per Cent. 1862
) 61 601 1
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2i• per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 651
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f —
Ditto Account .. 7Ol
T HREE O'CLOCK.
lemols, Money
.Ditto Account 94 3