The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-14 00:00:00

IVUONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK,

la the general discount market the rates remain
as at the close of last week. Instances are recorded
of three months' bills being negotiated at 71 per
cent., but 7Z- and 8 per cent. are the more general
quotations in the open market. The available sup-
plies largely exceed the current requirements for
Mercantile and other purposes, and were it not for
the prospect of considerable exports of gold and
silver, reactionary symptoms would no doubt ere
this have been experienced.
The advices received this morning respecting
the progress of trade in the manufacturing dis-
tricts report a more cheerful tone in all departments
of business. At Manchester the depression which
followed the advance in the value of money
has partly disappeared, and manufacturers are
again falling back on the high quotations
which recently prevailed. The enquiry for wool
at Bradford was rather large, and at Huddersfield
a slight improvement was also noticeable in the
woollen market. At Leeds and Halifax, however,
the transactions negotiated were on a limited
*Axle, but at Sheffield, Wolverhampton, and Bir-
Minghain trade was brisk, and the high rate of
discount had but very slightly checked operations.
The Norfolk, from Melbourne, has brought
£236,524.

Two O'CLOCK,

At Paris this morning (according to Mr. Renter's
telegrams) French Rentes were 67.50. Very firm.
_ _

There has not been much animation to-day in the
Market for the English Funds, speculation being
dull, while the operations for bona fide transfer are
too much restricted to create activity. Some sales
'Were negotiated early in ,the day, which led to a
fractiunal decline, but the quotations have since
rallied, Consols being 90i 91 for money, and after
being 911 1. they are now 911 1 for the account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 901
; Bank Stock is 235 to 237, and Exchequer
Bills, 11s. to 7s. dis. India 5 per Cents. remain at
10.61 ; do. 4 per Cents., 1001; the Enfaced 5 per
Cents., 1031 ; and the Bonds, Bs. dis.

There has been more buoyancy in the Foreign
Market, but there is not much activity. Turkish 6
per Cents., 1862, are 701 1 ; ditto Consolides, 461 4 ;
tireek, 26 ti ; ditto Coupons, 121 ; Spanish Passive,
321 331; ditto Certificates, 131 tl ; and the Confe..
derate Loan, 36 38.
In the Railway Share Market the arrange-
ments for the settlement occupy the chief attention
of the dealers and speculators, and prices in some
instances show rather more firmness. South Eastern
have improved 10s. ; Great Western, North
Western, and South Western, sa. ; while London
and Blackwall have declined 10s.; and Metropo-
litan, 10s.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
been very inactive, and show little change of im-
portance in values.

Bank aid Miscellaneous shares remain withou
Inaterial alteration.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock 235 7
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
%iper Cent. Consols Annuities 9ll 90/
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 31 per Cent. Annuities
11, ew 21 per Cent. Annuities
0 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire ith Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
India Stock, 1874
Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870
Ditzo 4 per Cent. 1888
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent lO3/
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
-"dank Stock for Account
Ditto Bonds Xl,OOO dis
Ditto under £l,OOO 8 dis
Consols for Account, Jan. 7 9ll /
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Cent 7 11 7 6 dis
Ditto .f.;500
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
A.a.strian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 4/ per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto 41 Ditto 1863 .. 86 6
per Cent,
Ditto Scrip, 1863, £3O paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent .
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Philian 6 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Colombian 6 Scrip £l5 pd
uanish 4 per Cent., 1863
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant —
Dutch, 21 per Cent., Ex. 12'
Guilders
, Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct. Oct., 1863
;quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
.t;gYPtian 7 per Cent _ 9Bl 1
r, -Ditto, Second Issue .. 98/
'teck 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. 261 1
Ditto Account . 26
Ditto Coupons l2
Ditto Account —
czuatemala 5 per Cent. -
I
tt Ditto Account —
ialia en
n 5 per Ct.(laremmana Railway) 781
exican 3 per Cent
ki)itto A count —
New
Imperial 5 per Cent
°.,,,v Granada —
-uitto 2 per Cent .
Ditto Deferred —
Oitto Land Warrants (Hectares) —
efnvian 3 per Cent. ..
ditto Account —
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 ..
Ll),!tte Account
i 3 " 1 geese 3 per Cent., 1853
-r,ltto Account ..
-uitto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 4Bl 1
Ditto Account
Ditto 1863
eitto'Scrip, £l5 paid
Ditto
5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
-uitto 41 per Cent 1850.. .. 88k
Ditto 1860 BB
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
t, Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
14•Ettdinian p Cent
8 Ditto Account
Panlßh 3 per Cent
Ditto Account —
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto
Account
Passive
33
Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
131 a i Ditto Account
Swedish., 4 per C0nt................
Turkish 6 per Cent 14A2
• --.. ... 891, 1
Ditto Account... „ „
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account. ****************** ' - •
Ditto, £lOO Bonds * . *****************
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 ****************
Ditto Account ********************* 70/ I 1
Venezuela 3 per Cent. ...................
Ala° Account ....................... -----
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 .............. 56
Ditto Account

Dividends on the above payable in London.
,elgih2l per Cent., ix. 12 Guil
b bitto 4 per Cent. Certificates
'bench Rentes, 4f per Cent., Ex. 25f —
I)itto Account
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1851, Ex. 25 francs —
bitto Account... —
tiPitto Scrip (1863) £42 Ss. 3d. paid i pm
lednaontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
THREE O'CLOCK.
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C°.ols Money 904 I
•thito Account 9l}

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

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karket steady, at about Friday's rates Sales,
l'eiblxb;y about -6
000 bales.

fir, RIGIIT MAN TN THE RIGHT PLACE,—An ex-
aPpointment has been made by the Duke of
of-Wcastle in the nomination of Mr. George Alsbury (late
Atthe Poreign-otilee) to the Presidency of the island of
Nvkeilla in the West Indies. A long stay in those regions
f `re he fulfilled previously the functions of Comptrollei
ustorns, together with a perfect knowledge of the local
pi. 8 and of the habits of the people, make him a "fit and
Per
kore Person for that post." No man probably possesses
1413,„the faculty of instilling into them as much taste for
pr as they are capable of receiving. And this, in the
b;t8oetolle it State of distress of our manufacturing districts, might
no eOl
.4 Paramount advantage. For, let it be known, that
ten th .14 the world is more favourable to the growth of cot-
ner,C,ll that of Anguilla, and that there are lying there
oo4;cied thousands of acres of waste land which might be
are ierted into splendid cotton fields. About 1,000 negroes
1841 the island, who, if properly trained and duly stimu-
are will make tolerable labourers. There is the soil, there
like he hands to cultivate it. Every think is ready, and
saeteaae man of Prometheus, only awaits a sparkle of the
of the fire to kindle life intoit I The presence at the head
kr, of a man as energetic and as intelligent as
'441311rY will bring it.