The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-24 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The demand for discount accommodation has
slackened, and the rates for the best bills are 31 to
Zi per cent.
During the last few days a moderate amount of
business has been transacted in the Foreign and
Colonial Produce Markets. The public sales of
tea have proceeded without any material change
in prices. Sugar has been in fair request, at steady
rates, while full prices have been obtained for coffee
and cocoa. In rice, fruit, and spices the operations
bave been to an average extent at about previous
quotations. Tallow has been in better demand, and
prices have tended upwards for both present and
forward delivery.
The Oriental Hotels Company is an undertaking
recently brought forward, for the purpose of pro-
viding the chief towns and seaports of India and
China with suitable hotel accommodation. It is
said that throughout our eastern empire there is a
very great deficiency in this respect, and that the
European population, which is annually on thein-
crease, is loud in its complaints against the pro-
vision it finds for lodgings, &e. In the
first instance it is intended to erect esta-
blishments at Bombay and Point de Galle,
and after these buildings have been completed others
are to rise up in Madras, Singapore, Kurrachee,
&c. The directors are principally gentleinen con-
mected with India, either by its civil service oi its
trade. The nominal capital of the undertaking is
fixed at £250,000 (half of which is to constitute the
first issue), in shares of £lO each.
Some important alterations are exhibited in the
Bank of England return for the week ending Wed-
nesday last, the most conspicuous being a consider-
able failing off in the Other Securities, to the repay
meat of advances tied the increased facilities offered
in the open market, which have had the eff,.ct of
, diminishing the number of inquiries at the national
establishment. The bullion and reserve of notes
are smaller, but an early influx of gold is not im-
probable. Subjoined are the particulars :
Active Circulation .. £21,603.305
Increase .. ell 00 11,411 64,290
Bullion .. 14,62 ,872
Decrease .. .. 129,004
Rest . • .. 3,303,461
Increase OS Oa 26,432
Public Deposits .. 5.386.948
Increase 438,491
Other Deposits.. 14,67;5,625
Decrease 1,706,289
Seven Day and. other Bills .. 627 07
Decrease .. 28,674
Government Securities .. .. 11,006,888
Decrease .. 40,000
Other Securities .. 1.9,871,886
Dee,ease .. 1,036,747
Notes Unemployed 6,814.715
Decrease .„ 182,365

• Two O'CLOCK.
The Paris Three per Cent. Rentes, this morning,
according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, opened at 671.
45e: ; business better.
Business In the English Stock Market has been
'very limited, but quotations nevertheless are ex-
hibiting increasing firmness under the favourable
influence of better prices from the Paris Bourse,
and that affairs on the continent may yet assume a
lees warlike tender cy. Consols have risen nearly 1,
and are now marked 928 938 for money and ac-
count. The New Threes and Reduced are 921 931;
Bank Stock is 2371 and 239; India Stock, 225;
and the 5 per Cent. Loan, 108 1 ; the Debentures
are 100, the Bonds 19s. prem., and Exchequer
Bills ls. to 4s. premium.
There is very little alteration in the Foreign
Market, and business is rather quiet. Turkish 6
per Cents., 1862, are 67k 1; do. Consolides, 49/ 50;
Mexie.an, 369 4 ; Greek, 33:1 34 ; do. Coupons,
158 ; Spanish Passive, 321 ; do. Certificates,
12k d; Portuguese, 48 ; Russian, 924 93 ; Italian,
701 I ; Egyptian, 103 -I, ; and the Confederate Loan,
39 to 3 dis.

In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been very limited ; a firmer tone, however, has pre-
vailed. Great Eastern, Lanc,shire and Yorkshire,
North Western, North Eastern, York, and South
Eastern have improved os., and Caledunian, lbs.
The Foreign and Colonial Lines have exhibited
little change of importance in values.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue dull at
former quotations. International Financial Shares
are quoted 411 to 4i prem. ; London Financial, to
prem. ; General Credit, t to 1 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock..... 239 74
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities s-3 21 3t
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities92l 3 New 3 per Cent. Annuities 93 21 31 21 3
Nev 34 per Cent. Annuities . . New 2i per Cent. Annuities... ....
..........
India Stock

Ditto 5 per
......................... 22.5
Cent .................... 108 f 8
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent...
Ditto 5 per Cent........ ...
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 100
D.n o Bonds El,nou ............. 19 pm
Consols for Account, Aug. 6 .... ....
........ 921, 3
Moron June
Ditto
Exchequer Bills, £l.OOO 2i Cen.. 31 pm 3pm
.t5OO . per t
""......••.
Ditto Small ...................... 4
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent .... ......
....
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
........
..... 101.
Ditto 4# per Cent., 185'2-58-60 ......
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent 93
......... _
thtto A.ccount .............. 93
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
.............. 1101
aquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. 161
Egyptian 7 pet Cent lO3l
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ins.. 103
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons l5l 1 Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) 79
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 361 /
New Granada l5l
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deterred 9l
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
47f
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O 62 —
Ditto Account ..... ,
. ........... 48
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
SDitto 6 per Cent. 1862 ...
ardinian 5 per Cent.
......... .
2
Ditto Account
Ditto
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred
DittAccount .............
o Passive
...........
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account .... .
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account. ..•
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862........"""'
Ditto Account
...... 671 f Ditto Guaratteed, 4 per Cent. lO3l
Venezuela, 3 per Cent ........
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
hutch 2 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account 7Ol 1
Ditto Scrip, 1863, £2l4s. 6d. paid... • 1 pm
THREE O'CLOCK.
'Consols, Money
Ditto August Account
____

4 pm

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
A strong market. Sales to-day will probably
reach 7,000 bales.—Sales of the week, 52.240 balm
including 11,400 on speculation, and 9,190 for ex
portation. Quotations
bile, 24; Upland of fair Orleans, 243- ; Mc"
leans, 22 90
' "ui- Estimated Middling Or-
; ; Mobile, 211;
fair Egyptian, 21, Stock Upland,, 21. Estimated
export, 9,192. Surat 261,700 bales. Actual
week, 6,195 bales: ,11 to 20. Imports of the