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

3TOIT-EY MARKET

AND

COIGORCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELE O'CLOCK.
There is a fair demand for diiscounVt accommoda-
bon 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 Wand Government Loan
of £40,000, in 6 per cent. debentures.
The traffic receipts of the Great Luxembourg
Railway, for the week ending the 4th inst., were
£3,187 against £3,732 last year.

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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 intention of establishing a business in the. West
Indies. The directors were re-elected, and after
some congretulary 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 full y per cent.
1
took place, Consols being 931 1 for transfer and the
meat Bth, and 931 for February. The important move-
vv•is produced by some extensive purchases
for investment, coupled with the abundance of
Money, the limited supplies of specie exported, the
firmness of the Paris Bourse, and other encourag-
ing symptoms. IV hen quotations had attained the
elevation above reported there were a few sales to
realise profits, which led to a reaction of 1- per
cent. The prices are 931 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 931;
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, 104 t.
There has been rather more animation in the
Foreign Market
Ported, , and prices have been well sup-
Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, have improved
to 844 the 841 8511 do., 1858, 71 k ; do., 1862, 671 681 ;
Consolides 391 a; Egyptian are 95k 96 ;
do., second issue, 95 ; Greek, 161 ; do., Coupons,
7 ; Mexican, 311 321, showing very little change;
Moorish, 971 ; Peruvian New Loan, 891. I ; Por-
tuguese do., 47i ; Russian do., 951 961 ; Spanish
Passive have advanced to 2411; and Italian are 704.
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.
b South-Austrian and Lom-
ardo-Venetian realised 24; Great Western of
Canada, 121 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 22; ; East
Indian, 1071; and Great Indian Peninsula, 106.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares con-
tinned steady at about previous prices. Alliance of
London and Liverpool realised 20k 1 ; London and
South African, 251 ; Oriental Bank, 55
Palace Stock b 1; Crystal
brow ht 331 • and Rio de 'Janeiro Im-
Prove ; ment shares were firm at 29.

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BankBRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Stock . . ... .. .............. 236
N. Re
8 per Cent
ew per Cent. Annuities ch;ced. Annuities ........ 93 i 3
6 per Cent. Consols
Annuities .......... 921 3/ 3 I 3
3 .1 per Cent. Annuities .... ........... 92
............ 10 91 3 t 3
Atmuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880..
IndiDitto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. 15 1-16
Ditta Stock ..........................
o 5 per Cent .................... 1081 / •
IDitte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. ..... 961
.) tto 5 per Cent. ............... 1051 1 1
Ditto Debentures, 4. per dt., •Oct,, 1863 100 t
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001
Ditto tionds El,OOO .................. 28
Consols for Account ...............
Exchequer Bills, £1000,•21 per. Cent.... 8L}1231
DiDitto £5OO ................ 812
tto Small ........................ 12 8
FOREIGN
er Cen FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. BuenoFs Ayres 6 pt
. .............. Ditto Account. .... .. ............. 981 8
Chilian 6 per Cent. ....................
oitto 4/ per Cent ..................
Egpptian 7 pet Cent.. 841 4
..
Ditto, Second 155ue.............. 96 / 51 6 51
............ 95
creek 5 per Cent., 182,i-5., •
ex-Coup.ms.. 161 1
Ditto Couons ............. . ...... 7 t
Italian 5 peril ent. (Marernmana Railway) 735
Mexican 3 per Cent .................. --
Ditt,o Account ...................... 32t 11 21
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent .......... 97t 1
New Granada 2 per Cent .............. 28
I' ruvian 41 per Cent.
.........
Ditto 1862 ................
r
Ditto Account ..................... 891 I
Potuguese 3 per Cent., 1853...........
Ditto 1862 ........ 47/ i I
Ditto Scrip, £25 paid.... .
.....
.
Russian 6 per Cent., 1822 ........... 31 Pm, £St ........
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 Ditt 5 per Cent., 1862 .............. 94
Scrip, £l7 •'• •••• 961 51 6/
tipanieh 3 per Cent
Ditto
p. aid ............. 21 2 pm
... ...............
Ditto Aneonnt ..
Ditto New Deferre .................. 544
Ditto Account. ..d ..............
..................... 46}
Ditto Passive ......
._ .............. 24 t t 1 1 1
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 -
Ditto Account. .........
....... ...... ........ 85 1
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 ..............
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account .. .................... 711 1
..............
VenDitto Account, ..................... 68 17} 81 8
Diezuela, 3 per Cent ................
tto Account ..................... 24
Ditto 6 per Cents., 1862: (Scrip ll dis :Dividends on the above payablein London.
Dutch 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil ........
Italian, 5
A per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. ...... 66
Ditto ccount ...................... 701
Consols, Money THREE 0'CL0CK....................... 93
Ditto Feb. Account ................ 93 4
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_ n at of January, Cornelius Hackett, aged
108 years, 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. Thisrie
108
proves his birth to be in 1754, and his age
years.
ceased was a sawyer by trade, and, even up to a few months
of his death, he was able to move about the street and use
the spade or rake.
The journal du Havre announces that the
telegraphic meteorological information organised
io England 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
may b 3 expected from the north-west." The system of
the admiral is based upon the fac , that the telegraph is
amore rapid than the most violent storm. The most terrible
hurricane does not travel more than 2,700 metres a minute;
so that,
kilometres at, on warning by telegraph seamen at a distance of
Ln.
(five-eighths of a mile each) in the direc-
which the storm is taking, they would have seven hours
to ;hepare for tte tempest.
The accounts of the weather, which came in yes-
dg
of pr'laYn 111°rning by telegraph, from different parts
The
wind
e, state that the atmosphere wit violently agitated.
lad that
very fresh from the S W. all along the
western COI t
Th._ „, . land was gradually extending to the interior.
general
regien is not excepted. There is a
„., al aPrearance of bard weather. It rained yesterday
•-,..0r0it,
at .
I,Ta ,
Peueou-Vendee, Marseilles, and Besancon. Rain also
tell lo •
''' Rl4 yesterday,