The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-20 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
In discount circles to-day the inquiries indicate
a further slight diminution of business ; no further
variation, however, can be reported in the rates
charged for first-class bills.
The biddings for 30,00,000 rupees (.£300,000),
in bills on India, took place yesterday at the Bank
of Eng'lPnd. The proportions allotted were, to Cal-
cutta 16,80,000 rupees, to Bombay 12,00,000 rupees,
to
.Madras 2,00.000 rupees. The declared mii.imum
Nice Was as before-Is. 111,-d. per rupee on Calcutta,
and ls. 1 lid. on Bombay and Madras. The appli
elti°llB within the limits amounted to 251 laws.
:renders on Calcutta above the minimum will receive
111 full, to those at the minimum there will be no
allotment; on Bombay, at minimum, about 16 per
Cent.; and on Madras about 80 per cent. will be
allotted.

About £lO,OOO in gold was taken into the Bank
yeatErday.
The bar silver by the Seine has been sold at 5s ld
per oz., showing no alteration from the price realised
for the previous supply.
At the half-yearly meeting to-day of the share-
holders of the English and Australian Copper Com-
NnY, Mr. Ralph in the chair, the report stated that
the average price at which copper had been sold
during the six months, flom let July to 31st
December, 1862, amounted to £96 19a. sd. per ton.
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day are in round figures as under

Great Western 1863. 1862.
IN orth-Western
£68,189 £72,629
109
South- Western
28,764
8right0n27,463,
l‘lidland
45,785 45.069
South-Ea:item
Great Northern
31,359 29,70
717,803 34 6
Great Eastern
i aneashire and Yorkshire • ...
430,0,110 30,318
37,485
North Eastern
Bristol and Exeter 59,8,514 64 3943 8,4127
12
Edinburgh and Glasgow
3,445
These returns are, in several instances, of a fa-
vourable character. On the Great Eastern there
is an increase of £517 ; cn the Lancashire and
Yorkshire of £2,625 ; on the North Eastern of
£5,120; on the Edinburgh and Glasgow of £605 ;
on the North Western of £3,898 ; and on
oth e Mid-
land of £716. While there is a decrease f £4,410 on the Great Western ; of X 1,301 on the south
the ;of £2,304 on the Brighton ;of £338 on
the South Eastern; and of
Northern. £2,867 on the Great

V...•.••••• •••••••

At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Rentes were 67f. 80c.
67f. 77c. Rather firm. Cent.
Nothing has occurred to•da
the English Funds to yin the market for
disturb the quietude pre-
viously noticeable. Consols are 93k / for money,
and 931 for the account, with very little business
either on speculation or otherwise. Notwithstand-
ing the dulness, however, prices still indicate
strength. The New Threes and Reduced Annui-
ties are 931 1 ; the 30 Years
the ' Annuities, 15 3 16 ;
Red Sea Telegraph do., 21 1-16; Bank Stock
la quoted 238 ; India 6 per Cent. Loan, 1081 ;
and the Bonds are 193.
There prem.
For has been very little movement in the
sign Market, and business continues rather
quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, are 72 1; Ditto
18062, 681 69; Ditto Consolides, 485 49; Mexican,
; Spanish Passive, 335 34k ; Ditto Internal,
27 271; Ditto Certificates, 12& ; Greek, 33-Z ;
Ditto
Co
68upons, 15/ 1G; Russian, 92/ 93 ;
•Portu-
kOese,; Peruvian, 86 1; Italian, 711 ;
an, 1041 105; and the Confederate Loan,
28 26 discount.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
slibeen moderately active, and in several instances a
ght improvement has taken place in prices.
orth-E
Gre astern (Berwick) has advanced 53.; and
at Western, South-Eastern, and Midland, 103.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without
Change of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally main.
tarn previous rates.

Bank
BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
,s-r6stik Stock 238 40
Na per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93f f
ew Cent. Consols Annuities
3 per Cent. Annuities
''iTev? 2} per Cent. Annuities...
Per Cent. Annuities -
4(muities, 30 yrs, expire with J an., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 3-16
IndiDitto (Red. Sea Telegraph), Air,. 1908 2l 1-16
a Stock . . . .. 0.
--
Ditto 5 pet Cent
1084
Ditto Enfaced Pape▪
r, 4 per Cent.
Ditto 5 per Cent
........ 107-I
Ditto 51 per Cent ...........
--
Ditto Debentures, 4 ....... Ct..; 'Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 --.
Bonds £l.OOO ..
19 Ditto under £l,OOO ........................ 19
pank Stock for Accounl .... :............
Consols for Account, Sept, 9 ▪ ; 93a i
India Stock for Account, S per cen't.... ..
..
4
Exchequer Bills,,
Zl,OOO .. 2f2peprraC.ent. 2f per Cent.
Ditto
4500 . . Ditto Small
..........
FOREIGN FUNDS CLOSING PRICES.
1859 I
Austrian Bottonds, 5 per Cent
Di...........
Brazilian 5 Per Cent. • .............
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 ........... . .........
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ........ 9-• 3t
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent .. . . •
..... -*
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred
............ .... ---
Chi
Dian
6 Per Cent ......
pqDitto 41 per Cent. .........................
gYptinador New Consolidated, •1 per Cent.: —...--
an 7 per Cent .................. 105 41
Greek •
5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons --
pittt.
_Acucount .. ....... , ............ .. 3• 3f
Dittol. uo pone ......................
~4aAccount ...................... 15/-
;1,4". 11 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) 79
L'Aexican 3 per Cent ..
il/41,Ditto Account
.................. ..-.4
oorish Imperial 5 .... Ue.n.t.....................
ew Granada . P
DDitto 2
per de.r:r.. ...................
itto Deferred, .......... .......... .......... --
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares...) ......
reruvian 3 per Cent. ...........
Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862 .......
...........
.... Ditto Account ........... . ... ..... 861
--
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ......... -
Ditto Account.
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62.. Ditto Account. .................. 48a
Russian 5 per Cent., 18'22, £ St, ....... Ditto 41 per Cent 1850
--
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 ....—.
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent ... .......
Ditto Aczount ..
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Deferred
Ditto New —
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account,
..
Spanish Cert. of Co.u.p. not funded
TDitto Account .. 121 A
urkish 6 per Cent: . itiA••• • • •••• • . •
Ditto Account .. - -
Ditto 6 per Cent. 185 i• .......
Ditto Account„ ,.,7•
21%
Ditto, £IOO Bond; ....
Ditto Account
Cent ...
Ditto Guaratteed, 4 Per ell
Venezuela 3 per Cent. .... t..
...
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account ..............▪
. ......
Dividends on the above Payable
Lo Belgian 4} per Cent., Ex. 25f, ndon.
.
.uutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil - Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates . ...
. . ... .....
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs .
Ditto Account.
TIiREE O'cLocg..
%rl.mlat Money
1 i
93
Ditto Account ..

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Improvement of yesterday maintamed. Sales
l'r"ltblY about 12,000 bales. ,

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the"-I: IMP f,
‘ltrxs.—On Tuesday, for the first time in
histerMtaultatoeci Y of the Tyne, time guns were fired
and sh.el;lBlY at 1 o'clock in the afternoon at Newcastle
the end 0-ft'haeiltnclevietil.l be continued as an experiment until
of the British Association at New-
Royale,Castle ; 3,tinle balliliBll aso be used in the Central Ex-
canrr J)iewcaatie.
The time is transmitted from the
f
13,n, erabl3Bn
C0n,(.1 Observatory, zdiaburgh. These experiments are of
ifilatrel'aeastatt; ttvesge,,offe,ing population of e d
saidollinei
r;::v1 .4:: ICisan t ic i pat ed th it thetßheiyve have
Tyneava s
on co: er
od . :s :
alld Sllic,,;(l2ll.Per"aurltlY (tahlibi tiait) gulls in Newcastle