The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-11 00:00:00

310-NEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The transactions i❑ the money market to-day are
not very numerous, but although the available re-
sources of bankers and others are abundant, the
rates are very well maintained.
A call of £2 per share becomes due to-morrow,
the 12th inst., on the shares of the Great Indian
Peninsula Railway Ne 47 Shares.
The quarterly sales of indigo commenced yester-
day, and consisted of 7,657 chests. There was a
moderate attendance, but the biddings were ex-
tremely dull, and of 2,852 chests which passed only
398 sold, at prices ranging from 2d. to ls. per lb.
below those realised at the last sale.

The Spanish Finance Comm•ssion have notified
that the auction of the Foreign Redeemable Debt
win take place at Madrid on the 28rh inst., and
8,886 472 reals have been assigned by the Govern-
ment for that purpose.

Two O'CLOCK.
Paris Rentes were at 12.45 this day (says Reuter's
telegram) 70f. 75c.—fist.

Active encouragement :s still given to new joint
stock enterprise, and it is satisfactory to find that
most of the companies brought under the notice of
the investing classes are of a bona fide character.
Some of them, no doubt, will fail to realise the
expectations set forth in the prospectus ; but,
taken as a whole, the class of projects seeking sup-
port are such as to commend themselves to parties
desirous of obtaining a remunerative channel
for the employment of their surplus means. There
are, it appears, many other undertakings in course
of organization, and it is not improbable that a few
of the continental Governments will shortly appear
in this market as borrowers. No definite informa-
tion has yet transpired upon the subject, but ;nego•.
tiations are in progress which render it very proba-
bable that some small financial operations will be
speedily announced.

Speculation in the market for the English Funds
continues quiet, the operators being still disinclined
to enter into extensive engagements either for a
rise or fall. The abundance of money and the
easier tendency of the rates of discount, however,
give support to quotations, and Consols, after a
slight depreciation, are now firm at 921 for transfer,
and 92.1 for the account. The New Three per
Cents. are flat at 921 /, and the Reduced at 94 3
Exchequer Bills remain at ls. dis. to 3s. pm.; Bank
stock is 237 and 2381 ; and India 5 per Cent. Loan
1084.

Business in the Foreign Market has been moder-
ately active, and prices have shown very little
change. Tarkish 6 per Cents., 1354, are steady
at 89 90 ; do., 1858, 721- 4; do., 1862, 68 1 ; and
the Consolides, 401 411. Mexican is 321 4 ; Per-
uvian New Loan, 871- 88 ; Portuguese do., 47 ;
Russian do., 931 94 ; Spanish Passive are 26 1;
ditto Certificates 94 10 ; Italian, 701 ; and Vene-
zuelan New Loan, 601 d ; Greek are 19: and
the Coupons, 81.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market con-
tinue moderately active, and prices in several
instances have shown an upward movement. Bristol
and Exeter have advanced £1; Metropolitan £1 ss;
Great Western and South Eastern 10.4.; and South
Western 55.; Great Northern, however, have de-
clined 55.; and London and Brighton 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained
inactive. Bahia and Sa❑ Francisco realise 20,1;
East Indian 1061 1061; Great Indian Peninsula,
105 to 1051; and Madras 5 per Cents. 103; Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
dull, but Ottoman Bank are largely dealt in at en-
hanced prices, being marked 39i 404, and the New
Shares 101, llt.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock 237 81
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ..
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 21 per Cent. Annuities..
innumes, 30 yrs, expire +9th Jan., 1880
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l-4
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 2ls
India Stock 227
D tto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 100
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100
Ditto honds €1,.100
Ditto under £lOOO ..
Consols for Account, March. 5
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 1 die 3 pm
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small 1 dis 3 pm

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 4l per Cent. 1852-58-60
Equador New Consolidated
EgPPtian 7 pet Cent
Greet; 5 104 991
Ditto, Second Issue
per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup.ms l9l 1 1 1 201
... Ditto Coupons
Italian 5 per Cent. Naremmana Railway) 74 1
Mexican 3 per Cent
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
l'Tevi. Granada l3l
Ditto 2 pet Cent 291
_,Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
X' tru vian 41 per Cent. ..
~.‘ Ditto 1862
rortuguese 3 per Cent., 18.53
Ditto 1862
Itttssian 5 per Cent., 1822, X St —
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account....
..
h Cert. ot .....
Ditto Passive ~. .
Spanish
not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent.
90 89 90
Ditto 6 per Cent. 18a
Ditto 6 per Cent. 18;;2
.....
Ditto Guaratteed, 4 per Cent.....
Venezuela, 3 per Cent .................. lAtt
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1852 ..............
Dividends on the above payable in Londono
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f , 71f.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f...
THREE O'CLOCK..
Consols' Money :92s 5
Ditto Account 94

An ingenious piece of Afghan practice for re-
ducing a dislocation of the thigh.—The patient 18
first kept in a dark room for three days, heated by fires in.
cessantly burning, and fed with copious draughts of thin
gruel. A. fat bullock is at the same time fed with chopped
straw, flavoured with salt, and denied a drop of water.
At the end of the third day, the patient is made
to ride on the back of the bullock, his legs being
fastened tightly under its belly by cords round the
ancles. The beast is then led out to drink. He is natu-
rally inten ely thirsty, drinks copiously, and swells out
visibly to twice his former size. The force exerted on the
disiccated limb is ,ufficient to bring it back to the socket.
The dislocated shoulder is treated in a similar way ; the
hand is tied (lose to the opposite shoulder, an empty water-
bag is placed in the bend of the arm, and gradually filled;
its weight overcomes the resistance of the muscle, and be-
fore long the bone flies back into the socket with the usual
sound.—London Review.
GAINSBOROUGH'S BLUNTNESS AND GOLDSMITH'S
GAborough drew the
por-
trait U
of theER I
celebratedE E
W h enerGain l e
f gym_
was his lordship
not like. The painter said he did
Cn
plained that it wa
not approve it either, ither, andhe flung down his pen_
begged to try again.
Failing a second time,
.t
never could see through
eil, saying, "D— 1
varnish, and there's an end." We commend this
at
story to those who believe in
Marquis was frankness and tru
inheritedere qualities,enifi ed
.Inallusion
for
the le
0
to the Earl's nickname of Malagridpa
Goldsmith once naively remarked to
(ah him---" Jesuit)
Portuguese
you know,
I never could conceive the reason why call you Mala-
they
grida, for Malagrida was a very good sort of a man."
Livry, the French dancer, who was so
terribly burnt some time ago, is still in a very
precarious
state, Dr. Nelaton is her medical attendant. Being asked
by the Emperor the other day how his patient was, be re-
plied, " There is more to fear than to hope."
HORACE VERNET'S PORTRAITURE,—Horace Ver-
net would have been a valuable detective draughts-
man ; if he once had a good look at a man, he could from
memory produce a st, iking likeness. It was a hippy knack
ho had, and sometimes an unfortunate knack, for, unconsci-
ously he would associate certain people's features with par-
ticular acts. If he represented in one battle-piece a soldier
flying with fear and terror expressed on his countenance,
his crayon would, in spite of himself, trace the familiar
features of some well-known personage who had distin-
guished himself by a lack of pluck ; and in one of his grand
pictures, wishing to represent a rapacious, grasping Israelite,
he drew the features of a contemporary, whom many will
recognise at the first glance. I have said this was some-
tiimmes an unfortunate knack, because it bas occasionally got
h into trouble.-Ihc4ens's " Alt the Year found."
treedom of the Fishmongeth' (;ompany is to
be presented to his Royal Highness the Prince 'of Wales
te-worrow, at the Hall of the Ancient Company, near
London-bridges