The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-19 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The demand for discount accommodation today
has been steadily maintained, and 2i per cent. is
the minimum quotation in the open market for the
best descriptions of three months bills.
The Europa from America has brought £36,000
in specie. 5
A telegram received by the Peninsular and Orien-
tal Company states that the whole of the mails and
the entire cargo have been recovered by Heinke's
diving apparatus from the wreck of the Colombo.

Two O'CLOCK.

The Liverpool: cotton market to-day was quiet
but steady ; sales about 4,000 bales.
The Three per Cent. Rente3 opened to-day, at
Paris, at 69f. 70c.

The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the share-
holders of the Bank of London was held to-day,
Sir John V. Shelley, Bart., presiding. The follow-

ing report was submitted to the shareholders:—
The directors have the pleasure of submitting to the
shareholders the annexed statement of accounts, which s
show that She balance of profit upon the operations of the
past half-year amounts to £42,798 16s. 6d. From this slim 2
have been defrayed the current expenses of the establish- 1
went, and full provision made for all bad or doubtful
debts ; allowing also for rebate of interest on bills dis- e
counted not yet due, there remains for disposal the sum of
£27,069 7s. 3d. The directors appropriate £1,617 ss. sd. to
the liquidation of the balance of preliminary expenses, and
they apply the usual amount of 21,i0 in reduction of the cost I
of the lease and buildings at the Charing cross branch.
They declare a dividend at the rate of £lO per cent. per ;

annum, free of income tax,and transfer XlO,OOO to the reserve
fund, which, by such addition, is increased to £82,000. The
balance, viz., £252 ls, 10d., is carried to the credit of profit

and loss account of the current half-year.

The Chairman, in moving that the report
and accounts be received, congratulated the

shareholders upon the very satisfactory status of
the bank and its operations during the past half
year. All the items in the accaunt shJwed tt vi-

gorous improvement, particularly with respect to
the deposits, which had increased more than
£1,250,000 during the past year. The value of n
money had been extremely low, which, added
to the commercial distress that had prevailed, had

been most prejudicial to banking operations; but,
notwithstanding these material drawbacks, the

directors were enabled to show a larger profit than
was ever made since the establishment of
their institution. These facts should con•

Tina: the shareholders that the system adopted by
the directors must be continuously successful. •
Another satisfactory feature in the report was the
large addition made:to the reserve fund, which now

amounted to 182,000. On the previr,u3 occasion he
ventured to predict that the directors would at
the present meeting be able to declare an increased 1
dividend of 10 per cent.; that prediction was now

verified, and from the present state and influence of
811'
their bank, he would again say that they possessed
every guarantee for future and increased success.

The report and accounts were then unanimously
adopted, and after a vote of thanks to the direc-
tors and managers, the meeting broke up.
There was also a meeting to-day of the Metropo-
litan and Provincial Bank proprietors, when the
directors' report was adopted. The balance .sheet
for the half-year coding 31st December last, showed
a net profit of £13,409 1 ls., including the amount
brought forward from the 30th June, acd after de-
ducting the interest on deposit and current accounts.
el
Of this, the sum of £6,000 is the premium on the ®,
issue of 3,000 additional shares ; and the directors S'
have set aside that amount as a reserved fund. et!
The directors recommended that a dividend for the
half-year be declated, at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum, free of income tax, and that the same be
Payable on and after the 26th inst. Lord Fermoy,
M.P., presided, and in moving the reception of
the report and accounts, observed that the bank
continued to make great progress. The statement
of accounts showed that there was upwards of half
a million of deposits, while there:was an absence of
anything like bad debts. The directors did not
possess a single current bill that occasioned them
the least anxiety ; they had a reserve fund, amount-
ing to £6,000, had written off £l,OOO from the pre-
liminary expenses, and transferred to the new ac-
count of profit and loss the sum of £853. The re-
port was, after a discussion, unanimously adopted.
A long discussion, however, ensued upon a motion
for the re-election of directors, and, after an hour's
debite, Messrs, Geary, Kirkby, and Margetson

were unanimously elected.
Very little business has taken place in the Eng-
lish Steck Market to-day, but the tendency has
continued unfavourable. Consols were 921 1 for
transfer, and 921 for account, being a little lower
than on Saturday. The New 3 per Cents. and the
Reduced have declined to 921 Q ; Exchequer Bills,
to 48. and Bs. premium ; Bank Stock is 236, and
India 5 per Cent. Loan is 1081 1.
The transactions in the Foreign Market have
been rather circumscribed. Greek Bonds have
been depressed, dealings having taken place at
151 ; Italian Railway Loan has receded to 72* s ;
Spanish Passive to 241 8 ; ditto, Certificates, to
91 ; Peruvian New Loan to 88 ; Portuguese ditto
to 461; Ruesian ditto is steady at 951 96; Vene-
zuelan 611; Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1854, are 85 86 ;
ditto 1858, 70* 71; ditto, 1862, 6681; and the
Consolides, 40* B.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market con-
tinued very inactive, and prices generally were a
shade flatter. Great Easterns, Great Westerns,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, and South Easterns
each declined ss. ; while North British and North
Eastern (Berwick) improved ss.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
was very little animation. Bahia and San Fran-
cisco declined to 21* 1; San Paulo Scrip to 91; and
South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian remained
steady at 231; Scindes declined:to 1051 106 ; East
India advanced to 1071; and Great Indian Penin-
sula to 1061.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
were in fair request, without material changes in
values. London and Westminster improved to 82 ;
Chartered of British Columbia to 91; London
Joint Stock brought 341 1; Union of Australia,
61 ; and Union of London, 321 ; Crystal Palace
Stock declined to 32* 33 ; Peninsular and Oriental
Steam advanced to 741; and London General
Omnibus Company realised 11 y.
The British and American Exchange Bank
are 516 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock 236
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent
ID" 1081
Ditte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent...... 95
Ditto 5 per Cent lO4
Ditto 54 per Cent,
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct , Oct., 1863
-1--12±
Ditto ditto
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001 1
Ditt‘ Bonds 21,000 . Aug. 1864 or 66 100 i
Consols for Account, i..3f): -5
************* * 210081
India Stock for Account, 6 Cent„pe.r.. *
** 921 i
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 2/ per Cent...,
£SOO
Ditto ......... 4 8
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Egpptitin 7 pei Cent 941 3i
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Conp 151
Italian 5 per Cent. (Nlaremmana Railway) L2l t
Mexican 3 per Cent .... ......
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
Peruvian 4i per Cent. .......... . .....
--
Ditto 1862
Ditto Aneotint..
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto 1862 •....... 4634 I
Ditto Scrip, £25 paid 2l pm
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 99
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 5 per tent. 1862 96 51i i
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. 9i i 1 I
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 66
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f —
Ditto Account 69/

THREE O'CLOCK,
Consols, Money
DittgAMiatmmitregrwmitt, 92211

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

Closing
Share) Railways Paid. Price. Business done
100 !Atlantic &St Lawrence all 65 67
our 51Bom.,Ilarodadz.Cent Ind 100 105 106 1051
li Gu. 5 per cent........
20 Do. New ... . .... 2
205 Buffalo and LaaeWuron all 5 51
10 Do. Preference . all 75 85
100 !'Buffalo Brant `) &Godrich ,„,
6 p.
ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 80 83
100 Do. do. July 1, 1871 100 71 76
100 Do. do. June 1, le7l 100 73 76
st Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Li! ' 100 104 106 105
st ,Cape Town & Dock Scrii 100 1084 109.1 109
stock lEastn. Bengal gu. sp. r 100 106 107 . 6
stock iEast Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 107 1(8 107 47 5
20 ! Do. do. G Ext..... 5 1 lip 65
20 ! Do. do. H do. .. 2 5 1p
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 215 224
I 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 75 77 765
100 ! Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct.. all 65 67
100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. all 34 86
100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all 48 52
100 I Do. do. 1867.. all 34 36 34.1
100 Do. do. 1872 .. all 34 26
stock IGtlndlaPenin.gua.sp.c. 100 1055 1065 1061 55 5
20 ! Do. New gua. sp. 0... 12 5 p 125
20 Do. January, 1862 .. 4 5 p
stock Gt. South.of India (Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 104 106 105
205 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 125 14 125
20 Do. New .. 18 8 75u
100 !Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 99 101
100 Do. 55 p. c. do. '77-8.. .. all 91 93 92
10 Indian Branch Limited 8 5 rlp 25
stock Madras guar.. sp.a. .. 100 103 tot 1035 4 4
stock Do. 45 p. o. Extension 100 97 99
stock De. 44 100 93 75
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2
stock Melb.Corn. 6p. o. Bnds 100
50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 52 53
100 Do. 7p. c. Mortis,. Bds. all
20 NewßrunswiCk & Candi,
Class A. Capital Share all 3 5
20 Do. do. B Capital d 0... alt 3
N.III.C'da6 pc Ist pf bds 100 83 65
stock
st Do. I.scind De ........ ) (100 1055 1064 106 55
Delhi
( Ft La 2 5 Ap 25
20 Do. Punjaub 1
st Do. Do. . , 110 104 105
stock I Do. Indus. St. Flo.) too 99 101
COLONIAL GOVEIINMENI SEC U
Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja &Julys
1877-S4
Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug.! 100 106 108
I Do. dp. c. Mar. & Sept.! 100 106 108
i Do. sp. c. Jan.&July.' 100 06 97 951 65 53 61
I Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 05 97
Cape G.Hope, 8p (0873 100 (04 110
Do.Ap & Oct 1880, 100 111 113
Do. 1890, 100 112 114 1131
I- Do. Jan. & July, 1891..' 100 111 113
!Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p c! 100
N.B.Gov. e.&July , 100 104 105
Do. Bp. c.Ap. & Oct.! 100
N. S.W. G ov. 5 p c.,1866 100 109 101
Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 995 1005
Do. d0.,1888 &upwde 100 99 99y 991
New Zealand 6p. cent! 100 109 lit
I Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. 0.1
1 sterling, 1875 i 100 105 106
Queensland Gov. 6p. c 100 .t 9 11l
5 Aus 100 109 11l 110
Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July, 100 107 109
Do. to Rp.a j lOO 1(91 110}_ 110} 10 1
FIRTT]SH NITN
2 !Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 par 1p
Cliilord Amalgamated 18 20
!Devon G. Cone. ;Tavist 1 500 510
)East Bassett (Mogan).- 30 53 65
1 'East Clogau Gold Ltd. ss. p *p
- lEast Caradon ...... 1.14.,- 49 5o 49 585 91 1
!East Carn Brea.... . . 3.0.0 11% 115
E. W'l Russel (Tavistk. 7.19.0 4 44 45
(3,am.SLSt.Aubyn(Gwen.) 574 18 20
Great South Tolgus 17s 6 64
G. Wheal Vor (Helston 40 6 65
!Grenville .. • 6.15. 44 5
Herod's-Foot Bl2 49 51
I Elingston Downs 4.! 7.0 3 35 15
Lady Bertha
2.0.6 1 11
Margaret (lJny Lelant 95 3'l 41
Marke Valley..
4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 2k sds pr
New Setup .. 195 150 160
North Downs 24 25 2
N.Wh'i Basset (Illovin '1.17.0 21
North Wheal Crotty
- Par Consols Mt Blazey' 15 5 6
10
South
or
Carplio vthi dce
:Bre eraed(a°U(nln( 1 SYI
oti;Ceallnit.r. 15045' .76 3912501 2143500
?.Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.1..9 90 95
{Stray Park
5 TamarSilv.& Lead Min 45 ; ;
10 Tin Crort 9 135 135
- IWest Basset (Illogan) l5 13 14
W earadon (Liskeard) 5 31 33
'West Seton
Wheal Basset (Illogan) 55 771 82,
Wheal Buller(ttedruth) 5 50' 4e
2.10.8 9 95 95 xd
h lLud ott
W ea 8
Wheal Kitty (L.Lelant) 2.0.6 75 85
15 Is
1 1 Stn .. • 884270 280 2775 80
Whea e o .......
(Lis.) 7 184 174
Wheal Treiaxvlley3.l3
Wheal Mary Ann
• !Wheal Union .....

PREFERENCE SHARES.
London, Chatham, and Dover I per cent. pref., 97}
North Eastern, York, H. and Selby purchase, 91
PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
Kent Coast, 6 per cent. pref. B, 21
LINES LEASED Ar FIXED RENTALS.
Buckinghamshire, 97
London and Chatham 44 per Cent., 921
London, Tilbury, and Southend, 87
Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 97
Wilts and Somerset, 93
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., I
Great Luxembourg, 141
N. Rail of Buenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent. (11m.), ;
Recite and San Francisco per cent.,
7 per cent., 19
San Paulo (lirn.), gua. 7 per cent., 91—Ditto (all), 23k
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 231
West Flanders, 7I
Western and North-Western of France, 211
FOREIGN MINES.

ffAustralian, 11
Dun Mount. Copper Min. Co. (1im.),1
ft
East del Rey (lim.), 11
Fortuna (Rm.), 414
Mont. Aureos Braz. Gold Min. CO. (lira.), 21 1
Port Philip, 11 1
it Scottish Australian (lim.), 11
ft
St. John del Rey (lim.), 58 ;4
United Mexican (Btu.), 51
Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lira.), 31 1
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (lim.), 24/
Australasia, 78} 8 9
Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 91 4 10
Eng., Sco ~ and Australian Chartered, 211
London, B. Ayres, and R. Plate (lim.), 12.
London Chartered Bank of Australia, 27
London Joint Stock, .4}
London and South African, 254
London and Westminster, 82 14 1
(.t.Nationaltntiomn Ottoman
nf
Provincial Provincial r.
oaootnnv n, Englandi3,l2042
couNrneiwieonnSt
ao BtAhaun raal,eus,ss43it4i
Corporation,
66 6
0
South Australia 3 Ireland,
89
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bombay Gas (limited), 1
Crystal Palsce, 33 2
East India and London Shipp no'
London Gem ral Omnibus (-5,: 34 4.
Nerbudda Coal and Iron, st Company 11 1
Peninsular and 0, iental Steam, 744
Ditto, new, 44
Rio de Janeiro City Improvements (2`,
Royal nail Steam, 56} 7

The accounts from the manufacturing districts
for the past week state that business generally has
shown symptoms of improvement. At Manchester
both cloths and yarns have advanced, owing to an
increased inquiry for the India and China markets.
The woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Hudders-
field has been more animated ; the chief dealings,
however, have been in light goods for spring and
summer requirements. The hosiery and lace
trades at Leicester and Nottingham have remained
without any material variation, while in the hard-
ware districts, viz , of Birmingham, Sheffield, and
L Wolverhampton there has beenrather more activity
of moot branches of Waimea.

COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Mr. Henry Newton, of the Bombay civil
service, to b; a judge of the High Court at Bombay, in the
room of Mr. W. E. Frere, who has resigned. J. R. Semper,
Esq., has been appointed member of the Exec utive Council
of the island of Antigua ; William Robinson, Esq., presi-
dent and senior member of the Executive Council of the
island of Montserrat, Edwin Donald Baynes, Esq., and
Dr. William Steventon to be members of the Executive
Council of the island of Montserrat; George D. Harris,
Esq., and Timothy Darling, Esq., members of the Executive
Council of the Bahama Islands; R. Hutchison, Esq., and
G. Blankson, Esq., members of the Legislative Council of
her Majesty's forts and settlements on the Gold Coast ;
Charles Boyes, Esq., a member of the Legislative Council
of the island of Jamaica.

MR. CHARLES DICKENS'S READINGS IN PARIS.
—Mr. Charles Dickens's soiree at the Embassy, for
the benefit of theßritish Charitable Fund, has been a great
success, writes our Paris correspondent. He read as abridg-
ment of " David Copperfield," so skilfully arranged as to
make a complete drama, with a light and serious plot inter-
woven. Lord Cowley's large drawing room was quite filled
by a fashionable audience—ladies, all in evening dress, form-
ing the majority. The reading lasted scarcely more than
an hour and a half, and it is wonderful to think what
varied emotions passed through the mind in that short space
of time. Mr. Dickens does as he likes with his audience.
They are as clay in the hands of the potter, and take any
shape that he desires. The transition from the roars of
laughter at Micawber and Mrs. Crupp, to the solemn
silence withwhich the pathetic story of Peggotty and Emily
was listened to, struck me as a marvellous homage to a
master-mind. I am told there were about 300 people in the
room, and as the price of admission was 20f., Mr. Dickens
must have the gratifying reflection that, besides affording
immense pleasure to countrymen abroad, many of whom he
knew in former days, and were rejoiced, after long absence,
to see him looking young and well, he has been the means
of putting a handsome sum into the treasury of an excel-
lent charity.
ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN.—LIVERPOOL,
Saturday.—The Great Eastern has arrived with ad-
vices from New York to the sth. Her comparatively long
voyage is occasioned by easterly winds and her very heavy
cargo, upwards of 3,000 tons of grain, &c., her draught of
water on her arrival here being 28 feet. Mr. Richard
Partridge, of Varty, Monmouthshire, died on the passage.
Mrs. Captain Paton was confined of a son on the 15th inst.
On Friday afternoon the cabin passengers presented to Cap-
tain Paton a testimonial, in which they desire to thank him,
and to extend their thanks even to the most subordinate
officers of the ship, for the uniform kindness and con-
sideration which they experienced on the voyage—kindness
and attention which made the voyage partake more of the
nature of a pleasure trip than a winter excursion across the
Atlantic. They also express their high satisfaction with
the ship and her performances in every respect. The second
and third class passengers also joined in a similar testi-
monial; and all classes speak in highly favourable terms of
the ship as affording an immunity from sea-sickness, and
express themselves as hopeful—indeed, certain,
that the
great ship will prove herself in every way successful, both
as a passenger and as a cargo ship.
SOUTHAMPTON DOCK COMPANY .—The directors
have unanimously elected Admiral Sir Provo William Parry
Willis, K.C.8., to the vacant seat at the Boarl, caused by
the decease of the late Mr. B. M. Willcox, M.P.

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A MEET ON THE ICE.—The Victoria skate:
mwaaysoro,pienntehde
partesMenocentorfeaalcoounpleCshfrtihstomusaasndevo
thebgy the
society of the city. This rink, which is without an equal
Canada, contains a skating space 202 ft. long by 80ft. w ine
surrounded by a broad promenade, the entire surface being'
spanned by a semicircle, forming at once both sides and roof.
The immense banding was well lit by six pendant rings or
stars of gas, while all around the space blazed a row of
single burners, 480 in all, making the rink almost as bright
as day, and lighting up the ice and the many colours which
slid over it. Since the evening of the Prince's ball Mon-
treal has not so seen so brilliant an effect produced at any
social gathering. The band of the 47th Regiment played
appropriate airs, while hundreds of skaters,
ladies and
gentlemen, girls and boys, flitted about on the ice in one
ever moving scene. There is something almost fairy-like
in the way in which a good skatress glides over the ice.
It has such a graceful effect that we shall take the
liberty of citing a hint from n New York contemporary.
Ladies should wear dresses without hoops. The English
ladies' dress, worn so much at present, is well adapted for
skating. It is a rather tight dress, not reaching below
the ankles, which are hidden by laced-up boots—tight cloak,
and
skatitnhg ie porkpie hat with its jaunty feather. A woman
n
tide
on her head a appears as much out of place with such an ar-
teney, and aa " sky scrap er"
tell well in aka
with a very pretty
States, as
means colour to the cheeksnadnd we
skating is becoming'.
bonnet is a shocking inconsis-
s would a lady on horseback. Ribands
rn
g. They stream out from a skating cap
effect. From New York and the neigh-
bouringtwhle.st as Chicago, we got word that
_ e marrow to the bones, which
is a great deal more than:can as winter a fashionable, if not the
fashionable amusement ;
are happy to hear it, for it
amomento.....xonercoi ancl;(0. said for some fashionable