The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-28 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCE.
There is a full inquiry for money in discount
circles, and very little business can be transacted
under the Bank of England minimum—viz., 4 per
cent. The settlements at the Stock Exchange are
exercising a temporary influence, and the market
tvill now probably continue firm and active until
after the liquidation of the.mercantile bills, due on
the 4th proximo.

The Bank of England return for the week, to
Wednesday, last shows some favourable move-
ments, especially as regards the discounts, bullion,
and notes in reserve. The following are the par-
ticulars :
Active Circulation .. £20,992,660
Decrease 398 670
•• •• •• ••
Bullion .. 15,309,384
Increase .. • • • • • • 228,232
Best 3,412,076
Decrease .. •• '•
• • • • • • ,•• 37,037
Public Deposits • • • • 6 713,801
• • '587,133
Increase .. .. • • • • •
Other Deposits.. .. 1z,806,568
198,754
Decrease • • • • • ' • • 707 036
Seven Day and other Bills .. .•
25,190
Increase .. • • • • • • 11 091 284
Government Securities ,
2,858
Increase .. • • •• • •
Other Securities •. 18,134,473
Decrease .. • 8,141 183,228
Notes Unemployed 350
Increase .. .„ 552,190
During the last few days there has been a fair
amount of business transacted in the Foreign and
Colonial Produce Market. Sugars have fully
maintained their late advance, while tea, coffee, and
cocoa have been in moderate request at fully mode-
rate rates. Rice, however, has declined, while the
tallow market has continued exceedingly dull, few
transactions either for present or forward delivery
having been reported.

The official returns relating to trade and naviga-
tion for the seven months ended the 31st July have
just been published. From these it appears that
the total value of the exports from the
United Kingdom during that period amounted
to £75,663,037, against £69,446,480 in the like
period of 1862, showing an increase of £6,216,557.
The increase has been most perceptible in beer
and ale, cotton manufactures, earthenware, haber-
dashery and millinery, hardwares, linen manufac-
tures, and woollen and worsted yarn,
The imports of the principal articles have been
larger, as regards raw cotton, sheep and lambs'
wool, cocoa, coffee, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, and
wine,

The shipping accounts exhibit an increase in
the amount of tonnage employed in the foreign
trade for both the entries inwards and the clear-
ances outwards, as is also the case with the
coasting trade.

About £130,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
yesterday.

The Shannon has arrived from the West Indies
with £464,573.

Two O'CLOCK.
At Paris this morning, according to. Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were
67f. 55c.—heavy.
The advance which took place in Consols yester-
day is steadily maintained, the quotations still
being 934 t for money, and 93! 2 for the account.
The New Threes are 93i and the Reduced An-
nuities 932 ; and Exchequer Bills are ls. dis. to 2s,
prem. India 5 per Cents. Loan is again 1082
and the Bonds are 183. to 19s. prem.
A moderate amount of business has been nego-
tiated to-day in the market for Foreign Securities,
poine of which have experienced an important rise.
Turkish Consolida, for instance, are 52,, being
per cent. higher. Greek have risen 1 per cent.,
viz., to 34i 35 ; and the Coupons are per cent.
better, at 161 t. Spanish Passive are a little firmer,
being 342 -7,-. Some purchases have been
effected in Mexican, and an advance to 381
it has taken place. The Confederate Loan has
receded -1 per cent., viz., to 28 26 discount.
Portuguese, 1862, have further advanced to 491 d ;
Peruvian, 861 87 ; Egyptian, 1041- ; Italian are firm
at 71& ; do., Maremmana Railway Loan at 79; and
Venezuelan are 57i.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
moderately active, and prices have in most in-
stances shown an upward tendency. Great Western
have improved 155.; and North Stafford, £1 ;
while Brighton have receded £1 ; Lancashire and
-Yorkshire, North Western, and South Eastern
fully sustain former prices, although the quotations
are now ex dividend.

The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in
moderate request, without any material variation to
report in values.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in some
instances at slightly enhanced quotations. English,
Scottish, and Australian Chartered have advanced
to 23 ; London and South African to 27 I ; and
Alliance of London and Liverpool to 36 38i. Hud-
son Bay Company shares are at 41 ; and Interna-
tional Financial shares at 91 10/.

BRITISH FUNDS--ONE O'CLOCK.
. 'Bank Stock _
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
:New 21 per Cent.
5 C
Annuities,
per ent. Annuitir

tee ................
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880..
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. 15
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908.
India. Stock ..............
Ditto 5 ............
pet Cent .................... 108/ I
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent......
Ditto 5 per Cent ........
Ditto 5/ per Cent
..................
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO l9 pm
Ditto under £l,OOO l6 pin
Bank Stock for Account ....
Consols for Account, Sept. 9
India Stock for Account, a per Cent —
March, June,
21 per Cent. I 24 per Cent.

Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO
Ditto £5OO 2pm
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS--ONE O'CLOCK.
..
12:'91;itian 7 por Cent .. lOl2
Ditto, Second Issue ..
Gtv3ek 5 per Cent., 1824-6, ex-Coupons..
bitto Account 3ll h 1
Ditto Coupons
16h
„., Ditto Account
at alian. 6 per Cent. plarennoana Railway) 79
Mexican :, Cent
, , per
io 1)140 Account . er avian
41 p 3 per Centnt . ,
.:
itto per Cent M
/ Ditto Account . ... 86 7
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1353 —
-Ditto Account.... -
5 . 49
Itussian tto 3 per Cent , 1356, '.7 t'9 ' '6O '
62
49.1
Ditto A.ccaunt
per Cent ,1g
X. St
~
Ditto 4i per Cent 1850
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
921 1
8 Ditto •5 per Cent. 1862
.. 891
E It° Aectount ... Patligh 3 per Celli ..
131)iitttoto
...kiew.
Deferred
34 i
Ditto 2'8'31"
.. 34
SPanishcceerftut ............. .
DittoDto ~ _ t. of Coup nut funded
Cent. 185-1
Tnrkjahlupeennt
:=Ditto
6A
pc .e: eo:u&t ............
Ditto9l 31'
Accountnt. lass
a i
Ditto, £lOO 110n.a,,.
per
cent. 1
Ditto 6
Ditto Account ... 862
Ditto Guaritutetx-i,i.0.p.;;;-' "" " " ---°
0
Venezuela 3 per `e
t.
' - -tut.
Ditto Account . ...
Ditto 6 per Cent., 18672........******* 21
1 Hu° Account. ...... ......"" " " ,
Ditto 6 per Cent. 186 S, zig.; ..... • •.- 41 i
aya-le in London.
Dividends on the ob„oi,--8 "Q pa. 31 dis
-Belgian 4% per Cent., Ex 25f:
.juten 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gun
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates -
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f -
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1361, Ex. 25 frau" . .77
•• (ta
Ditto Account .................. --

TWO O'CLOCK.
....... „... t)3t
cotroir,:
........ 931
Ditto ACCOUnt

Liverpool. Cotton Market—Thig Da
y.
4----

Week's sales 114,130 bales, including 39M0
on
"Peculation, and 15,600 for exportation. Quotations
Orleans, 25.1 ;
Mobile, 25 • Uplands, 211
tirnftted middling Orleans, 233,-; Mobile, 2:31 ;
11 ?,.4111. 23• Estimated Egyptians, 23,1 ; Surate,
1,0 22.
Estimated stock, 247,500. Actual ex-
PT, gio,.
uQt bales. Week's import, 29,923 bales.
iklariee3t °f.the *day about 100,000 bake or more.
Tileter Int strotig•

PREFERENCE SHARES.
London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., ICOI

FOREIGN RAILWAY S.
N Rail of Buenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent., 101
San Paulo (limo, gua. 7 per cent., 91
Western and North-Western of France, 211

FOREIQN MINE&
United Mexicali (litn4, 7 61

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (11in.), 36 5E63
A.ustralasia,
Ditto, new, 3!
Bank of New Zealand, 103
Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 123
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 303
English, Scorch, and Australian Chartered, 233 3
Imperial Ottoman, 18 3
London and Brazilian aim.), 433
London and County, 483
London Joint Stock, 35
London and South African, 273 7
London and South-Western (lim.), 9
London and Westminster, 773
Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (Um. 1, 53
Standard of British South Africa (rim.), 19
Union of London, 353
MISCELLANEOUS.
Crystal Palace, 403 40
Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 3yi
General Steam Navigation, 281
Hudson's Bay, 41 3 k
International Financial Society, 93 103
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 43
Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds rd. 1870 issued 90, 713
London General Omnibus Company (lim.), 2 3
Oriental Inland Steam, Bin., 35
South Australian Laud, 333

FREEDOM OF THE BURGH OF DUNDEE TO EARL I
RUSSELL—A special meeting of the Dundee Town
Council was held on Tuesday, Provost Parker presiding,
when it was unanimously resolved to invite Earl Russell to
a public dinner, and to confer the freedom of the burgh on
his lordship, on the 10th proximo, the day after the open-
ing of the Baxter-park, at which demonstration he has ex-
pressed his intention of being present. if this was not
consistent with the arrangements of the noble earl, it was
resolved that ho should be requested to accept the free-
dom of the burgh on the forenoon of the day fixed for the
opening of the park —Edinburgh Courant,
THE CURRANT CROP.—The English screw
steamer Arcadia, fro Patras, with dates to the 18th
inst., arrived at Valetta on the 22d. She brought accounts
of Warm and dry weather, enabling the growers to bring in
their currant crops in good order and of first class quality.
iavelock, 17th,
Many steamers and sailing vessels were there waiting ship-
ments, The following have left :—Scotia, on the 14th, for
London Lady E linton 15th, for Liverpool ; Lady
don ; .15th, for
egioa 18th, for London; and forg London;' Parthenon, 18th, for Lon-
Liverpool,