The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-09 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND
COIVIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE o'CLocx.
Tkere is no alteration to report in the ueneral
aspect of the money market to-day, the inquiry
hcing steadily maintained, while the rates are un-
altered.

The Brazilian mail steamer Parana, which left to-
day, conveyed £17,700 in specie.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts
for the past week have not been quite so satisfac-
tory. Business at Manchester both in cloths and
yarns have been exceedingly quiet and prices
have shown a downward tendency. The
woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, and
Huddersfield continued seasonably active, and
in the hosiery and lace departments at Leices
ter and Nottingham there has been a steady
business negotiated. In the hardware districts,
viz., at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton,
there has been little change of impartance to re
port.

The Joint Stock Discount Company has been
announced, with a capital of £1,000,000, which is
to be raised by shares of £2O each. The under-
taking has been in contemplation for some time, and
is now brought forward under the auspices of a
very influential board of directors, and with satis-
factory negotiations concluded for the durchase of
the old established business of Mr. J F. Wilkinson,
whose services the company will retain as its mana-
ger. This new monetary establishment wi.l con-
sequently be enabled to commence operations forth-
with, and with no mean prospects of future success.
The brokers to the company are Messrs. Hill, Faw-
cett, and Hill. The shares are already quoted 11 2
prem.

The following remarks upon the silk trade are
from Messrs. Durant and Co.'s circular :--4. We
have a comparatively quiet market in silk—not a
/natter of surprise, seeing the very large business in
the first three weeks of the year—still all goes
fairly well, except that the high range of prices
renders the chance of profit to manufacturers more
than questionable. The only feature of the last
fortnight has been the continued disposition to take
Japan silk ; all that has come forward has been
ta'en freely at full rates. Another vessel is now
about to unload with 1,200 bales. fnis class con-
tinues to hold its ground in popular favour, and is
most welcome at a time when the supply of China silk
threatens to be comparatively small, and when the
the quality and size are becoming less and less
favourable. The deliveries of the month were very
large,and prices generally are fairly supported. In
Bengal silk there is nothing worth especial notice.
merely the usual moderate business. Persian silk
continues in fair demand. The usual periodical
public sales are fixed to commence on the 18th
instant."

Two O'CLOCK.
Paris Rentes were at 12.45 this day (says Reuter's
telegram) 70f. 40c. to 70f. 50c.—rather firm.

Only a small amount of business has been nego-
tiated in the English Stock Market to-day, and it
has not produced any change in the quotations,
Consuls being 922 s for transfer, and 921 1 for the
account. The New Three per Cents. and the Re-
duced are steady at 921 ; Exchequer Bills are
3s. pm.; Bank Stock is 238; India 5 per Cent.
Loan remains at 1081.
In the Foreign Market a heavy tone has pre-
vailed, and business has been rather restricted.
Greek Bluds have been dealt in at 192, but are now
19 201, and the Coupons I; Spanish Passive
have declined to 26k 1, and the Certificates to 91
10, owing to the intelligence of the suspension of
the Cortes and the probability of its dissolution.
Turkish Securities are well supported, and Egyptian
and Peruvian are tolerably steady.
A firmer tone has prevailed in the Railway
Share Market, and most of the principal. British
undert kings have realised slightly enhanced prices.
South Easterns improved £:1 to £1 55.; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, £1 ; South Westerns and
West Midlands, 10s.; and North E astern (Ber-
wick), ss. Great Eastern, Great Northerns, and
South Westerns, however, have declined ss.
In the Foreign and Colonial markets there bas
been no material variation as regards prices. Bahia
and San Francisco remained steady at 2874; South
Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian at ,231; Great
Luxembourg at 151 152 ; East Indian at 1062 a;
and Grand Trunk of Canada at 211 1,
Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares exhi-
bited little change of importance; London and
Westminster being dealt in at 77s to 771 ; London
and County at 391 to 40; Ottoman Bank at 382
39; Berlin Water Works at it ; and Peel River
Land declined to 49.

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Bank
stBocRkITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
3per Cent. Reduced Annuities 921 i
per Cent. Consols Annuities ..
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 921 i
921
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent. .........
Ditto Enfaced Paper , 108 i I 8
4 per Ceiat....
.
D
Ditto 5 per Cent
Dittbonds ti,aoo
o under £l,OOO. _.. ...........
Consols for Account, March. 5
ndia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent lOBl
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 3
DiDitto £5OO
tto Small
E FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
gpptian 7 pet Cent
Ditto, Second Issue .
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupms
Ditto Coupons
Mexican 3 per Cent .
Ditto A-ccount
Moorish Imperial 5 per Ce11e...1..... 94f
New Granada ........................ 31
Ditto 2 poi Cent .
Ditto Hectares .................. 6,
Peruvian 4f per Cent. ................
Ditto 1862
Ditto Account
.. 88 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive
i 1
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded 10 9 10} 9t
Turkish 0 per Cent. 1854 894
Ditto Account..
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 93—
Ditto Account 721
Ditto, £lOO Bonds .......
Ditto 6 per Cent. 18732
Ditto Account 4
Venezuela, 3 per Csnt
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 6.5k
Italian, 5 par Cent., 1861, Ex 25f —
Ditto Account
701
Console, Money TWO O'CLOCK.
Ditto Account..... 923........... 921 ,I
......
.. _ _

" M. prolific pen is now at workfor tue
stage ; and durtng the current week we are to
have at the Fondo a 1113177 drama, entitled 'Le Notti di
Firenze.' The subject is taken from the times of Alexan-
der Medicis ; and the history of its composition is one of
many proofs of the rapid genius of its author. On Mon-
day, Madame Ristori was with him arranging the plan of
the piece, and on the following Saturday morning it was
arranged leo p a tra' and 'Marie.
Saturday
completed. M. Dumas has now on the stocks two other
dramas, to be entitled respectively 'Cleopatra'
on
'C
Antoinette,' the plans of which
Morning with the great actress for whom
and
, t
ot en
Madame Ristori has long halla fancy
unfortunate Queen, whose character she imagines
b
e
Well represent. Both pieces will be
performed for
y a
Ristori in London next June; ' Mariescenes of the
Antoineete' for the
first time, and some of the most striking
M.
Alexandre
French Revolution will be intraiuced.
Dumas is at the same time proprietor and editor of a jour-
nal in Naples, called the Inefipendente , singularly anti-
English in its tone, yet, it must be confessed, industrious
and courageous in exposing the abuses of this country.—
Correspondent of the Athenceum.
A singular discovery has just been made in the
commune of Saint Germ:id-le-Puy (Allier). A
farmer in digging a field came upon a large flat stone, which
on being removed was found to have covered a circular pit,
nearly two feet in diameter. •A young man furnished with
a lamp having descended discovered at a depth of about
tea feet from the ground a round chamber, at one
end of which was a narrow opening, similar to
that by which he had descended. Finding that his lamp
burnt freely, and feeling no difficulty in breathing, the young
ram continued his researches, and having traversed the
narrow opening found himself in a passage about three feet
Wide and six high, which branched off to the right and left,
and after forming a circuit joined again at a distance of
about 12 yards. No one can say what was the use of these
sabterranear. passages. In one of them the ground has a
hollow sound, which gives rise to the supposition that there
are other exoavaticns below'