The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-14 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The rates of discount continue steady, and the
demand, as usual at the end of the week, is very
quiet. It is
quota-
tions generally thought that lower quota-
will prevail in the course of next week.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have been
about £601,000, and the exports £860,000.
The directors of the British and Magnetic Tele-
graph
rate
of Companys have announced a dividend at the
per cent. for the past six months.
The prospectus has appeared of the West Central
Horse and Carriage Repository, requiring a capital
of £50,000, in shares of £5 each. The object of
the undertaking is the purchase of the Holborn
horse and Carriage Repository, and to enlarge and
improve the same by securing the adjoining pro-
perty ; to transact the business of selling horses,
dogs, carriages, See. ; and. to open a turt subscrip-
tion-room. The success which has attended the
efforts of private firms leads the directors of the
present contemplated association to anticipate re-
munerative results. The situation of the repository
is particularly advantageous, as it is within a short
distance from the new railway nation in Farring-
don-street, which will affnd facilities for the sate
arrival and removal of horses and other goods.
With regard to the Budget, Messrs. J. Travers
and Sons, in their weekly circular, state :-- It is
expected that the Budget will not be introduced
until after Easter. Probably the 17th of April
may be about the date. Anticipations regarding
reductions in the tea and sugar duties are becoming
less sanguine, but, after the evidence lately brought
forward, it is difficult to believe that Mr. Gladstone
eau intend any longer to maintain the vicious form
of protection involved in the differential rates on
sugar.

From the official return issued yesterday it appears
that the revenue of the South Austrian and Lom-
bardo Venetian lines (extending over 1,323 miles),
during the week ending the 4th inst., was £35,238,
or £12,286 less than the company received in the
same time in 1862, on 1,203 miles. On the Cen-
tral of Italy branch from Plaisance to Bologna, a
distance of 91 miles, the receipts were £3,311
against £2,815 in the same period of last year.

The receipts of the Datch Rhenish Railway for
the fortnight ending January 31, 1863, amounted
to £7,575 ss. 114-d. ; and for the corresponding
period of last year to £7,314 18s. showing
an increase of £2OO 7s. in favour of the present
Year.

Two O'CLOCK. 10
Paris Rentes were at 12.45 this day (says Reuter's 'Lk
telegram) 70f. 65c.—heavy.
The market for the English Funds opened 1'
buoyantly, and a rise of per cent. ensued, Consols
then being 92* 93 for transfer, and 931 for the to
to
account ; but this improvement, which resulted 10
from purchases on speculation, was not maintained,
the closing pries being 92.1, and 92; 93, respec eio
-
tively. The New Three per Cents. have advanced 2
to 921 93}; the Reduced, to 92* 93; Exchequer eg
Bills, ls. dis. to 2 prem. ; India 5 per Cent. Loan xn
remain at 1081. to
Continued firmness has been perceptibie in the 10 to
Foreign Market, and a fair amount of business has io
been recorded. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854. are to
supported at 891 90* ; do.. 1858, at 731 4 ; do., St.'
1862. 691 701 ; and the Consolides 41-2- I; Greek, fit 2
201 1 ; do., Coupons. 9 1 ; Peruvian New Loan has
advanced to 881 894; Portuguese do., 47 s ; Rus-
sian, 94 ; Spanish Passive, 26 a ; do. Certificates, u
I
10 ; and Venezuelan New Loan, 601.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings con-
tinned moderately active, and prices in most in- 1i;
stances exhibited increased buoyancy. Great
Northerns improved 55.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1!
Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western, Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and North Eastern
(Berwick), 10s.; and Great Western 155.; London, 81
Chatham, and Dover, and South-Eastern, however,
have declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continued in
limited demand, and prices remained without
!material variation.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares were dull, and
exhibited no change of importance as regards prices.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ..
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock ..
D tto 5 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 100
Dtt . bonds t 1,;)oll .... .. ..... 14 pm
Consols for Account, March. 5
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 1 dis 2 pm
Ditto £SOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Bgpptian 7 pet Cent lOOl 100
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup nis 21)1 1 1
Ditto Coupons
Xexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
IN- ew Granada
Ditto 2 pet Cent
..._ Ditto Deferred • 7l 7
I.•,ruvian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 1862
pl),,_itto Account..
-."4tuese 3 per Cent., 1853
4,„ Ditto 1862
Ditto
5 per Cent., 1822, £ St .. 971
vtt° 4/ per Cent., 1850..
Ditto ct!t per Cent „ 1860....
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Scrip, £65 16s.
P aid i pm
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Now Deferred —
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive ...........
Spanish,Cert. of Coup not fuilded
.. Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account 9Ol
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account....
Ditto 6 per Cent. 18 )2
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
tilian, 5 psr Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f —
Oitto Account 7ok
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 92/ 3

The half-yearly meeting of the Peel River Land
"d Mineral Company took place yesterday, Mr.
-Hughes in the chair. Tne report was unanimously
adopted, and the chairman stated that since the report
bad been issued, despatches had been received from
the colony which materially influenced the favour.
able prospects of the company. Rain had fallen at
the Ellangowan station, end the superintendent
bad disposed of the surplus stock of sheep.
A Berlin letter states that King William intends
making a tour in the Prussian provinces during the coming
Ong. It is rumoured that the Ministers hope by means
of this excursion to stimulate the loyalty of the populations,
preparatory to a dissolution of the chamber; and a general
election.

PARLIAMENT IN DIFFICULTIES.—Among the slan-
qierons tales told of
iassistto give
andy a u
o verdict, Wsone lsh
the
juries, is one of 12 honest men
"Can
refusing
though the case was proved.
Points in which you have a difficulty
Oh
n
ultyo., my lord," lie
in coming troepadd the
foreman ?" inquired the ju-dge'
thiltsecnsasaen an"w e
dwaer e all
say
so frankly.
at
ktih
"Rht to hsve a verdict." y ' story tbuthe
wi
plaintiffl
illustrates tora not
eosthtahtshe proveditreat-
meat h e
of the Confederate States in Parliament on Thursday
Ilight-1 he index.
t' :A BREAKFAST TO MR. D_ ICKENS.—ot
her day in The Nord
the notices a literary breakfast given
Paris by M. Pitre Chevalier, to Mr. Dickens. There were
present MM. Ernest Le gouve, F. Ponsa-ri ' Emile Augier,
Paul Peva',
WeY, " auteur de Dick Moon et Les Angiall
4, un Dickens Parisien," Th. Gautier, reaunic,i,s,
Louis 151bach, as d Dr. Oldie, physician to the English
P,mbassy, and an " arni d'enlance de l'auteur de Pickwick.''..,
101. Lamartine, Jules Sandeau, and Jules Janin were a 1
_soe
invited, but excused themselves in letters which, says th
IVord, will remain in the archives of Dickens. " What a
dessert," it adds, " was provided forthese privileged guests!'
Mdlle. Trebelli arrived by chance, and sang to them sundry
"Operatic pieces, and finally, " pour faire la digestion," this
congress of romancists" went to a photographer's and had
themselves " done."

THE GEORGE I. STATUE, LEICESTER-SQUARE.
--The old equestrian statue of George 1., which
stood in Leicester-square, before Wyld's Great Globe, now
demolished and dispersed, usurped its position and enclosed
it within the circumference of a miserable piece of archi-
tecture, has been just restored to its place. The statue is
now minus one of the King's It gs, and koks considerably
the worse for its long incarceration in the black hole to whch
it was consigned so remorsely. But as a work of art the
sculpture must still be admired,

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ex,. No. 1. 112
PREFErtENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
Kent Coast, per cent. pref. B,
London, Brighton, &c., 1, per cent., 1858, 101

LINES LEASED Ai' FIXED R(INTALS.
London and ChAttiam 4 per Cent.,
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 4

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81 1,
Great Luxembourg, t is 16
Sambre and Meuse, 11 al.

FOREIGN MINES.
Cape Copper (lim.). 31 6
St. John net itey aim.), 53

JOI T-STOCK RANKS.
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (lim.), 241
Ausiralasia, 801 80
Bank of Egypt, 251
Bank o' Que‘ nslaud F/
British and America Excha, ge (lim.), 11
Eng., Sco ~ and Australian Chartered, 20}
Imperial Bank (lirn.), 14
London and County, 39}
London Joint stock, 5
London and South African, 241
London and Westminster, 77
National Provincial of En.... land, new, 211
Oriental Bank Corporation 5a
Ottoman Bank, got 40
Ditto, new, to
;;`
Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi aim.), 2i
South Australia, 341
Union of -London, 331
MISCELLANEOUS.
Anglo-Mexican Mint, 1-i ;
Berlin Water Works, 7 t
E: glish and Australian Copper, I
London Gen, ral Omnibus Company (Um.),
National Discount Company, .
Quebrada Land, Rail, and Mining (lim.), 2
\ an Diemen's Laud, 111

The British arid Irish Magnetic Telegraph Com-
pany have declared a dividend for the past half-year at
the rate of five per cent. per annum, carrying forward
£3,141.
FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE IN THE VICTORIA
DOCKS.—Vesterday a shocking and fatal accident
happened to Henry Strolger, aged 35 years, a seaman re-
siding in Catherine• street, St, George's-in-the-East. The
deceased was engaged on the mainyard of a large vessel
lying in the import basin of the Victoria Docks, when he
by some means slipped and fell a distance of 60 feet on to
the deck with fearful violence. Sev, ral of his companions
ran to his assistance, when deceased was found to be in a
shocking condition, quite insensible, and bleeding from a
severe wound on the head, and upon his removal to the
Poplar nospital both legs were found to be fractured and
his body severely contused. The house surgeon (Mr.
Spergen) rendered every assistance, but the poor fellow
shortly afterwards expired from the effects of the injuries,