The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-11 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Money Market still presents a quiet and
"try easy appearance, the best bills being negotiated
as low as 3: per cent.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £389,600, and the exports £608,500.
The traffic receipts on the Bengal division of the
East Indian Railway for the week ending the 18th
January last, on 604 miles, represent a total amount-
ing to £13.665 95., and for the corresponding week
in the previous year, upon 3202 miles, they brought
£7,534 7s. It will thus be observed that while
there has been no great increase or decrease in the
revenue, the business may be regarded as good, al-
though of a rather stationary character. The total
sum received by the North West Provinces Division,
on 2792 miles, for the same date as above, was £6,315
2s. id., while in the corresponding week of last
Sear, on 2432 miles, it represented £3,851 3s. 7d.,
showing also a steadier, but not progressive business.
The following very interesting calculations are
extracted from Messrs. Joseph Travers and Son's
circular :

IMPORTS AND CONSUMPTION OF COCOA, COFFEE,
SUGAR, AND TEN IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY.—From
the foil wing accounts it will b 3 seen that, with the excep-
tion of tea, the importations of thesa articles were larger
than in the corresponding month of last year, and that in
the consumption of cocoa and sugar there was an increase,
while in that of coffee and tea there was a diminution•

COCOA.
Imports. Consumption.
lbs. lbs.
Feb 1861
„ 1862 1,101,305 341,905
„ 1863 254,148 397,164
COFFEE.
Feb. 1861
„ 1862 5,580,256 2,884,982
„ 1863 3,803,757 2,602,965
SUGAR.
Feb. 1861
„ 1862 580,061 730,443
„ 1863

TEA,
Feb. 1861 12,175,188 5,828,620
„ 1862 7,871,694 5,831,665
„ 1863 16,129,280 5,223,881
The results presented by the above tables are as follows :
Of cocoa the importation during the month of February
was 77 per cent. less than the quantity imported in Feb-
ruary, 1862, and 124 per cent, more than that in February,
1861; while the consumption was 16 per cent. more than
in 1862, and 40 per cent. more than in 1861. Of coffee the
importation was 32 per cent, less than in February, 1862,
and 9 per cent. less than in 1861; while the consumption
was 10 per cent, less than in either of the two preceding
years. Of sugar the importation was 3 per cent, less than
in Fetruary, 1862, and 10 per cent, less than in 1861;
while the consumption was 6 per cent, more than in 1862,
and 15 per cent, more than in 1861. Of tea the importation
was 115 per cent.more than in February, 1862, and 39 per
cent, more than in 1861; while the consumption was 10
per cent, less than either of the preceding years.
The twenty-i;inth annual general meeting of the
Agra and United Service Bank has b3en held to-day.
The report, which was adopted, stated that the
audited accounts for the year ended 31st December
last, exhibit a surplus of £173,815 17s. sd. The
directors regret to say that a very serious loss has
been sustained by the opium frauds at Hong Kong,
the whole of which they have deemed it their duty
to write off to debit of the reserve fund, according to
the discret; on vested in them under the deed of settle-
ment. Out of the above sum of £173,815 17s. 6d.,
the directors have paid the usual dividend and bonus,
amounting' to £120,000, and have transferred the
balance, £53,815 17s. 5d., to credit of the reserve
fund, which now stands at £192,658 17s. Bd.
Since the last annual meeting, the directors have
opened a branch of the bank at Sydney, under
the management of Mr. Alexander Camp.
bell, the progress of which has been satis-
factory. The house occupied by the Bank in Cal-
cutta has long been found insufficient tor the ex-
tended business at that Presidency ; and the direc-
tors are glad to report that a most eligitle site has
been secured, on which suitable premises will be
immediately erected. The directors have purchased
the freehold of the premises in Cannon•-street, on
favourable terms.

Two O'CLOCK.
At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr.
Renter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were
C9f. 95c.—Rather firm.

The market for the English Funds has continued
rather heavy, Consols having closed at 921 1 for
money, and at 921 1 for the account. Business has
been exceedingly dull, owing to a disinclination
on the part of speculators to extend operations.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are
marked 911; Indian Stocks have remained steady,
and Exchequer Bills closed at 3s. discount to par.
The transactions in the Foreign Market have
bean rather active, but no important change has
taken place. Greek Bonds are 271 28i, and the
Coupons, 13 1 ; Mexican, 321; PE ruvian New Loan
is steady at 871; Portuguese ditto, 951 ; Spanish
Passive are 291 1; and the Certificates, 101 1;
Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, 87 88 ex div. ; ditto,
1858, 671 68 ; ditto, 1862, 691 4 ; and the Con-
solides, 471 4. The Confederate Loan is 11 2 pm.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
dull, and several of the principal lines have slightly
declined in value. Great Northern A Stock has
receded £1; Great Easterns and South Easterns,
ss. ; and Great Westerns and Midlands, 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings 'con-
tinued dull, without any material alteration in
values.

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares in
one or two instances are a shade firmer. London
and County improved ss. ; Union of Australia, Os.

BRITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Fink Stock 235 3
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., IbBo.,
I)itto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 21 7-16
India Stock
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent.
Ditto 51 per Cent. ............... 1141
DBonds £21.1)00
Ditto under £l,000
Consols for Account, May 7
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 per Cent 3 Ms par
Ditto £5OO ............ 3 dis par
Ditto Small 3 dis par
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Egyptian 7 pet Cent
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account 2Bh 71
Ditto Coupons l3 4 13
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
nsw Granada l5
Ditto 2 per Cent 33 21
Ditto Deferred 7i 8
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
.....
.1862.........
Ditto Account.. _
Ditto
.

Portuguese 3 per Cent., 18 ......
.............53 87.1
Ditto Account.. ........ . ........ .
48
Ditto 1862 4B7a
Rnesian 5 per Cent., 1822, Le st .......
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859. 6Ol
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 53
291 8i 91, 81
Ditto Passive
• Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 -
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
iato Account 671
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1852
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account
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Liverpool Cotton Market----This Day.

(It,CrTER'S TELEGRAM.)
Market dull. No change. Sales,
Import, 1,569. 5,000 bales.

At the quarterly meeting of the Council of the
llalifax Chamber of Commerce, held yesterday, it was de-
cided not to entertain a report from the New York Cham-
ber of Commerce, touching the building in this country or
War ships for the Confederates,
The classes of the College de France for the second
half-year of 1863 will counnence on Monday neat,

6.4.0

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(_.an.Oov. 6 p.c.Ja
1877-Si
Do. 6 p. c. Feb..:; Auk-
- Do. fl p. c. Mar. & Sept
Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July.
I Do. 5 Inscribed stocl,
Cape G. Hope, 8 p c,187:
Do.Ap &Oct 188('
; Do. 1891

Do. Jan. & July, 1891
Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p
Mau•ltius 5 per cent
Natal G,,v. 6 per cant
,N.ll.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&Jul)
; Do. 6p. c.Ap. &
N.S.W.Gov.Sp
Do. 5 p. c.,18 r i to I",t
- Do. d0.,1888 drupwdr
- New Zealand 6 p cent.
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
sterlintx, 1875
Queensland Gov. 6p. c
'S. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up
- Vlc.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja..&Jul)
Do. to cs 0.0. kb-AM-Mt.

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BRITISH MINES.
2 ;Cambrian Consol. Golds 1 7,7 id
Amalgamated ' -- 20 22
- Devon G. Cons. cravist 1 515 625
I East Bassett allomin). 30 85} 875 89 I
1- I East Clogau Gold Ltd.l ss. *d 51)
lEast Caradon 1
'East earn Brea.... ... •• • i 3.4•0 42 431
LWI Russel (Tavistk.; 8.1.6 4 44
iGam.&SLAubyn(Gwen.) tal 14 16
(3 reat South Tolgus 17s 5 5i
'. Wheal Voralelston 40 64 7
!Grenville.
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;lingston Downs 4. , 7.0 2 25
Lady Bertha ..... t . 2.0 6 t 1
%largaret (any Ewan; 4 35 37
—jllarke Valley..
4 'rlyndy Iron Ore (Lim ; 24 1 4 d
New Setun lOl 130 140
North Downs 24l 120
3
'1 Basset (Mogan 1.17. c 4 4}
north Wheal Crotty
iar Consols (1!-A. Blazey 45 ta
20 !!'rovidence(Uny Lelnt., 10.6.; 12 14
ISouthCaradon(St.Cleer 15 1 300 400
—3. Carn Brea (Illogan) 1 5.15.0 2/ 3;
Wheal Fran. (Illovin 118.1 .9 875 925
iStray Park
5 famar Silv.& Lead Min 45 1
10 !fin Croit g 21 22
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West Basset (Illogan) l5 12 13
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Oaradon (Liskeard ! 5 32 34
West Seton
Wheal Basset (Illogan'; I (75 725
Viheal Buller( Redruti)l 5 58 62
Wheal Kitty (U.LelanLi 2.0.6
- WhealLud ott
- wheal MaryAnn(Men )j 8 155 165
- Wheal Seton ' 585 245 255
I.v heal Treiawney (Lis ); 7 17 18
IWheal Union 3.17 , 5 55
PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 2, 111 104

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 2, 111
Great Northern, 5 per cent., 116
Great orthern, 44 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., 103
Great WeAern, 4 per cent. irred., 834
London, Chatham, and Dover per cent. pref., 100
Stockton and Darlington, B 6 per cent., 33
West Midland, Oxford, Ist guaranteed stock, 1274 7
PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
Great Eastern 5 per cent. pf., 1041
Ditto, 4k per cent., 054
London, Chatham, &0., iletrop. Ext.,r, 8 per cent,, 81
LINES LEASED AL' FIXED RENTALS.
Buckinghamshire, 051 5
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bahia and San Francisco (Urn.) gua. 7 per cent., 211
Dutch Rhenish, 174
Sambre and Meuse, 11-1

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Don Pedro, Nor h DeIORE I
Re, MINES.
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Linares, 7.1 y
N. Rhine Copper of South Australia (lira.), I-
Port Philip, 11
JOINT-STOCK RANKS.
Agra and United Service (), 100
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (lim.), 24/
Bank of Egypt, 30/
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 25/ 51}
City, 94/
English and Irish (lim.), 62
London andd
Eng., Sm., and Australian Chartered. 21;
llindustan, China, and Japan aim.), 13}
London chartered Bank of Australia, 28/
Oriental pSouthY.Airican, 271 /
London and Count 44
lat:lk Corporation, 551 0}
Aletrop. a
Seni niodne a.11:1.37 a. Jai:lda nDke 1( ihi
anis, 52
Union Of London, 34}
Berlin Water
woDriISCELLANEOUS.
Bombay Gas, limitkedB4
Italian Irrigation (Canal
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National Discount companayvr). 5}
Oriental Inland Steam (lini.,'6'fa•),
Quebrada Land, Rail, aim mixiit
g (lltn.), I/ 2/

hewhat novel
bench eia Admiralty
PICKING UP STRAY SHOTZAofsotcn
case of prosecution on the part
was disposed of at the Portsmouth
watermen was charged with picking up the sperti:veek. A
the Excellent, used in gunnery exercise: The shots,
of
pears, are now marked with the broad arrow, in orderittaP.
they may be identified, and eight watermen are licensed to
pick them up and restore them. The prisoner was not st
ticetistd loan, and hence he was prosecuted for having such
shot in his possession. It was stated that a similar case had
not been brought before the magistrate for 20 years. It was,
however, proved that the Admiralty had been in the habit of
purchasing such shots from other than licensed persons, who
had restored them ; and the defence was that the receivers
were as bad as the thieves. The magistrates, taking this view
of the case, dismissed the prisoner, observing that if the
Government desire to prosecute in such cases they should
give notice of their intention. It is a good illustration of
the freedom of our laws when the will of the Government
is put aside by local magistrates.—West §lisscx Gegftk, _

THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.

We have received the following additional article
to the treaty signed at Washington, April '7, 1862,
between her Britannic Majesty and the United
States of America for the suppression of the African
slave trade. Signed at Washington, February 17,
1863. Ratifications exchanged at London, April 1,
1863 :

- - -
Whereas by the First Article of the Treaty between her
Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, and the United States of America, for the
suppression of the African slave trade, signed at Washing-
ton on the 7th of April, 1862, it was stipulated and
agreed that those ships of the respective navies of
the two High Contracting Parties which shall
be provided with special instructions for that pur-
pose, as thereinafter mentioned, may visit such mer-
chant vessels of the two nations as may, upon reasonable
grounds, be suspected of being engaged in the African
slave trade, or of having been fitted out for that purpose,
or of having, during the voyage on which they are met
by the said cruisers, been engaged in the African slave
trade contrary to the provisions of the treaty ; and
that such cruisers may detain and send or
carry away such vessels in order that they might be brought
to trial in the manner thereinafter agreed upon : and
whereas'it was by the said article further stipulated and
agreed, that the reciprocal right of search and detention
should be exercised only within the distance of two hun-
dred miles from the Coast of Africa, and to the
southward of the thirty-second parallel of north
latitude, and within thirty leagues from the coast
of the Island of Cuba ; And whereas the two
high contracting parties are desirous of rendering
the said treaty still more efficacious for its purpose ;—the
plenipotentiaries who signed the said treaty have, in virtue
of their full powers, agreed that the reciprocal right of visit
and detention, as defined in the article aforesaid, may be
exercised also within 30 leagues of the Island of Madagas-
car, within 30 leagues of the Island of Puerto Rico, and
within 30 leagues of the Island of San Domingo.
The present additional Article shall have the same force
and validity as if it had been inserted word for word in the
treaty concluded between the two high contracting parties
on the 7th of April, 1862, and shall have the same dura-
tion as that treaty. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications
shall be exchanged at London in six months from this date,
or sooner if possible.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have
signed the same, and have thereunto affixed the seal of
their arms.

Done at Washington, the 17th day of Febraary, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
three.

(L.S.) LYONS.
(L.S.) WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)

The will of the Right Hon. Elizabeth Dowager
Baroness Stafford was proved in the London Court
on the 24th ult., by the executors appointed for
England—namely, Sir Wm. Lawson, Bart., and his
sons, John Lawson and Thomas Paulinus Lawson,
Esqs.; the personal property in this country being
sworn under £40,000. Her ladyship was the
daughter of the late Richard Caton, Esq., of
Maryland, U.S., and married, in 1836 (as second
wife), the late Lord Stafford, who died in 1851.
She possessed considerable estates, mines, oil wells,
&c , in America. The executor appointed for
America is Basil R. Spalding, Lg., of Baltimore.
Her ladyship died at St. Leonard's-on-Sea in Octo-
ber, 1862, having executed her will in 1860 and a
codicil in June, 1862. Her lands, estates, and pro-
perty in America► she leaves to her two sisters, the
Dowager Duchess of Leeds and Mrs. M'Tavish, who
are also the residuary legatees of her general estate.
This property is to be held by them for their re-
spective lives, and after their decease one half will
go to the relatives of Mrs. M'Tavish, and the other
portion to be applied to various Roman Catholic
institutions in England. There are numerous
legacies to relatives and friends, and to several poor
persons in this country and in America who have
been in her ladyship's service, or connected with
her establishment.

The will of W. Hobson, Esq., of Harley-street,
Cavendish-square, was proved in London on the
25th ult., under £300,000 personalty, the executors
and trustees being John Day, Esq., his son-in-law,
and Francis Hobson Appach, Esq., his nephew, the
other executor appointed (John Irving Glen nie,
Esq., his son-in-law), having died before Mr. Hob-
son, the testator, who died on the Ist March last,
having executed his will in 1856, and two codicils
in 1857 and 1862. He has devised all his free-
hold property to his son, Robert Hobson, Esq.,
to whom he leaves his plate, beveathing to each
of his sons and daughters specific bequests from
11;s valuable collection of art. The residue of
his property is to be divided equally between his
two sons and three daughters. There are several
legacies to the testator's personal friends.
The will of IN illiam Stammers, Esq., of Nay-
land, Suffolk, was proved in London under
£140,000 personalty. There are six executors and
trustees appointed, namely, Henry Daniell, the
nephew, and James Frederick Blyth, Esq.; these
two are the acting executors. The others are
William Daniell, a nephew, Thomas Blyth, Her-
bert Alger, and Frederick Alger, Esqrs. The
testator died in February last, having executed
his will in December, 1860. He bequeaths to
his nephews Henry and William Daniell each a
legacy of £lO,OOO. Liberal legacies are also left to
his sister, and to other of his nephews, and to nieces,
as well as to relatives and personal friends. The
testator directs that after the payment of the follow-
ing bequests—viz., £lOO to the Lees and Colches-
ter Hospital, £175 to his housekeeper, and legacies
to other of his servants, and a sum of £3OO, the
interest of which is to be applied for the benefit of
the minister of the Dissenting congregation at Nay-
land—the residue of his property, real and personal,
shall be divided amongst the legatees of his will in
proportion to the amount of their respective legacy.