The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-16 00:00:00

IONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Bank of France has r.,ised its rate of inte-
rest and discount from 4to Li per cent. This mea-
sure was to a large extent anticipated, and its an-
nouncement yesterday afternoon consequently
created no surprise in monetary and commercial
circles.

There is less demand for discount accommodation
to-day, owing to the large extent to which the mer-
cantile classes have already supplied themselves.
The market is also a little easier, and first class bills
are negotiable at 3t I per cent. It is generally ex-
pected in uiscount circles that further concessions
Will be made in the course of the next few days.

Subjoined is our usual analysis of the Back of
England for the week ending Wednesday last :
Active Circulation £20,286,805
Increase .. • . .. 58,395
Bullion .. • • • • .. 14,102,169
Decrease .. • • .. 633,386
Rest .. .. •• •• 110 3,194,883

•. 45,204
.. 4,280.730
.. 4,502,078
.. 16,772,782
.. 2,379,474
• • 732,044
• • 30,461
. 10,871,348
1. 761,500
20 196 727
•• I ,
690,658
• •
•• 7,601,370 •
• 606,400

Increase ..
Public Deposits
Decrease ..
Other Deposits..
Increase
Seven Day and other Bills
Increase ..
Government Securities • •
Decrease .• • .
Other Securities •• • •
Decrease
Notes Unemployed ..
Decrease
• •
During the last few days the operations in the
Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets have con-
tinged moderately active. Tea has maintained
previous prices, while in sugar, coffee, and cocoa the
operations have been limited. Rice has continued
in steady request at about former quotations, while
in fruit and spices there were operations to an ave •
rage extent without any material change in prices.
Tallow has been in good demand at full quotations
for both present and future delivery.

It has been unanimously resolved by the directors
of the Bank of Australasia that branches shall be
opened in New Zealand, and further capital will be
called up under the power of the charter.
12.
Vancouver's Island Six per Cent. Government de-
bentures for £40,000, secured as a first charge on
the general revenues of the colony, with a sinking
fund of 4 per cent. per annum, were also offered by
the Crown agents at the same time. The total
amount tendered was £26,300 at prices varying
from £lOO to £lO7 17s. 11d. The minimum fixed
before the opening was 1031 and the amount dis-
posed of was £6,200, at au average premium of Sh
£6 12a. per cent. The Cro mu agents declared their le
willingness to allot the balance pro rata among the at'
unsuccessful applicants, provided they made the
necessary intimation before 1 pan. to-day.
At the forthcoming meeting of the National Dis-
count Company a dividend will be proposed at the
increased rate of 8 per cent. per annum.

Tenders were opened yesterday at the offices of st,
the Agents-General for Crown Colonies for 6 per Bt.
Cent. Debentures for £29,500, having 30 years to
B*,
run, issued under the authority of the Government
of the Cape of Good Hope, and secured on the gene-
ral revenues of that colony. The biddings amounted
altogether to £153,100, and the prices at which the 11
loan was taken ranged from £lO9 7s. 6d. to £lll st'
148. ; the reserve price was £lO7 10s.

Two O'CLOCK.

There has been no alteration to-day in the market 1,
for the English Funds, Consols being 921 for trans-
fer, and 921 for the sth proximo. There is very s.'t,
little business in progress, because speculators do sr
not seem inclined to extend their engagements, sr,
while the investing classes are also keeping aloof. i;
The New Three per Cents. and the Reduced re-
main at 92& 1; Exchequer Bills have declined to
6s. and 10s. prem. ; Bank Stock is 235 and 237; 8,
and India 5 per Cent. Loan 1121.
Rather more firmness is perceptible in the Foreign
Market, but business is quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents., w
1854, are 701 1 ; ditto, 1862, 66k 671; and the
Consolides have risen to 40i . Spanish Passive
have improved to 241 ; ditto, Certificates, to 91 10;
Greek, 161 ; Brazilian, 102 ; Chilian, 41 per Cents.,
84 ; Egyptian, 95 ; Peruvian New Loan, 881 89 ;
Portuguese, ditto, 461 47 ; Russian, ditto, 96; and
Venezuelan, ditto, 62.
Business in the Railway Share Market continued
very dull, and prices were without material varia-
tion. Great Western, and South Eastern im-
proved about 55., and London and Brighton, 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings re-
mained inactive at about previous quotations.
Great Luxembourg brought 141 ; Recife and San
Francisco, 19 ; East Indian improved to 1071 ;
and Great Indian Peninsula to 1061.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
Continued inactive at barely previous rates.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 235 7
2 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
a per Cent. Consols Annuities 92
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. 15 3-16 1-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent lOB4 1
Ditte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
thtto 5t per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1004

. .
D rt Bonds £l.OOO 24
Ditto under £l,OOO ..
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 6 10
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small 6 10

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian .5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 lOll
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
.;I:utian 6 per Cent
Ditto 4} per Cent
Egpptian 7 per Cent 95
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupms„, 16i
New Granada 2 per Cent
Ditto ex over-due Coups, & Hectares 12/
P ,uvian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 1862
Ditto A neount .
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 1862
Russftzn 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St --
Ditto 44 per Cent., 1850
_ - .—_ _

Ditto 5 per Cent. '1862 ..... 96
Ditto Scrip, £56 Bs, paid l/ pm
Spanish :3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account. 7Ol
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1832
Ditto Account.
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 62
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f —
Ditto Account 69 /
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 921 A

SINGULAR CASE OF BREACH OF CONTRACT.--The
Nantes Tribunal of Commerce just given .
b has just given judg-
ment in an action brought aofMafdame Fouille agains.
Count de Rouil, to recover Y5O .rbreach of contractz
under the following curious circumstancestmohtwatithhestiasnbdy-
ing his aristocratic rank, to which it aapapliieirNsti
pcitosutnbtee been
birth entitled, the defendant has for
travelling the country in a caravan, exhibiting hies
popularly known as ‘! La. Bell Normandie," in the ohs::
ratter of a giantess. While recently exhibiting at Nantes,
the countess suddenly resolved to retire from public life ;
but the count, unwilling to relinquish so lucrative a busi-
ness, determined to find another phenomenon of the same
kind, and, after some time, discovered what he wanted in
the person of a widow named Fouille, a dealer in second
hand clothes, at Saumur. A bargain was concluded a.nd
duly signed, by which the widow, a woman of huge size,
,engaged to act in the threefold cal acity of servant, dame de
Qompagnie, and giantess, for a salary of 150 fr. per month,
and one-fourth part of the sums collected from the spec-
tators after each exhibition in the caravan. She was also
bound never to go out of the caravan except very early in
the morning or after dark at night-. The agreement
likewise contained a clausa by which each of the contract
ng parties would incur a forfeit of 500 fr. in case of not
fulfilling its conditions. The widow was duly installed
in the caravan, but owing to some difficulties raised
by the countess, she was discharged before appearing in
her public character, and she in consequence sued the
count for the amount of the stipulated forfeit. The de-
fendant alleged as his reasons for discharging the plaintiff
that she was an indifferent cook ; but the tribunal—consi-
dering that cooking was not the principal object of her en-
gagement, as was evident from the high salary promised,
and that ,he had not failed as a giantess—decided that she
was entitled to the forfeit, and condemned the plaintiff to
Pay 6001,2 with the costs of suit.