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

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The money market is a little easier, although the
rates have not undergone any material alteration.
The Omar Pasha has been announced to-day
from Australia with £90,000 in gold.
The West India steamer, La Plata, which left
to-day, conveyed £3,000 in spee.e.
A remittance of £1,869 Us. 9d. has been received
by Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. on account of
the New Grenada dividends.

The accounts from the manufacturing districts
for the past week represent that business in some
respects has been more satisfactory. At Manchester,
however, there has been little or no improvement,
and prices of both stocks and yarns have slightly
given way. The woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford,
Halifax, and Huddersfield has been seasonably
active, and a more buoyant tone has prevailed in the
hosiery and lace departments at Leicester and Not-
tingham. In the hardware districts, viz., at Bir-
mingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton, there has
been little change of importance.
The Factage Parisien—Paris General Parcels
Post and International Carrying Company—has
been formed for the purpose of supplying France
with greater facilities than she now possesses for the
delivery of goods, &c. The great addition to the
traffic of the two countries consequent on the
recent commercial treaty renders some better
accommodation necessary, more particularly
when it is taken into account that the French
capital possessed none of those facilities which
England obtains from. the Parcels Delivery
Company, and the private firms, such as Pickford,
Chaplin, &c. Negotiations are stated to be in pro-
gress between many of the principal English and
French Railways for the transit of their goods,
besides which a valuable concession has been granted
to the company by the Prefet -nd the municipality
of Paris—privileges indispensable for conducting
the local trade, and invaluable for the
international traffic. The internal trade of
the empire will, it is thought, yield a
considerable revenue, but with the addition to the
general trade that must inevitably ensue from the
many foreign treaties France has lately made, a
much larger field of enterprise is open to the com-
pany. The capital of the undertaking is fixed at
£200,000, in 10,000 shares of I:20 each. The
direction comprises some of the most highly respect-
able namee in both countries, and among them is
M. E. Fercade, who is well and honourably (known
as a writer on finance and international trade.

The half-yearly meting of the English, Scottish,
and Australian Chartered Bank took place to-day.
Mr. Stephen P. Kennard presiding. The report
presented to the shareholders gave the balance of
profit on the transactions of the past six months at
£23,261 ls. Bd., which the directors recommended
to be appropriated as follows :—X15,000 for dividend
at the rate of six per cent. per annum ; £l,OOO
towards reducing premises and furniture account;
£3,080 to be written off preliminary ex-
penses, and the remainder added to the reserve
fund, which will then amount to £15,413 9s. The
report was adopted.

Two O'CLOCK.
The Market for the English Funds remains in
a very quiescent state. Attention is directed to the
approaching settlement, and in the meantime
speculation is very much curtailed. Consols, how-
ever, are 92/ d for money and the sth inst., and
921 Q for the March account. The New Three per
Cents. and the Reduced are steady at 921 -2; Ex-
chequer Bills have improved to par and 4s. prem. ;
Bank Stock to 238 ; and India 5 per Cent. Loan
remains at 108 I.
The continued improvement in the Greek Bonds
has been the most prominent feature in the Foreign
Market, the latest price being 20 ; and the
Coupons, 81. Spanish Passive have risen to 27 I,
and the Certificates to 101 Most of the other
securities are firm.

The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been limited, but prices have generally shown
an upward tendency. Lancashire and Yorkshire
and North Eastern (Berwick), improved 55.; Great
Northern and Great Western 10s.; Great Eastern,
South Eastern, and Metropolitan, 155.; and Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, £l.

In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
was no 'natal ial variation as regards prices. South
Austrian and Lombardo Venetian realised 2131- 71-;
East Indian, 1054 ; and Great Western of Canada,
12 fi .

Joint .Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares were
in limited favour, at steady rates. Ottoman Bank
improved to 357 ; Oriental Inland Steam declined
to 8 ; and Berlin Water works brought 61 d.
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BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock , 238
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities i 92a i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities , 92g t
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent . .
Ditto 5 per Cent , 105 k
D i iii Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO , 9 13
Consols for Account, Feb. 5 92a
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 2} per Cent 1 4 pm
Ditto XSOO
Ditto Small par
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.

Brazilian 6 per Cent —
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-68-60
Equador New Consolidated
Egpptian 7 per Cent —
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons
19 20 19 20i
Ditto Coupons
1
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 721
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 32 i
New Granada 2 per Cent
Ditto Land Warrants 7l 61
Ditto ex over-due Coups. & Hectares 14 134
Ditto Deferred ........
Peruvian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 1862
Ditto Accounts: B6k 7
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account.. 471
Ditto 1862
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Scrip, £56 Bs. paid
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1802
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto 11 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
1 Dutch per Cent., Ex. 12 Guii —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f 7O
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 921 1

On Wednesday the Redemptorist Fathers eon
eluded their mission in Clonmel, on which occasion
a public meeting was held, over which the Mayor presided,
Alderman Hackett, J.P., remarking that it was his proper
place, as chief magistrate of the town. The address, which
was adopted, gave credit to the " missioners" for having
"rescued many from the abyss of sin and placed them on
the road to heaven; for having planted the love of God and
man in their hearts, and thereby reconci:ed them to the
Omnipotent." On the departure of the " missioners"
the whole population seemed to turn out to bid them fare-
well ; many were in tears, and some were so wild in their
enthusiasm that they insisted on drawing the omnibus to
the railway station. Some adventurous youths clung to
the carriages when the train moved off. The Re-
demptorist Fathers have visited most of the town= in Ire-
land. Their chief, the Rev. Mr. Harbison, remarked that
they had more of what are called " the better classes" among
their hearers and penitents in Clonmel then in any other
place.

THE TELEGRAPH TO INDIA. COMPANY.—At the
half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the com-
pany, held to-day, the chairman stated that the directors
had entered into an arrangement with the Messrs. Glass,
Elliott, and Co., the lessees of the Malta and Alexandria
cable, for the working the Alexandria and Suez line, by
which, should no unforseen accident arise, the shareholders
will obtain 4 or 5 percent. per annum for tlat period.
The Government has performed an act of singular
grace. It has ordered that when the Griswold, the Northern
vessel laden with food for Lancashire, arrives in the Mersey,
it shall be received with a royal salute,—The ISpotator.

PROSPECTS OF THE SESSlON.—Althongh it is
not easy to conjecture the possible occasion of a
Ministerial defeat, there will be no difficulty in finding an
excuse for a change of Government, if the House of Com-
mons really desires it. The China vote and the conspiracy
propositiontu eont t
as
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vote had been previously unforeseen, and in both instances
an irritable feeling against the Government rendered a
coalition of hostile sections practicable. Lord Palmerston's
more sanguine opponents believe that his hold on Parlia-
ment and the country is once more shaken, and if their
ificcoannstti
opinion is well founded, the most
with insignificant
5 or decisive
may serve for the foundation of a damagin..
division. In the last extremity, the Minister woulclf
certainly resort to a dissolution; and the dislike almost
bers to precipitate a meeting
moderate their zeal in opposition,
solved four years ago, no plausible. Lord Derby die-
raised to the employment of the sameob.ection could be
Palmerston, On the whole, the Oro resource by Lord
but by no means a certainty, of vernment has a chance,
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