The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-31 00:00:00

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

cra, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
A quieter tone pervades the general discount
market, but a moderate amount of business is daily
reported in consequence of the revenue collections,
and the usual payments at the end of the year.
Money continues plentiful, and first-class bills of
three months' date are negotiable at 24 per cent.
On the Stock Exchange there is very little inquiry
for advances, and they are obtainable on easy
terms.
Notice has been given that Bonds of the Bra-
zilian 5 per Cent. Loan of 1843, amounting to
£33,600, have been drawn for redemption.
The half-year's interest is announced for pay-
ment on Italian 5 per cent. Bonds.
Ea sum of £3,064 has been received by Messrs.
Baring Brothers on account of the New Grenada
dividends.
Gold is now of about the same value in London
and in Paris, but about 2-10ths per cent. dearer
here than in Hamburg.
An analysis of the weekly returns issued by the
Bank of England authorities during the year ex-
hibits some important variations in the principal
items. £18,448,000 was the highest sum attained by
the bullion, viz., on July 30, whilst its lowest point
Vag on the 10th inst., when it only amounted to
£14,828,000. The reserve of notes stood at
£10,482,000 on the 24th September, and at
£8,111,700 on the 12th ultimo. The active cir-
culation reached £22,586,000 on the 6th August,
When it afterwards dropped to £19,185,000
on the 17th inst. The bills discounted by the esta-
blishment, and represented as private securities,
attained their highest point on the 2d July, when
they amounted to £21,588,000; and their lowest in
the last week in January, when they only stood at
£17,030,858.
A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Janverin,
Grassie, and De Lisle, merchants, who recently
sailed, has been convened for the 13th proz. by the
accountants, Messrs. Coleman, Turquand, Youngs
and Co.

Two o'CLoCK.
The Liverpool cotton market to-day was rather
depressed, owing to the stock being declared to
amount to 392,461 bales ; sules uncertain.
The French Three per Cent. Rentes to-day ware
Opened at 70f. 5c., being sc. lower than yesterday.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Canada Corn-
Pally, which was held this day, a dividend of L 1
Per share, free of income tax, for the half-year, was
declared, payable next mouth, and the report was
Unanimously adopted.
Towards the close of the English Stock Market
yesterday afternoon, a rise of 1 per cent. took place
111 consequence of a few speculative purchases en-
couraged by a large arrival of specie from the
West Indies and Australia. Although consider-
able firmness is still apparent, however, this frac-
tional advance has not been supported, and Consols,
'Which were 92/ Sfor transfer, and 928 4 for the
Bth January the previous evening, are now 921 8
for both. The New Threes and Reduced Annui-
ties continue firm, transactions having taken place
at 024. t. Exchequer Bills have remained at 9s. to
12e, prem. Very little business has taken plane in
the market for the Indian Stocks, but the 5 per
cents are marked 108 1, and the Debentures 1001,
showing firmness.
Continued buoyancy has pervaded the Foreign
Market, and a fair amount of business has been
negotiated. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are
firmer at 841 851 ; ditto 1858, at 711 ; and the
New Loan at 71* 72; and the Consolides at 411 4 ;
gyptian are tolerably well supported at 951 ; the
second issue, at 948 4; Greek Bonds have improved
to 161 ; Mexican to 321 8 ; Peruvian New Lean,
931 4 ; Portuguese ditto, 487-, 4 ; Russian ditto, 941 i;
Italian are 721 4 ; ditto Railway Loan, '761 ; and
Venezuelan New Scrip, 17, 1 die.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been very limited, and prices experienced little
change of importance. Great Easterns and Lon-
don and Brightons improved 55., and Great
Westerns declined ss.
The foreign and colonial lines remained mode-
rately active, at almost previous rates. South
Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have receded to
231 4, and Bahia and San Francisco have improved
to 201 -Z. Bombay and Baroda realise 1041 ex div. ;
East Indian, 107 ex div. ; and Madras 5 per Cents.,
104 ex div.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares were
in limited request, without any material change in
values.

.. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
'3, Per Cent. Reduced Annuities
~,,,‘, per Cent. Consols Annuities 921 /
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
annuities, yrs, expire btblJan., 188 0..
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 3l/ 2
India Stock 225 ex d for opg.
Ditto 5 per Cent.. lOBl 8
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 100 k
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100 f,
Consols for Account 92a
er Cent 9 12
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 2k p
Ditto £soo
Ditto Small
, FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
-r-'gPptian 7 per Cent .................• 951 5
Ditto, Second Issue
5 a i
Greek per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms l6l i
Italian E. per Cect. plaremmana Railway) 76 1 It
Mexican 3 per Cent .
Ditto Account 321 1 a a
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
Peruvian 41 per Cent. ... , .....
Ditto
, Ditto:Account 1862 •••""•—
93/ a 3
i-ortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
I )itto Account • 491 8/
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1862 4l 48/ 1 1
Ditto Scrip, £2O paid
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 9B
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
Ditto 5 Der Cent.,1862, Scrip, £47 pd 1 1 pm
Sardinian.s per Cent.
Ditto Account. 824
Spanish 3 per Cent ........ —
Du tol Account
Turkish
Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 ..............
Ditto Account 8.5
..........
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account..
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1832
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862. Scrip, £6O pd 3l Pm
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. lO3l
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cents., 1862 (Scrip), £53 pd li / / dis
. Dividends on the above payable in London,
luaa trian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 florins
1 lian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f —
Ditto Account .. 721 1 1
Consols, Money
9M 1
Ditto Account, Jan. 8

GENERAL M'CLELLAN.—He is a very squarely
bailt, thick-throated, broad-chested man, under the
Middle height, with slightly bowed legs, a tendency em-
bonpoint. His head, covered with a closely cut crop of
dark auburn hair, is well set on his shoulders. His fea-
tures are regular and prepossessing—the brow small, con-
tracted, and furrowed ; the eyes deep and anxious-looking.
short, thick, and reddish moustache conceals his mouth ;
the rest of his face is clean shaven. He has made his
father-in-law, Major Marcy, chief of his staff, and is a
good deal influenced by his opinions, which are entitled to
some Weight, as Major Marcy is a soldier, and has seen
frontier wars, and is a great traveller. The task of licking
this army into shape is of Herculean magnitude. Every
One, however, is willing to do as he bids ; the President
confides in him, and Georges' hiw ; the press fawn upon
him the people trust him ; he is the little corporal' of un-
'ought fields—omnis ignotus pro mirifico. He looks like a
stout little captain of dragoons, but for his American seat
and saddle. The latter is adapted to a man who cannot
ride; if a squadron so mounted were to attempt a fence or
ditch half of them would be ruptured or spilled.—Russell's
dmericart Diary.
HORRIBLE DEATH.—The Rev. Dr. J. George Gor-
don, formerly of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,
and Trinity College, Dublin, Principal of the Collegiate
Institution, Notting-hill-terrace, has been killed on the
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, and a verdict
of Accidental Death" returned by the jury empanelled to
inquire into the circumstances. The melancholy occurrence
took place on Friday last, at the Gipsy-hill-station, Norwood,
on the London side of the Crystal Palace. It appeared that
the rev. doctor mounted the steps of a carriage when a train
had begun to move out of the station, and a porter imme-
diately signalled him to get down, informing him that it
was not the train by which he had said he wished to travel.
The porter tried to remove him, and in doing so they fell
together, the porter on the platform, and the clergyman on
the metals over which the train was passing. He was seri-
ously injured, and having been conveyed to Guy's Hospi-
tal
died there. The porter, it is said, had a very narrow
escape.