The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, T\VELVE O'CLOCK.

There is very little perceptible alteration in
the position of the Money Market this morning,
but the tendency is towards greater quietude and
easiness. It is hevertit,.less expec.,'ed that a large
amonot of bubine,s will be negotiated in the inter-
val before the payment of the January dividends.
Last week the rate for first-class bills was very
firm at 3 per cent., but occasional transactions are
flow reported at, 2Z per cent.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts for
the past week have generally been satisfactory,
although the preparations for stock taking, usual at
'the end of the year, have tended to prevent active
Operations in most departments of business. At
Manchester, however, a firmer tone has prevailed,
while in the woollen districts the mills generally
are fully employed. In the hosiery and lace trades
of Leicester and Nottingham there has been no ma-
terial alteration, and more activity has prevailed in
the hardware districts of Birmingham, Sheffield,
and Wolverhampton.
The half yearly meeting of the East and West
India Dock Company has been called for the 9th
pros.

Two O'CLOCK.

Thera has been a dull market for the English
Funds in the absence of active speculation or a
demand for stock on behalf of investors. Continued
firmness, however, has been apparent, Consols
having been maintained at 921 a for money and
account. New Three per Cents. and the Reduced
remain at 92f71 ; Exchequer Bills at 9s. to 13s.
Prem. ; Bank Stock is 232 ; India 5 per Cent. Loan,
1081; the 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1054; and
the 61 per Cents., 1121.
There has not been much activity in the Foreign
Market, and prices have shown very little change.
Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, are firm at 701 711 ;
do.. 1862, 721 ; and the Consolides, 401 41 ;
Greek are 161, and the Coupons, 61; Buenos Ayres,
971 981 ; Mexican, 321 4 ; Peruvian New Loan,
92 ; Portuguese do., 481 1; Russian do., 941 ;
and Venezuelan Scrip, 2 11 dis.; Italian are firmer
at 721 4 ; Spanish Passive at 231 ; and the Certifi-
cates at 93 Ts 7-•
In the Railway Share Market the operations were
not very extensive. Prices, however, in some in-
stances, exhibited a slight improvement. Cale-
donians, Great Easterns, and South Easterns, im-
proved ss. ; Great Westerns, Lancashire and York-
Shire, North Westerns, and Great Northern A
stock, 10s.
The foreign and colonial lines continued inac-
tive, at about previous prices. Sambre and Meuse
brought 101 a; and San Paulo, 23! ; Bombay and
kg aroda improved to 1061; East Indian realised
109; Madras 5 per Cents., 106 ; and Great Indian
~
eninsula, 1071.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares were
Without change of importance. Bank of Austra-
lasia declinea to 691 ; London and South African
improved to 231 ; Union of Australia btougbt
69i; and Crystal Palace Stock declined to 361.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Ban; Stock 232
Per
3 92
3 Cent. Reduced Annuities
New
Cent. Consols Annuities 92 t a
'ew 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 5i per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 100±
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 26
Ditto under £l,OOO . ... 26
Consols for Account 921
xchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent —
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small 9 13
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Chilian 6 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent
Egpptian 7 per Cent
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons l5/ 161 16
Ditto Coupons
Mexican 3 per Cent
New Granada 2 per Cent
Ditto Land Warrants . . 4/ I
Peruvian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 1862
Portugueso 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto 3
per Cent., 1862 4B/ 1
Ditto Scrip, £2O paid
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent
~ Ditto Passive
°Pani.sh Cert. of Coup not funded .. 9/ a
urltish 6 p Cent.
i Ditto 6 per Cent. 18581854
Ditto Account..
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862, Scrip, £6O pd 3l pm
Venezuela 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cents., 1862 (Scrip), £53 pd 1/ 1 dis
Ditto 11 per Cent
1, Dividends on the above payable in London,
'‘alia,n, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f....... 72/
-Ditto Account : .. 72±
Consols, TWO O'CLOCK.
onsols,
Account,
921 a
Y
Ditto Jan. 8

When her Majesty left Windsor on Saturday
► among the Royal luggage were three boxes
te,„nging to the Baroness Blucher and Lady Augusta.
er,-"ce, who were in attendance on the Queen and the Prin-
cess °I Hesse. On arriving at Osborne it was discovered
that
these packages were missing, and although a messenger
tas mlniediately despatched to Windsor he was unable to
rac:luggage. tho missing The Prince of Wales lost six
11,raocurangaei.a on his journey home from Marseilles.—Court
th: The splendid horses of Prince Orloff," says
/3 - 'ndependance, "have been the admiration of
brassels ever since his arrival es Minister of Russia, Be
ad ten pair, all thorough-bred, and of a pure Russian
ee`" His Excellency presented to the King of the Bel-
ala ata one pair estimated by competent judges to be worth
,east 26,000 f. The news of the arrival of these fine
rituals at Brussels soon reached the Emperor of the
r
re-elleb, and his Majesty, anxious to learn whether they
his
erited the eulogiums passed on them, sent to Brussels
la,l' equerry and aide-de-camp, General Fleury, with
4 fl
f-t Lie Powers. The general was so struck with the beauty
13theuqe horses, that he expressed his wish .o purchase
tom for the Emperor. Prince Orloff at once consented
ti Part with the whole, and they ate no doubt by this
tne in the Imperial stables."
RUSSIA AND CHINA.—Our Shaaghae correspon-
dent Writes :—A rumour is in circulation within
~,e4O last hour or two which, there is reason to suppose, has
14 et for its foundation, viz., that in accordance with the
hr:ciations carrie i on at Pekin, the Russian Government
ot;e6lCOllSelited to give aid in men towards suppressing the
00, lien. Bo that as it may, an agent cf the Russian
Gast news
left here three days ago for Nagasaki, and the
ef the
from that place is to the effect that the whole
'0 Russian fleet in China is about to rendezvous
therebythe, the Ist of next month. This fact, in connection with
riated'lla.nghao rumour, which is supposed to have origi-
table With the Russian agent, renders the theory very pro-
The rumour here is that 10,000 Russian soldiers
ar now
too. oil their way from the Amoor, and that they are
act :
contingent to the enable at Nagasaki, prior to coming over to China to
Chinese troops. This service is
stewateds , be rendered by Russia in consideration of further
CJot oriel eancessions on the part of China:"—London and
na Telegraph.
at ct
tjl/1"S FACT.—The ship T. B. Wales, the de-
uotien
of which by the Alabama is reported by
cwengl.ernil to-day, was, only yesterday, offered by her
gradwi a committee of the Boston Board of Trade, to
the r' °llelY convey a cargo of provisions from this port fur
or
ch-l4atleaShirS sufferers. Instead of going on this errand
heenaritY to the starving operatives of England, she has
land ,antonly destroyed by a piratical craft, built in Eng-
zrciswiteYiPt* means furnished by British merchants.—Boston
degree° Aladrid Gazette of the 22d publishes the
arila Which abolishes passports from the Ist
foreiti:tY, as already briefly announced by telegram. A
bner may prove his identification by a written declare-
inak sign
by two respectable persons. He must also
Th„e "own Whence he came and the object of his journey.
iirevseevlisas of transports by the Spaßish Consuls is sup-
-0,7. as well as the fees demanded for them.—
*gnarl i,
telegraphic despatch announces that the se-
t --`4 line of rails on the railway from Bordeaux
Cette, the last section of which had been officially re-
027needd by the Stata engineers on the 24th, has been since
r to the
throughout its extent.
screw-steamer Calcutta lately took out a
path of hounds for the Madras Hunt. The dogs,
nairty.ene in
beautiful specimens of their race,
and have
received
number, are
Ahead eceived a thorough training in their work.
Y they have been tested at Madras, and found fully
".° the work.