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

310 NE Y MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, q 2WELVE 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 nevertheless expected that a large
amouut of business 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
now reported at 2'4 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
prox.

Two O'CLOCK.

The Liverpool cotton market to .day was much
excited, and sales about 20,000 bales, at an advance
of id. to Id. on last week's quotations.
At Pais this morning, Three per Cent. Itentes
Were quoted 70f., being sc. better than on Saturday.
There 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 v for money and
account. New Three per Cents. and the Reduced
remain at 9211 ; Exchequer Bills at 9s. to 13s.
Prem. ; Bank Stock is 232 ; India 5 per Cent. Loan,
1081; the 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1051; and
the 51 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 70t 711;
do., 1862, 721 t; and the Consolides, 40t 41 ;
Greek are 161, and the Coupons, 61 ; Buenos Ayres,
971 981; Mexican, 321 ; Peruvian New Loan,
92 ; Portuguese do., 481 4; Russian do., 941 ;
and Venezuelan Scrip, 2 11 dis. ; Italian are firmer
at 72k 1; Spanish Passive at 231; and the Certifi-
"tee at 9a :4.
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 104 ; and San Paulo, 238 ; Bombay and
tiaroda improved to 106 t; East Indian realised
109; Madras 5 per Cents., 106 ; and Great Indian
Peninsula, 1071.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares were
,Without change of importance. Bank of Austra-
lasia declineu to 699 ; London and South African
Improved to 23/ 8 ; Union of Australia brought
4
°I; and Crystal Palace Stock declined to 36i.

.„ BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
-tank Stock 232 3
a per Cent. Reduced Annuities
peer Cent. Consols Annuities 92 4 i
evr
India 3 per Cent. Annuities
Stock —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
D tto 5 per Cent
Ditto 5/ per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 100/

_ .
Ditto Bonds El,OOO 26
Ditto under £l,000
Consols for Account 92a
Xachequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent —
Ditto £500
Ditto Small 9 13

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent....
(Alilian 6 per Cent ..
Ditto 44 per Cent
ElXTll3tian 7 pet Cent
Ditto, Second Issue
greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup as l5l 161 16
Ditto Coupons 6ll
Italian 5 per Cect. (Maremmana Railway) 751
Mexican 3 per Cent
11..,„evir Granada 2 per Cent 27
Ditto Land Warrants .. 41 i
13 •• ~
Auvianli per Cent.
Ditto 1862 •92
48/
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
484 1
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1862
,Ditto Scrip, £2O paid
ittssian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
bitto 5 per Cent , 18(3)
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862, Scrip, £47 pd i pm
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive
Danish Cert. of Coup not funded .. 94 4
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto 6 pe . . r Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds 721
Ditto (3 per Cent., 1862, Scrip,'£6o pd 33 4 pm
„,enDitto Paid-up Scrip:
vtrezuela, 3 per Cent
itto 6 per Cents., 1862 (Scrip), £53 pd 11 1 4 dis
Ditto 11 per Cent
It
, Dividends on the above payable ink ondon,
ctija; 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex 25f / lion,
Ditto Account ~ 724 2
Cu
THREE O'CLOCK.
Ditto 1
y
nso,B , Mone
Acecant, Jan .8
921 4

'When her Majesty left Windsor on Saturday
:It) among the Royal luggage were three boxes
l"nginir to the Baroness Blucher and Lady Augusta
be
:Lea, who were in attendance oh the Queen and the Prin.
t. es of Hasse. On arriving at Osborne it was discovered
weat these packages were missing, and although a messenger
r.." immediately despatched to Windsor he was unable to
iZte the missing luggage. The Prince of Wales lost six
ages on his journey home from Marseilles.—Court
Journal.
"The splendid horses of Prince Orloff," says
the in,
el._ oepen ance, " h a
ve been the admiration of
ta•rsels ever since his arrival es Minister of Russia. He
len pair, all thorough-bred, and of a pure Russian
breed' His Excellency presented to the King of the Bel-
mans one pair estimated by competent judges to be worth
.least 26,000 f. The news of the arrival of these fine
sai 113,1 E! at Brussels soon reached the Emperor of the
k.,..41
.._°11) and his Majesty, anxious to learn whether they
merited the eulogiums passed on them, sent to Brussels
418 first equerry and aide-de-camp, General Fleury, with
ofelple powers. The general was so struck with the beauty
the horses, that he expressed his wish .o purchase
toeei
for the Emperor. Prince Orloff at once consented
ti part with the whole, . and they are no doubt by this
`ll4 in. the Imperial stables."
111188 IA AND CHINA.—Oar Shanghae correspon-
dent Writes :—A rumour is in circulation within
the bast hour or two which, there is reason to suppose, has
act for its foundation, viz., that in accordance with the
aeB°ciatione
carrie I on at Pekin, the Russian Government
44ete_v consented to give aid in men towards suppressing the
-Be that as it may, an agent of the Russian
I.averiunent left here three days ago for Nagasaki, and the
48t news from that place is to the effect that the whole
the
h Russian fleet in China ie about to rendezvous
ere by the lot of next month. This fact, in connection with
Shanghae rumour, which is supposed to have origi-
nated with the Russian agent, renders the theory'very pro-
The rumour here is that 10,000 Russian soldiers
are now on their, way from the Arooor, and that they are
to
assemble at Nagasaki, prior to coming over to China to
.et as a contingent to the Chinese troops. This service 'is
htated to be rendered by Russia in consideration of further
erritorial Cincessions on the part of China."—London and
Claita Telegraph.
CURIOUS FACT.—The ship T. B. Wales, the de-
litruction of which by the Alabama is reported by
eograPh to-day, was, only yesterday, offered by her
W le
to a committee of the Boston Board of Trade, to
gratuitously
L convey cargo of provisions from this port for
LLe Lancashire Falterers. Instead of going on this errand
of charity to the starving operatives of England, she has
been wantonly destroyed 'by a piratical craft, built in Eng-
land with means furnished by British merchants.—Bosten
Transcript.
The Madrid Gazette of the 22d publishes the
t.:" MI which abolishes passports from the Ist
oanuaty, as already briefly announced by telegram. A
foreigner may prove his identification by a written declara-
%len
signed by two respectable persons. He must also
makeTh known whence he came and the object of his journey.
T." Visas of transports by the Spanish Consuls is sup-
',-,sleed, as well as the fees demanded for them.—
treagnani.
A telegraphic despatch announces that the se-
cond line of rails on the railway from Bordeaux
to
Cette, the last section of which had been officially re-
ceived by the State engineers on the 24th, has been since
Opened to eiroulatioa throughout its extent.

Bir., Wol., and Str. Val

8 8i

Blythe and Tyne. ....
Bristol :nid Excivr

Caledonian

Corn w-, I

10 Do A
10 Do. B been paid to B.
50 Dublin Belfast June.
ffun.,Perthofir Ab. June.
st Edinburgh & Glasgow.
3t Glasg. and S. Western.!
st Great Eastern, Ord. stk
It Ditto A stock
it Ditto East A nglian at
t GreatNorthof Scotland
It Great. Northern...
it Do A stock
t Do B do_

8.4.0

Do. 25 shares
Gt. S. an W. of Ireland
Great Western

19.16.4

Do Str Val guai stock
Lancashire & Yorkshire
London and Blackwall
Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast
Lon., Chat., and Dover
Lon. & North Western
Lon. & South Western
Man., Shef., & Lincoln.
Maryport and Carlisle.
Do I shares...
Metropolitan
Midland
Do New
Do Birming. & Derby
Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland
Do. shares
Mid Kent
Do Cray Line
North British
Edin., Perth, & Dundee
Nth. Eastern—Berwick,

12.10

Do, G.N.E. purchase,
Do Lecds

Do York
Do Carlisle
North London
Do New
North Stafrordsliire

N. and S. W. Junction
Scottish Central
Scot N. E., Aber. stoclz

Do Scot. 'Mid. stock
I •Ahrews. and Welchpool
IShropshire Union
South Devon
South Eastern
South Wales
S. York. and River Dun
Staines,Wok.,andWok.
Stockton & Darlington

Do

Do New, 1860
Taff Vale..
Do B

Do C
Ulster

Do

Do
Vale of Neath

IVictoria sta. and Pim 1
Waterford & Kilkenny
West Cornwall
W. Hartlepool Har.&R '
West Midland Oxford
Do Newport
Do Hereford

6i
84 16
115 116

61 71

41 43
13 14
86) 87i
105 107
46 47
43 45
24 25

124} WI
12/4 129!
135 137

104 10(1
07} fP

109 1091
71} 724
118 119
38 39
97 674
101 10Z
40 41

9 9i
1281 129
11 ltp
96 98

53 54
25 27
991 991

55 57
88 8h
125 127
107 1:0
1 I
4i 4i .
.11 Ili
118 120
47i 486
IC4 106

464 i
4"

681 i

47 49
334 34#
88 884
684 f 96
100 103
7 8
39 40
104 101
7k
147 149
46 5 r
26 3 pi
554 sfl
24 36
6 d# 1,
87 90
140 145

118 i

29 31

43 45
35 37
94 :6

93i
d

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BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Closing
Share; PRA Price. Rosiness done
100 I tt!antic &St Lawrene, all 67 69
stk Ii Rom.,Baroda&Cent I.(• 106 107 1062
Gu. 5 per cent.
20 Do. New
204 Buffalo and Laxe llurop all 51 51
10 Do. Preference all 8 84
100 I 111111alo,BrantAGodricl, to 77 10
( .6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1,1 K•
100 Do. do. July 1, 1571, tOO 75 78
100 Do. do. Juno 1, 1,74 100 72 75
st Clcutta.&S.Eastn.(l.' ; 100 1( 6 108
st (7apeTown & Dock Seri) 100 1( 74 108.3
stock lEastn. Bengal gu. sp. 100 1( 7 1( 8
stock haat Indian, gu. sp. t. 100 108 11:9 109
20 Do. do. G Ext.... 5 1 16p
20 Do. do. H do. .. 2 4 IP 24
stock Grand Trunk of Canath 100 22 225
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 74 78
100 Do. 2d I'ref. 6 per et.. all 61 66
100 I Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. all 35 37 85
100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all 48 52
100 I Do. do. 1867 .. all 34 86
100 Do. do. 1872 .. all 34 36
stock iGt.lndiarenin.r.r,ua.sp.c 100 1074 1(84 1075
20 Do. New gua. sp. C... 12 1 14v
20 i Do. January, 1862 .. 4 lip 5
stock !Gt. South.of India(Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 105 106
205 W. of Canada Share: all 12; 134
205 Do. New
100 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 99 100
100 I Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.... all 90 92
Indian Branch Limited 1 —d 2
stock Nladras guar., sp.c. .. 100 105; 1015
stock Do. 4/ p. a. Extension 100 10) 101
stock Dc. 4 d 0........ 100 i 5 . 7
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2
stock 111elb.Corp. 6p. o. find, 10i,
.50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 51 53
100 Do. 7 p.c. alortg. Bds. alt
20 Newßrunswickac Cand.
; Class A Capital Shar all 3 5
20 i Do. do. B Capital do. .. alt 3 6
N.Rl.C'da6 po Ist f bds 100 83 15
stook iScinde (100 1(65 1074
o. Delhi• 9 100 1044 1054
!D. do , 2 6 p
20 Do. Punjaub •.d c, 15 If o
st Do. Do. .. , ,1 0 105; 1(65 106
stock I Do. Endus.St. Flo.J 100 101 103 102
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
6 p.c.Ja &J uly ;
1677-SI
Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug-.. 1 100 406 108
Do. dp. c. ar. & Sept.! 100 106 108
Do. sp. c. Jan.&July.' 100 906 100 100 995 100
- Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 98 100
! Cape G.llope, 8 p c,1873 100 0!; 10
Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 111 113
Do. 1890 100 112 114
I- Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 114 118
Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p o 100 -
--
N.B.Gov.6p.c..la..tJuly 100 1074 1084,
Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct., 100 I
N. S.W. G ov. 5 p c., 1866 100 1014 1024
Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 1014 1024 1014
Do. d0.,1888 SLupwds 100 101 1016.
New Zealand 6p. cent. 100 111 113
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
sterling„ 1875 ' 100 108 109
Queensland Gov. 6p. c 100 11 113
G6p.c.1878,2 up 100 111 113
Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.,tJuly 100
Do. 1.) 6 p.o. ! 100 1081 1091 1054 9

11:81 109/

105 9