The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-23 00:00:00

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
ige3t • •*. —" • • .. 3,189,090
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
- Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 10,492,686
Other deposits ...... 10,699,684
Seven Day and other
Bills 1,183,916

Government securities

(includg.Dead Weight
Annuity)
Other securities
Notes • • ............ 8,124,105
Gold and silver coin.. 713,526

440,118,376

£40,118,376
MABSUALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated tha 22d day of Dec., 185.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending the 20th day of
Dec., 1853, is 225. 6?d. per hundredweight, exclusive of
the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Groat Britain.

ICOIJESE OF EXCHANGE-THIS DAY.
Amsterdam.. 11 141,1 G'braltar
Ditto.three:months .. 11 16 ;Leghorn .............. 30 2714
Rotterdam 11 1614 Genoa ................ 25 55
Antwerp .............. 25 20 'Milan
Brussels •••• •••• •••• 25 20 ,'Venice .• •• • 000

Hamburg% ....
&Rona • • .• • • • • • • • • • • • •

Naples •• •••• •• •• •••• 42%
,Palermo .............. 126%

Paris• ........ • • .... 25 2% Messina ....... .. 1263.1
Ditto, thrse months ••25 30 Lisbon ................ 53
Marseilles.. ..... ....... 25 32% Oporto ................ 53%
Bourdeaux ............ Rio Janeiro
Frankfort-on-Maine .... 118% Buenos Ayre5..........
Berlin ............ , New York, 60 days' sight
Vienna .. •• . ..... 11 40 Philadelphia
Trieste . • „„ 11 44 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Petersburgh... ..... 37% Foreign Gold In Bars £3 17 9
Madrid .....

...
Barcelona....

Ifexian Dollars .... 0 5 0
New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Silver in bars ...... 0 5 1%

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

From the London .Arew Price Cut rent of this day.

SUGAR.—To-day the market for British plantation sugar
present a firm aspect. A good business was concluded by
refiners and grocers, and in cases the rates obtained wore
zid per cwt above last Friday. Salo are 623, making for
the week 2,865 hbds and toe.
REFINED.—To-day, there were ready buyers of refined
sugar for home consumption, and the currency closed
firmly. Brown lumps at 445, low to fine grocery 44s 6d to
47s Gd. Prices are well supported ; for crushed sugar
there being several export buyers.
MAURITIUS.—To-day there were ready buyers of Mauri-
tius sugar. In auction 3,909 bags sold at prices 6d per
cwt. above last week ; low yellow went at 33s to 34s ; good
to fine brown 30s to 32s 6d; low and inferior 26s to 29s
6d per cwt.
EAST INDIA. -This afternoon the public sales of 1,200
bags Bengal sugar went briskly at prices 6d per cwt. above
lost week. Fine grainy yellow realised 40s 6d to 41s ; low
to good brown ditto 31s 6d to 33s 6d, and low to good like
Mauritius 32s to 36s 6d. Of Madras 402 bags went at the
full value, fine soft brown and low yellow at 28s 6d to 29s
6d per cwt.
FOREIGN.—To-day foreign sugar was again much in
demand, and the parcels of Brazil and Havannah sold
privately, were at full last week's rates ; to a small advance
at auction, 57 hhds Porto Pico were sold at 31s to 36s for
low to mid yellow.
Cocoe.—Sales privately of Trinidad—low to mid red
made at 34s to 365, good to fine 36s Gd to 395, grey from
31s to 31s, Grenada 30s to 335. Bahia selling at 26s to 275,
Para 28s 6d. to 39s Gd, and Guayaquil 33s Gd to 34s per
cwt.

COFFEE.—To-day, several parcels of Plantation Ceylon
were sold privately, and the rates obtained were rather
above last. At auction 83 casks, 27 brls, and 22 bags found
buyers at 60s to 62s for mid, and other sorts 55s to 58s.
Native in good demand, and cannot be obtained under 50s
for good ord. Mocha met with more attention, and
226 bales and half bales in auction, sold at full prices; long
berry at 77s to 78s 6d ; low to mid small, 61s 6d to 65s 6d.
On 'Change some parcels of native Ceylon were reported to
be sold at 50s to 50s 6d for good ord.
TEA.—There has again been no speculation in congou,
but demand for consumption has been brisker during the
last few days, still there is not the least improvement in
prices—low to good ord selling at is 2d tp is 21d, rather
blackish leaf to blackish leaf is 3d to is 41d, and strong
to Pekoe sorts is Mto 2s 6d. In good to fine green tran-
sactions have rather exceeded those of last week ; still the
rates of that time are not higher. To-day; larger pur-
chases were made in tea, and rates ruled fit mer ; sales of
low to good ord Congou made at is 24d to is lid per lb.
TALLOW.—An active demand continues to prevail for
Russian, and the advance during the week has been 2s to
2s 6d per cwt. First sort P. Candle on the spot realising
58s 6d to 59s 9d, and delivery in spring months 58s 9d to
595, home melted sells freely at an advance, and 51s is now
the currency cash.
OlLS.—Prices are still on the decline for olive oil, and
transactions have been limited, Gallipoli 601. to 621., and
other sorts 541. to 581. per ton. In rape oil pale at 47s to
47s 6d, brown 44s 6d to 455, and refined foreign 47s 6d to
495. In palm transactions have been large at 41s to 42s
for mid to fine. A brisker sale for cocoa nut, and prices
firm; Cochin at 46s to 475, and Ceylon 45s ld to 465.