Glasgow Courier. — 1864-12-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LATEST MONETARY & COMMERCIAL  INTELLIGENCE.  GLASGOW. WEDNESDAY EVENING. The money market has been steady but inactive during the past week, and it is expected to continue so till after the Christmas holidays. Cheaper money is likewise anticipated about the first week in January, he business matters are expected to improve. The unds have been dull, and transactions unimportant. °-daY the market closed steady and firm at 89 4 for I,.."'neY, and 891 account. In railway shares there has -`en a good business doing, and prices are generally the turn easier. Our Stock Exchange market was very quiet, without naterial change in prices. The business done was !Milted. Caledonian, £1311; Edinburgh and Glasgow treference No. 3, 22 8s; Glasgow and South-Western, ; Great North of Scotland Preference, £113; !!yeat Western' £7Bi i; Great Western of Canada, £8 London and North-Western, £l2Ol 4; Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln, £64; Metropolitan, £1201i; Scottish Central Pref , 2100; South-Eastern, £Bsi, etydesdale Banking Company, 2197. There is still a heavy feeling in our pig-iron market. ~.11ring the last few days sales of warrants have been '`essad, and to-day business was done as low as 49s 9d cash, closing quietly rather sellers; also at 50s 4.1 one orG.m.b. No. 1,50 s 9d; No. 3,49 s 9d; No. 1 sherrie, 56s 9d; Coltness, 55s 6d; Calder, 553 6d; 50s.ngarnock, 53s Cal; Eglinton, 51s; Forth, 51s; Kinniel,  , , , Since last report transactions in our West India sugar market comprise only 369 casks B.P. West India. Ilmtlgh the tone of the market is decidedly better, we eiaet as yet quote no alteration in prices, dry brown „„log still worth about 33s per cwt. co-Lae Continental exchanges are unfavourable to this untry. kelee premium to effect in has •urne surances on the J.E.H., from on July 17, with £45,000 " 1 n gold on board, risen to 50 guineas. 131 kt a special. meeting of the London and Northern 4no :ank a resolution was passed in favour of an amalgaman • it with the Midland Bank. f . has been decided by the French Government_ that I?telgn spirits rectified in England shall be.admit.ted...!_%to. i ranee on the same terms as spirits distilled In zo. .aati, raT„he tgYptian Government has formally denied the tii-"mirs current on the London and Paris Exchanges at it ‘, of £2,500-•amos abo. ut to issue Treasury Bonds to the amount 11311 Monday, the y afternoon 26th, the rooms at Lloyd's will be be c°sea at 2 o'clock. The London Stock Exchange 7111 ,nnekla losed from Friday afteoon next till the following 'Y morning. ' ite4„a order was made on Saturday by the Master of the aedlto wind up the British Copper Company (limited), ap r Edwards, of the firm of Cash & Edwards, was rtinted liquidator. 110„,,e. general meeting of the Financial Co.rporation. on Do,"'43', held pro forma, the chairman, in r9l3' to a geation for amalgamation, said that the business was ° Tf ea satisfactorily. homera.n extraordinary general meeting of the harel'allY ~,,°„..f the General International . FinancialBC, jaB,leil` 4101Iday it was resolved to wind up undelotnihe lad' -°ll °f Chancery. fay° lan tele show, as regards the exchanges, a adversh-urable e ni'Dgvreaniment of 1 'per cent. at Bombay, and an Shananinl?rernent of I per cent. at Calcutta. From I OA t-• - the quotation is 63 4id, being again considert ettes for this country. tr the annual meeting of the proprietors of. the Com4ercial Bank of Scotland on Saturday, a dividend of tlao..per.se without deduction of incomeire Cent, was declared, o -... ,000,—, 'e The capital was increased-C 10td El uuu and the rest stands at i 303, OD 9 . 1 a A. deßp tch to Earl Russell states that all the priviiisegreisn of the guilds and trading fraternities of Hamburg ring b pint an end to, trades and industrial oceuitioug n s may be freely followed by foreigners as well as *garabu rg citizens after the Ist February, okt the meeting of the London, Buenos Ayres, and 4'yes Plate Bank, a dividend for the half-year of 5 per cae,at , and a bonus of lOs per share on the original shares, .it proportionate bonus on the new shares, were i'i._'•°clared. The resolution of the directors in favour of grean„ Sing the capital by £1,000,000 was also confirmed. 1 e Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, ..-'4' China have announced that a dividend of 10 per L'llt-. free of income-tax, for the nalf-year ending 31st 1...._-7". will be paid to the proprietors on the London byster on the 2d January, making together with that b„,!1°11 July 1 &distribution at the rate of 20 per cent. .--, annum. 1.4 letter from Corfa, of the 2d, in the Malta Times, Zti.32l-"The expectations entertained of a full and abunrtioli.ve.cropthis year, since the English relieved the tile ' °I their presence, have been disappointed from of e;°!ltinual unfavourable weather for the fruit, part_ trewnlch has gone to decay, and the other falls from the .from its weak state and the heavy winds and rains. ' tkLile Scotch banks have fixed the rate of discount for taZtektconths' bills at 6 per cent., and when above three ill'aft-a-s:,,t 6i per cent. For cash accounts and overea,... -I..ae interest to be charged will be 6 and 6i per tirpB spectively. For money lodged on deposit uin re a rae,the interest allowed will be 4 ; on the minim 441,44 q balances, 3i ; and on the daily balances on 1_4414 accounts, 2i per cent. *IC mnalgamation of the London Bank of Scotland for ,ks'lle Mercantile and Exchange Bank, which has been Vte7llle tittle delayed, is now about to be completed, tee an investigation that was considered necessary in thstqaence of the suicide of the London manager of Nir,Fatitile and Exchange Bank, the resultofth this i e. e. tikte ~.,4°ll having removed all obstacles to the imm ThrYing out of the arrangement. _ .flax, azid . 4=04%1 codina vras of a consumptive character, being to k ed to the supply of pressing wants or small parcels LirapteeevPecion assortm- int'. - The inquiry for yarns has r"4ati ,-+onsiderable quantity has changed `abrie4 - verY full perices. Woolpacks and some other ette4l:f linen are in more request, and orders to a fair 444criptiave be(o Placed within the last few days. Other Nees greonuegrheolulyt entire aad th oas continue wanted and a and manufacturers here the dt. • t re full of orders. mustbequotesdagainst buyers. Pt R