Financial and Commercial.
Thursday, May 21, 1863.
Specie and Notes.--The recent advance in gold has checked transactions, and the brokers again report a "dull market." The rates continue as last reported--$4.50 premium, buying; $5 premium, selling.
Silver is 25 to 50 cents below these figures.
Bank notes are dull at last quotations--60 per cent premium, buying rate; 70 to 75 per cent., selling.
Nothing doing in exchange.
Bonds and Stocks,--The market is quiet, with little or no change in quotations.
Confederate bonds of the 100 m. loan are selling at 103a109 and int; 15m. loan 190 and int; Confederate 7 per cent bonds, par and int; Virginia registered bonds, 112 and int; North Carolina 6's, 175; Richmond city bonds, 135 and int; Va and Tenn R R bonds, 3d mort, 110 and int; Orange and Alex R R bonds, 8's, 110 and int; R and Y R R do, 110 and int. The stock of the Richmond Importing and Exporting Company is active at $775, with upward sales as high as $800. The par is $500. The books of the Old Dominion Company are not yet closed.
The capital stock of the company will consist of shares of $5,000 each.
Provisions, &c.--These quotations are wholesale.
Bacon, hoground at $1.40. Hams $1.45a1.50 per lb. Butter, $3a3.25 per lb. Lard $1.60 per lb. Potatoes — Irish $8a10 per bus. Beans, $16a20 per bushel.
Peas $15a16 per bushel.
Dried Fruit--Apples $9a 10; Peaches, $15a17 per bushel.
Salt 45 cents per lb.
Produce.--Wheat, nothing doing, we quote it nominal at $5.50a6. Flour — Superfine $32; Extra $35; Family $37 per bbl. Corn, scarce and nominal, at $9 per bushel.
Corn Meal $9.50a10 per bushel.
Oats $5.50a6 per bushel.
Hay, Dall, at $12a14 per 100 lbs. Rice 20 cts. per lb.
Tobacco.--Since the reopening of the Exchange, the sales have been small, but prices show an advance on all grades.
Lugs are selling from $15 to 25, according to quality; Common Leaf, $30 to 40; good do., $45 to 55; fine, $60 to 75; a few fancy hhds.
were sold yesterday and to-day from $100 to $199 and $236.
Groceries.--Sugars are higher — Brown, $1.45 to 1.55, as to quality.
Molasses, $10.50 to 11 per gallon.
Coffee, $4 per lb. Tea-- Black, $5 to 8; Green, $7½ to 10 per lb. Candles, $2.50 to 3.
Soap, 40 to 50 cents. 