The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The general discount market appears somewhat
firmer this morning, with a slight increase in the
demand. Yesterday there was an easier tendency,
and in the course of the afternoon a few bills were
negotiated at 31 per cent., bat to-day the rates have
reverted to their former point, and 3i per cent. is
again quoted as the general charge.
A further sum of £2,900 in gold was taken into
the Bank yesterday.
The Delta, which carries the Bombay mails, will
take out £203,110 in specie.
The John Duncan has arrived from Otago with
£189,332 in gold.

The usual dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum was declared at the half-yearly meeting of
the General Steam Navigation Company yester-
day.

Two O'CLOCK.

At the ordinary meeting to-day of the Southamp-
ton Dock Company—Col. G. Barlow in the chair—,
the report, which was adopted, stated that the
accounts showed a net revenue after payment of
the interest on the debenture debt, of the dividends
on the preference stooks, and of all working ex-
penses, &c., for the six months ending the 30th
June last, amounting to /6,844. A dividend was
declared for the half-year of £2 per cent., payable
on the 2d September next, being at the rate of four
per cent. _ _ _

A remarkable degree of dullness is apparent in
business at the Stock Exchange, the members being
almost exclusively engaged in settling the account
in foreign securities and railway shares. Scarcely
any new speculative operations are reported, end
the official lists consequently present an unusually
blank appearance. The few bargains entered into
have not influenced prices very materially, and
Consols are 93k 71; for transfer, and 931 I for
the 9th proximo. The situation of monetary
affairs, with quietude in discount circles, and a
flow of gold into the Bank, is in favour of prices,
although it has no effect in promoting transactions.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are again
93Z ; the New 2 per Cent. Annuities are 77;
and Exchequer Bills is. dis. to 2s, prem. The India
5 per Cents. Loan is 104; and the 51 per Cent.
Enfaced Paper, 1161.

There is very little business in progress in the
Foreign Market, but prices are generally firm.
Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, 724 4 ; do., 1862, 69 4;
do., Consolias, 51H ; Greek, 34 4; do., Coupons,
161 ; Spanish Passive, 33f 34/ ; do., Internal,
27/ ; Mexican, 381 e ; Portuguese, 49; Russian,
921 I; and the Confederate Loan has risen 1 per
cent., viz., to 23 21 dis.

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
confined chiefly to transactions in connection with
the settlement. Prices, however, have in several
instances shown a slight advance. Caledonian, Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, and South Eastern, have
each improved ss. ; and North Eastern (Berwick),
10s.; while Midland have receded 5a., and London
and Blackwell, 10s.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the
variations in prices have been unimportant. Turin
and Savona have improved about 55.; Great Wes-
tern of Canada have declined ss.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally con-
tinue in moderate favour, at about previous rates.
London and Westminster are dealt in at 771 78 ;
and London and County, at 494.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock —
-1, 4
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 93
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 934
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 93
New
5 per Cen 21 pert. CAnnuities ent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
India Stock
Ditto 5 pei Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
Ditto Bonds £l.OOO —
Ditto under £l,OOO
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account, Sept. 9
ladia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
March, 2 per
Cent. I
21 per Cent. June,
1
Exchequer Bills, 1,000 .. 2pm
Ditto £500.. 2pm
I
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859 .............. ..
Brazilian 5 per Cent ..................
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent .......
Ditto Account
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
(Milian 6 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825.. —
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian 7 per Cent 1044
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 344 4 4 1
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons
164
Ditto Account
Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent ....
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 3 per Cent. ,
86/
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9,
Ditto Account '6o, 62 49
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
89
Ditto 4/ per Cent 1850
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 ..
1
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 A
per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred ..
i)itto Account --
Ditto Passive
... Ditto Account
oppanititsoh
ACcecrto.unoft Coup not funded
121 a
Turkish 6 per Cent 1854
Dittotto 6Ap°°e°r°°C t''
..
liiB ...
934
D 724 I i
itto Account... 1 )itto tlOO Btoilds. ''
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—75
l.)itto'6 per Cent. liii
Ditto Accourt . ..
Ditto Guararteed:i . Per Cent, .......... -
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account . ...,
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account .:' ..
Ditto 6 per Cent.. ....... . ...... 1. .5
7.4 dig
l3i,vi.dends on the Love payable in Lonuon.
Pe
per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Beth iit t o 2 Cper Cent., Ex. 12 Gull -.—
French itePer, Cent. Certificates Itnliau, 6 ~?•tee, 3 per Cent., Ex 25f —
Ditto Aar C nt., 1861, Ex. i 5 francs 7ll
t
CoLonsitotloa,:Altonzt ................. THREE
The •
price of Gold.
The quotation of gokt ,;—"*"------__Paris is about 1 per mine pm , and
the shOrt exchange on Lop don
~.
comparing these rates with .u" 2440 per £1 sterling; On
17s. 100. per ounce for standar"due flglish Mint price of 13
about 4-10 t
re
per cent. dearer in g°lo'4',„„, it appears that gold is
By advices from Rauaburg th 11.7:4118.totnitsal2P5aripes;
mark
13.6 i Per £1 sterling
and the short exchange oh Loarar—vi;riosf
ice is, therefore, about.
btandard gold at the English Mint°
aniburg
7-10ths per cent. dearer in London than y The course of exchange at Neve York Z liondon for bills at
sight is about 139 to 1191 per eent"4
60 days'
on gold about 264 per cent. At these pric.e:T'the premium
there is little if
any profit on the importation of gold from the 'United
States.

NELSON LEE AND THE DRAMATIC COLLEGE.
Mr. J. W. Anson, secretary to the
isDratnettic Col-
lege, has forwarded the following letterto ir. Nelson Lee
Sir,--I have been directed !iy. the. council to convey
yon an expression of their opinion in relation to the
iellthefi.s the College has obtainedfrotmheydouurtystehrvanicebsy,
for-
'<
I cannot better discharge
.4 itelfttg the following copy of their minutes, viz. -:
Eerezlee having been made to the groat benefit which
had
-ell derived f Richardson's show and Wombwell's
inescrell, 41:41 to from
important services of Mr. Nelson Lee
ral
toartta tileir construction, his valuable ideas and gene-
ly‘fore as on the days of perform-
ance, it vas as we._
e644„eil be rot usly resolved that the thanks of the
f
the College 8 41144LoiTira Tire hia devotion to the interests o
thus ,vinced.„