The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-22 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is a fair demand for money on terms
ranging as low as 36 per cent. for the best three
months' bills.

There was no Y.Llteration in the Foreign Ex-
changes yesterday afternoon.
The supply of bar silver by the last packet has
been sold at ss. ld. per cz. standard, being the
same price as that realised for the former consign-
ment.

At the half-yearly meeting of the National Dis-
count Company held this day, a dividend at the rate
of 8 per cent. per annw,n, free of income tax, was
recommended to be paid and unanimously agreed to.

Two o'CLocK.

There has been a • ery inactive market to-tay for
the English Funds, which, although a little flatter,
have not undergone any quotable change of im-
portance. Consols are now 921 both for money
and account. The New Threes and Reduced An-
nuities are 924 s ; the New 2-4- per Cents., 77 ; ann
the 30 Years' ditto, 14 15-16. India Stock is quoted
228 ; the 5 per Cent. Loan, 108 1 ; and the 5 per
Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1071. The Bonds are 15s.
to 17s. prem.; and the Exchequer Bills, 3s. prem.
Foreign Stocks are a little firmer, but business
is rather quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are
67 1; do. Consolides, 50 ; Mexican,[36l *;
Greek, 331 34 ; do. Coupons, 15i ; Spanish Pas-
sive, 321 ; do. Certificates, 121 I; Italian, 701;
Portuguese, 471 48; Granada, 151 1 ; and the Con-
federate Lean 4 to 31 dis.
In the Railway Share Market, the operations
have not been very extensive ; prices however have
in some instances shown rather more firmness.
Great Western, North Western, and Midland have
improved about 55.; while North Eastern Berwick
have declined ss.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remain
Without any change of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in some in-
stances rather firmer. London Chartered of Aus-
tralia realised 28 ; Standard of British South
Africa, 178 ; Union of Australia, 54 ; Rio de Ja-
neiro Improvement, 264 ; International Financial
Shares are quoted 41 to I prem.; London Financia,
lf to 14 prem. ; General Credit, 8 to 18 prem. ;
Egyptian Trading Company, 19 i; and Hudson's
Bay Company a 9 discount.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 238
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
92k t
3:per Cent. Consols Annuities 92 i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 2i per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. 14 15-16
India Stock
Ditto 6 per Cent loBk 8
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent .......... . . . 107 k
Ditto 5} per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO —
Ditto under £l,OOO ............ 15 17 pm
Consols for Account, Aug, 6 .......... . 92i A
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2 per Cent.. pra March 3
June
Ditto £5OO
—. 3 pm
Ditto Small—
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FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK..
Brazilian 6 per Cent .
.
.... .
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
.... Chilion. 6 per Cent
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Ditto, Second Issue
Egyptian 7 per Cent lO3l
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons ._
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons . 5 1
Mexican 3 per Cent ......... ............ —l5l
New G
Ditto Account •
...................... 361 1 /
ranada .
Ditto 2 per Cent ....................... 15t 1
. ..................
Ditto Deferred ..... ... . .......... 91
Portuguese 3 per Cent.,1853. —
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62.. 471
Ditto Account ....... . .............. 48
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, St ........ 941
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
59t
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862
931 2
Ditto Pas
Sardinian 5 per Cent
sive ................ Ditto Account.. .• .... .
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .....
Ditto Account .. .
Turkish 6 per Cent.. 1854
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1868
701
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 -
Ditto Account .................. ...
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £l9 168 8d pd. 3 dis 7
VenDezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 ......
Ditto Account. .................... 575
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil ........ 641
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ........ 1021
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs..
Ditto Account...... 701
Consols, Mone TWO O'CLOCK.
Ditto Au y ...................... 921
Su Account ...... 921
........

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,
Market, very firm. Sales 6,000 or 7,000 bales.
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"(BALTIC OF LONDON.
(Frees the .Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
Last week there were 1,364 deaths in London. The report
for the week that ended on the 11th inst. showed an increase
of 100 deaths over those of the trevious week; and the re-
turn for the week that ended last Saturday exhibits a fur-
ther increase of nearly 100 on the preceding number.
The average number of deaths in ten corresponding week
(viz,, a week in each of the years 1853-62) is fouad, with a s
correction for increase of population, to be 1,223 ; and the
actual number of deaths is therefore in excess of the esti-
mated number by 141.
The increase in the mortality is caused chiefly by
diarrhcea, the deaths from which rose from 47 and 91 in
the two previous weeks to 148 last week. Besides the deaths
referred to " diarrhea," there were also 15 from summer
cholera. Of the 163 deaths referred to under both heads
142 occurred to infants under two years of age. Eleven
deaths from diarrhea in the west sub-district of Islington,
Where there were also 9 from scarlatina.
Small-pox was returned in 51 oases, 12 of which are
stated to have occurred after vaccination. But the evidence
of vaccination, or of the successful performance of it, is
often of doubtful character. The mortality of the disease
gives not much indication of decline ; it is satisfactory,
however, to know that it does not increase. Ten of the 51
deaths occurred in the Small-pox Hospital.
On July 7, in St. Martin's Workhouse, a man who had
been formerly a bedstead-maker, aged 52 years, died from
"the want of common necessaries ; found in the street in an
exhausted state, and died in four days."—lnquest.
Two deaths in the week are referred to intemperance,
besides 6 to "delirium tremens."
A. woman died at the age of 95 years, and another at 99.
Last week the births of 930 boys and 880 girls, in all
1,810 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number
(corrected) was 1,803.
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-IfE LORD DUNDREARY 'OF MR. SOTHERN.—
by the
The it swell" of our own times, a distinct being,
way, from the " fop" and the " dandy" of the
past, i
6 Clearly marked by an ineffable self-complacency
that can afford to
days, the taw..
of _be perfectly good-humoured. In former
duce the species
gallantry, Ora tashion plumed himself upon his wit, his
tit,ddress. It remained for our age to pro-
possessor to look dn which a sense of position enables its
upon all the qualitie by ' y,
--in fact,
have to earn. a reputatio 8 which men in general
embodied by Mr, Sothei 11:
This speciality was happily
upon inane egotist, had bee nd could we hope that his satire
it would have fulfilled
01 kill? understood and applied,
teaching. The lananid "(4 the true ends of dramatic
shallow self-satisfaction lOf to 1111'nour' the indifference and
gestive to the painter of em fashion are 132 hl
menner 1 , tg y sug-
to just ridicule, Comedy might o t 4 exposing these traits
humour, but might aid ie restoringo only find
new scope for
and judgment ; a tone to which ev:tiaheae lthy tone of feeling
appeal without fear that passion iragio 'writer might
" sham," or poetry as inflation. would be regarded as
COURT OF ALDERMEN.--Yeaterday, at
Aldermen held at Guildhall, the Lord Nira.Court of
siding, Mr. H. N. Nissen and Mr. T. Cave,
0:3:eor pre
elect of London and Middlesex, appeared and outereaheriffs
into a bond in the sum of £l,OOO for the due execution
dioeach
the duties of the office, commencing at Michaelmas. ;loaf
rest of the business transacted had no public interest to
Justify a report.
HOSPITALS IN TUSCANY.—A Florentine pahri..
clan, Count Angioli Galli, has recently died, and left alibis
Property, amounting to about four millions of franca, to the
hospitals of Tuscany.
The Prince of Torlonia--head of the well known
Roman banking firm—has lately withdrawn his name from
business operations. The only representatives of his re-
nowned banking house will in future be known to the com-
tUercial World as Messrs. Spada, Flamini, and Co.

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PREFERENCE SHARES.
Lancashire and Yorkshire 6 per cent. stock, 137
'West Midland, Oxford, Ist guaranteed stock, 1311

LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS.
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 41
Nottingham and Grantham R. & C.. 974
South Staffoi dshire, 924

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bahia and San Francisco (Urn.) gua. 7 per cent., 214
Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 161
San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent.,
Ditto, 2112
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 221
Turin and Savona, 2i

FOREIGN MINES.

Cape Copper, Um., 41
Don Pedro, Nor h Del Rey, 1
Santa Barbara ciold Mine (Um.), ff
JOINT-STOCK RANKS.
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Urn.), sei n 7
Imperial Bank (Sm.), 211
Imperial Ottoman, 184
London and Brazilian (lim.), 43%
London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 33;
London Chartered Bank of Australia, 281
London Joint Stock, 35 1
Metrop. and Prov. Bank (Jim.), 161
New South Wales, 52 ,1
Oriental Bank Corporation, 57
Standard of British South Africa (limi), 17;
Ditto, new, 74
Union of Australia, 534 4
Union of London, 36

DOCKS.

London, 62
St. Katharine, 621

MISCELLANEOUS.

Crystal Palace, 381 8
Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lim., 31
Electric Telegraph, 104
International Financial Society, lim., 91
National Discount Company, lim., 4
Oriental Inland Steam, lim., 5
Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, Um., 261
Ditto (£4),
South Australian Land, 341-

FIRES.—About two o'clock yesterday morning a
fire broke out in one of the newly-erected and un-
finished houses situate at No. 118, Belgrave-road, Pimlico.
The building was four stories high, and contained 15 large
room, each filled with fittings for several other houses.
The firemen were soon on the spot, but the flames could not
be extinguished until the building and its costly stock of
materials were all but destroyed. The building was insured
in the London Fire-office,but the contents were un• insured.
About two hours later another fire happened in the pre-
mises belonging to Mr. D. K. Mawes, an upholsterer,
carrying on business at No. 9, Victoria-road, Pimlico.
The firemen were unable to get the mastery over the
fweearrefu vleelemeut until the show rooms on the the first floor
rY severely dame ed The buldin was insured in
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