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

ONEY MARKET

AND
COMALIERCIAIA 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 31 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 1:203,110 in specie.
The John Duncan has arrived from Otago with
£189.3.32 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 stocks, 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 931- 4 for transfer, and 931 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
93;1 1 ; the New 21 per Cent. Annuities are 77;
and Exchequer Bills ls. dis. to 2s. prem. The India
5 per Cents. Loan is 1081; and the 51 per Cent.
Enfaced Paper, 1161.

_ .
There is very little business in progresi, in the
Foreign Market, but prices arc generally firm.
Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, '72i ; do., 1862, 69 a ;
do., Consolides, 51;1;73 ; Greek, 34 4 ; do., Coupons,
16k ; Spanish Passive, 331 34/ ; do., Internal,
271 ; Mexican, 381 d ; Portuguese, 49; Russian,
92k 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 58., and London
and Blackwall, 10a.
In the Fortin and Colonial undertakings the
variations in prices have been unimportant. Turin
and Savona have improved about bs.; 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—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities -
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 21 per Cent. Annuities 77
5 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire nth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
India Stock
Ditto 5 pet Cent lOBl
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
D ittu Bonds £l,OOO —
1 Ditto under £l,OOO
Bank Stock for Account ....
Consols for Account, Sept, 9
1 adia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
March, I June,
2h per Cent. 2/ per Cent.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO .. 2pm
Ditto £5OO .. 2pm
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ...... --
Ditto 1859, ......
.............
Brazilian 5 per Cent .......... .........
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
......... --
.
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 •941
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent .....
Ditto Account.... .........
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
,: hi Han 6 per Cent ... —
Ditto 41 per Cent .. 87
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825..
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian 7 per Cent —
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 34b 4 1
Ditto Account —
Ditto Coupons l6l
Ditto Account
Italian 5 per Cent. (Marecumana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Moorish imperial 5 per Ceut
New Granada
..._. . ...

Ditto 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred

Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Peruvian ;.? per Cent.
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
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850..
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
i Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account--
Ditto New Deferred —
I)itto Account
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account —
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account —
Turkish 6 er Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account.. —
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds 75 Ditto 6 perunt Cent. 1862
Ditto Accol 9
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent —. Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Ditto Account
Dit 6 per Cent 1862 . •
Account "
~.. Dividends on the above payable in London.
Js‘elgian 4k per Cent., Ex. 25f.
utch. 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil —
trench Ditto 4 per Cent Certificates
Rentes, Per Cent., Ex. 25f —
Italia, 6
flat° zleeor Cent., 1:,'61, Ex. 25:francs —
Consols, Money
t
TWO O'CLOCK.
Ditto:kccoxt
........ ,
93t i

The
trice of Gold.
The quotation of
the short exchange on
comparing these rates with this 25.30
gclki at Paris is abou perer mille pm., and
tandard
17s. lOid, per ounce for s .£1 sterling. On
this 23p
Mint price of 23
gold, it appears that gold is
13.01 per
By advices from tiamburg the proindon:ohlTiisll42ls'spries;
about 4-10 the I.er cent. dea,er in London
and the short exchange on Lxoni:toettei:si
r.tandard gold at the English
c)lamburg
tracen
inleitherefore, about
.£1 stermlianrgk.
-lOths per cent, dearer in Loudon
The course of exchange at New on -
co days' sight is about 130 to 139 i perkenlanddon for bills at
on gold about 26i per cent. At these pric.cs the-P7rnium
importation of g
.. r there is little if
any profit on the
fold rota the United
States.

NELSON LEE AND TILE DRAMATIC COLLEGE.--
Mr. J. W. Asecretary to the Dratnvia
legs, has forwardedusri' the follo;ving letter to Mr. Col. Nelson Lee :
--Dear Sir,--1 have beer. directed by the council to convey
of their opinion in relation to the
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faaurd.
hin,
v„ K I cannot better discharge
their minutes, viz.:
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et: thea eli followingvhear ino
h" -"efeelace • been made to the great benefit which
and drofrtime
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in' Seeing to their construction, his value
R importanticha rds o
sue'
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iAdlera, Nelson Lee
Al
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da s of perform-
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g'cialeat, as well before as on
upalleil be vot, d t 0 hito
ailee' it
liens unaziraously rcn,)lved that the ythanks of the
the college thus vineerl."
tor hi 3 devotion to the intereete of