The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-17 00:00:00

fJIONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

There is a fair demand for money in the general
discount market, but the rates continue easy, 31
per cent. being the usual rate for first class three
months' bills.

About £9,000 in gold waa taken into the Bank
yesterday.

The Bank of England return, as expected, shows
an important improvement in the principal items.
There were many who considered that the directors
should have reduced their minimum yesterday after-
noon, but although the bullion and reserve of notes
have been increased, and the other securities have
fallen off, there are, no doubt, sufficient reasons
for the course pursued. Annexed is our usual
analysis :

Active Circulation
Increase ..
Bullion .. ..
Increase ..
Rest .. • •

.. £20,706,780
• • 5,690
.. 15,229,237
.. 265,402
.. 3,094,427

Increase ..
Public Deposits
Decrease ..
Other Deposits..
Increase
Seven Day and other Bills ..
Increase
Government Securities
• • .•
• •
No alteration.
Other Securities .. 18,748,232
Decrease .. 972,107
Notes Unemployed .. 8,342,445
Increase .. 273,335
During the last few days there has been rather
more activity in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets. Tea, however, has been inactive, owing
to the large quantity announced for public compe-
tition to-day and the uncertainty felt with regard
to the alteration in the duty. Sugars have been
rather largely dealt in at enhanced prices, while
coffee fully sustained previous quotations. Rice,
fruit, and spices were without material alteration,
and tallow continued inactive for both present and
forward delivery, being quoted 425. 9d. to 435. on
the spot, and 455. 6d. to 455. 9d. for last three
months.

.. 7,088
.. 5,769,276
.. 944,833
.. 15,013,391

183;559

.. 620;040
.. 41,791
.. 11,129,445

Two O'CLOCK.

At the Paris Bourse this day, seem ding to Mr.
Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were
69f. 80e.—flat.

There has been no change in the English Stock
Market this morning, Consols having remained at
921 for money, and 92/ 93 for the account.
Business, both real and speculative, has been con-
ducted on a limited scale, but prices are well sup-
ported by the favourable budget and the easiness
of money. The New Threes and Reduced are
912 2 ; Indian 5 per Cents., 1691 ; and Exchequer
quer Bills, ls. prem.
Foreign Securities have continued to attract
attention, and prices have been buoyant. Turkish
6 per Cents., 1862, are 70/ 71; do. Consolides,
481 ; Greek, 28/ 29k; do. Coupons, 131 14;
Mexican, 33/ 2; Peruvian, 89 a ; Portuguese, 47./
48 ; Russian, 951 a ; Italian, 711 4 ; Spanish Pas-
sive, 291 301 ; do. Certificates, 10/ 8 ; and the
Confeeerate Loan, 1 11 prem.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
dull, and in some instances prices have slightly
given way. Great Easterns, London and Black-
wall, and London and Brighton have receded 55.;
while North Westerns, Midlands, and South
Easterns improved ss.

The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no change
of importance.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneout: Shares show
no material variation in values.

. • _
BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock 231 6
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l 3
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Consols for Account, May 7 Oh 3
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 per Cent 1 pm

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 6 per Cent'
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Danish 4 per Cent., 1825 .
Ditto 1863
Ditto Scrip, £4O paid 1 pm
Egyptian 7 pet Cent 9Bl 78
Ditto, Second Issue - - 971 /
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons..
Ditto Account..
Ditto Coupons
I taiian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 751 1
Mexican 3 per Cent ....
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
lisw Granada
Ditto Deferred
Peruvian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 1862
Ditto Account B9l 9 1
Portuobmese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 1862
.8
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 9si '
Ditto 44, per Cent ~ 1850
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 6O/
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account . . 631 1
Ditto Passive ....
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 BB
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account. 6Bl
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1852
Ditto Account 7O/ 1 701 1
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the:above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs..
Ditto Account 7lB 1 11
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money _ ,
92/
Ditto Account 92/ 93

KEATS'S GRAVE AT ROME.—The number of the
Atlantic Monthly for April contains, under the title
of " Oa the Vicissitudes of Keat's Fame," some interesting
recollections of Keats's last hours, and of cot versations
about Keats, after his death, with Samuel Rogers, Sir
Walter Scott, and others, wiitten by the artist, Mr. Severn,
the well-known friend of Keats, who tended him at Rome
on his death-bed, and whose portrait of Keats is the
autkentio likeness. Mr. Severn, who returned to
Rome after an absence of 20 sears in 1861, and
is now residing there,. has sent these recollections
to the American periodical. The following pas-
sage about the present state of Keats's grave at Rome will
interest here, as well as in America :—" That grave, which
1 can remember as once the object of ridicule, has now be-
come the poetic shrine of the world's pilgrims who care and
strive to live in the happy and imaginative region of
poetry. The head-stone, having twice sunk, owing to
its faulty foundation, has been twice renewed by loving
wrangers ; and, each time, as I am informed, these strangers
were Americans. Here they do not strew flowers, as was
the wont of olden times, but they pluck everything that
is green and living on the grave of the poet. The
Custode tolls me that, notwithstanding all his pains in sow-
ng and planting, he cannot 'meet the great consumption.
Latterly an English lady, alarmed at the rapid disappear-
ance of the verdure on and around the grave, actually left
an annual sum to renew it.' ' Mr. Severn adds that he
is
now engaged on a picture of the poet's grave, in which he
is introducing suggestions and associations from 44 En.
clymion.' He tells us also that he has renently met Keats's
sister in Rome, whom he had known in her childhood, but
had not seen since then, though he had heard of her
marriage to Senor Llanos, "a distinguished Spanish patriot?'
nd of her permanent residence in Spain,—The Reader.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A very singular case of
attempted suicide occurred at Nottingham on Wed-
nesday evening last. Between 10 and 11 o'clock r n the
above evening a police-officer was standing near the General
Hospital when a man, with clothes dripping wet, and with-
out a hat, came up to him and asked him the way to the
ILftrala,Y. The officer conducted him to that establishment,
and on the way the man, who had a large black beard, sud-
ZelY,,stood still before a gas lamp and exclaimed, " Look
which
the There
of was a gaping wound in the throat, from
had do ue
itblood flowed freely. The eer asked him who
vaaat
oneeitand he coolly repliee, " I did it myselt." He
to. rho
ae alien into the Infirmary and his wound attended
effect :-....Th:tiTt he gave of himself was to the following
Tient, but the
wt e had first of all jumped into the river
hint, and he theno!tes was not sufficiently deep to drown
2i inches in lengtilauflicted the wound on his throat, about
bestit
done he made the "Tenting, it seems, of what he had
be at present remains of his way to the Infirmary, where
It
's expected that he will recover.
Lord Robert Montagu
jlntends, on fuesday week,
118 an amendment to
with a view to provide for the Eiphinstone's motion,
e:oc,,otnsomical construction of
ships for the royal navy of the
Aitadble forms and ma-
terials, to move—" That the Board of forms
Admiralty should be
empowered by Parliament to introduce into thepublic s r
vice a class of persons equal in education and positionet-
tilt) military cadets of Woolwich, who (subje.ct to certain
regulations and conditions, to be made by or with the sanc-
tion of the Comptroller of the Navy) may ultimately fulfil
the
duties of the loyal naval architects."