The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-04 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

In some quarters the inquiries for money have
slightly fallen off, but the general demand is still
moderately active, and the quotations are well
maintained.

About £BO,OOO in gold was taken into the Bank
yesterday.

During the last few days there has bean very
little activity in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets. The operations in tea have been in some
measure suspended until the public sales, which
commence to-day. Sugar and coffee have generally
remained at about previous rates, while rice has
been neglected, and quotations tend downwards.
In saltpetre the dealings have been of quite a retail
character, and tallow has, been lower owing to a
pressure of speculative sales. . _

A new undertaking—the Neustadt Charcoal Iron
Works Company—is now before the public, with a
capital of £230,000, in shares of £2O each, The
object is to purchase and work certain iron works at
Neustadt, on the Hanover and Bremen Railway.
The deposit of iron ore is said to be of exceeding
good quality, and to produce first-class plates,
steel, &c. The estate covers about fifty acres of
freehold and one hundred and thirty acres of copy-
hold land. It is fitted up with all the necessary ap-
pendages for manufacturing iron ore into the
several descriptions of plates, &c., and can be pur-
chased at about one-half the original cost. Two
English mining engineers have visited the district
and report very favourably of the property and the
prospeetive benefits that may be expected from prac-
tical and judicious management.
The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the
Imperial Bank took place to-day—Mr. A. Lusk in
the chair. The report stated that the gross profits
realised during the past six months amounted to
£10,056, and that, after deducting the necessary
current expenses, rebate of interest upon bills
not yet due, preliminary expenses, &c., a net profit
of £4,012 was left. This sum was equal to a divi-
dend of 5 per cent. per annum upon the capital of
the company, but the directors believed that the
permanent interests of the bank would be best pro-
moted by postponing any division of the profits,
and therefore recommended that the amount in
question be carried forward to credit of new profit
and loss account. The chairman moved the adop-
tion of the reports, and pointed out from the opera-
tions of the bank that the business was of a pro-
gressive and increasing character.

Two O'CLOCK.

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At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 10c.
Rather flat.

Notwithstanding that an apparent dullness has
been exhibited this morning in the Market for
the English Funds, prices 'have been well sup-
ported, owing to improved prices received from
Paris. Consols are now 921 8 for money, and 93
for the September account. The New Threes and
Reduced Annuities are 924 93 ; Exchequer Bills,
2s. prem.; the 5 per Cent. India Loan is quoted
1084. 4 ; and the Debentures are 1001.
There have been very few changes in the Foreign
Market, but the tendency of values is still in an
adverse direction. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are
67 1; do. Consolides, 474 8 ; Mexican, 351 36 ;
Greek, 314 a ; do. Coupons, 141 154 ; Spanish Pas-
sive, 314 4 ; do. Certificates, 11 128 ; Portuguese,
474 48 ; Italian 704 4 ; and the Confederate Loan,
23 to 21 die. .

Business in the Railway Share Market continued
inactive, and a further decline has taken place in
prices. Caledonian, Great Western, Lancashire
and Yorkshire, North Western, Midland, and
North Eastern (Berwick) have each receded about
55,, and Great Eastern 10s.; while London and
Brighton have improved 15s.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
has been little change of importance. Dutch
Rhenish realise 17:1-1, Great Western of Canada
11, East India 108±, and Great India Peninsula
1081 t.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally are
a shade flatter—London and Westminster being
dealt in at 774, London and Brazilian at 43, Union
of Australia at §2. General Credit and Finance
shares realise 21 S, International Financial 81 1,
and Crystal Palace Stock 401.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2371 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 921
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 21 per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire Bth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto
for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. India Stock ............... _.Ditto 5 pei Cent.................... 1081 1 1
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001
Bank Stock for Account •••• Consols for Account, Aug, 6 A India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent 92/
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 & 1 per Cent 2 pmDitto £5OO 2 pm
Ditto Small
2 pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 ....
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Chilian 6 per Cent. —
Ditto 3 per Cent. —
Egyptian 7 per Cent —
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account 3ll 2
Ditto Coupons —
Ditto Account
Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway)
Mexican
3 per Cent
PDitto Account 351
eruvian 41 per Cent. .......... • . . •
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 —
Ditto Account.. .
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62.. 47/ 8
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St. .......
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862921
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account .........
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account 3ll 1
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account l2
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account.. 921 2
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account 56
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Ita
Ditto 4 per Cent Certificates
Dittol l 6 per Celli., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Account ..............
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dverpool Cotton Market—This Da:

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
Quiet,
I port, 4,024 dull,
balesno change. Sales about 4,000 bales.
I,

vp7cBtuuLDOTH—EBOYS HALL.—
deplorably MeA.IEDRiRCYkeBneY: by HALL
deplorably corroborated as he has of Dotheboys Hall,
criminal courts, so shook public en by the reports of the
boarding-schools, and gave such an impetus in private
up of proprietary schools in all provincirilettus to the setting
Athenceum, in reviewing Mr. Johns, Tio""le, says the
Holiday Rambles," that the dealers in brnoaer Walks and
and learning are far from being 8°
Pr°aPert lodging,
old. The good are suffering for the bad, Mr- Johan as of
us glimpses of a Merryboys Hall. It lies in ais gives
black cherries. Study there may be relieved by thanedde°l
lights and sports of fruit-gathering, bird-nesting, insect:
catching, and shell, moss, and fern collecting; and the
master is no stern pedagogue, but a jolly old boy, fond of
boating, shooting, fishing, dredging, and practical jokes
and ridiculous mishaps; for is he not here delineated in the
illustrations of his book in various picturesque attitudes,—
Prawnin
at Clovelly, waiting for sunshine on Loch Lossit,
puzzling the midges of Loch Bally Grant, and, on his very
title-page, sprawling in a trench full of snow, having
dropped his hat and spectacles, and fallen into the trench in
Ilia over-eagerness to reach a shot snow-bunting ?

BRITISH MINES.
2 uCiaininobrrel Amalgamated anConsol.Goli 27
...0
242 d
Devon G. Con.. (Tavist, 1 550 57
East Bassett (Illoganl 30 774 80
1 East Clogau Gold Ltd sa. 4d par
East earadon ..... 2.14, 304 31i
East Cam 8rea.....• • • 3.4.0 8 13
E. WI Hassel (Tavistk., 8.6.6 4 41
GamAStAubyn(Gwen.) :8, 7 10
Great South Tolgus 17s 4 41
G. Wheal Vor (Hele.ton' 40 61 74
Grenville 6.16. t 6 61
Herod's-Foot 8.12 41 43
Hingston Downs 4. 8.0 11 2
Lady Bertha
liargaret (tJny Lelant Ith 34 36
Matte Valley.
4 Nlyndv Iron Ore (Lim ; 2i 14
New Setun l9l 100 110
North Downy 2 24
N.Wh'i 13a,seet(111o4an t. 1724 .(, 34 33
North Wheal Crotty .. 2.4.9 34 44
Par Consols (st. Blazey, 14 4 6
20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.0.1 10 42
- 'South Caradon(St.Cleer, 14 1415 425
S. Carn Brea (Illogan).. 5.25.61 14 21
—k. Wheal Fran. (Illogan, 18.1,.9 724 ?4
Stray Park
5 famar Silv.& Lead Min 44
fin Croit y 214 221 221
West Basset (Illogan) l4 11 12
W C: radon (Liskeard; 5 22 24
West Seton
Wheal Basset (Illogan) 54 624 674
Wheal Buller (Hedrutli) 5 45 50
Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6
WhealLud ott
Wheal MaryAnnislden ) 8 11 13
Wheal Seton 584 215 225
wheal Treiawney (Lis ) 7 15 17
Wheal Union 3.17 34 4

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Eastern, E. C. 6 per cent. pref., 132
Great Western, 4 per cent. irred 914
South Eastern (Reading Anne., £1.0.6), 24
West Midland gua. bit per cent, 1863, 56
PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent.,
Ditto, 6 per cent., C,' 87

LINES LEASED Al` FIXED RENTALS.
Nottingham and Grantham R. & C.. 97}

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Dutch Rhenish, 17* t
Paris and Orleans, 40
Turin and Savona, 21

FOREIGN MINES.
Yudanamutana of S. Austr9.lla (Rm.), 3i

JOIN T-STOCK BANKS.
Agra and United Service (lira.), 112
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (11. m.), 341
Australasia, 74
Imperial Ottoman, 171 1
London and Brazilian 43
London and County, 471
London Joint Stock, 344
London and Westminster, 771
National Provincial of England,
Ditto, new, 26
Union of Australia, 62
Union of London, 34
MISCELLANEOUS.
Crystal Palace, 401
Egyptian Comm. rcial and Trading, lim., 3
E glish and Australian Copper,
Gen. Cri dit and I, inance of London, lim., 21
International Financial Society, 11m., Si 1
Joint stock Discount, 6
London Financial Association, lim., lid 1
Madras Irrigation and Canal, 31.
National Discount Company, lim., 9/1

A curious incident is mentioned by the Austrian
journals. The Vienna Gazette had announced in
large print that it was authorized to declare that up to time
the French Ambassador had not communicated to the Aus-
trian Minister the draft of the identical note intended for
the Russian Cabinet. The Press of Vienna, the following
day, declared that it gave a categorical contradiction to
that statement. There exists, it says, at Vienna, in the
hands of Count de Rechberg, not only the French project
but the Austrian and English one. The Vienna Gazette
did not renew its affirmation.

EXTRAORDINARY WAGER.—An Austrian cavalry
officer, whose name is not given in the papers, has laid an
extraordinary bet with two of his comrades. In the course
of September he engages to ride to Paris, starting from
Presburg, and perform the entire distance of 1,000 miles
making about 50 miles a day ; he is to tend, feed, and groom
his nag 1c
1418 elf. Free to choose his route, he will be ac-
companied by his opponents, who are also at liberty to go by
none or rail as they like. Stakes, 5,000 to 10.— Fenno Lear.