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

MONEY MABKE'T

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., but 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 £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 Deck Company—Col. G. Barlow in the chair—
the report, which was adopted, stated that the
accounts showed a uet 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
Stine last, amounting to £6,844. A dividend was
declared for the half-year of £2 per cent., payable
Oa 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, and
the official lists consequently present an unusually
blank appearance. The few bargains entered into
have not influenced prices very materially, and
Consols are 931- 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
937 y ; the New 21 per Cent. Annuities are 77 ;
and Exchequer Bills ls. 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, 72:11; do., 1862, 69 I;
do., Consolides, 511 d ; Greek, 34 4 ; do., Coupons,
161 a ; Spanish Passive, 334 341; do., Internal,
27i t; Mexican, 381 ; Portuguese, 49; Russian,
92 1-; 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 (Ber wick),
10s.; while Midland have receded 55., and Loudon
and Blackwall, 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 aro dealt in at 77t- 78 ;
and London and County, at 491.

BRITISH. FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 931 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 934 i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 24 per Cent. Annuities
5 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities; 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1380 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
India Stock
Ditto 5 pet Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 51 per Cent
4
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
D it t,. Bonds £l,OOO —
I !Ditto under £l,OOO
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account, Sept, 9
Lloia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — •
March, I June,
24 per Cent. 24 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
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
_—
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
„Ili Tian 6 per Cent. —
Ditto 45 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 345 4 5
Ditto Account —
Ditto Coupons
Ditto Account
Italian .5 per Cent.(Maremnaana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account. —
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deterred
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) —
PJiuvian 3 per Cent.
Ditto 45 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account —
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account....
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7,'9, 'GO, 62 49
Ditto Account —
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 4 per Cent 1850 . 89
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 •
921 5
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account —
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account —
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account —
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account
Turkish
iurkish 6 per Cent. 1851 —
Ditto Account ..
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1856
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
1 /itto Account —
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 45 per Cent.,., Ex. 25f. .. —
-unto), 25 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull Ditto .1
French it Per Cent. Certificates
Italian _ewes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
nittz
,o. Per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25:francs —
Account . .........

TWO O'CLOCK.
93k
Congols, Money
Ditto:Account
..
93t1..........

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of go-q-a-i--i7tout 1 per mule pm., and
On
the short exchange On London is 25.30 per £1 sterling.
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of ..C3
17s. 100. per ounce for with
gold, it appears that gold is
about 4-10ths per cent dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamurg the price of gold is 125 per mark
and the short exchar4.,,e on London is 11.6 i per Ll sterling.
Standard gold at the English Alir.t Price is, therefore, about
7-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
sight Is about 139 to 1394 per cent, and the premium
60 days'
on gold about 26i per cent. At these prices there is little if
on the Importation of gold from time United
any profit
States.

NELSON LEE AM THE Dr.AMATIC COLLEGE.
Mr. J. W. Anson, secretary to the Drama,i, col_
lege, has forwarded the following letter to Mr. Neleon Lee
Dear Sir,--I have been directed by the council to convey
opinion in relation to the
benefits of their . e
to you an express
benefits the College has obtained from your services, and
I think I cannot better discharge the duty than by for.
of their minutes, viz. :
'warding the following copy
ldeference having been made to the great benefit which
'rsysieehoswofan:lir.WisroetulsbonweLlle'es
'lieeti derived from Richardson
lane's
and to the important se
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'—e'r' to their construction, his valuable ideas and gene-
ance-rtas well
'-•of the
that the thanks
genient, before as on the days of per
wasl4lallitl2°ltslY
resolved
the interests of
council be voted to him for his devotion to the College thus evinced,"