The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-19 00:00:00

ONEY IARK71

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Although the supplies of money in the general
discount market have been reduced by the absorp-
tion in the agricultural districts, there is still an
abundance for the ordinary requirements of trade.
Discounters are nevertheless enabled to enforce full
rates, and very little business is negotiated under
the Bank minimum of 4 per cent. The demand
is generally active.

A sum of 50,000 sovereigns was withdrawn from
the Bank yesterday for exportation to Constan-
tinople.
The Pera, which leaves to-morrow for India and
China, will take out £61,571 in specie.
In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
there was an advance in the rates on Holland.
The condemnation of the ship Peterhoff by the
Admiralty Prize Court at New York is just now
attracting a great deal of attention in mercantile
circles here. Messrs. Bennet and Wake deny, in
t"9, the allegations put forward by the Eederal
authorities, that the vessel had on board any con-
traband of war; that her papers were simulated;
and they assert that the evidence adduced was in
direct opposition to the verdict recorded. It is
universally believed that the seizure of the Peterhoff
had been premeditated, because she had been pre-
viously connected with Confederate ports, and a
desire had long ago been manifested by the Wash-
ington officials to obstruct the British trade with
Matamoras,

Two o'CLocK.
With a very limited amount of business the
Funds to-day have continued in a tolerably firm
position, the market, though exceedingly dull, being
rendered healthy by a variety of favourable cir-
cumstances, all tending to induce confidence in the
future prospects of home affairs. Consols for trans-
fer are 934- -1, and for the account 931,
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 931 d ;
and the 30 Years' Annuities, 15 1-16. Bank Stock
is quoted 2381 ; the India 5 per Cent. Loan, 108,4
and Exchequer Bilk remain at ls. dis. to 2s. prem.
Increased heaviness has prevailed in the Foreign
Market, and business is rather quiet. Turkish 6
per Cents., 1858, are 72 4 ; Ditto, 1862, 681 69;
Ditto Consolides, 481-, 49 ; Mexican, 381 4 ; Greek,
3311; Ditto Coupons, 15a y ; Spanish Passive, 331
34k ; Ditto Certificates, 12Z ; Italian, 711 ;
Portuguese, 484, ; Russian, 93; Egyptian, 1041 11;
Granada, 151, 16 ; and the Confederate Loan has
dripped to 29 27 discount.

In the Railway Market the dealings have been
very circumscribed, but in several instances prices
have slightly improved. South-Western and Mid-
land have advanced 55., and South Eastern 10s.,
while Lancashire and Yorkshire have declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continue inactive
at previous quotations.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in moderate
request at fully previous prices. Bank of Australia
have improved 55.; Bank of New Zealand, 55.;
Union of Australia, Os, Hudson Bay Company
shares realise 3 ; General Credit and Finance, 3i ;
and National Discount Company, 98.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2381
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 934 a
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93/ 34
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 2/ per Cent. Annuities
5 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire ith Jan., 1680 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 188.5 l5 1-16
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
India Stock
Ditto 5 pei Cent lOBl
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 54 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
D'tto Bonds £l.OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account, Sept, 9
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
March, I June,
Exchequer Bills, £l.OOO .. 1 dis 2pm
Ditto
Ditto Small £5OO .. 1 dis 2pm I
.......... 1 dis 2pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK,
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto 1859 ..
Brazilian 5 per Cent ...............
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 ..........
Ditto 4/ per Cent., 1852-58-60 ...... 932
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent ..............
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent ...
........... --
.......
Ditto 41 per Cent. .... ...........
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent..
Egyp
itto, S ecotian 7 pnd Issue- er Cent ................. 1042
D ............... 1042
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. —44
Ditto Account ......... • ............ 331
Ditto C0up0n5.............. 152
Ditto Account...
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana ltailway) 79
Mexican 3 per Cent ..............
Ditto Account ......................
NMoorish Imperial 5 per Cent .......... 9638 i
ew Granada ........................ 155
Ditto 2 per Cent. ..............
Ditto Deferred
PDitto Land 'Warrants (Hectares) —
eruvian 3 per Cent. ......... •
Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account~.
DDitto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 —
itto Account ........ . .......... 48/
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, X St
Ditto 44 per Cent 1850 ............. Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Sardinian 6 per Cent
Ditto S per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account..
Ditto Account .. •................
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Ditto Account ........ ... .. .34 / Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded ... —3/
...
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 12/
per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account ..
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
:Ditto Account ....
Ditto, £lOO Bonds 2
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
69 8/
Ditto Guaranteed, 4
Venezuela Cent
3 per Cont. per
DDitto Account
itto 6 per Cent~ 1862
Dividends
on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
.outen 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...
5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 26 franca.. .
.Ditto Account
7l
TWO O'CLOCK.
93} -1
Console, Money
93/
Ditto Account

LORD PALMERSTON AND THE PEERAGE.—No
Prime Minister of late years (it has very recently
been calculated) has been so lavish of the honours of the
Crownnas Lord Palmerston. The new baronies of Houghton
-united nalY will be the 29th and 30th peerages of the
dation,
and of
created at Lord Palmerston's recommen-
familloa ha'vef theseb 30 peerages, 18 are cases in which new
stances of Scottish or ennobled, the others being either in-
United Rix:Lad,: or Irish nobles being made peers of the
ages. The additions of
new titles added to existing peer-
the earldoms of Russe,estrictly speaking, to the peerage are
Eversley, and the ball and Cromartie, the viscounty of
B rougham (new patent of of Annaly, Aveland, Belper,
Cheaham, Ebury, Fitzhardinge,
Houghton, Llanover, Lyo
Taunton, Wensleydale, 1%8, Lyveden, Macaulay (extinct),
earNisVestbury. Lords Ward and
Cowley have been made
Earl of Kenmore and Lord
oaucl the Irish peers, the
Scottish peers, the Earls of Fife et
d 0 Malahide, and the
barons Scofield and Lord
Kinriaird, have been made
Kingdom. ,.,
,a the United
.will scarcely be
CANADIAN GOLD DIOGING's...-It
credited that we have a California almost at our
doors; yet it is nevertheless a fact that in the
lueet of
Vandreuil and on the tributaries of the riv Seigrti°rY of
about 50 miles from Quebec, gold is found. °ear
aCtieaudiere,
Pure gold, worth 18 dole per oz, and weighing I
picked up in the bed of one of these streams, which
s't was
season of the year is almost dry. Another nugget, w„ightihnis
.9
Oz, and also pure, from the same region, was disposed or;
ill town this week, It is said that about 20,000 dais worth
:f told has been gathered there this season. One num, re. klieg. near the locality, has in his possession a gallon full
nthe
ee metal, in pieces of all sizes. Since the golden
ings illuss leaked out, people have been flecking to the dig-
A TeErß°:,,dB.—Quebee Mercury.
von Bat,--`I‘lON AL TO MR. HENRY BERKELEY, M P.
of the B-Zil, cil, for so many years past the earnest advocate
be now act'
-c't in the House of Commons, is understood to
,vely to xxxv:3,,,,, perparetii.n.
"Al 3 AL)3,-, it
Prietor, Mr. w. .1. is now stated by its pro
his ft ,sal iii„ 1:1, "Webb, has r‘6,l been sold by him to
r 4 a fl,
4e..-- b"Fri4ce of Wale; as was reported. I