The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-27 00:00:00

ONE Y MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The amou3t of specie to be taken out by the
Ddta to-morrow is £192,360.

About 50,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from
he Batik yesterday for shipment to Constantinople.

At the annual meeting to-day of the shareholders
of the Malta and Mediterranean Gas Company--
Mr. Hawkins, jun., in the chair—a dividend was
declared at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, free
of income tax.

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares re-
main dull, at about previous quotations. The shares
of the International Financial Society are quoted
5 to 51 prem.; the General Credit Society, 2
prem.; the London Financial, 11 14. prem.; English
and Scottish Mirine Insurance Company, 2 1- prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK,
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
per3New 3
Cent.
Cent.t.Cons ieoAlsnAnnunituisties ...... ;tl3l
.tamities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880—
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
New 21 per Cent:Annuities... .
2
India Stock 3ll
k
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 100
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Dit Bonds £l,000
Ditto under £l,OOO
9 ,1
Consols for Account, June 9
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2i per Cent 1 5 dis
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCIL Brazilian 5 per Cent .......
...
. ..... 95
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent .............. 951 I Ditto Account... .................. Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. . — Egyptian 7 pet
..... 100
Cent .................. Ditto, Second Issue 100
........ . ..
Greek 5 per Cent., 18241-5, ex-Coupms.. 32.........
Ditto Account ............. 32a
Ditto Coupons ......................
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent .................
Ditto Account. ..................... 36
New Granada ............... . ........
Ditto Deferred„ .................... 9/
PDitto Land Warrants (Hectares) ......
oruc,an 4/ per Cent. ......... .....
Ditto 41 per Cent. 186'2 •
.......... 88i
Ditto Account ...................... —}
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account.
Ditto
3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 491 60 49/
Ditto Account.......
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St., —
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 59
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
Spanish 3 per Cent
541
I t.to Account
Ditto New Deferred ..
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account....
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
VDitto Guaranteed, •4 per Cent —
enezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends
on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 72 jll
Consols Money .. TWO 0'CL0CK..................... 93
Ditto ,Account

1 Liverpool Cotton Market----This Day, I
4

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM)
Strong. Quiet. Sales, about 5,000 bales. Im
ports, 5,600 ; previously, 7,910.

The executors of the late Mrs. Ann Catto, of the
Old Kent-road, have promptly paid to the National Life-
boat Institution £l,OOO, being the amount of that lady's
munificent legacy to that important and valuable society.
With its large fleet of 124 lifeboats to keep up in a state of
thorough efficiency, the institution requires all the help a
benevolent public can extend to it.
ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE.—The annual meet-
ing of the members of the Royal Dramatic College was held
this afternoon at the New Adelphi Theatre. The report
was unanimously adopted, the retiring wardens re-elected,
and everything passed off with the greatest satisfaction.
We feel great pleasure in the great prosperity of this noble
institution.

" PUNCH" FOURTEEN YEARS interest " sa AGO.--" With a ead
,ys a writer in the London _Review,
turning over an old volume of Punch, "we count up in toile
political caricatures the faces that have
long since dropped
out of contemporary history. Fourteen years must needs
make a difference in the working life of any nation, and our
losses in that period have been many. Here is Sir Robert
Peel, bland, smiling, and watchful, always with a prodi-
gious aspect of being master of the situation.' Here is
his lieutenant, Sir James Graham, impassive and know-
ing. Here is Hume, massive and stern, Here is the Duke
of Wellington, looking no older than in caricatures of the
days of George 1V.,---with the same odd little round
mouth, as if he were about to whistle, and the same expres-
sion of mingled slyness and senility, which made Hazlitt, in
a moment of savage sarcasm many years before, call Dim
‘A.‘ the great General with the foolish face." Here is Prince
shapeslbert beforeo f
buffoonery. h evcas bald.
ud Here is Sibthorp in a thousand
when bearpclinsiwogeriencesli eerreed is t 1
prodigies.o nz , with
Hero, a beard
too,si nLdoanyi
Louie
and pleasant t. find hoe.
Philippe
oscriagrcely On the other hand, it is curious
then
tremain
s: me manyr. of our working politicians
OurWvio work
in politicians now. Of Pal-
ntthough he was Foreign
Smeecrrsetary at the timea;nybint
urirli. of the page. We
Lord Brougham, and Lord berrybdyt,jaonluad and
active
looking so old
Cobden, and Bright meet us at ever
vigorous,
are almost startled when we find Brou
in 1849-50, and reflect that he is still
to be spared, let us hope, for some years of we oarnkd
Mr. _Punch at the time used to treat his lord:hi even
yet.
thin g but a respectful way. lie was the bad bPoyniofanthy. satirist. always being scolded or made fun of and it
moat
be admitted that his irritable eccentricities laid hi,:
open to sharp instrument. ' What he must do next,'
is the title of a cartoon in which he is represented standing
on his head. On the whole, the caricatures strike us as
having been more amusing at that time than now. Perhaps
it was because there was more political activity—more per-
sonal collision —more of the stimulus of party strife; per-
haps because Punch himself had the gay audacity of youth ;
i
but, whatever the cause, it appears to us that the large
were characterised by a greater vigour and
freshness, a more abounding spirit of fun and frolic, a more
defiant boldness and larger breadth of genial humour, than
those which we see now from week to week. Mr. Leech
was then the principal caricatutist ; and some of his poli-
tical sketches are so admirable that we regret his having
given up that species of work, notwithstanding the graceful
fancy and masterly drawings of Mr. Tenniol, who, we be-
lieve, is now the only artist who does the large earieaturts '
for .Ptcnob

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The money market presents a very quiet appear-
1,
ance, and although bankers and brokers are enabled
to find full employment for their resources; the con-
cession made with regard to first-class bills of three
months' date only represents f per cent., 3i per I
cent. being the lowest rate at which discounts can e
be effected. The exportation of specie being tem- 2 4
porarily larger than the arrivals, no doubt in- s
duces caution on the part of capitalists, who, if
gold should again accumulate at the Bank of Eng- 13
land, would no doubt speedily offer increased fact-
8
to the mercantile classes.

Two o'CLo CK.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
,elegrarn, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were
69f 45c. 69f. 50c.
The English stock market continues to present
the same dull but steady appearance as for some
time past, the dealings, both real and speculative,
being conducted on a very limited scale. Consols
remain a: 931 for money, and at 941, less the
dividend, for the account. The New Threes and the
Reduced Annuities were 91/ ; and Bank Stock
wss buoyant at 235. Indian Stock remained at
2311 ; the 5 per Cent, do., 1091 114; the Deben-
tures, 100 ; and the Bonds, 12s. 15s. prem.. Exche-
quer Bills are ss. to ls. dis.
There is no new feature in the Foreign Market,
and business is rather quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1862, 71* 4 ; do., Consolides, 51* ; Greek, 321 *;
do., Coupons 141 15/ ; Spanish Passive 331 34; do.'
Certificates 12*; Portuguese 49/ 50 ; Russian
911 ; Italian 711 72; Egyptian 100; Mexican
36 ; and the Confederate Loan 1 dis. to par.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been moderately active, and in several instances
prises have shown a slight upward tendency. Cale-
donian, Great Northern A Stock, and South-
Westf-rn have improved ss. ; Midland and South-
Eastern, 10s. ; and North-Western, Ll.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there ihlo
has been a very limited inquiry, and quotations are ,tk
unaltered.