The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-12 00:00:00

WIONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
An active demand for money still continues, but
as the resources of the public and private establish-
ments have been slightly increased, the rates for
first-class short-dated paper have been relaxed to
the extent of L- per cent., and the general charges
are now quoted 3Z- 4 per cent.
A further sum of 130,000 in gold was taken into
the Bank yesterday.
There was no material alteration in the Foreign
Exchanges yesterday afternoon.
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. announce hav-
ing received £1,600 from the Custom-house at San
Jo:-C; de Cucuta on account of the New Granada
dividends.

Two o'CLocic.

The suspension has been announced of Mr. Wil-
liam Sheppard, of the Park Mills, Wtire, with
liabilities estimated at £30,000.
At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Renter were 67f. 400.
Rather firm.
There has been a further improvement to-day of
per cent. in the market for the English Funds
owing to a few speculativapurchases, coupled with
the flow of gold into the Bank of England and the
favourable accounts of the harvest. Consols are
938 I for money, and at 93.1 ,Z for the account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are better
at 93 The New 28 per Cents. are marked 77.
India Stock is firm at 226; do. 5 per Cent. Loan
1081 8; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper 1164.
Exchequer Bills are ls. dis. to 2s. prem.
Although the dealings in the Foreign Market are
rather limited, prices tend upwards. Mexican
have risen 1, viz., 381 39 ; Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1862, have improved to 671- 68 ; Ditto Consolides,
to 481 49; Greek, to 33 ; Ditto Coupons, to 151 -Z;
Spanish Passive, to 328 338 ; Ditto Certificates, to
1241 ; Russian, to 92 93; Sardinian, to 90; and
the Confederate Loan is firmer at 251 to 24i die.
Business in the Railway Share Market continues
inactive, but in one or two instances there is a
slight improvement in prices. Great Eastern,
London and Blackwall, and South Eastern have
each improved ss. ; Great Northern A Stock, 105.;
and Caledonian,

The Foreign and Colonial lines continue heavy,
at previous quotations.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in several
instances also a shade firmer. Imperial Ottoman
have advanced to l 81; London and Brazilian to
437,-; Alliance of London and Liverpool to 351 ;
Crystal Palace Stock is steady at 401- ; International
Financial shares at 81 9; Hudson Bay Company
at 2;-;' 3; and (general Credit Company at 21.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock —
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 93 i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 21 per Cent. Annuities 77
6 per Cent. Annuities
4lnnuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
India Stock
Ditto 5 pet Cent lOB/ i
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 5i per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
Ditto Bonds 51,000 —
Ditto under £l,OOO
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account, Sept, 9 93a
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent lOB/
March, 1 June,
1 per Cent. I 2f
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO .. 2 1 dis 2 pmperCent.
Ditto £500..
Ditto Small

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859

Ditto'4l per Cent., 1802-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Chilien 6 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent. ..
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent..
Egyptian 7 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 324 31 2I
Ditto Account 331
Ditto Coupons
Ditto Account
Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway)
1111exican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 394 8a 91
Moorish Imperial 6 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred 9l
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) 64
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, St —
Ditto 41
........
per Cent 1850
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862
Sardinian 6 per Cent
90
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 6 per Cent. 1854
a Ditto Account..
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Di tto 6 per Cent. 1862
D itto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £l9 16s 8d pd.
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lO2l
Venezuela 3 per Cent. • 23,1
Ditto Account ..
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Lx. 12 Guil 641
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
_Ditto Account

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

'S .
Very strong( aboutRETJTER 1,000 baIesTELEGRAM ;) imports, 945;
previously 21,16.

TIIE WEATHER AND CROPS IN SCOTLAND.—
INNERLEITHEN.—The weather of the past week
has been of a much less scorching nature than that which
prevailed during the four or five weeks preceding, and we
lave had several showers. The rain-fall, however, has not
been nearly equal to the requirements of the ground, which
the long drought had parched to an unusual degree. Be-
sides the fall of half an inch of rain on Monday morning,
we had slight showers on Tuesday and again on Friday.
Showers fell frequently on Saturday, but they were always
light and of short duration, and the whole quantity of rain
which fell was small, the rain gauge registering only 4-10ths
of an inch from Tuesday, inclusive. Up to this morning,
Leithen Water and to the west of the town, the fall, how-
ever, we hear, has been considerably greater. The baro-
meter, which continued to drop slowly during the whole of
last week, began again to aseend yesterday, and though a
few drops fell this morning, the rain, it is to be feared, is
past for the present. Considerable breezes blew on Satur-
arny'a_B•catttY though the showers have been, they have had
tik d
,reuffnlectivapon pastures, which are now looking much
fresher,
cereal crops iia: have also improved, and the filling of the
tinne to look • been assisted considerably. Potatoes con-
, in general, remarkably well, and are as yet
free from disease.
bably be made towards
commencement of harvest will pro-
by railway to Edinburghetehnd of next week. In travelling
Eddleston some fields of is
morning, we observed near
top leaves of the shaws potatoes much injured by frost, the
this place and Peebles, beingntheompletely blasted. Between
goner
ineighbourhood of Inner-
leithen, the cereal crops
aatly look well, though here
and there is to be seen a field of o
on the ground and
short in the straw. On the elevated thCli'sthrict around Lead-
burn, the crops are late and generally
flrigesht , but the grass
, euttin
in this fine pastoral upland is looking
g, and good. Be-
tween Dalkeith and Edinburgh
gnoticed, had
been began on two or three farms this mornrn
FLORENCE NIGIITINC ALE.--Feeble as Miss
Nightingale's health is unhappily known to be, he
views have lost none of their distinctness--her pen none
In her commentary on a recent of
its power. Indian report,
g the sense,
the keen
we find in perfection the consummate )01
irony, iedicating subdued sensibility,. wide range of
the all-pervading generosity and
understanding, and
courage which, to my
mind, make her writings one of the
strong interests of our time.
From the few pages of this
commentary we learn more of the interior of life in India,
than a dozen books on India from the circulating library
could convey ; and we see in a wholly new light, as clear
as the day, how much may
be done tor the life of every_
body there by such means as are perfectly at command.--
Once a Week, just published.
CRYSTAL PALACE, —l' IiESDA -v P SIIILLING DAY.—
Admissions on payment, 4,9.59; by 5"5°U tickets,
907.
Tutai visitors, 5,866.

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Cornwall, 5 per cent. gua., 201
Midland 41 per cent. pf. attc. rd., 1041

PREFEIZENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
Kent Coast, 6 per cent. pref. B, 51
Landon and Blackwall, 44 per cent. stk., 1034
Lonion and S.-Western 44 per cent., b 5

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 97}

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81
Great Luxembourg, 13S-
San I'auto gua. 7 per cent.,
Ditto (all), 22}
South Austrian wad Lombardo Venetian, 211
West Flanders, 71

FOREIGN MINES.
Yudanamutana of S. Australia (Um.), 31

JOINT-STOCK RANKS.
&gra and United Service (lim.), 116
&lliance Bank of London and Liverpool (lim.), 85; ;
Australasia,
Ditto, new, 311
English, Sewell, and Australian Chartered, 21; 2
Hindustan, t,hina, and Japan (lim.), 23
Imperial Ottoman, ifsi
London and Brazilian (lim.), 43:
London and Comity, 47} 8
London Joint Stock, 34i
liletrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 161
National of Liverpool, limited, 81
Union of Australia, 52i
Union of London, 35i

DOCKS.
East and West India, 142
MISCELLANEOUS.
Berlin Water Works, lirn., 8/
British Iron, 3.
Crystal Palace, 41 40
Gen. Cr( dit and Finance of London, lint, 2k
Hudson a Bay, 2,1 3
International Financial Society, Rm., 81 9
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour),
Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds rd. ,870 issued 90, 71i
3ladras Irrigation and Canal, 3;
Van Diemen'b Land, 14

ALEXANDER SOITTZOS, the Greek national Net,
whose poems are extremely popular among his countrymen,
has recently breathed his last.

PUGILISM —Bob Travers (the Black) and Jam
Dillon fought yesterday for £lOO, about 35 miles from
town. The proceedings were interrupted by the police after
38 rounds had been fought, in which Travers appeared to
come best off ; and were resumed in a second zing, in Which
16 additional rounds were fought, when the police again
interfered. There was then a propccal made for a draw,
but Dillon's beckers would Lot consent, and the ring was
formed a third time. Dillon stepped into the ring, but the
friends of Travers produced a medical certificate to the effect
that he was unable to renew the contest, when Dillon, of
decidedcourse,
caimed the stakes, Tho refereo this morning
in. favour of Diilou's