The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

The discount market continues quiet and easy at
the current quotations. Although 5 per cent. is the
Charge at the Bank of England, accommodation is
obtainable elsewher.. at 41 per cent., and bankers
and others are more anxious than they were a few
days ago to secure business. To-morrow, the 4th,
a large number of mercantile engagements will
have to be adjusted, but the preparations hitherto
have not stimulated the enquiry for accommodation
to any apprecisble extent.
The E. A. Bright, from Australia, has brought
DlO,OOO, and the Africa, from New York, £8,841
In specie.
The Ceylon, which leaves on the 4th inst., with
the India and China mails, will take out £84,641 in
specie.

At the ensuing meeting of the Bank of Egypt
proprietors the usual dividend, at the rate of 7 per
cent, for the halt-year, will be proposed, leaving
£4,663 to be carried forward.

Friday, the 6th inst., has bee❑ appointed by the
Committee of the Stock Exchange as a settling day
in the shares of the English and Irish Bauk and
the Cape Copper Mining Company, both of which
are to be marked in the official lists.
The directors of the Indian Branch Railway
Company have resolved to issue the reserved shares
to the existing proprietors at par; the proportion
will be one new share for every five of the original
shares.

D. uric the past week there has been very little ,„!
activity in the foreign and colonial produce markets.
Tea has been dull, pending the approach of the
public sales. Sugars have been in some instances
rather eheaper, while coffee has brought full prices.
Tallow has been in increased demand at slightly
enhanced rates.

In the cause of Mr. M'lntosh, the contractor,
against the Great Western Railway Company, which
has been in litigation for several years, the chief
clerk of the Vice-Chancellor Stuart, before whom
the accounts have been, has now terminated his in-
vestigation, and it is understood that the amount of
the plaintiff's claim is found to be, in round num-
bers, £BO,OOO, with interest from the opening of the
line in 1838 or 1840. The costs of the suit will pro-
bably amount to a further sum of £20,000. There
is another suit of a similar character between the
same parties, the accounts in which have not yet
been entered on.

Two O'CLOCK. 'h
The Liverpool cotton market to-day opened v
firmer; sales about 5,500 bales.

The Three per Cent. Rentes opened to-day, at
Paris, at 70f. 30c., being :ie. better than yesterday. u
The Market for the English Securities has re- I,
raained without the slightest alteration, Consols
being 924 for transfer and the sth inst., and 921
for the March account. Speculation continues
inactive, and the operations of the public are un-
important. The New Three per Cents. and the of,
Reduced have remained at 94 Exchequer
Bills, at 4s. die. to par ; Bank Stock has declined t
to 236 ; India ditto, 229 and 231. ; and the 5 per it:
Cent. Loan is fiat, at 1.07 h.
Rather an active business has taken place in the 4t'
Foreign Market, and prices continued buoyant.
Greek Bonds have been in considerable favour, and
the latest price is 20/ 21i ; while the Coupons have
advanced to 91 4. Spanish Passive are steady at
261 27/; and the Certificates, 10 /. Egyptian
have risen to 98k. Russian 5 per Cent. Loan of 4i't
1862 has been dealt in at 941, 95/. Turkish 6 per 8t
Cents., 1858, are buoyant at 72 4 ; do., 1862, 67j 4'
68k-; and the Consolides, 411 42.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been limited, but prices in one or two instances have
varied to some extent. London and Blackwall and
North Eastern (Berwick), improved £l, and South
Western, 10s.; London, Chatham, and Dover, and
Great Westerns have declined £l, and London and
Brighton, £1 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remained dull,
without any material change in values. Great
Western of Canada have improved ss. Joint. Stock
Bank and Miicellaneous shares generally :.uain-
tained previous quotations.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
236
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
921 >}
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ..
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92a i
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 211 x d
India Stock 2281 30 29 31
D tto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent lO5
Ditto 61 per Cent
D , Bonds £l,OOO ....
Consols for Account, Feb. 5 92a
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent..., par 4 die
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small par 4 dis
FOREIGN FUNDS—GLOSING eRICES
Brazilian 5 per Cent .............. .• •
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
:Milian 6 per Cent. —
Ditto 41 per Cent,
Equador New Consolidated l7
Egpptian 7 pet Cent 4t 7 81 9 8 9
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms..2oi *
1201 1 11 201
Ditto Coupons 9 9
Lai tan 6 per Cent. Olaremmana Railway) 72t t
Mexican 3 per Cent
uitlo Account..
Moorish
.... Imperial 5 per Cent
94.
New Granada 2 per Cent 291 1
Warrants Ditto Land War .. 6/ 7 61 1
.r. Dritto,ex over-due Coups. & Hectares 14 131 1
Ditto" per
Gent
Pol)rittutoguetece r;etr CiB6e2nt., 1853
. . 861 7 1
Ditto
180 • • .......... 461 7 61 Russian 5 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent:, 1186/7 . L
•St
........ 981
Spanish 3 per Gent
...... ........... 951 4/ 5i 41 Eli
Ditto New Deferred • ........... ...............
Ditto Account..
Ll!tto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
1 61,1 7}
lo a
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto A ecooint B6l
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1802
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaratteed, 4 per Cent loli
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto 11 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable.in2lLIod n*
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gun 65/
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25t 7Ol. 25c.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Cop.sols, Money
Ditto Account 921 1

MADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION.—Many of the
frequenters to this old established exhibition will
pa
since,
magnificent
t y remember to have seen, some two or three
table,i on which were depicted striking
rule
portraits
of the of
Firs theman3h
of France during the period of the
t Napoei,B .
and Turner, since its removal to France
a rising young artist, named
rner, has (almost entirely
from memory, and with scarcely
toa the ‘ great original ;"
any data to guide him)
produced a table similar in design
.
and which, from the cleverness of itsexeeu
highest possible credit on Mr. Turner's skitllloan reflects the
,d genius, as
an artist, and who, we doubt not, will at no
distant
attain to the greatest pre-eminence in the profession.PenTr,
table is now deposited in the Napoleon rooms of the ems,

bition.
SUFFOCATION OF FIRST-BORN CHILDREN.—On
Saturday afternoon an inquiry was held by Mr. H.
Raffles Walthew, the deputy coroner,attthheederaitthesof Head,Ell
Tyson-street, Bethnal-green, respecting
za
Short, aged three months,
following circumstances :—Decease
child,
whowads
as a healt`iy suffocated under the
and on Wednesday evening last was placed
and at half-past twelve the parents we in bed as usual,
went
to bed. The
mother pressed the child close to her to keep it warm, and
in two hours afterwards it was found dead from suffo-
cation. The mother was only about 20 years of age, and
deceased was her first child. The coroner said that the
s
number of children destroyed by cuff ,cation annually w
much to be deplored. One great source of the distressing
extent of infant mortality from this cause was the incon-
siderate and over-eager fondness of young mothers, who
clasped their first-born close in their arms, and believed
they were doing their infants a kindness, when they de-
prived them of all access to the air in order to "keep off the
cold." By such means children, even when healthy, bu
especially when delicate, were killed as effectually as it they
were strangled t ven where death did not immediately
result from asphyxia, there was no doubt that in number-
berless instances the constitutions of children were under-
mined, and death eventuated from consumption or other
diseases which the most ordinary attention to common-
place hygienic rules might have obviated. The jury re•
tut ned a verdict that deceased died from suffocation—how
caused there was no evidence to show.