The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-22 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is a fair demand for money on terms
ranging as low as 31 per cent. for the best three
months' bills.

There was no alteration in the Foreign Ex-
changes yesterday afternoon.
The supply of h 5 'r silver by the last packet has
been sold at ss. ld. per ex. standard, being the
same price as that realised for the former consign-
ment.

At the half-yearly meeting of the National Dis-
count Company held this day, a dividend at the rate
of 8 per cent, per annum, free of income tar, was
recommended to be paid and unanimously agreed to.

Two O'CLOCK.
There has been a eery inactive market to-day for
the English Funds, which, although a little flitter,
have not undergone any quotable change of im-
portance. Consols are now 921 I both for money
and account. The New Threes and Reduced Au-
nuities are 921 1 ; the New 21 per Cents., 77 ; and
the 30 Years' ditto, 14 15-16. India Stock is quoted si
228 ; the 5 per Cent. Loan, 108 1; and the 5 per 2:
Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1071. The Bonds are 15s. 2,1
to 17s. prem.; and the Exchequer Bills, 3s. prem.
Foreign Stocks are a little firmer, but business
is rather quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are
67 1; do. Consolides, 50 1; Mexican,L36l 1;
Greek, 331 34 ; do. Coupons, 15t ; Spanish Pas-
sive, 321 ; do. Certificates, 121 ; Italian, 701 ;
Portuguese, 478 48; Granada, 151 ; and the Con-
federate Loan 4 to 31 dis.

In the Railway Share Markat, the operations
have not been very extensive ; prices however have
in some instances shown rather more firmness.
Great Western, North Western, and Midland have
improved about 55.; while North Eastern Berwick
have declined ss.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remain
Without any change of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous shares are in some in-
stances rather firmer. London Chartered of Aus-
tralia realised 281 ; Standard of British South
Africa, 171 ; Union of Australia, 54 ; Rio de Ja-
neiro Improvement, 261 ; International Financial
Shares are quoted 4a to prem.; London Financia,
1} to 1 prem.; General Credit, to 11 prem.;
Egyptian Trading Company, 1} I; and Hudson's
Bay Company f discount.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 238
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3per Cent. Consols Annuities 92! R
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 921 t
New 3} per Cent. Annuities
New 2i per Cent. Annuities 77
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. 14 16-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent lOBl 8
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 5i per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO ............ 15 17 pm
Consols for Account, Aug 6 .......... . 92i i
1 ,
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2} per Cent.. 3
M p arnicia Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small

June
3 pm

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FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK!
Brazilian 5 per Cent ...
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 . .
.. . .
. .
Chilian 6 per Cent
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Ditto, Second Issue
...........
Egyptian 7 per Cent..... .
............. 1031
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-6, ex-Coupons..
Ditto Account ...................... 34 31
Ditto Coupons ...................... 151 1 1
Mexican 3 per Cent . .................
Ditto Account ...................... 361 1 1
New Granada ........................ 151 Ditto 2 per Cent. ..................
Ditto Deferred ..................... 9i
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ........
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, 9, '6O, 62.. 471
Ditto Account .................... 48
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ ........ 941
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859. ............. 59t
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 .............. 1
Sardinian 5 per Cent 21
.. 93
................
Ditto Passive ................ Ditto.
.............. 321
Spanish Cert. of Coup •
n.ot funded
Ditto Account ......
.............. 121
Turkish 6 per Cent.. 1854 .............. Ditto Account . . ... ............ 94
...
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 .
Ditto Account. .............
.......... 701
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
..............
...........
Ditto Account.... . ......... . 67i
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £l9 165 8d . pd. 3 d 7
is
Venezuela, 3 per Cant
57
................
DDitto 6 per Cent., 1862 ............ ..
itto Account.
.. ........... ..
Dividends on the above payable in Lol
ndon.
Dutch 2 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull ... ..... 641 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...... 1021
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs..
Ditto Acc0unt...................... 701
Consols, Money ....... Two O'CLOCK.
Ditto August Acc0unt............... 921 I
...... 921

Liverpool Ootton Market—This Day.
Market, very firm. Sales 6,000 or '7,000 bales.

Ii:EALTIOF O;7m

(From the .Registrar-General's Weekly Ret urn.)
Last week there were 1,361 deaths in London. The report
for the week that ended on the 11th inst. showed an increase
of 100 deaths over those of the previous week
turn for the week that ended last Saturday ex and the
hibits a fur-
therr-
increase of nearly 100 on the preceding number.
The average number of deaths in ten corresponding weeks
(viz., a week in each of the years 1853-62) is found, with a
correction for increase of population, to be 1,223 ;
and she
mated number of deaths is therefore in excess of
the
mated number by 141, esti-
The increase in the mortality is caused chy by
diarrhoea, the deaths from which rose from 47
atie dfl 91 in
the two previous weeks to 148 last week. Besides the deaths
referred to "diarrhea," there were also 15 from summer
cholera. Of the 163 deaths referred to
142 occurred to infants under both heads
under to years of age. Eleven
deaths from diarrhea in
the west sub-district of Islington,
where there were also 9 from scarlatina.
Small-pox was returned in 61 cases, 12 of which are
Stated to have occurred after vaccination. But the evidence
of vaccination, or of the successful performance of it, is
often of doubtful character.
gives not The mortality of the disease
much indication of decline ; it is satisfactory,
however, to know that it does not increase. Ten of the 61
deaths occurred in the Small-pox Rospital.
On July 7, in St. Martin's Workhouse, a man who had
Ibsen formerly a bedstead-maker. aged 62 years, died from
the want of common necessaries ; found in the street in an
exhausted state, and died in four days."—lnquest.
Two deaths in the week are referred to intemperance,
besides 6 to " delirium tremens."
• A woman died at the age of 95 years, and another at 99.
Last week the births of 930 boys and 880 girls, in all
1,810 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number
(corrected) was 1,803.

TPLE LORD DTJNDREARY OF MR. SOTHERN.—
The
by
4," swell" of our own times, a distinct being,
.ae ay, from the " fop" and the " dandy" of the
,them
ard
oto.
past, is clearly marked by an ineffable self-complacency
that
be Perfectly good-humoured. In former
daYs
gallantry, or hief fashion plumed himself upon his wit, his
duo they
pecies address, It remained for our age to pro.
Possessor to look do which a sense of position enables its
'—in feet) uPon all tWn upon intellect, energy, and purpose
have to
oath a he qualities by which mtn in general
itillibodied by IVr.ryot.l_taetriOla, This speciality was happily
_upon inane
eicoue: thhadub; and Could we hope that his satire
it would have fulfilled oeen fullY understood and applied,
teaching. The langnid noedof the true ends of dramatic
shallow self-satisfaction of °d
hi:tumour, the indifference and
gestive to the painter of tasal:ieersru fashion, are highly sug
to just ridicule, Comedy might In exposing these traits
not
humour, but might aid in restoth,a
.1,13, find new scope for
and judgment ; a tone to which even thee4titilY one of feeling
appeal without fear that passion wc
.r_egia writer might
um be regarded as
" sham," or poetry as inflation.
COURT OF ALDERMEN.—Yesterday, at a Court of
Aldermen held at Guildhall, the Lord
via
aiding, Mr. H. N. Nissen and Mr. T. cave,
tzeoertepr.e
elect of London and Middlesex, appeared and en s
entered enach fr
into a bond in the sum of £l,OOO for the due execution of
the duties of the office, commencing at Michaelmas. The
rest of the business transacted had no public interest to
justify a report.

HOSPITALS IN TIISCANY.—A Florentine paw_
clan, Count Angioli Galli, has recently died, and left all his
property, amounting to about four millions of francs, to the
hospitals of Tuscany.
The Prinoe of Torlonia—head of the well known
Roman banking firm—has lately withdrawn his name from
business operations. The only representatives of his re-
nowned banking house will in future be known to the corn-
raercial World as Messrs. Spada, Flamini, and Co.

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Lancashire and Yorkshire 6 per cent. stock, 137
West Midland, Oxford, Ist guaranteed stock, 131}

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 4*
Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 97}
South Staffoidshire, 92i

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bahia and San Francisco (11m1 gua. 7 per cent., 201
Recite and San Francisco (lira.), gua. 7 per cent., 16!
San Paulo (lira.), gua. 7 per cent.,
Ditto, 2t} 2
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 2211 k
Turin and Savona, 2k

FOREIGN MINES.

Cape Copper, lion., 41
Don Pedro, Nor, h Del Rey, 1
Santa Barbara Gold Mine (11r11), I
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Um.), 86& 71 7
Imperial Bank (lira.), 211
Imperial Ottoman, 181
London and Brazilian (lira.), 431
London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 33,1
London Chartered Bank of Australia, 281
London Joint Stock, 35 1
Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 161
New South Wales, 52 1
Oriental Bank Corporation, 57
Standard of British South Africa (Um)), 17i
Ditto, new, 71
Union of Australia, 531 4
Union of London, 36

DOCKS.

London, fit
St. Katharine, 62}

MISCELLANEOUS.
Crystal Palace, 384 8
Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lim., 34
Electric Telegraph, 1064
International Financial Society, Um, 91
National Discount Company, lim., Ii
Oriental Inland Steam, lim., 5
Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, lim., 261
Ditto (£4), 4
South Australian Land, 344

FIRES.—About two o'clock yesterday morning a
fire broke out in one of the newly-erected and un-
finished houses situate at No. 118, Belgrave-road, Pimlico.
The building was four stories high, and contained 15 large
room, each filled with fittings for several other houses.
The firemen were soon on the spot, but the flames could not
be extinguished until the building and its costly stock of
materials were all but destroyed. The building was insured
in the London Fire-office,but the contents were nil. insured.
.About
two hours later another fire happened in the pre-
niiees belonging to Mr. D. K. Mawes, an upholsterer,
~trying on business at No. 9, Victoria-road, Pimlico.
fearful element until the show rooms on the the first floor
e very severely damaged. The building was insured in
London.