The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-25 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, T'WELVE o'CLocK.
The general Discount Market continues quiet,
and 32- per cent, is the average charge for first-class
three months' bills.

In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon the
Only alteration cf importance was an advance in
the rates on Austria.

Since Monday last the imports of specie have
only amounted to £82,000, while the exports have
been to the extent of £237,000.

Two o'CLocK

The, Paris Three per Cent. Rentes, this morning
according to Mr. Renter's telegram, opened at 66f
90c.; agitated.

The English Stock Market closed yesterday at
a decline of / per cent., and a further depreciation
amounting toe per cent. has taken place to-day, the
latest prices of Consols being 928 I for money and
account. Business is dull, and the speculators pro-
ceed cautiously, and the nninvesting public were
operating to a very limited extent. The New
Threes and Reduced Annuities have receded to 9214
93; Exchequer Bills are steady at par to 3s. prem.;
and India Bonds are 108 1.
There has been a general decline in the Foreign
Market to-day, and business has been almost ex-
clusively confined to the closing of speculative
engagements. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 661
67/ ; do. Consolides, 49 49/ ; Mexican, 36 36/ ;
Greek, 321 331 ; do. Coupons, 144 15/ ; Spanish
Passive, 311 32 ; do. Certificates, 12 12/ ; Italian,
694 701- ; Portuguese, 471 48 ; and the Confederate
Lean, 31 to 34 discount.
Business in the Railway Sbare Market has been
very doll, and prices have, in most instances, ex-
hibited increased depression. Midland and South
Eastern have receded 58.; North Western, 10s.;
Great Northern and North Eastern, York, 155.;
and Caledonian, £l.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings barely
sustain previous rates.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are flat, and
show in some instances a slight decline. General
Credit Company Shares are quoted 57 !, and
Rudson's Bay Company ditto, 8 dis.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
13
auk Stock 238
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92a 1
New
New 3f 3 per Cent. Annuities
per Cent. Annuities
New 2f per Cent. Annuities
India Stock —
Ditto 5 per Cent lOBl 8
Consols for Account, Aug. 6 922 * i
March June
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO 21 per Cent..par 3pm par 3
pmSmall 3 pm
Ditto
Ditto , £SOO
par 33 pm par pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Chilian 6 per Cent. _
861
Ditto 4s per Cent „
-RglirPtian7 per Cent lO3
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons• • 3'i .7 oi 91
hif 1)4 .2
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 79f
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 36f 51 6
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent. —
P Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) 64
Diuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
tto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 —
Ditto Account 47f
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, St —
Sar Ditto 5 pe r Cent. 1862
dinian 5 per Cent _
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account —
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account.... 3li 2 1
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. —...
Ditto Account l2 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1868
tiDitto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 .
Ditto Account ...
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account ...... .
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account..'. 56 2
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account
Ditto Scrip, 1863, £2148. 6d. paid.... * pm
Consols, Mone TWO O'CLOCK.
y
Ditto Aug,ust Account ...1 921 2

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

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(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
Sales steady, about 6,000 bales. Market quiet
no change. Import, 479 bales.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

WESTMINSTER.
ROBBING CHILDREN.—A man, of shabby genteel ap-
pearance, who gave the name of Henry Smith, was placed
at the bar, before Mr. Selfe, charged with robbing a child.
John Denny, a very intelligent boy, only,lo years of age,
living at 6, Spring-gardens, Pimlico, said that his mother,
who was ill, was, through the kindness of a benevolent lady,
going to be sent toWalthamstowe, Essex, to an institution,
for the benefit of her health. He (witness) was going with
a bundle of her clothing to meet her at the Monster. War-
wick-street, when he was met by the prisoner at Ebury.
bridge, and spoken to.
Mr. Selfe —What time was it ?
Witness—Half-past eleven.
Mr. Selfe—ln the morning?
Witness—Yes, sir.
Mr. Selfe—What did he say to you ?
Witness--He said "Do you want a job, my boy ?" I
said " Yes." He said, " Come with me, and give you
6d. to carry my bandbox and bag. He then took me
down to Stretton-ground, and then pointing to a grocer's
shop, said, " That's the place I want you to go. I'll hold
your bundle while you go."
Mr. Selfe—Did you give him the bundle ?
Witness-1 did, and he then said, " You will fetch my
bag and bandbox from there and bring them to me, and I
Will give you 6d. If they ask whether lam coming back
to work, say no, I have got something better to do." I was
then going where he told me, but turning round I saw him
tinning away with my bundle, and so I ran after him.
Police-Constable 284 A said—l saw the prisoner running.
lie dropped the bundle in Stretton-ground, and then got
away into Orchard-street.
'William Milleman, an upholsterer and hackney carriage
attendant, said he apprehended the prisoner after, as he
emerged from the back of the houses.
Prisoner admitted that he was guilty of the offence.
He was committed for six months with hard labour in ,
the House of Correction.

Burning of Two Large Ameri Ps by
can Shi
the Confederate Steamer Florida.

By a telegram received yesterday in the
from Falmouth, announcing the arrival at that City,port,
°,,t2, her way to Antwerp, of the ship Mariana, fro m
'lonte Video, we hear of the destruction of two
more fine large American ships by the Confederate
ineamer Florida, commanded by Capt. Semmes, late
of the Alabama, and capture of a prize of bars of
silver, of the value of about £20,000. One of the
BhlPs was a fine first-class vessel, called the B.
~,
lloxie, belonging to Mystick, in the United
States, on a voyage from Alata to Falmouth,
for orders. In addition to having a valuable cargo
of merchandise, reported to have been consigned to
British merchants, she had on board a number of
silver bars and a quantity of silver ore. A boat
from the Florida boarded her on the 16th ult. in
lat. 10 N., long. 36 Iv it
and is stated that the
captain not giving a bon
boat's crew took the silver d to release the ship, the
, and set fire to the vessel,
the crew, of course, being Put on board the Florida.
The other ship seized and destroyed was the Red
Gauntlet, in lat. 8 N., long, 35 W., about th
time. She was from Boston to Hong Konge same
. The
two captains were transferred to the
Which has brought them to England. Mariana,

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month of
The movement of the navigation in the
mopuor t of
.4.
:llen Burin: the first fortnight of the
--Y, was 238 ships, measuring together 22,964 ton; being
4 decrease of two ships and 1,424 tons on the same period
W
la n,
*me preceding year. The number of ships coming in.
{ rels was 118 ; of which 38 were from abroad, 23 being
.rao
ea England; the vessels outwards were 120.
a.1:11E DETENTION OF THE ALEXANDRA.—It is
11 that the owners of the Alexandra have male an appli-
etio
11
4t to the Board of Customs for the release of the vessel,
t
hhe same time demanding compensation for her detention.
e C ,stoma authorities, however, are understood to do-
-I,e ta,4l.
~r ng any steps in the matter until after Michaelmas
to, when the bill of exceptions tendered to the ruling
of the .
Chief Baron will be disposed of,