The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-03 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE o'CLocK.
A firmer tone now pervades the general discount
market, which is temporarily influenced by the
necessary provision for the bills falling due to-mor-
row, the 4th of the month. Owing to the aug-
mented demand the public are now enabled to nebo•
tiate their paper at the Bank of England on terms
nearly as favourable as those required in other
quarters.

A further sum of £24,000 in gold was taken into
the Bank on Saturday.
The arrivals of specie announced to-day comprise
£42.471 by the Asia, from New York, £150,074 by
the tilagdalena, from the Brazils.
The amount of specie to be taken out by the
Poonah, which leaves to-morrow for the East, is
£15,074.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts,
for the past week, have been generally satisfactory.
A fair amount of business has been done in both
cloths and yarns at Manchester, while increased
activity has prevailed in the woollen districts of
Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield. In the hosiery
and lace department of Leicester and Nottingham
there has been more animation, while a more cheer-
ful tone has prevailed in the hardware districts of
Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton.

Two O'CLOCK.

At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 90c.
Heavy.

A special meeting of the Bank of Hindostan,
China, and Japan took place to-day, for the pur-
pose of confirming the resolutions passed at the last
meeting for the exclusion of the 19th clause from
the articles of association.

At the fifth ordinary general meeting of the At-
lantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company,
held to-day, Mr. John Chapman in the chair, the
report stated that the renewal of the contract be-
tween her Majesty's Government and the company
had been confirmed by the House of Commons, for
the performance of the postal service between
Galway and North America, for the annual subsidy
of £78,000, the 18th inst. being fixed as the day for
the first ship to leave Gal way.
The English Stock Market has been a little
firmer this morning consequent on a few purchases
for investment. Consols are now 921 k for money
and the 6th inst., and 93 for the September ac-
count. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities
are 92/ 93 ; India Stock is marked 224; the 5 per
Cent. Loan, 1081 ; the 5 per Cent. Enfaced
Paper, 107; the Debentures are 1008 ; the Bonds,
15e. prem.; and Exchequer Bills, 2s. prem.
A general decline has taken place in the Foreign
Market, bat prices are now not quite so flat as at
one period of the morning. Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1862, are 67/; do. Consolides, 47/ 481; Greek,
3,52 ; do. Coupons, 141 ; Mexican, 358 ; Spa-
nish Passive, 318 ; do. Certificates, 118 128 ; Por-
tuguese, 471 481; Italian 70 ; and the Confede-
rate Loan, which has been 21 to 19 dis., is now 19
to 17 dis.

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
inactive, and a slight downward movement has
taken place in prices. Great Western and North
Western have receded 5s ; Great Northern A Stock,
10s. ; and Caledonian, 15s.

In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
has been no change of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in several
instances a shade flitter. Imperial Ottoman Bank
have receded to 171; Union of London, to 344 35 ;
Crystal Palace Stook has advanced to 391 40 ;
London Financial shares realise 111 ; General
Credit and Finance, 21 3 ; and International
Finance, 81 91,

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
21,i4
New 3i per Cent. Annuities
New 2i per Cent. Annuities —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
India Stock
Ditto 5 pei Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 100 k 10
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
Ditto Bonds Elm() l5 pm
Ditto under £l,OOO
... 15 pm
Bank Stock for Account
• • •
Consols for Account, Aug. 6
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —

March June
Exchequer Bills, £1,000; 2i per Cent.. 2pm _,Ditto £SOO
.... 2pm
FOREIGN FUNDS CLOSING} PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 —
....
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent ..........
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Chilian 6 per Cent.
..
Egyptian 7 per Cent lO3l
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account 32 11 2 11
Ditto Coupons —
Ditto Account l4B 1 i / 15 141 15/
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 781
Mexican 3 per Cent ...
Ditto Account ..
35a 1 a / 6
New Granada l4
Ditto 2 per Cent.
.... 31i
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) 6l
Peruvian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account,.,.-, B5l 6/
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 --
Ditto Account 4B 71 8/
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 42 per Cent 1850
Ditto 1860
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent .... 9O
Ditto Account .. 891
Spanish 3 per Cent • ....
Ditto Amount .
Ditto Ne, D, -

ew referred ..
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Ditto Acc0unt........
Ditto Account lll 12/
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account... 92
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
i
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 70 70
Ditto Account ...
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £l9 16s 8d
pd. 67 6i 7/ 6
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 6 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 7O
Ditto Account....
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account..

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

Yam arid
about 8,000 quiet. No change in prices. Sales
bales.

BlitpPlNG—This Day.

LONDON, Aug. 3.—Wind
cloudy, this day at noon—South

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. ;
43114vEgRtm, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 2--Excel, from Jamaica ;
front Mauritius.
Gazehound,
Arrived, August 3--Reward, 1 r....
,IrronPdeatr As'bounargin,g
Lour ale, Hartz-
Queen, from Barbados ; Saiadin, Z.-0-- —.ernsey ; Indian
, from Tiara-
D ant zic ;DlEdaaL,
burg, from New York; Countess of
burgt ; Isabella, from
Passed—Ebatena, from London for Calcutta ; Ide 1*
Jersey), from London, fcr Jersey ; Jane Packe, at
(°f
London, for Nassau ; Alexandra and Rose Maria, from from
for London ; Whale, from Mogsdor, for the
west,
London, London ;
Daphne, from Quebec, for

An exhibition of stained glass is to take Place
next spring at the South Kensington Museum.
MR. P. R. Minßis has been elected by the Royal
Academy a travelling student in the class of Painting.
GEORGE SAND has produced a new work, entitled
"Mademoiselle la Quictinie*"
The Arebm)logioal Institute is holding its yearly
congress in Kent, under the presidency of the Marquis
uatuden. Rochester is the head-quarters, but the society is
more than usually excursive, this year, baying already
visited Cobham, Knole, Mailing Abbey, and Leybourn
Castle.