The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-19 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE o'CLocx.
Although the supplies of money in the general
discount market have been reduced by the absorp-
tion in the agricultural districts, there is still an
abundance for the ordinary requirements of trade.
Discounters are nevertheless enabled to enforce full
rates, and very little business is negotiated under
the Bank minimum of 4 per cent. The demand
is generally active.

A sum of 50,000 sovereigns was withdrawn from
the Bank yesterday for exportation to Concan-
tinople.

Two O'CLOCK.
With a very limited amount of business the
Funds to-day have continued in a tolerably firm
position, the market, though exceedingly dull, being
rendered healthy by a variety of favourable cir-
cumstances, all tending to induce confidence in the
future prospects of home affairs. Consols for trans-
fer are 934 t, and for the account 931
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 93/ a ;
and the 30 Years' Annuities, 15 1-16. Bank Stock
is quoted 238/ ; the India 5 per Cent. Loan, 1081 ;
and Exchequer Bills remain at ls. dis. to 2s. prem.
Increased heaviness has prevailed in the Foreign
Market, and business is rather quiet. Turkish 6
per Cents., 1858, are 72 4 ; Ditto, 1862, 68 69 ;
Ditto Consolides, 481 49; Mexican, 38/ 4 ; Greek,
331 s; Ditto Coupons, 15 ; Spanish Passive, 33'
34/ ; Ditto Certificates, 12d ; Italian, 711 s .
Portuguese, 484 4 ; Russian, 93; Egyptian, 104-11;
Granada, 151 16; and the Confederate Loan has
dropped to 29 27 discount. .-
In the Railway Market the dealings have been
very circumscribed, but in several instances prices
have slightly improved. South-Western and Mid-
land have advanced 55., and South Eastern 108.,
while Lancashire and Yorkshire have declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continue inactive
at previous quotations.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in moderate
request at fully previous prices. Bank of Australia
have improved ss. ; Bank of New Zealand, ss. ; at
Union of Australia, Ss, Hudson Bay Company
shares realise 3 ; General Credit and Finance, 3/ 1 ; I
and National Discount Company, 9/.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
238 k
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
93/ 931 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 934
New 21 per Cent. Annuities....
6 per Cent. Annuities
.Annuities, 30 yrs, expire nth J an., 1880..
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 188:5. 15 1-16
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908.
India Stock
Ditto 5 psi Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 5f per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
Ditto Bonds £l,ooli
Ditto under £l,OOO
....
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account, Sept, 9
India Stock for Account,
per Cent —l
March, June,
Cent.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO .. 21 per Cent. 21 per Ce
1 dis 2 pm
Ditto £5OO .. 1 dis 2pm I
Ditto Small .......... 1 dis 2pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent..... .....
Ditto 1859
........
...............
Brazilian 5 per Cent ....
1331
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 ...... —3
1
Ditto 4f per Cent., 1852-58-60 .. ....
... 931 .
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent ..............
Ditto 1 per Cent. ( per CDeferred • 3 Cent.
Chilian 6 per Cent ....
Ditto 41 per Cent.................. .............
•
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.,
Egyptian 7 per Cent ........... Ditto, Second Issue- .... .....
.......... .. 1041
. 1041
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Cou
DDitto Account.. pons..
....... ............ 33i
itto Coupons ...................... 151
Ditto Account,.....
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 79
'lexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account... •.............
................... 38i I
NMoorish Imperial 5 per Cent .......... 96
ew Granada ........................ 15i
Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deferred,. ..................
................
Ditto Land 'Warrants (Hectares) .. ....
Peruvian 3 per Cent. ....
.. .•
..
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862. ......... ..... t ....
Portuoarese 3 per Cent. ...
Ditto 1853
Account... . , ..........
.... . .......... 481
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62..
Ditto Account ...................... 481
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ •St ........ Ditto 41 per Cent 18.50 ............
Ditto 3 per Cent. 18;59 ..............
SDitto 5 per Cent, 1862 .............. 93
ardinian 5 per Cent .......... .......
Ditto Account. ..................... Spanish 3 per Cent ..................
Ditto Account ......................
Ditto New Deferred ........Ditto ........
Account ......................
Ditto Passive ......
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —3/
Ditto Account
34 1
Ditto Account
121
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account. ......
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858.......
921 3
:Ditto
.....
Account .....1
Ditto, £lOO Bonds ..
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 -
681
Ditto Account
t. 4 per Cent,....., —
1
Venezuela 3 per Cen
DDitto Account
itto 6 per Cent., 18511
Dividends
on the payable in London.
Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f. ..
clutch 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1851, Ex. 25 francs..
Ditto Account
71f
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
93i
Ditto Account

LORD PALMERSTON AND THE PEERAGE.—No
1.,
berinae Minister of late years (it has very recently
e een calculated) has been so lavish of the honours of the
and . _ Lord Palmerston. The new baronies of Houghton
United xio a,' will be the 29th and 30th peerages of the
dation, and g °tin created at Lord Palmerston's recommen-
families have d
tiblatle 30 peerages, 18 are cases in which new
stances of Scottieesialloennobled, the others being either in-
United Kingdom
or Irish nobles being made peers of the
ages. The additions new titles added to existing peer-
the earldoms of Russell 'jetty speaking, to the peerage are
Ever ley, and the baron7eild Cromartie, the viscounty of
Brougham (new patent), cle°B9ttalY, Aveland, Belper,
Houghton, Llanover, Lyons, Can; bury, Fitzhardinge,
tbury.
wYzeden, Macaulay (extinct),
Taunton, Wensleydale, and
Cowley have been made earls; Lords Ward and
Brit.' of Kenmare and Lord Taibeatn and the Irigh peers, the
Scottish peers, the Earls of Fit, ande Malahide, and the
Kinnaird, have been made barons Saaaehl and Lord
Kingdom. " the United
CANADIAN GOLD DIGGINGS.--it Will s
credited that we have a California alnioesatreely be
doors; yet it is nevertheless a fact that in the s -a:int Our,
Vandreuil and on the tributaries of the river ecli; ---rY of
about 50 miles from Quebec, gold is found, One
ntatudiere,
Pure gold, worth 18 dols per oz, and weighing It itgewt:t
Picked up in the bed of one of these streams, which at this
cos
of the year is almost dry. Another nugget, Weighing
. z, and also pure, from the same region, was disposed et
ltlf town this week. It is said that about 20,000 dell worth
:iciliti ,this
been gathered there this season. One man, re.
the ,tr near the locality, has in his possession a gallon lull
r "lous tu t •
news has, e al, in pieces
i ealted out, le :aave been flecking to the dig_ngs in „,,vd , people
A TEsTi‘,B•--Quebec _ilercury.
Fen B -".°NAL TO MI:. 1-IENRY BERKELEY, M P.
RISTOL, for
• t the earnest advocate
of the Ballot ia so many years pis
be 7:1014, activel the House of Commons, I's understood to
~,,Elv.,.
,AD to in prqaration.
IN Th.AD ABB - •is by •
prietor, Mr• W. 11Y. it now stated its pro
hie 11Dyal IF 11. Wab, has )iot been sold by him to
,griness the
, pnce of Wales, as was reported. i

The Per 3, which leaves to-morrow for India and
China, will take out £61,571 in specie.
In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
there was an advance in the rates on Holland.
The condemnation of the ship Peterhoff by the
Admiralty Prize Court at New York is just now
attracting a great deal of attention in mercantile
circles here. Messrs. Bennet and Wake deny, in
Coto, the allegations put forward by the Federal
authorities, that the vessel had on board any con-
traband of war; that her papers were simulated; 6.8
and they assert that the evidence adduced was in
direct opposition to the verdict recorded. It is 2
universally believed that the seizure of the Peterhoff
bad been premeditated, because she had been pre- s
viously connected with Confederate ports, and a 2
desire had long ago been manifested by the Wash- s
ington officials to obstruct the British trade with
Matamoras,

1
Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val. al,
25 ; Blythe and Tyne.
10 Bost,Sleat.,andMid.Co al
et Bristol and Exeter
et Caledonian lO
50 Cork and Bandon al
20 ICornwall