The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

There is a fair demand for money in the general
discount market, but the rates continue easy, 31
per cent. being the usual rate for first class three
Months' bills. _ _ _

About £9,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
yesterday.

The Bank of England return, as expected, shows
an important improvement in the principal items.
There were many who considered that the directors
should have reduced their minimum yesterday after-
noon, but although the bullion and reserve of notes
have been increased, and the other securities have
fallen off, there are, no doubt, sufficient reasons
for the course pursued. Annexed is our usual
nualysis:—

Active Circulation ..
Increase
Bullion ..
Increase .. • •
Rest .. .. • •

.. £20,706,780
• • 5,690
.. 15,229,237
.. 265,402
.. 3,094,427
.. 7,088
.. 6.769,276
.. 944,833
.. 16,013,391

Increase ..
Public Deposits
Decrease ..
Other Deposits..
Increase ..

183;559

Seven Day and other Bills ..
Increase
Government Securities ..
No alteration.
Other Securities .. .. 1E3,748,232
Decrease .. 972,107
Notes Unemployed .. 8,342,445
Increase .. 273,335
During the last few days there has been rather
more activity in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets. Tea, however, has been inactive, owing
to the large quantity announced for public compe-
tition today and the uncertainty felt with regard
to the alteration in the duty. Sugars have been
rather largely dealt in at enhanced prices, while
coffee fully sustained previous quotations. Rice,
fruit, and spices were without material alteration,
and tallow continued inactive for both present and
forward delivery, being quoted 425. 9d. to 435. on
the spot, and 455, 6d. to 455. 9d. for last three
months.

•
.. 620,040
.. 41,791
.. 11,129,445

Two O'CLOCK.

At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr.
Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were
69f. 80c.--fiat.

There has been no change in the English Stock
Market this morning, Consols having remained at
921 / for money, and 921 93 for the account.
Business, both real and speculative, has been can-
ducted on a limited scale, but prices are well sup-
ported by the favourable budget and the easiness
of money. The New Threes and Reduced are
911 1 ; Indian 5 per Cents., 1091 ; and Exchequer
quer Bills, ls. prem.
Foreign Securities have continued to attract
attention, and prices have been buoyant. Turkish
6 per Cents., 1862, are 70/ 71; do. Consolides,
481 e ; Greek, 28/ 291; do. Coupons, 131 14;
Mexican, 331 a; Peruvian, 89 1 ; Portuguese, 471
48; Russian, 951 1; Italian, 71 1; Spanish Pas-
sive, 291 301 ; do. Certificates, 10Z e ; and the
Confederate Loan, 1 11 prem.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
dull, and in some instances prices have slightly
given way. Great Easterns, London and Black-
wall, and London and Brighton have receded 55.;
while North Westerns, Midlands, and South
Easterns improved ss.

The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no change
of importance.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares show
no material variation in values.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 231 6
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 921 3
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent lO9l 1 10 91 1
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Consols for Account, May 7
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2i per Cent 1 pm

FOREIGN FUNDS-ONE O'CLOCK.

Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60
Egyptian 7 pet Cent 9B/ 7.1
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account.. 294 i i i
Ditto Coupons l4l a 131
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 754 /
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
_ ...

New Granada
Ditto Deferred 8
Poruvian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 1862
Ditto Account B9l 9 /
Pertugueso 3 per Cent., 1853
a 'Ditto Account
Ditto 1862
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859.
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account.. 531 f
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
L!itto Account 7oi 1
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the:above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account 7ll 1

TWO O'CLOCK.

_•. _ -
Consols, Money
Ditto Account • 921 93

Governor Hamilton and Mrs. and the Misses
Hamilton have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jetmyn-
street, from Paris.

KEATSS GRAVE AT ROME.—The number of the
Atlantic Monthly for April contains, under the title
of " On the Vicissitudes of Keat's Fame," some interesting
recollections of Keats's last hours, and of conversations
about Keats, after his death, with Samuel Rogers, Sir
Welter Scott, and others, wi itten by the artist, Mr. Severn,
the well-known friend of Keats, who tended him at Rome
on his , death-bed, and whose portrait of Keats is the
authentic likeness. Mr. Severn, who returned to
Rome after an absence of 20 years in 1861, and
is now residing there, has sent these recollections
to the American periodical. The following pas-
sage about the present state of Keats's grave at Rome will
interest here, as well as in America :—" That grave, which
I can remember as once the object of ridicule, has now be-
come the poetic shrine of the world's pilgrims who care and
strive to live in the happy and imaginative region of
poetry. The head-stone, having twice sunk, owing to
its faulty foundation, has been twice renewed by loving
a rangers ; and, each time, as I am informed, these strangers
Were Americans. Here they do not strew flowers, as was
the want of olden times, but they pluck everything that
is green and livis g on the grave of the poet. The
Custode tells me that, notwithstanding all his pains in sow-
ing and planting, he cannot meet the great consumption.
Latterly an English lady, alarmed at the rapid disappear-
ance of the verdure on and around the grave, actually left
an annual sum to renew it.'' Mr. Severn adds that he is
mow engaged on a picture of the poet's grave, in which he
is introducing suggestions and associations from " En-
dymion.' He tells us also that he has recently met Keats's
sister in Rome, whom he had known in her childhood, but
had not seen since then, though be had heard of her
marriage to Senor Llanos, "a distinguished Spanish
patriot"
nd of her permanent residence in Siain.-2'he Reader.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A very singular case of
attempted suicide occurred at Nottingham on Wed-
nesday evening last. Between 10 and 11 o'clock e n the
above evening a police-officer was standing near the General
Hospital when a man, with clothes dripping wet, and with-
out a hat, came up to him and asked him the way to the
Infirmary. The officer conducted him to that establishment,
and on the way the man, who had a large black beard, sud-
• dewy stood still before a gas lamp and exclaimed, " Look
bete." There was a gaping wound in the throat, fromwhich the blood flowed freely. The offier asked him who
He
had done it, and he coolly repliec, " I did it myself."
was at once taken into the Ira mart' and his wound attended
to. The account he gave of himself was to the following
effect :-1 hat ho had first of all jumpel into the river
Trent, but the water was not suffloieni ly deep to drown
lalin, and he then inflicted the wound on his throat, about
21 inches in It ngth. Repenting, it seems, of what he had
(hieeme he made the beet of his way to the Infirmary, where
at present remains. It is expected that he will recover.
Lord Robert Montagu intends, ou Tuesday week,
as an amendment to Sir Jas. Eiphinstone's motion,
with a view to provide for the economical construction of
ships for the royal
navy of the most suitable forms and ma-
terials, to move—" That the Board of Admiralty should be
empowered by Parliament to introduce into the public ser-
vice a class of persons equal in education and position to
the military cadets of Woolwich, who (subject to certain
regulations and conditions, to be, rustle by or with the eanc-
ion of the Comptroller of the Navy) may ultimately fulfil
the duties of the loyal naval architects."
The theatrical journals announce that Count
Walewski, Minister of State, has granted a pension of
2,000 f. to the soh of the late M, Bocage,

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