The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-12 00:00:00

MONEY "MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CH i, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
An active demand for money still continues, but
as the resources of the public and private establish-
ments have been slightly increased, the rates for
first-class short-dated paper have been relaxed to
the extent of per cent., and the general charges
are now quoted 3-1- 4 per cent.
. _

A further sum of 130,000 in gold was taken into
the Bank yesterday.
There was no material alteration in the Foreign
Exchanges yesterday afternoon.
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. announce hav-
ing received £1,600 from the Customhouse at San
Jose de Cucuta on account of the New Granada
dividends.

Two O'CLOCK.

The suspension has been announced of Mr, Wil-
liam Sheppard, of the Park Mills, Ware, with
liabilities estimated at 130,000.
At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 40c.
Rather firm.
There has been a further improvement to-day of
1 per cent. in the market for the English Funds
owing to a few speculative purchases, coupled with
the flow of gold into the Bank of England and the
favourable accounts of the harvest. Consols are
931 1 for money, and at 931 y for the account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are better
at 93 11. The New 21 per Cents. are marked '77.
India Stock. is firm at 226; do. 5 per Cent. Loan
1081 ; ditto 5 per Cent, Enfaced Paper 1161.
Exchequer Bills are ls. dis. to 28. prem.
Although the dealings in the Foreign Market are
rather limited, prices tend upwards. Mexican
have risen f, viz., 38i 39 ; Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1862, have improved to 671 68 ; Ditto Consolides,
to 481 49; Greek, to 33 1 ; Ditto Coupons, to 151 1,;
Spanish Passive, to 321 331 i Ditto Certificates, to
1211; Russian, to 921 93 ; Sardinian, to 90; and
the Confederate Loan is firmer at 251 to 241 die.
I:liminess in the Railway Share Market continues
inaooe, but in one or two instances there is a
provement in prices. Great Eastern,
slight i.To
London an.'l Black wall, and South Eastern have
each improve 53.; Great Northern A Stock, 10s.;
and Caledonian,
The Foreign anti Colonial lines continue heavy,
at previous quotations.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in several
instances also a shade firmer. Imperial Ottoman
have advanced to 181; London and Brazilian to
431; Alliance of London and Liverpool to 35H ;
Crystal Palace Stock is steady at 404 ; International
Financial shares at 81 9 ; Hudson Bay Company
at 21- 3; and Ueneral Credit Company at 2i.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities r 3 4
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 934
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 21 per Cent. Annuities... 77
5 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880..
Ditto tor 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908.
India Stock
Ditto 5 pet Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
ha() 51 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
D iti, bonds El.outi
Ditto under £1,000..
Bank Stock for Account
Consols tor Account. Sept, 9
I Alia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent lOB4
March, I June,
21 per Cent. 21 per Cent.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO .. 1 die I 2 pm
Ditto 1:•500
Ditto Small
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
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian 7 pet Cent .
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupins.. 324 34 21
Ditto Account 334
Ditto Coupons l5/
Ditto Account
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmans. Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred 94
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) 6l
Poruvian 3 per Cent. ..........
Ditto Account
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St ...
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 ...................
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account -
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account ..................
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
32/ 31
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. -
Ditto
Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
t, Ditto Account.

......
Ditto 6 per Cent.. 1858...
Ditto Account
Ditto, XlOO Bonds ..
.....
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
J)itto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £l9 16s 8d pd.
Ditto Gruarat teed, 4 per Cent .... 102}
Tenesuela 3 per Cent. ......
Ditto Account ..
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1882
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 64t
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account....

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

(RETITER'S TELEGRAM.)
Very, strong about 1,000 bales; imports, 945;
previously 21,16.

TIM WEATHER AND CROPS IN SCOTLAND.—
INNERLEITHEN.—The weather of the past week
has been of a much less scorching nature than that which
prevailed during the four or five
weeks preceding, and we
have had several showers. The rain-fall, however, '
has not
been nearly equal to the requirements of the
ground,
the long drought had parched to an unusual degree. Be-
sides the fall of half an inch of rain on Monday morning,
we had slight showers on Tuesday and again on Friday.
Showers fell frequently on Saturday, but they were always
light and of short duration, and the whole quantity of rain
which fell was small, the rain gauge registering only 4-10ths
of an inch from Tuesday, inclusive. Up to this morning,
L
eithen Water and to the west of the town, the fall, how-
zueve7,ar, we hear, has been considerably greater. The baro-
meter, , which continued to drop slowly during the whole oi
week,
fell
again to ascend yesterday, and though a
few dro
past fortsthee 1 this morning, the rain, it is to be feared, is
day. scanty present. Considerable breezes blew on Secur-
e marked effectouugh the showers have been, they have had
fresher. Turzipaphotravpastures, which are now Wiring much
cereal crops has been e also improved, and the filling of the
general,
consinerably. Potatoes con-
tinue to look, in
4 Cral, remarkably well, and are as yet
free from disease.
etzinencement of harvest will pro-
bably be made towardsgh
this
of next week. In travelling
by railway to Edinbur
Eddleston some fields of potat i morning,
uc h
observedb by frost,
thenear
top leaves of the shaves being°eB
this place and Peebles, ae in theeraPletely blasted. Between
leithen, the cereal crops generalll'airbourhood of Inner-
and there is to be seen a field of oatifthoiok well, though here
n
short in the straw. On the elevated disOn the ground and
rict
burn, the crops are late and generally li
gth around Lead-
in this fine pastoral upland is looking fresht ; but the grass
twan Dalkeith and Edinburgh, cuttin arid good. Be-
g, We had
been begun on two or three farms this morning. noticed,
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.—FeebIe
as
Nightingale's health is unhappily k Muse
flown to be,
views have lost none of their distinctness—her pen none her0
f
its power. In her commentary on a recent Indian report,
we find in perfection the consummate pod sense, the keen
irony, indicating subdued sensibility, the wide range of
understanding, and the all-pervading generosity and
courage which, to my mind, make her writings one of the
strong interests of our time. From the few pages of this
of the interior of !ife in India
commentary we learn more
than a dc zm books on India from the circulating library
could convey: and we see in a wholly new light, as clear
as the day, how much may be done for the life of every-
body there by such means as are perfectly at command,—
Once a Week, just published.