The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-04 00:00:00

COMMERCTAT4 INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

In some quarters the inquiries for money have
slightly fallen off, but the general demand is still
moderately active, and the quotations are well
maintained.

About £BO,OOO in gold was taken into the Bank
yesterday.

During the last few days there has been very
little activity in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets. The operations in tea have been in some
measure suspended until the public sales, which
commence to-day. Sugar and coffee have generally
remained at about previous rates, wllite rice has
been neglected, and quotations tend downwards.
In saltpetre the dealings have been of quite a retail
character, and tallow has been lower owing to a
pressure of speculative sales.
A new undertaking—the Neustadt Charcoal Iron
Works Company—is now before the public, with a
capital of £230,000, in shares of £2O each, The
object is to purchase and work certain iron works at
Neustadt, on the Hanover and Bremen Railway.
The deposit of iron ore is said to be of exceediag
good quality, and to produce first-class plates,
steel, &c. The estate covers about fifty acres of
freehold and one hundred and thirty acres of copy-
hold land. It is fitted up with all the necessary ap-
pendages for manufacturing iron ore into the
several descriptions of plates, &c., and can be pur-
chased at about one-half the original cost. Two
English mining engineers have visited the district
and report very favourably of the property and the
prospeetive benefits that may be expected from prac-
tical and judicious management.
The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the
Imperial Bank took place to-day—Mr. A. Lusk in
the chair. The report stated that the gross profits
realised during the past six months amounted to
£10,056, and that, after deducting the necessary
current expenses, rebate of interest upon bills
not yet due, preliminary expenses, &c., a net profit
of £4,012 was left. This sum was equal to a divi-
dend of 5 per cent. per annum upon the capital of
the company, but the directors believed that the
permanent interests of the bank would be best pro-
moted by postponing any division of the profits,
and therefore recommended that the amount in
question be carried forward to credit of new profit
and loss account. The chairman moved the adop-
tion of the reports, and pointed out from the opera-
tions of the bank that the business was of a pro-
gressive and increasing character.

Two O'CLOCK.

At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 10c.
Rather flat.

Notwithstanding that an apparent dullness has
been exhibited this morning in the Market for
the English Funds, prices have been well sup-
ported, owing to improved prices received from
Paris. Consols are now 92( s for money, and 93 f
for the September account. The New Threes and
Reduced Annuities are 92:4 93 ; Exchequer Bills,
2s. prem.; the 5 per Cent. India Loan is quoted
108 k ; and the Debentures are 1001.
There have been very few changes in the Foreign
Market, bat the tendency of values is still in an
adverse direction. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are
67 ; do. Consolides, 471 8 ; Mexican, 35( 36 ;
Greek, 318 ; do. Coupons, 144 151 ; Spanish Pas-
sive, 314 I; do. Certificates, 118 12k ; Portuguese,
474 48 ; Italian 70-1,- 4 ; and the Confederate Loan,
23 to 21 dig.

Business in the Railway Share Market continued
inactive, and a further decline has taken place in
prices. Caledonian, Great Western, Lancashire
and Yorkshire, North Western, Midland, and
North Eastern (Berwick) have each receded about
55., and Great Eastern 10s. ; while London and
Brighton have improved los.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
has been little change of importance. Dutch
Rhenish realise 171 1, Great Western of Canada
11, East India 108 i, and Groat India Peninsula
108+ d.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally are
a shade flatter—London and Westminster being
dealt in at 77i, London and Brazilian at 43, Union
of Australia at 52. General Credit and Finance
shares realise 2k g, International Financial 8-1- 1,
and Crystal Palace Stock ot.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2371
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 921 A
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 31 per Cent. Annuities
New 21 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 IOBA 1 A
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account, Aug, 6 92/ A
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
Exchequer Bills, £l.OOO 21 & / per Cent 2 pin
Ditto £5OO 2 pm
Ditto Small 2 pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
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.
Egyptian 7 per Cent —
Ditto, Second Issue ..
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons..
Ditto Account 3la 2
Ditto Coupons —
Ditto Account lsi
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent ....
Ditto Account
Peruvian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 4} per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account.. .
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62 47/ 8
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
~
, Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred ..
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account 3la A
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account l2
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account.. 92/ 2
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account 671 7
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account .. 23}
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account 56
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
It
Ditto
45
per Cent. Certificates
102
Di
per Cent., lB6l Ex. 25 francs — tto Account' 7Ol j
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, lione
Ditto Account . 3
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..
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Liverpool Cotton. Market--This Day.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
Quiet, dull, no change. Sales about 4,000 bales.
Import, 4,024 baits.

his picture
MERRYBOYS HALL ve?Btis
13°TREBOYS HALL.-
n bK the reports of the
Mr. Dickens, by
impetus to the setting
deplorably corroborated as he has beof Dutheboya Hall,
criminal courts, so shook public
boarding-schools, and gave BIICh an imn denee
in
braoe
dWalks and
in private
up of proprietary schools in all provinciaP
Athenceum, in reviewing Mr. Johns, ‘,ll,l3)wals, says the
land
gdwes
Holiday Rambles," that the dealers
and learning are far from being BO prospfterg lodging,
old. The good are suffering for the bad, mr. Joulina as. of
us glimpses of a Merryboys Hall. It lies in a
black cherries, Study there may be relieved by thell de_of
lights and sports of fruit-gathering, bird-nesting, in,ect
catching, and shell, moss, and fern collecting; and the
master is no stern pedagogue, but a jolly old boy, fond of
boating, shooting, fishing, dredging, and practic.l jokes
and ridiculous mishaps; for is he not here delineated in the
illustrations of his book in various picturesque attitudes,—
Prawning at Clovelly, waiting for sunshine on Loch Lossit.
puzzling the midges of Loch Bally Grant, and, on his very
title-page, sprawling in a trench full of snow, having
dropped his hat and spectacles, and fallen into the trench in
has ever-eagerness to reach a shot snow-bunting?

SHARE MARKETS--This day.

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOGItS.

I , Closing 1 Business
;hare} Railways. Paid.,
I Price. done.

3.14.

Bir., Vol., and Str. Val.
Blythe and Tyne.
Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Cork and Bandon
COTIIWaII
Do A A gets no diA
ti ll 6p c.p
Do. B been paid to B.
Dublin & Belfast Junc.
Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June.
Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Glasg. and S. Western.
Great Eastern, Ord. stk I

Ditto A stoOk_.

6.4.0

Ditto East Anglian pt
GreatNorthot Scotland
Great Northern..... • • •
Do A stock
Do B do
Gt. S. art I W. of Irelanc,
Great Western
ro Str Val gua. stock
Lancashite & Yorkshirc
London and Blackwall
Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast
Lon., Chat., 'tad Dover
Lon. & North Western
Lon. & So'.th Western
Man., Shef., & Lincoln.
Maryport and Carlisle.
Do f shares .
lietropoli tan
Midland
Do New

8 8i

'9.18.41

Do Birming. & Derby
Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland

Do. i shares
Mid Kent

Do Cray Line
North British
Edin., Perth, & Dundee,
[Nth. Eastern—Berwick
Do, G.N.E. purchase
Do Leeds
Do York
Do Carlisle

North London
Do New ......
North Staffordshire

and S. W. Junction,
Scottish Central

Scot IN. E., Aber. stock
Do Scot. Mid. stock
Shrews. and Welchpoo!
Shropshire Union
South Devon
South Eastern

it South Wales
it S. York. and River Dun
taines,Wok.,andWok
:5 Stockton it Darlington
;5 Do
!b Do New, 186 G
it Taff Vale..
10 Do B
10 Do C
i 0 Ulster

Do ......
Do

Vale of Neath

81
881 5 87
1201 121 k

66 7

Victoria sta. and Pim
Waterford & Kilkenny
West Cornwall

40 41
15 16
95 96
111 113
53 34
50 52
25 26

126 127
125 127
135 140
100 102
66 60i

. Hartlepool II arAR.
West Midland Oxt ord
NewportLo
Do Hereford

1133 114
764 77i
113 115
43 44
1013 102
105) 1053
44 45

111
128 ;28i.
14 Up
97 99

546 tsi
26 28
104 1021

59i 130 i
891 90;

118 120
82 83
111 12i
122 124
484 174
99 101

60 62
20 22
92 I/2i
70 72
100 102
8
38 39
94 10
74 86 pi
153 156
51 a
3 3i p

526 I
25i }
1236 3
121 2}

66 51

1131
1131 14}

lUli i

79 81
156 160

27 29

111 1
128 1.

101} i

451 (61
39 41
104 106

74 80

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Closing
Share doilways Paid. Price. Business don,
100 Atlantic& St Lawrene, all 62 04
Born.,Barod a&.Cent Incetk i luk, 107 108 1071 874
I Gu. 5 per cent..
20 Do. New
20 Do. E. Shares.. 7l 115 p
204 Buffalo and. Lake Huron all 54 61
,
10 Do. Preference ...... all 74 85
Butlalo,Brant,&Godricl,
100 /
6p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 '
to
100 Do. do. July 1, 18; 100
100 Do. 1)0. June 1, 187-, 100
st Clcutta.&S.Eastn.,L,,, , 100 1061 107,
st Cape Town & Dock Scrii 100 P 74 1081
stock 11Iastn. Bengal gu. sp. e 100 1084 1094
stook East Indian. go. sp. c. 10(1 107 I.'B 108 4
20 1)0. do. G Ext..... 10 15 14p
20 Do. do. H do. .. 10 15 lip
stock Grand Trunk of Canada !eh, 191 .04
100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 70 72
100 Do. co. deferred...... all 52 55
100 Do. 2d Fret. Bonus.. all 64 66
100 Do. do deferred— all 50 62
100 Do. 3d P ef. stock ... all 43 16
100 Do. do. deferred...... all 34 37
100 Do. 4th Pref. stock... all 23 25
100 Do. do. deferred...... all 21 23
stock GLlncliaPeniu.gua.sp.c 100 ICB 109 1081 8 1
20 Do. New gua. sp. 5... 12 1 lip
20 Do. January, 1862.. 8 1 14p
stook Gt. South.of India (Lim;
guaranteed 5 per oent. 100 1061 1.07
204 Gt. W. of Canada Sharee, all 10. 114 11
20i Do. New .. . ... ... . . Is 91 91
100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. all 97 100
100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.... all 90 02
10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 1 p
stock Madras guar., 5p.0. .. 100 106} 1074 1061
stock Do. 41 p. o. Extensiot 100 101 102 1014 2
stock Dc. 4# d 0........ 100 17 99
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2
stock llelb.Corp. 6p. o. Bndh. 100
50 llelb. & Hobson's Bay. all 54 56
100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. all
20 Newßrunswick aL Ca ndk
Class A and B .. all 3 5
N.lll.C'da6 pc Ist pt bds 100 84 86
stock Scinde ..........) (100 107 108 108 71
St c
Do. do Do. Delhi , . lOO 1064 107
(
20 D 0.00.. PDuuni. a.u.b.......... ,
on , all
feu
t
06,
107
•" r.', ' 2 i IP
—p
st,
1074
•,tock Do. Indus.St, Flo.) t 100 ,1021 1035
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SEC U lIITIEz-,
ico-il.uov. 0 p.c.J a 1.¢.1 in)
I 1877-S1 . ..... .... iOl., 1044 1054 104
( Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aui 100 106 118
Do. 6p. c. Mar. et Sepi 100 106 108
, • Do. Ip. c. Jan.&July. 100 954 084
I Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 94 96
'Cape G. Hope, 6 p c,187t 100 108 110
I
Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 112 114
Do. 189 e 100 113 115
Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 111 113
ICeylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 1.13 115
jMauritius 5 per cent .. 100 106 107
INatal Gov. 6 per cont.. 130 110 112
-,- 1N.8.G0v.6 p.0.Ja.4r.,Ju1) 100 1055 1064
Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100
N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 1., 18 ~ 103 100 101
Do. sp. c.,lbtx to Is., ( 100 101 102
--, Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 101 102 102
New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
sterling, 1875 lOO 1055 1064
,Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO 1;0 112
IS. Aus (16p.c.1878.& up lOO 110 112
i Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109
,Do. io 6 p.c. An.&Oct.. 100 112 1124 1121 1 1