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

ONEY BURKE;

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE o'CLocK.
Although the supplies of money in the general
discount market have been reduced by the absorp-
tion i❑ 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A sum of 50,000 sovereigns was withdrawn from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 B ink yesterday for exportation to Cons:an-
tiuople.

, The Per; which leaves to-morrow for India and
China, will take out 4'61,571 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
AlimirAlty Prize Court at N,ew 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 Eederal
authorities, that the vessel had on board any con-
traband of war; that her papers were simulated;
and they assert that the evidence adduced was in
direct opposition to the verdict recorded. It is
universally believed that the seizure of the Peterhoff
bad been premeditated, because she had been pre-
viously connected with Confederate ports, and a
desire had long ago been manifested by the Wash-
ington officials to obstruct the British trade with
IVlatamorae,

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 94 1, and for the account 931 '4.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 931 ;
and the 30 Years' Annuities, 15 1-16. Bank Stock
is quoted 2381; the India 5 per Cent. Loan, 1081 4;
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 1; Ditto, 1862, 681 69
Ditto Consolides, 481 49; Mexican, 381 4 ; Greek,
331 1 ; Ditto Coupons, 15,3- ; Spanish Passive, 338341 ; Ditto Certificates, 12?,-, d ; Italian, 711
Portuguese, 481 ; Russian, 93; Egyptian, 10413;
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 as., and South Eastern 10s.,
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, Os. ;
Union of Australia, ss. Hudson Bay Company
shares realise 3 ; General Credit and Finance, 33 a ;
and National Discount Company,

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock 23Bi
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
93 93k t
New 3 per Cent. Annuitiesg
New 24 per Cent. Annuities
6 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 1-16
IDitto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
ndia Stock ............
Ditto 5 pei Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
108 i
Ditto 5 per Cent. ...........
Ditto 54 per Cent
Ditto Deben.tures 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 -.-
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
Ditto Bonds El,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO ............. —
Bank Stock for Account
consols for Account, Sept. 9
ladia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —

March,
per Cent.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO .. 2
11
dis 2 pm
Ditto X5OO .. 1 dis 2pm I
Ditto Small .......... 1 dis 2pm
Austrian
FOREIGN FTJNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bonds, 5 per Cent............
Ditto
1859 ..............
Brazilian 5 per Cent ...............
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 .... 1031......... Ditto 4f per Cent., 1852
-58-GU .
...... 931
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent.......
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3
per •...
(Milian 6 per Cent.... Cent.)
Ditto 4-1 per Cent.................. ................
EEquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent..
gyptian 7 per Cent .................. 1041
Ditto, Second Issue- ............... 104!
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. —4}
DDitto Account ......... ............ 331
itto Coupons ...................... 15Z
Italian Ditto Account, .....................
Mexics per Cent.(Marennana Railway) 79 8i
Dittan 3 per Cent ..................
o Account, ...................
NAloorish Imperial 5 per •Cent .......... 96
ew Granada ........................ 113 i
Ditto 2 per Cent. •
..............
Ditto Deferred
PDitto Land Warrants (Hectares)
eruvian 3 per Cent. .. . .......
Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1.853
DittoDtto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, 'GO, 62 --
Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, X St"
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 .............
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account ......
S
panish 3 per Cent •
-Ditto A ccount
...
Ditto Account.
................

June,
24 per Cent.

- -
Ditto Account 34 a 3/
ASpanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Ditto Account l2l a a
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 924 3
...,Ditto Account.... Ditto, 5...100 Bonds 72-
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account .
Dit
to Guaranteed, 4 per Cent -
-Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Account.....
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 44 per Cent., Ex. 25f. ......
Aiuteh 24 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil ....... . .
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ea. 25
francs —
flitto Account
Consols, Money THREE O'CLOCK.
Ditto Account 93/
93/ 2

LORD PALMERSTON AND THE PEERAGE.—No
Prime Minister of late years (it has very recently
been calculated) has been so lavish of the honours of the
Crown as Lord Palmerston. The new baronies of Houghton
And Annaly will be the 29th and 30th peerages of the
datiotend Xingdom created at Lord Palmerston's recommen-
fa__ and of these 30 peerages, 18 are cases in which new
stances
fatuities liavo been ennobled the others being either in-
stances
or Irish nobles being made peers of the
-United
ages. The :dciaiT, or of new titles added to existing peer-
,the earldoms or ,10,D;s, strictly speaking, to the peerage are
Eversley, and the
"A. ;ell and Cromartie, the viscounty of
Brougham (new
patearenies of Annaly, Aveland, Belper,
Houghton, Llanover,T' chesham, Ebury, Fitzhardinge,
Taunton, Wensleydale,P'ns, LyAreden, Macaulay (extinct),
ruadeand "Westbury. Lords Ward and
Cowley have been
Earl of Kenmare and Lorearl'' ; and the Irish peers, the
Scottish peers, the Earls of Talbot de Malahide, and the
yiinnaird, have been
rna Fife and Seafield and Lord
Kingdom. ae barons of the United
DEATH OF A LUNATIC FRCM Ft
Mr. Humphreys held an
Green-lanes, Tottenham at the Manor
inaues RE.—Yesterday
house Tavern, Green-
death of Mrs. Caroline Annette Marshamn, respecting the
deceased was an irunite of Dr. Eirkett's lunatic 44. The
Northumberland House, Green•lanes, and sheawtic Asylum,
freia a whitlow in the finger. On Wednesday assuffering
'She got out of bed to shake something into the o.eveningre.grat last
'which the light was kept for safety, when the handkerchief
'which wrapped up her finger became ignited. She wasi severely burnt, and, though Dr. Allen, the medical at-
tendant, was speedily on the spot, she expired in few hours.
Averdict of "Accidental death from burns" was returned.
4 : STATE OF THE PRESS IN PRUSSIA.—The Associa-
.,o4
; for the Defence of the Liberty of the Press has
Jj,ll,strPublished a list of the warnings given to Prussian
u!'als dnring the, months of June and July. It appears
that nr)les„ th, - • n•• were givens of which,66 were
given once Gay, u SO N. arntu,s
nd one tour tiln€s. Thu
Elberfeld
ett7eie, one thria,, a
which did not receive a w,ruiru-r ei• '• is the only paper . .
of
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