The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The discount market continua quiet and easy at
the current quotations. Although 5 per cent. is the
charge at the Bank of England, accommodation is
obtainable elsewher, at 4-1 per cent., and bankers
and others are more anxious than they were a few
days ago to secure business. To-morrow, the 4th,
a large number of mercantile engagements will
have to be adjusted, but the preparations hitherto
have not stimulated the enquiry for accommodation
to any appreciable extent.
_ _

The E. A. Bright, from Australia, has brought
£40,000, and the Africa, from New York, £8,841
in specie.

The Ceylon, which leaves on the 4th inst., with
the India and China mails, will take out £84,641 in
specie.

At the ensuing meeting of the Bank of Egypt
proprietors the usual dividend, at the rate of 7 per
cent. for the half-year, will be proposed, leaving
£4,663 to be carried forward.

Friday, the 6th inst., has been appointed by the
Committee of the Stock Exchange as a settling day
in the shares of the English and Irish Bank and
the Cape Copper Mining Company, both of which
are to be marked in the official lists.
The directors of the In.lian Branch Railway
Company have resolved to issue the reserved shares
to the existing proprietors at par; the proportion
will be one new share for every five of the original
shares.

DuriEg the past week there has been very little
activity in the foreign and colonial produce markets.
Tea has been dull, pending the approach of the
public sales. Sugars have heft in some instances
rather eheaper, while coffee has brought full paces.
Tallow has been in increased demand at slightly
enhanced rates.

In the cause of Mr. M'lntosh, the contractor,
against the Great Western R tilway Company, which
bas been in litigation for several years, the chief
clerk of the Vice-Chancellor Stuart, before whom
the accounts have been, has now terminated his in-
vestigation. and it is understood that the amount of
the plaintiff's claim is found to be, i❑ round num-
bers, £BO,OOO, with interest from the opening of the
line in 1838 or 1840. The costs of the suit will pro-
bably amount to a further sum of £20,000. There
is another suit of a similar character between the
same parties, the accounts in which have not yet
been entered on.

Two O'CLOCK.

The Market for the English Securities has re-
mained without the slightest alteration, Consols
being 921 I for transfer and the sth inst., and 924
for the March account. Speculation continues
inactive, and the operations of the public are un-
important. The New Three per Cents. and the
Reduced have remained at 921 'I; Exchequer
Bills, at 4s. die. to par ; Bank Stock has declined
to 236 ; India ditto, 229 and 231 ; and the 5 per
Cent. Loan is flat, at 1078.
Rather an active business has taken place in the
Foreign Market, and prices continued buoyant.
Greek Bonds have been in considerable favour, and
the latest price is 208 211 ; while the Coupons have
advanced to 91 Q. Spanish Passive are steady at
268 271 ; and the Certificates, 10 1. Egyptian
.have risen to 981. Russian 5 per Cent. Loan of
1862 has been dealt in at 941 951. Turkish 6 per
Cents., 1858, are buoyant at 72 ; do., 1862, 678
68k ; and the Consolides, 414 42.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been limited, but prices in one or two instances have
varied to some extent. London and Black wall and
North Eastern (Berwick), improved £l, and South
Western, 108.; London, Chatham, and Dover, and
Great Westerns have declined £l, end London and
Brighton, £1 102.

The Foreign and Colonial lines remained dull,
without any material change in values. Great
Western of Canada have improved ss. Joint-Stock
Bank and Misc,lianeous shares generally :main-
tained previous quotations.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 236
2 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 921 4
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ..
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
untuties, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., P3BO —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 211 x d
2281 30 29 31
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent
D t,,,this t 1.". •
Consols for Account, Feb. 5 924
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent par 4 die
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small par 4 dis
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60
titian 6 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent,
EgPPtian 7 pet Cent b7l 7 84
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms 2Ol 1 1 204 4
Ditto Coupons
1, aiian 5 per Cent. (M.aremmana Railway) 721
Mexican 3 per Cent
((Ito Account
New Granada 2 per Cent
Ditto Land Warrants .. 64 7 6/
Ditto ex over-due Coups. & Hectares i 4
P t ucian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 1862
Ditto Account .. 861 7
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto 1862.. 464 7 64 /
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Spanish Dittori i t 5
toN3pee C
New Deferred
per
i ennt t
.
98
:Da
nii
Ditto Account.. If
......
Turkish sitrt. 1.178i4 461
t funded
Ditto 6Account
nt. 1858
Ditto,
6Lpleoro
Cent
t;11.8...i2.
e.. r den
..........i. ...
.. •. •. 6
77.682 ii 2
Ditto 7 4
Ditto Account .....p
Ditto Guaranteed, 4.
Venezuela, 3 per Cent ..
TlO 41i
Ditto Account
Ditto 11 per Cent: .
....... - l2l
Dividends on the above payable in London
Dutch 24 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil ........ 651 .
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...... 1024
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 921 1

POLYTECHNIC.—Mr. Stokes, who has delivered
several courses of popular lectures at the Royal
Colosseum, upon the culture of the memory, and who has
been signally successful in the development of an easy
sys-
tem for the improvement of the retentive powers is about to
in ,roduce some fresh ideas at the Polytechnic, '
SUFFOCATION OF FIRST-BORN CHILDREN. On
Saturday afternoon an inquiry was held by Mr. H.
Homes Waithew, the deputy coroner, at the Pitt's Head
Tyson-street, Bethnal-green, respecting the death of Eliza'
fBohl loorw; i agen g edi
:cuthree months, who was suffocated under the
and on w ----
cinesda.tances :—Deceased was a healthy child,
:Jai le d the
and at halt-past tyw"l" eni
parents went to bed. The
last was placed in bed as usual,
mother pressed the
her to keep it warm, and
in two hours afterwards it close
to
twEs found dead from suffo-
cation. The mother was only
Tabhoeut 20
coroner said that the
years of age, and
annually was
deceased was her first child.
number of children destroyed by .ufr,
masotthh:rsi,ne°u-
mUch to be deplored. One great sonreacenoiserwthe distressing
extent of infant mortality from this
siderate and over-eager fondness of young
clasped their first-born close in their arms, and beliewvhedo
they were doing their infants a kindness, when the de-
prived them of all access to the air in order to " keep off the
cold." By such means children, even when healthy, bu
especially when delicate, were killed as effectually as it they
were strangled. Even where death did not immediately
result from asphyxia, there was no doubt that in number-
berless instances the constitutions of children were under-
mined, and death eventuated from consumption or other
diseases which the most ordinary attention to common-
place hygienic rules might have obviated. The jury re-
tui ned a verdict that deceased died from suffocation— how
caused there was no evidence to show.

The pulpits or trlr Chuion ot England are tt‘e
noblest vaorage ground wnich revealed truth has
in our world for the publication and maintenance of its
verities; and the priests of the Church ot England who
minister in those pulpits are a noble race of men, and draw
their lineage from as noble a race of sires. Well may every
bishop and layman of broad Britain be proud of the Chris-
tian gentlemen who serve amongst us in holy things, take
them as a class : the best taught, the highest principled,
he most benevolent, disintet ested, and unworldly ministry
in the world. Of all Europe, with all its ministries,
Lutheran, Roman Catholic, or Greek, the clergy of the
Episcopal Church—the Church of Crantner, Latimer, and
Ri iley the Church purified by the Marian and Cromwel
Tian persecutions—the Church revived with ad the light and
zeal of the nineteenth century—its clergy are the elite aad
aristocracy, by their learning, their bearing, their toler-
ance, their discipline, their self-denial, and their devotion
to their duties.—. Dublin University diagazine.

BRITISH POS'4ESSIONs.
Closing
Share lallways Patel. Price. Business don•
100 5. t 'antic &St Lawrenc. all 65 67
Rom.,Baroda&.Cent Inn 1,.. 1041 losi 1011 54
Gu. 5 per cent........
20 Do. New - • 2 -
201 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 43- 51
to Do. Preference ...• • • all 74 8
100 I Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich 1,1 77 80
6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
100 Do. do. July 1. 1873 10 71 76
100 Do. do. June 1, 1.- 4 too 73 76
st Clcuttadz S. Eastn. 1, 100 1(.3 105 1035
st CaoeTown .t Dock scr 100 II 8 ;09
stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. r 100 1(51 1.61
stock I,:ast Indian. gm. sp. c. 100 1051 1r 64. 1051 6}
20 Do. do. is- Ext.... 5 1 IJP
20 Do. do. H do. .. 5 1 fl 7(
stock Grand Trunk of Canal'l.. 21 2 221
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pro.. ;I. 73 '75
100 Do. 2d Pref. 6 per c' . all 63 05
100 Do. 6 per et. Debenl al; 32 34
too Do• 7 per cent. 1862 .. al 47 50
100 Do. do. 1867.. all 32 34
100 Do. do. 1872 .. all 32 24
stock Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c ttrl 1044 '054
20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12
20 Do. January, 1862 .. 4 k
stock Gt. South.of India (Lim P '
anaranteed 5 per cent. 100 103 105 105
204 Gt. W. of Canada Share, all 121 13 121 18
205 Do. New ,7 it
100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 9llOl
100 Do. 54 r. c. do. '77-8.. all 92 74
10 Indian Branch Limited L 15 lip 351
gtock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 102 tu3 103
stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 96 98 97
stock Dc. 4 do . 100 92 -4 935
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 - -
stock Melb.toro. p. C. Bnd- 100 - -
50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 52 53 524
100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. al, - -
20 Newßrunswick #.t Cold
Class A Capital Shar. all 3 5
20
NDon.
id.co.,dßaC6apital d 0... alt 3
stB7
ck ..... (ton 105 106 1051
St
Do. 1035
Do.
Ddoo. ...... pc Ist pf id:: •
11°°020 1804235 16;1:31'
20 Do. Punjaub t▪ e. 15 P
ICO 103 104
ock Do. indus.St. F▪
lo.) I inn 98 100
1 ; :OLONIAL (i#) V t•iftiNM #1,1.N StOUt ICI tl.
,it. Gov. 6 p.c.#la. &Jut,'
1877-81
- Do. 6p. c. Feb. &Au g.l 100 106 108 xd
- Do. p. c.Mar. & Sept.! 100 106 108
- Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 95 96
- Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 93 95 954
- I ape G. Hope. 6p 0,1873 100 10- 110
Do.Ap & Oct 1880 100 112 114
Do. 1890, 100 112 114
- Do. Jan. & July, 11391 H 100 111 113
- Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p o, 100 -
N.h.Gov.6p.c.da.&Julyi 100 103 105 1.41 14 5
- uo, (i p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 -
N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c.,1866. 100 100 101 I
Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 991 1001
- Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 99 160 984
- New Zealand 6p. cent., 100 109 111
- Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c ,
sterling, 1875 lOl, 106 107 1061
- Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO ;19 11:
- b. Aus Grip:o.lB76.AZ up lOO 109 111
Vlc.(lov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109 '
- 'Do. 10 0.0. A1#.&001. 100 1(94 1104 100
- -
'314.171‘311 MIN 'Rs.
2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 id -11
- Glitlord Amalgamated.. - 23 25
- Devon G. Conn. Javist. 1 510 520
- East Bassett alloc'an).. 30 51 63
1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. Is. p 4p
- East Caradon ..... OP; 494 49
- East Cam Brea.
- E. VIT'l Russel (Tavistk 7.19.0 51 6
- Gem.&StAubyn(Gwen ) 57, 17 19
- Great South Tolgus l7. 61 7
- Wheal Vor (Heiston 40 6 61
- Grenville .•. ;1.15 55 51
- Herod's- Foot, •1.1 50 52
- I ingston Downs 4. 7.0 26 3
- Lady Bertha
- Margaret (Ony Lelant h 33 10
- Mark e Valley.
4 11vndy Iron Ore (Lim , 2; 6ds pr
- New Seton . 191 140 150
•- A orth Downs j 21 34
WWI Basset (illo4att t. 17 t 3 34
- 'Corth Wheal Crotty . 2,4.9 gi 5
- Par Consols (St. Blazey 11 5 6
20 l'rovidence(Uny Lelnt.; 10.11.7 1 43
- South Caradon(St.Cleer: t 6 1395 405
- S. Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15 01 25 21
- Wheal Fran. (Illogs 18.1 9 871 921
- Stray Park
5 Tamar Silv.& Lead Mit]. 4;
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- Wheal Seton . . 585 245 265
heal Trcia•vney (Lis.) 7 161 171
- Wheal Union 3.13 54 51

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Eastern, E. Union 4 per cent. guaranteed, 844
Great Western, 5 per cent. red. pref , 101 l 1
PREFErtENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
London, Chatham, Metrop Ext., Bti per cent.,
Loudon and S.-IN estern 46 per cent., 105/
North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., 821

LINES LEASED Ai FIXED RENTALS.
Hull and Selby, ll -

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bahia
Luxembourg,and San t
Franciscol4 (Um.) gua. 7 per cent., 201
Great
San Paulo gua. 7 per cent., 231
West Flanders, 5, per cent. pf., 10}
JOLS T-STOCK BANKS.
Australasia, 78
Bank of Egypt, 251
Bank of London, 162; 3
London and Brazilian 31i
London. B. Ayres, and R. Plate (lim.), 13f
London and County, 3
London Joint Stock, 364
London and South African, 24;
London and Westminster, 77, 61
tittoman Bank, 34 7—Ditto, new, 91 lok
Union of Australia, 51 606
Union of London, 3ta
MISCELLANEOUS.
Berlin Water Works, 7
Crystal Palace, 6 per cent. perpetl. deb., not a
National Discount Company, 84 1 1
North British Australasian, 71
Peel River Land and Mineral, 5i
IS. African Irri ,ation Investment (11m.), la

treque
MADAME
t TIJSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.—MatIy of the
ere to this old established exhibition will
probablny r,rseraber to have seen, some two or three years
Dent
portraits of them
i: of -
aratilltabile, on which were depicted striking
gniaceu
since, a
raa
France during the period of the
rule of the First Na
poon
, nani:eln,rd since its removal to France
a rising young artist
tc,031
ty data to guide him)
from memory, and with searoelurner' has
(almost entirely
and efts the
ildaiitzetnius as
great original;"
producul a table similar in design 7
and which, from the cleverness of its ell: ec"
highest possible credit on Mr. Turner's sk:itol
an artist, and who, we doubt not, will at
attain to the greatest pre-eminence in the profeasion.PerZe
table is now deposited in the Napoleon rooms of the exhi.
bition.

THE LATE ACCIDENT TO THE GREAT EASTERN.
—A letter has been addressed to Captain Paton by
the directors of the Great Ship Company, who, on the
arrival of the Great Eastern in the Mersey, promptly held
an official inquiry into the facts connected with the acci-
dent which occurred to the " big ship" in August last,
while off Montauk Point, It is satisfactory to know that
this investigation entirely absolved Captain Paton from all
blame, and the directors express their wish that Captain
Paton may yet have a long and prosperous career in the
Great Eastern. The inner shell of the Great Eastern was
in no way injured by the accident, and the promptitude
and skill with which it was repaired w, re due to the ad-
mirable manner in which the engineers and mechanics of
New York carried out Captain Paton's plan of repairing the
fracture in the hull by means of a 'submerged caisson.