The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-01 00:00:00

BABY SLEEPS ! (A Lullaby.)

The Baby wept;
The mother took it from the nurse's arms,
And husht its fears, and soothed its vain alarms,
And Baby slept.

Again it weeps;
And Uod doth take it from the mother's arms—
From present griefs and future unknown harms,
And Baby sleeps•

NONE Y MARKET

AND
COMMIRCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Owing to the preparations now in progress for
the bills arriving at maturity on Thursday next,
the 4th inst., business in the general discount mar-
ket is rather active. The inquiries have increased,
and this circumstance has induced bankers and
others to ask full terms for the securities offered for
discount, and 4 per cent. is now the minimum in
the open market as well as at the Bank of England.
About £lO,OOO in gold was taken out of the Bank
on Saturday.
Tne arrivals of specie announced to-day com-
prise £116,560 by the Sussex, and £135,088 by the
Essex, from Australia; £1,498, by the Oneida,
from the Brazils ; and £40,500, by the Teutonia,
from New York ; making a total of £293,646.
The half-yearly report which has been issued
preparatory to the meeting of the African Steam-
ship Company, recommends the payment of a
dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum.
From the manufacturing districts the account for
the past week state that, in consequence of the
intervention of the Whitsuntide holidays, there
has been a very limited business transacted in most
departments, and prices generally have remained
without any material variation.

Two o'CLocK.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were
69f 22c.—fl

The meeting of the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company took place to-day, and a resolution
agai❑ adjourning it to the 13th proximo was passed,
i❑ order to allow time to the directors to communi-
cate the terms of the new contract with the Govern-
ment.

The adjourned meeting of the shareholders of the
Anglo-Portuguese Bank was held to-day, and the
necessary resolution carried confirming the minutes
of the preceding meeting authorising the increase
of the present share capital of £1,000,000 to
£1,260,000, by the creation of £2,600 new shares of
£lOO each.

Very little alteration has taken place to-day in
the market for the English Funds, Consols being
931 5 for money, and 92H, less the dividend. for
the account. The New Threes and the Reduced
have been dealt in at 911 -1, and Exchequer Bills ale
4s. dis. to par.; India 5 per Cents. 1104 ; the 5 per
Cents. Enlaced 106-} ; and the 5 per Cent. ditto 115.
The transactions, however, have been very limited,
a disinclination being shown to extend engage.
ments on speculative account as to affect invest-
ments.

There has been more animation and buoyancy in
the Foreign Market. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862,
are 72 2 ; do., Consolides, 51/ 52 ; Spanish Passive,
334 34; do., Certificates, 128 ; Greek, 33f, Q ;
do., Coupons, 15 i ; Mexican, 35/ ; Venezuela,
594 Equador, 171 182 ; Portuguese, 49; 501 ;
and the Confederate Loan, 24 to 18 dis.
In the Railway Share Market there has been
less animation, and several of the principal lines
have slightly receded. Great Eastern A Stock,
Metropolitan, Midland, and North Stafford have
each declined about 55., and North British 10s.

For the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the
inquiries were also very limited, and quotations were
unaltered.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in limited
request. City Bank have receded to 116; Oriental
Bank improved to 561-; Electric Telegraph to 105;
and South Australian Land to 33; International
Finance Shares are quoted 61 to 71 prem. ; London
Finance, 18 24- prem. ; and General Credit, 31 31
pre M.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock —
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
I I
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
A.nnuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l4 15-16
New 21 per Cent. Annuities....
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent lO6/
Ditto 51 per Cent
a ?In bonds £l,000
Ditto under £1,000..
Consols for account, June 9 92i
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 per Cent 4 dis
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small laclis

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Chilian 6 per Cent. —
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
91110181 171
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant
Egyptian 7 per Cent lOO
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824.5, ex-Coupons
3-3
Ditto Account
15 1 Ditto Coupons 154
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 81 sot 1.1 801 11
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 351
New Granada l6l
Rcruvian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent, 1862
Ditto Account 9O
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account.... .........
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 —
Ditto Account.,' 5O i 49 i 501
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 934
Ditto 4i per Cent., 1850
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
Spanish 3 per Cent ..............4
Ditto
Passive Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded" —
TDitto Account.. ........... 12i B
urkish 6 per Cent. 1854
.. .....
.........
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
24
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 25/ 6
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto 11- per Cent .. 14
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 24 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 654
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs --
Ditto Acc011m.....
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money ......
... 931 a
AittoAccount
92k k xd
________::
........

Liverpool Cotton Mrket—This Da.

Dull. No change. Sales, about 4
,000. Import,
1,918; previously, 7,379.

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, June I.—Wind
r. this day at noon—East ;
light breeze and fine weathe
PORTSMOUTH, June I.—Arrived—Copenhagen, from
Calcutta.
OFF PENZANCE, May 30.—Arrived—Agincourt, from
Melbourne.
Melbourne
OFF PORTMOUTH, June I.—Arrived—Sussex, from

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
t.I,IPuT
.Madeal Manocriniago.pe,
Arrived—Pierre De°sirre,H
from London; Oneida, steamer, from hi° Janeiro ; Argyll,
titeamer, from Carentan.
Sailed—Guide, for Matanzas.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, May 317—Emily A. Hall, from Callao ;
Glend-
Voyn, from Dantsic ; Progress? from Ostend ; Charlotte
from Sidwesthorn ; Sultana Reins, from Navis ; Recom-
pense, from Guernsey ; Cleopatra, from Barbadlaes ; Nep-
tune, from Windau; Carolina, from Ystadt ; Fairy Queen,
from Bordeaux.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed, May 31—Loadstar, from London, for Singapore;
British Tar, from London, for Ascension; James, from
London for Bermuda • Giant's' Causeway, from London,
•for St. Phillip's • Ada, screw steamer, from London, for
'Genoa Port Royal, from London, for Jamaica.

A grand Conservative banquet is to take place
on the Bth of June at Willis's Rooms. The Earl of Shrews-
bury is to occupy the chair.
It is estimated that seven days out of ten
throughout the year Cape Race is enveloped in fog. By
great circle sailing the arc of the circle passes over the
Cape. The latter is 1,000 miles, or about one third, nearer
Liverpool than New York,
the O'Connor Don, NIT., has made a perma-
nent reduction of 20 per cent, in the rents to all his
tenantry.
Mdlle. Carlotta Patti's concert fee is said to be
never under 100 guineas.
The sum of £5,000 has been invested in the
funds to the credit of the O'Connell Statue Fund.
The claim to the Dandonald Peerage, on behalf
of the second son, has been rejected, and the original
marriage in Scotland has been decided to have been a legal
one. Every one of our readers will probably remember the
touching appeal made by the Countess of Dundonald, in
the House of Lords, on behalf of her eldest son, and it will
give universal satisfaction to find that the fif st born of the
late gallant admiral will hold his honours undisturbed,

SHARE MARKETS--This day.

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

Share Railways. I paid.i Closing Business
I Price. dene.

Bit, Tirol., and Str. Val.
Blythe and Tyne.
Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian

,:ork anti Bandoli.

Gornwall I
Do A. A Vets no di \ 1
Dori filial) c.p an.has
I
b pai
Dublin &een Belfastd June.
Dun„Perth,&Ab. June.:
Edinburgh & Glasgow.
!Glasg. and S. Western.
Great Eastern, Ord. stk
Ditto A stock
Ditto East Anglian st :
GreatNorthof Scotland
(Great Northern 1
i Do A stock 1
I Do Bdo
Gt. S. an IW. of Ireland
Great Western .. • • • •
i Do Str Val gua. stock
;Lancashlie & Yorkshire
London and Blackwall
Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast'
Lon., Chat., and Dover
Lon. & North Western
Lon. & So.y.th Western
M,an., Shef.,•& Lincoln.
Maryport and Carlisle.
Do i shares..
Metropolitan ..........
Midland ..............
Do New
mg?
Gt.in
tirm.
W.
go.f 46IrDelearnbyd

Do. ¢ shares
Mid Kent
Do Cray Line
North British
Edin., Perth, & Dundee
N th. Eastern—Berwick
Do, G.N.E. purchase
Do Lecds

Do York
Do Carlisle
North London
Do New
North Staffordshire
N. and S. W. Junction
Scottish Central

Scot I. E., Aber. stock
Do Scot. Mid. stock
Shrews, and Welchpool
Shropshire Union
South Devon
South Eastern
South Wales
S. York. and River Dun
staines,Wok.,andWok
Stockton St Darlington
Do
Do New, 1866
Taff Vale.,
Do B
Do C

Ulßter
' Do

Do
Vale of Neath
Victoria sta. and Pim
Waterford & Kilkenny
West Cornwall
'VV. Hartlepool Har.&it
West Midland Oxford,
Do Newport'
Do Hereford.