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

COMMERCIAL 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 bean 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 tb-day. Sugar and coffee have generally
remained at about previous rates, white rice has
been neglected, and quotations tend downwards.
In saltpetre the dealings have been cf quite a retail
character, and tallow has beep 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 exceeding
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
prospective 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 924 ; for money, and 93 k
for the September account. The New Threes and
Reduced Annuities are 92; 93 ; Exchequer Bills,
2s. prem.; the 5 per Cent. India Loan is quoted
108} 1 ; and the Debentures are 1001.
There have been very few changes in tho Foreign
Market, but the tendency of values is still in an
adverse direction. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are
67 1; do. Consolides, 477; ; Mexican, 351, 36 ;
Greek, 31a i; do. Coupons, 141 151 ; Spanish Pas-
sive, 31-1- 4 ; do. Certificates, 11i 128 ; Portuguese,
474 48; Italian 701 ; and the Confederate Loan,
23 to 21 die.

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
65., and Great Eastern 10s. ; while London and
Brighton have improved 15s.

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 1081, and Great India Peninbula
1081 t.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally are
a shade flatter—London and Westminster being
dealt in at 77k, London and Brazilian at 43, Union
of Australia at 52. General Credit and Finance
shares realise 21 'l, International Financial 81and Crystal Palace Stock 401.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
2371
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 921 /
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 3} 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 pet Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. 971
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Ang. 1864 or 66 1001 1
Ditto Bonds £l.OOO —
Ditto under £1,000......
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account, Aug. 6 921 A
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 & I per Cent 2 pin
Ditto £500
Ditto Small 2 pm
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 )
anion 6 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent. ..
Egyptian 7 per Cent —
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account 3ll 2
Ditto Coupons
Ditto Account .. 151
Italian 6 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) —Mexican 3 per Cent ....
Ditto Account 351
Peruvian 4i per Cent.
Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account . . B6l
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 471 8
Rrmsian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
'r Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
B,kmtnish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account ..... . .... —
Ditto New Deferred ..
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account l2
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account 921 2
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account 7oi
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account 671 7
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account .. 231
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1852
Ditto Account 56 •
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 G il Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificatesu
Italianlo2
Dittos per c
A out., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. ccount. ..................... 70i i

Consols, Money ....... 92!
THREE O'CLOCK.
Ditto Account. ....................... 921

Liverpool Cotton litarket—This Da

(REXITER:B TELEGRTAM.)
Quiet,
Import, 4,024 dull,
balesno change. Sales about 4,000 bales,

:fTREBOYB HALL.-
MERRYBOYS HALL vents D-- - -,---
Mr. Dickens, by his picture
Hall,
deplorably corroborated as he has been by
criminal couits, so shook public Con/ the reports of the
boa dint and gave such au impdetence in private
up of proprietary schools in all provincial t" to the setting
Athenceum, in reviewing Mr. Johns' ~ RoZl°' Bays the
Holiday Rambles," that the dealers in bon
ed,
_Walks and
and learning are far from being so prosperous as
old. The good are suffering for the bad, Mr. Johns
as. of
us glimpses of a Merryboys Hall. It lies M a land
gives
black cherries, Study there may be relieved by theu d°t
lights and sports of fruit-gathering, bird-nesting., insect-
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 practical jokes
and riaiculous 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
Is oTer-eagerness to reach a shot ,now-bunting ?

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Closing
chart
100 A.t'antic &St Lawrene, all 62 64
Bom.,Barodatt.Cent Inc; p,„ 107 108 1071 8 n
I Gu. 5 per cent.
20 Do. New ......
20 Do. E. Shares.. 74 114 p
zOl Buffalo and Lithe Huron al, 51 61
10 Do. Preference
1.00 Buffalo,Brant,&Godricli
p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1811--
100 Do. do. July 1, 187% 100
100 Do. do. June 1k; ,1 100
st Clcutta.&S.Eastn.(l., lOO 1065 107
st Cape Town & Dock Soil 100 R 74 1081
stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. a 100 1085 1096
stock Last Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 107 168 108 474
20 Do. do. G Ext lO 14 14p
20 Do. do. H do.
stock Grand Trunk of Canada Lou 191 :06
100 1)o. Ist Fret. Bonds Rii 70 72
100 Do. uo. deferred all 52 55
100 Do. 2d Pref. 130111:18 all 64 66
100 Do. do defer, ed..— all 60 62
100 Do. 3d P ef. stock
100 Do. do. deferred— all 34 37
100 Do. 4th Pref. sto all 23 28
100 Do. do. deferred all 21 23
stook GLlndiaPenni.g-ua.sp.o. 100 1( 8 109 1084 8
20 Do. New gua. sp. o l2 1 16p
20 Do. January, 1862
stock Gt. South.of India(Lim)
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1064 BM
204 Gt. W. of CanadaShareb all 10i 114 11
201 Do. New .. .... . . . 18 91 91
100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't ()Pt. all 97 100
100 Do. 51 p. o. do. '77-8.. . all 90 02
10 Indian Branch Limited 2 41 p
stock Madras guar., sp. o.
stock Do. 44 p. o. Extension 100 101 102 1011 2
stock Dc. 44 do lOO 47 99 98 9
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2
stock %lelb.Corp. ap. o. Bncl, 100 --
50 31elb. & Hobson's Bay. all 54 56
100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. all
20 Newßr unswick & Candt,
sNo D 0.00.0 nl.. t
pld. Cdeu on'
Delhid.i aa
.u 6.
bp.
.o
..1.. 5... t;
Class Aan B
st2sootckt
11004674 108
1/op7 108 74
all ——p
• st Do. Do. ........ , t,lg• 100 1064 1071 1074
rock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 000 1021 1034
I COLONIAL OOVEHNME.NT SEC U
rlp.c.J a &J
pf bds
-
1877-81
(ail0(0110200
834
866
Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Al 4, 100 106 108
Do. 6p. c.Mar. & Sept 100 108 108
Do. Ep. c. Jan.&July. 100 954 961
I Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 94 96
'Cape G. Hope, 6 p c,187 100 108 110
Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 112 114
Do. 1891 100 113 115
Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 111 113
Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p t 100 113 115
Maui itins 6 per cent .. 100 106 107
Natal Gov. 0 per cent.. 100 110 112
N.8.G0y.6 p.0..)a.&Ju1) 100 1051 1064
Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100
- N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 1,18, 100 100 101
' Do. sp. c.,18,1. to 100 101 102
I Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 101 102 102
New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
sterling, 1875 lOO 1054 1065
Qb
.uAe eans s a6npd.
cG. ct3vro.
.6&pu.
pc 110000
11 2
100 11112
- Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 107 109
Do. io 6D.0. An.&ocf.. 100 112 1124 1121 4