The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-26 00:00:00

..ncrease .. • .
Other Securities 19,233,243
Decrease .. 623,501
8
Notes Unemployed .. .. ,028,165
Increase 663,020
.P9O special meetings of the proprietors of the
N
eitional Bank have been appointed to authorise an
188Ile of 20,000 new shares, at a premium of .£25 per
snare, to be in the first instance offered to existing
4ereholders at that price, which would carry
i'500,000 to the reserve fund. Any shares declined
Y the ahareholdars are to be offered to the public
4t £3O prem., the additional L 5 to be paid over by
tae shareholders, who decline to take up their new
luares.
We are informed that Mr. T. Fraser Sandeman
48 been appointed manager of the Imperial Finan-
e:al Company
(Limited).
During the last few days there has been rather
more animation in the Foreign and Colonial Pro-
duce Markets. Sugars have been in more request,
'End a further advance of 6d to is per cwt. has been
established. In coffee the dealings have been to an
average extent at full rates; but in tea, rice, fruit,
4134 spices no material change can be reported.
1,
..4lleav has been in better request at steady quota,
11°118, for both present and forward delivery.

Two O'CLOCK.

At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to
Tutees telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66c
'it. Heavy.
li.The variations in the English Stock Exchange'
'.eirkets have to-day been unimportant. In the
'n erning a decline of 1-16th per cent. ensued,
Originatede through sales in consequence of the
:friltintod uneasiness felt regarding foreign
448, bat 'quotations have since recovered to
the Closing values of last evening, and Consols are
0'57 quoted 911 tl for money, and 91:1 for the
account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities
are 911 1 ; Exchequer Bills. ss. dis. to par. ; India
6
Per Cents,, 1041 1 • ditto 4 per Cents., 1001 ; the
Do,-
4 ;
-entures, 99/ ; and the Bonds, 9s. dis.
The Foreign :Market opened with a very de-
pressedi_ appearance, but a partial recovery has since
taken place, and business is a little more active.
Alezican have risen to 43.1 1; Greek are 22• Z ;
SPanish Passive, 34 I; Portuguese, 471 488 ;
Dalian
6966 a ; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 68-1
; usolides, 50k ; and the Confederate
do. Co
Loan, 51 53.
The Imperial Financial Company is in command
?f Public confidence. We believe the capital stock
18 nearly all applied for. The shares were eaten-
'lively in demand at 3 premium.
In the Railway Share Market there has been
rather more animation, and prices have shown an
IlAward movement. North Western have improved
168.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, ss. ; Midland, 10s. ;
and Metropolitan, £1 10s.; Great Eastern, how-
"er, have declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings continue
ery inactive, without material change in prices.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are depressed.
~Attropolitan and Provincial have declined to 23-1-;
trnPerial Bank realise 291; Imperial Ottoman, 188 ;
41ecitional Discount Company, 11Z, ; Ottoman Finan-
i?lal Association are quoted par to 2 prem.; South
`astern Banking Company, a toll prem. ; London
-r_a.s Meter Company, to 11 prem. ; and General
"iternstinnal Agency, 1 to 14 prem.

BRITISIi FUNDS—'CLOSING PRICES.
4 -`.4.lslllFliT FUNDS.
Consols .................. 9_14
3 Per k; 4-ecount, March 5 ................
9ulif t
New 3 e4t. Reduced ................. 91A 4 _ .
el. Cent ................... s
sts Ll6t
nil; —Lesr . 1985 ........... It
tr-h`TI dr.; Telegraph), Aug. 1903.
c Lie 6-0 & 3 per Cent. 4 dis
Ditto 11:500 . : ............ 4 dis
Ban Ditto £lOO and £2OO .. ...
Tk England st 4i per Ct , last h..-Yr.
4,,05, dis par
T 41U iv SECURITIES.
.lid• I-- GOVERNMENT
Stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874... •
Fitt Account .................... • .
ntto 5 100 a
Per Cent. July, Ib7o ........ 1041
Dittol
bitt°
4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 ..........
Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ......
Dltto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ........ .•
to 5i per Cent., May, 1879 ........
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct.,Aupril 1861
3). Ditto ditto
A
Di Ditto Bonds £l,OOO ........... . 9:79
D9i
At° under £l,OOO .............. .• •
tra FOREIGN FUNDS— 2
CLOSING PRICES.
zillan 5 per Cent .... .............. 101
Ditto, 1839 and 1859................ _
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ......
T,l)!tto, 1863 . ............ Si
„Jr.. ....... ...
eh.
.tto Scrip, 1863, £55 paid .......... Lchs
an 6 per Cent .....................
„ Ditto 4} pet Cent ...................
g,TPtian 7 per Cent ...................
Ditto, Second Issue ............ 221 I
. .
ureei
Per Cent., 1821-5, ea-Coupons..
Ditto Account ...................... _
_Pitt° Coupons .......................
„,..I)itto Account ...................... ,„ „,
zaexican 3 per Cent . ................. 4"..5.* Hl,t I 1
li.-!)itto Account ..................... 9i z
94 1 °
Nv Granada
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ......
..............
"L'itto Account ................... . .
Ditto 3 per en ~ '6O, 62,'Zi
C t 1856, '7, '9,
Ditto Account ...................... 48
Russian bper Cent., 1822,,£ 5t........
Ditto 4i per Cent 1850 ................
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 .......... .
ardinian 5 per Cent ...............
... 83i
Ditto Account ........... • ....
....
Spanish 3 per Cent ..............
Ditto Account ......................
Ditto New Deferred ...........
Ditto Account .......................... .
Ditto Passive .......... ....... ??•P ,
Ditto Account .............
„.........
'''Plnish Cert. of Coup not funded ......
Dittl3
o Ac3ount .....................
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1864 ..............
Ditto Account ......................
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 .............. 7lt 41;1
.Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
69
Ditto -PlOO Bonds
11
enezue.a 3 per Cent.
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account......
Dividends on the above payable in Lend ,n,
Italian, 5 per Cent. 1861 Ex 25 francs 66*
,
THREE O'CLOCK,
Consols Money
1)4-to Account . 91i

Liv erpool Cotton Market—This Day,

No change in market. Sales about 5,000 bales.
The week's sales consisted of 34,360 bales, in-
cluding
4,370 on speculation and 5,670 for export.
Actual export, 7,127 bales. Quotations : Middling
Orleans, 27k; do. Mobile, 261; do. Upland, 261.
estimated fair Egyptian, 26,1 ; Surat, 12.23:.
Week's imports, 16,224. Stock, 231,360.

THE STUDENT-STATESMAN.—The friends of the
late Sir Cornewall Lewis are actively engaged in collecting
the scattered writings of that eminent scholar and adminis-
trator,