The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-17 00:00:00

AND
COMMZIWIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is no alteration in the state of the general
money market, and the minimum of the Bank of
England remains at 6 per cent.
The sum of £20,000 in gold was taken into the
Bank yesterday.
A supply of Mexican dollars, amounting to about
£130,000, by the Louisiana and Bolivar have been
sold for China at ss. 3id. per oz.
The biddings for 30,00,000 rupees (.£300,000) in
bills on India took place yesterday at the Bank of
England. The proportions allotted were, to Cal-
cutta 16,00,000 rupees; to Bombay 12,00,000 rupees,
and to Madras 2,00,000 rupees. The minimum
Price was as before—viz., 1s llid per rupee on Cal •
cutta and Madras, and is 111,d on Bombay. The
applications within the limits amounted to 230 lace.
Tenders on Calcutta at is lltd will receive about
7 per cent., on Bombay at 2s Okd about 12 per cent.,
and on Madras at 2s about 56 per cent.; and all
above these p:ices in full.
Subjoined are communications relating to the
Venezuelan and New Grenada debts :—Messrs.
Baring Brothers and Co., agents, advise having re-
ceived for 55 per cent. of the import duties for two
weeks from the Custom-house of Puerto Cabello
23,911 dols, 23c., and from that of La Guayra
18,949 dole. Ole,, making a total of 42,860 dols. 24c.
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received
by this mail on account of the New Grenada divi-
dends from the Custom-honse of San JoEe de
Cuenta, £293 15s. 10d.
The Credit Mobilier Company of London (Limited)
have commenced business at their office, 54, Thread-
needle-street. The present capital of the company
has been privately subscribed, and shares will not
be offered to the public until increased capital be
required.

BRITISH FUNDS-ONE O'CLOC/C.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols gli 1
Ditto Account, April 8
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent 894 i
Kew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894....
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire &th Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent —
Ditto £5OO
Ditto £lOO and £209
Bank England Stk, 41 per Ct., last hf.-yr.

INDI&N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
:ndia Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874.... 220
Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Ditto Account...
Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888.. —
Do Certificates
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent,, Jan. 1872 —
Ditto 6f per Cent., May, 1879 —
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861
Ditto ditto Aug., 18C6 981
Ditto Bonds 21,000 8 dis
Ditto under £l,000

FOREIGN FUNDS-ONE O'CLOCK,

The directors of the Credit Foncier of Mauritius
have made a call of £3 per share, payable at the
Alliance Bank on the 14th April next.
The share list of the Bristol Indigo Blue and
Blacklead Company will be closed on Monday next,
the 21st.inst.
The share list of the Frontino and Bolivia South
American Gold Mining Company will close on
Wednesday next.
The 39th yearly general meeting of shareholders
of the Van Diemen's Land Company took place to-
day. The report submitted for adoption stated
that the renewal of the leases falling due had
been effected on the favourable terms anticipated,
and the present year would produce a further
addition to the rent roll, while outstanding claims
were being gradually recovered. The increasing
trade of Burnie had induced the local Government
to erect it into a port of entry. The question as to
auriferous deposits on the company's side of the
island still remained unsettled, but the late.explorer
of the river Hellyer was hopeful of ultimate success.
The estivate received of rents for 1864 exceeded
£3,700.

Russian .5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 3 per Cent 1869
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 —
Swedish, 4 per Cent '
Ditto Account —
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. —
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds..
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account .. 71 70}
Ditto, £lOO Bonds 7Ol
Ditto 6 per Cent, 1863
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent —
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
,Ditto Account 231 4}
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in Loud ,o
Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins.
Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account.

The Dutch Tramway Company (Limited) have
issued a prospectus, with a proposed capital of
£50,000, in 5,000 shares of £lO each. A deposit
of £1 per share is required, and £2 on allotment.
Tail company has been formed for the purpose of
making and working tramways in Holland and
the adjacent States. Already concessions very
favourable have been obtained, and arrangements
entered into with respectable English contractors
who have undertaken to purchase the land and to
Make the necessary lines, and also to provide the
rolling stock, horses, &c., for the sum of £40,000,
the surplus capital being required for the working
expenses. The works are now in the course of
progress, and it is anticipated will be in full opera-
tion in the month of May next. The line is to
commence in the main square of the town of the
• Hague, and follow the ordinary route to Saheve-
tainque and return via the canal and the Zoological
Gardens, a distance of some seven English miles,
and is a route well frequented by visitors from
Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and other towns
in Rolland. From minute information supplied by
the authorities of the various places, a considerable
tre,
fae is anticipated on this tramway from both
passengers and merchandise, which will produce an
annual income of £20,000. Such, at least, is the
expectation of the directors from their operations,
and they are farther of opinion that, from the
Most carefully prepared estimates of the working
costs, the result will eventuate in a dividend of 15
Per cent. on the proposed capital. It is announced
also that a large portion of the capital stock has been
already subscribed for in Holland. The highly
respectable names on the prospectus guarantee
ample satisfaction as to the genuine character of
the undertaking.
The City Officea Company has been announced
under the auspices of the Mercantile Credit Asso-
ciation in conjunction with the Credit Foncier.
The object in view is to purchase sites of land in
the City with the buildings thereon, and either to
adapt these or erect new establishments for
offices for joint-stock companies and commercial
and professional firms. The increasing value of
landed property in this part of London, and
its stable character, have induced the directors to
enter upon this operation with very sanguine hopes
Of great success. Already they have acquired, by
provisional arrangement, several plots of land, with
the buildings thereon, in some of the most im-
portant parts of the City. A description of this
property is minutely given, and it is situated in
Cornhill, Leadenhall-street, Clements lane, adjoin-
ing Lombard-street, Great Tower-street, near
Mark-lane, and in Bishopsgate•street. The capital
required is £1,000,000, in shares of £5O each, and
by the intended issue of debentures the paid up
share capital will be kept at the lowest possible
point.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are, in round figures, as under:—

G 1864. 1863.reat Western, L 55,211 433
80,661
....
Midland
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton
14,035 16,187
South-Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire . . 29,774 24,53436,398 34,360
Bristol and Exeter
North Eastern 51,069 47,952
Great Eastern
Glasgow and South Western
Great Southern and Western Ireland 6,816 7,
Scottish .North-Eastern 4,740 4,725
These returns when compared with those of the
same period of last year show some satisfactory
features. On the Great Western there is an in-
crease of £1,778; the North Western of £9,135;
the Midland of £3,520; the Great Northern of
£5,240; the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £2,038;
the Bristol and Exeter of £122; the North Eastern
of £3,117 ; the Great Eastern of £505; the Glasgow
Ind South Western of £9B ; and the Scottish North
Eastern £l5. The South Western, however, exhi-
bits a decrease of £3,641 ; the Brighton of £2,152 ;
the South Eastern of £2,913; and the Great
Southern and Western of Ireland of £327.

Two o'cLocK.
At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr.
Reuter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rsntes
IPened at 66.35, Firm.
The market for the English Funds has continued
Luiet, and very little variation has occurred. Owing,
lowever, to speculative purchases, a rise of I per
lent, has taken place, Consols being 911 a
for
coney, and 911 for the accoun,. The downward
endency of the rate of discount induces more con.
idencs, but operators are not disposed to enlarge
heir engagements in this department of the louse.
:‘ll,O New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 89-a bl
India 5 per Cents., 1041 Q.
The Foreign Market opened with a very firm
int a
PPearance, and a general rise took place in prices,
pirtial. relapse has since occurred. Turkish
Der Cents., 1862, are 701 71 ; ditto Consolides
•34 ; Mexican, 451 I; Greek, 241 Q ; Spanish
assive, 3G: ; ditto Certificates, 13f
Loar
14 ;
ortuguese, 481 ; and the Confederate ,
4 u 22,
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
"re animated, and prices have exhibited an
'ciV4Dee, Great Northern A Stock has improved

oN E 7 MARKETI Metropolitan, X 2 ; and Brighton, London,
Chatham, and Dover, end North-Western, 108.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings show
little change cf importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in fair re-
quest, and in some instances a shade firmer.
Thames Iron Shipbuilding Company are quoted 3
to 3 prem.; Queensland Sheep, 9 to 1 prem.;
City Offices Company, 4 to 6 prem.

A.astrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto 1863 B9 81
Ditto Scrip, £55 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent. —
I iitto Account
Cuba, 6 per Cent. ..
..:hilian 6 per Cent
Ditto 41 poi Cent
Colombian 6 Scrip £BO pd,: — die
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian 7 per Cent lOO/
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons..
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons
Ditto Account llf
Guatemala 5 per Cent.
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana. Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Piedmontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 Bs. 3d. paid — pm
Peruvian 4j per Cent
Ditto Account —
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto 4j per Cent., 1862 -
Ditto Account B6k i
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account..
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 48
Ditto Account