The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The discount market is still influenced by the
recent advance in the minimum of tle Bank, and
there is only a moderate demand for acconnoedation
at the new rate.

About £3,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
On Saturday.
The City of Washington has arrived from New
York With £5,700, and the Alliance from Geelong,
with £54,828.
The Anglo French Mexican Loan has been an-
nounced in London by Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and
Co., and the International Finanakl Society, and
in Paris by the Sociel e Generale de Credit Mobilier.
The amount required is £12,365,000, issued in r 6
Per cent, stock at the price of 63, representing
£7,790,00 sterling, in bonds to bearer of £l,OOO,
£5OO, £2OO, £lOO, and £5O eacb, with others of
smaller amounts for the Continental market. Of
the total, £8,000,000 bonds are to be negotiated for
the Mexican, and the remaining £4,365,000 for the
French Government in payment of expenses in-
curred in the expedition. Interest is to cont-
inence from the let April, and the subscription can
"tend over to February next. Discount at the rate
of 6 per cent. will be allowed for payments in ad-
vance, and the stock is to be negotiable in Paris
and the other French markets as well as in London.
Prom the proceeds of the loan a sum sufficient for
two years dividends is to be retained, and an amount
is also to be kept for the " next four half-yearly
Payments of interest on the Three per Cent. Mexi-
can Bonds held under the decree of October, 1850,
and on the New Three per Cent., Bonds representing
the capitalised arrears of interest thereon, as agreed
to by the holders of the existing bonds at their
recent meeting in London." There is to be a sink-
ing fund equal to 1 per cent. per annum from let
April, 1869. The subscription lists are to be opened
in London, all the departments of France, Turin,
Madrid, and Amsterdam, and the 231 inst. is the
date at which they will be closed so far as regards
this market and Paris.

Proposals have been issued to-day for a Russian..
Anglo Dutch 5 per cent. loan for £6,000,000, or
florins 70,800,000 stock. It is introduced by
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., of London, and
Messrs. Hope and Co., of Amsterdam. On the £lOO
bonds the payments, amounting in the aggregate
to 85 per cent., will extend to Jan. 18, 1865, and
on the £B4 15s. bonds £72 is required in the same
period. Discount at the rate of 5 per cent. will be
allowed for prepayments.
The Continental Union Gas Company requires a
Capital of £400,000, a large portion of which it is
stated to have been already subscribed: It is formed
to carry on the business of extensive works now in
full operation, with exclusive privileges, in Stras-
-I)4►g, Cenci, Nismes, Vienne, Roanne, Beaucaire,
11'1101, Albi, Milan, Genoa, Parma, Modena, and
A.iessandria. The shares are of 1;25 each, and the
brokers are Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, of
Threadneedle•street.

Two o'CLocx.

At Paris this morning, according to Renter's
telegrams, the Three per Cent.Rentes were 68f.,15c.,
68f. 5c., 671. 903. Very great excitement, and still
continues.
The opening of the English Stock Market indi-
cated a firmer tone, and shortly afterwards an
Improvement of s per cent. took place, but the
advance was ultimately lost upon a few sales, sad
Culsuls are again 91?; Q for money, and 91i I for
the antlunt. The New Threes and Reduced An-
nuities art 891 1 ; Exchequer Bill., 10s. to ss. die.;
India, 1044 1051 ; Enfaced 5 per Cents., 1031- ;
and Debentures, 992.
Business in the Foreign Market is active, and
prices have varied to some extent. Turkish 6 per
Cents., 1862, are 711 4 ; Clnsolides, 52:- 53 ;
Mexican, 47f, a ; do., New Loa., 11 8; Spanish
Passive, 341 ; do., Certificated, 12 a; ; Greek, 251- ;
and the Confederate Loan, 54 56.

In the Railway Share Market business lets been
rather more animated, and prices have shown an
upward movement. North Western, Manchester.
Sheffield, and Lincoln, Metropolitan, and South
Eastern have improved 55., and Midland 155., while
Great Eastern and Great Northern have declined ss.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings exhibit
little change of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in fair
request, and in several instances exhibit a slight
advance. The new shares of the National Bank
are dealt in at 40t 41i.

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
~ GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto Account, May 5 9l
g
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent
New
21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 735
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire iith Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
Ditto (Red Sea .TelegraPh), Aug. 1908.
Rxchequer Bills, £l,OOO, '2: & 3 per Cent lO 5 dis
Ditto £SOO
Ditto £lOO and £2OO
Bank England Stk, 44 per Ct.
Ditto Acc0unt..........
,INDI&N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
it tot stock, 105 per Cent., April 1874 .--
Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870
..,. IA ... Account —
Ditto 4 per Cent. 1883 —
Do ~ertificates
Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 —
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent.... •
Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872. lO3l
Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 156 i
Ditto ditto Aug., 1066 991
'"ift, Bonds £l,oito ............ .
,
Ditto under £l,000
BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 45 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto 1863
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
hilian 6 per Cent
Ditto 45 pet Cent Bl
Colombian 6 per Cent..... —
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian 7 per Cent lOl
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons —
Ditto Account lll
Italian 6 per Cent. (111aremmana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent
471
Ditto Account....
Moorish Imperial per Cent
New Granada . . —
Ditto Account 3Ol
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deterred —
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Peruvian 41 per Cent • •
Ditto Account... .......... ..
Ditto 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) . ...
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent.,,
1853
Ditto Account ......••••••••..
'. •
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62,3
Ditto Account
Ditto Scrip (1863) £3O paid. ......
nussian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850
Ditto 3 per Cent 1859
Ditto 6 per Cent, 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account 864
Spanish 3 per Cent
531
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive .. —
Sp
Ditto Account 35 41
IqAtiish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Ditto Account .. 12/
Swedish,, 4 per Cent.
Varkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account 691 1
Zitto £lOO Bonds..
ha° 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
.. 715 a
Ditto 1863
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account ..
Ditto
6 per Cent., 1862
2J Account ..
Ditto 15 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in Lond .0
Atzst .
Is_ rian, 5 per Cent . Ex. 10 Florins.
zaelgian 45 per Cent., Ex. 251...
telt 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
-Ditto Account
t
1 aliP•n, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account
„
'eqrnonteße, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 25f
r eruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s.
Consols Money TWO O'CLOC.E.
911 5
Ditto 40Co Unt
....... s t 91