The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-29 00:00:00

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COMMILCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Business in the general discount market continues
nettve, and the rates show an undiminished
firmness.

The share list of the United Merthyr Collieries
Company will close on Thursday next, the 31st inst.
The Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets re-
Main closed for the Easter holidays. Business will
be resumed to-morrow (Wednesday).
Subjoined are the particulars of the railway calls
(he 111 April. These payments will raise the total
subscribed for such purposes from the Ist January
last to E.bout 4'4,000,000 :

Cackertnouth and Workington New
Quarters l5 0 £5,000
Ditto, Preference £5, "A" ~ 15 0 1,000
3Nrneast New £10.... ...... 210 0 34,250
Grand Trunk of Canada Equipment
Mort Bonds, 25 per cent not known
Great Luxembourg Preference .2 0 0 80,000
Madras Fifth Extension, Second Issue 2 0 0 100,000
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln,
New £lO Five per Cent., 1862 .... 10 0 78,300
Maryport and Carlisle, New 3O 0 18,000
Medec 6 0 0 120,000
ZN'eath and Brecon
'Paris and Orleans, New, 1862
llhymney 5 per Cent. Preference 2O 0 15,000
San Paulo
South Italian
South Staffordshire, .£lOO 41 per Ceat
Preference
Itrhitehaven, Cleator, and Egretnont
£lO Maron Extension 2lO 0 18,750

Call. Amoun

£1,370,300
The meeting for Mexican bondholders convened
for to-morrow has been postponed till Monday, in
consEquence of the delay that has occurred in the
acceptance of the Crown by the Archduke

Two o'CLocK.
At Paris this day, eceording to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 65f. 90c.;
Very flat.

The Stock Exchange Markets present a heavy
411 d depressed appearance, and the few transactions
recorded have mostly been sales which have un-
favourably affected securities, In the English de-
partment very little business of a bona fide cha-
racter has been negotiated, and the funds, which
should have exhibited buoyancy, in consequence of
the satisfactory intelligence from the Continent
this morning, show a decline of 3 per cent. Con-
cola are 91Z A- for money, and 913 3 for the account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 892 2 ;
-1-irehequer Bills, 3s. 78. dis.; India Stock is 218
219* ; do. 5
per Cents. are 1043- ; do. Enfaced 5
Per cents., 103 ; do. 53 per Cents., 112 ; and do.
i3onds, gs.
There has been a depresssed market for Foreign
Securities, and the dealings have been principally
"connected with the settlement. Mexican have fallen
a~early 1 per cent., viz. to 413 ; Greek are steady
etlt 238 24; Spanish Passive are 4 lower, being 353
the Cettificates are marked 13Z; Turkish Con-
"'ides are 4 flatter at 53 51; the 6 per Cents., 1858,
are7o 2 do., 1862, 714 72 ; and Venezuela 6 per
cents., 6011.
111 the Railway Share Market the dealings have
cell very limited, the dealers and s, eculators being
PrindiPally engaged with th© half-monthly settle-
,b—ent• Prices, however, have remained steady.
Jsrightou have improved about ss. ; South Eastern,
I!3° ; and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 1:1
'While Great Eastern have declined 10s.
of The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no change
importance.
Pink and Miscellaneous shares show very little
Riteration as regards values.
Annexed are the current quotations for some of
tie_tr principal new projects :—London and Liverpool
14 prem.; S abloniere Hotel, 3 to 1
; North Australian Company, -3 to 1 prem. ;
Central Argentine Railway, 41-, to prem.
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~ITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
, GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
- Per Cent. Consols
Ditto Account, April 8
New
1
Per Cent. Reduced
"rzew 3 per Cent
`:ew
'IQ/nties, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
D• itto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
•Qtehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent 8 3 7 die
Ditto £500
11 Ditto £lOO and £200
-allk Bngland Stk, 4} per Ct., last hf.-yr Shut
Il• ibuor GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
4'441 Stock, 10 per Cent., April 1874
D 218 19± itto 5 per Cent. July, 1870
bitto Account... ... ... , —
Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 —1).
D° per
Itto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
to 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872. lO3
bitzo 51 per Cent , May, 1379
Ditto Debentures:4 per Ct., April 1864 ,
ittDitto ditto Aug., 1866
,o tionds .11,900 3 8
Ditto under £l,OOO
IIEIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
33taziliL 5
per Cent
bit
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto 1863 9o± 90 89±
ll,Pitt° B.crip, £55 paid
ene1:108 A.yres 6 per Cent . 95
P,,.'44c10r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent..
Ptiao 7 per Cent lOO
or itto, Second Issue
Italianek 6 Per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 24 23±
tIe;( 6 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) _
1).1,e'41 3 per Cent
IN 140 Account
1,7 Granada l4
..
I),_';';..tvt7o.". 4± per Cent ..
3 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862
1,04'10 Account
h Porto,
3 per Cent., 1853
-'tt Account Ditto
per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 481 I
Itto , -
IN. 4000RUt
ICI jttof3erip (1863) £3O paid
n.siari 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St ^
tllto
41 per Cent., 1850 —
b i
ttLo 3 per Cent 1859
riArci,.' 6 Per Cent, 1862 - 91 / 90
ir'tilan 5 per Cent
t 14'0 Account...... t
r,,,: . Ull ..... •
.pithll' 3 per Cent
,to Account
vsi.tto New Deferred
Ditto Account
,Nitto Passive
8 ,itto Account
piPish Cert. of Coup not funded
T Itto Account
Ukiah 6 per Cent. 1851 — t'!tto Account
nitto 6 per Cent. 1858
Oto Account —
1)1.;. to, £lOO Bonds
IPt° 6 per Cent. 1862
No
Vl° £lOO Bonds 7/ 2/ 2 2 la
i'llela 3 per Cent.
1)44) per Cent 1862
to Account ... ...
12,44b2 ii.vidends on the above payable in Lond ~
itto Per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Italiau 4 Per Cent. Certificates
„ Dittr,' 6,, Per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 661 7
riel - 4-cenunt
67±
roo„, _
........
Pertkvii,47,',e 5 per Cent.. Ex. 25f —
4-'ollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4e.
QO,,
D?,„ ,
Monet,
THREE O'CLOCK.
18
I t t° 4.9 it Account
91± / a
.......___
141.--

`verpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Aorta, firm
re vi Sles
s probably about 3,000 bales;
p ouly, 15,967.

- --
the remt i•
LiADIES IN THE SOUTIIEPN CONFEDERACY
tillry P°rted to be sending their plate to the Trea-
res-
/tie 48
a free offering to their country "to relieve the 13: s
11110 ~),1 t4e currency," in this resembling the Prussians
titbiiir? their plate aud jewels, and received back fac-
e in iro
,AN A 11.
urelase&, itiTtiIIETICAL CONUNDRI3I.—My first ex-
-I,'.xlt..,.l;'l.4l'bere ; mysecond magnifies numbers ; my third
411 e is`nies nurobere. ad my whole destroys numbers,
4 -,,lliion of the riddle is found in the word—OoNlenasol.est
by 40 `44ixT is said to have been noticed at Naples,
an Peatc; e identified as that which made so 'i'inta2tlee in 1811, and giving its name to the famous
,r 6e 4 that year.
'Oe
of 300 n tnperor of Austria has just subscribed 4
co"itla towards a statue to Hadyn.
a sum
03re tlit/lunication from Cassel states that :bre-
-1144,114414a of Electoral Hesse has at last dee
coritt:rt 81213 pressing the gaming-houses. The presento.o.
ti4tiori 1 with the bankers will not be prolonged, and neo
for
theB4re 40`v pending with the wiow of the contractor
ihkes; 434
!''llling-house at Itenndorf ford the annulment of the
/244 Iv her late husband.