The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-15 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND

COMIMCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
A slight change has come over the aspect of
affairs in the discount market to-day. Greater
demand for money has been experienced, and the
bankers and brokers, seizing the opportunity, have
increased their charges 51 and 6 per cent., being the
quotatiors current for first class bills. This small
advance, however, creates not the least anxiety,
because the enlarged inquiry is considered to be
only of a temporary character, and with the con-
tinued and extensive influx of gold into the country
there is every prospect that before long a substan-
tial concession will be graned to the mercantile
community.

About £14,000 in bar gold was taken into the
Bank yesterday, but 50,000 sovereigns were with-
drawn for exportation.
The steamer La Plata has arrived from the West
Indies with £1,045,600 in specie, being the largest
amount ever conveyed in one ♦easel.
During the past few days there has not been
much animation in the foreign and colonial pro-
duce markets. The high rates demanded for sugars
has in some measure checked operations. Tea has
continued in fair request, while in coffee the deal-
ings have been to an average extent at full rates.
Rice, fruit, and spices have remained inactive, while
tallow has been dealt in to a moderate extent
for both present and forward delivery at about
previous quotations.

The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Friday, the 18th March, a special settling day in
the shares of the National Provincial Aerated
Bread Company (Limited), and in the new shares
of the London Financial Association (Limited)—
both to be marked, but the former in the bi •weekly
list only.

The share list of the New Devon Consols Copper
Mining Company will close on Wednesday, the
16th March.

The prospectus has been issued of the British
Columbia and Vancouver Island Investment Com-
pany, with a capital of £500,000, half of which is
to be its first issue in shares of £25 each. It is
introduced by the General Credit and Finance Com-
pany of London, and the object is to raise money on
debentures in this country, and to apply the pro•
ceeds to mortgage of real estate or other securities
in the two colonies, where the value of capital is
always considerably higher than it is here. The
company will act as agents in all matters of invest-
ment and finance between the home capitalist and
the colonial property holder.

Two O'CLOCK.
At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr.
Reuter's telegrams, the Three per Cent. Rentes
opened at 66fr. 75c. Firm.
The improvement of -I per cent. in the English
Funds at the close of business yesterday has not
been fully maintained to-day. A few sales effected
en the early part of the morning soon brought quo-
tations downs per cent., and Consols are now 9181
for money, and 91a 4 for the account. The general
appearance of affairs, however, is favourable, the
prospect of cheaper money and the hope that Europe
may still escape a general war, create a better feeling
among operaturs, and the markets, notwithstanding
an occasional adverse fluctuation, maintain great
buoyancy. The New Threes and Reduced Annui-
ties are 89Z f; Exchequer Bills, 3s. dis. to par;
India 6 per Cents., 1041 1 ; Enfaced 5 per Cents.,
104, and Bonds, Bs. die.
In the Foreign Market there is not much annima-
tion, and prices are less buoyant. Turkish 6 per
Cents., 1858, are 681 ; do. Consolides, 636, Mexi-
can, 421 431; Greek, 226 231 ; Spanish Passive,
,1 ; do. Certificates, 13f 14 ; Portuguese 481 1;
Italian, 671 ; and the Confederate Loan, 48 50.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
rather inactive, the dealers and speculators having
been chiefly engaged with the liquidation of the
half monthly account. Great Western and Mid-
land, however, have improved £l, Brighton and
Metropelitan 155., North Western 10s., and Ureat
Eastern ss. ; while Lancashire and Yorkshire have
declined 51,, and South Western 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings exhibit
little
animation,a and quotations are unaltered.
'D
, ank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in mo-
aerate request. Bank of Otago realise 46 ; Hin-
dostan, China, and japan, 311 ; Union of London,
461 ; Hudson's Bay Company, 18-1- o ; Imperial
Financial, 4 to 41 prem. ; Fore•street Warehouse,
43
to 5 prem. ; Thames Iron Shipbuilding Company,
21 3.i prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE 0' CLOCK.
3 per Cent, Consols
Ditto Account, April 3
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent.
S9l i i
New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894....
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 24 & 3 per Cent par 1 3 dis
Ditto £SOO
Ditto £lOO and £200
Bank England Stk, 41 per Ct., last hf.-yr 239 40
him ix GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1670
Ditto Account... .... ... , —
Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 104
Ditto 52 per Cent., May, 1879 —
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861
Ditto ditto Aug., 1866
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — die
Ditto under £l,OOO .... 8 dis
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 1859
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 4/ per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto 1863
Ditto Scrip, £55 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account.... —
Cuba, 6 per Cent,
Chilian 6 per Cent. •
Ditto 4/ pei Cent
—die
Danish 3 per Cent., 1826
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —Egyptian 7 per Cent
Ditto, Second Issue . .... . ... 0i 991
...
Greek 5 per Cost., 1824-. 5, ex-Coupons.:
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons
101
Ditto Account lOl
fluatemala 5 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
tNloorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Piedmontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f
Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 Bs. 3d, paid
.. Ditto Account —
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent,, 1862 -
.I)itto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account —
Ditto 3 por Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 481 i
Ditto Account —
Russian 5 per Cent.. 1822, £ St
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 B9a
Swedish, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Sardinian 5 per Cent .... .......
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto 2.lccount ..........
Ditto Account —
Ditto Passive ......... .
Spanish Cert. of C'ou 36
p not funded l3
Ditto Account...,
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1861
Ditto Account ...

...
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858•,..."......••
681
Ditto Account. —
Ditto £lOO Bonds 7l 2
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 —
Ditto Account 7oi
Ditto, £lOO Bonds 7O
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. —
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account 23
Ditto A
6pr Ct., 1862
cceount .en...
Dividends on tho above payable in Lonat
,u
Belgian Austrian 5 per Cent,. Ex. 10 Florins.
4 per Cent., Ex. 25f...
Dutob. 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Ditto 4
Ditto per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5
A cc per
ount Cent , 1861, Ex. 25 francs 67a
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Co4sols Money
PittO APril ... 91i
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