The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-12 00:00:00

MONEY ]IABKET

AND

CO/lIMMWIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE o'CLocK:
The discount market, to-day, has been quiet, with
a steady business on previous terms.
About £3,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
yesterday.

There was no alteration in the foreign exchanges
yesterday afternoon.

Since Monday last the imports of specie have
amounted to £203,100, while the exports have been
to the extent of £627,300.
Letters from Madrid of the nth February state
that a project of law regarding the PAssive Debt
has been deposited in the Cortes that will put an
end to the unfortunate conflict existing between
Spain and the holders of the bonds of the said debt
in France. A. telegraph despatch of the 9th inst.
advises that the project of law, after being read in
public sitting, has been taken into consideration by
the Chamber."

The Stock Exchange Committee has appointed
settling days in the shares of the following com-
panies, viz. ;—Financial Corporation (Limited), and
London and Italian, and Adriatic Steam Naviga-
tion (Limited), to be marked ; Fdirbairn Engineer-
ing (Limited), to be marked in the Twice a-Week
List; National Discount (Limited), new shares, to
be marked. The committee have ordered the B
Shares of the Crystal Palace and South London
Junction Railway to be marked in the Twice a.
Week List.

The directors of the London and South American
Bank have convened their first ordinary meeting, to
receive the report and to declare a dividend.
The National Provincial Marine Insurance Com-
pany is rapdly advancing towards completion, and
thed irectors are on the eve of closing their applica-
tion list. Shares were iu demand to-day at to 19
pm. M. E. Mavrogordato, Esq., has joined the
board of directors, and brings to bear considerable
influence in the interests of this company.

Two O'CLOCK.
At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr.
Renter's telegrams, the Three per Cent. Renter
opened at 66fr 45c., 66fr. 50c. Firm.

There has been a steady business to-day in the
market for the English Funds, and the quotations
have not undergone any material variation, Con-
sols being 91k for transfer, end 91* I, for the
account. Dealings have taken place in the New
Threes, at 891 ; the Reduced Annuities, at 89:- ;
Exchequer Bills, par; India Stock, 2191; do. 6
per Cents., 1041; Enlaced 51 per Cents., 1131; and
the Debentures, 99.
There has been general firmness in the principal
speculative Foreign Stocks, and business has been
more active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 691 *;
do. Consolides, 511 1; Mexican, 42* 3 ; Greek, 231;
do. Coupons, 101, a ; Spanish Passive, 36: d ; do.
Certificates, 13i 141.; Portuguese, 47i 481 ; Italian,
661 67; and the Confederate Loan, 44 46.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been very limited and quotatious have not varied to
any important extent. London, Chatham, and
Dover, and South Eastern have improved about 55.,
While Bristol and Exeter have declined 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines show little
variation.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares exhibit rather
less firmness. London and County are at 564,
London Joint Stock, 40k; London and Westmin-
ster, 80 ; Credit Fancier are quoted lk 2 prem.
Credit Mobilier, 6 l 4 prem. ; Imperial Financial,
3i 3.-1, prem.; Queensland Sheep Company, I
prem. ; and Thames Iron Shipbuilding Company,
21 31- prem. ; National Provincial Marine Insur-
ance are quoted 14 11 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto Account., April 8 ....
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent. B9i
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent.
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire Sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1.885. 141 ex div
Ditto £SOO
Bank England Stk, 41 per Ct., last hf.-yr. 238
INDIXN GOTER-NNIENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 2191
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 ..
Ditto 5/ per Cent., May, 1879 ll3/
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861
Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 99a
Ditto Bonds tl,OOO —die
Ditto under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto 1859
Brazilian 5 -

er Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto 1863
Fit Ditto Scrip, £55 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Ditto Account.
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Lhilian 6 per Cent.
Ditto 4} pei Cent
Colombian 6 Scrip £BO pd: — dis
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian 7 per Cent ..
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons..
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons
Ditto Account
Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 43 21
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Piedmontese, 5 per Cent.. •Ex. 25f
Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 Bs. 3d. paid — pm
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account..
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3
Ditto Account 4Bk 7k
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, St
Ditto 3 per Cent 18.59 ..
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862
S irdinian 5 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account
Zpaniela Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account l4/ 13/
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
i)itto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds.,
. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Ditto, ElOO Bonds
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. loo
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account 6O a 60
Dividends on the above payable in Lond
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail 631
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account 661
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols Money
Ditto April Account

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Gal
314.

Les about 4,000 bales. No change. Imports,

riZitTFORDSHIRE ELECTION.—The polling corn.
rnenced yesterday morning in the different districts
at eight o'clock, and from the commencement the Conger-
rttive oandidate, Mr. Surtees, was in a majority. At ten
o'clock, when the first return was made, the numbers were :
Sartecs, 460; Cowper, 447; majority, 13. Twelve o'clock—
Surtees, 1,337; Cowper, 1,256; majority, 81. Two
o'clock—Surtees, 1,923; Cowper, 1,726 ; majority, 197.
Five o'clock (close of the poll)—Surtees, 2,272 ; Cowper,
2,017; majority, 255. The official declaration of the poll
Will be made on Monday.
SAVOY PALACE.—The site extending from
that part of Wellington-street, Strand, leading to
Watelloo-bridge, a point fur.her to the east than the print-
ing establishment of The Sun newspaper, was formerly
occupied by a mansion, called the Savoy Palace. It was
built in the reign of Henry 111., by Peter, Earl
and a peculiar interest attaches to its
memory, fromof Savoy,
ing been the prison of John, King of France, when b
of its
rouhav-
ght
to England by the Black Prince, after the
battle Poic-
tiers, in 1356. Here, after many years of lingering captivity,
this unfortunate monarch breathed his last. The Savoy
Palace was subsequently converted into a hospital ; rid
deserters.
George I. used it as a place of confinement f
One of its gothic windows, partly in ruins, still remained
until the year 1816, when it was pulled down to make room
for go new street.