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

ONEY MARKET

AND

OCILINEEIJIAL INTELLIGENCE.

A slight CITY, TWELVE o'CLocic.
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 percent., being the
quotations 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 114,000 in bar gold was taken into the
Bank yesterday, but 50,000 sovereign° were with-
drawn for exportation.
The steam:tr La Plata has arrived from the %Vest
Indies with 11,045,600 in specie, being the largest
amount ever conveyed in one vessel.
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 abou'
previous quotations.

The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Priday, 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 Corn- I.
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
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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 Sk
the colonial property holder. 2

Two o'cLocx.

At the Paris Byarse this day, according to Mr.
Reuter's telegrams, the Three per Cent. RQntes 1:
oNned at GGfr. 75c. Firm.

The improvement of 1 per cent. in the English a
Panda at the close of business yesterday has not
been fully maintained to-day. A few sales effected et,
in the early part of the morning soon brought quo-
tations down per cent., and Consols are now 91Z 1
for money,
and 91; s for the acconnt. The general
appearance of affairs, however, is favourable, the
prospect of cheaper money and the hope that Europe
May still escape a ger:ire' war, create a better feeling et
among operaters, and the markets, notwithstanding
et
an Occasional adverse fluctuation, maintain great
buoyancy. The New Threes and Reduced Annui-
ties are 89a z; Exchequer Bille, 3s. dis. to par;
India 5 per Cents., 1044 ; Eafaced 5 per Cents.,
104, and Bonds, Bs. dis. at et
In the Foreign Market there is not much minima et
-
lion, and prices are less buoynnt. Turkish 6 per et,
Cents., 1858, are 681 f,; do. Consolides, 531, Mexi-
"n, 421 43i; Greek, 221 231 ; Spanish Passive,
361-, a; do. Certificates, 13i 14 ; Portuguese 481 ;
Italian, 671 1 ; and the Confederate Loan, 48 50.
I3uainess 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. Greta Western and Mid-
-land, however, have improved £l, Brighton and
Metropolitan 153., North Western 103., and Great
declined 53.; while Lancashire and Yorkshire have
The
()le and South Western 10s.
little 11''roign and Colonial undertakings exhibit
, animation, and quotations are unaltered.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in mo-
derate
d request. Bank of Otago realise4l ; Hin-
:stun, Caine, rnd Japan, 311 ; Union of London,
46 4 ; Hudson's Bay Company, 181 ; Imperial
Financial, 4 to 41 prem. ; Fore street Warehouse,
4
to 5 prem. ; Thames Iron Shipbuilding Company, I
3.1 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
I per Cent. Consols
Ditto Account, April 8 -
I per Cent. Reduced
,lew 3 per Cent. B9i i if
iew 2i per Cent. Jan. MI
&nannies, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2i & 3 per Cont par 1 3 die
Ditto £SOO
..
Ditto £lOO ani £200
3ank England Stk, 4} per Ct., last hf.-yr 239 40

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
ndia Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874
Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1670
Ditto Account.... - o ~.3 _
Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 —
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 lO4
Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879 —
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861
Ditto ditto Aug., 1866
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — dim
Ditto under £1,000..
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
,ustrian Bonds, 6 per Cent ....
Ditto 1859
Irazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto 1863 BB 71
Ditto Scrip, £55 paid....
;Limos Ayres 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
üba, 6 per Cent.
hilian 6 per Cent
Ditto 41 pet Cent —
Aorabian 6 Scrip £BO pd:
anish 3 per Cent., 1825
quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
irvptian 7 per Cent --
Ditto, Second Issue
reek 5 per Cont., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons lOl
Ditto Account
uatemalo. 5 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred —
Ilion 6 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway)
ezioan 3 per Cent
Ditto Account . 431
oorish Imperial 5 per Cent
3w Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent. —
edmontese, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 25f —
Ditto Scrip (1863) £4288.3d. paid — pm
iruvian 43 per Cent ..
Ditto Account —
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862 ....
Ditto Account —
wtuguoso 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account.. —
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, 'GO, 62,'3 481 1
Ditto Account —
assian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 . .
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862
-edish, 4 per Cent —
Ditto Account —
rdinian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account
anieh 3 per Cent -
Ditto Account —
Ditto New Deferred
)itto Account ..
)itto Passive ......... .......
361 3
)itto Account 363 I I
finish Cert. of Coup not funded 131
)itto A czount ............
rkish 6 per Cent. 1851 921
)itto Account ......................
)itto 6 per Cent. 1858 .............. 681
)itto Account
........
):tto £lOO Bonds.. ................ 71 21
)itto 6 per Cent. 1862 ..............
)itto Account .. 701
)itte, £lOO Bonds
itto Guararteed, 4 per Cent
iezuela 3 per Cent.
duo Account 23{
litto 6 per Cent., 1862
itto Account
• Dividends on the above payable in Loud ,n
drian, 5 per Cont.. Ex. 10 Florins.
glen 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f. .. —
eh. 2) per Cent., .Ex. 12 Guil.
'an, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 673
quo Account —
uvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s.
ETHREE O'CLOCK.
sole Money
litto A.pril Account ......... ~ , Ittl 9I I