The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-09 00:00:00

UNEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, TWELVE o'CLocK.
The discount market is now assuming a quieter
appearance, although no change can be noted in
the quotations. The mercantile classes have very
generally over supplied themselves with accom•
modation, and with the less demand for money
now experienced, capitalists are beginning to
evince a disposition to work at the Bank of Eng-
land minimum. The large number of bills, how-
ever, that have as yet been brought forward have
been charged 9 to 9, per cent.
About £82,000 in gold waa taken into the Bank
on Saturday, but 100,000 sovereigns were with-
drawn for transmission to the Brazils,
The Star of Tasmania from New Zealand has
brought £83,240.

A call of £2 per share has been made on the
shares of the Central Argentine Railway Company,
for the lines from Rosario to Cordova, to be paid
for on the Ist proximo; and a similar amount will
be required on the Ist December next.
The half-yearly drawing of Turkish Six per
Cents., 1863, took place on the 2d inst. at Paris, si
and the particulars may be seen at the offices of the 1
Imperial Ottoman Bank. s]

Two O'CLOCK.
At Paris this morning, according to Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentea were 66f. 65c.
Firm.

The Stock Exchange markets this morning pre- 1
sent an improving tendency, and speculators appear
once more disposed to close their " bear" accounts g
and operate for a rise in prices. Accordingly, all
desoriptions of stock are buoyant, and affairs exhi- st
bit a more favourable aspect. The Funds have 1:
recovered per cent., Consols being 90; 911 for ii
money, and 90/. lex div. for the account. The 1(
New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 881 4 ;
Exchequer Bills, 98, to 4s. dis.; and India 5 per 1(
Cents., 104; etc
There is more animation in the Foreign Market, A
and prices have generally improved. Turkish 6 per utc
Cents., 1862, are 70; 71 ; ditto Consolidis, 60/ 8 ;
Mexican, 431 j; do., New Loan, dis„ prem.; to
Greek, 22 I.; Spanish Passive, 34 34i ; Porto-
gum, 48 ; Swedish Scrip, par, 1 prem. ; Russian
Scrip, prem. ; and the Confederate Loan, sto
661- 67.
'2

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
rather inactive, but prices have in most instances
exhibited more firmness.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain with-
out material alteration,

The following are the current quotations of some
of the principal new undertakings :—Provincial
13inking Corporation, prem.; International
Land Credit, 11 2 prem. ; Telegraph Construction,
I 11 prem.; Sabloniere Hotel, 1 11 prem.; North
Australian Company, 1 11 prem. ; Imperial Bank
of China, a 1 prem. ; City Offices,
prem. ; and
M.
Iron Works, 1 d prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent, Consols .................. 904 1 901 14
Ditto Account, •May 8 .............. 90 per Cent. Reduced .................. 881
New 3 per Cent ....................... 88a
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894... .
Ditto 6 per Cent., Jan. 1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan,, 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
M arch. J 9 une.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 24 & 3 per Cent 2O 4
Ditto £5OO
Ditto £lOO and £2OO
Bank England Stk, 54 per Ct.
Ditto Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 — Ditto 6 per Cent. July, 1670
Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do Certificates
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .
Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ...
Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861
Ditto ditto Aug., 1866
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONN O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent...........
Ditto 1859......
Brazilian 5 per Cent ....... .
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Egyptian 7 per Cent.....,/..,
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons
Ditto, 1839 and 1869 ...... —
Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway)
Mexican
3 per Cent
Ditto Account....
424 j I
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 41 per Cent,
Ditto Account....
Ditto 3 per Cent. (liTribarren)
Ditto 41 per Cent~ 1862
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3
48
Ditto Account
Ditto Scrip (1863) £3O paid pmßussian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Ditto 41 per Cent.; 1850
Ditto 3 per Cent 1859
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 8.51
anrdinian 5 per Cent ....
Ditto Account
'Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
.. _—
Ditto New Deferred ..
Ditto Account ...................... 46 51
DitDitto Passive
......................
to Account .............. ......
Fdpanish Cert. of Coup
not funded ..... . 34
SDitto Account. .............. 11/
Twedish, 4 per Cent. ........................
urkish 6 per Cent. 1851 .............. Ditto Account ......................
Ditto
6 per Cent. 1858 .............. Ditto Account ...................... Ditto, £lOO Bonds .................. 72
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 .............. 701
Ditto Account
.. 70}
Ditto £lOO Bonds..
Ditto 1863 .. 68
Ditto Guaratteed, 4 per Cent
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
'Ditto Account....
'Ditto 6 per Cent, 1864
Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid
Ditto 11 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in Loud
Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. -- Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.,
Ditto Account
671
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols Mone
.......... Ditto Account..... 894 x d

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Very full prices. Sales about 10,000 bales. Im.
ports, 3,379 ; previously, 4,38 g.

LORD HOUGHTON will take the chair at the
inaugural dinner of the newspaper press fund, to be held
at the Freemasons' Tavern on the 21st in:it,

The condition of trade in the manufacturing dis-
tricts during the past week has been exceedingly
active. At Manchester, however, the market for
cloths has been slightly affected by the increase in
the rate of discount, but at Leeds, Huddersfield,
Halifax, Leicester, and Bradford, a large inquiry
prevailed for all descriptions of goods. At Bir-
mingham and Sheffield great buoyancy has been
noticed, manufacturers having received large orders
both from the country and abroad.
A special meeting of shareholders of the Bank of
London was held to-day for the purpose of increas-
ing
the capital by the additional sum of £200,000, ,1
which is to be divided into 2,000 shares of £lO !
each. Sir J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., who occupied
the chair, moved the adoption of the necessary resolu-
tions, and observed that while other kindred insti-
tutions had progressed the Bank of London had
exhibited still greater advancement. The direc-
tors had always been actuated by a policy to
secure the confidence of the public, while at the same
time promoting the interests of the shareholders.
The amount expected to be realised by the premium
on the new shares would represent £140,000, which,
added to the reserve fund, would raise that item to ;
an amount as to preclude the necessity of increasing
it out of the ordinary earnings every year. The a
resolutions were agreed to nem. con., and the thanks (2.
of the meeting voted to the directors.