The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-05 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 4.
The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade
give notice, that they have appointed John Thomas Hob
son, Esq., Alfred E. Fletcher, Esq., Brereton Todd, Esq.,
and Charles Blatherwick, EE q., to be Sub-Inspectors of
Alkali Works, in conformity with the provisions of the Act
26 and 27 Vic., c. 124.

BANKRUPTS
That portion of the Gazette containing the bankrupts
lead not arrived when we went to press.

Course of the Exchange.--This Day.

A-nisterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam .. 12 0/ 12 1
Antwerp .. 25 70 25 75
Brussels — 25 70 25 75
Hamburgh — 13 71 13 81
Paris
Ditto 3 Months: 25 771 25 85
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 119# 119 a
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 34 33
Berlin —
Madrid . .•. 471 474
Cadiz
Leghorn — 25 85 25 921
M i lan
Genoa ,-- 25 85 25 90
Naples
Palermo .. . 25 871 25 921
Messina — 25 87/ 25 921
Lisbon — 521 52a
Oport 0..-
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)

South American Doublons 0 0 0

HONEY MARKET.

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

There is a little easier feeling in the discount
market to-day, and although 8 per cent. is the gene-
ral rate, occasional operations are reported a frac-
tion lower.

The bullion operations at the Bank yesterday
comprised the influx of £24,000 in bar gold, and the
withdrawal of 50,000 sovereigns.
The Mexican dollars by the last West India
packet have been sold at ss. 3d. per oz. for trans..
mission to Holland.

The Bank of England returns for the week to
Wednesday last is generally favourable, as will be
seen by the following particulars :

Active Circulation .. £20,555,650
Increase .. 268,575
Bullion .. 13,303,243

Increase .. .. 281,023
Rest .. 3,465,103
Increase .. 35,132
Public Deposits 6,748,867
Increase .. .. 411,621
Other Deposits.. .. 13,372,981
Decrease •• •• .. .. 33,646
Seven Day and other Bills .. 606,976
Increase 18,226
Government Securities .. 11,124,584
Increase 47,395
Other Securities 20,214,750
Increase .. 371,490
Notes Unemployed .. 6,720,335
Increase .. 6,400

A number of influential gentlemen have taken
the preliminary steps and subscribed a large portion
of the required capital for the formation of a City
Club and Dining-hall on a very extensive scale; a
most eligible site has been secured for the erection
of the buildings. The full prospectus of the com-
pany will be issued to the public to-morrow.
The prospectus has appeared of the .Credit Fon-
cier Limited, brought forward by the Mercantile
Credit Association. The object is to grant advances
upon all kinds of interests on lauds, buildings, and
approved securities, such as title and other deeds.
The promoters refer to the advantages of an under-
taking of this description for Great Britain and
Ireland, both to the company and the borrower.
The capital required is £3,000,000, end the first
issue is to consist, of 10,000 shares of £lOO each.

Two O'CLOCK.

At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to
Mr. Reuter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes
were quoted 66f, 30c. Firm.
The position of the Stock Exchange Markets to-
day exhibits a more cheering aspect. There appears
to be a general belief that England may yet be kept
out of the entanglements of continental politics into
which she has been so unhappily dragged. Pur-
chases have therefore been the order of the day, and
the English Funds are 1. per cent. better, Consols
being 90p,,, for money, and 91 for the account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are also
better at 9.),?-4 &, Exchequer Bills 10s. to Is. dis., and
India 5 per Cents. 1031 1041.
In the Foreign Market au important rise has
taken place in the value of all the principal specu-
lative securities, and business is more active.
Turkish 6 per cents., 1858, are 691 a ; ditto Con-
solides, 461, 47 ; Mexican, 351 36; Greek, 21-Z- ;
Spanish Passive, 327 ; Portuguese, 471 1 ; and
the Confederate Loan, 48 50.
In the Railway Share Market there has been
rather more animation, and prices generally have
tended upwards. Caledonian have advanced
£1 10a.; North Western and Midland, £1; Great
Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Metropo-
litan, 1; and Great Eastern, Great Northern, and
South Western, ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without
any material changes in values.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in
moderate request at about former prices. Union of
Australia realise 52 ; London and Westminster,
781 ; National Shipping are at 14 11 prem. ; Land
Securities at 11 1/ prem.; and Australian Naviga-
tion at 41 51 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3lper Cent. Consols
Ditto Account, March 5 9l 904
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent. 9oi 2 i
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891 73
Annuities, April, 1885
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1580..
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2a & 3 per Cent. 4 dis
Ditto £5OO .. 4 dis
Ditto £lOO and £2OO
Bank Engljnd Stk, 41, per Ct., last:hf.-yr.

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 213
Ditto Account
Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Ditto Account
Ditto 4 per CFnt., Oct. 1888.. .
Ditto EnfacediPaper, 4 per Cent......
Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 103
Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879 ..
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861
Ditto ditto Aug., 1566
Ditto Bonds.El,ooo
Ditto under £l,OOO ....
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto 1859
Ditto Account
Brazilian 6 per Cent .... look
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 .....
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto 1863
Ditto Scrip, 1863, £55 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Ditto Account 9l
Chi lian 6 per Cent.
Ditto 4f pet Cent
Colombian 6 Scrip £5O pd
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent,
Dutch, 2f per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders
Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1864
Ditto Scrip, £lO paid....
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l3l
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant
Egyptian 7 per Cent lolk
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons..
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons
Ditto Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent.
Italian 5 per Uent.(Marenunana Railway) 74
Mexican 3 per Cent
- -

Ditto Account 353 Gh 51
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
Piedmontese, 5 per Cent.,:Ex. 25f
Ditto, 1863
Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 Bs. 3d. paid — pm
Peruvian 3per Cent. ..
Ditto Account
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account..
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3
Ditto Account
Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St 92
Ditto 4 per Cent 1850 ... . 85±
Ditto 1860

Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent ....
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account —

Ditto Ndw Deferred
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account 32a
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded ..
Ditto Account l3l a a
Swedish, 4 per Cent
Carkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account BO
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 ..
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account....
Ditto £lOO Bonds• 674 k 7
Ditto 6 per Cent, 1863,
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lOO
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account 23
Dividends on the above payable in Lond in
Dutch2l per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 4/ per Cent., Ex. 25f —.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account....
..... 66f
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols Money
901
Ditto Account . • .......... 91 /

M. Bishop, who was condemned to the galleys
at Naples for conspiring in favour of Francis 11.
has arrived in Rome, together with his companion
in rniifortune, Count Christen.
ABERDEEN has resolved to erect a statue of her
Majesty, and, with a view to encouraging
native
talent, the statue has been intrusted to Mr. R.
Brodie.

THE ARCHIVES OF HIS HOLINESS, according to
a paragraph in La France, are in course of being
examined and catalogued. This has led to the
disinterment of a large quantity of music of all
dates which had been stowed away in the Quirinal
Palace. A good deal of it is said to be of the period
known as the pre-Palestrinian.
If we have not the best artillery in the world,
according to a writer in the new number of the Quarterly
Reviow, no other nation has better.