The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-02 00:00:00

TEOIIEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK:

A full demand for discount accommodation is
reported to-day, and the principle bankers and bill-
brokers have been disinclined to transact business
below 6 per cent.

A farther sum of X 45,000 in gold was taken into
the Bank yesterday.

We are informed that the arrangement lately
made between Messrs. Falkner, Bell, and Co.,
bankers, of San Francisco, and the British and
Californian Banking Company, has been cancelled
by mutual consent.

The tenders for Clasensiand debentures were
opened yesterday at the Union Bank of Australia;
when £29,300 were sold above the minimum of
£lO3 125., and it was intimated thnt the directors
will receive further tenders on Wednesday for the
balance £70,700.
The sinking fund on the Perttiian debt was
applied yesterday in the purchase of £266,000,
leaving £4,280,650 of the recent, loan outstanding.

The certificates of the new issue of shares in the
General Credit and Finance Company of London
will be ready for delivery, in exchange for the
bankers' receipts, on and atter Monday next.
Mr. IL D. Cartwright, of Messrs. Leckie and Co.,
Bombay, and chairman of the Commercial Bank
Corporation, &c., has been elected chairman; and
Mr. Lewis Balfour, of Messrs. Balfour and Co.,
Calcutta, Deputy-Chairman of the Board of Direc-
tors of the East Indian Financial Association.

The annual general meeting of the members of
the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society was held
at the office, Norwich, on the 29th ult. The report
stated that the new business was progressing satis-
factorily, there being £273.026 insured for the pre•
sent year, against £257,826 for the. Feuding
year.

Two o'CLocx.

At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reutees
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 05e,
Inanimate•

The market for the English Funds to-day has
been particulaly quiet, and very little alteration has
taken place in prices. Consols remain at 90 for
money, .and 901 1 for the account. The New
Threes and Reduced axe 89 1; India 5 per Cents.,
104 k e ; and Bank Stock, 238,
The alterations in the Foreign Market have not
been important, and business has been extremely
dull. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 681* ex
div. ; do., Consolid4a, 481 fo Mexican, 28,4
Greek, 251 ; Spanish Passive, 291 e ; do,, Certi-
ficates, 108 s- Portuguese, 471 /ex div. ; Italian,
67 s ex div. ; and the Confederate Loan, 64 66.
Business in the Railway Share Market has con-
tinued moderately active, bat a slight decline hal
taken place in one or two of the principal lines.
Midland have receded 15s, North Western 10s,
Great Northern 10s, and Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bs The Foreign and Colonial lines showing no
change of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have been in
very limited request without any material altera-
tion to report as to values.Barakar Tea, Shares are
quoted par 8 prem.; Lcindon and Venezuela Bank
1 1 prem. ; and Ebbw Vale Company 1 to 2'prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUN ZS.
3-per Cent. Consols
Do Account, July 8
3 per Cent. Reduced ........
New 3 per Cent
New 23/4 per Cent. Jan. 1894........ —
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 _
Aunuities, 30 yrs, expire eth Jan., 1880 —
Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 . ,
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
Maroh. June.
Exchequer Bills, £l.OOO, 2i & 3 per Cent. 5
Do £5OO • .. • • 5
Do £lOO and £2OO
Bank England Stk, 5i per Ct.
Do Account..

INDILN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Tndia Stock, 101 per Cent., Apri11874....
•'Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. July, 1870. ... ... 1041 i
.' l)o Account
Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 —
Do Certificates
Do Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Do 6 per Cent., Jan. 1872 —
Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 —
Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 —
Da Bonds ..t,1•1100 ..
Do under £1,000.. -
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Do 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ..... ,
Do 1863 Sql
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Do Account —
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) —
Chili= 6 per Cent. —
Do 3 pei Cent.
Colombian 6 per Cent ...... ......
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Do 5 per Cent. 1864 —
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian 7- per Cent lt.q 1
Do, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Do Account
Do Coupons —
Do Account.... ) lll
Guatemala 5 per Cent. —
Do 1839 and 1859
Italian O per Cent.(Maremma-ta Railway 731
Mexican 3 per Cent
Do` Account
Do Scrip 423 paid
Do French Scrip, En 25f 200 — dis
Do 6 per Cen.. Anglo-French
F Ditto Scrip, £23 paid
Moorish Imperial 6 per Cent
New Granada --
Do 2 per Cont. -
Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Peruvian 41 per Cent —
1)0 3 per Cent. (Cfribarren) —
Do 41 per Cent., 1862
De Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account —
Do 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 —
Do Account
Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid
Russian 5 per Cent.. 1822, £ : t —
Do 41 per Cent., 1850 ..
Do 3 per Cent 1859
Do 5 per Cent, 1862
Do Anglo-Dutch
Do Scrip, £3O paid - pm
Sar Tinian 6 per Cent
Do Amount
__
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred o-Account
..
Do Passive -
Do Account ni i
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Do Account
Swedish, 4 per Cent —
Do Scrip, £6O paid
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do A.coonnt 7O
Dc £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds.. —
Venezuela 3 per Cont.
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1852
Do A.ocount
Do 1863 - -
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent
Do 6 per Cent, 1864
Do 11 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 6 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. --
.Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
Do Account
Dutch 21 per , Cent. x• E. (Toil.. -
Do G il
• .
Do 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Do Account —
piurc., vian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s.
001oacenitoleusoeuzi,te5.y.7 Cent., Ex. 25f —
TWO O'CLOCII.
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tVerpool Cotton Market—This Days

Market chill. Sa.les—÷—probibly 5,000 or
bales. 6,000

S. NICOLis r,
-,OLI,EGE, LANCING SIISSEX.—The
first stone of the Third or Lower Middle School, in connec-
tion with S. Nicolas College,
intended for 1,000 boys, eons
laid by the
of small farmers, tEight Hen radesmen' and superior artisans, will be
President of the Council
the Earl Granville, K.G., Lord
,ou
1864 on the site recontl Tuesday, the 12th of July,
,
Purchased at Ardingly, near Bal-
combe, in Sussex.
ALTERATION OF THE itTRXISH FLAG.—Con-
stantinople, June 23.—8 y an Imperial order, the Turkish
ccnataerctal fl,g has been altered. Instead of tho red
ground and, white crescent as hitherto, the colours are
green ground with a red ball in the middle bearing a white
crescent in the centre.