The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-29 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELTE O'CLOCK.

Business in the general discount market continues
active, and the rates show an undiminished
firmness.

The share list of the United Merthyr Collieries
Company will close on Thursday nest, the 31st inst.
The Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets re-
Main closed for the Easter holidays. Business will
be resumed to-morrow (Wednesday).
Subjoined are the particulars of the railway calls
due in April. These, payments will raise the total
anb4ribad for such parpose,s from the Ist January
last to about .-C4,000,000

Call.

Amount.

Cockermouth and Workington New
Quarters l5 0 £5,000
Ditto, Preference £5, "A" ~ 15 0 1,000
Furness, New £lO 2lO 0 34,250
Orand Trunk of Canada Equipment
Mort Bonds, 25 per cent not known
Great Luxembourg Preference 2O 0 80,000
Madras Fifth Extension, Second Issue 2 0 0 100,000
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln,
New £lO Five per Cent~ 1862
4aryport and Carlisle, New 3O 0 18,000
Medoc
Neath and Brecon
Paris and Orleans, New, 1862
IthYraney 5 per Cent. Preference 2O 0 15,000
San Paulo
South Italian
South Staffordshire, £lOO 41 per Cent
Preference
Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont
410 Maron Extension 2lO 0 18,750

£1,370,300
The meeting for Mexican bondholders convened
for
to-morrow has been postponed till Monday, in
consequence of the delay that has occurred in the
accept an ce of the Crown by the Archduke

Two O'CLOCK.

At Paris this day, eecordiug to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 65f. 90c.;
very flat.

The Stock Exchange Markets present a heavy
and depressed appearance, and the few transactions
recorded have mostly been sales which have un-
favourably affected securities, In the English de-
partment very little business of a bona fide cha-
racter has been negotiated, and the funds, which
should have exhibited buoyancy, in consequence of
_he l
satisfactory intelligence from the Continent
this morning, show a decline of -} per cent. Con-.
I°lB
are
918
for money, and 912 f,-for the account
The, New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 ;
Exchequer Bills, 3s. 7e. die.; India Stock is 218
2192 ; do. 5 per Cants. are 1041 I; do. Enfaced 5
Per Cents., 103 ; do. 51 per Cents., 112; and do.
Bonds, 8.3. 3s.
Thera has been a depresased market for Foreign
securities, and the dealings have been principally
connected with the settlement. Mexican have fallen
dearly 1 per cent., viz. to 411 d ; Greek are steady
t 234 24; Spanish Passive are I-lower, being 351
• , the Certificates are marked 13.1; Turkish Con.
a°lide 3 area flatter at 531 51; the 6 per Cents„ 1858,
114,3 70 -1.; do., 1862, 711 72 ; and Venezuela 6 per
'dents., 60i
In the Raitwav Share Market the dealings have
been very limited, the dealers and speculators being
trinciPally engaged with the half-monthly settle-
irnt• Prices, however, have remained steady.
7"Arighton have improved about 53. ; South Eastern,
8. ; and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, L 1;
While Great Eastern have declined lOs.
The Foreigt, and Colonial.lines exhibit no change
of importance.
133nk and. Miscellaneous shares show very little
alteration as regards values.
Annexed are the current quotations for some of
the principal new projects :—London and Liverpool
Motel, 11 11 prem. ; Sabioniere Hotel, I to 1
ri,renl• ; North Australian Company, to 1 prem. ;
Central Argentine Railway, 1 to 4 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONg O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
a Per Cent. Consols
Ditto April 8
2 , Account,9ll 1
~,,Per Cent. Reduced
Nee ~
New
1 1
. per Cent
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880..
, Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
Atehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent 8 3 7 dis
Ditto £500
13 Ditto £lOO and £200
4111( England Stk, 41 per Ct., last 111.-yr Shut
1 iii,l4--.li ,
India Stock
SECURITIES.
Stock
Ditto 5 , 10} per Cent., April 1874 2lB 19
per Cent. July, 1870
Ditto per
.... .., , —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888... —
..,. Do Certificates
Dittothtto Enfaeed Paper, 4 per Cent....
zi 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Ditto
61 per Cent., May, 1870 ll2
140 Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861
~,. Ditto ditto
I..)!tt Bonds 41,000 Aug., 1866
3 8
Ditto under £1,000..
POREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 Ditto, per cent
•n•" 0, 1839 and 1859 .....
D
-
Ditto 41 per Cent • 1852-58-60
itto
Ditt • "1863 , o Scrip, £55 paid
r49.4ador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
11Ptian 7 per Cent lOO f
garetto, Second Issue
Ito.liak 5 Per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. 24 231
IdT;., xi„11 5 P
au 3eperr CentCen.t
(Maremmana Railway))
44 b
5
pto Account
Dittoelm,
"n 41 Cent —
Ditto 3 per
per Cent.
1,. 41 per Cent., 1862 —
b"ltto Account
- ort sr„
Dittit'o-ese3---
per Cent., 1853
, Account..
•'-'i' t—
bit..' ° 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3
~,A0 Account
Ditto s •
It.DA • -crIP (1863) £3O paid — pm
,Ptall 5 per Cent., 1822, £ bt —
Itit,.n
0 41 per Cent.. 1859 _
-/).„'° 8 per Cent 1859
/34,.."9 5 per Cent, 1862
~(I)kan. 5 per Cent B4l
gptie:Ato Account _
-rs'P'h 3 per Cent
-.Jitto Account
DittoPitt° New Deferred
, Account _
"''',, ttO Passive ~~t
',Attu Account
Spanish,, Cert. of Coup not funded l3l
it Ditto Account
11.,,r1ii sb. 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
1/itto.Account
1?-ii.•40, :CIO Bonds
Ditto p per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Ve "to 4100 Bonds.. 'a 21 2
tie?
li• 'llOlO 3 per Cent.
Litt
1° h.ccount —
lii,° 6 per Cent., 1862
*to Account
bIl ], , Dividends on the above payable in Lend ii
Iv 4k
/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
1 -LUG 4
Ataliatt. r per Cent. Certificates
Ditt ' '-' Per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. —pi 0 Account .. 661
Perms 01ontes r
m ai 0 per Cent., Ex. 251 —
44 Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s.
TO O'CLOCK
ertaito °8
/I°lle WY
911 1
‘ April Account

1478rp00l Cotton Market—This Day,

1 Aoaet firm. Sales probably about 3,000 balm
48' 663; previously, 15,967.

'Sow

-E LADIES IN THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY
elir3ptoPorted to be sending their plate to the Trea-
tli 48a free offering to their country "to relieve the pre&
10 434 t `heurrency," in this resembling the Prussians
albajaveir plate and jewels, and received back fac. tee
4,, iron.
AN A,
Pre t„ --""ITEIBIETICAL CONUNDRUM.—My first ex-
-333481,-:stucabers •, ro second magnifies numbers ;my third
be numbers 3: and my whole destroys numbers,
olution of the riddle is found in the word—Oolenso.
by C° 111,"r 18 said to have been noticed at Naples,
appear identified as that which made so formidable an
'll/31 1" in 1811, and giving its name to the famous
The 44
of that year. g
of 600 n tn. peror of Austria has just subscribed a sum
s towards a statue to Hadyn.
Qa,ire Inunication from Cassel states that the
toil,cdr"ient of Electoral Hesse has at last deter-
"Atrot 81113 Pressing the gaming-houses. The present
atiWith the bankers will not be prolonged,
and nego
15r thes,are '3ow Pending with tha widow of the contractor
cokee
toel4riling-ous at Renndorf for the annulment of the
'"'M Madeh sr late husband.