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

HONEY MARKET.

AND

COMAMRCIAL 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
pqcket have been sold at ss. 3d. per oz. for trans..
mission to Holland.

^ No.
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 .. .. 3,455,103
Increase .. 35,132
Public Deposits 6,748,867
Increase .. 411,621
Other Deposits.. .. .. 13,372,981
Decrease .. 33,616
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 lands, 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, and 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. Renter'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 per cent. better, Consols
being 901 a for money, and 91 'a for the account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are also
better at 94 a, Exch'-quer Bills 10s. to 4s. dis., and
India 5 per Cents. 103-", 1041.
In the Foreign Market an important rise has
taken place in tne value of all the principal specu-
lative securities, and business is more active.
Turkish 6 per cents., 1858, are 69/ ; ditto Con-
solides, 46t 47; Mexican, 35.1 36; Greek, 21.1 ;
Spanish Passive, 32Z a-; Portuguese, 471 ; 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, XI ; 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,
782; National Shipping are at 14 11 prem.; Land
Securities at 11 i 4 prem.; and Australian Naviga-
tion at 41 54 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3jper Cent. Consols
Ditto Account, March 5
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent. 9Ol
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891
Annuities, April, 1885
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1895 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 190 S —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent 4 dis
Ditto £SOO
Ditto £lOO and £2OO . ..... 4 10 die
Bank England Stk, 41 per Ct., last;hf.-yr.

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 10A per Cent., April 1874.... 213
Ditto Account • •
Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Ditto Account
Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888..
Ditto Erefaced 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 £1,000..
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto 1859
Ditto Account ..
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 .....
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto 1863
Ditto Scrip, 1863, £55 paid ..
Buenos Avres 6 per Cent
Ditto Account 9l
jhilian 6 per Cent.
Ditto 41 pei Cent. ••
Colombian 6 Scrip £5O pd
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
,Itto 4/ per Cent,
Dutch, 21 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 134
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant
n"gVptian 7 per Cent lOll
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons
Ditto Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent.
Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) 74
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
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 471
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 92
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 .. 851,
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 New Deferred
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
• Ditto Account 32a I
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto. Account l3l a a
Swedish, 4 per Cent
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account B9
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account 691
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account.
Ditto £lOO Bonds 671 7
Ditto 6 per Cent, 1863
,
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lOO
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account 231
Dividends on the above payable in Lond,)n.
Dutch2l per Cent., Ex. 12. Guil ..... 4••
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account....
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols Money
Ditto Account ..

M. Bishop, who was condemned to the gal 'cic'Ys
at Naples for conspiring in favour of Francis
has arrived in Rome, together with his companion
in misfortune, Count Christen.
ABERDEEN has resolved to erect a statue of her
Majesty, and, with a vie tv to encouraging
native
talent, the statue has been intrusted to Mr. R.
Brodie.

TIIE 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 411
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
Review, no other nation has bitter.