The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A good inquiry for accomodation is still expe-
rienced in the open money market, and bankers and
brokers readily avail themselves of the opportunity
to charge the full quotation of 6 per cent. for the
best Commercial bills brought forward. Very few
exceptions in which a concession has been made
"en of e per cent. have been reported. The in-
creased demand for discount purposes is no doubt
due to the large quantity of paper withheld from
Circulation in the early part of last week.
A further sum of £7,000 in bar gold was sent
Into the Bank on Saturday.
The Result has arrived from Melbourne with
84,572.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts for
the past week, with one or two exceptions, have
been satisfactory. At Manchester there has been
rather more inquiry for both cloths and yarns, con-
sequent upon the late advice° from the Eastern
Markets. Th 6 woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford,
and Huddersfield has shown less activity, owing to
the late unfavourable weather, and the principal
dealings have been in goods for immediate require-
ments. In the hosiery and lace departments of
Leicester and Nottingham there has been little
change of importance, while less animation has
Prevailed in most branches of business in the hard-
Ware, districts of Birmingham, Sheffield, and
Wolverhampton.
The shares of the Imperial Financial Company,
the
capital stock being nearly realised, were this
day in demand at 51 prem. The allotment of the
°hares of the South Wales Colliery Company takes
place QllWednesday.

Two o'CLOCK.

At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to
neuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66c.
400. Flat.

The market for the English Fands is very
inactive, and the small amount of business
transacted has led to no variation, Consols being
911 I for money, and 9aZ for the account—
or the same as they closed on Saturday. The ad.
ittstmeat of the account in foreign bonds and
railway shares engages almost exclusive attention.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 901
911 ; Exchequer Bills, ss. dis. ; India 5 per Cents.,
1041, ; and Enfaced 5 per Cents., 106 a. ; Bank
Stook is 237.
There is not much animation in the Foreign
Market, and prices have varied to some extent.
Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 69, ; do. Conso-
; Mexican, 431 4; Greek, 221 23 ;
SP%nish Passive, 36 I, ; do. Certificates, 131 14 ;
Portuguese, 48 ; and the Confederate Loan, 45 47.
Business in the Railway Share Market has con-
tinned quiet, and quotations exhibit little change of
importance, except that they are in some instances
ex dividend. Great Eastern are marked 474 ex
div; Great Northern A Stock, 130 ex div. ; North
,
'lrestern, 111-Z. ex div.; and North Eastern
(Berwick), 102 k ex div.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
18 nn material charge.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are dull at
about previous quotations. National Shipping
Cl3mpany are quoted prem. ; Mauritius Credit,
ttl. to 1 prem. ; and Imperial Financial, 48 to 5
prem.

BRITISH. FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
▪ GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Per Cent. Consols
Ditto Account, March 5 9ll
per Cent. Reduced
▪ evi7 3 per Cent.
dvinuities, 30 yrs, expire Bth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
• Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
gxchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent 5
e
bank England SUE, 41 per Ct., last hf.. yr. 237
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
Ditto Account
Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1570
Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 1061 6
Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879 ..
▪ bonds E1,00t)
Ditto under £l,OOO ••••
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861
Ditto ditto Aug., 1866
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 1859 ........
Brazilian 5 per Cent ................... --
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 ................
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ......
_on
Ditto, 1863 ........................
Ditto Scrip, 1863, £55 paid ..........
_clis
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent ..............
Ditto 2 per Cent ...................
Ditto Account ......................
Ditto Deferred .............
Colombian 6 Scrip £65 pd ............
"ilian 6 per Cent .....................
Ditto 41 psi Cent ...................
Littnish 3 per Cent., 1825 ........ .. •..
fluaclor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent...
.-'lCVptian 103
7 per Cent .................. 103
°Ditto, Second Issue ...............
ri,cel‘ 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons. • .4:4.k 0
-uitto Account .•.. • . . • . . • .
,-,0.
11pous .....................
10
quat Account ......................
Sala 5 per Cent. ........... .. .. ..
'?•1 per Cent. (INlareminana Railway) _.
e/lcul 3Cent ............. 431
bilk) A per ........... 43i I
Moorish
ew Gr:lnPerial 5 per Gen ........
111, eV,i, 21:nada .................
4-erla Per Cent. Jan. 1891............
tto 41 per Cent .................
-.ccount .....•................
0i =
3 Per Cent. ..................
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 ............
picpcoeurncte.n.t. .....................................
lDitto
edinontese, 6 per Cent., Ex. 25f.......
p to Scrip (1863) 112 Bs. 3d. paid.... —Pm
tuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ..........
Ditto Account .............. • •
48
Ditto 3 .... (IL6 ,7 '9, '6O, 62,' 3
Ditto per Cent., 1,-
Account .......................
llssian 5 per Cent., 1822,;£ St .......
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850...........•.•
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 ..............
Zardinian 5 per Cent ..................
Ditt
.0 Account ....................
Spanish 3 per Cent ...................
Ditto Account ..................... Ozt
Ditto
New Deferred ................
'ittu Account ........ ..............
Ditto
Passive .......... ........... 352.1
Ditto Account ...................... 354 6bt
'Abash Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account l4
▪ Urkish 6 per Cent. 1851
Ditto Account ..........••••••••••••
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
.Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 ........ 69/
Ditto Account
Dittc, £lOO Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in L ni4l
Belgian 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
French Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f....
Ditto 6 per Cen 1863
Italian, 5 per Cent., lB6l, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto'Aceount
ellivian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols Money .. 91i 1
Ditto Account .. ..... 91k /

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,
..--.....--
No change in market. Sales about 5,000 bales,
Imports,
3605.
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TIIE PRESIDENT of the Royal Society has issued
invitations for conversazioni, to be held at Burlington
lions° on the 12th of March and 30th of April.
STRENGTH AND COST OF THE STANDING
ARMIES OF EUROPE.—Russia's standing army is
1,000,000 men, costing annually 26,000,000 sterling, or 42
per cent. of the national budget ; France has .573,000 men
costing 34,000,000, or 33 per cent ; Austria, 467,000 men,
Italy
16,000,000, or 37 per cent, ; Turkey, 424,000 men ;
311,000 men, costing 16,000,000 ; England, 300,000
/nen, costing 33,000,000, or 39 per cent. ; Prussia, 214,000
Inen. costing 7,500,000, or 30 per cent. Sweden, 67,000 men,
costing 40 per
.cent. ; Denmark, 50,000 costing 37 per
cent. The whole standing army of Europe is 3,815,817
men, costing annually 170,000,000 sterling.
TILE NATURAL STEREOSCOPE.—The natural ste-
teoscope, recently invented, anticipates this triumph
in producing some of the desired effects by auxiliary means
The new instrument is much more elaborate, of greater
magnifying power, and consequently more costly than the
I),r.t of the old ones, the price, with stand, &c., being £lO ;
but the only peculiarity of the construction we need refer to
is that of a variously-coloured screen, which, working on a
couple of rollers, reflects its colours upon the slides. In this
way the uniform sombre tints of the photographic pictures
are warmed up into life and beauty. Statuary becomes
marble-like, and landscapes of all kinds are surrounded by
their peculiar atmospherical effects. The pictures are, there-
fore, better pictures than before, and the pleasure to the
beholder correspondingly increased, A Worcester man is
the inventor,