The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-07 00:00:00

Prince Alfred.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, while on I
visit to the Earl of Home at the Hirsel, attend
Divine service on Sunday week at the pari
church of Coldstream, attended by Lord Doug
and Major Cowell. The church was crowded.
the afternoon the prince and party walked
Lennol House, and visited the Earl of Wenll
On Monday afternoon his royal highness paid
visit to Sir John Marjoribanks at Lees HO
His royal highness, attended by Major Cowell 01
M. Vain de Weyer, left the Hirscl on Wednesdl
morning at six o'clock, and drove to Kelso static°
whence the party reached Edinburgh at half-25
nine. It is stated that before his leaving his rol
highness presented his carte de visite to each of ti
distinguished party at the Hirsel. The prince at
tended by Major Cowell and M. Van de Weyer, lei
Edinburgh on Friday afternoon on a visit to tI
Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, at Bowhill, Se i
kirkshire. His royal highness was expected a
return to Edinburgh to-day. The prince's visit L
Dunmore Park is postponed on account of his jelli
may to London, to be present at the christening
his royal nephew on Thursday.

Arrival of the Archduke Maximilian in Part`

The Archduke and Archduchess Maxiraiii6
reached Paris on Saturday afternoon, and were r 4
ceived upon their arrival ac the Tuileries by tkP,
Emperor and Empress. The Memorial Diploll
eique says .—" The delay caused by the indise
Lion of the Archduke Maximilian will only l
him to remain four or five days at Paris, since, 1;
dependently of the visit of courtesy which the jre
duke has to pay to her Majesty Queen Victor!.,
cousin to the Princess Charlotte, the latter 110 .1
take final leave of her illustrious father, who Til
remain one month in England. The arrange
clients for the Archduac's departure fr°o
Trieste will be completed on the 1%
instant. The Archduke has declared that he scl,
ufficially receive the Mexican deputation iralle
o,
diately upon his return to Miramar. This dellu"bi
Lion will pass through Vienna, and will also
received by the Emperor of Austria. The Archdll'hi
however, requires that the final acceptance of tPoi
crown shall take place in the same Chateau 0
Miramar in which it was offered to him in the vlip
of October last. The Mexican deputation will /0
time be accompanied by a certain number of 03,00
can notables, among whom we may v3el3tl
M. Arranguez, former Minister of Finance ; 4 ,
col
Murphy, formerly Mexican Minister at Lo°
Colonel Fatio, and several generals and 6oPeblr
officers, made prisoners at the taking of Fueo
who have hastened to give their support to thl
government of the Emperor Maximilian I.''

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, atteflade;
by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel and the Hon. R e 6 -ti
honoured the St. James's Theatre with their preseile"„,
Saturday evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of CLILI;
bridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelit*
the Princess Mary, attended by Lady Caroline Cilot,6"
Captain Ellis, honoured the Duchess of Inverness by tl'op
company at dinner on Saturday evening, at Elensili„,,g
Palace. A distinguished company was invited to west
Royal Highnesses.
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His Highness Prince Paul Esterhazy (gra
of the venerable Prince Esterhaay, so many years Mira"
sador from Austria at the Court of St. James's, alicifo-10
grandson of the Countess (Dow.) of Jersey, arrived to
on Thursday evening from Vienna. pot
His Excellency the Count Bernstorff, tho
y q
sian Ambassador, had an interview with the Earl 11318;,,
on Saturday, at the Foreign-office, in Whitehall-garcieef
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisburi .#0
tertained at dinner on Saturday evening, at their resigiosi
in Arlington-street, Lord and Lady Colchester, Lady t-10
Hamilton, the Right Hon. J. W. and Mrs.
Right Hon. Spencer and Mrs. Walpole, Lord -rJ
Cecil, Hon. Mr. Abbott, Mr. Wm. Peel, &c. al4
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesburl of
expected to arrive at their town mansion in o r
Wednesday from Savernake Park, Wilts, in °l.ol,eiar
attend the christening of the infant prince at Buck
ham Palace. • 09
The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey, as her friebet
will be pleased to le, fp -vered fr°6l, jilt?

_urn, is so far reco
recent severe illness as to be able to receive her tog)raciiief
mate friends. On Friday last the countess coroPiectrO'
79th year, and received visits from the Duchess of 00;
bridge and Princess Mary, the Grand Duchess of lueA-071
burg-Strelitz, and a large number of her friends. rive"
the visitors to the countess was her grandson, just
from Germany, his Highness Prince Paul EsterhaiP
Lady Moleswortb. entertained at ditoierood
Saturday, at her residence in Eatua-place, his -F-11°„.
he Fr ouch Ambassador, the Marchioness of l-c90013_:
and Lady Alice Hill, the Earl de Grey, the Earl axed vote.
Fortescue, M. p
tess of Cork, the Earl and Countess Russell, Mr.
and Frances Countess Wal aorjol
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord lienrY " so"
I
Lennox, M.P..y , the Right lion. Sir Robert Peel, IN m.PO
Lady Emil..
Peel, the Right Hon. Lord Stanlelooroo,
cieb
Lord Harris, Sir Charles Wyke, and Mr. Henry Grturod
THE CRAWLEY COURT MARTIAL._OO
a copy of the proceedings of the late court martialol:ooo,,
trial of Colonel Crawley was publishvd in the form ao `
c
liamentary paper, It extends over 10 closely.priatcc3o
and appended to it are plans and sections of SergeW
cinartera in the cantonment of Ilhow.

ONEY MARKETI

AND

COMAIERCI.9I INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Iu the general discount market there is a fair
demand for accommodation, and owing to the better
feeling regarding the future, brokers are willing to
neptiate first class thrco months' bills at 51 per
cent.

About £16,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
on Saturday.

The China, from America, has arrived with
£41,700.

The failure MS announced on Saturday of Messrs.
E. Yeomans and San, gunmakers, but their liabili-
ties are tilt supposed to be very large.
Edward Smith, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., has joined
the board of the City Mercantile Club and Dining
Hall Company (Limited.)

A new monetary institution, entitled the Albion
Bank, has been brought forward with a capital of
£1,000,000, the first issue to consist of 10,000 shares
of ..€5O each. This establishment is specially de-
signed to meet the requirements of the business
connected with the agricultural and cattle markets
of the metropolis, and offices will be accordingly
instituted in the city, at Smithfield, and near the
Caledonian road. The operations of parties en-
gaged in transactions with these various
markets are said to represent about twenty
millions sterling per annum, and to be mostly
in the hands of private firms. Provisional
arrangements have been made whereby an estab-
lished connection, under competent and experienced
management, will be obtained, and a profitable re-
turn from the first year's negotiations are confi-
dently anticipated. Allusion is made in the pro-
spectus to the successful career of the other new
joint-stock banks, and as a large and powerful
support has been promised, the directors appear
Warranted to anticipate similar results.
The London and Liverpool Hotel Company is
before the public with a capital of £120,000 in
6,000 shares of £2O each. The directory is of a
highly respectable character, and the intention of
the promoters is to purchase the Washington Hotel,
in Liverpool, recently erected there, with all its
appurtenances, of stock-in-trade, furniture,
itc., with a view to co-operation with
similar establishments in London, Manches-

ter, and other towns of the United Kingdom

as well as in America. The ice-wells included in
the purchase-money will, it is said, alone secure a 2:,
good dividend on the capital invested. The hotel si
is well situated, being adjacent to the principal rail- ;
way station of the town, contains about two hun-

dred rooms, and deeigned and fitted up on the mode

of the great American and Continental institutions,
Arrangements have been made for the transfer of

the business at once, and consequently immediate

returns may be expected.

Two o'CLocK,

A fall of nearly 74 per cent. has taken place to-
day in the market for the English funds, in con-
sequence of an uneasy feeling with regard to foreign
politics. Sales have been pressed to some extent,
and the other markets also exhibit heaviness. Con.
cols for transfer and the Bth inst. are about 91, and
for the April settlement 911. The New Threes
and Reduced Annuities are 89Z Z, and Indian 5 per
Cents. 1041 .

A decline of an important character has taken
place in the Foreign Market upon a pressure of
speculative sales. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are
681 69; do! Consolides, have dropped to 491, 50;
Mexican, 11, to 421 43 ; Greek, 1 to 21f 22 ; the
Coupons, I, to 101 2 ; Spanish Passive, I-, to 341 !;
do. Certificates, to 131 a ; and the Confederate
Loan is 45 47.

The operations in the Railway Share Market have
been moderately active, but prices have generally
shown less firmness. Great Esstern, Lancashire
and Yorkshire, and North Western have eaoh de'.
clined -1- ; Metropolitan, 1 ; Great Northern A
Stock, I ; and Great Western, 1.

In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings con-
tinue inactive, at about former rates.
Bank and Miscellaneous shares are dull, without
any material change to record as regards values.
Queensland Sheep Company Investment are quoted
1 to l prem.; Credit Foncier of Great Britain, 11,-
to 21 prem. ; Financial Corporation, 2 to 21 prem. ;
Bristol Indigo Blue and Black Lead Company,
prom.; and South Eastern Banking Company, 1 to
1 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—.ONE O'CLOCK.
GOTERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto Account, March 5 916 1
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent. B9l 1
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire ioth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2! & 3 per Cent —die
Ditto £SOO

Bank England Stk, 4i per Ct., last hf.-yr,

INDUN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Endia Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874
Ditto Account
Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870

Ditto Account....
Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 —
Ditto Enfaced 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 13onds£1,000 _ .
Ditto under £1,000..
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
6..astrian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto 1859
drazilian 5 per Cent

Ditto, 1839 and 1859 .....
Ditto 411 per Cent., 1852-58-60 -
Ditto 1863 B7i
Ditto Scrip, £55 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent.... —

Ditto Account —
Ditto 2 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Ditto Deferred —
l'uba, 6 per Cent.
.11illan 6 per Cent —
Ditto 41 pet Cent —
3olombian 6 Scrip £BO pd
)anish 3 per Cent., 1825
?.quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
ggyptian 7 per Cent.. lOO
Ditto, Second Issue
lreak 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ox-Coupons —
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons —
Ditto Account
iuntemala 5 per Cent.
talian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway)
lexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 441 i 3i
loorish Imperial 5 per Cent
iew Granada
few 2} per Cent. Jan. 1391
'eruvian 41 per Cent —
Ditto Account —
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1562
Ditto Account
Ditto 11 per Cent
gedmontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 Se. 3d. paid — pm
'ortmeuese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account.. —
Ditto 3 per Cent 1856 '7 '9 '6O, 62,'3
Ditto Account " ' ' '
t 1.): 5 per Cent., 1822, £St —
-;1•0 41 per Cent 1850
1;e150 5 per Cent, 1862
,"ila, 4 per Cent
ar"inian.
eel) per Cent
Dit,tot. 4. punt
banish 3 per
Ditto ,_ Cent
Newnt
Ditto-nef —
.erred
uDiitttt:: FA:I.M°, i'inve t
Ditto Account .................... —
panish Cert. of C 0,2 •• • .waded .
!
I, not funded
Ditto Account......
arkish 6 per Cent. 1864
Ditto Account
'Ditto6 per Cent. 1858
....
Ditto Aeenunt ....... .. .....
Ditto £lOO Bonds ................ 68t
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 ..... . ........ 691
......... 68k
Ditto Account .................. .. 69i
r
Ditto, £l6O Bonds
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent...,.. . on
enezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account s9}
Dividends on the abovo payable in Load ,u.
ustrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins.
iigian 4 per Cent.) Ex. 2.5 f.
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
'itch, 2f per Cent., Ex. 12 Guildors • •
RI
Ditto ian, 5
A per Cent., 1361, Ex. 25 francs
ccou nt
!ruyian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 45.
TWO 0' CLOVE. .
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tsols Molloy
Ditto Aprildecounro is irotir4,. Mt 91: