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

MONEY MARKET.

AND

COMUIWIAL 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
packet have been sold at ss. 3d. per oz. for trans-
mission to Holland.
The Bank of England returns for the week to
Wdtdnesday 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 .. .. 3,455,10'3
Increase .. 35,132
Public Deposits 6,748,867
Increase .. .. 411,621
Other Deposits.. 13,372,981
Decrease .. .. • • 33,646
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 advantrges 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 1;100 each.

Two O'CLOCK.

At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to
Mr. Reuter'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 Q per cent. better, Consols
being 904 a for money, and 91 a for the account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are also
better at 931 Exchfrquer Bills 10s. to Is. die., and
India 5 per Cents. 1031 1041.
In the Foreign Market an important rise has
taken place in the value of all the principal specu-
lative securities, and business is more active.
furkish 6 per cents., 1858, are 691 4 ; ditto Con-
solides, 461 47 ; Mexican, 351 36; Greek, 211
Spanish Passive, 321 Portuguese, 474 ; and
the Confederate Loan, 48 60.
In the Railway Share Market there has been
rather more animation, and prices generally have
tended upwards. Caledonian have advanced
El 108.; North Western and Midland, .E 1 ; Great
Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Metropo-
litan, 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,
781 ; National Shipping are at 11 11 prem.; Land
Securities at 11 1-1 prem.; and Australian Naviga-
tion at 41 5/ prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3jper Cent. Consols
Ditto Account, March 5
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891
Annuities, April, 1885 ...
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent 4 dis
Ditto £500
Ditto £lOO and £2OO
.lank England Stk, 4/ per Ct., last;hf,-y-,

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1871.... 213
Ditto Account • •
Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 167 U

Ditto Account

Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 —
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto .5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ..
Ditto öi per Cent., May, 1879 —
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861
Ditto ditto Aug., 1866

D tto Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto 1859
Ditto Account ..
Brazilian 5 per Cent...........
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 4i 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.
la° 4/ per Cent,
Dutch, 2t 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 l3i
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant
Egyptian 7 per Cent
10 101 i
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup)ns —
Ditto Account

Ditto Coupons
I litto Account
Guatemala 5 per Cant.
ftalian 6 per Uent.(Maremmana Railway, 74
Mexican 3 per Cent ....
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
slew 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 riper Cent.
Vitto Account
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3
Ditto Account
Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, St 92
Ditto 4 per Cent 1850 B5l

Ditto 1860
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 BB a
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Ditto Pasigve
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account
Swedish, 4 per Cent
Uurkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
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 .. 23t
Dividends on the above payable in Lond•)n
Duteh2l per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
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.
Console Money
Ditto Account

M. Bishop, who was condemned to the gal ;18
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.

THE 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 all
dates whicn had been stowed away in the Quirinal
Palace. A good deal of it is said to be of the period
known as the pre-Palestriniun.
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 better.