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

NONYY MARKET

AfiD
COMDIZROIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A good inquiry for accomodation is still cape-
lienced 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
eves of t 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. .

- _ -
fhe 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 advices from the Eastern
Markets. The 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-
runts. 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 54 prem. The allotment of the
`'axes of the South Wales Colliery Company takes
- Wednesday.

Two o'CLocK.

At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to
Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66f.
40c, Flat.

The market for the English Funds is very
inactive, and the small amount of business
transacted has led to no variation, Consols being
911 for money, and 9 1 .7-, for the mount—
er the same as they closed on Saturday. The ad-
justment 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. die. ; India 5 per Cents.,
104, 2; and Enfaced 5 per Cents., 106 1 ; Bank
Stock is 237.
There is not much animation in the Foreign
Market, and prices have varied to some extent.
Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 691 ; do. Conso-
lides, 501 ; Mexican, 431 ; Greek, 221 23 ;
Spanish Passive, 36 -1; do. Certificates, 131 14 ;
Portuguese, 48 7,1 ; and the Confederate Loan, 45 47.

Business in the Railway Share Market has con
tinued quiet, and quotations exhibit little change of
importance, except that they are in some instances
ex dividend. Great Eastern are marked 47/ ex
div; Great Northern A Steck, 130 ex div. ; North
Western, 1111 ex div. ; and North Eastern
(Berwick), 102 i ex div.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
is no material charge.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are dull at
about previous quotations. National Shipping
Company are quoted 1 / prem.; Mauritius Credit,
par to prem. ; and Imperial Financial, 4-1 to 5
prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
per Cent. Consols ............ 91-1
Ditto Account, March 5 .............. 91t
Wet' C'ent. Reduced .................. 91/ 90A 1
A ev' 3 per Cent. ...................... 91i 901 11
..manuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880..
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
x • •
I,,i,,zlequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent. 5 die
England Stk, 4/ per Cl., last h`.-yr. 237
India
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
I"ia Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874....
Ditto Account
Ditto
o 5 per Cent. July, 1870
—ll4O 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 106 k 6
Ditto 5/ per Cent., May, 1870
D ;Lb) bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £1,000......
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861
Ditto ditto Aug., 1866

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Marian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 1859
13razilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto, 1839 and 1859.....- —
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto, 1863
Ditto Scrip, 1863, £55 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Ditto 2 per Cent .
Ditto Account
Ditto Deferred —
Colombian 6 Scrip £65 pd
t, hi lima. 6 per Cent.
Ditto 45 pet Cent
Mulish 3 per Cent., 1825
cinador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian 7 per Cent..
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 221 3
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons..
Ditto Account
nuatemala 5 per Cent.
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway,
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 431 1 5
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
~„
''''oNv 25 per Cent. Jan. 1891 —
r eruv/an 41 per Cent
l”.tto Account —
nitto 3 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 .. —
Ditto Account
, Ditto 11 per Cent ......
'iecirnontese, 6 per Cent.. Ex. 25f —
I,Ditto Scri (1863) £42 Bs. 3d. paid — pm
ortaguese p 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account.. —
Ditto 3 Cent., 1856, '7 '9
per 7 9 '6O, 622'3 48/
, Ditto Account
-ttassian 5 per Cent., 18224,£ St 9ll
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 .........
-Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 ......
Sardinian 5 per Cent..........
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account ..........
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive .
p Ditto Account
'''Panish Cert. of Coup not funded .. —
~, Ditto Account .. 14
varkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
i .Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
.oitto Account
•
Di Ditto •
P 6 er Cent. 1862
a
-0 Account .. 695
Ditto, £lOO Bonds 691 1 i
Dividends on the above payable in Load .u.
Belgian 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
Dutch
21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail 631 I
French Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f --
Ditto 6 per Cent, 1863
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account —
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 41. --
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols Money
Ditto Account •••••••• 915 1

Liverpool Cotton Market—This' Day,

No change in ma
rket-1,---
, Sales about 5,000 bales
Imports, 3,605.
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TUE PRESIDENT of the Royal Society has issued
invitations for conversazioni, to-
be held at Burlington
Rouse 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
costiag 34,000,000, or 33 per cent. ; Austria, 467,000 men,
coating 16,000,000, or 37 per cent.; Turkey, 424,000 men ;
Italy 314,000 men, costing 16,000,000 ; England, 300,000
Men, costing 33,000,000, or 39 per cent. ; Frussia, 214,000
!nen, costing 7,500,000, or 30 percent. Sweden, 67,000 men,
coating 40 per ',cent. ; Denmark, 50,000 costing 37 per
cent. The whole standing army of Europe is 3,815,847
costing annually 170,000,000 sterling.
TUE NATURAL STEREOSCOPE.—The natural ste-
reoscope, recently invented, anticipates this triumph
ill 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
beat of the old ones, the price, with stand, &c., being £lO ;
but the only peculiarity of the construction we need refer to
la 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.
better pictures than before, and the pleasure to the
cennider correspondingly increased, A Worcester man is
the izomter,