The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-01 00:00:00

lONEY MARKETI

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

Two O'CLOCK.
As usual on tho Ist November, the transfer books

the Bank being shut, the Stock Exchange is
osed.

There is a moderate demand for discount accom.
odation to-day; the supply of money is very
rge, and brokers are more inclined to negotiate
!at bills of three months' date, at 81 per cent.
About £27,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
sterday, but 20,000 sovereigns were withdrawn
r the West Indies.

The Magdalena from the Brazils has arrived at
;sbon en rouse to this country with £43,059.
The bar silver by the last West India packet has
3en sold at ss. 61d. per ounce for Amsterdam,
lowing a rise of -1-1.
The directors of the International Land Credit
ompany have made a call of £2 per share, payable
the London and Wlstminster Bank, or at the
at que de Credit Fonder et Industriel, Brussels,
1 Monday, Nov. 28.
The appointment of Mr Turquand as liquidator
the Leeds Banking Company (which was made
•ovisionally by the Vice• Chancellor during the
cation) has been confirmed by the Court.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
linted Friday, Nov. 4, a special settling day in
e shares of the following companies :—Metropa.
,an Railway New Shares to be marked ; Fiint.
,ire Oil and Cannel Company, for transactions
ily entered into on and after the 7th August, not
be marked at present ; the Worcester Engine
Torks, for transactions entered into on and after
fie llth June, not to be marked; and Holcomb and
),, sack contractors, for transactions entered into
.1 and after the 16th July, no quotation asked for.
During the last few days there has been rather
3s activity exhibited in the Foreign and Colonial
roduce Markets. Sugars, however, have main.
fined former rates, while a fair business has been
Ine in coffee at fuli prices. Tea has remained in
oderate request at steady prices, while cocoa, rice,
id fruit has in same instances sold at slightly re-
iced rates. Tallow has been in more request for
th present and forward delivery, at fully previous
rotations.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.
YESTERDAY.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
per Cent. Consols
Do Account, Nov. 12 . b 9
per Cent. Reduced
OW 3 per Cent. 873
ew 2t per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873
nnuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan. 1830 —
Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 'lBB5 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908

Mb..
whequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4& 31 per Cent 4 3rd June.
Do £5OO
Do £lOO and £2OO
ink England Stk, 61 per Ct.
Do Account..
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
dia Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874
Do Account
Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do Certificates
Do Account ..
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) —
Do 4i pet Cent.
Do Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ..
Do 6} per Cent., May, 1879
Do 4 per Cent. Aug. 1866
Do Bonds 1;1.04 8 6 dis
Do under £l,OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
astrian Bonds, 5 per Cent
razilian 5 per Cent ...... ... ...
.__
L
Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do 11863 B2i
Lianas Ayres 6 per, Cent
Do Account.....
lilian 6 per Cent.
Do 41 per Cent
)lombian 6 per Cent —
aba, 6 per Cent.
Do 5 per Cent. 1864
anish 3 per Cent., 1825 --
Do i per Cent, 1864
luador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do, Provisonal Land Warrant..
Yptian 7 per Cent 951 6
Do, Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds
reek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Do Account
Do Coupons
Do Account —
luatemala 5 per Cent. —
Do 1839 and 1859
alian 5 per Cent.(slaremmana Railway) 70i
exican 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do 1864 25
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French
Ditto Scrip, £33 paid...... .. dis
1,0 French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis x d
loorish Imperial 5 per Cent
few Granada
Do 2 per Cent.
Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 —
Do do Aug., 1866 —
eruvian 41 per Cent ..
Do 3 per Cent. (IJribarren) —
Do 4i per Cent., 1562
Do Account....
'ortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account —
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7,'9, '6O, 62,'3 46/
Do Account 461
Lussian 5 per Cent 1822, £ St., —
Do 41 per Cent., 1850 ..
Do 1860
Do 3 per Cent 1859
Do 6 per Cent, 1862 B7a 8
Do Anglo-Dutch
Do Scrip, £65 paid
lardinian 5 per Cent
Uo Account —
panish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Passive
Do Account
ipanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Do Account iwedish, 4 per Cent.
--
Do Scrip, £6O paid
----
Curkish 6 per Cent. 1854 .. pin
89
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 . —
5)o Account 691
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account .. 711 8
Do £lOO Bonds 72'i
Do 1863 ..
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent..... —
Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid
Venezuela 3 por Cent. _ ........ .
Do Account ..
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1864
• • ---
Dividends on the above payable in London
Austrian, 6 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins.
Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f 99
Dutch 2i per Cent.,Ex. 12 Gull —
1)o 4 per Cent. ertillcates
French Itentea, 2 per Cent.... —

TWO 0 O'CLOCK,
Consols, Money.
Do Account

LORD ELCHO ON THE RELATIONS OF VOLUNTEER
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES.—Lord Echo has ad-
dressed the following letter to the editor of the Badding-
tonshire Courier :—" Amisfield, Oct. 25.—Sir,—In the
lladcitruton Courier of Friday last reference is made to the
fact of, your having been precluded from dining at the
officers' mess of the East-Lothian Rifle Volunteers, on the
occasion of the inspection of the regiment, in consequence of
of
your having appeared there in the uniform of a private
the corps, Having myself had the honour of dining
at the mess on the occasion referred to, and having at
the time heard of the circumstance of your exclusion, I
regretted then, as I regret now, that the rules of the
officers' mess exclude privates of the corps in uniform.
My object, howeNer, in now writing is not to find fault with
ably rules laid down by gentlemen by whom I have been hospi-
tned, but to express the strong opinion I hold
that in the volunteer service an officers' mess is a mistake.
Happily, all social grades, from dukes to mechanics and
agricultural labourers, are to be found in our ranks, but a
volunteer's position in the force does not depend on his posi-
tion in society. There are men serving in the tanks who
are socially the equals, in many cases even the superiors in
station and wealth of the many under whom they serve.
When on duty, the strictest discipline is maintained by
volunteers, and privates, no matter what their social posi-
tion may be, always pay ready obedience to those placed in
authortty over them. But when off duty, when mixing
socially together, military distinctions should be at an end;
the uniform of tho private should not bo barred where that
of the officer is free. Such at least, I venture to think.
should bo the rule of the service so far as regards our social
intercourse, and such generally I believe it to be. The
East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry have a mess, at Which
also I have been hospitably entertained; but, if I ana not
mistaken, it is not an officers' mess.' And in the interests
of the East Lothian R 111,3 Volunteers, whose well-being 1
have touch at heart, I would gladly see every member of
the corps who chooses to pay for his dinner free to dine at
the regimental mess,—l am, 45CZ., " BLOW!"