The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-18 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The discount market is still influenced by the
recent advance in the minimum of the Bank, and
there is only a moderate demand for accommodation
at the new rate.

About £3,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
on Saturday.
The City of Washington has arrived from New
York with
£5.700, and the Alliance from Geelong,
With £54,828.
The Anglo French Mexican Loan has been an-
nounced in London by Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and
Co,, and the International Financial Society, and
in Paris by the Societe Generale de Credit Mobilier.
The amount required is £12,365,000, issued in e 6
per cent, stock at the price of 63, representing
£7,790,00 sterling, in bonds to bearer of £l,OOO,
£5OO, £2OO, £lOO, and £5O each, with others of
smaller amounts for the Continental market. Of
the total, £8,000,000 bonds are to be negotiated for
the Mexican, and the remaining £4,365,000 for the
French Government in payment of expenses in-
curred in the expedition. Interest is to com-
mence from the Ist April, and the subscription can
extend over to February next. Discount at the rate
of 6 per cent. will be allowed for payments in ad-
"vance, and the stock is to be negotiable in Paris
and the other French markets as weli as in London.
l'rom the proceeds of the loan a sum sufficient for
Vice years dividends is to be retained, and an amount
is also to be kept for the " next four half-yearly
payments of interest on the Three per Cent. Mexi-
can Bonds held under the decree of October, 1850,
and on the New Three per Cent. Bonds representing
the capitalised arrears of interest thereon, as agreed
to by the holders of the existing bonds at their
recent meeting in London." There is to be a sink-
ing fund equal to 1 per cent. per annum from Ist
April, 1869. The subscription lists are to be opened
in London, all the departments of France, Turin,
Madrid, and Amsterdam, and the 233 inst. is the
date at which they will be closed so far as regards
this market and Paris.
Proposals have been issued to-day for a Russian-
Anglo Dutch 5 per cent. loan for £6,000,000, or
florins 70,800,000 stock. It is introduced by
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., of London, and
Messrs. Hope and Co., of Amsterdam. On the LlOO
bonds the payments, amounting in the aggregate
to 85 per cent., will extend to Jan. 18, 1865, and
on the £B4 15s. bonds £72 is required in the same
Period. Discount at the rate of 5 per cent. will be
allowed for prepaymente.
The Continental Union Gas Company requires a
capital of £400,000, a large portion of which it is
stated to have been already subscribed. It is formed
to carry on the business of extensive works now in
full operation, with exclusive privileges, in Stras-
burg, Cette, Nismes, Vienne, Roanne, Beaucaire,
Albi, Milan, Genoa, Parma, Modena, and
Atessandria. The shares are of £25 each, and the
brokers are Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, of
Threadneedle-street.

Two O'CLOCK.

At Paris this morning, according to Renter's
telegrams, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 68f.,15c.,
681. 5C., 67f. 90z, Very great excitement, and still

continues.

The opening of the English Stock Market indi-
cated a firmer tone, and shortly afterwards an
Improvement of * per cent. took place, but the
advance was ultimately lost upon a few sales, and
Consols are again 91.1 I for money, and 911 a for
the account. The New Threes and Reduced An-
nuities are 89; ; Exchequer Bill., 10s. to ss. die.;
India, 1044 1051 ; Enfaced 5 per Cents., 103; ;
and Debentures, 994.
Business in the Foreign Market is active, and
prices have varied to some extent. Turkish 6 per
Cents., 1862, are 71* 4 ; do., Clnsolides, 521 53 ;
Mexican, 47/ b; do., New Loan, 1* 1 ; Spanish
Passive, 34* 4 ; do,, Certificates, 121 s ; Greek, 251;
and the Confederate Loan, 54 56.

In the Railway Share Market business has been
rather more animated, and prices have shown an
upward movement. North 'Western, Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, Metropolitan, and South
Eastern have improved 55., and Midland 155., while
Great Eastern and Great Northern have declined ss.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings exhibit
little change of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in fair
request, and in several instances exhibit a slight
advance. The new shares of the National Bank
are dealt in at 401 411.

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
a Per Cent. Consols
Ditto Account, May 5 9lt
ax,per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent. B9B
~, i 1
"ew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2/ & 3 per Cent lO 5 die
Ditto £SOO
Ditto £lOO and £2OO
Bank England Stk, 41 per Ct.
Ditto Account .
'NOUN GOVERNMENT SEOURITIES.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 ....•
Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Ditto Account
Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888
Do Certificates
Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1883 —
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872. lO3l
Dino 51 per Cent. May, 1879 —
Ditto Debentures, per Ct., April 1861
Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 991
Ditto Bonds Sl.OOO — die
Ditto under £l,OOO .............. .. • • die
BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent.....
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto 1863 57/
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ailian 6 per Cent.
Ditto 45 pei Cent B4
Colombian 6 per Geat —
:Bquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian 7 per Cent..
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account 25 4 42 54
Ditto Coupons —
Ditto Account ll4
Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
!Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto Account
Ditto 2 per Cent. —
Ditto Deferred —
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
rbruvian 45 per Cent ..
Ditto Account .-•• ........ .. ) —
Oitto 3 per Cent. (HlTribarren)
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862
, Ditto Account.....
L'artucruese 3 por Cent.,;1853
Ditto Account ....................
Ditto 3 per Cent . , 1856, '7, '9l '6O, 62;3
Ditto Account ..
Rustto Scrip (1863) 130 paid. ...... --ni Pul
s__ian 6 per Cent., 1822, L St .......• ul
Ditto 44per Ce t 1850
Ditto n., ...... 5,
3 per Cent 1869 ....... . i
s_bitto 6 per Cent, 1862 .............. 901
ttrdinian 6 per Cent ....
1
b bitto Account
"213anish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
"Ditto Passive
-p Ditto Account 35 4/
,x.iisti Cert. of Coup not funded
...w.uitto Account
'',;,_ edish, 4 per Cent.
`.l.Erkish 6 per Cent. 1851 —
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds.. 704 3
ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
_. Ditto 1863
v unto Guaratteed, 4 per Cent —
Ditto
3 per Cent.
4)Ptc, 6 per Cent., 1862 ..
Ditto Acc0unt..........
Ditto 11 per Cent
, Dividends on the above payable in Load •n.
Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins.
4_lglan 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail —
~!tto 4 per Cent. Certificates
'',ltto Account —
Itdan, 5 per Cent , 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
.Ditto Account . 6Bl 8
Piethnontese 5 per Cent.. Ex. 25f
uvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 45.
Consols Money TWO O'CLOCK
918
Ditto Account