The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-28 00:00:00

IPM

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Affairs in the discount market continue without
change. Money is abundant, and the demand for
it very small. Three months' bills are again nego-
tiable at 31 per cent. As these terms permit the
brokers to obtain a small profit upon their opera-
tions, and enable the mercantile community to ex-
change their paper at easy rates, the subject of
an alteration in the offi3ial minimum no longer
perplexes the commercial mind or engrosses its
attention.
A further withdrawal of £14,000 was effected at
the Bank of England yesterday.
In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
there was no material alteration.
The preliminary arrangements of the Royal Bank
of India (lately started in Bombay) for commencing
business in London are completed. The London and
County Bank are the company's London bankers.
Mr. Maculloch, formerly manager of the Agra and
United Service Bank at Bombay, has been appointed
the London agent, with offices in the East India
Chambers, Leadeuhall.street.

Two O'CLOCK.
At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Rmter's
telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentea were
67f. 05c. Dull.

The English Stock Market is less buoyant than
it was at the close of business yesterday. Consols,
which had been fractionally higher, have returned
to their original quotations, which are 93 -} for
money, and 93et I for the account. Tne New
Threes and• Reduced Annuities are 94,- ; the
New ditto, 764; India Stock is 226; the 5 per
Cent. Loan, 1091 ; and the 4 per Cent. ditto,
1001 101.

In the Foreign Market a further downward ten-
dency is apparent, and business is dull. Turkish
6 per Cents., 1854, are 92i ; do., 1862, 71i y ; do.,
Consolides, 521 53 ; Mexican, 42,},; Greek, 30i 2- ;
do., Coupons, 1414 ; Spanish Passive, 35i ; do.,
Certificates, 131 ; Portuguese, 49Z- ; do., New
Loan 11, d prem ; and the Confederate Loan, 63 65.

The settlement of the account has been the chief
business attended to in the Railway Share Market
to-day, and prices have in several instances exhi-
bited more firmness. West Midland,NorthWestern,
South Western, North Eastern, York, South and
North Stafford have improved 55., and South
Western, 10s.; Caledonian, however, have receded
ss.

In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
has been little change of importance as regards
prices.

Bank Shares continue in moderate request. Char-
tered of India, Australian, and China have im-
proved to 391 40; Union of London to 381 ; India
Land Mortgage Bank are quoted 3 to 3i premium ;
East London, 21 to 3 prem.

In the Miscellaneous Market, London Financial
shares realise 151; Peninsular and Oriental Steam,
84 i; Discount Corporation are quoted 83. to 8;
prem.; and Mercantile Credit, 11 to 2 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 2 per Cent. Annuities
New 31 per Cent. Annuities
New 21 per Cent. Annuities..
5 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 ..
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880..
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908.
India Stock, 1874 226
Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870
Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 lOl 100 2
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent lO7l
Ditto 5} per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO —
Ditto under £1,000..
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account, Oct, 8..
I mita Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Cent 1 die
,Ditto £500
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent . • • —
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
,hilian 6 ner Cent. —
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Colombian 6 Scrip, £l5 pd —
Cuba, 6 per Cont.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Dutch, 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant —
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian 7 per Cent —
Ditto, Second Issue
Guatemala 5 per Cent. -
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 3O 2 8 1
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons l4B
Ditto Account
Italian 5 per Cent. (Slaremmana Railway) 801
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent
Ditto Deferred —
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account —
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1862
Ditte Account '
Portuguese 3 per Cent 1853
Ditto Account "
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62..
4if
Ditto Account...
Russian 5 per Cent., ........ 1 .
.........
Ditto 4/ per Cent 1850. .......
Ditto
............. .
1860
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 —
93
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account —
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account —
Ditto Passive
.)itto Account .. 351
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Ditto Account —
Swedish, 4 per Cent.
Turitish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account..
Ditto 6 per Cent. 185 S
Ditto Account . ..
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, .£59 103 Od pd — dis
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent
Ditto Account...
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account ..
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins.
Belgian 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 per Cent., .Ex. 12 Gnil —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account —
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

THE MYSTERY OF PEPPER'S GHOST Ex.-
IsLAINED!—The a
was e a Pparatus described by Mr. Dircks.
b:1 Cal scale fitted only for a private room; both
lied b:' Jr skill and scientific ingenuity have been ap-
the dieerovoefressor Pepper in adapting the principle of
the
plate.piejas 37 to a public exhibition. A vertical
the stage,
vilir.tition divides the spectators from
from the fro 0
is
is darkened, but a subdued light
or parit7tti)
glass screen regulated as to pass through the
person on the stage ga, which enables the figure of the
~
at.
thee visible. The ghost, or appal ition, ill
simply the renexio
„wpm tme.qt beneath the earns glass partition of a person ina
40
con.stsge, placed at an angle below the
line of vision, and
on
apterived that the reflected figure is
tore in the floor left for the pur-
throwr. up through
pose, to a level with the a person on the stage. A strong
lime-light produced in
whose
chamber is cast from
heightens
ht7d.
reflegure as was as move-
behind upon the person
ments are intended to be
the effect of the
The intensity of
this brilliant illumination
rellexion, rendering. the visionarygfi ells
the lime-light is shut off the ralexiguourZec°lllPlete; but when
itnaheagines that
as be invisible to the spectators.
biellusion is
The
mind imagines
so indistinct
or
envelope the
both images are equally material so longasma
undisturbed; the solid and visionary figures
may even pass through
side by side, one
other—and the dramatic effect admits of manyi'e
varia-
tions—but
suppose
that looking-glasses are employed, the plate-glass
being the transparent medium through which the
objects are seen, as well as the reflecting or mirror surface
Which produces the illusion. —Dickens' s "All the Year
Rome."