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

XONEY 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 munths' 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 eubject of
an alteration in the offiiial 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. Rentes 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 a for
money, and 931 4 for the account. The New
Threes and Reduced Annuities are 911 1; the
New 21. ditto, 761,; India Stock is %26; the 5 per
Cent. Loan, 1091, -1-; and the 4 per Cent. ditto,
1008 101.

In the Foreign Market a further downward ten-
dency is apparent, and business is dull. Turkish
6 per Cents., 1854, are 921 ; do., 1862, 711 ; do.,
Consolides, 521 53 ; Mexican, 424; Greek, 3O ;
do., Coupons, 14 ; Spanish Passive, 35} ; do.,
Certificates, 134 ; Portuguese, 49Z d ; do., New
Loan 11 a prem ; and the Confederate Loan, 63 65.

The settlement of the account has been the chief
business attended to in the Railw.y 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
58.

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 393. 40 ; Union of Londoa to 381 4 ; India
Land Mortgage Bank are quoted 3 to 31 premium ;
East London, 21 to 3 prem.
In the Miscellaneous Market, London Financial
shares realise 15i; Peninsular and Oriental Steam,
84 k ; Discount Corporation are quoted 81 to 8,1
prem.; and Mercantile Credit, 1k 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 3i per Cent. Annuities
New 21 per Cent. Annuities....
6 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873
Aunuities, 30 yrs, expire sth 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 1U0;
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent lO7/
Ditto 5i per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100/
Ditto bonds Zl,OOO —
Ditto under £1,000..
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account, Oct, 8 931
I olio Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 24 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.)
C hilian 6 uer Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent. —
Colombian 6 Scrip, £l5 pd —
Cuba, 6 per Cont.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Dutch, 2/ 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 1 I 1
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons l4l
Ditto Account
Italian 5 per Cent.(l\laremmana Railway) 8,1/
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada —
Ditto 2 per Cent 3ll
Ditto Deferred —
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 3 per Cent.
--
Ditto 4/ per Cent 1862
Ditto Account . ...:,..
Portuguese 3 per Cent ***************
Ditto Account,
~.."T3. **********
Ditto 3 per Cent..:1856,'7, * '9, * '.6.0, *62 491
Ditto Account..,
Russian 5 per Cent., ***** i
.g
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850, ********
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St.,.,,*_*

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
Ditto Account 3sa
Spanis4 Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account
wedish, 4 pc. Cent
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1861 921
Ditto Account.. .........
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Accourt
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
'Ditto Aceo,Ant
Ditto 6 pr,r Cent. 1863, £59 10s Od pd — dis
Ditto G uaranteed, 4 per Cent
vPitto Account 2sk
'„liezr.tela 3 per Cent.
to Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 6 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins.
Zelgian. 4/ per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2f prz CentGuil
c_ Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
renehßentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 25f —
41-..114,1, 5 per Cent 1861, Ex. 25 francs .l
=Atte
Account ....
TWO
Ditto Account

Tii
1, t4INEE:r
The apparatus described by Mr. Dircks
•rneelitttit:iaall scale fitted only for a private room; both
heal by Prof and scientific ingenuity have been ap-
the d4coveireBs°r Pepper in adapting the principle of
iplate•plas, Y to a
panic public exhibition. A vertical
-the stage,
vtlie ion divides the spectators from
from the front i.. 11 -ia darkened, but a subdued light
aitt
thvisible. '
glass screen or
p'art7.oregulated as to pass through the
person on the stage to which enables the figure of the
simply the reflexio
contrtiavge the ghost, or apparition, is
compartrnext beneath th:B,34n-Is glass partition of a person in a
, placed tan angle below the
Vac of vis and so
-thrown up through an.
apartaerti that the reflected figure is
pose, to a level with the verso ein the floor left for the pur-
lime-light produced in a Con,,on the state. A strong
behind upon the person Whese'Luefid chamber is cast from
ments are intended to be reflected, as
was as move-
this brilliant illumination heightens The intensity of
reflex on, rendering the visionary guro
cothe effect of the
the lime-light is shut off the reflexion becornmPiste; but when
us be invisible to the spectators. The mind
imagines
so indistinct
that
hoth images are equally material so long
as the illusion is
undisturbed; the solid and visionary figures may be brou h
Side by side, one may even pass through or envelope gthet
other—and the dramatic effect admits of many
varia-
tions—but it is a popular error to suppose
that looking-glasses are employed, the plate-0„6
being the transparent medium through which the
objects are seen, as well as the reflecting or mirror surface
which produces the illusion. -..-.Y.C7:OnS'S " All the Year