The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-07 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK'.

The inquiries for money to-day in the Discount
Market are not particularly active, yet the rates
are well sustained, capitalists showing little dispo-
sition to relax their their terms even for the best
quality of mercantile bills. There seems, however,
to be an opinion that some increase of ease will be
experienced, especially as a check has been given
to the wholesale introduction of ephemeral under-
takings. Those now submitted to the public are,
for the most part, genuine, yet the prospects are
somewhat marred by the heavy calls which week
after week are officially notified. The activity
of trade will no doubt sustain au average demand
for discount accommodation, and this impression
prevailing the market for the moment exhibits a
steady appearance.
was a further influx of £19,000 of Gold
into the Bank of England yesterday.
The movements of the precious metals during the
past week have been on a rather moderate scale.
The imports have amounted to about £242,984,
chiefly from Australia and New York ; while the
exports have been ;to the extent of £237,659, a
large proportion of which has been to the East
Indies and China.

2
Two O'CLOCK.
According to Reuter's telegram, this morning,
the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 67c. Quiet. 2
When the English Stock Market closed yesterday 2,
afternoon Consols wore per cent. lower, but half
of that depreciation has been regained, and the latest
prices are 861 for money, and 861 / for the account.
The New Threes are 841 , and Reduced Annuities,
841 ; ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), 191 ; Bank of
England Stock, 245 ; India 5 per Cents., 102/ ;
and ditto Enfaced 5 per Cents., 1011.
tln the Foreign Stock Market a fair amount of
business has been transacted. Turkish 5 per Cents.
have declined / to 361 1 ; Spanish Certificates ad-
vanced to 161 1 ; ditto Passive, it to 271 4 ; the
Italian Loan, 1861, 4 to 564 57 ; and ditto, 1865,
11 to 72 1. The Egyptian Railway Debenture 1
Loan is quoted 2 1 dis.

In the Railway Share Market there has been very
little animation, and prices have not varied to any
iinportaut extent. Great Eastern have declined
10s. ; and London, Chatham, and Dover, ss. ;
while North Eastern (Berwick) have improved ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines generally remain
at about former values.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are quiet, and
in some instances showing rather less firmness. Im-
perial Ottoman are dealt in at 12 12f ; Chartered
of India, Australia, and China, at 23 ; London and
South African, at 141 15 ; Oriental Bank Corpora-
tion at 481 ; Credit Financier and Mobillier of
England at ; National Discount Co. at 13; ;
and Overend, Gurney, and Co., at 16f

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GAIVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 Der Cent. Consols
Do. Account, May 9 B6l
3 per Cent. Reduced B4l
New 3 per Cent B4i 1
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 l9l
Exchequer Bills , £l,OOO 3 Cent. —
March. Juno.
, per
Do. £5OO —
Do £lOO and £2OO
Bank o 2 England Stock, 5 per Cent
Do Account —
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 —
Do. Account
-1021
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. Deb., 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866
Do. Bonds, £l,OOO
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd — pin
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do.
Do. 1863
Do Account 721 1 De. Scrip, £45 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do £1(1) Bonds
ChiliDo 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
an 6. per Cent
Do Scrip, £25 paid ........................ li Pm
Do. 41 per Cent .............................. '—
Dan Colombian 6 per Cent. .....
a, 6 per Cent. ........................ ..............
ish 3 per Cent.l 1825 ...............................
Danubian Principalities .............. ... .....
Do. Account ................................. 67 81 8
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent...
EDo., Provisional Land Warrant.........
gyptian 7 per Cent ............................ 901 891
Do. Second Issue ...........................
Do ~£lOO Bonds .............................
Do. 1864 ..................... 881 1
Do £lOO Bonds .............................. 90 1 891
Do. Government Railway Debentures.
Do. £25 paid .................................
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do
Account ....................................
Do, Coupons .................................
Italian
ttuatemala 5 per Cent. ........................
5 per Cent 1865
Do. Account
Do. Maremmana Railway .............. ,
Mexican 3 per Cent
Do. Account
Do 1864
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Do 2 per Cent
Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Do. 6 per Cent, 1864
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent
Peruvian 5 per Cent., 1865
D 043 per Cent. (Uribarren) —
1 per Cent., 1862
Do. Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do 3 per Cent., 18561'71 '9, '6O, '62, '3,
Do. Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822 £ St BBl
,
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do .I
41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent. 1859
Do
Do 5 per Cent. 1862 B9l 90
5 per Cent. 1864 92 2
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Do. Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do New Deferred
--
Do Account
Do Passive _
Do Account 271
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Do Account l6l
Swedish 4 per Cent. —
Do. 41 per Cent. 1864 -• Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —Do Account 92 11
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account 651
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account 671
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1863 —
Do 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip —
Do Account
per Cent. Venezuela
3 per Cent Guaranteed —
Ven. —
Ditto account —
Do 8 per Cent., 1862 —
Do Account
Do. 1864 34
Do. 11 per Cent —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
P.elgian 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 6Ol
Do 1 per Cent. Certificates 944
French Routes 3 per Cent.
Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f.
Do Account ............
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for money .............................. 861 1
Do.4‘e,alui ..................................... 88i i

The two fellows, Essen and Allen, who have
victimised numerous country tradesmen by what is called
the half-cheque swindle, were tried and found guilty at
the Middlesex Sessions yesterday. They were each
sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour.
TUE PROGRESS OF RUSSlA.—Advices from St.
Petersburg state that a Russian artist is preparing for the
Paris Exhibition of next year an allegorical representation
of the events in the reign of the present Czar. A group of
!`cultural implements denotes the progress of the country
In that branch of industry. A broken chain typifies the
abolition of, serfdom. Figures of Hope, Faith, and Charity
commemorate the publicity of judicial proceedings, reli-
gious toleration, and the abolition of corporal punishment,
There seems in this design to be no reference to Poland or
Cireassia.

EXHIBITION OF NATIONAL PORTRAITS.—The Ex-
hibition of National Portraits at South Kensington will be
°Dened to the public on Monday, the 16th inst.