The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-22 00:00:00

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MONEY MARKET

AN',
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The money market continues in an easy and quiet
condition. Very few bills are brought forward for
negotiation, exemplifying in a great measure the
little business that is in progress. There is plenty
of capital on offer, but the brokers are still unwill-
ing actively to compete with the authorities, and the
lowest rate out of doors is consequently only 3i per
cent.

The directors of the Dagenham (Thames) Dock
Company have issued their report for the half-year,
to be presented at the meeting of shareholders on
the 23rd inst. They state that -the shares already
taken up, together with the borrowing powers, are
sufficient to enable the works to be carried on with
-vigour. It is intended to advance the entrance of
the docks so as to obtain a greater depth of water,
which will enable the admission of vessels of greater
tonnage at low water than was originally intended.
A landing wharf is being constructed, and a con-
tract has been signed with the London and Tilbury
Railway for a station at Dagenham.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have this
day ordered the shares of the Delhi Bank Corpora-
tion to be marked in the daily list, and those of the
London and Southwark Insurance Corporation in
the twice a week list.

Two o'CLocx.

At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to
neuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were
68f. 17c. Quiet.

When the Stock Exchange Markets opened this
morning the department for English securities ex-
hibited activity, and a rise of about 1 per cent.
took place in the Funds. Since then, however, the
dealings have been very few, and a decline occurred
of per cent., viz., to 89f 894, at which price
Consols are now quoted for money and account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 89i ;
New 2i per Cents., 714 ; Exchequer Bills, ls. prem. ;
India 5 per Cents., 105 1; do. Enfaced 5 per Cent.,
1001 ; do. 51 per Cents., 1091 ; do. 4 per Cent.
Debentures, 99; ; and Bank of England Stock,
248 250.

The Foreign Stock Market has been buoyant,
and prices have generally been well maintained.
Turkish Consolides are 48i- 9 ; Mexican, 231 ; the
New Loan, 221 ; Greek, 201 8 ; Spanish Passive,
291 1; the Certificates, 148 8 ; Italian, 631 64 ; and
the Confederate Loan, 6 8.

American Securities are also well supported.
United States Government 5-20 Bonds are 684 69 ;
Erie Shares, 53 53i ; Illinois, 781 784 ; Atlantic
and Great Western Certificate of Debentures are
85:11 86.

In the Railway Share Market the dealings
have been moderately active, and prices in most
instances exhibit increased firmness. Metropolitan
have advanced 15s. ; Great Eastern, Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, and Midland each 10s. ; and
Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North
Western and South Eastern each ss.

The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive,
without material change in prices.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in some in-
stances a shade firmer. London Bank of Mexico
are dealt in at 101 ; London Joint-Stock, at 48 ;
London and County, at 741 4 ; Crystal Palace
Stock, at 391 ; and Overend, Gurney, and Co.,
at 9:1 101
_ 4 4'

The following are the current quotations of some
of the principal new undertakings : —The New Issue
of 50,000 Preference Shares of £5 each of the Atlan-
tic Telegraph, 2 24 per share ; Northern Assam
Tea Company's Shares, par prem. ; Chubwa
Tea, par prem. ; London Bridge Land, 1
prem. ; Albert-bridge, 1 14- prem.; Massa Carrara
Marble, 11 prem. ; Downs Docks, 11i prem ;
London Quays, dis. par ; British India Trust
and Agency- Corporation, 1 14 prem. ; Overend,
Gurney, and Company, 3 3i prem ; London Jute
Works, 1 prem. ; M'Queen Brothers, 14 2 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
8 Per Cent. Consols
Do. Account, Sept. 7
o per Cent. Reduced 89
4
New a pAr Cent . .
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 7ll
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 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 ti 31 per Cent —
Do. £5OO —
Do. £lOO and £2OO
Bank of England Stock, Si per Cent 250 48
Do Account ! —
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 10 per Cent., AprillB74 —
Do- Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do. Account
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent, Jan. 1872
Do. si. per Cent., May 1879 lO9l
Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 99/
Do. Bonds, £l,OOO —
Do. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Chilian 6 per Cent
Do. 4* per Cent
Colombian 6 per Cent. —
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 —
Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid —
Danubian Principalities
Do. Account
Do £B6 paid —
Eluador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
iio., Provisional Land Warrant —
Egyptian 7 per Cent
Do., Second Issue
Do. 1864 95
Do £lOO Bonds 94
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do Account 204
Do. Coupons
(luatemala 5 per Cent.
Do. 1839 and 1850 —
Italian 5 per Cent (3,laremmana Railway) 701
Do 1865
Do Scrip, £671 paid —
D 5 per Cent., 1864 —
,_ . Scrip, £55 paid
-31exican 3 per Cent
Do. Account
Do 1864 —
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French
Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c
Montevidean 6 per Cent, £3O paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Do 2 per Cent
Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 41 per Cent
Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 41 per Cent., 1862
Do. Account
Portvuese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
Do. Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do q per Cent., 1860
D~3 per Cent. 1859
, 5 r Cent. 1862 92 1
4'o 5 perpe Cent. 1864 9511
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
D 0 New Deferred
-lie Account
Do Passive —
, Do Account
..., how
, ISh Cert. of Coup not funded
8 wut,:di_.As.h74°llpnert Cent. —
°. li per Cent. 1864
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
-Poo Account 941
-,!-. 6 per Cent. 1858 aio Account 741
D 0 .£lOO Bor

Do_ ii

lids

1 per Cent —
Do 6 Per Cent. 1862
73 1
-uo Account
731
Do £lOO Bonds . Po 6 per Cent., 1863 —
Do
5 Per Cent. 1865
-up £lOO Bonds
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dis
Do
£lOO Bonds
£35 paid
99i
/7,70 Guaranteed, 4 per Cent
. liezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. Account
1:)° 6 Per Cent, 1864 —
11 4 Dividends on the above
itk''''llati, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
_—
payable in London. ,
~elgian 41 per cent, Ex. 25f.
"J'ltch 21 per Cent Ex. 12 Gail 6l
~
98f
Frenchuo. 4 per Cent. CertificaLes
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~, Rentes, 41 per Cent.
~ -uo Account
_
lalian per Cent., 1861, Ex. 251. bo. Account
De. Sept. Account
89
C°4BolB TA 7,1-
OiCLOCK.

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL&
Chester and Holyhead, 12:i
Hull and Selby, 1(71

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
A ntwerp and Rotterdam. 10
Belgian Eastern Junction, If
G rest Luxembourg, 15f
San Paulo, liw., gua. 6 per cent., 17i

FOREIGN MINE&
Frontino and Bolivia Gold, Bra., 3}
Waahoe Gold, lira.,
Ditto, (£3), 0

BANKS.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China,:2B}
Colonial, lino., 411 2
Commercial Bank of India and the East, 22
Consolidated Bana, 1im..10
English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 201 1
Imperia► Ottoman, 151
Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira.. 4}
London Bank of Mexico and S. America, Jim,, 10}
London Chartered Bank of Australia, 211
London and County, 741 1 1
London Joint Stock, 48
London and 1% estminster, 95
Union of Australia, 531
Union of London, 531
MISCELLANEOUS.
Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 21 }
Credit Fonder and Mobilicr of Englauu, 81
Crystal Palace, 391
Ebbw Vale, 131
Egyptian Corn and Trading, lim., 31
Gen. Credit and Finance of London, ilrn., 51
Internatjonal Financial society, lim.,
London Financial Association, lim., 2tl
London General Omnibus Company, 31
Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., 10
Penin-ula and Oriental Steam, 97.1,
Royal Mail Stearn, 1171
Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance),llni.,
Universal Marine. Insurance, lira., 51

THE APPETITE OF A Fisri.—The labrum is a fish
mentioned by Pliny, and rather vaguely described
as a kind of ravenous fish, seeing that every fish is by nature
utterly and entirely ravenous. Tho elegant trout who
flies in the wildest terror if you show the tip of your nose,
will eat nearly his own weight of bleak and dace on a hot
still June evening. A pike has been known to rush at a
fish well-nigh the size of himself, and even to dash at a
mule's nose ! I have known a fishing-frog lose its life in
an insane attempt to swallow a wooden scoop, the pro-
prietor of which objected to the proceeding. It is but a
short time since an account appeared in the Times of a fish
which had swallowed, among other matters, two biokon
bottles, a quart pot, a sheep's head, a triangular piece of
earthenware, and a lobster, while in its liver the spine of
a skate was comfortably embedded !—Dickens's "All the
Year Ronnd."