The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1870.

THE MONEY MARKET

Do 1850
Do 1860
Do 1859 ...................

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Do 1862
IDo Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO 934 21
Do do £8415s —
Do do 1866, £100
Do do £8415s —
Do Nicolas Railway
Do 1870 Scrip, all paid B3} k
Do do £45 paid —
San Domingo
Sardinian
Spanish
Do' 1867
Do Deferred

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The settlement to day occupies much attection, and con-
sequently business is not brisk, but the feeling seems to 133
in favour of purchasing for a rise. In the Foreign Market
prices have given way in some instances, but not to say to
any vory great extent. Argentine and Spanish were lower,
but Mexicans and Lombards the tur t better. American
Secuaities are fi m, at former quotations. In Telegra h
Shares there is a trifling advance in Constructions, and i
Miscellaneous :hares a reduction of 2s 6d has taken place
in Hudson's Bay Shares, which are now 121 to 18.
Consols are now at 94 to 944 ; ditto for account, ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 9211; New 3 per Cent., 921 4;
ditto 24 per Cent,. 1894, 754.
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO 24 per sent., 2 prem. ; ditto
£lOO, .£2OO, and £5OO, 5 prem.
India Stock, 104 per cent., April, 1874, 209; ditto 5 per
cent., July, 1880, 114 131; ditto 4 per cent., Oct., 18t8, 1014
1001; ditto Enlaced Paper 4 per cent., 921; ditto 54 per
cent., 1879, 110 ; Bank of England Stock, 44 per cent., 233 4.
account of the disturbances in Paris last Light Foreign
Bonds are 4to 4 lower. Italian are 564 to 574; Spanish
Bonds (1E67), 304t0 301; the 1869 Loan is 29 7-16 to 29 9-
16 ; Turkish Six per Cents , 1869, 621 to 621; ditto Fives,
494 to 491 ; Egyptian, 1864, 89 to 90 ; ditto, 1868, 804 to
Of ; Viceroy's Seven per Cents., 831 to 84 ; Peruvian, 86
to b 64 ; Orel, 85 to 851; Nicolas, 674 to 684; Moscow, 86/
to 874; and Charkof, 854 to 851.
The Railways are generally firm, and Caledonians ar•
marked 744 to 744; South Eastern, 774 to 774, also an im-
provement ; Great Western, and London, Chatham; and
Dover are each 1 lower, at 724 to 724, and 151 to 16 respec-
tively ; Great Eastern, 424 to 421 ; Great Northern (A),
1324 to 133 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 13(4 to 1301;
London and Brighton, 46 to 464 ; London and North
Western, 1281 to 1284; Metropolitan, 784 to 781 ; and Mid-
land, 1261 to 1264.

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Do 1869 v 291
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do 1868
Turkish, 1854
Do 18L8
Do £lOO
Do 1862
Da Account.
Do £100
Do Account 73±
Do 1863
Do 1865, 5p et 49-1
Do 1865, 6 pct 7:31 2i
Do Guaranteed
Do 1869
1)o £100
Venezuela
Do
Do 1862
Do 1861
Dividends on the above-mentioned Stocks payable in

London.

Austrian, Ex 10 Florins ..
Belgian, Ex 25 Francs

DO ' do
Dutch Certificates, Ex 12 Guilders

Do do do
French Rentes, Ex 25 Francs
Do do do
Italian, 1861, Ex 25 Francs
Piedmontese, Ex 25 Francs
Do do ...
ACCOUNT DAYS IN MAY 13TH AND 27rx
United States 5-20 years 1882 881 1 I 1
Do (Ma) 1, Nov 1) .. lBB4
Do do lBBs'BB 71
Do 1874
Do, 371, 346, 350 iss up to 27th Feb.,
1869 1887 90 I
Do, 10 40 (Mar 1, Sept 1) 1904 851 1
Massachusetts (May 1, Nov 1) 1894
Do l9OO 93
Do Scrip, £35 paid
Virginia State
Do
Atlau and G West, N Y sec, 1 M0rt...1880
Do do 2 do ...1881
Do Pennsylvania 1 do _1877
Do do 2 do ...1882
Do Consolidated Mortgage .. .....
Detroit and Milwaukee Ist Mort Bonds
Do do 2d do
Erie Shares, $lOO, all paid —
Do Ticket of Protection Cora attached lBl
Do 7 per Cent Preference do • .
Do 6 per Cent. Convertible Bonds • 67
Do 3d Mortgage lBB3
Illinois Central, $lOO shares, all paid
Do. 1875
Do 1875
Marietta and Cincinnati Bonds —
New York Central, $lOO Shares
Do (sinking fund) lBB3
Do do 1876
Panama 2d Mortgage 1872
Do General Mortgage.. 1897 —•
Pennsylvania $5O Shama- —
Do 1 Mortgage
Do 2 do
Do General Mortgage l9lO
Philadelphia and Erie, 1 Mort, guar by
Penn Rail Co 1881

In Telegraph Shares Falmouth shows an improvement,
and•is now 81 to 8}; China Submarine is quitted 18 to 18};
and British Indian at 81 to 81. French Cable is lower, at
15/ to 151; but Construction and Maintenance is 1 better,
341 to 341.

American Five-Twenty Bonds are 881 to 88k; the Ten-
Forty Bonds, 85} to 851; Erie Shares, 18 to 18k; and Illinois,
111} to 112.

The Scrip of the New Egyptian Loan is steady at I to I

The Scrip of the Japan Customs Loan is quoted at 4 to 3
dis.

The notice issued by the authorities of the Berlin Bourse,
warning the German public against the flooding of the mar-
kets with uns, and railway bonds, seems t have created
such a sensation in New York a, to have compelled the
North German Consul-General in that City to announce that
the measure was not suggested by any communications from
his consulate. Looking at the fact that schemes were on
foot for obtaining at least 30 or 40 millions sterling
from German investors during the next few months, and
considering the outlay already incurred by "rings" of specu-
lators in bringing these schemes to a state in which they
could be foisted on the European public, there can be nu
difficulty in appreciating the orCteal of unpopularity to be
encountered by any person to whom it might be possible to
trace the breaking up of the illusion at the actual moment
when success was considered certain.

All the principal difficulties of the survey of the Isthmus
of Darien seem now to have been overcome by the United
States expedition, and from the details thus far published
their repert is likely to disprove the allegations made from
time to time of the existence of a nearly level pass, although
it may yet confirm the hope of a practical route for the
canal project. Exploring partios are out for the purpose of
determining the courses of the streams, their descents, the
position of their mouths on the Gulf of San Miguel, and the
topography of the intervening country. Advices from
official sources in Begot° deny the recently published ru-
mour that the Darien Canal Treaty had been rejected by
the Congress of the United States of Colombia.
At the annual meeting of. the Otago and Southland Invest-
ment Company a dividend for the half-year of 2s. per share
was declared.

DESPERATE ATTACK UPON MR. BENSON'S
WATCH AND JEWELLERY ESTABLISH-
MENT, LUDGATE-HILL.

One of the most daring attempts of robbery pro-
bably ever heard of in the crowded streets of the
City of London, and at a time when passengers were
passing in hundreds, was made this (Thursday) fore-
noon at the celebrated watch and clock, &c., esta-
blishment of Mr. J. W. Benson, Ludgate-hill. A
young man of most ferocious appearance, having
been gazing for a few minutes at the jew-
ellery in the window, with a tremendous
blow broke one of the massive plate.-g 1 ss
windows, 9 feet high and 7 broad. lie then
seized from the window two massive gold watches
and an expensive gold chain. Mr. Hughes, the super-
intendent of the premies, and one of the young men
rushed out and pinned him, and a police-constable
coming up the fellow was secured and the property
taken from him. Ile was forthwith taken to the
police-station. In the same window was property
valued at several thousand pounds, but fortunately
it escaped any injury.

At the meeting of the Moyer Coffee Company (Limited) a
dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. was adopted.
The London and County Bank have opened a branch at
Manningtree, i❑ Essex, taking over the business of Messrs.
Nunn and Co The bank of Nunn and Co. had a right of
issue to the amount of £7,692, which will lapse by the ex-
tinction of that firm.

At Lloyd's there was a very numerous attendance,
and •a proposition brought forward last week, for making
losses payable in seven days after settlement instead of a
month as heretofore, was confirmed by a large majority. A
ballot was then demanded, which will be held on Wednes-
day next, but there seems to be little doubt that the resolu-
tion will be male '.

The Hudson's Bay Company have notified that they have
received from the Canadian Government the sum of £300,000
due upon the,surrender of Rupert's Land.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols 94
Ditto for Account

3 per Cent. Reduced 92
New 3 per Cent
Do 3 per Cent., Jan, 1894 —
Do 24 per Cent. Jan, 1894 75/
Do 5 per Cent., :Tan, 1873
Annuities, Jan, 880 —
Do, April, 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph) Aug, 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2i per Cent ..
Do., £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO 5
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 10i per cent., April, 1874 209
Do 5 per cent, July 1880 ll4 13/
Do 4 per cent, Oct, 1888
Do Enfaced Paper 4 per cent 924
Do „ 5 per cent, Jan, 1872 —
Do , 54 per cent, May, 1879 llO
Do 5 per Cent, Rup Deb 1872
Do do 1877
Do do 1882 -
Do Deb. 5 per Cent, Aug, 1873
Do Bonds, 4 per Cent, £l,OOO
Do under £l,OOO .

MISCELLANEOUS.
Bank of England Stock, 4f per et
Canadian 4 per Ceut Bonds, 1903,,, —
Corp of London 4f p Cent Bonds, 1817 „ —
Do 4f
1879
41 1! 2
D 027 188
Do 1881
Metrop Board of Works, 34 pet Stock
Do ( to be paid) Scrip
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine, 1868 . 98 f
Austrian
Do 1859
Brazilian, 1852
Do 1858
Do 1859
Do 1860
Do 1863
Do 1865
Buenos Ayres
Do £lOO
Do (Deferred 3 per Cent)
Chilian, 1842
Do 1858 ..... 771 8
Do 1866
Do. 1867
Do. 1870
Do. scrip, £6O paid
Colombian
Danish, 1825
Do 1855 and 1861
Do 1863
Do £lOO paid
Do 1864
Do Government Debenture, 1869-72 —
Do do 18P-77.-," .
Danubian, 1864 -
.....
Do 1867' •
Dutch Ex 12 Guilders •
Ecuador New Consolidated .
Egyptian, 1862
Do Second Issue
...
Do X5OO ,,
Do 4100 • . r .
Do 1864 ,„
Do 4500
• • ---
Do 4100
Do 1868
Do £100
Do Gov. Rail Debentures
Greek, 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do Coupons
Guatemala
Do 1869
Honduras Government Railway Loan Bli
Do £IOO
Italian, 1865
Do 1867, 2d issue
Do Maremmana Railway 56
Mexican
Do 1864
• —
Do Anglo-French
Montevidean, European
Moorish, imperial
New Granada .
Do
Do Deferred • • • • —
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian
Do. Uribarren
Do. 1862
Portuguese, 1853, 6,7, 9, 60, 2, 3
Do 18,7
Do 1869 " ' 34`
31
Do do Strip
Russian, 1822, 4 Sterling

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