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MONEY MARKET

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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

4)rry, Two O'CLOCK.
There has been a marked improvement in the
tone of business to-day on 'Change, and although
prices have not as yet materially advanced yet ap-
pearances towards a desirable result are most
favourable. In the Foreign Market prices are
drooping, but the Railway Market has excited an
unusual activity by the official announcement being
made that the dividend to be declared on Berwick
stock will be at the rate of 71 per cent. per annum ;
upon York stock, 71 ; Leeds, 5 ; Carlisle, 94 ; and
Darlington, 10. In Telegraph shares the demand
is quiet, and prices remained firm; but for Banking
and Miscellaneous shares the transactions are more
than usually small. In the Discount Market the
supply of capital is large, but the rate s ill de-
manded for first-class paper is 3 per cent.
Consols are now at 921 to 928 for money ;
ditto, for Ac ount, ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 921 1; New Tkree per Cents, 921 1 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, par ; June,
prem ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and 1500, March,
par ; June, 4 prem. ; Bank of England Stock,
41 per Cent., 240.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 1; ditto Enfaced Paper,
5 per Cent.,
In the Foreign Market Egyptian bonds (1868)
are 7600 761 ; Viceroy's seven per Cents., 801
to 81 ; and the Nine per Cents., 971 to 98 ; Italian,
541. to 54; ; Mexican, 141 to 111 ; Russian
(1862), 85 toBsl ; Orel, 831 to 841 ; Nicolas, 661
to 67 ; Moscow, 811 to 82 ; Charkof, 83 to 831 ;
Spanish, 271 to 271 ; and Turkish Five per Cents.,
431 to 431.
The new Russian loan is 21 prem. ; and the
Chilian Loan, 1 prem.
In the Railway Market, York and North Mid-
land stock is 1261, the improvement is owing to the
announcement of the North Eastern dividends.
Caledonian are 761 to 77 ; Great Eastern, 37/
to 38 ; Great Northern, 1111 to 112 ; ditto (A),
111 to 112; Great Western, 611 to 621; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 128 to 1281 ; London and
Brighton, 411 to 441; London, Chatham, and Dover,
141 to 151 ; London and North Western 1231 to
1231 ; Loudon and South Western, 93 to 91 ;
Metropolitan, 78 to 781; Midland, 1221 to 1221 ;
and South Eastern, 76 to 761.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 86 to 871 ;
the Ten-Forty Bonds, 811 to 85 ; Erie Shares, 20
to 201 ; and Illinois, 103 to 104 ex div.
Lombardo-Venetian Railway Shares are 20k to
20!, and Great Luxemburg 131 to 131.
In Telegraph Shares Construction and Main-
tenance are 391 to 40 ; Anglo-American, 191 to
194; French Cable, 171 to 171 ; Falmouth, 31 to
38 prern. ; China Submarine, par to prem. ; and
British Indian SubmariLe at 141 to 141.
In Bunk Shares London and Westminster are
marked 58 to 59 ex div. ; London Joint Stock,' 311
to 321 ex div. ; Union of London, 36 to 37 ; Lon-
don and County, 49 to 50 ; Imperial Ottoman, 21
to 24 prem. ; Chartered Mercantile, 32 to 33 ; and
Anglo-Austrian, 14 to 16 prem.
Last night about ten o'clock a guard of a goods
train on the Great Northern Railway, named Fisher, was
killed at Baldock Station, while shunting the train.
The Death of the lion. Mrs. Charles Lane Fux,
the wife of the Hon. Charles Pierrepoint D'Arcy Lane
Pox, brother of Baron Conyers, is announced to-day.
There were no gold operations at the Bank
yesterday.
The letters of allotment in the New Russian loan
will, if possible, be sent out on Monday evening
next.

The Frankfort advices state that in that city
alone the applications for the new Russian loan
have amounted to above four millions sterling, and
that whatever is allotted will go into good hands.
'Many capitalists," it is said, " will sell American
"'lids, threatened by a reduction, and take instead
these new Russian ones, affording an equal interest
for a long series of years." American mortgage
bonds of the various completed or projected rail-
'Ways continue to be offered at Frankfort with very
Attie success. One of them, it is said, which adver-
tised for subscriptions received only an application
for a single bond, which, as £250 had to be paid
for the trouble, to the advertising firm did not cover
expenses.
The advices from Buenos Ayres by the Estrama-
aura are to the 31st of December. They mention
that a plot to assassinate General Urquiza, the
Governor of Eutre Rios, had been discovered by
the port captain of Paysandu, but that all the
conspirators had escaped, owing to carelessness on
the part of the police. The Republic continued
tranquil throughout all the provinces, and confi-
dence was increased from the daily progress of im-
migration. 'rhe arrivals lately had been chiefly of
labourers, who find employment at once either in
the City or the country districts. The principal
numbers are from Italy, and consist of persons to
whom the requisite means have been transmitted by
relatives already established in the country. "At
the rate we are going on at present," it is said, " it
seems as if half Italy will be transferred to the
Argentine Republic in a few years."
At the meeting of the London and County Bank,
M. W. Champion Jones in the chair, the report
allowed an available total of £93,895, including a
Previous balance of £6,225, and the usual dividend
of 6 per cent. for the half year was declared, toge-
ther with a bonus of 2} per cent_, making, with the
dividend in June, a total distribution of 17 per cent.
for the year 1869, and leaving £8,895 to be carried
forward. In the year 1868 the total distribution
Was 16f per cent. The deposits held are £13,305,679,
an increase of £842,890 on the corresponding
period of last year, and the acceptances, covered by
securities, are £2,068,856, a decrease of £1,174,074.
The paid-up capital is £1,000,000, and the reserve
fund £500,000.
Letters from the Plate state, that so far from the
Indians of the mountainous frontiers of Mato
Grosso affording any succour or assistance to
Lopez, they were animated by a hostile disposition
towards him.
The Stock Exchange Committee have appointo
Monday next a special settling day in the shares
of the British .Australian Telegraph Company
(Limited) and the City of Buenos Ayres Tram-
ways Company (Limited), both of which are to be
officially quoted. The committee have also ordered
the bonds of the Bucharest and Giurgevo State
Railway to be officially marked.
The half-yearly dividend on Great Eastern Rail-
way stock is officially announced at the rate of 1
per cent. per annum, against nil for the correspond-
ing period of 1868. The amount left to be carried
forward is £25,000.
We are informed that Mr. Burt will leave for
America on Tuesday, as representative of the
Erie Railway Shareholders' Protection Committee,
and of more than 400,000 shares in that under-
taking, this being a practical majority of the share
capital.
At the meeting of the Universal Marine luau-
surance Company (Limited) the directors' report
was adopted, and a dividend declared at the
rate of 10 per cent. per annum, free of income-
tar.

At a meeting of the London and Provincial
Marine Insurance Company the directors' recom-
mendation to pay a dividend at the rate of 10 per
Cent, per annum was agreed to.
The Anglo-Mediterranean Telegraph Company
(Limited) announce an interim dividend of 4s. per
Share.
The half-yearly meeting of the Great Northern
Railway Company will be held on the 19th instant,
when the directors will ask for authority to exer-
ev
me the borrowing powers of the company.
The half-yearly meeting of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Company is convened for the
J.Gth inst.
'''!he London and Blackwall railway Company re-
eeftends a dividend at the usual rate of 4i per
"' Per annum.
The Iro
eared nmasters' Company (Limited) have de-
a dividend of 9s. per share.
Ihe
Cornwall Hematite Company (Limited) have

declared a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per

annum.
An official memorandum informs us that " The
shares of the Jersey and Guernsey Telegraph Com-
pany being fully subscribed in Loudon and the
country, the allotment will be made after the share-
list is closed for the Channel Islands."
A petition for the winding-up of the Anchor
Assurance Company (Limited) is to be heard before
Vice-Chancellor James on the 12th inst.
At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. C. C. Amott,
of St. Paul's-churchyard, the liabilities were shown
to be £29,960 12s. 7d., against assets, £10,269
12s. 2d.

BRITICH FUNDS—TWO O'W.A.)OIC.
GOVERNMENT t'usys.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account —
i per Cent. Reduced 921 i
New 3 per Cent -
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Du. 5 per Cen Jau . 187 3
innuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 lll
Do (Red Sea Telubraph), Aug., 1908 —
,:xonegir..r Bills, £l,OOO, 21 p. Ct. Ilarch par
Da. 2i do. June
Do £lOO, £2uo & £5OO —
Bank of England Stock, 4i per Cent -

DQ. opening --
'anada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
uter-Colonial Ornnium
INDIAN U3VERNMENit SECURITIEb
nob. Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 —
De. Opening, for Account —
Do. o psr Gent. July, 1880
Do 1 per Cent. Oct. 1888
Do. Enlaced Pape, 4 per °Ant.. ~. —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 .... —
Do. 54 lr Cent. May 1879
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5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1874. —
Do do 18/7,
Do. do. 1882 —
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. P 73
Do. Bonde, 4 per Cent., £I,OOU
Do. under £l.OOO _
FORBION VINDS—TITO O'Gq.OOK.
argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ... .. —
Do AccountBsl i
Austrian Bonds 5 per cent

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Do. 1809 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do 1858....• —
Do. uu 1860 —
Do. do., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do, Account
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cont.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont )
Ouba, 6 per Cent.
Cuilian 6 per Cent —
Po. 41 per Cent —
Do. 3 per Cent.,
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
1)o. 6 per cent. 1867
:3 lo nbian, 6 per. Cent.
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825 , —
Danubian Principalities, 7 por Cent 9Ol
Do Account
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 —
,:cuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
Egyptian, 7 per Cent... B6
oc Second Issue
Do. £5Ol, Bonds —
Do. 1864

Do. Account
Do. 1500 Bonds
D0...4106 Bonds ......... ~~.
Do. 7 per Cont., 1868 .....
i)0. Account
Do. £lOO Bonds

,ieyerument Railway Debeutures —
Greek 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups 9

Do. Coupone
Gu•ttemala o por Uent
lionduras Gov Rail. Loan., 10 p.,Ct., all pd
Do. Ace. nut
);litu 5 per Cer. t., 1865

Jo. Account ~.
Do Maremmana Railway —
exicaL. 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
Dn. 1864- -

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Do g per Cent. Auglo-Freuell
dontevideau (.1 per Cent. .. —
41c crish Imperia: 5 per Cent
!Sew Granada 2oi
Do 3 per Cen 39
Do. Deferred
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