The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-05 00:00:00

btONEy MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
, Besine-.3 to-day Was as usual on Saturdays very
litnited in extent. Consols are firm at their quo-
tations; and in Foreign securities there was rather
more then the usual demand for Spinish at better
Prices. Railway shares were in very little demand,
and for Banking, Telegraph, and Miscellaneous
Shares there was little doing.
Conso's are now at 922 to 92} for money;
ditto, for Account, ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 911 11xd ; New Tkree per Cents, 911 k ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, prem. ; June,
"Prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March, --;
June, 3
prent ; Bank of England Stock, 41 per
tent., 2 0 2.
Iciia Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5
per Cent., July, 1880, 114 12 ; ditto 4 per
Cent-, Oct., 1888, 991 xd ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
A
Per Cent, ; ditto 5 per Cent., May, 1872,
QIC/ai-; Metropolitan Board of Works, 3} per Cent.
93'
• 7 2 •
In the Foreign Market Brazilian Fives, 1865,
are 87i to 872 ; Egyptian Seven per Cents.,
5568) 791 to 791 ; Italian Five per Cents., 1865,
1-16 to 55 3-16 ; Mexican Three per
lggsl4k to 15 ; Peruvian, Five p( r Cents.,
i'°6s7 80} to 81 ; Spanish New Three. per Cents.,
1867, 27 3-16 to 27 5-16 ; Turkish Five per Cents.,
1865, 451 to 452 ; ditto Six per Cents., 1865, 69k
to
69k3 ; Grenada New, 23} to 24; ditto Deferred,
11 to 114 ; Vitepsk, 86k to 87k ; Nicolai, 68k to
G 9 Moscow Jaroslaw, 832 to 841 ; Charkof Azof,
822 to 831 ; Lombardo-Venetian, 19 13-16 to 19
15-16 ; and Honduras Loan, 83 to 83f.
In the Railway Market Caledonians are now
Quoted 771- to 771 ; Great Eastern, 37k to 374
Great Northern, 1131 to 1132 ; ditto (A), Stock,
1151 to 1152 ; Great Western, 652 to 66 ; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 125 to 125 k ex div. ; London
and Brighton, 43i to 431 ; London, Chatham,
acd Dover, 141 to 15 ; London and North
Western 1221 to 123 f ex div. ; London and South
Western, 89k to 90 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, 50 to 501; Metropolitan, 791 to 791 ex
div. ; Midland, 124 k to 1241 ; and South Eastern,
and Dover, 75 to 751.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 901 to 908 ;
ditto (1865), steady, at 891 to 891; ditto (1867),
88i to 881: Ten-Forty's, 86 to 86f ; Eries, .121 to
214 ; and Illinois, 110 to 111.
Lombardo-Venetian is 121 to 121 ; and Great
Luxembourg, 131 to 14.
In Telegraph Shares India Rubber are 57k to 581
ox div.; Construction and Maintenance, 411 to 111
Anglo-American, 168 to 161 ; French Cable, 151
t° 16 ex div. ; British Indian Submarine, 121 to
121 ; China Subniarin, 11 to 1 dis. ; and Falmouth,
1 to 4 prem.
At the Bank about £19,000 iu bar gold *as sent
la yesterday.
The steamer Pera to-day took out £110,935 in
specie for the East. Subjoined are the particulars :
embay, gold, £5OO ; Madras, gold, £1,365 ;
°cg Rung, silver, £850; and Shanghai, silver,
£108,220.
Ihe question which has actively recurred at in=
iervals during the past 20 years as to whether there
BLreally any practicable pass for a ship canal across
the Isthmuslsthmus of Darien may now, perhaps, be defi-
nitively
1.111. f solved in the course of a few weeks. The
Led States Government expedition, which ar-
rived at Aspinwall about a fortnight back, would
Seance commence the exploration, and the ex-
so has been held out by Professor David-
:, of the Coast Survey, that it might be effected
thirty days, carrying across a line of levels,
t:"fanc'a, and courses. The vessels employed
convey the surveying party from New York
Aspinwall were the gunboat Nipsic and
she storeship Guard, and among the boiy wei e
.geolog,ist, a botanist, and a telegraph operator,
:t'tith eighty miles of wire, and all necessary in-
'cients. Full sets of army and navy signals
for
been furnished, and also a supply of presents
placed
the ludians. Great reliance, it i 3 stat !d, is
't aced on the advantage to be derived Emu tele-
'olrr.aPi'Y in preventing the possibility of any such
spay
as befell the ill-organized and misma-
(4,4ecl expedition of Lieutenant Strain about 15
-114.3 ago. "They starved," it is remarked, " within
entirely 'esv miles of assistance, because they cut loose
horn the colst, and had no means of corn-
'uciea.tion or any way to make their situation
LZn." In case the present survey should esta-
Ch-" the fact of a favourable route, the point will
en
have to be decided as to the grant of a eon-
ri It is stated that about 7,000,0001 b. of the spu-
ta°,llB and filthy tea described in the recent sani-
W 7 report of lir. Letheby is believed to be on its
'y from China.'
The
, annual report of the Surrey Commercial
ree"*C°c3Pany, to be presented on the 10th inst.,
°l:amends a dividend of 3 per cent.
p 44 t a meeting of the Crown Preserved Coal Com-
bs' (Limited), a dividend was declared of 4s. per
are for the half-year.
1„: meeting has been called of the creditors of Mr.
er Jackson
ol , manufacturer, of Ancoats, Man-
i2eai(7. The liabilities are said to be about
' °°, of which the principal portion falls in
orkshire.
ofThe appeal by Mr. Salisbury against the decision
vice-chancellor James, who had refused to
grantl4 an injunction to restrain the directors of the
0.
as 'ropolitan Railway Company from distributing
to
dividend a particular sum,
,stated to be "profit
tsurplus lands," has been heard before Lord Jus-
2:n Gifford. His Lordship dismissed the appeal,
with costs.
fro4eeiording [to a telegram received yesterday
n't 1 avre the estimated stock of cotton in that
P,
P0rt0,..11 the 3d inst. was 65,330 bales, of-which
'uu were American and 10,500 East Indian.
an was computed that 41,600 bales of American
1,819 of East Indian were afloat from the
Dort.
10 Messrs. Alexander Collie and Co. send the fol-
-127 lug from Manchester :—" The market is quiet,
a7t at a shade below the rates quoted by pro-
ucers ; several large offers have been made."

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSJNG PRICES.
QOVERNMENT .N'UNDS.
a Per Cent: Consols
Ditto for Account..... 921
; .... a_W
~t)per Cont. Reeed
i
vf 3 por Cent
......................i
"iovr 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894.. ... .• 91 i
Do. 5 per Con i5n.1873
........... _—
Annuities, 50 yrs, expire sth Jan.,
1880.
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do
(Red Sou Televapli), Aug., 1908 —
t xchequ.lr Bills, £l,OOO, 21- p. Ct. March —.Do. 2i do. June
D 1 £lOO, £2OO & £500..,.,,
uauk of England Stock, 41 per Cent
DO. opening —
anada 4 per Cont. Bonds
later-Colonial Omnium
I,,,INDIAN GWERNMENT tiECURITIES
-',\UA RtOCk, 10i per Cent., April 1874 —
De. Opening, for Account
111 f 12
,"0. o per Cent..fuly, 1880
991-
"0 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888
DDo. Enfaced Pa 4 per Cent.....
o. , _ ~, 0,,,
....... lo3f
4 , per cert., Jan. I°' '
oc. 54 per Cent. May 1879
'I per Cent., Rup. Doi.o. 1872.>,.
bo do 18`7....., —
bl/4Do. do. 1882 —
'. nob., 5 per Cent.,1873 ~ —
T-,0 tonds, t per Cent., £l°,ooo
•'o.lan'der .£I.OOOI
1. rORBIGN FUNDS--CLOSING; :PRICES.
414tiue. Republic, t; per Cent
1 'it° • c(f)llit —
rl47altqnde 5 tier cent ..
liri,Di b.e. 1859
1.11 0 .
79
`)I. 4' , Per Cent
D 1 per Cent. 1852 —
40°1 do 1858....
bo. 00 1860 1) do. 180 BB
o. 5 ,
t)„ A Per Cent. 1865
1.1 , ,ccoon. ' —
.e nos
~a ... ..
nbo 2 'Yr.'zi% 6 per Cent.
Cuba': GP"
portent (Deferred 3 per Cent —
i Cent.
141 6 per Vent
be. i. , ................ ,
u. :i P•tr Cent .... ... ......... ... _
Pe Cent
_
o. 7 Per ~.. ~ ......
ho r r cent., 1861.; OT, 10411)02' co. Dt. 1867
;,'4lThiti ;", 6 per Cent.
+Jati,,lija°l,f). Cent., 1825 ......
DO A Prtneipalities, 7 per. . Cent T6I
Dog ---00unt
P Cent., 1867