The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-27 00:00:00

THE MONEY MARKET

AND
COALNIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
On 'Change to-day business was far from active,
and Consols were the turn lower. In the Foreign
Market the tendency of prices was also downward,
but not to any very great extent, Turkish excepted.
The difference existing with respect to the Egyptian
Loan has nearly stopped business. In Railway Shares
Great
Westerns and Metropolitans improved I ;
Telegraph Shares arelittle dealt in, but Miscellaneous
shares are quite neglected. Money is in demand for
discount purposes, but there is no advance in the
rate.

Consols are now at 938 1 4 31 4 for money; ditto,
account, 93+ ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 921 + 8 ;
New Three per Cents., 921 8 ; Bank of England.
Stock, 41 per cent., 2331.
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 21 per cent., par;
ditto 5
dittoiit £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, par 5. prem.
India Stock, 101 per cent., April, 1874, ;
per cent., July, 1880, 1131 I ; ditto 4 per
cent., Oct., 1888, 1008 1 1; ditto Enfaced Paper
0 per cent., 1872,
At Mark-lane the attendance was fair, and a firm
tone prevailed, prices of all kinds of grain being well
sustained. The trade throughout continues to wear
a firm aspect, home supplies on offer being light, and
stocks of foreign working down, whilst shipments
Are retarded by the high quotations at foreign pro-
ducing ports. The country markets since Monday
are generally rather dearer.
In the Foreign Market Brazilian are now 89 to
89 ; Egyptian (1864), 891 to 908 ; do. (1868), 801 to
if ; Viceroy's Nine per Cents., 1011 to 1021 ;
ditto Seven per Cents., 841 to 841 ; Italian, 551 to
651 ; Peruvian, 87 to 871 ; Russian (1862), 871 to
; Orel, 841 to 851; Nicolai, 691 to 701 ; Moscow,
861 to 861 ; Charkof, 841 to 851; Spanish (1867),
281 to 288 ; ditto (1869), 28i ; Turkish Five per
Cents., 471 to 47+ ; and ditto Six per Cents., 711
t() 72.1
*
In the Railway Market Great Northern are marked
121 to 122 ; ditto A Stock, 1271 to 128 ; Great Wes-
tern, 7211. to 72+ ; North British, 361 to 36; ; Cale-
donian, 74 to 741 ; Manchester, Sheffield, an I Lin-
colnshire, 52i to 53 ; North Eastern (Berwick), 1351
to 1351; Leeds, 891 to 901; York, 1321 to 133
London and Brighton, 46 to 468 ; South Eastern,
781 to 781 ; Great Eastern, 42+ to 428 ; Metropolitan,
77i to 78 ; London ant North Western, 1281 to
1281; Midland, 1261 to 126 i ; and Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1301 to 1311.
Iu Bank shares Agras are marked 10/ to 11 ex
(4. ; Alliance, 121 to to 131 ; Angio-Austrian, 131
to 141 prem. ; Anglo-Egyptian, 24+ to 258 ; Char-
tered Mercantile of India, 311 to 321 ; City Bank,
111 to 12 ; Consolidated, 1 to 1 prem. ; Imperial
Ottoman, 13+ to 138 ; London and County, 49 to
50 ; London and Westminster, 60 to 61; and
Union of London, 37 to 38.
Lombardo-Venetian are 161 to 16} ; Great
Luxemburg, 13i to 131.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 811 to 81+ ;
Erie
(1865), 871 to 88 ; Illinois, 111 to 112 ; and
''rie Shares, 181 to 181.
Construction and Maintenance Telegraph Shares
are 351 to 36 ; Anglo-American, 171 to 171 ;
45ritish Indian, 8+ to 98; China Submarine, 1+ to 1+
dig.
The Japanese Loan is quoted 1 to 1 prem., and
the
Viceroy of Egypt's Ito 1 prem. The subscrip-
tion lists in both cases close this afternoon.
The Stock Exchange will be closed on Monday
neat, the 2nd of May, that being the day fixed
40?! striking the half-yearly balance at the Bank
Ef
ngland, where the transfer offices will also be
abut.

The forty-fourth annual general meeting of the
Standard Life Assurance Company was held in
Edinburgh yesterday, when the following results
Were reported :—New assurances accepted during
1869, 1,619 for £1,110,347 2s. 9d. ; premiums on
new policies, £38,532 2s. Bd. ; claims by death
"ring the year, with bonus additions, £358,767
48. 6d. , assurances in force, £16,345,419 2s. 6d.
(whereof £931,819 12s. reassured) ; accumulated
funds,,, £4,284,648 7s. 3d. ; and annual income
~
'410,428 16s. 3d. The company have adopted a
Illpecial system of fixed surrender values for policies.
The letters of allotment in the Central Queensland
Meat Preserving Company (Limited) have been
posted.

It is
understood that, by order of the Sublime
"rte) the Ottoman Embassy in London bas
seat to Lord Clarendon an official protest against
the issue of the new private loan of the Khedive.
"ft e basis of the protest is that the private property
b' the Khedive is mortgaged to the public treasury
of the province of Egypt as security for the proper
control of its finances, which are under the manage-
nlent of the Khedive ; therefore no loan made on or
seemed by the Khedive's private property in Egypt
7 valid, unless it be made with the previous know-
bed. ge and sanction of the Sublime Porte. Messrs.
4lachoffsheim, however, have addressed to us the
zellowing letter in contradiction of this report :
Founders'-court, Lothbury, Tuesday evening,
eight o'clock. Sir,—We have been informed that
k Paragraph has been sent for insertion in your jour-
-124, intimating that a protest had been lodged by the
sublime Porte against the issue of the mortgage loan
Zt
his Highness the Khedive of Egypt. Up to this,
°lli' neither we, as agents for the loan, nor the con-
tractors of the loan in Paris, nor the Comptoir
ci:Eseerepte (a French Government institution), who
,18. see the loan in France, have received any intima-
"la or communication whatever to the effect that
4,i13' protest had been made, or was likely to be made,
the Porte with reference to this loan ; and we
:e)111d beg to call attention to the fact that no con-
ebt of the Sublime Porte was given or asked for on
e issue of the private lean of the Khedive in 1866,
now quoted in the Official List of the London Stock
obtie.hallge. The insertion of this communication will
Iget yours faithfully, BISCHOFFSHEIM and GOLD-
."411111)T."
EThe suit of the English shareholders to remove
r 11.14, Fisk, and Lane from the directorship of the
Railway 'o,ilway commenced in the United States' Cir-
cuitL Court on the 11th instant, and the defendants
"orm'e until the first Monday in May to file their an-
The complaint recites that the defendants
tipsgallY obtained control of the road and committed
y company to engagements of a hazardous and
oPe dilative character, &c.
co.& the meeting of the Continental Union Gas
di:ianY, Mr. Lewis Cubitt in the chair, an interim
declar ed
"Luend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum was
.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT lUNDS.
a Par Cent. Console
ti Ditto for Account 93k
per
°eat. Reluced 921 1 i i
a,„. eel 3 per Cent
"eZr 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894
A C)* 5 per Cen Jtn. 1873 --.olinities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
O. for 30 yr, ex ire sth AilBBs uo (Red Sea Tele') h) 1908
z .1, rap , Aug.,,
par
L,equer Bills, £1,000,1' 21 p. Ct.
Do
£lOO, £2ou St £5OO
233}
Bag!. of En.gland Stock, 44 per Cent
0 ''''• opening
. inada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
inter-Colonial Oninium
L ,
di NOUN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
It a tock2lo4 per Cent., April 1874 —
__
Dr,lo• Opening, for Account
1131 I i
,o• 0 per Cent. July, 1880
'''°' 4 Per Cent. Oct. 1888
D
-:. Enfaced Nut 4 per Cent..,... —
-ur, • 5 per Cent, Jan. 1872 ~...,..... ..... " ---
,-\'''' N' Per Cent. May 1879
-
0. A per Cent It D", 18-o
~ up. e,,. /..,
Do.
D'a
do 1877...... —
do. . 1882 —.