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THE MONEY MARKET!

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
The business to-day on the Stock Exe,hange was
Steady, and Consols were firm at their quotations.
14 the foreign secuiiti s there is a trifling fall in
PaniA, and most of the other continental are
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ea.l7 For American Securi'ies prices are not so
F°od as yestrJay, bat there has been rather more
bu,iness than usual in telegraph shares. .
The demand for discount has not been extensive,
and first-class bills are done at 21.
Consols are now at 931 to 93{ for money ; ditto,
account, 93i ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 921 2 ;
ICevr Three per Cents., 92 ; Bank of England
Stock, 4f per cent., 235 61 ex div.
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 2i per cent., March, 2
prem.; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, June, prem.
ditto 5
India Stock, 101 per cent., April, 1874, 210 ;
per cent., July, 1880, 113 I ; ditto 4 per
Cent.) Oct., 1888, 1001 I ; ditto Enfaced Paper
per cent., —; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 25 22 prem. ;
ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 20 prem.
In the Foreign Market Argentine Sixes are 901
901 ; Brazilian Five per Cents. (1865), 881 to 881;
gyptian Seven per Cents. (1868), 801 to 801 ;
Grenada New, 40 41; ditto Deferred, 11 111 ; Hon-
dilras•Loan, 831 811; Italian Five per Cents. (1861),
551 to 55
Mexican Three per Cents., 141 15 ;
Peruvian Five per Cents. (1865), 851 851; Nicolai,
69i to 691 ; Orel Vitebsk, 871 871 ; Moscow Jam-
„,,slow, 84; to 851 ; Charkof Az.,f, 83 to 831 ; Spanish
"ew Three per Cents. (1867), 28 to 281 ; Turkish
csFlue per Cents. (1865), 47 1-16 to 47 3-16 ; ditto
°i2c per Cents. (1865), 70/ to 701.
In the Rail*ay Market Caledonian are 781 to 781;
Great Eastern, 391 to 39i ; Great Northern 117 to
118; the A Stock, 1231 to 124 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1281 to 129 ; Brightons, 451 to 458 ;
London, Chatham, and Dover, 151 to 151; London
and North Western, 1251 to 1251; London and
South Western, 88 to 89 ; Sheffiehts, 52 to 521 ;
Itletrorolitan 771 to 781; Milland, 1251 to 1251 ;
and Dovers, 761 761.

American Five-Twenty Bonds are 90i to 911 ;
ditto, 1865 issue, 901 to 901; Erie Shares, 24 to
24 ; Illinois Central, 114 to 114 f ; Atlantic and
Great Western Debentures, 32 to 321; ditto Con-
solidated Boras, 28f, to 281 ; and Virginia Six per
Cents., 57 to 571.
Anglo-American Telegraph Shares are 171 to 17; ;
Anglo Mediterranean, 171 to 171 ; Atlantic 12 to
14 ; ditto Eight per Cent. Preference, 1; to 21 ;
13ritish Australian, 2 to 11 dis.; British Indian Sub-
Marine, 91 to 91 ex New ; British Indian Extension,
2} to 4 dis. ; China Submarine, 4 to 11 dis. ; Fal-
mouth, Gibraltar, arid Malta, 2 to 1k dis.
The transactions in the stock markets next week
will probably be upon a limited scale, in anticipa-
tion of the holidays. Many persons will doubtless
leave town on Thursday afternoon, and not return
to business until the following Tuesday morning.
In addition to Good Friday, the Stock Exchange
ill be closed on Easter Monday, according to
custom.

t memorial, signed by the leading houses in the
his been forwardtd to the Chancellor of the
advocating the abolition of the duty on
fruit, •

It is understood that the Bank of England will
refuse to ray, on presentation, the larger notes re-
cently stolen from Messrs. Barnetts, Hoares, Han-
" i 54178, and Co.'s, so that time will be given to trace
them, and there is no danger of their being paid to
anY person who has not given the full value for them.
It has been notified that Messrs. J. Henry Schroder
a. nd Co. havingbeeu appointed agents for the eli.lrter-
lug bus7ness connected with their gui,no cuntract
with the Peruvian Government will be prepared to
engage tonnage for the Continental ports now about
to receive guano under that contract.
The directors of the Australian Mortgage Land
and Finance Company (Limited) recommend the
usual dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
A meeting of the creditors of Sir Wm. Russell
448 been held, when Sir William Russell's statement
of the position of his property was presented to the
'fleeting, through Mr. C. F. Kemp, the receiver. A
yesolUtion was passed to adjourn the meeting for
three weeks, to give the creditors (three of whom
N/.ere appointed as a committee) an opportunity of
investigating and deciding upon the nature of the
arrangement to be carried out. _ -

general rneeting of the Italian Tobacco Mono.
111.°1Y Company will be held on the 30th instant, al
.lorence.

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway traffic
return shows this week a decrease of £923, and the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire a decrease
of £649,

The ordinary general meeting of the Antwerp and
-"e'terdarn Railway Company will be held on the
.sth of May, at Brussels.
At a meeting of the Union Steamship Company a
dividend was declared of per share.
At the half-yearly meeting of the London Water-
works
Company a dividend was declared at the rate
°f 6 per cent. per annum.
At the second series of wool sales of the year the
attendance of buyers, both English and foreign, was
very numerous, and the competition spirited. Prices
for
most descriptions were maintained at the quota-
tions of the March series, and in the case of grease
Wool tended slightly in sellers' favour.
The Bank of Montreal has opened an agency in
Lombard
-street for the transaction of business with
Canada and the United States.