The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-19 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

As usual on Saturday business was very restricted
on 'Changa. Consols were a shade lower than yes-
terday. In the Foreign market, however, prices
were the turn higher. In Banking, Telegraph, and
Miscellaneous shares prices remain almost un-
changed.

Consols are now at 921 for money ;
ditto, for Account, 921 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, ; New Thee per Cents, 93 21 a ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 2 to 3 dis. ; June,
prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and 1500, March,
prem. ; June, —; Bank of England Stock, 41
per Cent., 2 0 42.

India Stock, 10i per Cent., April, 1874, 209 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, —; - ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 101 1004 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
5 per Cent., 1872, 103:1.

In the Foreign Market Egyptians (1868), are
771 to 774 ; Viceroy's Seven per Cents., 811; to
824 ; Italian, 54a to 54,1; Mexican, 134 to 13ii. ;
Peruvian, 784 to 794 ; Russian (1866), 91 to 92 ;
Orel-Vitebsa, 854 to 854 ; Nicholas, 671 to 681 ;
Moscow, 83 to 834 ; Charkof, 841 to 84; ; Spanish,
274 to 274 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 444 to 41E;
and the Six per Cents., 674 to 684 ; the New
Turkish Loan is 14 to 111 prem. ; New Russian, 34
to 31 prem. ; and New Chilian, 4 to 1 prem.
In the Railway Market the quotations are :
Caledonian, 77 to 774 ; Great Eastern, 381 to 384 ;
Great Northern, 117 to 118 ; ditto (A), 117! to
1181 ; Great Western, 63 to 634 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1284 to 1281 ; London and Brighton,
124 to 43 ex div. ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
15 to 154 ; London and North Western, 124 to
1244 ; London and South Western, 93 to 94 ;
Metropolitan, 764 to 778 ; and Midland, 1234
to 124.

American Five-Twenties are 881 to 881; Ten-
Forties, 84 to 841 ; Erie, 21 to 211 ; and Illinois,
110 to 111.

Great Luxemburg is 13k to 14 ; and Lombardo-
Venetian, 191 to 20.
In Telegraph Shares Construction and Main-
tenance are quoted 431 to 43} ; Hooper's Works,
to -I prem. ; Anglo-American, 17i to 17k ex
div. ; British Indian Submarine, 14k to 144 ;
China Submarine, 1 dis. to par ; and Falmouth,
2i to 21; prem.
In Bank Shares Alliance are 121 to 131 ; Anglo-
Austrian, 15 to 17 prem.; Chartered Mercantile,
32 to 33,; Imperial Ottoman, 3 to 31 prem.; Lon-
don and Westminster, 60 to 61 ; and London Joint
Stock, 321 to 331.

In Miscellaneous Shares Credit Foncier are 2-k
to 3 ; General Credit, I to 4- dis. ; International
Financial, 2 to 11 dis. ex div. ; Berlin Waterworks,
15 to 151 ; Hudson's Bay Company, 121 to 121 ;
London General Omnibus Company, 2 13-16 to
2 15-16 ; National Discount, 111 to 111; Peninsu-
lar and Oriental Steam, 46 to 47 ; and Royal Mail
Steam, 551 to 561.

Positive advices from Constantinople totally
deny the recent statement in the Levant Herald, to
the effect that the Turkish Government had just
contracted a fresh loan for six months with some
Galata bankers for £500,000, in order to pay for
the Egyptian ironclads. There has been no such
operation, and the ironclads, it is said, will be paid
for by available funds.
A new establishment, called the International
Bank, has just been founded at Hamburg, with a
nominal capital of £1,500,000, in shares to bearer,
of which £500,000 is paid up. Some of the prin-
cipal firms of the place are connected with it, and
an agency is to be opened in London.

It is stated that the Land and Sea Telegraph
Construction Company have purchased the free-
hold premises, of about seven acres, near 131ackwall,
known, as the Thames Plate Glaas Company's
Works, together with the extensive range of
buildings, steam-engines, boilers, and shafting
erected thereon, for £70,000, being considerably
less than half of the sum expended on them.

A prospectus has been issued of the New Albert
Life Assurance Company (Limited), to carry out
the terms of reconstruction of the Albert Company
agreed to at a meeting of policy-holders and share-
holders on the Bth ult.

A prospectus has been issued of the Rhine
Mining Company, with a capital of £30,000, in
shares of £2 (of which £17,460 has been sub-
scribed), to acquire and work tome mineral ground
for lead and copper, near Bonn, in Rhenish
Prussia.

The Order of the Rose has been conferred by
the Emperor of Brazil on Captain Mangles, as
chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Coin-

pany, which established the first steam commu-
nication between Europe and Brazil and the River
Plate.

According to the Liverpool Journal of Commerce
advices from Austria report the failure of a cloth
establishment at Oberlutendorf with debts for
nearly £40,000. The same paper mentions the
following failures reported from New York :—M.
Nussabaum, dry goods; S. Rosenthal, leather trade ;
Surbury and Co., cigar and tobacco merchants ;
Smith and Epp, roofers ; and T. H. Morrel, in the
book trade.

At the meeting of the National Steamship Com-
pany (Limited), held at Liverpool, a dividend
Was declared at the rate of 10 per, cent. per annum.
An extraordinary meeting of the Zealani
Rail-
way Company will be held on the 30th of March.
It has been resolved to wind up the London and
Leeds Water Repellent and Cloth Finishing Com-
pany (Limited).
The half-yearly meeting of the Ottoman Railway
Company will be held on the 31st of March.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT YUNDS.
6 Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account 924
3 per Cent. Ito _Weed 924
dew i per Uent
Ncrir 21 per Cont. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cen J an. 187 3
&unuitios, Su yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
Do. for SU yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequ-,r Bills, £l,OOO, 24 p. Ct. March
Do. 21 do. June
Bank
.£lOO, £2OO £5OO
D
ank of England Stock, 44 per Cent
Da. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds
Inter-Colonial Cranium

INDIAN dOVERNMENT BECUILITIrb.
44044 Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 209
Do. Opening, for Account —
Do. o par Cent. July, 1880
Do 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888. lOl 1004
Do. Enfaced Bap,. 4 per CAut.. ... —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 „„,, 1034
Do. 54 per ()ant. May 1879 —
Da 5 per Cent., Rupp. Data. 1872..
Do d 1817
Do. do. 1882
1)0. Deb., 5 per Qeut., Aug. 3,873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cont., .£1,060' •, _
Do. under £l,OOO
PLA
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
I rgentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Do Account
Austrian Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859 62
Brazilian 5 per Cent
O. 44 per Cent. 1852
Do. do 1858....• —
lie. 00 180 —
Do. do. 1863 7B
00. 5 per Cont., 1865
881 91
•
b
Do• Account

z .coos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) —__
ntrba, 6 por Cent.
o,ttlian 6 per Cent —
''o. 4 Per Cent...,
O. 7 per Cont., 1866
, 1)0. 6 per coat. 1867 984
s., lo.nbian, 6 por Cent.
baolsn 3 per Cent., 1825
Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent —
Do Account
Do 8 per Cent., 1867
p.
-cuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
Eptian, 7 por Cont... _
be ‘. ~cOLIC, .. I ,sfille
.., ,
Do. 4500 Bonds
De, 1864
•L'o. £6OO Bonds ccount
tht• 4100 Bonds 93
Do e••
uo• 7 per Cent. 1868 .....
o. Account
• 4100
.Bonds ..... 7-1.14 overnment Railway Debentures 9Bi Cir eet 'Per cent., 1824 5, ex Coups. —

Do. Coupons
Guatemala 5 per Cent ..
Honduras Gov Rail. Loan., 10 p.. Ct., all pd
Do. Acc • uut
ltd,iau 5 pr.. Cent., 1865
Do. Account
Do Ihremmana Railway

UoxicaL 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French
Itontevid-hin 6 per Cent.
Mocrish imperial 5 rex Cent
New Granada 22i

Do 3 per Cen 4Ol -
Do. Deferred
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account 794
Do 41 per Cent. (Ur:harren)
Do 41 per Cent.. 1862
Do 6 per Cent.,1862
Por t:iguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7, 9,'60,'2.':
Do. do. 1867.
Do. do. Scrip, £2i.)
pail —
R issitin 5 i.er Cent. 1822, .£ St
Do 41 per Cent 1:850
Do 11 per Ccnt., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Auglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Boodt. 911
Do. du. £Bl 15s. do.
Do.. 1866, £lOO Bonds 9l d
Do. do £Bl 15s. do -
1)o Nicolas liailway
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cen .
Do. Acc,Junt
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred
Do. Passive
Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded

27y

Do. Account
vredish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Turkish 6 per Cent ......... .
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account

Do £lOO Boßds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do. Account
1)o £lOO Bonds 7of
Do. 5 per cent. 1865
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 —
Do. Account
DJ 1 per Cent., Guaranteed —
Do do, Scrip —
Venezuela 3 per Cent. ll
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in Loadot.
Austrian o per Cent , Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
French Rontes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
'Winn 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 25f —
Do Account 541
CLOSING PRICES.
Oonsols, Money
Do. Account, March 9 924 xd