The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-28 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The adjustment of the settlement occupied a
great deal of the attention of the brokers to-day,
and business consequently was in a great degree
neglected. Consols maintain the closing price of
Saturday, but in Foreign securities Italian is falling.
In Railways there has been some few transactions
at increased prices, but in Telegraph shares there
Ills been a decline.
Consols are now at 921 to 921 for money;
ditto, for Account, ; Three per Cent. Re-
daced, 93 22 ; New Thee per Cents, 93 2/ ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 3 prem. ; June,
3 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March, ;
Jane, 2 dis, ; Bank of England Stock, 44 per
Cent., 2 , 11.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, —; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1011 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
5 per Cent., 1882, 105/ ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 20
Prem. ; dito Bonds under £l,OOO 21 prem.

In the Foreign Market there is a decline in
Italian. Brazilian Five per Cents., 1865, are quoted
89 891; Egyptian Seven per Cents., 1868, 79 to
79 ; Italian Five per Cents., 1861, 541 to 54.1 ;
Mexican Three per Cents., 141 to 141; Peruvian
Five per Cents., 1865, 801 to 81; Spanish
New Three per Cents., 1867, 261 to 27 ; Turkish
Five per Cents., 1865, 45 1-16 to 45 3-16 ; ditto.
Six per Cents., 1865, 681 to 681 ; Grenada New
Three per Cents., 391 to 401 ; ditto Deferred, 101
to 101 ; Orel Vitepsk, 86 to 87 ; Nicolai, 681 to
68; ; Moscow Jaraslaw, 83k to 84 ; Charkof Azof,
85 to 86 ; and Honduras Loan, 801 to 811 ex all.
American Five-Twenties are 901 to 901; Illinois
Railroad, 1111 to 111/ ; Atlan tic and Great Western,
291 to 30 ; and Erie,:2ll to 221.
Anglo-American Telegraph Shares are 161 to 17 ;
French Cable, 151 to 151 ; British Indian Sub-
marine, 131 ; Construction and Maintenance, 43i
to 431 ; India Rubber, 601 to 611 ; and Hooper's,
to I prem.
In Bank Shares Agra Bank are 111 to 12 ; ditto
13, 41 to 4i ; Alliance, 13 to 131 ; Anglo-Hunga-
rian, 71 to 8; Anglo-Egyptian, 251 to 278; Char-
mercantile of India, 321 to-83 ; City Bank, 101 to
111 ; Consolidated, I to I prem. ; Imperial, 171 to
171 ; Imperial Ottoman, 31 to 31 prem. ; London
and County, 47 to 48 ; London Joint Stock, 321 to
33 ; London and Westminster, 60} to 611 ;
Oriental Corporation, 44 to 45 ; and Union of Lon-
don, 37 to 371.

In Miscellaneous Shares Credit FOncier are
quoted 2 5-16 to 3 116 ; Hudson's Bay Company,
121 to 128 ; Italian Irrigation Six per Cents., 63/
to 64/ ; London General Omnibus Company, 21
to 24 ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam,43 to 44;
Royal Mail, Steam, 55 to 56.
At Mark-lane the price of corn to-day was not so
good as on Friday last, and the quotations for most
sorts were lower.
The Railway Market is firm. Caledonian
are quoted at 771 to 77/ ; Great Eastern,
37.1. to 38 ex div. ; Great Northern, 113 to 114
ea div• ; ditto (A), 114 to 115 ex div. ; Great
Western, 631 to 64 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1251 to 1251 ex div ; London and Brighton, 421
t° 43i ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 141 to
15 ; London and North Western, 121/ to 122 ex
London and South Western, 90 to 92 ex
div ; Metropolitan, 781 to 79 ; Midland, 1211 to
122 ex div. ; North Eastern (Berwick), 135 to 1251
div. ; and South Eastern, 741 to 75 ex div.
It is stated that the South-Austrian Lombardo-
Venetian Railway, in conjunction with other Aus-
Ulan Railway Companies, have agreed on a uni-
form reduced through rate for goods and merchan-
dise to the East, to be shipped from Trieste, by the
Suez Canal. Freight per steamers from that port to
Bombay will be charged £3 10s. per ton.
Letters from Cracow, Galicia, mention the failure
of Messrs. ICirchmayer and Son, with liabilities
amounting to about £600,000. The firm had been
established for many years, and was highly respect-
able• The losses are stated to have been caused
chiefly by Bourse speculations.
The application list for shares in the South
?lynlimon Mining Company (Limited) will close
On Thursday next for London, and on Friday for
the country. The list for tile Cuiaba Gold Mining
Company will close on Wednesday next, the 2d
March, for London, and on the day following for
the country.
Friday next has been appointed to hear the
aPpeal against the refusal of Vice-ChancellorJames
to restrain the directors, in " Re Salisbury v. The
Metropolitan Railway Company," from paying
dividends out of capital, as the plaintiff alleges, by
anticipating the income arising from the companies'
surplus funds.

following
eLiverpool Journal of Commerce reports the
American failures, viz.:—Halstead and
stiles, with liabilities amounting to £BO,OOO ;
11-. Dale and Co., importers and manufacturers ;
Petrie and Co., commission merchants ; Freidlan-
der, Stitch, and Co.,.clothiers ; and W. D. King,
commission merchant. The Dolby Mills at Water-
ton, Massachusetts, had also suspended. The same
journal also announces the stoppage of Messrs.
Colson, Lamb, and Co. ; and Mr. D. B. Macdonald,
of Montreal.
The calls falling due in March reach a total of
£732,582. The particulars are as follows :—Fur-
ness Railway New Five per Cent., convertible in
1873, £72,600 ; Cuba Submarine Telegraph
(Limited), £40,000; Eclipse Gold Mining (Limited) ,
40,000 ; Eureka Mining (Limited), £156,000 ;
Palmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta Telegraph
(Limited), £122,000 ; Great Northern Telegraph
(China and Japan Extension), £90,000 ; Lion
Brewery, B shares, not known ; Lusitanian Min-
ing (Limited), £1,982 ; Jersey and Guernsey Tele-
graph„ (Limited), £7,500 ; and West India and
Panama Telegraph (Limited), £162,500.
A special meeting of the Varna Railway Com-
Pally has been called for the 31st of March by the
holders of about 5,000 shares, to take into consi-
deration the terms of agreement stated to have been
lately entered into between Mr. W. Gladstone, the
Chairman, and the Ottoman Government relative
to the payment of the guaranteed interest. A re-
solution will also be proposed in favour of the ap-
Pointment of a new Council of Administration.
The half-yearly meeting of the Metropolitan
District Railway Company will be held on the
18th of March. A special meeting is also con-
vened for the same day, to submit a Bill " to
enable the Metropolitan District Railway Company
to extend their railway to the Mansion-house,
and for other
,purposes with respect to the same
company."

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GOVERNMENT rUNDs.
3 per Cont: Consols 92f I
Ditto for Account
3 per cent. Relucod 93 2
New 3 per Cent
Novr 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894

Do. 5 per Can Jan. 1873
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 p. Ct. Blarch 3 Pra
Pin
21 do. June 3
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£lOO, £2OO & £5OO 2 d
Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent
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C tnada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
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