The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-09 00:00:00

THE MONEY MARKET

AND

cOMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx,

The Stock Markets are better throughout and prices
show considerable buoyancy.
Consols are 923 to 923 ex div. for money.; Reduced, 923
to 923 ; New, 923 to 923 ; Exchequer Bills, a:100, ss. prem
to par; India Five per Cents., 1113 ; Ditto 4 per Cents.,
1024 ex div, ; Ditto Enfaced Paper. 923 ; Ditto Bonds,
25 preitt ; Bank Stock, 2353.
In the Foreign Stock Market the Spanish 1567 Loan is
318 to 311 ; the 1869 Loan, 303 to 303 ; and the New Loan,
23 to 22 prem. Italian Bonds are 593 to 593. Turkish
1865 Loan is 1 higher, at 521 to 523 ; and the 1869 1, at
641 to 641: Peruvian Bonds are flat, at 903 to 91, but the
new Scrip is better, at Ito 1 prem. Japanese Scrip is
2 to 1 dis.
In the Railway market Caledonian are now 78 to 781;
Great Eastern, 421 to 421 ; Great Northern, 124 to 125 ;
Ditto A Stock, 134 to 135 ; Great Western, 741 to 743 ;
Brighton, 45 to 453 ; Metropolitan, 673 to 68 ; London
and South Western, 91 to 93 ; Bristol and Exeter, 893 ;
Midland Consolidated Bristol and Brmingham 1353,
In Colonial Securities :—Canada Fve per Cents, are now
984 to 991; New South Wales Five pct. cents:, 1033 to
104/ ; New Zealand Five per Cents., 983 to 993 ; Queens-
land Six par Cents., 1113 to 1121 ; and Victoria Six per
Cents., 1033 to 1041.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are at 893 to 891; Ten-
Forty Bonds, 86 to 861 ; Erie Shares, 181 to 183, being a
recovery of 1; Illinois, 1111 to 1121 ; Atlantic and Great
Western Consolidated Bonds 281 to 293 ; and the De-
bentures, 353 to 361.
In Telegraph Shares there is an advance of 10s. in West
Indian and Panama, the price being now 63 to 7/ ; Con-
struction and Maintenance, 303 to 30; ; Falmouth, 813-16
to 8 15-16. Anglo-American, 163 to 17 ; French Cable,
151 to 151; British Indian,. 8 to 81; and China, 33 to
3 dis.
lii Bank Shares Chartered Mercantile are now 301 to
311, being a rise of 10s:; Agra (A) is marked at 11 to 111 ;
Alliahce, 143 to 154; Anglo-Austrian, 15 to 17 prem.;
Consolidated, 43 to 51 ; Imperial Ottoman, 41 to 5 prem.;
London and County, 503 to 511; London and Westminster,
64 to 65 ; London Joint Stock, 351 to 361; and Union of
London, 40 to 41.
The Bonds of the San Domingo Loan have been pur-
chased for investment, and stand at 671 68.
The scrip of the Khedive Loan has been operated in to
some extent, and has improved to 4 1 prem.
The shares of the Blaenavon Iron and Steel Company
are quoted 11 11 prettt,
The New Rosario Mining Company Shares are at 1-16
3-16 prem.
The Asterope, from New Zealand, has brought £7,672
and the Main, from New York, £114,808.
The American silver coin, about £70,000, brought by
the Scandinavian, has been sold at 583 d. per ounce for
refining ; also about £lOO,OOO bar silver, at 601 d. per ounce
standard, for shipment to the East.
With reference to the guaranteed debenture bonds of
the East Indian Railway Company it is notified that the
holders can renew them for five or seven years, on or be-
fore the 10th of July at 41 per cent. per annum. Failing
the exercise of this option, the bonds will be paid at matu-
rity on the 10th of August.
The Council of Foreign Bondholders have received the
following communication from the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer

n, Downing-street, Whitehall, June 7.
Sir,—In reply to your letter dated the 24th ultimo lam
desired by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to inform you
that the provision for a ld. stamp on coupons will be ex-
punged from the Stamps Consolidation Bill, when the bill
goes into committee.—l am, sir, your obedient servantlLSON,
C. RIVERS W.

The annual meeting of the Assam Company is convened
for the 27th inst.
The Magdala sailed from Newport for Puerto Caballos
on Saturday, the 4th inst., with railway waggons and
material for the contractors of the Honduras Railway.
The Regina is loading with a similar cargo, and will
follow during the present month.
A call of £4 per share has been made on the £92 Five
per Cent. Preference Shares of the Midland Railway
Company, payable on the let of July.
Mr. Charles Cave, the financial agent for the colony of
British Guiana, has invited tenders for £16,000 bonds, to
replace other bonds falling due.
Another competing telegraph undertaking is about to be
launched, called the " English and American Submarine
Cable Company."
The annual meeting of the Madras Railway Company
is called for the 24th inst.
A dividend of 7i per cent. per annum for the last five
years has been declared at a meeting of shareholders of
the Mark-lane Building Society.
A meeting of the Australian Trust Company (Limited),
in liquidation, is called for the 17th instant.