The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Consols fell to-day, at 924 4 1 for money ;
ditto, for Account, 921 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 924 1 ; New Tkree per Cents, 924 3 ; Red
Sea Telegraph, 191 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO,
5 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, —; Bank
of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 111/ 12 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, —; ditto Enfaced Paper, 54
per per Cent., 110+.
In the Foreign Market prices are as follows :
Argentine, 801 to 81;; Egyptian (1864), 88 to 89;
ditto (1868), 781 to 791 ; Viceroy Seven per Cents.,
821 to 82! ; ditto Nine per Cents., 941 to 95+
Italian, 551 to 56 ; Mexican, 121 to 12k; Peruvian,'
79 to 79;.
United States Government Bonds are flat. The
Five-Twenty are 1 lower, 80; to 801 ; Erie, at 19+
to 19/ ; and Illinois, at 94; to 94/, show no
change.
In the railway market prices are as follows :
Caledonian, 771 to 78 ; Great Eastern, 381
to 381 ; Great Northern, 108 to 109 ; Great
Northern (A) 107 to 108 ; Great Western, 504 to
51 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1254 to 126 ; Lon-
don and Brighton, 444 to 45 ; London, Chatham,
and Dover, 161 to 17+; London and North Wes-
tern, 1184 to 119 ; London and South Western,
89 to 91; Metropolitan, 971 to 98 ; Midland, 177+
to 1174; North Eastern (Berwick) 105 f to 106+;
and South Eastern, 77; to 78+.
The sum of £30,000 in sovereigns, from Egypt,
was taken to the Bank yesterday.
The Atrato, from the West Indies, has brought
£114,680 ; the Oneida is telegraphed at Lisbon,
from Brazil, with £93,254, and the Donau has
arrived with £9,388, making a total of £217,322.
The Anglo-Austrian Bank has announced the
payment of the dividend coupon No. 7, due Isl
July next, on and after that date.
It is notified that the coupons due on the let
July next of the 7 per Cent. Debentures of the Cen-
tr.tl Argentine Railway Company will be paid oa
presentation at the London and Westminster Bank,
Lothbury.
A prospectus has been issued of the Great North-
ern Telegraph Company by Messrs. C. and J.
Hambro and Son, to be constituted under Danish
law, with limited liability, for the purpose of amal-
gamating into one system and working under a
single management the five cable lines which are to
give communication between this country and
Russia, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, as well as
between these countries themselves, and of which
three are already working. The capital is to be
£400,000, in shares of £lO, but only £lOO,OOO is to
be subscribed in London, the whole of the remainder
having been already taken, chiefly at Copenhagen.
The concessions give exclusive privileges for 30
years, when the lines will still belong to the
companies, and the Russian concession further
provides a subvention of lf. on the greater number
of messages transmitted by it. In this country the
several lines are at present worked by the United
Kingdom Telegraph Compary under an agreement
recognised by the Post-office, and which will be
maintained on the transfer of that company to the
Government.

The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows
this week a decrease of £1,122, compared with the

corresponding period of last year, and the Brighton

a decrease of £839.

The traffic return of the Great 'Western Railway
of Canada for the week ending the 25th inst. shows

an increase of £1,978 over last year.

The directors of the National Steamship Com-
pany (Limited) have declared an interim dividend

of 10s. per share on the original, and ls. on the pre-
ferential shares, free of income tax, being at the

rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
Various questions are believed to be under con-
sideration at the Bank of England in connection

with suggkstions from the Chancellor of the Ex

chequer for giving increased facilities to the public
with respect to the times and modes of their receipt

of the dividends. Meanwhile a statement has been

circulated that Mr. Lowe has under consideration

"offers from two joint-stock banks to undertake
the duty at half the sum now paid to the Bank.'

It would be matter of interest in the city to learn

the names of these bold establiEhments. Doubts

are entertained as to the likelihood of any of the

old and respectable ones having made such an offer,
and if the proposals of inferior concerns are to be

taken " under consideration," it may be appre-
hended the Government witl before long be called

upon to give similar attention to offers of perform-
ing all its own functions, from those of a Cabinet
Minister downward, at a cost not exceeding a tenth

part of that at present incurred.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

GOVERNMENT ILINDS.
3 per. Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
3 per Cent. Reduced 92i 1
N6w 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 6 per Con Jan .187 3
A.unuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jun., 1881 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 -
Do (Red Sea Telehjaph), Aug., 1908— 19}
Excjicquor Dill, £l,OOO, 2} SI 3 per Ct
Do £lOO, .£2OO & £5OO
/link of England Stock, 4} por Cent
11.. opening
Cazada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Otnnuun
INDIAN dOVEItNMENT SECIJnITIEb
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Opening, for Account —
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1680
Do. 4 pe,: Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfacod Pape, 4 per Cent.... —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 •••• ..- —
Do. 51 per 0-nt. May 1879 llOl
DJ b pet Cent., Rup. Dob. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
Lk,. Deb., 5 per Cent. Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l.OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
in Arian Bends 5 per cent .. —
Do. 1859 —
Bruilian 5 per Cent —
00. 4} per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do 1858....
Do. nu. 186)
Do. do., 1868 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account —
B :enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cu'm, 6 per Cont.
C.tiliau 6 per Cent —
Do. 41 por Cent
Do. 3 per Cent.,
l'o. 6 per cont. 1867 .
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
0 lo nbian, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825
Dan.,l.ian Principalities, 7 por Cent
Do 8 per Cent., 1867
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian, 7 per Cent —
1)c Second Issue —
Do. .£sot, Bonds
D0...£1.00 Bonds • • •••
Do. 1864 % —
Do. Account
Do. .4500 Bonds
Do. 4100 Bonds 9O
Do. 7 per Cent., 1868
Government Railway Debentures loo}
Greek 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups. —
Do. Account . .
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Gaatemala 5 per Cent .. _
Honduras Gov Rail. Los n., 10p. Ct., all pd
lt..iiau 5 per Cent., 1865
;)o. Account .
Do MAremmana Railway
Mexicar. 3 per Cent . 121
Ditto for Account
Dn. 1864 5/
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
sionte\ Wean C per Cent. .. —
Mc of ish imperial 5 per Cent —
New Granada —
Do 3 per Cen —
Do. Deferred
Pe 'avian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account ..
Do 41;.per Cent. (Ui:harren)
Do 41 per Cent.. 1862 ..• —

Do ZeZ:ourt
et'. goose 3 per Ct.,1853, '6, 7,

Do.' do. 1867
Do. do. Set ip, X2O paid —
ti ussittn 5 eer Cent., 1.8`2Z, X St
Do 4} per Cent 1850
Do 4i per Ccnt., 1860
Do 8 per Cont., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do do, Scrip —
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1804, £lOO Bonds , 901
Do. . do. £B4 15s. do „ --
Do., 1866, .ClOO ihadirstufesotsmilow 901.1