The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-26 00:00:00

ItiONEY MARKET

A',l)
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

cirY, Two O'CLOCK.
Consols are firm to day at 931 } for money;
ditto, for Ac:ount, ; Three per Cent.
Reduced, 92' e ; New Thee per Cents, 921 ;
ditto 28 per Cent , 768 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO,
—; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, par ; Bank of
England Stock, 4 per Cent., 246.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1830, 111 k a ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1883, 1001 s ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4
per Cent., 92.
In the Foreign tnarket securities an firm.
Italian Five per Centi. have improved 4, to 56i
561; Turkish Five per Cent 4, 431,438 Mexican
la"ds k, to I'l 13 ; and New Spanish Three per
Cents. are 1-16 better, at 282 288.
The Honduras Loan is now quoted 83 85 ex
coupon.

In the Railway Market Caledonians are 6 better,
Great Western 1, Lancashire 1, Brighton r, and
North Eastern (Berwick) I-. On the other hand
Great Eastern are lower, Great Northern Al,
and Metropolitan 6. The quotations are :
CaleloLian, 771 4 ; Great Western, 48} 96 ;
Great Eastern, 376 ; Great Northern, 1051
106 ; ditto A, 107 6; Lancashire, 122/ 3}
Metropolitan, 971 ; ditto Exiension, 95 7 ;
Midland, 113/ 14, opened 114 ; Sheffield,
"i a ; Brighton, 456 t; North British, 33/ 41 ;
North Western, 116/ 17 ; North Eastern 104 6- ;
South Eastern, 751 • Chatham and Dover,
1611 4 1
8

American Five-Twenties have improved to
79 74, the 18',5 Bends I, 77 77f, and the Ten-
Potties are firm at 701 71 ; Eries and Illinois Cen-
trals are higher, at 19 191 and 95 951 respec-
tively.
Atlantic Telegraph Original Stock is 21 23 ; the
Eight per Cent. Preference Shares are 31 3.1 ; and
Anglo-American Telegraph Shares 22 224-.
he sum of £132,000 in gold was taken to the
tidt: yesterday.
The Lancashire markets this week have opened
with increased dullness.
PartiCulars have been received from Lisbon of
the measures submitted by the Portuguese Go-
vernment to the Chambers with the view of equal-
i3ieg the revenue and expenditure of the country,
and which, it is calculated, will realise an addition
Of £900,000 per annum. The new taxes extend
Over several branches of the revenue. The pro-
perty-tax, which, since the abolition of the
16‘ dizitao3 l7
snore than 30 years ago, has been very
;8141 be increased, and is calculated to yield
450,000 per annum. A tax of 10 per cent. is to be
levied upon the net profits of all banking and other
anonymous companies, the same to be paid before
any dividend to the shareholders. The directors
n'ad employes in like manner are to pay a tax of 10
Per cent. upon their /1120112C5. A similar tax, but
°f 8 per cent. only, is to be payable from the net
Profits of all manufac'uring establishments. The
number
of pro.,iucial districts for the purposes of
levying the taxes is reduced to four only, simplify-
.t6 the collection and rendering it less expen-
sive. The personal taxes paid by the several
Vu'-cs engaged in leliness are increased. The
laws relating to the succession duties are altered,
and the rate augmented. The stamp duties are also
I▪
ncreased, while the Customs' duties are in certain
cases altered when calculated to lead to an increase
of revenue.
Telegrams from New York mention the loss of a
steamer iu the Brazilian trade, which is assumed to
be one of the mail line between New York and Rio
de Janeiro.
Messrs. Carter and Garthwaite, Manchester
Warehousemen, of Wattling-street, have stopped
Payment, but their liabilities are understood not to
be large.
The failure is also announced of Messrs. Wallace
and Murray, wincey manufacturers, of Glasgow,
with liabilities estimated at about £15,000.

At the meeting of the Buenos Ayres Great
Southern Railway Company (Limited) a dividen.l
of 14s. per share was declared.
At a meeting yesterday of the London and Aus-
tralian
Agency Corporation (Limited) a dividend
Was declared at the rate of 10 per cent. 1 er annum.
The annual meeting of the United Kingdom
Temperance and G,:neial Provident Institution was
held 3 esterday. The report stated that 2,429 policies
Were issued in 1868, for sums amounting to
449,269, and that the present annual income is
£220,000, and the capital £1,100,000.
The report of the directors of the London Char-
terel
Bank of Australia, to be presented to the
shareholders on the 4th proximo, rtcotnmends a
dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum.
At a meeting of the Imperial Continental Gas
Association a dividend of £2 10s. per share, and a
bonus of £1 per share, were declared.
The number of passengers using the Metropoli-
tan, Metropolitan District, the St. John's-wood,
and Hammersmith and City Railways, from Satur-
,;ay, the 15th instant, to Friday , the 21st, was
07,657, against 650,746 in 1868, showing
an in-
creaie of 256,911, or about 40 per cent,

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 UOVERNMENT ru NDS.
wirtt(,.t.ACcocnosuonlst, 93i it
93i
~,,,,eoPir2:leitt;Rueednutend
02f
91±

D 41 per Cont. Jan. 1894
& D°=s 5 per Con J an. 173
lnuities. 30 yrs, expire bbth Jan., 1880 —
EaDo. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 ---
o (Iced Seit Telegraph), Aug., 1908 ..^-
tiocillr Bills, £l,OOO, 2i 21 per Ct —
Bank of E
Do
£l.OO, £2OO, & £5OO par
L? ngland Stock. 41 per Cent
, opening
;-a.ada 4 per Cent. Bonds
inter-Colonial Uranium
x,,,,. iNbart GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
'14,1a tocic., 10f per Cent., April 1874... 211
DO. Opening, for Account _ -
~,'''°. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
L./so. 1 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Pape. 4 per Cent..,... 92
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 .. —
U°. Si per Oent. May 1879 —
Da 5 per Cent., Rep. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
IL. Deb., 5 per Cent. Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l,OOO —
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
rgentine Republic, 6 per Cent 79
Do., Scrip £45 paid ..
Atirtrian Bonds 5 per cent ..
Do. 1859 661
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
no. 4i. per Cent. 1852 —
Do. . do. 1858....
Do. do. 186 n
Do. do., 1863 -_
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
~, Do Account
"' -tilos Ayres 6 per Cont.
i.),0 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont , 56
-4°%, 6 per Cont.
U. ,ilia,,oo 14 6 per
rr
Cent...,
.. .. ............... 4.
-u„0. 3 per Cont.,
+.n.o. 6 per
co,,t.
1867
'''°' 7 per Cent. 1866
Dloaabian, 6 per bent. ............ .
,alliSh 3 per Cent., 1825 ............
"atobian Principalities, 7 par Cent —
IF! U° per Cent., 1867 B9
Lclultd?r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
Qrphan, 7 per Cent —
1,..,)0 Second Issue -
"0..£551, Bonds
uo. 4100 Bonds
Do. 1864 —
, Do. Account
...,o. £5OO Bonds
„Do. 410 C Bonds B7f 1
English Scrip, 1868 751 6
Do do. £45 pd — die
~.,_Qoyeiamtni Railway ireboutures
"reek 5 per Coat 1821- 5, ex Coups —.,
Do. Acecunt
Do. Conpow -
, a-130. Acealiat
? atoinala 5 per Cent .. •• -..—
11,0nduras Goy Rail. Loan., 10 p. Ot., all pd
`ll4an 5 per Cer t 1865 —
.ao. Account • "
bt, 9 c..•
Alartunmana Railway B2l
e 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account —
, Do. 1804
_."° 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
?%ontevidvat. C per Cent. —
kiv;,.."isli Imperial 5 per Cent ..
98
"° cl•• Graoasia
peDr 0. :Deferred lB
Do 3 per cell
trrian 5 per Cent. 1865 -
Do Account .. 771
it° CI Per Cent. (U):l4trren)
o 44 per Cent.. 1E62 • —
0 Account '