The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-24 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two oCLocK.
There was much inactivity to-day at the Stock
Exchange, but Consols maintained the price of
Yesterday. There is certainly fresh signs of reviv-
ing business, but whether they will continue is very
doubtful. Spanish stock was firm to-day, so was
Turkish and Peruvian. The supply of money is
abundant, but the demand for it very limited.
Consols are 93 1 for money; ditto, for Ac-
tpunt, ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 1 ;
New Ti ree per Cents, 913 1 ; Exchequer Bills
Xl,OOO, —; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 3 preen.;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 241.
India Stodk, 103 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1144 3 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1003 1 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4
Per Cent., —; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 13 prem.
In the Foreign Market Moscow-Jaroslaw Rail-
way Bonds have improved per cent. ; Charkof-
Azof and Turkish of 1862, 1 ; Peruvian of 1865
and Turkish of 1865, ; and Spaniish of 1567,
1-16. Subjoiued arc the prices :—Brazilian of
1865, 794 to 804 ; Chilian of 1867, 96 to 97
Egyptian of 1864, 8G to ; ditto of 1868, 75
to 76; Italian of 1861, 55 to; ; of 1868, 84 to 85 ;
Mexican, 141 to 4 ; Peruvian of 1865, 771 to # ;
Russian of 1866, 891 to 901 ; Nicolai, 65 to ;
Orel, 781 to 79, ex div. ; Moscow, 79 to 4.
American 5-20 Bonds are quoted 801 to 3, being.
per cent. lower ; Erie Railway shares, 221 to 1 '
shwing a decline of 1.
For Railway Stocks Great Eastern has improved
to 37 to ; London and North Western, 115 to
1; Great Western, 483 to 491 ; Midland, 115 to
; Tondon and South Western, 87 to 89 ; Brigh-
ton, 474 to 48 ; South Eastern 761 to 3 ; Great
Gorthern, 1061 to 107 ; Caledonian, 773 to 1
London, Chatham, and Dover, 171 to 4 ; and
Metropolitan, 1021 to 1034.
The sum of £lO,OOO in- gold was taken to the
-Bank yesteiday.
The Panama is telegraphed at Lisbon from Brazil
with £17,000 in gold.
The steamer Bangalore has reached Southampton
with the India, China, and Australian mails, and
specie to the value of £130,000.

kt The Council of India have announced that they
will resume their drawings on Calcutta and Madras
na the sth of May. The total to be tendered for
On that day is £350,000.
The,quotation of exchange brought by the Liver-
pool Pacific Mail Company's steamer Panama from
Rio is 181 d. to 180., with a decling tendency.
At the date of her calling at Rio there was no later
news from Paraguay.
At the meeting of the Standard Bank of British
South Africa, a dividend of 10s. per share for the
half-year was declared on the shares with £25 paid,
and of 4s. on those with £lO paid.
The half-yearly meeting of the Great Indian
Peninsula Railway Company is convened for the
14th of May.
A petition for the winding up of the North
Kent Extension Railway Company is to be heard
before Vice-Chancellor James on the Ist of May.
The applications for the Spanish Loan have
amounted to a larger sum than anticipated. The
Operation is considered a success. On the Con-
tinent the subscriptions have been very consider-
able.

A very favourable impression seems to have been
Produced among the holders of Turkish securities
by the statement from Constantinople, that the
forthcoming budget will contain some plan for the
redemption of the consolidated debt. Without
pronouncing a definite opinion, where so little is
actually known, we may observe that it is not un-
usual to have flattering announcements of this sort,
on the eve, as in the present case, of a new loan for
a large sum, and that it is very unlikely there will
be any important financial operation by the Turkish
Finance Minister without a fresh appeal for Eng-
lish capital.

The facility with which the Brazilian Govern-
tnent have been able to raise a small domestic loan
equal to about £600,000 in sterling at the present
rate of exchange, is regarded as further evi lenee
of the increasing accumulation of capital iu the
provinca of Rio de Janeiro. The sale of Govern-
ent Internal Bonds, by which the loan in ques-
tion has been effected, has been chiefly made to
the moneyed corporation on account of trust
funds, and to a bank in the metropolitan province.
The recent rise in the value of coffee, involving a
profit on its production of at least 25 per cent.,
has poured considerable additional wealth into that
Province. Other districts of the empire are almost
equally benefited by the rise in the value of sugar
and the price of cotton. The value of the trade of
the United Kingdom with Brazil, export and im-
port, for the year 1868, amounts in sterling to about
£13,000,000.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSIN PRICES.

~ UOVERNMEXT FUNDS.
°,Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
Ilper Cent. Reduced 9ll 1 }
rt evir 3 Cent per -
."(17 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894
A Do. 0 per Con J an. 187 3
willuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jun., 1880 —
Do. for 3() yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
no (Red Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1908 —
Xxchowzr Bills, £l,Nti, 2i per Ct.
Do £5OO
Do. £lOO & £2OO 3
'Milk of England Stock, 41 per Cent
De. opening
usnada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Omnium
India INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
t•tock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Opening, for Account -
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 pec Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates _
Do. Enfaced Pape. 4 per Cent..,....• —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ........• —
Do. 5/ per Cent. May 1879 —
Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Dob. 1872 —
Do do 1877
Do. do. 1882 —
D.). Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 —
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cont., £l,OOO
Do. under #l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Ar.rentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Do., Scrip £45 paid ..
A.nitrian Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent .............
Do. q per Cent. 1852,
Do. do. 1858.... ...
Do. do. 186 )
.
Do. do., 1863
Do. 5 per Cont., 1865
Do Account BO 79/
Blenos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) 1..
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
(Lilian 6 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent —
Do. 3 por Cent~
De. 6 per cent. 1867
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
0 lombian, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825.........
Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent 761 1
—Do 8 lEquador pent. New C
r Ce
o, 167
...nsBolidated, 1 per Cent.
aryptian, 7 per Cent
Ile Second Issue
Do. Abut, Bonds —
Do. £lOO Bonds • ••••
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. 4500 Bonds
Do. £IOC Bonds B7l
English Scrip, 1868 761 511
Do do. £45 pd _ dis
Government RAH way Debentures
Greet( 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups —
1)0. Account
-1.)0. Coupons
.
Do,
Account
Gua.temala 5 per cent .. — Ilonduras Gov Itail.l.oPn.,lop. Ct., all pd —ltalian 5 lice CErt., 1;165
-00. Account .. B3l
Mex
Do Allreintuaint Railway — ican 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 188 i
"0 per Cent. Anglo-Pronch
slontevi(Lan G per
.•
lijoGrish linNeri 5 per Cent -
mew G '
171
r...:1?:°;3 It):Ruseu a
peraf
rCr ri ,
per Cent. 1865
Do Account....,,
Do 41 per Cent. (UiNtrren)
Do 4/ per Cent.. 1862 -. 9-61
Do Account .
Porte—
guese 3 per Ct., 1853,13, 7, '9,'60,'2,' 35
Do. do. 1867 I
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Do
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, .£ Sc
41 per Cent ,1850
Do ii pe.p Cent" 1860 ..... 1111.1111.1111111 --