The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-19 00:00:00

orrEr MARKET

AND
COADIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITT, Two 'CLocic.
Government Securities to-day s hare d o
the general
dullness that prevailed at the Stock Exchange.
Nees gave way slightly, and the quotations formost
of the leading Foreign Securities were the turn lower.
In the Railway Market the only advance in price
was Caledonian. The rate si discount in the house
is still below the Bank minimum.
Consols are 93 k for money; ditto, for Ac-
,e3ant, 93k ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 914 ;
ilevr Three per Cents, 94 4 I; Annuities, April,
1885, 11 13-16 ; Exchequer Bills£l,ooo, 6 prem. ;
En
ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 4 prem. ; Bank of
gland Stock, 4 per Cent.,
ditlndia Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 210 ;
5 per Cent. Cent
„Tuly, 1880, —; ditto 4 per
~ Oct., 1888, ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per
Cent., 92 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 12 8 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish and Italian Five
per Cents, have declined 1. Italian are 551 55 lexie , ;
an, 1,1'" 14k •; Greek, 111 12 ; New Spanish,
30i 301 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 418 414.
_ Russian Charkoff-Azof Railway, 77 ; and the
llo,nduras Railway Loan at 82 83 ex c.
l'he Danubian Commission Guaranteed Loan is
k) 1 prem.
In railway market Caledonians have improved
A, and Metropolitan 1. Great Eastern have fallen
16) Great Northern 1, Lancashire 4, .Metropo!i-
'an 1, Midland k, Sheffield 1, and Brighton 1,
all lower. Prices are follows :--Caledonian,
dittol.l7a ist faster ; 37Tel ; Western, 491 ; Great
Great Northern, 107 1
tan, 102113°9;i 93
; Lancashire, 123 1 ; Metropoli-
ditto Extension, 1001 13; Midland,
114 i a
; Sheffield, 55;1 6 ; Brighton, 47! 84 ;
North British, 35 1 ; North Western, 114,t 151 ;
North stern, 1021 31 ; South Eastern, 76f ;
Chatham and Dover, 17 to
4.
AtteriCan 5-20 Bonds have declined 814 to 81 ;
the 1885
97 gds Bonds to 79 794 ; and the Ten-Forty
Bo are 1 lower, at 732- 738 ; Illinois Central are
98 ; and Eries are 1 better, at 231 24.
The - sumeu of £7,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank on Saturday.
The India and China mail steamer Ceylon has
taken out £258,449.
It is reported that the negotiations with regard
to the contemplated Italian loan on the ecclesiastica
properties recently in progress with some French
banking establishment have been broken off, and
that resort will for the moment be had to the home
market.
It is also stated that arrangements for the carry-
ing Out of the general scheme for the construction
of Turkish railways have been concluded with the
South Austrian Railway Company.
There is a rumour that the subscription list for
ZlO,OOOOOOO Three per Cent Stock on account of
.htha Spanish Loan, recently contracted for by
stizbssrasc'h°PPenheim and Co., of Paris, and Messrs.
I of Frankfort, in concert with several
Powerful establishments, will be opened in Paris on
the 22d and 23d inst.
The coupons due the Ist May on the Russian 3
Per Cent. Loan of 1859 are advertised for payment
ia due course.
With reference to the second Russian Govern-
tent 41 per cent. Loan, negotiated through Messrs.
otaring Brothers and Co., and Messrs. Hope and
100 of Amsterdam, 920 bonds, amounting to
,000 sterling, are to be paid off on the Ist of
June next.
The fiscal agents of the Guatemala Government
have given notice of the cancelment of £lO,OOO Five
Per Cent. Guatemala Bonds of 1856, on account of
the Sinking Fund. The clauses relating to the
Sinking Fund being not clearly worded the repre-
sentative of Guatemala has applied to his Govern-
ruent for authority to cancel au additional sum of
£lO,OOO during the present year, " in order to give
most liberal interpretation to the provisions of the
bonds."

The fifth ordinary general meeting of the share-
holders of the Australian Mortgage Land and
Pinang Company (Limited) will be held in the
City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, on the 28th
just.

The ship Lord Palmerston, 1,075 tons register,
outward bound to Calcutta from Liverpool, has
been totally lost. A telegr im received from L;s-
bon at Lloyd's reports that she foundered on the
18th of March, and that her crew were saved. She
bad ou boaid 1,680 tolls of salt, which, with the
Ship, was insured at Lloy'ds.
The report of the Nictheroy (Brazil) Gas Com-
pany (Limited), describes the preliminary opera-
tions, and states that the directors are assured that
as soon as the works have commenced, the exten-
mon of the privileges already applied for and re-
nOmmended by the directors of the public works
Will be granted.
special general meeting of the Metropolitan
District Railway Company is convened for the 4th
of May, to consider a bill now pending which pro-
Poses to grant further powers to the company.
The report of the directors of the London and
Provincial Law Assurance Society, presented at the
annual meeting, stated that the new policies issued
were 220 in number, assuring £306,625, and pro-
doallelll,l in new premiums the sum of £10,067 19s.
he total premiums received in the year were
77,237 95. 6d., and the income from all sources
hamoun ted to £97,937 12s. id. The claims by death
h have been paid during the year amounted,
including bonuses, to £24,174115. 11d. The exist-
ing assurances exceed two millions and a half. The
assets of the society amounted to £495,183 14s. 9d.

13EITIS II FUNDS-TWO O'CLOCK.

;:
1113.13eirrtiteceoVERNNiEn FUNDS.
Cent. Consols
1t e
dneeAccount,d
......... 93 /
931
911
New 3 per Cent
N
Dolt
per
Cent • ...... •..c. ............ I I i
per ‘ • Jan. 18J4
.3 Can )9.n. 1873
Annuities, $O yrs, tapir sth Jan., 1880..
DDoo.(fßoord3sOzs expire sth April 1885 —
e evaph) Aug., 1908 —
Eichequor Bills, .£l,oou, 24 per Ct.
De
£5OO
Do.
£lOO lc ..£2OO .. 4
sank of England Stock, 41 per. ......... n..t.... ..
... ---
DP. opening . . ..
Canada 4 per Cent: .......... ...
later-Colonial Cranium ..
......."........ ---
iNDIAIi IiOVRILNMENT"SRLIj ..... .. ;Et:
India Mock, 101 per Cent April 1874 2lO
Do. Opening, for Account ..
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 - -
Do. 4 pet. Cent., Oct. 1.888
Do. Certificates --
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent....,-.
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ~......
Do. 5i per Cent. May 1879
DJ 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 _
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
D 4. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent.,
.£l,OOO
12 8 pm
Do. under
.£l.OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Do., script 45 paid
_
_
4ttntri Bonds 5 per cent
Do. ' 1859
74i
/irazilian 5 per Cent
_
Do. 44 per Cent. 1852
___
Do. do. 1858„...
70f
Co. de. 186 )
681-,
1)0. do., 1863
_
Do. 5 per Cant., 1865
Do Account ...................................
_BO i
lik.enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cuba,Cu 6 per Cent.
noillan 6 per Cent
Do.- 41 Per C0nt..... ...........
3 per Dent~
120. 6 per ce,t. 1867,
.......... 90.
0 Do. 7 per Cent., 186 G• ..........
, ........ 102 i
lo -nbian, 6 per Cont.
s
DO 3 per Cont. 1825:: ........
Danish,
rincipalities, 7.174;/....c0n,t —
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 ... • ..... ""
Equador New Conzlolhg. ..... .. 1: per Cent
E;yptian, 7 per Cent..
.......
DolJe seecwil Cent, •,.. ........ .. . ..
. 450 t 130108 .......... •
O. £lOO ands ......•
„. 83
...................... . •
DO.
18(4
Do.
Account ..................
Do. £5OO Bonds
EngliDe. 410 C Bonds . ~.
..
sh Scrip, 1868.
dis
Do
do. :£45 pd
Governma4 Railway Debentures
Greek 5 per Cont., 182,1. 5, ex Coups ......
120 Do. Account . ............................ •
Do. Coupons. ........................... . ~
Gatem. •Account . -
ala 5 per Cent . • ............... •. 4 _7
Rnriduras Gov Rail. 10p..Ct., all p