The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-12 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocKi

Consols are 928 _a for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 92 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 901 ;
New Thee per Cents, 91 1 901 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, —; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 5 dis.;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —•
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 212 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
5 per Cent., 104 ; ditto Debentures, 1021.
The Foreign Stock Market is somewhat heavy.
Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and one or two
others are fractionally lower. The quotations are :
77 to 78 ; Egyptian (1864), 841 to 851 ;
ditto (1868), 74 to 741 ; Viceroy Seven per Cei.ts
771 to 78 ; ditto Nine ler Cen's., 95 to 96
Italian, 55'4'- to 56 ; Tobacco Loan, 851 to 861
Peruvian, 751 to 75i Portuguese, 33 to 34 ; Rus-
sian (1862), 83 to 834 ; Orel Vitebsk, 761 to 77
.N 'colas, 63 to 631 ; Moscow, 78 to 79 ; Charkof,
741 to 751 ; Honduras, 82 to 84 ; Spanish, 271 to
27; ; Turkish Five per Cents. 411 to 4g ; ditto
Six per Cents., 65 to 631.
Railway Shares are rather stronger, but the actual
changes iu prices are comparatively unimportant.
Caledonian, London and Brighton, and Metropolitan
are each 8 better, being quoted at 771 to 78, 454 to
46, and 100 to 1001 respectively ; but London,
Chatham, and Dover is 8 lower, at 161 to 161.
Great Eastern is steady, at 37 to 371 ; Great Nor-
thern, 1051 to 106 ; ditto (A), 106 to 107 ; Great
Western, 471 to 47:1 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1221 to 1223 ; London and North Western, 1141
to 114141 ; Metropolitan Extension, 951 to 961 ;
Midland, 1111 to 1114 ; and South -Eastern,
741 to 741.
American Securities are flat. The Five-Twenty
Bonds are 1 lower, at 78. Erie Shares are quiet,
at 191 to 181 ; Illinois, 951 to 96 ; and Atlantic
and Great Western Bonds, 24 to 25.
In Canadian Railways, Grand Trunk is 4 better,
at 13:1 to 141 ; while Great Western of Canada is
lower, at 131 to 134.
Continental Railway Shares are steady. Great
Luxemburg is unaltered at 10 to 101 ; and Lom-
bardo-Venetian at 191 to 191.
Very little business continues to be done in Bank
Shares, and prices generally are steady, the only
change being a decline of 1 in Imperial Ottoman,
the quotation being 11 to 21 prem.
Mi.,cellaneous securities show no particular
change. Anglo-American Telegraph is inquired
for at 22 to 221 ; Hudson's Bay is quiet at 121 to
12i ; National discount, 111 ; General Credit, 11
to 1i dis. ; International Finance, 24 to 11 dis.
The Corn trade is quiet, but prices are firm upon
short supplies.
The sum of £31,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday. Owing to the turn iu the ex-
changes, occasioned by the extent to which holders
of foreign securities have lightened themselves dur-
ing the past few days by sales to Continental
buyers, it is thought probable a portion of the
£165,000 brought by the Somersetshire may also be
sent in.

The report of the English Bank of Rio de Janeiro,
to be presented on the 24th instant, recommends
a dividend of 3s. per share, making, with the pre-
vious distribution of like amount, 8 per cent. for the
year.

The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of £2,708 over last year.

An extraordinary meeting of the Great Northern
Railway Company will be held on the 25th instant,
" when an agreement between the Company and
the Metropolitan Railway Company for the use. of
the Metropolitan Railway between King's-cross and
Moorgate-street, and the stations thereon, will be
sustained for approval."
The annual meeting of the Trust and Loan Com-
pany of Upper Canada is convened for the 31st
inst., when a dividend is to be declared.
The half-yearly meeting of the Anglo-Egyptian
Banking Company, (Limited) is called for the 19th
inst., when an interim dividend will be declared.
It transpired yesterday that a clerk of old stand-
ing in a leading banking-house has absconded, but
the reports as to the amount of his defalcations
were greatly exaggerated.

The passages of the Somersetshire, which has
just arrived from Melbourne, were 60 days out
and 60 days house. She was coated for the first
time with Messrs. Lamont and M'lnnes's compo-
sitions, and the results were awaited with some
interest.
The state of panic which has existed the last few
days has almost passed away. A little anxiety is
manifested with regard to the future value of
money and the progress of diplomatic relations
between England and America. For the present
the fluctuations in all classes of securities have re-
ceived a check, and some short period will have to
elapse before prices will recover their former buoy-
ancy. The repression of speculation will be satis-
factory, because the introduction of the numerous
large loans and the extensive operations in Ameri-
can securities had placed affairs in a rather fictitious
position. After next week it is believed, if Conti-
nental finance should remain in the same quiescent
state, there will, at least in several directions, be a
favourable change.
At yesterday's sale at the " Open Stock Ex-
change [(Limited)" :—Agricultural Hall and Far-
mers' Club Company (Limited), tally paid, sold at
298- per share ; Bryn Gwiog Mine, Cost Book,
all calls paid, 6d.; Confederate States • Cotton
Loan (Schroder's), 4 per cent.; Consolidated
Land Company of France (Limited), Bonds
£lO each, 6 per cent. interest, redeem-
able 1873, 31 per bond ; Credit Foncier
of England (Limited), fully paid, 2i per
share; East Bottle hill Mine, Cost Book, all call
paid, 6d. per share ; Imperial Land Company of
Alarseilles, Bonds £2O each, 6 per cent. interest,
redeemable 1873, 51 51 per bond ; London Taverns
Company (Limited), £5 paid, £2 4s. 6d. per share;
o
atlands Park Hotel Company (Limited), full paid,
228. 6d.

BRITISH FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
OVER.NMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
3 per Cent. Reduced 9oi
New 3 per Cent
91 90}
ew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 6 per Cen inn. 1873 e.
Annuitios„Bo yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.

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Do. for SO yrs, expire sth April 1885
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 _
Exeliewn Bills, £l,OOO, 2i 21 per Ct
Do £500
De. £lOO lz £2OO

Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent —
De. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
lnter-Colonial Ommum —
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITI,ES
In lia tock, 10k per Cent., April 18.4
Do. Opening, for Account 4 .....................
114 i
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 ...........
Do. 4pe r Cent., Oct. 1888 ...............
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Do. Certificates
Do. Enlaced Pape. 4 per Clint T."
Do. 5 per Cent Jan. 1872 ~......
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Do. 5f per Cent. May 1879 --
- "s) 5 Per Cent., Rup, Deb. 1872
Do
DJ. Deb., spr do 1877 —
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Do.
do. 1882
Do. Bond
554 8, 4 per Cent., .£1,00(1
e Cent., Aug. 1873
vo. under £l,OOO
Argentin!' °RellpEuibGl:,76 5/
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2 DeinBts9 —
Do. do. 186 , —
Do de..
18613 —
Do.
5 per Cent., 1865
110 Account ;io
B .enoB Ayres 6 p r Cant.
Do per Cent. k.Deferred 3 per Cent —
Cuba 2 6
per ent.
U,ate..ll 6 perC Cent
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...i o. 6 per co. t. 1867. 9oi
'o. , per Pent., L-;c6
C lo 4,,,-.!., 6 per Cent.
Dan z 1 3pr c- t 14,5
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Do 8 per Cent., 1867
EquaJor Nt.v., ConAolidtue,i. 1 per Cent
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Do. .4100 Bonds
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