The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-12 00:00:00

DI-ONE-1--- MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Business to-day has been on an improved scale ;
Consols have risen, a slight advance has shown it-
self in the Foreign Alarket, and Railway shares
have, in some instances, increased in value. Al-
together there is decidedly a better tone prevalent
to-day, and it is hoped that a general and settled
improvement is at last commenced.

Ccwols are 931 4 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 931 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 92 4 ;
New Tkree per Cents, 92k 14 ; Annuities, April,
1885, 111 ; Exche 'tier Bills £l,OOO, 3 6 2 prem. ;
ditto £lOO, £9OO, and otZ,"00, 3 6 2 'rem.; Bank of
England Stock, 4 per Cent., 239.
India Stock, 10k per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 113/ ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, —; ditto Bonds £l,OOO 15 ;
ditto under £l,OOO, 6 7 prem.
111 the Foreign Market the only particular
feature is an advance of 1 per cent. in Italian 6
Per Cent. Scrip, the price b.2ing 84 to 85. Turkish
(1865) are / better, at 651 to 651 while Danubian
is flat at 76 to 77, being a decline of 4. Chiliau
Six per Cents. (1867) is quiet at 95 96 ; Egyptian
(1864), 86 87 ; do. Nine per Cents., 96+ to 96/ ;
ditto Viceroy Loan, 811 to 811 ; Peruvian of 1865,
784 to 794 ; Portuguese, 350 to 36 ; Russian Five
Cents, of 1862, 86 to 87 ; ditto Ord Vitesbk, 814
to 82; ditto Nicolai Railway, Four per Cents., 651
to 651; ditto Moscow Railway, 784 to 79 ; ditto
Charkof Azof, 764 to 77 ; and Spanish New Three
per Cents., 301 to 30+.
In the Railway Market prices are quoted as
follows:—London and North Western, 1151
to 1154. Great Western, 494 to 49/ ;
land, 1161 to 1161; London and South Western,
87 to 89 ; Great Eastern, 374 to / ; Brighton, 47/
to 48 ; South Eastern, 754 to 76 ; Metropolitan,
107 to 108 ; Great Northern, 107 to 108 ; ditto
A, 109 to 4 ; Caledonian, ;,791 to 80 ; and Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, 17 to 4.
The American Securities are rather stronger.
United States Five= Twenty Bonds show a recovery
of 4, being dealt in at 831 to 1. Erie Railway
shares are steady at 24 to 8 ; Illinois Central, 964
to 97.

The only change in the Bank shares is a decline
of 1 in London Joint Stock, the price being 33 to
31 ; Union of London is steady, at 36 to 37 ;
Oriental, 421 to 431 ; London and Westminster,
63i to 641; London and County, 51 to 52 ; Im-
perial Ottoman, 21.- to 21 prem. ; Alliance, 14 to
15; Agra (A), 11 to 11/.
Hudson's Bay Shares are / lower, at 121 to
121; General Credit is quiet at 1/ to 1 dis. ; In-
ternational Finance, 11 to 11 dis. ; and Anglo-
American, 22/ to 221.
The sum of £BO,OOO in gold was taken to the
Bank on Saturday.
The Delta, from Alexandria, has brought £8,850.
The Ripon left Southampton on Saturday with
£140,000 for Bombay—£Bo,ooo in silver and
£60,000 in gold.
The half-monthly settlement in shares and
foreign stocks will begin to-morrow (" continuation
day") and end on Thursday.
It is understood that one-third of the Guatemala
Loan has been applied for in fully paid-up bonds,
and from the character of the applications it is pro-
bable that a further considerable amount will be paid
up in full on allotment.

It is alleged that an interdict is lodged for hear-
ing on Monday in the Scotch Courts to restrain the
payment of the Caledonian Railway dividend, on
grounds distinct from those lately put forward by
the North British directors, and recommended by
leading Scotch counsel as constituting a valid claim.
The applicant is Mr. John Irving, vice-chairman of
the Corlisle and Silloth Bay Railway, and he is un-
derstood both to apply in that capacity and as a
holder of North British Border Union Stock and of
Port Carlisle stock, which lines, as well as the
Silloth Bay, are leased to the North British. The
application is made on various grounds, and is not
in support of the joint purse arrangement, but is
directed against both the Caledonian and North
British Companies.
The failure is announc.3l of Messrs J. Oldfield

and Co., worsted spinners, and Messrs. Ogden and
Co., woolstaplers, at Halifax. The liabilities of

the former are stated at £15,000. Those of the
latter are said to be larger.
The creditors of Messrs. John Penningtoa and
Co., spinners and manufacturers of Colne, have
agreet to a composition of ss. in the pound.

It is stated that lliggs, the defaulting clerk of
the Central Gas Company, has embezzled £BO ,000,
and that only a small portion of the amount will
be recovered.
Proposals have been published for an issue in
London of a moiety of the shares of two large Aus-
tralian Gold companies called, respectively, the
Winter's Freehold Gold Mining Company, and the
Great North-Western Company.
A telegram has been received at Lloyd's with
intelligence of the loss of the Aura steamer, owned
by Messrs. Malcolmson and Co., by striking on the
Manacles-rock, near Land's-end, during a fog ;
crew saved by their boats. She was on her passage
from Plymouth for Waterford, and was registered
as 696 tons burden. The owners were insured.
The accounts from California continue to hold
out the prospect of good grain crops. Wheat and
barley, it is said, promise better than in any pre-
vious year. -
The directors of the Dutch Rhenish Railway
Company have issued a circular, wherein they
state the terms on which they offer to the pro-
prietors of the new shares the option of paying up
in full by one payment the calls still due upon
5,000 of the new shares of the company, in accord-
ance with the resolution of the Board of Commis-
saries, dated the Ist instant.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

UOVERNMENT FUNDS.
a per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
B per Cent. Reduced 92 I-
New 8 per Cent
New 2± per Cont. Jan. 1894
Do. b per CenlB73 —
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 --
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 lli
(RedEiDehon Sea Telei„raph), Aug., 1908 —
ki or Bills, £l,OOO, 2i per Ct.
Do. 3 6 2 pm
Do £5OO
£lOO & £2OO
Bank of England Stock l'4 00
•n ••
De. opening **** .. '..--:. per Cent
Canada 4 per Cent. 13;;;Cie ********************* '
Inter-Colonial Uranium **** ......: * ********** --
INDIAN UOVEN.NMENT bdECVIZI:TIis
India Mock, 104 per Cent.., April 18748, 2lO
Do. Opening, for: ccount ****************** -
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 ...........
I
Do. 4 per Cent.., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Pape,. 4 per Cent.. ... —
Do. 5 par Cert., Jan. 1872 ..... ...t. —
Do. 5} per Cent. May 1879
D 3 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882.., —
De). Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 -7
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,000
Do. undor £l,OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ............ 791 I
Do., Scrip £45 paid ..
A.uitrian Bonde 5 per cent
Do. 1859
llrsailian 5 per Cent 654
Do. li per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do. 1858....
ispo. do. 186 1
i'°- do., 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
B Do Account
804 4

ienos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Cub LDo a, 6 2 p
perer Cent. (Deferred 3 per Ueut ) ,
_
Cent.
Odilian 6 per Cent
Do. 4i per Cent.,,,.,,_
... .
Do. 3 per Cont.,
95i 1
1)0. 6 per cent. 1867
to. 7 per Cent., 1866
Clo [Mau, 6 per Ce.nt.
Danisn, 3 p.,r Cent., 1825
Dan.tian Principalities, 7 per Cent 763-4,
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 —
Xquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
Egyptian, 7 per Cent —
Ma fiecoad issue
.110. .totil. Ilulpih —
Do. $lOO Bonds
Do. 1864
Lu. Account
DO. kko Bonds
Eoo. .CIOC Bonds B7-1 f
nglish Scrip, 1868 - i
Do do. :445 pd — dis
Government Railway Debentures
Cireeir b per Conti I§2*--b, ez Goups.„,„, --