The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLOCK.
To-day there was an improved demand for Seen-
iities, and prices were the turn better. In the
Foreign market Spanish stock was rather depressed,
but prices did not give way; and in Railway shares
there was rather more business than usual doing at
improved quotations.
Uonsols are uow at 93f to 93 1 for money ;
ditto, for Account, 93 1 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 914 ; New Three per Cents, 91f 4 ;
Xxchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, par ; June,
7 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
7 prem. ; June, prem. ; Bank of England
Stock, 4 per Cent., shut, 239 8 ex div. for opening.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, ; ditto 4
Per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
4._ per Cent., ; ditto Bouds £l,OOO, 23 prem. ;

ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 28 prem.
In the Foreign Market there a decline in Ita-
lian and Turkish. Prices are now as follows :
Argentine, 811 811 ; Brazillian, 83 to 84 ; Egyp-
tian (1864), 85 to 86 ex div. ; ditto (1868), 761
to 771 ; Viceroy's Seven per Cent., 81 to 811;
ditto, Nine per Cents., 971 to 981; Italian, 521
to 521 ; ditto Tobacco Loan, 84 to 86 ; Peruvian,
794 to 791; Poruguese, 33 to 34 ; Orel, 841 to
84:1 ; Nicolas, 671 to 68 ; Moscow, 83 to 831;
Charkof, 801 to 801 ; Spanish, 271 to 271 ; and
Turkish Five per Cents., 42 to 421.
In the Railway Market prices have improved.
They are now as follows :—Caledonian 821 to 83 ;
Great Eastern 361 to 364 ; Great Northern, 1031
to 1041. ; ditto (A), 1001 to 101; ; Great Western,
541 to 541 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1231 to
124 ; London and Brighton, 431 to 44 ; London,
Chatham, and Dover, 16 to 161 ; London and
North Western, 1151 to 1161 ; London and South
Western, 90 to 91 ; Metropolitan, 891 to 891 ;
Midland, 115 to; 1161 ; North Eastern (Berwick),
1141 to 1141 ; and South Eastern, 751 to 761.
There is rather an active demand for discount at
28 to 21- per cent.
W heat has fallen to-day at Mark-lane,;it is now
le. to 2s. lower.

American Five-Twenty Bonds are 84 to 844 ;
ditto (1865), 833 to 83Z ; ditto (1867), 823 to 83 ;
Ten-Forties, 751 to 761 ; and Erie Railroad Shares,
231 to 2441.
French Telegraph Cables have improved I, the
price being 17 to 17-1. Anglo-American is steady,
at 201 to 203 ; and Atlantic Eight per Cents., at
2i to 24.
In Bank Shares Anglo-Austrian are 11 to 13,
ex new prem. ; Chartered Mercantile, 321 to 331 ;
Consolidated, 4i to 4s ; Imperial Bank, 16 to 17 ;
Imperial Ottoman, 21 to 2k prem. ; London and
County, 49 to 50 ; London and Westminster, 571
to 58,

In - Miscellaneous Securities Hudson's Bay are
now l3i to a ; International Finance, 21 to 1 dis. ;
General Credit, 11 to 1 dis. ; and National Dis-
count, 10i to 111.
There were no gold operations at the Bank on
Saturday.
The Bangalore, for Alexandria, has taken out
£17)358, and the Atrato, for the West Indies,
£9,670.
Lisbon letters state that the news from Brazil of
the anticipated termination of the Paraguayan war
has been received with great satisfaction in that
City, it being understood that large sums at Rio
have only been waiting an improvement in the rate
of exchange to be remitted to Portugal, where a con-
siderable improvement in business is consequently
expected.
Bills have been returned of. Messrs. Charles
Qedalia and Co., described as banking agents, of
Threadneedle-street, but their liabilities are under-
stood to be moderate. The house has been esta-
blished only about twelve months.
The advices from Montevideo by the present
mail state that negotiations for a new loan of
£1,000,000 for the Uruguayan Republic are likely
soon to he attempted in London. The main object
would be the redemption of the paper currency,
Which is estimated at £BOO,OOO.
The Montreal Daily News gives a summary of
the gold production of Nova Scotia fur the eight
Years ended the 31st of December last, this com-
prising nearly the entire period since the first dis-
covery. The total yield in that interval is stated
to have been 160,000 ounces, valued at £640,000,
nearly the whole of which was obtained from quartz.
hence the yearly average has been 20,000 ounces,
Worth £BO,OOO. The best year was 1867, when
the total reached nearly 30,000 ounces. The num-
ber of miners employed is about 700 or 800.
The directors of the Cape Railway Company
have decided on recommending the payment of a
dividend for the half year ending the 30th June
last on
the ordinary stock at the rate of 4 per
e_ient• per annum, in addition to the agreed divi-
dend at 6 per cent. per annum on the preference
stock.
A meeting of the Great Luxembourg Railway
c „°lnPany will be held in London on the 7th inst.
11e half yearly meeting is called for the 20th at
-1.
Brussels, when " the board will communicate to
the shareholders an agreement, concluded the 17th
August last, with the Eastern of France Railway
Conapany.,l
Creditors of the Anglo-lonian Steam Naviga-
tion Company (Limited) are required to send the
Particular% of their claims to the liquidatcrs by the
inst.

ZRITISI FiIUIS-TWO O'CLOCK.

a uOVERNMENT FUNDS.:
per, ueut. Consols
3 Ditto for Account, Oct. 6.
3 per Cent 914
..,. Reduced
m 0,,,, 914 4
per Cent
110'W 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894
A 33
0. per Cen J an. 1873
'oanuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
D 0• for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
r Do (Red Sea 7ele6raph), Aug„ 1908 —
zellequor Bills, £l,OOO, 21 p. Ct. March par
133 Do. 3 do. June 7
£lOO, £2OO & £5OO 7 Pm
1340 k of England Stock, 411 per Cent
Can
239 8
1:1°• oPening
, ada .1
per Cent. Bonds —
-mter-Colonial Uranium
i„,„ INDIAN- (.1017EILNbiENT SECURITIES
''',.‘", Lock, 104 per Cent., April 1874...
",0. Opening, for Account —
D 0.4
5 per Cent. July, 1880
—T.,°. I per Cent., Oct. 1888
••,0. Certificates
Do. Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cent.. ... —
DO°.D ?,,per Cent., Jan. 1872 ..,. —
Do al per Cent. May 1879 —
5 per Cent Rup. Deb. 1872 —
•I
Do do 1877 —
~ Do. do. 1882 —
"•'•:+. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~
23 pm
tu.l3onds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
28
0. under Xl.OOO
ITPIRION FINDIi-
-814 4
4. rgeutine Republic, 6 per Cent
4ultrien Bonds 5 per cent
TWO 11'01.00.11.
b Do. 1859 —
..rtzilian 5 per Cent _
DO' 44 per Cent. 1852
do 1858....
Do.
au
1860 _
Do*
Do do
_, • 5 ~ 1863
per Cent., 1865
n "(3° Account B3l 4
•"4 nos Ayres 6 per Cent.
,_11))0 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
6,1 It, 6 per Cont.
fuja:ll43l6pPelFrreCCeenennttt
s% 7 per Cont.., 1866
0 -(i'o. por cent. 1867
ba„Ti'l-nan per Cent.
t„''''ll, 3 p„r Cent., 1825
4,,7lnLian Principalities, 7 per Cent 794
DO gars
',lllador peNew Cr Cent.,o 1867 —
nsolidated, 1 per Cent 904
4.Yttian, 7 per Cent...-
A° ~,eened issue •..
r,o •
...0 .--
. — • .soi.ii, Bonds
DD. 4 ••100 Bonds ..... 85
Do.
1864 —
Do
D ~- • Account
r,Bonds
•-,,,,Q• 4106 Pond
.00. 7 8
u_ per Cent., 1868 .. ..
Qrerelnitent Railway Debentures -
4,--',O. Acccunt
• --
),0. Coupon,
4 -1-10. accountitt,i)'t,";s per Cent
it,!l-Luras Gov Rail. Lo;n., 10 p.,Ct., all pd 821
,lau 5 per Cent., 1865 —
D
•:,0. per
.•
kex°* treran'peraCneanitlailwaY .
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Ditto for Account