The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-19 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Consols are 924 1 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 921 4 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 91 4 ;
New Three per Cents, 91 ; Exchequer Bills
£4,000, 8 dis.; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, -r-;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, 210 11 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1144; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 1; ditto Enfaced Paper,
5 per Cent., —; ditto Debentures, 1024 ; ditto
Bonds £l,OOO, par.
the Railway Shares Great Westerns are
better, Great Northern 4, Sheffield 4, Brighton 4,
North Western -a, and South Eastern 4. Great
Northern A are 4 lower, Metropolitan 4, and Mid-
land 1. The quotations are :—Caledonian, 774; Great
Western, 474 8 ; Great Eastern, 37 4 ; Great
Northern, 105 6 ; ditto A, 105 4 6 ; Lancashire,
122 ; Metropolitan, 961 1 ; Midland, 110-a 1 ;
Sheffield, 59-4 4 ; Brighton, 45 -k ; North British,
31 4; Ncrth IVes'ern, 1144 ls¢; North Eastern,
1034 4; South Eastern, 744 5 ; Chatham and
Dover, 1631..
American Five-Twenties are 78 781 ; the 1885
Bonds, at 751 75; but the Ten-Forties are 4 higher,
at 714 714. Erie have reeeded 4,[to 19 194 , Illi-
nois Centrals are 4- higher, at 954 96.
In the Foreign Market stocks are dull, New
Spanish Three per Cents. and Italian Five per
Cents, marking a decline of at 284 281, and 561
564 respectively. Mexican Bonds have risen 4, to
124 13 ; and Turkish Five per Cents. are 4 better,
at 428 424.
The Honduras Loan is quoted at 82 84 ex
coupon.

In Miscellaneous Shares the quotations arc—
Credit Foncier of England, 2i to 2i ; General
Credit and Discount, 1 to 11 dia. ; General Steam,
27 to 29.

In Bank Shares prices are marked as follows :
13k to 14i ; London and County, 50k to
51i ; London Joint Stock, 32k to 331 ; London
and Westminster, 64 to 65 ; and Union of Lon-
don, 35 to 36.
The attendance at Mark-lane this morning was
very thin, the supplies of wheat perhaps were very
moderate in extent, but the demand was limited.
Factors were, however, able to obtain quite as much
money as last Monday.
The failure of a dealer in the Stock Exchange is
announced, but his liabilities are stated to be quite
unimportant.

Bar gold valued at £9,000 was sent into the
Bank yesterday.
The Highflyer has arrived from Melbourne with
£lOl,OOO in gold ; the City of Baltimore, from
New York, with £3,000 ; and the City of Man-
chester, from Halifax, with £378.

The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Tuesday, 25th inst., a special settling-day in the
partly paid and fully paid up scrip of the Four per
Cent. Bonds of the Russian Government Loan for
110X11,,000. To be officially quoted.

The advices from Australia announce the further
shiptnews of gold to the amount of £163,500,
viz., £86,212 by the Queen of Nations, £37,328 by
the Dunbar Castle, £25,000 by the Canaan, and
£25,000 by the Ruahine steamer. It is expected
that the Tanjore, from Alexandria, due this week,
will bring £106,000 in silver.
Telegrams from New York announce the fai:ure
of Messrs. Schepeler and Co., merchants, with
liabilities for a considerable amount, including a
moderate sum due in Europe.
The destruction by fire of the ship Blue Jacket,
from New Zealand, has, it is understood, resulted
in a loss to the underwriters of about £130,000. Of
the £63,000 in gold on board, £48,000 was aban-
doned with the vessel.
A petition for the winding up of the "Portu-
guese Contract Company (Limited)" is to be
heard before Vice-Chancellor Malins on the 21th
inst.

A correspondent states that the Council of Ad-
ministration of the Anglo-Austrian Bank pro-
po .e to make a distribution as follows, viz., to pay
in c.ish Os. per share ; to retain £2 10s. as a pay-
ment to complete 50 per cent. on a whole share,
and to allot for every five original shares a new
share; with 50 per cent. paid up.
At the meeting of the proprietors of the Char-
tered Metcantile Bank of India, London, and
China, the director' report was adopted. The ntA
profits for the year amounted to £123,376, out of
Which £45,000 has been pail in two half-yearly
dividends, equal to 6 per cent. per annum.
The seventh ordinary general meeting of the
proprietors of the Loudon Chartered Bank of Aus-
tralia will be held on the 4th of June, for the de-
claration of a dividend and other purposes.
The fifth ordinary general meeting of the City
Terminus Hotel Company (Limited) is called for
the 26th inst.
The Manchester markets this week have opened
with a little less feebleness of tone.
Our letters from Alexandria state that the Egyp-
tian Government have just made an arrangement
with the Suez Canal Company which puts an end
to every anterior and future claim. Until now
there were still several questions undecided, out of
Which claims and demands of indemnities might
have arisen, which would have proved onerous to the
Egyptian
Government. One of these questions, in
fact the principal one, was the concession given by
Said Pasha to the Company of exemption from all
duties on every kind of merchandise and material
Imported into Egypt—a most dangerous grant as
regards the future. " With the new port of Port
Said established, it might have led to immense
difficulties, claims, and disputes." The Viceroy has
now succeeded in annulling that concession together
with other rights which the Canal Company had
considered themselves to have by a simple ar-
rangement, involving no liability to pay any ready
Money, nor any present or future real demand on
the Treasury. It provides for the extinction of the
concession in its every detail, and in future the
company will have to pay duties for all merchandise
imported, the same as every individual in the coun-
try, and the company cease to have any special pri-
vilege on the navagation of the fresh-water canal,
and must submit to the same taxations and regula-
tions as those established for strangers. It leaves
to the Egyptian Government in future the mono-
poly of the postal and telegraphic service through-
out the Canal, as well as the fishery of the whole of
the waters, including the Lakes. The company
further cede to the Government all the hospitals,
with their material, throughout the isthmus, and
all the houses, constructions, and warehouses along
the Canal, with the exception of those in the prin-
cipal towns established, such as Ismaliah and Port
Said, and will pay 5 per cent. per annum of their
value (as rent) for any which they may still wish
to occupy or make use of after the present date.
A'l these concessions of rights on the part of the
company are made for the sum of £1,200,000.

ERITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
8 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
91
8 Per Cent. Reduced 1
d
•
,o 1 1
per Cent
7
-1.4 w 2i per Cont. Jan. 1894
00- f.) per Cen ~ an. 1878
tunuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1881 —
Do. for SU yrs, aspire sth April 1885 -
Do (Red Boy. Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
4
Ezenetitt-..4 Bills, £l,oou, '2 2} per Ct 8 dis
Do
Do.
.£5OO
4100 & £2OO —
113.nk of England
opeaing Stock, 41- per Cent
DrA. 241
t% anada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
In ter-Colunial °aluma
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
ITilitt tuck, 101 per Cent April 18i4 2lO 11 12
.1
Do. Opening, for Account
--,
.
Jo. 5 per cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 pee Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Eufaced Papei 4 per Cant..
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ~..„ ~,. lO4
00.4 per Cent. May 1879 —DJ 5 per Cont.,Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
De. do. 1882 —
1),.. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 187 d
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cont., ..£l,000
Do. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Aepublie, 6 per Gent ' it, tt. Mt?, 78} i

Do., Scrip .C 45 paid ..
1u Arian Bonds 5 per cent ..
Do. 1859 4
Brazilian 5 per Cent 751
la. 1} per Cent. 1852
Do. do. 18:;8.....
Do. do. 186 . . -
Do. do., 1863
Do. 5 per dent., 1865
1)o Account 791
B;enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
1),) 2 per Cont. (Deferred 3 per Cent ,
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
o.4ilian 6 per Cent —
no. 41 per Cent..., „.
Do. 3 per Cent.,
I'o. 6 per co- t. 1867 97 61
l'o. 7 per Cent., 1866
0 lombian, 6 por Cent.
Dansti, 3 per Cent., 1825......... —
Dan •tiau Principalities, 7 ler Cent 75 1
Do 8 par Cent., 1867 —
u'quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent 11
lisyptian, 7 per C0nt.......
oo Second Issue ,
Do. .£sst. Bonds
Do. £lOO Bonds
Do. 186-4
Do. Account
Do. .£5OO Bonds
4
Do. 4.10 C Bonds B7l
English Scrip,:lB6B 751 i i
Do do. £45 pd — dis
2 Goyornmeni Railway Debentures
Greetr 5 per et nt., 1821 5, ex Coups. —
Do. Acel;unt
D.,. coni.ons
Do. Accrint
.1 iatetuala 5 per Cent .. —
tionduras Gov Rail.l.os 11., 10 p. Ct., all pd 83
It 'Awl 5 pifr f`er t., 1865 ...,
Do. At cunt
Do Marenirnana itaiiway•
s:exicar. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account .
Do. 1864 ,_ ____________ _______
Do f; par Cont. Anglo-French —
loutevidean 6 per Cant. .. —
qc:rish Imperial 5 per Cent -
\'ew Granada lBl 1 18
Do 3 per Can • 37;-.
Do. Deferred
Peruvian 5 per Cant. 1865
Do Account .. 76/ 71
Do 41 per Cent. (111:11arren) ...---••••••
Do 41 per Cent., 1862 -. —
Do Account
port. gileSt, 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7, '9,'60,'2,'3
Do. do. 1867 314
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Do 4 per Cent. 185(1
Dn 4i per Cent., 186(1
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cont., 1862 ............. .....„,„ 841 4
Do do, Scrip — pr..
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bond E..,
Do. do. £B4 15s. d0..,_
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds B9
Do. do £Bl 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 64 31
Sardinian 5 par Cent —
Spanish 3 per Con . —
Do. AciY,unt
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferrou 284
Do. Account
Do. Passive
• Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded

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Do. Account
6wedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Turkish 6 per Cont.
Uu Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 ••• --
Do Account .„,. 631
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 67f
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 —
42
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1860 65
Du 1 por Cent., Guaranteed
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Venezuela 3 per cent. —
Do. Acc. ant
Du 6 per Cent.. 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in London
Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian. 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2.1 per (lent. Ex. 12 Gui,. —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... —

Do. Account
French Routes, 3 per Cent., Et. 2M.
Italian 5 per Cent. 1851, Es. Zsf.

Do Account
CLOSING PRIGS.
Jonsols, Money 921
Do. Account, Juno 1