The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-24 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIA.L INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CsocK.
Business to -day was better than yesterday, and
the holders showed increased firmness ; but in the
discount market business was dull at 21 to 21.
Consols are again firm at 93a 1 a for money;
ditto, for Account, 93a 1 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, ; New Thee per Cents, 931- ;
totchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 7 prem. ; June, 5
Prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
Prem. ; June, 9 prem. ; Bank of England Stock,
4 per Cent., 246.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 113 12:1 ; ditto 4
Per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1011 K ; ditto Enfaced
PaPer, 4 per Cent., —; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 30
Prem. ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 30 prem.
In the Foreign Market prices are firmer. Italian
Is-,;i:rkiscfci Five
her Cents. are 1 higher, 56 to 561 ; and
per Cents. arc at 418 to 41a.
Argentine arc 791 to 80 ; Egyptian Seven per Cent.,
91 to 92 ; ditto (1868), 771 to 781. Mexican Five
Cent., 111 to 121 ; Peruvian, 721 to 79'1 ;
(1822), 88 to 89 ; and Spanish New Three per
ent. 28a to 288.
In Railway Shares, Gnat Eastern, Lancashire
,and Yorkshire, and London and Brighton, are 1
better ; but Great Northern are flat. Caledonian
are now 791 to 80 ; Great Eastern, 38 to 38 1; Great
Northern, 106 to 107 ; Great Northern (A), 101 to
106 ; Great Western, 511 to 52 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire,
127 to 1271 ; London and Brighton,
44i to 45 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 161
lq-; London and North-Western, 119 to 1191 ;
1-'or.don and South Western, 88 to 89 ; Metropoli-
tan) 92 to 921; Midland, 118 to 1181 ; North-
tastern (Berwick), 115 to 1151; and South-East-
ern, 761 to 77.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 84 to 841, a
tall of
2ifinois are lower, 95 to 951 ; but
Erie Shares are 194 to 201, an improvement of
c, -Anglo-American Telegraph Shares are dull, at
201 to 20i ; French Cable is 19* to 198 ; and Con-
"'ruction and Maintenance, 284 to 29.
In Bank and Miscellaneous Shares prices are
without alteration.
A fall of 4s. per quarter in old English and
f °reign wheat has taken place in Mark-lane. New
Wheat of fair quality is freely offered at 6s. per qr.
ender the rates of last Monday.
There were no gold operations at the Bank
yesterday.
The Bombay mail steamer has taken out
250,000 in specie.
A prospectus has been issued of the India, Aus-
tralia, and China Submarine Telegraphs (Limited),
with a capital of £350,000 in shares of £2O. The
object is to connect the telegraphic system of Bri-
tigh India at Point de Galle with the Straits Settle-
ments, Australia, and China, and the capital now
asked is for the first section, from Ceylon to Penang.
e view of the forthcoming opening of the Suez
anal, the Trieste Chamber of Commerce have
granted, upon the urgent solicitation of a deputa-
tion from the Bourse of that town, permission for
41,ise of steamships to be established, and to be
subsidized by the State, to run between Trieste and
t
°sThay, via the Suez canal.
The report of the Natal Land and Colonization
a °lnPany, to be presented ou the 26th inst., shows
n available total of £13,367, but expresses an
tkat, instead of a dividend of ss. per share
in Cash the shareholders should take it in deben-
tures, and allow the cash to be applied in reduction
"'the floating debt.
Aleasrs. Edward Gregson and Son, manufacturers,
„ m Over Daen, who have been in the trade for
-t thirty years, have suspended payment. Their lia-
bilities amount to about £7,00.
Tuesday, the 31st inst., has been appointed by
the Stock Exchange Committee a special settling
day in the Scrip (10 per cent. and fully paid) for
the "50,000 Perpetual Five per Cent. Preference
c
'Pital of the Metropolitan District Railway Com-
ZIY, issued by Mr. Mackenzie, to be officially
r4d. The committee have also ordered the
Scrip for £850,000 of the same capital, issued by
tile'
company, to be quoted.
Thek. bonds of £7,500, for the first half-yearly
zie
of fund of the Guatemala Six per Cent. Loan
1869, for £500,000, arc to be paid off at par.
thi..4e South Eastern Railway traffic return shows
week an increase of £2,072 over last year, and
the Brighton an increase of £2,31.1.
The traffic return of the Great Western Railway
of
eho,Casada, for the week ending the 20th inst.,
813,: decrease of £B4, compared with the cone-
ndin
period of last year.
e thAta meeting of the Delhi and London Bank,
resolutions passed at the last meeting, autho-
cettl4ng the directors to reduce the capital of the
ANIL% were confirmed.
then experiment Of importance towards solving
Diterestion as to the possibility of obtaining sup-
Alai:f fresh meat from the practically boundless
co, of the River Plate has been successfully
pieted
Gaye,. • It was stated in April last that the
(3. °lnlet of the Argentine Republic, and also the
fishernin
ent of Uruguay, had granted to an Eng-
eattie-fuse the exclusive privilege of shipping live
entire rent those States for a period of years, with
datie exeniption from all port charges and Customs'
trial 4' and that in the first instance a small
lissza ould be made of the effect of the
ltio ge• It now appears that the steamer City of
Nviii'ehWilich arrived on Friday last, brought 19 oxen
heso 3nad been shipped at Montevideo, and had
Esqpply lofdays at sea, with, it is stated, a short
totniito water and scarcely any food but the
them, nest hay. No casualty had occurred among
treat although from exposure and insufficient
solirau: these
they had become extremely thin. Of
experiences furnish nothing decisive
trekto the commercial results to be looked for
espreii_,e trade, but a steamer is now building
this ts_lY for carrying it on upon a large scale.
and will expected to be ready in about six weeks,
be followed by others of a similar elm-
f, The
South report of tho directors of the North and
the
pal-s_ ()Eldon Junction Railway announces that
ittla th:enger traffic continues steadily to increase,
niereha.
~Iniberal traffic also to some extent. The
Payroenutu'so traffic shows a decrease. After
Prositio of interest on debentures and making
Posahl,l', for renewal of roadway, there is a dis-
reqor:
.balance of £2,902 10s., enabling the di-
lls/1441k' declare a dividend of 5 per cent. per
tpace 'l5 pa: given that the petition for winding up
9`nArt r,o4essa Steam Tramroad Company by the
Ittineelit Chancery will be heard before Vice-
trios uosor Sir Wm. M. James, at the Black Horse
tualiall, Surrey, on the 10th of September

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