The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Business to-day was very restricted, but in the
Foreign Market Spanish have advanced owing to
the satisfactory news from Spain. In railways
prices have not materially altered, but in Ameri-
can Securities quotations have given way. The
rate for money, on short loan, in the house is
2 to 21.
Consols are 928 1 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 k;
New Tl:lree per Cents, 911 ; Exchequer Bills,
£l,OOO, 21 per Cent., 4 preen; ditto £lOO, £2OO,
and £5OO, 5 prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 4
per Cent., 242.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 112/ ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, ; ditto Enfaced Paper 5 per
Cent., 1882, 1051 ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 14
prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish are very good, at
a rise of 1 ; Italian also are 1-16. Turkish 1-16,
and Peruvian of 1865 1 higher ; the Bonds of the
Honduras Railway Loan are 85 to 87 ; the
Danubian Guaranteed Commission, 1 to 1 prem. ;
Argentine Six per Cents., 781 to 79/ ; Bralilian
of 1865, 79/ to 791 ; affirm of 1867, 841 to
95/ ; Danubian Eight per Cents., 851 to
862; Egyptian Nine per Cents. 94/ to 95;
ditto Viceroy Seven per Cents., 79/ to 798 ;
ditto Seven per Cents. of 1868, 751 to 76 ;
Italian Five per Cents., 551 to 551 ; Mexican,
15 to 15/ ; Peruvian of 1865, 784 to 781 ; Portu-
guese Three per Cents. of 1867, 361- to 37 ; Russian
Five per Cent. Orel and Vitebsk, 81; to 811. ;
ditto Four per Cent. Nicolas, 661 to G 7 ; ditto
Moscow Jaroslaw, 791 to 80 ; Spanish New Three
per Cents., 311 to 32 ; Turkish Five per Cents.
of 1865, 401 to 401 ; ditto Six per Cents. of
1862, 651 to 66; ; ditto Six per Cents. of 1865,
631 to 631.
In the railway market prices are as follows :
Caledonian, 801 to 81 ; Great Eastern, 37/ to
37/ ; Great Northern, 1071 to 1081 ; Ditto A
Stock, 1051 to 1061 ; Great Western, 48k to
48k; Great Trunk of Canada, 15/ to 15/ ;
Ditto Fourth Preference, 171 to 18 ; Great Western
of Canada, 141 to 141 ; London and Brighton,
481 to 49/ ; London and North Western, 113/
to 1131 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 161 to
17 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1231 to 124 ;
Metropolitan, 103 to 103_1 ; Midland, 116/ to
1164 ; North Eastern, Berwick, 100/ to 1011 ;

ditto York, 90; to 91.1 ; Sheffield, 5.24 to 522. ; and
South Eastern, 754 to 764.
American Five-Twenty Bands have receded
to 83 to 83; ! ditto 1865 issue to 812 to 82 ;
the Ten-Forty Bonds, 734 to 732.
Bank Shares are quiet. Chartered Mercantile,
31 to 32 ; Consolidated, 4 to z prem. ; London and
County, 50/ 511 ; London Joint Stock, 32 to 33 ;
Oriental, 431 to 441 ; Union of London, 361 to
371; and London and Westminster, 641 651.
IniMiscellaneous shares prices are recorded as
follows :—Anglo-American, 222 to 23 ; the Eight
per Cent. Preference, 4 to 41 ; Credit Foncier, 21
to s; International, 1 to 11 dis. ; Telegraph Con-
struction, 171 to 171 ; Hudson'S Bay, 14 to 14k.
There was no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday.
The Tasmanian, from the West Indies, has
brought £200,247, and the Louisiana is stated to
have arrived at St. Nazaire with £544,500, chiefly
for England.
The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Friday, the 19th inst., a special settling day in the
shares given in right of -the bonds of the Italian
Government Six per Cent. Tobacco Loan.
A circular has been issued by the Great Central
Gas Consumers' Company to their shareholders, in-
forming them that robbery to a large extent has
been systematically carried on by one of their prin-
cipal clerks, and that a warrant has been issued
for his apprehension. Professional accountants
are en
g ged in the investigation of the company's
accounts.

The directors of the Caledonian Railway have
announced a dividend for the half-year at the rate
of 3,;, per cent. per annum, against 2i for the cor-
responding period of 1867.

The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of £2,715 over last year.

Manchester advises announce the suspension of
Mr. Joan Hamer (forLierly Hurst and Hamer), of
Farnworth and Manchester, with liabilities amount-
ing from £15,000 to £20,000 ; also of Mr. William
liorsfall, manufacturer, Cannon-street, and Messrs.
W. and A. Openshaw, spinners, Farnworth, with
it is believed, only small liabilities.
The report of the Argentine Central Railway, to
be presented on the .24th inst., states that the whole
line from the port of Rosario to the city of Cordova
is expected to be opened before the end of the pre-
sent year.

The prospectus of the Trouville Association
(Limited), Trouville-sur-Mer, Normandy, has been
issued. A loan of £400,000 is proposed to be raised,
secured by 7 per cent. mortgage debentures of £lO
each. The bankers and directors are highly respec-
table, and the objects of the association are the pur-
chase and development of the freehold property
at Trouville-sur-Mer, in Normandy, and particu-
larly the freehold land and houses. An opinion of
the soundness of the security and of the value of
the distributive share of surplus offered to the de-
benture-holders may be formed from the several
reports, and the consideration that Trouville is one
of the choicest marine resorts in France, where the
nobility spend their summer. From London Trou-
ville may be reached via Dover and Calais, or
Folkestone and Boulogne, or via Southampton and
havre. From Paris it is only five hours and a half
distant by railway. All debentures applied for to
be paid up in full will receive priority in full.

gitITIIII FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK
(iOVERNMENT FUNDS.
6 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
1 per Cent. Reduced 9li f
New 3 per Cent
mew 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. b per Cen J an. 1873
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 llf
Do (Red Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchcqu2r Bills, £l,OOO, 2-1 per Ct.
Do £5OO
Dv, 4.1.UU de .t2OO 0
Bank of England Stock, 4 por Cent
De. account
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Uranium

INDIAN UOVERNMENT 6ECURITIES.
India stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874
Do. Opening, for Account -
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 -
Do. Certificates .O ..
Do. Enfaced Pape. 4 per Clint —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 . —
Do. 5i per °cut. May 1879 —
D) 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 lO5l
D. Deb., 5 per Cent. Aug. 1873 —
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Dr. under £l,OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS..-TWO O'CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Do., Scrip 4:45 paid
Amitrian Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
00. 41 per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do. 1838....
Do. do. 186) —
Do. do., 1863 7l
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
1--10 Account 791
J 5 ~ an o s Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) 55
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
o..ilian 6 per Cent —
'lo. 4t per Cent
Do. 3 per Cent.,
10. 6 per co-A. 1867 —
110. 7 per Cent., 1866
C lo ,ibian, 6 per Cent.
Pati.:3ll, 3 per Cent., 1825.
lian,qiiiin Principalities, 7 i_er Cent 751
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 B7
p ,quador New (consolidated, 1 per Cent
"''B'Yptian, 7 per Cent —
no Second Issue
-00. £sot ••
••
Bonds
Do. £lO6 Bonds ..... 831
Dc. 1864
.r., Do. Account
-uo. £soo Bonds
Do. 4IOC Bonds —
English Scrip, 1868 761
Do dis
Governalent Railway Debentures