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

TIONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Consois are 934 11 for money; ditto, for Ac-
c,,,"lot, 931; Three per Cent. Reduced, 914 ;
New T'Aree per Cents, 91/ 4 4 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, —; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, ; Bank
of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 240 42.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 213 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 104/ 4; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1004 3 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
4 per Cent., 1054; ditto Debentures, 103.
In the Foreign Alarket Italians are 4 higher, but
Mexican Threes have receded the same amount.
Brazilian of 1865, 79} to 79/ ; Chilian of 1867,
964 to 974 ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 341
to, 35,
, z ; Argentine Six per Cents., 80 to 804 ;
-vEgyptian Seven per Cents., 80 to 801 ; ditto
Nine per Cents., 97; :to 971 ; ditto Seven per
Cents, of 1868, 75/ to 76 ; Italian Five per
561 to 561; Mexican, 13; to 14 ; Peruvian
-"ye per Cents., 77 to 774 ; Spanish New Three
per Cents., 281 to 284 ; Turkish Five per Cents.
of 1865, 424 to 421; ditto Six per Cents. of 1865,
564 to 661 ; the Bonds of the Honduras Railway
Loan, 83 to 84 ex div. ; the Danubian Commission
Guaranteed Loan, 1 to 11 prem.
Li the railway market prices are as follows :
Brighton, 474 to 471 ; Caledonian, 771 to 771 ;
Great Eastern, 374 to 37; ; Great Western, 49 to
191 ; Great Northern A Stock, 1084 to 1084 ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 123 to 1231; London
and North Western, 1154 to 1151; London,
Chatham and Dover, 171 171 ; Metropolitan, 1034
to 1034 ; Midland, 1134 to 1134 ; North British,
34 to 341; Sheffield, 534 to 54 ; and South Eastern,
754 to 754.
For the Russian loan the prices are :—Nicolai,
634 to 6t ex div. ; Oriel and Vitebsk, 774 to 784;
Moscow Jaroslaw Loan, 79 to 794.
There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday, and the discount demand was unimportant.
The well-known banker, Mr. Samuel Scott, of
Cavendish-square, died at Nice, after an illness
which had incapacitated him from attending to
business for upwards of three years. It is under-
atnod that he leaves the banking-house, with its
entire interest, to his nephew and partner, Mr.
Edward H. Scott, and that he has also consider-
ably augmented the provision made by his father,
the late Sir Samuel Scott, for the security of his
customers.

At the general meeting of the Bank of British
Columbia, a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per
at'unra was declared.
The Diomed steamer, from China, which called
4t the Cape of Good Hope on her homeward
v°Yage, brings news of a splendid diamond having
been found within the colony, weighing 83k
carats, and of the estimated value of £25,000 to
£30,000.

-Reports are again current in the Californian
papers of great iiiszovelics of gold in Alaska, the
territory recently acquired from Russia. 'They are
stated to have been made by a Russian engineer,
Rho was prospecting in consequence of baying ob-
tained epccinicns from the Indians. On account of
the climate, however, the mines can only be worked
five months in the year, and the hard and uninvit-
ing character of the country is considered likely to
Preclude any very general attempts for their deve-
lopment.

We are informed that notice has been given of
ita intention to appeal against the older of Vice-
Chancellor Malins of the 26th ult. conferring
111)011 the liquidator of the South Eastern of Por-
tugal Railway Company the larger powers coil-
tamed iu the 96th sec. of the Winding-up Cum-
Panied' Act.

The traffic receipts of the Metropolitan Railway
represent an increase of £2,764. The Metropolitan
Ihstriet Railway shows a receipt of £B3l. The Me-
tropolitan and St. John's-wood Railway shows for
the week ending May 2, £404.
The New Five per Cent. Preference Stock of
the Great Western of Canada Railway Company,
authorised at the recent meeting, is now being
issued. The amount of new capital required for
the purposes of the uudertaki ng, as then stated,
was £814,560, of which £668,815 represented the
debt to the Canadian Government as settled by
compromise, £125,576 was to cover overdrawn
capital on 31st January, 1869, and £115,296
Would provide working capital for stores and
rolling stack. The amount to be issued is
1)018,200 in a Five per Cent. Preference Stock
at 80, and it will bo allotted pro rata to the pro-
prietors in the proportion of £6 of preference stock
to each ordinary share. The whole is expected to
be taken up by the shareholders themselves.
Under an order of the Court of Chancery 20
shares are to be sold by auction on Thursday, at the
Guildhall Coffeehouse, in the Lisburne Lead Mining
Company. The mine is near Aberystwith, and dur-
ing the last 34 years it has distributed £202,400 on
a Paid up capital of £7,500.
The Master of the Rolls has authorised the official
liquidator of the Tavisteck Ironworks and Steel
Ordnance Company (Limited) to pay a dividend of
6e. Bd. in the pound to the creditors.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

, UOVERNMENT FUNDS.
° Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
8 per Cent. Reduced 9ll 1
!ley' 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cen Jan. 1873
Annuities, 80 Tree expire sth Jan., 188 Q.
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchogu:.,r Bills, £IIOOO, 21 por Ct.
Do £5OO
Do. £lOO & £2OO —
Bank of England Stock, 44 per Cent
Dadapening
C 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Cranium
~ INDIAN UOVERNXENT SECURITIES
truliii.Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 213
Do. Opening, for Account --
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cent.... —
Do. 5 per Cont., Jan. 1872 ....... 1054
Do. 51 per Cent. May 1879 —
DJ 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882
D.,. Dob., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ lO3
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. undor £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, R per Cent ...... 781
Do., Scrip £45 paid .. ..............
Auitriau Bonds 5 per coat ... .............
Do. 1859 66i 1
Itlzilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 411 per Cont. 1852

Do. - do. 1858....
Do. do. 1861
Do. do., 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Uo Account
--
B Kenos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Ottba, 6 per Cent.
(Lilian 6 per Cent
no. 4 per Cent
Do. 3 per Cent.,
Le. 6 per ca' A. 1867 961
De. 7 per Cent., 1866
C lo.nbian, 6 per Cent.
Dantsu, 3 per Cont., 1825
Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent —
Do 8 per Cont., 1867
Egtuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent,
rigyptian, 7 per Cent....
Do Second issue
Do. zsut, Bonds
Do. £lOO Bonds
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. 4;600 Bonds
Do. 4,106 Bonds B7f
English Scrip, 1868 6i
Do do. .£45 pd die
Government Railway Debentures 9B}
Greek 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups.
1)0. Uoupone
Do. Account
Gaatetuala 5 per Cent ..
lionduras Gov Rail. 1 ioan., 1U p. Ct., all pd
it, iiau 5 pet ('cut., 1865
Do. Account ...
Do Marernmana Railway
It Do
3 per Cent
Ditto for Account '
F'o. 1864
Do per Cont. Anglo-French
Jiontavid.au 6 per Cent.
Motrish imperial 5 per Cc ut
NOW Granada l7l
Do 3 por Oen B7
Do. Deferred
Peruyiat 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account
..i7
Do 4} per Cent. (112:!?arren)