The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Consols are 93 1 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 1;
New Three per Cents, 91/ ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 2 3 prem.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 210 12 ;
ditto 5
per Cent., July, 1880, 114 1 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4
per Cent., ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 12 prem.
The Foreign Stock Market is firmer, though the
changes are not material. Turkish and Spanish
have advahced 1 per cent. The Five per Cents. of
the former are 421 to 421, and the Six per Cents.,
661 to 661. Spanish have recovered to 331. Ita-
lian is steady, at 55i to 551.
In American Securities the principal feature is
the extreme heaviness of Atlantic and Great Wes-
tern Railway Securities, though the price current
at this moment is hardly the lowest.
English Railway Shares ale quiet, and with the
exception of an advance of 1 in Metropolitan Ex-
tension, the price being ICO to 101, quotations show
little or no variation.
Dealings in Miscellaneous Shares are again very
limited, and the only movement in prices is an im-
provement of 1 in Anglo-American Telegraph, the
prices being:22l to /.
More business is doing in Bank Shares, and in
some cases prices are firmer. Chartered Mercantile,
and London Joint Stock each advanced 10s., the
former being quoted at 28 to 29, and the latter at
321 co 331. On the other hand London and County
is 108. lower, at 491 501 ; London and Westminster,
63 to 64, and Union of London, 351 to 361.
The Great Luxembourg Railway dividend is offi-
cially announced at the rate of 4s. per share, or 2
per cent. per annum, against 11 for the correspond-
ing period of the previous year.

At a meeting of the proprietors of the Oriental
Bank, an interim dividend at the rate of 12 per
cent, per annum was declared.
A meeting of the shareholders of the Socidte
Agrieole et Industrielle d'Egypte is called for the
26th inst., " when the Committee will report pro-
gress."

A petition for the winding up of the Anglo-
Egyptian Navigation Company (Limited) is to be
heard before Vice-Chancellor James on the let of
May.

The sum of £3,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday, and £50,000 was withdrawn for
Malta.

The Sussex, from Melbourne, has brought
251,000.

The Bank of France return for the week shows
an increase of £293,000 in the bullion.
The Secretary of State for India in Council has
given notice that tenders for bills of exchange on
Calcutta and Madras will be received at the Bank
of England on Wednesday, the sth May next, on
the terms stated on the 10th of November, 1863, to
the amount of 55,00,000 rupees.
At an adjourned meeting of the creditors of Mr.
John Crossley, in the wool trade, of Halifax, the
liabilities were computed at £38,000, and the assets
at £14,000. It was decided that the estate shall be
wound up under trustees.
The list for the new Spanish Loan will be closed
by Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. this afternoon.
The subscriptions at Paris are stated to have been
large.

According to arrangements just completed, the
United States' mails for Great Britain, conveyed
on Tuesdays by the Hamburg-American Steamship
Company,
will in future be landed at Plymouth
instead of Southampton, thus effecting a saving of
several hours. The steamers will proceed from
Plymouth to Cherbourg to land the French mails
and passengers. The Hammonia, from New York
on the 13th inst., is the first vessel under the new
System.

The colonial wool sales arc fixed to commence
on Thursday, the 6th May. The fresh importa-
tions up to the present date, since the beginning
of last sales, comprise 181,476 bales, viz.:—New
South Wales and Queensland, 24,966 ; Victoria,
94,406 ; Tasmania, 4,053; South.Ausu-alia, 15,481 ;
West Australia, 1,870 New Zealand, 13,035 ;
Total Australa,ian, 153,841 ; Cape, 27,635. Total
colonial, 185,476 bales. Further arrivals are daisy
expected.

The Lords of the Admiralty have aceepted the
tender of the Australian Meat Company (Limited),
for whom Messrs. John M'Call and Co. are the
London agents, for the supply of 200,0001b5. of
Australian preserved beef.
When it was mentioned a few days back that
the foreign loans, actual and prospective, of
the present season might be estimated at 50 mil-
lions sterling, the tctal was irrespective of any ad-
ditions that had not thus far been suggested.
Yesterday a Roumanian railway loan of £1,500,000
Was announced by the Anglo-Austrian Bank, being
part of an authorized issue of £6,000,000 for the
The
of a line from Galatz to Bucharezt.
Ile Bonds are to bear a guaranteed interest of 7}
Per cent., and are to be issued at the 'price of 71/.
A deposit of 10 per cent. is to be made on applica-
tion, and the whole of the balance is to be paid by
the 15th of next month. The lists are to be open
in London on the 28th and 29th inst., and simulta-
neously in the principal towns of Prussia, Austria,
11ungary, and the Danubian Principalities.
The ship Ida Ziegler, homeward bound from New
Zealand to London, has been reported at Lloyd's,
by telegram via Point de Galle, totally lost in
tlawkes Bay. She is stated to be heavily insured

in the room and among the offices.
The Bankers' Protection Association have insti-
tuted a prosecution against one of the clerks in the
house of Messrs. Baring Brothers, named Alexander
Dyce, on the charge of forging a cheque purporting
to be signed by Mr. Moss W ynan, and endorsed by
Messrs. Baring, on Messrs. Martins, bankers, in
Lombard-street. The extent of his defalcations
are represented to be under £1,500.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ended the 21st of April gives the following
results when compared with the previous week :
Rest
PuLlio deposits
Other deposits 17,659,278 ... Decrease 452,286
On the other side of the account :
government securi-
ties £15,020,798 ... No change.
Other securities 37,370,006 ... lacrosse ... 112
Notes unemployed 7,256,175 ... Increase 154,155
The amount of notes in circulation is £23,637,950,
being a decrease of £150,035 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £17,030,151, h
an increase of £61,429 when compared with the
preceding return.
Subjoined is a comparison of the present position
of the Bank of England and the prices of Consols
and French Rentes with the corresponding week of
last year

Same Week
At Present. last Year.
Bullion
8
Reserve
... 201 ... 11,587,080
Notes in circulation 23 637 950 23,940,020
Bate of discount
Consols
Frsnali Relates

BRITIBII FUNDS-TWO O'CLOCK.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Console
Ditto for Account,
S per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 6 per Cen Jan. 1873
Annuitie,4, SO yrs, •27 pi re sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Teleh,raph), Aug., 1908 —
Each() iur Bills, 41,000, 2i per Ct.
D 3 £5OO
Do. £lOO & £2OO —
Bank of England Stock, 44 par Cent
14). opening —
Canada 4 per Cont. Bonds
Inter-Colonial Uranium
INDIAN GovsnNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 2lO 12
Do. Opening, for Account
Do. 5 per Cent..fuly, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oot. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cent..,...
Do. 5 per Cost., Jan. 1872 -,,,.,
Do. 54 per Cent. May 1879 —
Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872..., —
Do do. 1877 —
DO. do. 1882,„a,,,, --