The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-22 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Conso7s are steady to-day at 92i for money ;
ditto, for Ac.:ount, 92/ ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 92i / ; New Three per Cents, 92i ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, par 4 prem ; ditto £lOO,
£2OO, and £3OO, ; Bank of England Stock, 4
per Cent., 241.

India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 111-i- ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 100 k; ditto Eufaced Paper, 5 per
per sent., ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, —.
In Foreign Government Bonds, Turkish, Spanish,
and Egyptian are fractionally higher, while Peru-
vian, Mexican, and Italian are not so good. The
prices no current are as follows :—Argentine, 804
to 811 ; Egyptian (1861), 88 to 881 ; ditto (1868),
78 to 78} ; Viceroy Seven per Cents., 82 to 84 ;
ditto Niue per Cents., 91'1 to 951-; Italian, 55i
to 56k.
In E.Ailways there is an advance of / in Berwick,
and if in South Eastern, Midland, and Lancashire
Yorkshire ; and Brighton and Great Northern are 1
lower, and Great Western The following are the
prices :—Caledonian, 77 to 779 ; Great Eastern, 391
to 894 ; Great Northern, 108 to 109 ; and ditto A,
108 f to;109.
American Securities are flat. The Five-Twenty
Bonds are 1 lower, at 804 ; and there is a decline
of ain Erie, at 19f to 20. Illinois remain at 94
to 95.

An advance of ss. has taken place in French
Cable Shares, the price now being 19i 19k.
The dealings in banking shares are very mode-
rate, and prices are little altered. Agra (A) is
better, at 10i to 10i. Alliance is steady, at 13i to
14i ; Anglo-Austrian, 19 to 20 prem. ; Chartered
Mercantile, 32 33 ; Consolidated, 411 to 48.

The transactions in Miscellaneous Securities arc
very limited, and prices generally are without
movement. Anglo-American Telegraph is inquired
for at 20f to 241 ex div. ; General Credit is quiet
at 1/ to 11 dis. ; International Finance, 2 to
dis. ; National Discount, 11i to llf ; and Hudson's
Bay, 12i- to 124.
The sum of £119,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.
The Weser, from New York, has brought
£6,660, the Manhattan £lO,OOO, and the Calabar,
from the West Coast of Africa, £5,380.
Adyiees from Alexandria describe complete stag-
nation in business. The present is always the quiet
season in Egypt, when exports and imports are at
a stand, and this year the dullness is greater than
usual. It is only with the rising of the Nile that
protuce begins to come down from Upper Egypt,
and the cotton crop does not commence until late
i❑ the autumn. Two new banks have been opened
lately at Alexandria, each witd £1,000,000 nominal
capital, 40 per cent. paid up, and -both under
Austrian patronage. With regard to the Suez
Canal a rumour is current that the opening has
been put off, first to the 15th of November and
now to the Ist of January, 1870, on account of
some dredges having given way and sunk in the
canal, but nothing certain can be ascertained, as the
parties connected with the canal remain silent on
the subject. Sir Samuel Baker will start on his
expedition in the beginning of September. The
fact of the Sultan having conferred upon him the
title of Pasha has been regarded, it appears, with
great satisfaction at Alexandria, as showing that his
Majesty approves and supports the Viceroy's en-
terprise.
Mr. Bruulees, having returned from an inspec-
tion of the Mont Cenis Railway, reports that the
damages caused by the late floods have been so
far repaired that the service is being again con-
ducted with regularity and certainty.
The report of John Brown & Co. (Limited), to
be presented at Sheffield on the 28th instant,
recommends a dividend of £4 18s. 3d. per share.
The contract for the Portuguese loan with
Messrs. Fruhling and Goschen has been approved
at Lisbon by the Chamber of Deputies, but has
now to sass the Senate.
The annual meeting of the East Indian Railway
Company will be held on the Ist of July. An ex-
traordinary meeting is called for the same day,
" for the purpose of considering, and if deemed
advisable, of passing a resolution or resolutions,
authorising the board of directors to create and
issue Debenture Stock in lieu of ordinary deben-
tures, under the powers of Act 31 Vie., cap. 26."
At the meeting of the Duuaburg and Witepik
Railway Company (Limited), a resolution was
Passed authorising the raising of additional capital,
not exceeding £500,000, for the purchase of further
rolling stock.
The half-yearly meeting of the Victoria Station
and Pimlico Railway Company is called for the 9th
of July.

In the matter of the Hercules Insurance Com-
pany, in liquidation, Mr. Greenwood, one of the
liquidators appointed by the Court of Chancery,
having resigned, Vice-Chancellor Malins has, by
an order dated the 10th inst., appointed Mr. W. J.
White sole official liquidator.

The announcement that the important work of
submerging the French Atlantic Cable has actually
commenced, the Great Eastern having quitted the
French coast, occasioned a demand for the shares
of the French Cable Company.
With reference to the Ottoman General 5 per
Cent. Debt, the Imperial Ottoman Bank have
issued the usual notice, informing bondholders who
intend to receive the current half-yearly interest in
Europe that they must declare such intention at
the agencies of the bank between the 23d inst. and
the 3d cf July.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOTEB,NMENT fUND S.
prfs,ll:Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
per Cent. Reduced 921
14 Ow 3 per Cent
New 2 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cen J an. 187 3
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
Do. for 30 yrs; expire sth April 1885 --
Do (Red Seal ele6rapli), Aug., 1908 —
Exchoqu;.r Bills, £l,OOO, clz 3 per Ut
Do £lOO, £2OO & £5OO
Bank of England Stock, 41. per Cent
DQ. opening
Calada 4 per Cont. Bonds
Inter-Colonial Cranium

. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
trldia V.LOCIC, 101 par Cent., April 1874 Shut
Do. Opening, for Account —
Do. 5 per lent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfacod Pape. 4 per CAnt.. ...... —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 .... ,„ —
D 9. 8 per °mt. May 1879 —
D.) 5 per Cent., Itup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —

Deb., 5 per Cent, Aug. 1873 —
Do, Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l,OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republlo, 6 per Cent .
IlhAntrian Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859 661
Brazilian 5 per Cent
00. 4f per Cent. 1852
Do. do. 1858.. .
Do. do. 1860
Do. do., 1863 6B

Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account B2
13 it nos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ;
°W)a, 6 pee,Cent.
Cutlian 6 per Cent —
Do. 44 per Cent .. —
Do. 8 per Cent.,
1 a. 6 per cent. 1867 —
Po. 7 per Cent., 1866
a lo nbian, 6 pet Cent.
Danish, 3 pr Cent., 1825.-- .
Datv,tiata Principalities, 7 per Cent

Do 8 per Cent:, 1867
kqualor New Con.wlidated, 1 per Cent......
E;;yytian, 7 per Cent... • •••
Snood Issue •• ••
15ut. Bondy
DD. £lOO Bonds ..••• 86

Do. 1864 •
Do. Account
Do. .C.OO Bonds ~
'no. i. 101; Bonds PO
Do. 7 per Cent.' 1868
Government liailwav tiebeutures
Greek 5 per Cent., 1821 5, ox Coups —
Dc. Account ,.
Do. Coupons
~.. Do. Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent .. —
iloaduras Gov Rail. Les n., 10p. Ct., all pd 86
I.tsiian 5 per Cent., 1865
Do. Account ~.
Do Ilsreraraana Railway .., —

iiexicar. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
llontevidean 6 per Cent. .. —
11,3crish Imperial 5 per Cent .
New Granada —
Do 3 per Gen —
Do. Deferred
:
re:uvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account .. 801.
Do 44 per Cent. ([ll:',arron) •••
Da 44 per Cent., 1862 •• —
Do Account —
Port .Tuese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2,'3 354
Do. do. 1867
Do. do. Scrip, £2O pail —
Russian. 5 eor Cont.., 182 z, £ St
Do 44 per Cent . 1850
Do 11 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., IJ5r)
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do do, Scrip
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds.. 891
Do. do. £Bl 15s. d 0..,. 894
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds -
Do. do £Bl 15s do -
DJ Nicolas Railway 65 L-
Sarainian 5 p,r Cent —
Span;sh 3 per Con
Do. A ref,unt .... 3Ol
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred —
Do. Account
Do. Passive —
Do. Com. Cert. of Cont., not funded —
Do. Ac&mnt.
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864
Do dc, 1868
Turkish 6 per Cent. -
DJ Account
Po 6 per Cent. 1838 ..
Do Account - -
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 •••
Do Account
Do XIOC Bonds i 0
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1860 .
Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Venezuela 3 per Cent.. —
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in Londot,.
Austrian a per Cent. Ex 10 Florins -
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 GO, 56
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... --
Do. Account —
French Routes, 3 per Cont., Ex. 25f.
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, E. z5l.
Do Account 56
CLOSING PRICES.
Oonsols, Money 921 i- xd
Do. Account, July 7 . .. 924 xd