The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-18 00:00:00

MONEY DIARKE

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Consols are now at 931 to 93g- for money;;
ditto, for Ac.:ount, —; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 91i ; New Thee per Cents, 918 4 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, par ; June, 7
14 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
prem. ; June, prem.; Bank of England 6tocl-,
4 per Cent., 236 7.
India Stock, 10i per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1004 100 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
4 per Cent., ; ditto 52 per Cent., 1879, 111 104 ;
ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, prem.

In the Foreign Market business is dull. The
following are the prices :—Argentine, 81i to 82 ;
Brazilian, 831 to 831 ; Egyptian (1864), 85k
to 861 ex div. ; ditto (1868), 761 to 77 ; Vice-
roy Seven per Cents., 81/ to 811 ; ditto Nine per
Cents., 94 to 99i; Italian, 528 to 528 ; do. Tobacco
Loan, 85 to 86 ; Peruvian, 80 to 80i ; Portu-
guese, 33 to 34; Orel,[B2l to 821 ; Nicolas, 671 to
684 ; Moscow, 838 to 84; Charkof, 80} to 81;
Spanish, 27 to 27/ ; and Turkish Five per Cents.,
428 to 428.
Anglo-American Telegraph Shares are inquired
for at 208 to 201 ; French Cable, 161 to 17 ; Atlan-
tic Eight per Cent., 2f to 24 ; and Construction
and Maintenance, 318 to 321.
In Miscellaneous Securities Hudson's Bay is
marked at 131- to 14 ; National Discount, 101 to 11.
General Credit, 11 to 1 dis. ; and International
Finance 2i to 18 dis.
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The Corn Market opened this morning with a
firmer tone. English and foreign wheat held at
ls. advance. Barley, beans, and peas, firmer.
In Bank Shares prices are well supported.
Agra (A) Shares, 104 to llf ; Alliance, 122 to
13k ; Anglo-Austrian, 10 to 12 ex new prem. ;
Chartered Mercantile, 322 to 332 ; Consolidated,
41 to 41 ; Imperial Bank, 16 to 17; imperial Otto-
man, 24- to 22 prem. ; London and County, 482
to 492; London and Westminster, 58 to 59;
Oriental, 43 to 44 ; London Joint-Stock, 302 to
3i2 ; and Union of London, 36 to 37.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 81/ to 82/
ex div. ; Ten-Forties, 754 to 764; and Erie Rail-
road Shares, 212 to 22.

In Railway Shares Great Eastern and Metropo-
litan have improved. Caledonian is quoted 811 to
811 ex div. ; Great Eastern, 34 to 36E; Great
Northern, 106 to 107 ; ditto (A), 1031 to 103; ;
Great Western, 56 to 56/ ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 1248 to 1241 ; London and Brighton, 44.1 to
45 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 161 to 17 ;
London and North Western, 1171 to 118 ;London
and South Western, 89i to 904 ; Metropolitan, 881
to 881 ; Midland, 1181 to 1191.
The bullion operations at the Bank comprised a
withdrawal of 50,000 sovereigns for shipment to
South America.
At the Stock Exchange money continues abun-
dant ; Government Securities arc freely offered at
per cent.

Subj3iued are the proportions of specie brought
by the West India steamer Seine, viz., silver to the
amount of £50,972, and gold £46,332, giving a net
total of £106,304.
The steamer Syria is announced from Alexandria
with the heavy Bombay mails and specie to the
value of £9,162, and the Westphalia, from New
York, en route for the Continent, her specie being
£44,040.
At a final meeting at Manchester of the creditors
of Mr. H. R. Stevenson, cloth merchant, who sus-
pended about a month back, a composition was
accepted of 18s. 9d. in the pound, to be paid im-
mediately.
A. statement of the affairs of the manufacturing
Arm of Messrs. Anderson and Gray, of Glasgow,
who recently suspended, shows debts for £80,250
exclusive of liabilities on bills for £105,616, which
may prove to be fully covered by consignments,
and assets amounting only to £20,287.
The City Gas Company have notified that, in
accordance with the City of London Gas Act,
1868, the price of ordinary gas supplied by the
company from and after the Ist of January next
will be reduced to 3s. 9d. per thousand cubic feet,
and that the illuminating power will be raised to 16
eandlca.

The half-yearly meeting of the Equitable Gas
Light Company will be held on the 2d of Nov., to
declare a dividend.

The half-yearly meeting of the Bahia Gas Coin-
PanY (Limited) is called for the 26th inst., when a
dividend will be declared.
An extraordinary meeting of the Levant Sub-
marine Telegraph Company (Limited) is convened
for the 27th inst., to confirm the special resolution
Passed on the Ist inst.

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The prospectus of the Anglo-Australian Gold
kining Company (Limited) has been issued, with
a proposed capital of £50,000 in 20,000 shares of
£2 10s. each, of which 4,000 shares fully paid up
are intended to be issued to the vendors in part
PaYinent of the mines. The company is formed for
:ne purpose of purchasing and efficiently working
he " Sir Roderick Murchison" Gold Mine situate
1:11 limn's-hill, Golden Gully, Fryer's Creek, in
Ile gold district of Victoria, Australia.
xhe favourable anticipations of a revival of busi-
'ess has not been realised. To-day Consols were
,l
r"l3!ng, and the increase in the prices at Mark-
."lle tended to increase the depression. Foreign
securities have given way in some instances, and
'44lllvay shares are flat.

BAITIIII YINDS-TYft, O'CLOCK.

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0 OVERNMENT rUNDS.: I Per Cent. Consols S93i i
8 Ditto for Account, Nov. 4 —
Per Cent. Reduced 9lf
11evi,
per 3
Cent
ell° 41 Per Cent. Jan. 1894
A --°• 5 per Con J 5n.187 3 —
tauities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
r,°. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885., —
t;',.? (lied Qea. Teleh,raph), Aug,, 1908 —
• -"iteciner Bills, .Sl,OOO, 21 p. Ct. March
Do. 3 do. June —De
pm
11,, ,
.£lOO, .£2OO & £5OO - _ _
De of England Stock, 41 per Cent
041)9' °Polling
/ nada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
llteColonial Cranium
kit IbiblAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
la tock, 10* per Cent., April 1874 —
Do.ti ~
Opening, for Account —
1141
E 3 per Cent. July, 1880
""r,°• 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
E•-'O. Certificates
°. Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cent....
be. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872
D.!' i per 1
Rup. De Cent CenMay 187
b. 9
1872
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i) Per _ .
.
bo do 1877 —
u Do, do. 1882 —
''''.,• Deb 5 Cent., Aug. 1873
~ per
Pm
1%0. Bonds, Iper Cent., £l,OOO
0. ender .£1•000 —
A,.. rumor( MUM- TWO 11'eL001C.
ArUtlne Retiall Bonds b 5
pblic,
e rcent 6 per Cent
82
1
lt
tr Do. 1859 —
421411 sper Cent
00.4 i —
p„ i Per Cent. 1852 —
14: do 1858....
it.). uu 1860 —
b`c:. do. 1863 72f
bo 5 Per C, ent., 1865
h., Account B3l
....Ow.,
ti u 8 Ayres 6
006° 2 Per Cent.(Deferred 3 per Cent )
C1'4611011'16 rprer°Cenent
i, • 4i per Cent........
Do,? 3 per Cent~
i;I per Cent., 1866
0 in,' , Per cent. 1867 97k
batii'ulan, 6 per Cent.
bk„:811 3 per Cent , 1825
is,:bian Principalities 7 per Cent —
luit4B Per Cent., 18G7 ....4,9r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
~.I k .14, , _
, 1 per cent.... —
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u 44.,A, Bowie " 82}
DO.
1864
Du Do. Acconne B6l
•
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881
. 7 i a ....... ...
bo...Per Cent., 1868 .. ..
(.1 .100 llcaids
....• 761
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46,12 areratnana Railway
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3 Per Cent -
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D Ac ount
D 0 R 1864
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u Per Oent. Anglo-French —