The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-27 00:00:00

MONEY NARKEI"

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The fortnghtly settlement commencing to-mor-
Av has tended to slacken lusiness, and brokers
Only buy just sufficient to meet pressing engage-
ments. Prices of Consols are a shade higher, and
B ink shares are somewhat in demand.
Consols are now at 922 to 921 for money ;
ditto, for Account, 9-)8; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 91$; New Three per Cents, 911 a ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 2 prem. ; June,
prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £OOO, March,
prem. ; June, prem. ; Bank of England
Stock, 4 per Cent., 238.
ditto
Stock, 103- per Cent., April, 1874, 211 1 ;
5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141 ; ditto
4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Bonds under
£l,OOO, 29 23 prem.
In the Foreign Market business is flat, but Ita-
lian are 1 better. The prices are now as follows:
Brazilian, 822 to 831 ; Egyptian (1864), 88 to
90 ; ditto (1868), 741 to 75 ; Viceroy's Seven
Per Cent., 79 to 794; ditto (Nine per Cent.)
961 to 971 : Italian, 52 to 521; ditto (To-
bacco Loan), 84 to 86 ; Peruvian, 784 to 79 ;
Portuguese, 33 to 34 ; Orel, 832 to 841 ; Nicolas,
67 to 67$ Moscow, 822 to 831 ; Charkof, 791 to
79;1 ; Spanish, 27 to 271 ; and Turkish Five per
Cents., 401 to 404.
In the Railway market there is a rise of 1 in
Great Northern (A), and in Midland and Great
Western. Quotations are now as follows :
Caledonian, 824 to 83 ; Great Eastern 361 to 36+ ;
Great Northern 1021 to 1031 ; ditto (A), 1001 to
101 ; Great Western, 534 to 532 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1232 to 124+ ; London and Brighton,
432 to 441 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 161 to
361; London and North Western, 1151 to 116 ;
London South Western, 89 to 91 ; Metropolitan,
,8,71 to 881; Midland, 116 to 1161; North-
Eastern (Berwick), 1131 to 114 ; and South
Eastern, 751 to 76.
The market for English Government Securities
'8 steady, but very quiet. The improvement of
Saturday is maintained. Consols are 922 for deli-
very,, and 922 to 92+ for account. New and Re-
'need, 911 to 981. India Five per Cents., 1141 to
to 114 i. Exchequer Bills, March, 2s. to 6s. pre-
; June, 6s. to 10s. prem. Bank Stock, 238
to 240 ex div.
Bank Shares are now quoted as follows :
Agra (A) shares, 11 to 114 ; Alliance, 121 to 131;
412g10-Austrian, 11 to 14 prem. ; Chartered Mer-
cantile, 321 to 331- ; Consolidated, 4$ to 4,2 ; Im-
perial Bank, 16 to 17; Imperial Ottoman, 14 to
prem. ; London and County, 49 to 50 ; Lon-
and Westminster, and Westminster, 57 to 58 ; Oriental, 421 to
43; London Joint Stock, 29$ to 304 ; and Union
of London, 35 to 3G.
In Miscellaneous Shares Construction and Main-
t Cable
are 7-6 better, at 28$ to 281. French
‘-;able is 151 to 158 ; Anglo-American Telegraph,
4)(4 to 201; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent.,
`4. to 22.
American Five-Twenty Bonds, 831 to 831 ; ditto
(1865), 82$
to 824 ; ditto (1867), 811 to 812 ;
:Uen-Forties, 741 to 75i ; Erie Railroad Shares, 251
; Illinois, 931 to 944 ; Atlantic and Great
extern Consolidated Bonds, 272 to 284; and the
i)ebentures 29 to 30.
The Wheat trade opens flat with every indication
of Prices ruling is to 2s lower.
The only arrival of specie comprised a sum of
M,0,000 by the steamer Holsatia, from New York.
:!:110 Massilia, for Bombay, took out £8,350.
The report of the Crystal Palace District Gas
j°rnpany just issued, for the half-year ending 30th
states that the profits for that period have
atnounted to £6,913 15s. sd. Dividends at the
eaapteittlafi6 per cent. per annum on the Preference
per cent. on the Ordinary Seven per
ent- capital, and 10 per cent. on the original
capital, are recommended, and it is proposed to
Write off £1,023 10s. 4d. from Works Renewal
Suspense
account.
ti 'ile cause of the explosion of the gold specula-
°ll in New York has been the sale by the Go-
thtunlent of $2,500,000 in gold at 133, and at
e same time the authorities bou,ht $3,0J0,000
bonds at current prices. Previously the price
(d) e gold had been run up to 1624. This rapid
,:Cline has had the natural result of creating a
verfect panic among the " bull" operators. The
ote of exchange from a nominal quotation at
iCe rallied to 108. The dealers in the " gold"
2eln" will have found to their cost the risky
Nature of their late adventure. The fluctuations
aret stated not to have been prompted by any poll-
-10,1 considerations.
Ita.The half-yearly meeting of the Grand Trunk
28,.1,way Company of Canada will be held on the
to'u n
-street.
October, at the City Terminus Hotel, Can-
It is
hi reported that several failures bad taken
g4.o4iccieinNewYork through the breaking up of the
folio s Pe eulation, and that others were expected to
ww• Such events, however, create little effect
41444'1-street, and after the parties interested
C 0
a clean breast of their liabilities they will
uorti,
I,ll`''ence again, and enter into fresh transactions.
e -L'lorth-Eastern Railway Company are invit-
ej'er•clers, deliverable by the 22d October, for the
a ~stance
of a new linefrom Gilling to Helmsley,
,T,s,tance of a little over five miles.
Nira':„.6 half-yearly meeting of the Cambrian Rail-
Crewe "Inpang is called for the 30th instant, at
.

COgeneral meeting of the India Freehold Land
aj°°isation, Trust and Agency Association
it` reited) called for the 22d October, to receive
rePort from the liquidators.
p Ore prospectus has been issued of the Home and
_
t-i,
Telegraphic News Company (Limited),
op a
capital of £20,000, in shares of £5, to carry
and extend the useful functions hitherto per-
ti med bY the intelligence department of the Elec-
l; 44d International Company, after that com-
panynie °'l.all have been absorbed in the Govern-
t
Behenle. It was the business of the depart-
of; 44 question to supply news-rooms, Chambers
Dubuc teraeree, newspaper proprietors, and the
al generally with abstracts of all the commer-
to how general intelligence transpiring from hour
Oriental Coal Company (Limited) into
Of iT eLlmods the extensive coal mines in the island
tuee4u4aa have passed, are now working them.
the ed-ssf4llY. In anticipation of a great increase in
open7erc'and for coal in the China seas
.on the
84-;iing of the Suez Canal, it has been decided to
11-1Z,7 coal at the fine harbour of Victoria, which.
and shelters vessels of, the largest size at
of tinies
the tide and at all seasons, instead
can Coal Point, as at present, where steamers
Tilettalle In coal only in comparatively fine weather.
'aeit:,°,l7eroluent of India have just ordered to be
Rer;i—ened overland the first engine for a regular
ilk Which they intend establishing on the Grand
keCt` Road, for the transport of troops, Govern-
kiae BtOres,
and general merchandise, in lieu of the
Qree,r4b'Y slow and costly bullock trains which now
it is; 4,100 g that fine road. The road steamers will,
cost #,114, run five or six miles per hour at far less
1113 "ua.n the bullock hackeries, which cannot keep
third of that speed.

11111T1SX FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
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Ali ' -Pethar,.
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client. July, 1880 -
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