The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-03 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The business was of a limited description to day,
but, notwithstanding, the market showed firmness.
There is a good demand for stock of all descriptions,
but the holders refuse to lower their terms, and in-
tending purchasers therefore prefer waiting for the
present.
There is a moderate demand for discount,
but the rate at which business can only be done is
3k to 4, as a large amount of money has to be pro-
vided for the 4th.
Consols are 921 3 21 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 ;
New Tree per Cents, 911 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 5 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO,
par; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., shut.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, 212 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1124 ;'ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4
per Cent., 92.
In the foreign market stocks are firm, there is
a rise of 1 in Egyptian of 1868 and Turkish
of 1865, viz., to 76} to 4 and 41 to Bra-
zilian of 1865, 791 to 804 ; Chilian of 1867, 94k
to 95f ; Egyptian of 1861, 86 to f ex div. ;
Italian of 1864, 54i to 551 ;_ ditto of 1868, 84 to
85 ; Mexican, 15 to f ; Peruvian of 1865, 781 to
79 ; Russian of 1866, 91 to /, ex div. ; Nicolai,
661 to 671 ; Orel, 811 to 821 ; Moscow, 79/ to 4 ;
ditto Charkof, 774 to f ; ditto Charcow, 77 to f ;
Spanish of 1867, 31 to f ; Turkish of 1858, 63 to I
64 ; and ditto of 1862, 67 to f.
In the Railway Market Great Eastern and
South Eastern have fallen f to f per cent., but
Metropolitan and Caledonian have improved f.
Prices are as follow :—London and North Wee-
tern, 1154 to f ; Great Western, 49 to 1, ex div. ;
Midland, 1161 to 1; London and South Western,
87 to 90 ; Great Eastern, 37f to 1; Brighton, 481 to
I ; South Eastern, 75 to k ; Metropolitan, 101 4 ;
Great Nurthern, 107 to 108 ; ditto A, 109 to 109 f ;
Caledonian, 79 to f ; and London, Chatham, and
Dover, 16 to f.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 1 per cent.
better, viz., 834 to ; Erie Railway Shares 24 to f ;
Illinois Central, 96k to 97 ; Atlantic and. Great
Western Debentures, 33 to 34; and Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds, 33 to 34.
In Banking and Miscellaneous Shares there is no
alteration in prices of yesterday.
There were no bullion operations at the Bank
yesterday.

The Royal Mail steamer Mandingo has arrived
at Liverpool from the West Coast of Africa, bring-
ing gold dust and specie to the value of £6,552 ;
and the steamer Bavaria, from New York, has a
small parcel of £1,371 for London and £7,312 for
Paris.

It has transpired that the bills had been returned
of a house in Paris engaged in the merino and
muslin de laine trades having a branch at New York
and an agency in London. The liabilities are esti-
mated at £170,000.
The failure has been announced of Messrs. Wil-
liam Dickinson and Sons, cotton manufacturers and
loom makers at Blackburn, with liabilities estimated
at about £70,000.

A 5 per cent. Government debenture loan for
£15,000, just offered at the Cape of Good Hope
for public tender, has been taken by the colonists
at about 1 premium.

A new large Russian Railway Loan will make its
appearance at Frankfort in a few weeks.
A combination of bankers at Paris and Frank-
fort have agreed for an advance of money to Portu-
gal, to be converted into bonds at a later day.
The receipts of the Zollverein for the last year
amounted to 27,319,527 thalers.
An ordinary general meeting of the Italian
Tobacco Monopoly Company is convened for the
28th instant at Florence.

The joint traffic return of the Caledonian and
North British Railways shows this week au in-

crease of £4,965 over last year.
The subscription list of the Trouville Mortgage
Loan of £400,000 will be closed on Wednesday
next, the 7th instant.

At the half-yarly meeting of the Gas Light and
Coke Company a dividend was declared at the rate
of 4k per cent. per annum.
There has been a sudden rise in Atlantic and
Great Western Railway Securities owing to the
preparation of an official circular, to be issued to-
morrow, intimating that income bonds will be
issued forthwith for the payment of the overdue
dividends on the bonds. Purchases on New York
account also lead to the conclusion th.ct the arrange-
ments with the Erie Railway will ultimately be
carried out.

The Frankfort advices state that, although specu-
lation in Austrian shares continues active in con-
sequence of the inflation at Vienna, it has almost
totally ceased in United States' bonds, and that in-
vestors are less eager, as they have the choice be-
tween a multitude of preference stocks guaranteed
by European Governments, which at current prices
would yield a higher interest. Money continues
abundant, and, as there are as yet no symptoms of
an over supply of securities on the market, new
issues are made every week.
We have received from Dr. Watson, late surgeon
to the hospital, Chincha Islands, a copy of a pamph-
let he has prepared for circulation, containing in
detail his well-known views on the subject of the
speedy exhaustion of the guano deposits of the
Chinchas, and the comparative worthlessness of
the guano on the other islands. Dr. Watson's
statements are of a very positive character ; but,
as they are directly opposed to those of other
authorities who are well acquainted with the cir-
cumstances, the bondholders must be left to draw
their own conclusions on a balance of testimony.
At public auction at the Open Stock Exchange
(Limited) yesterday :—AlbertLife Assurance Com-
pany, £3 paid, sold at ss. 3d. per share ; Alhambra
Company (Limited), £lO fully paid, 9fr per share;
ditto, £8 paid, 7f per share ; Crystal Palace Com-
pany Consolidated Seven per Cent. Preference
Stock, par.
The usual half-yearly dividends and the sinking
fund on the loans of 1859 and 1863 of the Brazi-
lian Government were paid yesterday. At the
same time the payment at par of the outstanding
balance of the loan of 1839 was effected. This is
moat satisfactory, and speaks highly in favour of
the financial administration of the Government)
seeing with what punctuality these engagements
are kept without recurring to new operations.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING} PRICES.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
.
Ditto for Account,
91i I
S per Cent. Reduced
91i fr
New 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 6 per Cen J an. 1873 .. —
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchcciusr Bills, £l,oou, 21 per Ct.
De
.£500
Do. £lOO & £2OO par
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent
De.' opening
Oanada 4 per Cent. Bonds Inter-Colonial Uranium
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India titock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 212
Do. Opening, for Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Oent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates 1021
DDo. Enfaced Pape. 4 per Cent..,,..„.„ 92
o. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ~......
Do. 5f per Cent. May 1879
Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —Do do. 1877 — Do, do. 1882
Da. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ —
DDo. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
o. under .£l,OOO
Argentine Republic,RlCES.
6 per Cent ... .
Do., Scrip
.*:45
Auitrian Bonds paid . ....... .
5 per cent ..
Brazilian 5
per Cent
DDo. 41 per Cent. 1852
o. do. 1858_, ..........
Do. do. 186 ) ....
.......
.......... .
• •-,
Do. do., 1863 . ......
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Acc0unt..........
....t....................
IlL;enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
.........
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3. ..
Cuba, 6 per C per (.out.)
() ent. .................•. Lillian 6 per Cent ........................ ........ .....
....
. Do. 41 per Cont..— ......... •-• ...
Do. 8 per Cent.,

Po. 6 per ce,t. 1867
Do. 7 per Cont., 1866
0 lo abian, 6 per Cent,
Dairsh 3 p,tr Cent., 1825. ..,...
Dan
,hian Principalities, 7 per Cent 76
DJ 8 per Cent., 1867 il• '''
Vqualar New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
E;yptian, 7 per Cent... ~ —
Do Second Issue
Do. £5Ol Ponds
Do. £lOO Bonds • •••• 83
:Do. 1864 —
Do. Account
Do. £5(.0 Bonds
Do. I.IOC Bonds B7l
English Scrip, 1868
Do do. £45 pd — ' dis
Government Railway Debenture,
Greek- 5 per Cent., 1821 5, ex Coups —
Lip. A ecc unr . .
1)r. Coupons
Do. Account
3lateinala 5 per Cent ..
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd 82 1
It.iiian .5 per C(rt., 1865
Do. Account . B3
Do rri.trommana Railway —
vies ea; 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account -
Do. 1864 --
Do A per Cent. Anglo-French —
viontuvidQau 6 per Cent
do Irish Imperial 5 per Cent
Vew Grana la
Do 3 per Con
Do. Deferyed
Peru clan 5 per Cent. 1665
Do Account .. 78f 9
Do 41 per Cent. (Ui:'iarren)
Do 41 per Cont., 1862 -...• . —
Do Account
Port:4l;mm° 3 per Ct., tes3, '6, 7, '1;,'69,'2,',
Do. do. 1,167 —
Do. do. Set ip, £2O paid —
Rusian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St ,...
Do 41 per Cent , 1850
Do 4i per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Boucle... 91 i
Do. do. £B4 15s. do —
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 9ll
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway —
Sar liniau 5 p4-r Cent 7-11
Spanish 3 per Con .. -
Do. Account
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred.,
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 186.1
Do do, 1868
' Do do, Scrip —
' Turkish 6 per Cent.:
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 185 s —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1869 •••
Do Account
Do £IOC Bonds 69 I
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865
Do 4 per Cont., Guaranteed
Do thild Warrants (Hectares)
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —
Do. Ace. ant
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 por Cent. 1864 - —
Dividends on the above payable in Londo I.
Atherton o par Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil,
Do. 4 per Cent. Cortiticates ....
Do. Account —
French Ranters, 3 per Cent., Ex. '2sf.
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f. —
Do Account..

•••
371

31f

CLOSING PRICES.
Oomols, Money 921
Do. Account, April 8

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7 his Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Elias W. Collins, a cab proprietor, of Little Edward-
street, Regent's Park, appeared before Mr. Knox to answer
the complaint of the Roysl Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals of causing a horse to be ill-treated by
being worked while in an unfit state, and John Liney, a
driver in his employ, for working the horse.

After hearing the evidence of Mr. Cherry, the veterinary
surgeon, Mr. Knox fined Collins 20s. and Liuey 10s.

THAMES.

THE Bow BANDITTI AGAlN.—James Redman, alias
Ruddyman, aged 19 years, John Back 18, Richard Brown
18, and Edward Atkins 20, were brought up on remand
bofore Mr. Benson, charged with cAntnitting several rob
beries. They were committed for trial.

MUSICAL AND THEA7RICAL 17EMS.

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The Italian Opera season at the Lyceum commences on
the 3d of May.
Mr. Joseph Irving has sailed for America.
Miss Susan Dovin, from America, makes her first ap-
pearance at the Surrey on Monday.
A new drama by Boucicault is underlined at the Prin-

cess's.

(F•om the Musical Standard.)
Wachtel is in danger of losing, his voice from a severe
illness.

Auber's " Le Premier Jour do Bonbeue has been given
successfully at Liege.
A Polish opora, "Haiku," by Moniusco, has teen given
with success at Moscow.