The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-27 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Governmene Securities to-day maintained
the improved prices of yesterday, and although
business was far from brisk, yet quotations were
well supported. There has been also a decided ad-
l'ance in American. The lowest quotation iu the
discount market for bills is 3 per cent., but loans
were offered on 'Change at to 3. In banking
and miscellaneous shares business was quite in-
active, and prices remained unaltered.
Consols are 934 1 3 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
eonnt, ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 93a ;
New Tkree per Cents, 93i ; Exchequer Bills,
21 per Cent., 2 pm. 1 dis.
India Stock, 103. per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 112:1- i ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1883, 1020 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4
per Cent., 933- ; ditto 5 per Cent., 1061.
In the Foreign Market Nicolai and Orel Vitebsk
have advanced 1 per cent., while Italian of 1861,
Alexican, Spanish of 1867 have declined 1-16 to
*• Prices are quoted as follow :--Brazilian of 1865,
14 to 1; Chili= of 1867, 941 to 953 ; Egyptian of
1164, 881 to 891 ; ditto of 1868, 77 to 1; Italian
of 1861, 561 to 57 ; ditto of 1868, 4to 4
Prem., ex shares ; Mexican, 151 to Peruvian
of 1865, 791 to 1 ; Russsian of 1866, 933 to 94 ;
ditto Nicolai, 67 to 3 ; ditto Charkof-Azof, 811
t° ; ditto Charcow-Kramentschug, 811 to 3 ;
ditto Orel, 823- to 83 ; ditto Moscow, 801 to 1 ;
Spanish of 1867, 321 to 1-/ ; Turkish of 1858, 673-
to 68 ; ditto of 1862, 621 to 67 ; and ditto of
1865, 411- to 41.
In the Railway Market Caledonian and Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover have improved a to
per cent., viz., 764 to and 17 to 1, respec-
tively, but the other lines are unchanged. Lou-
don and North-Western, 1151 to 1 ex div. ; Great
Western, 491 to ; Midland, 117* to aex div. ;
London and South Western, 88 to 90 ex div. ;
Great Eastern, 38 to 4; Brighton, 50a to a ; South
Eastern, 79 to 4, ex div. ; Metropoliian, 106 to 1 ;
Great Northern, 108 to 100 ex div. ; and ditto A,
105 to 3, ex div.
United States 5-20 Bonds are 1 per cent. better,
821 to Erie Railway Shares, 231 to 24 ; Illinois
entral, 961 to 971 ; Atlantic and Great Western
-Debentures, 30 to 31 ; and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds, 30 to 31.
The Bangalore, from the East, has arrived with
£1,521.

Telegraphic advices from Melbourne announce
that the shipments of gold, since the departure of
the last mail, amounted to £400,000, and that, in
addition, the mail steamers bring £111,500.
The telegram of Pope, Rees, and Co., with re-
gard to the proceedings in the New Fork courts to
foreclose the rulrtgage against the Atlantic and
Great Western Railway, created quite a panic in the
13°4(13 and debentures, both descriptions exhibiting
a very heavy fall. '[he following notice has been
Posted at the Stock Exchange :

"Atlantic and Great Western Ra;lway Company
Offices, London, Feb. 26.
"Sir—No advices whatever have been received at
this office bearing on the intelligence conveyed in Messrs.
"Pe and Rees' telegrams as to the position of this rail-
Way.— I ant, sir, your obedient servant,

" L. J. WOODMAN, Secretary.
"Ur. M. Slaughter, Secretary, Stock Exchange, E.C."
The third instalment of 10 per cent. upon the
New South Wales one million loan introduced last
autumn by Messrs. Rothschild and the Bank of
New South Wales falls due on Monday.
Mr. R. P. Harding, the official liquidator of the
Joint-Stock Discount Company (Limited), has
issued a statement of affairs made up to 31st
December last. From this it appears that the
debts and liabilities, which at the date of the last
statement had been reduced to £567,286 Bs., now
amount, exclusive of interest, t) only £133,7.12
13 6d. The assets are estimated at £396,880
"s• 6d. ; but in the realisation of the various
Recurities some delay must take pi.ace, as otherwise
Merely nominal prices would, in most cases, have
to be accepted.
The directors of the United Kingdom Electric
Telegraph Company (Limited) have declared the
Usual dividends at the rate of 6 per cent. and 10
Per cent. per annum on tha preference shares of
the company. The dividend declared on the ordi-
nary shares is at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum ;
it having been at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum
last half-year, and there having been no dividend
the preceding half.
The report of the Mediterranean Extension

Telegraph Company (Limited), to be presented on
the 4th of March, recommends a dividend of Bs.
per share on the preference capital, less income tax.
At the annual meeting of the Liverpool and Lon-
don and Globe Insurance Company the new poli-
cies of the year were stated to have been 1,123 for
£639,780, yielding in new premiums £23,403.
The fire premiums of the year were £867,374, and
the losses £539,916. The funds of the company,
including £391,752 capital, amount to £3,538,078.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Alum and Am-
monia Company (Limited) a dividend was de-
clared at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, leav-
ing £2,761.
On the petition of a creditor, Vice-Chancellor
ntalins has ordered that the Panama, New Zealand,
and Australian llail Company should be wound
up compulsorily. He also ordered that the volun-
tary winding-up of the City Discount Company
the
be continued, subject to the supervision of
Id''e Court

Moscow
petition for the winding-up of the City of
Gas Company (Limited) is to be heard
before Vice-Chancellor James on the 6th of March.
A petition for the winding-up of the Union
eaht Club-house Company (Limited) is to be
~,d before the Alaster of the Rolls on the 6th of
Atarch.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
, (401tt itsSitsT FUNDS.
' Dor Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
pe r Cont. Reduced 931 i
;rilvt 3 per Cent
"elZr 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
A ."
0. 5 per Cen i att. 1873
-sunuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Prso• for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
E "0 (Red Sea Telet,raph), Aug., 1908 —
DO
Bills, £l,OOO, 2i per Ct.
''')* £5OO
Do,
£lOO k £2OO —
2alik of England Stock, 4 per Cent
D
c 3 • accouat
1 alloada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
titer-Colonial ()minium
j 4INDIA,N GOVERNMENT SECURITIEtI
rLitt Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 —
p 0: Opening, for Account --
r, 5 per Cent.
Oct
1BSO
". 4 per
Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
To,o. Enfaced Papea 4 per Cent 934
DDO. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872
°' 54 per Cent. May 1879 —
5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Dodo. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
BO 4.1,0
Bonds, 4;• 5 per Cent., Au
per Cent., £1 ,og.
00 1873 ~ —
.
1).. under £l,OOO
tOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, t; per Cent -
C! Scrip £45 paid
itilan Bonds 5 per cent ..
Br
-'rtzilian D. 1859 644 4
per Cent —
03. 44 per Cent. 1852 —
I,°' do. 1858....
B°0: (1e 186 ) —
.1),, . do., 1863 7ll.
'• per Cent, 1865
.1)_0 Account B3i
;estwa Ayres 6 per Cent.
r, 4-,) 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont ,
"r,4 )1,1 G per Cent.
itisoi" 6 per Cent
~ • 4 per Cent,... 72
•Lio• 3 ,
1. opor Cent.,
G
, per ca t. 1867... —
C 4. 0. 7 per Cent., 1866
-r, te übian, 6 per Cent.
von'sti 3 per Cent. 1825..
4/4/314,:j4u Principa.lities, 7 per Cent BO
le ° per Oortt„ -a —q7,,,,,,,_ .- •••• 86
t cis?,
,ar to,
,r , ,
~ No7depdweriCBc.oeunnfte.l.i.clated, I ptr Cent ------
••• ----
,
••
4)0. XlOO Bondg B7
..••
Du. 1864
Do.
89 84
Account
tDo. ksuo Bmids
og—tlisTeSßcorind:lB6B 9O 4
Do Scrip,- 1868
_
uo. £45 pd GleVernuaeld Railway Debentures

Greek 5 por Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups —
Do. Account .. . • ---
-,7i, Do. Coupons . .
Do. Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent . —
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., lop. Ct., all pd 851
lt3iiau 5 per Cent., 1865 —
,To. Accountl . , —
Do M%remmana Railway —
Mexican 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do l per Cont. Anglo-French —
idontevidqau 6 por Cont. .. —
Sic orish imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada 16;:
Do 3 per Con —
Do. Deferred
Perwrian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account .. 791 i
Do 44 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 4f per Cent.. 1862 -. —
Do Account

P..rtagueso 3 per Ct., 1853,'6, 7, '9,'00,'2,": 37i
jDo. do. 1867 —
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
11.issian 5 per Cont., 1822, £ St .. 9Ol
Do 44 per Cent . 1850
Do 4i per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1802
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, .£1001;onds,. --
Do. do. £B4 15s. du....
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 931

Do: . d £B4 15s. do.,____
Do Nicolas Railway 671. 7
Sar finial). b pbr Cult —

Spanish 3 per Con . 3l
Do. Acc,,unt
Do. 1867
Do. Account ,
Do. New Deferrea
Do. Account

Do. Passive
Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Do do, Scrip — Pr--
Turkish 6 per Cent.l
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds .—
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 —
Do Account
Do £IOC Bonds —
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 —
DJ Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1860
Do 'I por Cent., Guaranteed
Do Laud Warrants (Jteotare.,)
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —
Do. Acc..llit
Do 6 per Cent. 1864 . 22i
Du 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable iu London.
Austrisu o par Cent. Ex 10 Florins ...
BelLpau, 4i per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch :4 per o,4nt. Es. 12 Gail,. —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certidcates ..... —
Do. Account .--
French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
I talian 5 per Gent. 1831, E. zsf.
Do Account 664.
CLOSING PRICES.

)onso's, Money 93 1.,
Do. Account, Maroh 4

TARLIAM.ENTARY NOTICES.

On Monday evening Mr. Locke King will move for a
return of the number of foxes imported since the sth of
April 1867, the posts at which they have been entered, and
the parties to Whom they have been assigned.
On Tuesday Sir Thomas Bateson will ask the First
Lord of the Treasury whether there is any foundation for
the rumour that the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has
refused to appoint to the living of Valent;a, county Kerry,
which is now vacant ; and, whether the course pursued
by his Excellency has been sanctioned by her Majesty's
Government.

On the same evening Sir Thomas Bateson intends to
ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether, as is stated
in some of the public prints, it is in the contemplation of
the Government to recommend to her Majesty that
Cardinal Cullen should be appointed a member of the
Privy Council in Ireland.
The Attorney• General's .Bankruptcy Bill is postponed
until Friday next, the sth of March.