The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-25 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

At the weekly meeting in the Bulk parlour no
alteration has been made in the rate of discount.

Consols are 924 3 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
cmint, 93 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 934 4;
New Tree per Cents, 934 1 ; ditto 24 per Cent.,
Jan., 1894, 74:1 ; Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 24 per
Cent., par 3 dis.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1124 1 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1024 ; ditto Enlaced Paper, 5
per Cent., 106 ; ditto 5 per Cent., 111/ ; ditto
Debentures, 5 per Cent., 104.
In the Railway Market Metropolitans are I
better. Prices are asfollow :—Loudon and North-
Western, 1181 to 4 ; Great Western, 484 to 49 ;
Midland,:l2ol to 1211; London and South Western,
91 to 93 ; Great Eastern, 371 to 381 ; Brighton,
504 to 4 ; South Eastern, 811 to 4 ; Metropolitan,
1051 to 1054 ; Great Northern, 112 to 113 ; ditto
A, 111 to 1111 ; —Caledonian, 771 to 774 ; Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, 161 CO 4 ; and Sheffield,
544 to 4.
In the Foreign Market Italian, Egyptian,,Peru-
vian, • Spanish, and Turkish are k to 4 per cent.
lower, but Brazilian has advanced 1. The quo-
tations are as follows :—Brazilian of 1866, 833
to 84 ; Chilian of 1867, 944 to 944 ; Egyptian
cf 1864, 884 to 89 ; ditto of 1868, 754 to 764 ;
Italian of 1861, 56} to 4 ; ditto of 1868, 4 to 1
prem., ex shares; Mexican, 151 to 4 ; Peruvian
of 1865, 781 to 4 ; Russian of 1866, 93 to 94 ;
ditto Nicolai, 664 to 67 ; ditto Charkof-Azof, 831
to 811 ; ditto Charcow-Krementschug, 804 to 81 ;
ditto, Orel, 824 to 4 ; ditto Moscow, 80/ to 1 ;
Spanish of 1867, 324 to 4 ; Turkish of 1858, 674
to 684 ; ditto of 1862, 66:1 to 671; and ditto of
1865, 424 to 4.
United States 5-50 Bonds are 791 to 1 prem.,
being a rise of 1. Erie and Illinois Central have
declined Ito 4, viz., to 24 to 4, an 1 964 to 97 re-
spectively. Atlantic and Great Western Deben-
tures, 344 to 351 ; and the Consolidated Mortgage
Bonds, 353 to 361.
In Bank shares the prices are as follows :—City,
111 to 12 ; Imperial, 163 to 174; London and
County 511 to 4 ; Londoh Joint Stock, 321 to 4
London and Westminster, 644 to 654 ; Union of
Loudon, 361 to 4 ; Anglo-Austrian, 15 to 1G prem. ;
and Imperial Ottoman, 24 to 4.
In Miscellaneous Shares little doing. General
Credit, 14 to 14 dis. ; National Discount, 111 to / ;
International, 14 to ;I- dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 134
to 4 ; Telegraph Construction, 19 to 1 ; Atlantic
Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference, 41- to 1 ;
and Anglo-American 224 to 4.
No bullion operations of im2ortance toik plice
at the Bank.

The Norfolk from Melbourne, has arrived with
£57,500.
At the meeting of the Southampton Dock Com-
pany a dividend of 2} per cent. w.ms declared for
the past half-year, waking 5 per cent. for the year

The failure is announced of Mr. George Black,
manufacturer, of Nelson, near Coln?.
A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. W. S.
Sawyer and Co., of Manchester, whose failure was
reported on Monday last, has been hell. The lia-
bilities were stated to amount to £13,720, and the
assets to £7,890. Four assignees were appointed
to wind up the estate.
At the annual general meeting of the National
Life Assurance Society the assurances for the year
were stated at £159,920, yielding in pren.a ms
£4,874.
The telegram from Lisbon to the effect that the
Portuguese Government at length contemplate a
settlement of the claims of the South-Eastern of
Portugal Railway caused an improvement of
yesterday in Portuguese stock. The treatment ex-
perienced by that company during the past two
years has been a fatal blow to the credit of the
country, and all interested in her progress will
rejoice if better counsels have at length prevailed.
The unsatisfactory state of the trade of Lanca-
shire leads to the daily announcement of small
failures. The stoppage of Mr. George Black, a
manufacturer, was notified yesterday.
A new company
is proposed at Melbourne, in
the place of the late Panama and New Zealand
Mail Steamship Company, to run between Eng-
land and Melbourne, via the Cape of Good Hope.
It is considered possible that powerful vessels
may accomplish the voyage in forty-five days.
The proposed capital is £600,000 in 60,000 shares
of £lO each.

At the meeting of the Southampton Dock Com-
pany the report was adopted, and a dividend was
declared for the half-year of £2 10s. per cent., pay-
able on the 9th MLirch proximo, being at the rate
of £5 per cent. per annum.

The traffic returns of the Cape Railway for De-
cember last amounted to £4,119, against £3,436 in
the corresponding period of last year. For the six
months ending 31st December the total receipts
have been £19,834, against £19,441, in the corre-
sponding half of 1867.

The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 6th inst. shows an
increase of only £5l over last year. It is announced
that " the falling off is caused by heavy snow-
storms."

The half-yearly meeting of the Mediterranean
Extension Telegraph Company (Limited) is called
for the 4th of March, " for the transaction of the
ordinary business of the company, and the con-
sideration of other important matters to be then and
there brought forward."

The ordinary general meeting of Reuter's Tele-
gram Company (Limited) will be held on the 17th
March, when a dividend will be declared.
Creditors of the North Wales Coal, Iron, and
Fire Brick Company (Limited) are required to send
the particulars of their claims to the official liquida-
tor by the Ist of April, the 15th April having been
appointed by the Master of the Rolls fur adjudicat-
ing upon them.
The report of the directors of the Danube and
Black Sea Railway and Kustendjie Harbour Coin-
pally (Limited), to be presented to the general
meeting on the 26th inst., announces a continued
growth of the traffic receipts, and anticipates a
continuance of it, as the greater part of last year's
yield of Wallachian grain has yet to come forward.
It has been necessary to spend a sum of 114,:h8e4f:ilal.
additional warehouses and other works, and the
greater part of this has been temporarily provided
aomutooufnctuorrf the bondsentreve
nuepilnacpelad.ce of calling up

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
(.i OTERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
93
Ditto for Account, .........
per f_leut. lieduend 93} i
Now 3 per Cent
New 2A. per Cent. Jan. 1844
Do. 5 per Cen J au.1873 •
luuuities, 80 yrs, expire stl J:in., lbbt —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire 5t,11 April 1885 —
Do (lied Seii, Telekruph), Aug., Doh_
',:xone,(iii:tr Bills. £l,OOO, '2l per Ct.
Do. .0500
Do. £lOO k .1:200 —
Wink of Engltiud Stock, 4 pin' Cent

Do. act:omit .
13;inada 4 por (Amt. Bonds —
Inter-Coluuial ()alumni
iNDIAN titiVr.h.,MENl OECintillb,..
In litt %;tot.:k, loi per Cola., April Ihi4.„,
Do. Openiug, for Account -
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1380
Do. 1 per ()out., Oct. 1888

Do. Certificates —
io. Enfucod Yule• 4 por CAnt —
),..,. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872
Uo. bi per C.clt. May 1879 llli
D.) 5 pc: Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 --