The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-05 00:00:00

'ZIONEY MARKET

AND
00M1\IERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocic.
Consols are 931 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
e: 931 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 91i 1
'evf T!..ree per Cents, 911 1 1 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, —; ditto £lOO, v9OO, and £5OO, —; Bank
of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 240 42.
India Sto'ck, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 213 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1044 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Eufaced raper,
4
per Cent., 1051; ditto Debentures, 103.
In the Foreign Market Italians are 4 higher, but
-Mexican Threes have receded the same amount.
Brazilian of 1865, 791 to 791 ; Chilian of 1867,
961 to 071 ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 341
to 351
4,; Argentine Six per Cents., 80 to 80E ;
'4.??'Yptian Seven per Cents., 80 to 801 ; ditto
Nine per Cents., 97-1- :to 971- ; ditto Seven per
Cents. of 1868, 751 to 76 ; Italian Five per
Cents., 564 to 56-1 ; Mexican, 131 to 14 ; Peruvian
Five per Cents., 77 to 771 ; Spanish New Three
Per Cents., 281 to 281 ; Turkish Five per Cents.
of 1865, 421 to 491; ditto Six per Cents. of 1865,
56/ to 661; the Bonds of the Ilonduras Railway
Loan, 83 to 81 ex div. ; •the Danubian Commission
Guaranteed Loan, 1 to 11 prem.
In the railway market prices are as follows :
Grghton, 471 to 471 ; Caledonian, 771 to 771 ;
Great Eastern, 371 to 371 ; Great Western, 49 to
494 ; Great Northern A Stock, 1081 to 1081 ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 123 to 1231 ; London
and North Western, 1151 to 1151; London,
Chatham and Dover, 171 171 ; Metropolitan, 1031
to 1037 ;
Midland, 1131 to 1131 ; North British,
74t0415 ; Sheffield, 531 to 54 ; and South Eastern,
to
For the Russian loan the prices are :—Nicolai,
631 to 6t ex div. ; Oriel and Vitebsk, 77; to 781;
Moscow Jaroslaw Loan, 79 to 791-
There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
t
erclay, and the discouut demand was unimportant.
The well-known banker, Mr. Samuel Scott, of
Cavendish-square, died at Nice, after an illness
which had incapacitated him from attending to
business for upwards of three years. It is under-
"4A that he leaves the banking-house, with its
entire interest, to his nephew and partner, Mr.
Edward H. Scott, and that he has also consider-
ably augmented the provision made by his father,
the late Sir Samuel Scott, for the security of his
customers.

At the general meeting of the Bank of British
IjOuttibia, a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per
ar'nullt Was declared.
The
Diotned steamer, from China, which called
at the Cape of Good Hope on her homeward
Voyage, brings news of a splendid diamond having
b"n found within the colony, weighing 83k
arats, and of the estimated value of X 25,000 to
Q 30,000.

Rodorts are again current in the Californian
sr:: of groat diseoyet les of gold iu Alaska, the
territory recoutly acquired from Russia. Tuey are
to have been made by a Russian engineer,
!Ito via; prospecting in consequence of having ob-
ihed specimens from the Indians. On account of
the climate, however, the mines can only be worked
eve months in the year, and the hard and uninvit-
ing character of the country is considered likely to
Preclude any very general attempts for their deve-
lopineut.

We are informed that notice has been given of
an intention to appeal against the older of Vice-
Chancellor Malins of the 26th ult. conferring
upon the liquidator of the South Eastern of Por-
tugal Railway Company the larger powers con-
tained in the 96th sec. of the Winding-up Com-
panies' Act.
The traffic receipts of the Metropolitan Railway
~i.epresent an increase of £2,764. The Metropolitan
1-iistrict Railway shows a receipt of £B3l. The Me-
tropolitan and St. John's-wood Railway
shows for
the week ending May 2, £404.
The New Five per Cent. Preference Stock of
the Great Western of Cana is Railway Company,
authorised at the recent meeting, is now being
i:Lsned• The amount of uew capital required for
the purposes of the undertaking, as then stated,
was £814,560, of which £668,815 represented the
debt to the Canadian Government as settled by
compromise, £125,576 was to cover overdrawn
capital ou 31st January, 1869, and £115,296
Would provide working capital for stores and
rolling stock. The amount to be issued is
£1,018,200 in a Five per Cent. Preference Stock
at 80, full it will be allotted pro rata to the pro-
prietors in the proportion of £6 of preference stock
,to each ordinary share. The whole is expected to
ne taken up by the shareholders themselves.
Under an order of the Court of Chancery 20
_hares are to be sold by auction on Thursday, at the
Guildhall Coffeehouse, in the Lisburne Lead Mining
c)naPany. The mine is near Aberystwitb, and dur-
aig the last 34 years it has distributed £202,400 on
a Daid up capital of £7,500.
The Master of the Rolls has authorised the official
_liquidatorduan of the Tavisteck Ironworks and Steel
ce Company (Limited) to pay a dividend of
G3' 81. in the pound to the creditors.

BRITISiI FUNDS-TWO U'ULUO.K.

UOVERNMENT FUNDS.
' Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
93t
e Per Cent. Reduced
•,,,ew 3 Per Cent
91i i i
0 eW 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894
13% 5 per Cen
itunuities, 30 'yrs, expire sth Jan., 188".
Do. for 30 yra, expire sth April 1885 —
D (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
DaExelqu:sr Bills, XI.,OUU, 2i per Ct.
£5OO — Pm
Do.
£lOO & £2OO —
Lank of England Stock, 4i per Cent
Da. opening .
int
uanada 4 per Cent. Bonds
eColonial ()lithium
INDIAN dOVERINMENT BEctatirize
India c'tock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 213
Do. Opening, for Account — Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 —
D 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Pap. 4 per Cent..,.... —
D 0.5 per Cent., Jan. 1872... ~.. lO5l-
Si per Cent. May 1879 .
Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872
Do do 1877
Do. do. 1882 ......
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., .£l,OOO
Do. under £l.000
FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
Ar.;eutine Republic, F per Cent
Do., Scrip £45 paid ..
Austrian Bonds 5 per cent

....“a 0 Pet ••
Do. 1859 661 1
I,lrlzilia.n 5 per Cent —
10. 4i per Cent. 1852 —.
Do. do. 1858....
Do. do. 186) —
Do. do., 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account —
_
Buenos Ayres 6 por Cent.
Cubs, 6 per Cent.
(illian 6 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent
_
Do. 3 per Cont. t.
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961
Lo. 6 per wt. 1867
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
_
C lo nbian, 6 per Cent. _
Dansh, 3 per Cent., 1825
Danubian Principalities, 7 ler Cent
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 — lequador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
Egyptian,
7 per Cent —Do Second Issue
00..f50L Bonds —
1864 Do
Do. £lOO Bonds
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Do. Account
Do. 4500 Bonds
Do. £IOC Bonds B7l I
English Scrip, 1868 76i Do do. £45 pd — dis
Goverrins,nl Railway Debenture, 9Bl-,
Grecit 5
A k per Cccuut cnt., 1824 5, ex Coups .. ,
1)0.
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Do. coupons .. —
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f.., Do. Account
_.• e.l.ardeeiala 5 per Cent ..
'ton urasOov Ilail.Loon. 10p. Ct..all pd
t., - -
aail 0 pti• i" cr t., lbtis —
-30. A.count •
, Do Marerranana Railway —
,1 usicar. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
_i_, Do. 186 e
"0 }; ner Cont. Anglo-French
.-lontt-,vi:4;Lti i; per Cent. .. l4
a,:.riKli impel:N.l 5 per Cent
Next" Granada, l7l
Do 3 per Oen
37
~, Do. Deferred ... ......
rertAr,;,-,r, 5 per Cent. lEGo
Do Account ~ .. 77i
1)° 4 i por Cent. (IJI:1)arron) ... ...... ...