The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-14 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, Two o'CLOCK.
Business this morning was very dull, the news
from Paris with regard to the progress of the Con-
ference on the nreek question not being looked
upon as favourable. Consols gave way slightly,
but whether it was i,o be attributed to arrange
went of the settlement or the foreign intelligence
is not very clear. The weekly meeting in the bank
Parlour has not resulted in any alteration being
made in the rate of discount.
Consols are 921 f for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 921 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 93 1 ; New
Three per Cents, 93 1 ; Bank of England Stock,
4 per Cent., 242.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 1I ; ditto
Bonds £l,OOO, 20 prem.
In the foreign Market Turkish Five per Cents.
gave way 1 ; Italian Five per Cents., Greek Bonds,
and Mexican 4 ; and the New Spanish Three per
Cents. are if lower. The prices are :—ltalian, 53
53. ex div. ; Mexican, 15 151 ; Greek, 111 111 ;
New Spanish, 30 301 ex div. ; Turkish Five per
Cents., 371 374.
Italian Scrip is now 1 1 prem. ex div., and the
last Russian Railway Loan is 101 dis. The Hon-
duras Loan is 85 87 ex coupon, and the Egyptian
Seven per Cent. Loan of 1868 is steady, at 74 741.
In the railway market Great Westerns have
Improved 1, Great Northern 1, ditto A 1, Metro-
politan 1, Extension 1, North Eastern 1, and
South Eastern 1. Great Eastern are 3-16 lower,
Sheffield 1, and Brighton 1. The quotations are—
Caledonian, 771 8 ; Great Western, 481 491 ;
Great Eastern, 421 421 ; Great Northern,
107 8 ; ditto A, 108 / ; Lancashire, 129 30 ;
Metropolitan, 1091 a ; do. Extension, 104/ 51 ;
Midland, 1144 115 ; Sheffield, 471 ; Brighton,
491 494 ; North British, 331 4 ; North Western,
1144 15; ; North Eastern, 104 5- ; South Eastern,
704 80 ; Chatham and Dover, 17 1.
United States Five-Twenty Bonds, 744 74; ; the
Bonds of 1885, 721 721 ; and the Ten-Forty Bonds
72 721.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Deben-
tures are firm, at 42 42k, and the Consoli-
dated Mortgage Bonds at 46 46k, showing a rise
of fin the former. Eries are dull, at 251 261, and
Illinois Central stock is / lower, at 954 961.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway New Four per
Cent. Debenture Stock is 90 91 ex div.
In Bank and Miscellaneous Shares prices are as
last quoted.
At the half-yearly meeting of proprietors of the
Consolidated Bank, held this day at the City Ter-
!Maus Hotel, Cannon-street, the directors report
authorising the payment of a dividend of 2s. 6d.
P r share, being at the rate of 61 per cent. per
annum, was adopted.
The annual general meeting of the shareholders
of the London and Brazilian Bank was held this
day at the London Tavern ; Mr. J. W. Cater in
the chair. The report of the directors was adopted.
An extraordinary general meeting of the East
London Bank was held to-day at the London
Tavern for the purpose of confirming or otherwise
the special resolutions passed at the meeting of the
24th of December. The confirming of the minutes
of the previous meeting, and the various resolutions
were put seriatim from the chair, and approved.
The sum of £15,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday, making a total of £130,000 during
the week since the date of the last return.
The Douro, from the West Indies, has brough
£122,600.

Transactions are limited on the Stock Exchange,
and are likely to remain so until the Paris Confe-
rence shall terminate, although little doubt seems
to be entertained of its result. The operations of
commerce are also considerably checked by the
same cause. On the settlement of the affair an
active revival of general business is expected, which
will probably make great further progress so soon
na the prospect of an adjustment of the Spanish
question shall have been arrived at.
At a meeting of the directors of the Thames and
Mersey M rine Insurance Company (Limited) in
Manchester yesterday, it was resolved to recom-
Inend a payment of 4s. per share for the past half-
Year, being 2s. per share dividend, or at the rate of
10 per cent. per annum, and 2s. per share bonus,
taking, with the 2s. paid in July last, 6s. per
share, or 15 per cent. on the paid-up capital for the
Year.

The report of the Metropolitan Bank (Limited),
151 be presented on the 15th inst., recommends a
dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum.
, The report of the United Discount Corporation
(thnited), to be presented ou the 15th inst., recom-
mends a dividend of 3s. 7d. per share, being at the
rate of 6 per cent. per annum.
of the
ordinary general meeting of the proprietors
(4 the North Western Bank (Limited) will be held
°lithe 20th inst. at Liverpool.
:rile Manchester Examiner says :—" The failure
°4' a New York house, largely engaged in cotton
~
erations, was rumoured on 'Change yesterday.
;the
ge liabilities of the firm were spoken of as very
4ar.,

The London and North Western Railway traffic
last
shows this week an increase of £4,392 over
the
Year, the Metropolitan an increase of £3,129,
c Midland an increase of £5,573, the Great
Northern an increase of £353, the Great Western
call increase of £4,436, the Great Eastern an in-
thease of £1,428 (wholly in passenger traffic), and
',567
z London and South Western an increase of
To-day is the usual one for the payment of Par-
t faro-day
deposits upon Railway Bills. The re-
olltu of the deposit moneys by the new standing
er of the House of Lords is no longer a matter
~ course, but is made contingent, in the case of
of
new projects, on the line being opened for
as 14, or on one-half of the capital being subscribed
b expended. Otherwise, it appears, they are to
: applied as far as they will go to provide for a
13
t4altY of £5O a day for non-completion, or else
the satisfaction of the claims of landowners or
others.

d 4, Protest has been published by Mr. Henry Gue-
,4`l4 against the Mexican Government for the non-
Tht`a/alat of the last five half-yearly dividends on
11,1,e bonds of the loans issued in 1851 and 1864.
e arrears for the last two and a half years' inte-
rest amount to upwards of £1,250,000.
teAccounts from Peru calculated to cause uneasi-
rt the minds of the bondholders having been
Ptibr
tu3"ed as received by this mail, it may be use-
ad .° Mention that, according to the mercantile
tiatv.ices) affairs in that country were proceeding
18factorily, and the position of the Government
atPPears be firm. A few disturbances, attempted
thi°4 Point, had been promptly suppressed. Some-
°ghas been said about the finances of the Peru-
i.(-Irovernn3ent being in a straitened condition ;
this there is nothing new, the Government
arel usually willing to borrow as much as lenders
of tVPosed to offer. The strength of the position
sift ue Peruvian bondholders in this country coa-
ct): in their hold upon the guano revenues, re-
aljueitirlig the prouctiveness of wich not the
Itest ground forms igiving is obsehrvable.

BILITISII FUNDS—MO O'CLOCK.
tiOVEItNNIEXT FUNDS.,
921 1
a Per Cent. Consols
92i
. Ditto for Account, .........
93 1
t.per Cent. Reduced
93 1
tuw- 3 per Cent
_
'AeW 21 per Cont. Jan. 1894
A 1)0' 5 per Cent..) an. 1873
-,44uities, 80 yrs expire sth Jun., 1880 —l
1)0. for 30 yrs, as pire sth April 1885 —
Do (Rod Sea Teixe6raph), Aug., 1908.
Pm
Do
Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per et —
Do,
.C5OO
Pm
Do.
ZlOO
242
11, of England Stock. 4 per Cent
C uo. account Cent. Buds
IA ads 4 per Cent. Bonds
An :crOolonial Omnitun ......... —
1„ LIAA UOVERNMENT bECLItiTIEt4.
'4l toeli-, 101 per Cent., April 1874...
Do. Opening, for Account
,bo• per Cent. July, 1880
Do 1 pe- Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. E'nfaced Pape. 4 per Cent —
1)0. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 , —
1)0. 51- per Chat. flay 1879 —•

D.) 5 por Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 ..... —
Do.
do. 1877 —
Do.
do. 1882 —
P.. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ •
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l.OOO -
FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOOIC.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ...
Do., Scrip £45 paid ... .. —
1 Au ;trim' Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859 624
' BrAidlian . per Cent —
/o. 44 per Cent., 1852 714
Do. do. 1858.... .........
Do. do., 1860 —
Do. do., 1863 -
Do. 5 per Cent., 1'465
!o Account •••.
13;etios Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) --
Cn'-a, 6 per Cent.
o..ilian 6 per Cent —
1)o. 41 per Cent..., „... ......... .. —
Do. 3 per Cent.,
1-o. 6 per co t. 1867
Po. 7 per Cent., 1866 ... lOO 1
C lo nbian, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825
Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent 744
Do 8 per Cent., 1867
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
Egyptian, 7 per Cent
Do Second Issue
•. •.
Do. £sot, Bonds B6l
Do. £lOO Bonds ...... 821
Do. 1864
Do. Account -
Do. £5OO Bonds
Do. 1106 Bonds BB- 90
English Scrip,:lB6B: 74 4
Do do. £45 pd — dis
Government Railway Debentures
Greeir 5 per Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups —
Do. Acccunt
.
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
`74datemala 5 per Cent .. —
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd 844
Italian 5 per Cent., 1865 —
.)o. Account . B2
Do Ilsremmana Railway
lexica;. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 74
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
•iontevideau 6 per Cent. .. —
400rish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada l5
Do 3 per Cen —
Do. Deferred
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) i —
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account .. 77 64
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 41 per Cent.. 1862 . —
Do Account
Pertsguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2.' 354 6
Do. do. 1867... 36
Do. do. Scrip, £2O pail —
Russian 5 per Cent., 1.822, £ St
Do 4} per Cent , 1850
Dn 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds.
Do. do. £B4 15s. d 0...,,
Do, 1866, £lOO Bonds
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 664 4
Sardinian 5 per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Cen .: --
Do. Account
Do. 1867 -
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred —
Do. Account
Do. Passive —
Do. Coin. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864 -
Do do, 1868
Do do, Scrip —
Turriisli 6 per Cent.
'J., Account
Do Account
Do .£lOl Bonds
Do 5 per went. 1865 -
Di Account
Do 6 per Cont., 186 a . 6O
Do I por Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —
Do. ACCeallt
Du 6 per Cent. 1864 —
Do G per Cont., 1862 f —

78f

63i 41

Dividends on the above payable in Londe%
Austrian a par Cent. Ex 10 Florins —
Belgian, 11 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil ,
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
Do. Account
Italian 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 25f.
D., Account 53 I
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consuls, Money 92:
Do._Account, Feb. 4 92}

CRMILVAL COURT—(This day).

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
MANSLAUGHTER.

George Campbell, 23, upholsterer, who was last
night found guilty of the manslaughter of John
Moir, at Arthur-street, Barnsbury, was this morn-
ing sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
Timothy Howard was sentenced to 14 days' im-
prisonment for the manslaughter of James Hart.
Felix Victor, a black man, was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment for the manslaughter of John
Buckley.