The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-10 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The directors of the Union Bank of Australia
heve resolved upon a dividend of 17s. 6d. per
share, being 71 per cent for the half-year.
The Austrian floating debt, according to the com-
mission appointed for its control, amounted on the
30th of June last to 411,622,347 florins. It is also
stated that the floating debt is never to exceed
412,000,000 florins. The preliminaries for the ex-
tensive network of railways in Turkey have now
been taken in hand. A. corps of engineers have
already proceeded to Constantinople, whence, in ten
(.11V131us, L 1.0- vrni 0-mrllo4o their inspection of the
proposed route (about 1,200 miles in length). Ne-
gotiations are still pending with the Turkish Go-
vernment relative to the connecting point of their
lines with the Southern Railway, via Bosnia ; but
the States Railway Company are using all their in-
fluence, supported by the Hungarian Government,
to carry out the connection of the Turkish lines
with the Servian and Wallachian lines, which, if
successful, may eventually become the overland
route to India.

A prospectus has been issued of the Imperial
Ottoman Mining Company (Limited), with a capi-
tal of £lOO,OOO in shares of £1 (of which £35,000
is offered for allotment), with the view to buy and
work the lead mines of Pelidli, about 28 miles from
Constantinople. The purchase money is to consist
of 15,000 cash and £35,000 in paid-up shares.
The report of the Alliance Bank (Limited), to be
presented on the 15th inst., shows an available total
of £21,174, and recommends a dividend at the rate
of 4 per cent. per annum.
At a meeting of the General Board of Directors
of the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Com-
pany (Limited, at Liverpool, yesterday, it was re-
solved to recommend a payment of 4s. per share
for the six months ended the 30th of June—viz.,
2s. per share dividend and 2s. per share bonus, and
that the sum of £32,000 be carried to the reserve
fund.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
8 per Cent. Reduced 93 2/
New 3 per Cent
INsiw 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cen Jan . 187 3
A annities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 --
bo (Red Sea Telef,.raph), Aug., 1908 —
Exeliequor Bills, £l,OOO, 21 p. Ct. March pm
Do. 3 do. June 10
Do £lOO, £2OO & £5OO —
Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent
Do. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Intor-Oolo.nial Onannun
. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
Ludia stock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 2OB
Do. Opening, for Account —
Do. 5 'per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1838
Do. Certificates — •
Do. Enfaced Paptu 4 per Cant..,,„ —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ,. los}
Do. 5} per Cent. May 1879 —
Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
D;;. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO ......
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent 791 1
-147trian Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do. 4k. per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do 1858....
Do. uv. 186')
Do. do., 1863 7O
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
„ Do Account B4 31
-u 4euos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Cu , Doas 6 per Cent 2 per Cant. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
~
v..iliau 6 por Cent —
Do. 41- por Cent
--
Do. 3 per Cent.,
to. 6 per ccr2t. 1867
C Do. 7 per Cent. 1866
`-' lo nbi•in 6 por 'Cent. .. —l
Danish, - "
an tsil, 3 por Cent., 1825
Dan., Wan Principaities, 7 I,er Cent Bl}
, Do 8 per Cent., 1867 ........ 88f
quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
144Yktian, 7 per Cent.... B6l 7
n„0 Second Issue
AR). .450(., Bonds •• •.
-130. XlOO Bonds ..... 88
1)0. 1864
Do. Account
lio .1 LU.) Bonds
)o. 41W; Bonds —
-"o• 7 per Cent., 1868
, (invert:anent Itailwav Debentures
"'T„eek 5 per Ctint., 1824 5, ex Coups. —
"0. Acceunt
•
Do ,
~ • Coupons
4-1 0 . Account
,„..nateniala 5 per Cent
.. —
40nduras Goy Rail. Loan., lup. Ct., all pd 831 1

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Conso's are firm to-day at 93 f2l for money ;
ditto, for Account, —; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 93 21 ; New Tkree per. Cents, 921 32/ ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 10 prem.; ditto £lOO, £2OO,
and £5OO, —; Bank of England Stock, 4 per
Cent., 245.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 208 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 12 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, —; ditto Enfaced Paper, 5
per Cent., 1051; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 17 prem. ;
ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 16 prem.
The Foreign Stock is ,a little firmer thin yester-
day. Brazilian are 831 to 831 ; Egyptian (1864),
901 to 911 ; Egyptian (1868), 801 to 81 ; Viceroy
Seven per Cents., 811 to 811 ; dito Nine per
Cent., 961 to 961 ; Italian, 54 to 541 ; Mexican, 12
to 121 ; Peruvian, 76f to 771 ; Russian (1868), 901
to 911 ; Orel-Vitebsk, 81 to 811; Charkof, 801
to 801 ; Spanish, 28 to 28; ; Turkish Five per
Cents., 451 to 451 ; ditto Six per Cents., 651 to
66i ; Portuguese, 34 to 348 ; and Honduras, 83
to 84.

American Five-Twenty Bonds are at 811 to 84,
being an advance of and 'Erie Shares are 188
to 19.
In Railway Shares there is a slight improvement.
Caledonian are 791 to 80; Great Eastern, 381 to
388 ; Great Northern, 107 to 108 ; Great Western,
508 to 51 ; London and Brighton, 441 to 45 ;
London, Chatham, and Dover, 161 to 17 ; Lon-
don and North Western, 1188 to 119 ; London
and South Western, 89 to 91; Metropolitan, 971
to 974 ; Midland, 1161 to 1174.
In Bank shares, London Joint Stock are 10s.
lower, while Imperial Ottoman are 8 higher ;
Alliance are 15 to 16 ; Anglo-Austrian, 19 to 21
prem. ex dix. ; Chartered Mercantile, 308 to 34
ex div. ; London and Westminster, 61 to 62 ; and
Union of London, 37 to 38.
In Miscellaneous Securities there is no particular
change.
The sum of £36,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.
The Pera, from Alexandria, has brought £5,503,
and the Donati, from Brazil, £1,900.
The Donati arrived at Liverpool, bringing two
days later advices from Rio. The produce markets
were inactive, at previous quotations, and the rate
of exchance was steady at 181 d. to id.
In the Colonial Produce Markets this week there
has again been a want of activity, although the
transactions have been of fair extent, without ma-
terial alteration in quotations. Rather more inquiry
has prevailed for sugar, and for West India de-
scriptions firm rates have been paid, while grocery
qualities at auction went steadily. Several floating
cargoes have changed hands for the United King-
dom. The sales of coffee have gone off at fully the
previous value for coloury kinds of Ceylon and East
India, but some of the fine marks of Mysore have
scarcely maintained former prices.
The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of
the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, Lon-
don, and China is called for the 16th of November.
The City of Glasgow Bank announces a dividend
at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
A general meeting of the Staffordshire Roll-
ing Stock Company (Limited) is called for the
19th instant, to receive a statement from the
liquidators.
The sixth ordinary general meeting of the York-
street Flax Spinning Company (Limited and Re-
duced) is convened for the 26th instant, at Bel-
fast, when a dividend will be declared.
A petitiop • for the winding up of the Legal,
Clerical, and Medical Co-operative Society (Limited)
is to be heard before the Master of the Rolls on the
17th instant.