The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-21 00:00:00

111-76 -14 ARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The sum of £20,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.
The Rockliff, from Melbourne, has brought
£20,C00 ; the City of Rio de Janeiro, from Brazil
and the Plate, £25,000; and the City of Cork, from
Ralifax, £1,200—making a total of £46,200.
The mail steamer Pascal has taken £12,100 for
Brazil and the Plate.
It is understood that the firm by whom the Spa-
nish Loan will be introduced in London is that of
Messrs.
J. S. Morgan and Co. The amount of
nominal stock in the first issue will be £8,000,000,
equal at the proposed price to rather less than 2k
millions sterling.
It is stated that the whole of the recent 4 per
Censrt. Russian Loan of £11,110,000, introduced by
s Baring, has been subscribed. The greater
part has been taken on the Continent, the French
subscriptions especially being large.
With reference to the South Austritn, Lom-
bardo-Venetian, and Central Italian Railway
Company, it is announced that the committee of
management has decided on proposing to the gene-
ral meeting 33 francs as the dividend for the year
1868. Twenty francs were paid on account in
November last, so that the amount now to be dis-
tributed is 13 francs.
The report of the Great Western of Canada Rail-
way, to be presented on the 28th inst; recommends
a Whichh ividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum,
Will absorb £89,123, and leave £2,577 to be
carried for ward.
The Cape Railway Company have announced
that they have decided to recommend a dividend
at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum on the ordi-
nary stock for the half year ended the 31st of
December.
vinThe yearly meeting of proprietors of the Pro-
cial Bark of Ireland will be held on the 20th
of may.
_ The ordinary general meeting of the share-
holders of the Bank of British Columbia is called
or the 4th of May, when a dividend will be re-
commended
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hosespension of Messrs. Timothy Richardson
1/4 ties estimated at about £50,000. Nothing definite
has transpired with regard to assets.
tin Mr. A. Baillie has obtained from the Argen-
e and Uruguayan Governments the exclusive
Privilege of Shippinforg live cattle from those States
all
a period of years, with entire exemption from
Port charges and Custom-house duties.
Bottowley,
The suspension has been announced of Mr. Wm.
turer, •
of Grove Mill, Bradford, stuff manufac-
with liabilities said to be large.
l'he Metropolitan Railway traffic shows an in-
er!ase Of £2,412. The receipts of the Metropolitan
District Railway for the week reach £BOO. The
receipts of the Metropolitan and St. John's Wood
41all'ivay represent £361.
BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.

u , GOVERNMENT Forms.
Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, .........
8 per 93 3
krewCent. Reduced 9l-
per Cent
i f
45°W 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
91
Do. 5 per Cen Jan. 1873
Do. for
Annuities, So yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
Do 30 yr ,s expire sth April 1885 —
(Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 2O
Eatchoqu:ir Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Ct.
De
.£5OO
D.
£lOO az .£2OO
Bank of England De. Stock, 41 p®r Cent
Stock,
Canada 4 per Cent Bonds ...................
Inter-Colonial Ornniurn ................. INDIAN GOVER .
N/KENT tiEOU..
ITIEb •-.•
India stock, 10f per Cent., April 1.874 —
Do. Opening, for Account - -
DDo. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
o. Certificates ........
A.
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Do. Enfaced Pape, 4 pBer.7l)
..• -.....
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1
1879 .. '..s.
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Do. 5i per Cent.
MaYDeb. lii'2
03 5 per Cent., Rup.
1877
Do do
Do. do. 1882
0:20. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., .£l,o
Do. under .£l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING ;ItICES.
Argentine Republic, 8 per Cent
Do. Scrip £45 p
_
Auatrian Bonds spercent
_
. 1859
_
Arazilian D 5 oper Cent
Do. q per Cent. 1852 —
Do. o. do. 18:,8..... _
_
do. 18 ,
Do. do., 1866 3
Do. 5 per Cont., 1865
801 i
Do Account
B ;elms
De Ayres 6 per Cent.
2 per Cuba, 6 per CCent.
ent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Ogilian 6 per Cent
Do. 4f per Cent...,... 73i
toDo. 3 per Cent,
. G per ce.,t. 1867 .......................
Po. per Cent., 1866
a I. ,0,,, 6 per Cent.
E,:a.:lnial.:tlib;:ll)7inUelnptaltlibe2ss, V . 17er.. Cent --
rDo 8 per Cent., 1867.............. ........-
-Nr,..(-- Consolidatel, 1 pc,r Cent
.1'
'4 :.'4lll 1 per Cent..
8-11
lie Sse,emi lse.ae . ."
....... Ink"' 45t6. ltonds
Do. £lOO Bonds ............................
De.
1864
~, Do.
Account
Do. .f.'5110 Ponds .
')°. 4.10 G Bonds
. .............
English Scrip, 18 ...
Do do. £l5 pd
Cover nrno.ni Railway
.1./eboutures ...•• 984 i
die
Greek 5 per Cont., 18245, ex Coups
Dol)o Account ............................. . •
Do. Coupons ............................. . .
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p .....................
,_.--Nzttf.tnala 5 *per Cent .. —
lionduraeG lt .1 L 10 •Ct all pd Bli
ov ai . OD D., p. ,
ltll4l, a poi Cur t., 1865
DO. Account
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11exio hlaremnaana Railway
cat, 3 per Cent

Two o'LocK.
couCnott:so9l;l7e 931 3 for money;CITY, T
ditto,C for Ac-
Three per Cent. Reduced, 91/ ;
New ;
Three per Cents, 911 s ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, ditto £.lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 6 prem. ;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 2411 391.
Clndia Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ents per Cent., July, 1880, 1131 14 ; ditto 4 per
~ Oct., 1888, 1001 1 f•
Foreign stocks are steady with an improvement
in Brazilian, Egyptian, Italian, Peruvian, and
Spanish. The following are the current prices :
Brazilian, 80 to 801 ; Egyptian (1864), 86 to 861 ;
ditto (1868), 751 to 761 ; ditto Nine per Cents.,
961 to 971; ditto Seven per Cents., 80 to 801 ex
drawing ; Italian, 551 to 551 ; Tobacco Loan,
84 to 85 -, Peruvian, 781 to 781; Portuguese, 351
to 36 ; Russian (1862), 861 to 861; Oriel-Vitebsk,
781 to 79 ; Nicolai, 65 to 65/ ; Moscow, 781 to
79 ; Charkof, 761 to 77 ; Spanish, 30 to 301 Tur-
kish Five per Cents, 411 to 411; ditto Six per
Cents., 651 to 66 ; and Honduras, 82 to 83.
There is little alteration in Railway Shares. The
principal feature is a further recovery of / in
in Midland, which is dealt in at 115 to 1151.
South Eastern is I better, at 761 to 761, but
London and Brighton is I lower, at 47/
to 48 ; and Great Easter, 1-16, at 371 to 371 ;
Caledonian is steady, at 771 to 78 ex div. ; Great
Northern (A), 1081 to 109 ; Great Western, 49 to
491; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1231 to 1231;
London, Chatham, and Dover, 171 to 171 ; Lon-
don and North-Western, 115 to 1151; Metropo-
litan, 1021 to 103 ; and ditto Extension, 100 to 101.
American Securities are flat. The 5-20 Bonds
have declined to 801; Erie Shares are 224 to 231 ;
Illinois, 98 to 981; and Atlantic and Great Western
Bonds, 28 to 29.
Continental Railway Shares are steady.
Business in Bank Shares continues very limited,
and prices are without change. Agra (A) is quoted
at 101 to 11 ex div. ; Alliance, 14 to 15 ; Anglo-
Austrian, 17 to 18 prem. ; Chartered Mercantile,
29 to 30 ; Consolidated, 41 to 41 ; Imperial Otto-
Wan, 2 to 21 prem. ; London Joint-Stock, 321 to
331; Union of London, 351 to 361.
Miscellaneous Securities are very quiet. Anglo-
American Telegraph is 1 better, at 221 to 221 ;
General Credit is steady, at 11 to 11 dis. ; Inter-
national Finance, 2 to 1/ dis. ; National Discount,
111 to 11/; Hudson's Bay shares are unaltered, at
111 to 111.
The Corn Market has been dull at previous
rates.