The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-13 00:00:00

lONE--i- MARKET

AND
COALMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

o'CLocK.
Business was not so briskClTY
as, yesteTworday, but the
settlement doubtless may account for the drooping
tendency of the market. Consols have receded a
trifle for money, but for the account they remain un-
altered. In the foreign Spanish continued to decline,
and in the Railway Market Great Western and
Brighton have gone down, but North Westerns
and Caledonians have improved. The rate of dis-
count in the house is about below the Bank rate.
Consols are 934 4 8 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 931 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 91k 2;
New Three per Cents, 911 2 ; ditto Red Sea Tele-
graph, 19
; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO,
stl.oocok,, 5.200, and £5OO, 2 prem. ; Bank of England
—; ditto
4 per Cent., —.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 210 12 ;
ditto
5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1134 14 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001
ditto Bonds under
£l,OOO, 15 prem. 1
follow the Railway Market prices are quoted as
s : —London and North Western, 1151 to 1 ;
Great Western, 494 to 491 ; Midland, 1151 to 116 ;
Landon and South Western, 87 89 ; Great Eastern,
371
tO ; Brighton, 474 to 1 ; South Eastern, 754
to 76 ; Metropolitan, 1024 to 4 ; Great Northern,
107 to 108 ; ditto A, 109 to 8 ; Caledonian, 801
; and London, Chatham, and Dover, 174 to 1.
In the Foreign stock prices are as follows :—Bra-
zilian of 1865, 801 to i ; Chillian of 1867, 954 96 ;
g,Yptian of 1864, 864 to 4 ex div. ; ditto of 1868,
of 1
761 to ; Italian of 1867, 551 to ; ditto
1886685,, 847 81 to ; Mexican, 15f to 1 ; Peruvian
91
of
to 794 ; Russian of 1866, 904 to
)ex div. ; Nicolai, 65 to ; Orel, 814 to
82 ;. Mlscow, 781 to 79 ; ditto Charkof, 761 to
774 ; ditto Charcow, 761 to 774 ; Spanish of 1867,
304
4to
I;
Turkish of 1858, 634 to 64 ; ditto of
1862,
67i to 4; and ditto of 1865, 411 to 4.
_ American 5-20 Bonds are .831 to 4 ; and Erie
Railway shares, 231 to 244.
In Bank'ng and Miscellaneous Shares prices are
as previously quoted.
There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday.
£l4 The Be Nevis, from Melbourne, has brought
,148.
h.bThe traffic of the South-Eastern Railway ex-
Brighton a decrease of £2,094, and that of the London,
ghton and South Coast a decrease of £5,459.
A The Humboldt, from Brazil, off Cowes, bound to
marketitwerp, reports great activity in the Bahia sugar
isa, with sales of 4,000 cases on the 17th of
March. Prices, 3,400 to 3,450 reis per arroba.
Exchange, 184 d.
angle
ship Zemindar, owned by Messrs. Nicholson
MU, of Liverpool, arrived in the West In-
dia Dock from Shanghai yesterday, with the largest
cargo of tea ever brought to this country by a sail-
ing vessel, being 1,502,2601 b. She has also on
board 161 bales of silk.
From a statement just issued it appears that the
value of the wheat imported into France during the
past year was £11,300,000, against £7,300,000 in
1867, and only £660,000 in 1866. Of cotton the
value imported was £11,800,000, against £948,000
in 1867, and £17,000,000 in 1866. On the other
band, her shipments of wine were valued at
£4,400,000, against £4,040,000 in 1867, and
£3,720,000 in 1866.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
'week a decrease of £5,459, compared with the cor-
responding period of last year.
The traffic return of the Great Western Railway
of Canada, for the week ending the 9th inst.,
shows an increase of £5ll over last year.
Messrs. Baring have invited applications for
£11,110,000 Russian 4 per Cent Bonds at the price
of 63, redeemable at par by annual drawings in 82
years, with a dividend from the Ist of May next.
A second call of £2 per share, making £4 paid,
is to be paid on the third issue of shares of the Para
Gas Company (Limited) by the 3d of May.
The twenty-second half-yearly meeting of the
Cape Railway Company will be held on the 30th
instant.

A petition for the winding up of the Madras
Coffee Company (Limited) is to be heard before
Vice-Chancellor James on the 17th inst.
The suspension of Messrs. Hallam and Madge,
do-plate manufacturers, of Morriston, Swansea,
has been announced. The debts and liabilities it is
expected will reach £BO,OOO to £lOO,OOO, and the
assets it is believed will prove considerable.
Mr. Shipman, one of the late managers of Agra
and Masterrnan's Bank (Limited), has issued a
letter to the shareholders, explaining his transac-
tions with the late establishment in order to justify
his conduct. He, like others, at the time, antici-
pated a profit instead of a loss, but of course the
panic came and involved almost every one.
A shareholder of the Credit Foncier Company of
England has circulated a pamphlet respecting the
proposed issue of debentures, in which he objects
to the course pursued, and explains his reasons,
believing that the measures proposed will not prove
successful.