The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-29 00:00:00

MONEY, MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

With reference to the Italian Government To-
bacco Loan the following notice has been issued :
" Messrs. Stern Brothers beg to inform the holders
of scrip in the above loan that as the Definitive
Bonds will not be ready for exchange against scrip
by the Ist of April next, it has therefore been de-
cided, in order to protect the interes's of the bond-
holders, to postpone the first drawing to the 10th
of June next. The paymeikt of the drawn series
takes place on the Ist July, as originally intended.
A further notice will be given respecting the time
and mode of exchanging the scrip."
A dividend of Is. 7d. pa- share, less income tax,
is to be payable on the shares of the Belgian
Eastern Junction Railway Company on the lst of
April.
The half-yearly meeting of the West Flanders
Railway Con•pany is called for the 22d of April in
London, and for the 3d of May in Bruges.
The annual meeting of the Anglo-Mexican Mint
Company is convened for the 6th April.
Creditors of the Panama, New Zealand, and Aus-
tralian Royal Mail Company (Limited) are required
to send the particulars of their claims to the official
liquidator by the Ist of May, the 25th May having
been appointed by Vice-Chancellor Mathis for ad-
judicating upon them.
The balance—being the last instalment—of the
New South Wales Government Loan for
£1,000,000, introduced by Messrs. Rothschild and
the Bank of New South Wales, is payable on
Thursday next, the Ist proximo.
The directors of the United Land Company
(Limited) have issued their repert for the year
ending 20th March, 1869. It states that, although
the company have been registered only eleven
months, and the actual operations extend but over
a period of five months, the business effected has
been so profitable that, after clearing the current
working outlay, and writing off a large proportion
of the preliminary expenses, the directors are '
enabled, out of profits, to declare a dividend on the
capital, called up at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum, free of income tax.
The statistics of the wheat importations of the
past year show that the total arrivals were only 1
per cent. below those of 1867, and that they were
41 per cent. in excess of those of 1866. Russia was
again the largest contributor, but the United States
have now regained the second place in the list,
while Prussia has gone back to the third. At the
same time Egypt and Turkey are making rapid
strides. From France, which in 1866 supplied 15
per cent. of our consumption of foreign wheat, the
quantity last year was but nominal. The propor-
tions from the respective countries were—Russia,
31 per cent. ; the United States, 18 per cent. ;
Prussia, 14 per cent. ; Turkey, 10 per cent.; Egypt,
10 per cent. ; Chili, 4 per cent. ; Illyria, 3 per
cent. ; Denmark, 2 per cent. ; Mecklenburg, 2 per
cent. ; Hanse Towi2s, 2 per cent. ; Canada, 2 per
cent. ; and other countries, 2 per cent.
Easter Monday is observed as a holiday in the
City. The Stock Exchange is closed.
At the Bank on Saturday no bullion operations
were reported

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
S per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
3 per Cent. Reduced 9lf -I
New 3 per Cent
New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. per Cen J an. 187 3
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequor Bills, £l,OOO, 2i per Ct.
Do £500
Do. £lOO & .£2OO —
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent 240

Ds; opening —
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
inter-Colonial Ommum
iNDIAN GOVERNMENT SECIMITIEb
India stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874...
Do. Opening, for Account --
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 pear Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Pape. 4 per CAnt., —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ......... lo4}
Do. 54 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.OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent . 79}
Do., Scrip £45 paid
Atltrian Bonds 5 per cent —
Do. 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
D,-- ' - - Cent. 1852.

JO. 44 per
--
Do. do. 1858 —
Do. do. 1860
Do. do., 1863 7O
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865

Do Account —
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Cidlian 6 per Cent —
Do. 4} per Cent —
Do. 3 per Cent.,
Do. 6 per cent. 1867 —
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
Colombian, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825........, —
Danubian Principalities, 7 par Cent —
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 —
Y'quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
Egyptian, 7 per Cent.... —
Do Second Issue ..
D0..£50i, Bonds —
D0..£100 Bonds ••••• -
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. £5OO Bonds
Do. ..il OG Bonds —
English Scrip, 1868 76} I-
Do do. £45 pd — die
Government Railway Debentures
Greek 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups

Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10 p. Ct., all pd 85
its Han 5 per Cent., 1865
Do. Accounts
Do Maremmana Railway
blexicar. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
D. 1864
Do R per Cont. Anglo-French
nontevideau 6 per Cent.

Moorish imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada —
Do 3 per Cen
Do. Deferred
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865

Do Account . ..

Do 4iper Cent. (Ui :'-barren)
Do 4f per Cent., 1862 • —
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'`2.':' 36}
Do. do. 1867 —
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Russian 5 per Cont.' 1822, .£ St
Do 4} per Cent , 1850
Do 4f per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £loo,Bonds —
Do. do. £B4 los. do.
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds —
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 66/
Sardinian 5 per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Cen .: —
Do. Account
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred 314
Do. Account
Do. Passive —
Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded

Do. Account ..
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Do do, Scrip —
Turkish 6 per Cent.( ,,.., . —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 67 61
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 6Bl f
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 4l± 1.
Da Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1860 65 4
Do I per Cent., Guaranteed
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Venezuela 3 per Cont. —
Do. Account _

Do 6 por Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cont. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in Londo
Austrian o par Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian. 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 'Zi per Cent. Ex. 12 Gull —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... —
Do. Account -
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f...., —
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. zsf.
Do Account

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CLOSING PRICES.
Consols, Money l)3 i
Do. Account, April 8„1....