The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-08 00:00:00

MONEY-MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocs.

Consols are 9]; 21 11 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 921 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 90 HI;
New Tkree per Cents, 90a 11 -a ; Exchequer
Bills £l,OOO, 5 dis. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO,
—; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 210 11 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1830, 1041 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 100 -a 4 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
5 per Cent., 1051 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, par ; ditto
under £l,OOO, 3 prem.
Foreign Bonds are very flat, and those current
being much stronger, and not considerably below
yesterday's final prices. Italian, at 553, are 4 lower
only, and Peruvian, at 751, and Turkish Five per
Cents., at 41a, are likewise 1 lower. Spanish are
dull at 27a.
A further decline has taken pla2e in Eng-
lish Railways. There is this morning fall of
a in Metropolitan and Midland, 1 in Great
Western, London and North Western, Caledo-
nian and Great Northern A ; and 1 in Brighton
andiSouth-Eastern. The present quotations are :
Great Eastern 37 to 371; South Eastern 741 to
75 ; Metropolitan, 1001 to 101; Great Northern
105 to 106 ; ditto A, 206 to 107 ; Caledonian, 77
to 771 ; Brighton, 461 to 4G4 ; Midland, 111 to
1111 ; London and North Western, 1134 to 111 ;
and Great Western, 47 to 471.
In Cable Shares Atlantic Telegraph are 1 lower,
the present quotation being 23 to 24. The Eight
per Cents. are quoted at 31 to 3a ; Anglo-American
Telegraph shares are 1 higher, at 221 to 221.
Great Luxemburg shares are 1 lower, at 91 to 10.
American 5-20 Bonds have fallen to 771, Erie
Railroad Shares to 17, and Atlantic and Great
Western Mortgage Bonds 22.
The sum of £27,000 in gold was taken from the
Bank yesterday for Brazil.
The Nyanza, from Alexandria, has brought
£5,435.
A report was report was circulated yesterday
by the adverse operators that a withdrawal was
contemplated of £1,000,000 in gold for Russia, but
it was entirely without foundation. Other parties
were busy in disseminating an equally baseless
rumour of some large failure.
A report on the German railways, including those
of the Germanic-Austrian provinces, has been pub-
lished by the Vienna Board of Trade. According
to this there were 13,639 English miles open for
public traffic. The working expenses amounted in
the highest case to between 90 and 100 per cent. on
the gross receipts, and in the lowest to 30 per cent.
—viz., the Turnau-Kralup and Kaiser Ferdinand's
line. The highest dividend paid was 25 per cent.,
the lowest 2 per cent., and there were seven lines
that paid nothing. By accidents during the last
three years, from 1865 to 1868, there were 478 per-
sons killed and 636 injured.
The official liquidators of the London, Bombay,
and Mediterranean IBank :(Limited), have given
notice of a first dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound to
the creditors.
The annual report of the Trustees of the Bankers'
Guarantee and Trust Fund states that 485 new
policies were issued during the year, and that the
total receipts to date have been £37,518, and the
claims £5,101. The accumulated fund is £23,739.
The report of the Colonial and Foreign Banks
Guarantee Fund states that 174 new policies were
issued during the year, and that the total receipts
to date have been £22,169, and the claims only
£626. The accumulated fund is £17,462.
The Mediterrane.in Extension Telegraph Com-
pany (Limited) have notified that their Corfu
office has just been connected with Santa Maura
by a telegraph cable laid by Messrs. Newall
and Co., of Gateshead, and it is expected the
other Greek islands will be joined in a few days.
These islands will be connected with Athtns,
and by a cable to Syra, the chief port in the
Levant.
The traffic of the Caledonian and North British
Railways show an increase of £3,721.
The Secretary of State for India in Council has
given notice that the tenders for bills of exchange
on Calcutta and Madras will be received at the
Bank of England on Wednesday, the 19th instant,
on the terms stated in the announcement issued
on the 10th of November, 1863, to the amount of
35,00,000 rupees.
The Yorkshire Post states that a meeting of the
creditors of Mr. M‘Maliony, woolstapler, whose
suspension, with liabilities of £20,000, occurred on
Monday, was held on Wednesday at Bradford. A
composition of 7s. 6d. in the pound was offered.
The meeting came to the resolution to require the
insolvent to make an assignment of his estate for
the benefit of his creditors, for whom assignees were
appointed.
In the colonial produce markets the demand for
Some articles has shown rather more steadiness,
but generally the tone is still quiet. There has
been an improved inquiry for sugar, with large
transactions in West India, which closed about 6d.
per cwt. higher. Other kinds, including Manilla,
have occasionally obtained a similar advance, and
refined is also more firm, owing to the diminished
supply. Floating cargoes of rice continue to be
realised at low prices, and landed parcels are very
dull. The public sales of Plantation Ceylon coffee
have latterly gone off with spirit, and the moderate
quantity offered has- been disposed of, at fully is to
Is. 6d. per cwt. above the depression of last week.
Saltpetre is unchanged. The tea-market has been
exceedingly dull, and the large public sales held
during the week have in many instances led to
Some trifling decline in common as well as other
grades of Congou.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES..
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
8 per Cent. Reduced 9o}
New 3 per Cent
etv 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Oen J an. 187 3
&unuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sett Teleh,raph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequor Bills, £1;000, 21 21 per Ct 5 d
Do £5OO
Do. £lOO Sr .£2OO
Bank of England Stock. 4f per Cent
Dm. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds
Inter-Colonial Uranium

INDIAN jOVERNIKENT SECURITIES.
India ci took, 10k per Gent., April 1874 210 11
Do. Opening, for Account
Do. 5 pur Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1BSB

Do. C;rtificatef .

-
Do. Enfaced Pap 72 ~... Illne• 4 per CAtit.... —
105-1
_ Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 18
7q
Do. 5} per Cent. May 18 . _ _
Da 5 pet Cont., Rup. Dab.
1877
_—
Do do
Do. do. 1882
D.J. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ....•
pin
.
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under
.£l.OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING P 4 6
5
ICEI.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Do., Scrip £45 paid ...............
Auitrian Bonds 5 per cent • .............
Do. 1859
B r to:olo 1.. ill pSdoopr
do. 1858
Lent e.n t 1852 —
1858.... _
Do. do.
186•1 _
Do. do.,
Do. 6 Cent. 1863
per Cent 186-
BDo A.ccount .. ''
3
epos Ayres 6... • ••• ••
caDio per Cont.P(eDreturte*.d 3 per Cont ':
u••11:an 6 per Cent
„ .t, 6 por Cent.
00. 41 per Cent... - - ..... ......... .
.2, ja:1:1'.00,.:,361)7
il:11:;°1:: rrr, c6t.e.pitt. tr Cont.,
~C1:8n( it 6
--
tattli,,,3lt.ii,a3 per Cent., 1825..
n Principalities, *7
per Cent —
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 B6l
Equalor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
If•yytian, 7 per Cent....
Do Second issue
Do. .£sot. Bonds
Do. .£lOO Bonds
Du. 1861
Do. A
De. £s;in Bondsccount
Do. Al OG Bonds B5l 61
English Scrip, 1868
Do do. ..C45 pd — die
Governmeni lt-til way I )el,en! tire, - ••• 98
Grack 5 por Cont., 18215, ex_ Coups —
Do. Account