The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-12 00:00:00

irriiNEY -MARKET

AND
COINIAIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two 0.(3I.00K.
Business to-day has been on an improved scale ;
Consols have risen, a slight advance has shown it-
self in the Foreign "Market, and Railway shares
have, in some instances, increased in value. Al-
together there is decidedly a better tone prevalent
to-day, and it is hoped that a general and settled
►mprovement is at last commenced.

Cullois are 984 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 931 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 92 ;
New 'nree per Cents, 924 11 ; Annuities, April,
1885, 114 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 6 2 prem. ;
ditto £lOO, £2OO, and .£i7oo, 3 6 2 prem.; Bank of
England Stock, 4 per Cent., 239.
India Stock, 10f per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1134 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, —; ditto Bonds £l,OOO 13 ;
ditto under £l,OOO, 6 7 prem.
In the Foreign Market the only particu'ar
feature is an advance of 1 per cent. in Ita'ian 6
per Cent. Scrip, the price being 84 to 85. Turkish
(1865) are f bitter, at 65a to 654; while Danubian
is flat at 76 to 77, being a decline of I. Chilian
Six per Cents. (1867) is quiet at 95 96 ; Egyptian
(1864), 86 87 ; do. Nino per Cents., 96:1 to 96/ ;
ditto Viceroy Loan, 814 to 814 ; Peruvian of 1865,
784 to 791 ; Portuguese, 350 to 36 ; Russian Five
Cents. of 1862, 86 to 87 ; ditto Ord Vitesbk, 81f
to 82 ; ditto Nicolai Railway, Four per Cents., G5B
to 65i ; ditto Moscow Railway, 78f to 79 ; ditto
Charkof Azof, 76} to 77 ; and Spanish New Three
per Cents., 30 to 30i.
In the Railway Market prices are quoted as
follows :—London and North Western, 1154
to 1154 ; Great Western, 49f to 494 ; Mid-
land, 1164 to 1161; London and South Western,
87 to 89 ; Great Eastern, 37f to ; Brighton, 471
to 48 ; 4
South Eastern, 754 to 76 ; Metropolitan,
107 to 108 ; Great Northern, 107 to 108 ; ditto
A, 109 to I ; Caledonian, ;79/ to 80 ; and Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, 17 to 1.
The American Securities are rather stronger.
United States Five-Twenty Bonds show a recovery
of I, being dealt in at 83; to f. Erie Railway
shares are steady at 24 to f ; Illinois Central, 96f
to 97.

The only change in the Bank shares is a decline
of in London Joint Stock, the price being 33 to
34 ; Union of London is steady, at 36 to 37 ;
Oriental, 42i to 43} ; London and Westminster,
63i to 64i ; London and County, 51 to 52 ; Im-
perial Ottoman, 21 to 2i prem. ; Alliance, 14 to
15; Agra (A), 11 to 11i.
Hudson's Bay Shares are lower, at 12i to
12-1 ; General Credit is quiet at 1:1 to dis. ; In-
ternational Finance, 1i to 1 dis. ; and Anglo-
American, 22eto 22k.
The sum of £BO,OOO in gold was taken to the
Bank on Saturday.
The Delta, from Alexandria, has brought £8,850.
The Ripon left Southampton on Saturday with
£140,000 for Bombay—£Bo,ooo in silver and
£60,000 in gold.
The half-monthly settlement in shares and
foreign stocks will begin to-morrow (" continuation
day") and end on Thursday.
it is understood that one-third of the Guatemala
Loan has been applied for in fully paid-up bonds,
and from the character of the applications it is pro-
bable that a further considerable amount will be paid
up in full on allotment.
It is alleged that an interdict is lodged for hear-
ing on Monday in the Scotch Courts to restrain the
payment of the Caledonian Railway dividend, on
grounds distinct from those lately put forward by
the North British directors, and recommended by
leading Scotch counsel as constituting a valid claim.
The applicant is Mr. John Irving, vice-chairman of
the Corlisle and Silloth Bay Railway, and he is un-
derstood both to apply in that capacity and as a
holder of North British Border Union Stock and of
Port Carlisle stock, which lines, as well as the
Silloth Bay, are leased to the North British. The
application is made on various grounds, and is not
in support of the joint purse arrangement, but is
directed against both the Caledonian and North
British Companies.

The failure is announced of Messrs J. Oldfield
and Co., worsted spinners, and Messrs. Ogden and
Co., woolstaplers, at Halifax. The liabilities of
the former are stated at £15,000. Those of the
latter are said to be larger.
The creditors of Messrs. John Penningtoa and
Co., spinners and manufacturers of Clue, have
agreet to a composition of ss. in the pound.
It is stated that Higgs, the defaulting clerk of
the Central Gas Company, has embezzled £BO,OOO,
and that only a small portion of the amount will
be recovered.

Proposals have been published for an issue in
London of a moiety of the shares of two large Aus-
tralian Gold companies called, respectively, the
Winter's Freehold Gold Mining Company, and the
Great North-Western Company.
A telegram has been received at Lloyd's with
Intelligence of the loss of the Aura steamer, owned
by Messrs. Malcolmson and Cu., by striking on the
Manacles-rock, near Land's-end, during a fog ;
crew saved by their boats. She was on her passage
from Plymouth for Waterford, and was registered
as 696 tons burden. The owners were insured.
The accounts from California continue to hold
out the prospect of good grain crops. Wheat and
barley, it is said, promise better than in any pre-
vious year.

The directors of the Dutch Rhenish Railway
Company have issued a circular, wherein they
state the terms on which they offer to the pro-
prietors of the new shares the option of paying up
in full by one payment the calls still due upon
6,W0 of the new shares of the company, in accord-
ance with the resolution of the Board of Commis-
saries, dated the Ist instant.

BRITISH FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
8 per Cent ............... 93,
. Reduced ........................... 92 1
New 3 per Cent ......................... .... 921 .14 ;1- New 2/ per Cont. Jan. 1891
...............
Do. 5 per Cen Jan. 1873 ..............
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.. —
Do. for 30 yr ,s expire sth April 1885.., 11
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908... —/
Exchociur Bills, £I,OOU, 21 per Ct.
Do
.£5OO ...... 3 6 2 pm..... . ..................
Do.
£lOO It 4200 ..
Bank of England Stock, 41 per: ........ ... 2-39
De. opening .......... ~ ..
Canada 4 per Cent. 80nd5.......,....................
Inter-Colonial OnThimn ................... INDIAN GOVERNMENT EtAciatlTlßis. ."."
Indio. stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874...
Do. Opening, for Account ...•,,,,,
Do. 5 per Cent..fuly, 1880 ............. 113}
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 .............. .. .
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Pape, 4 per Cent..,.„..,.,, .......
Do. 5 per Cent., Jti—ttrri. 1872 ,..., —
Do. 51 per Cent. aY 1879
03 5 per Cent., Rduop. Deb.
11887772
Do
Po. do. 1882
Th e Deb., 5 per Cent., Au 1873 et/ 6.• .—..
g.
Do, Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—T WO
Argentine Republic, t per Cent
Do., Scrip .£45 paid ..
O'C.,L9OCIC.
Auttrian Bonds 5 per cent
631 i
Du. 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
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Do. li per Cent, 185'2
Do, do. 1858....• —
Do. do. 186.) _
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D do., 1863 DO. 5 per Cent
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0. 3 per Cent '...
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1-0. 6 per cent. 1867 ... 9524. i
Po.R7bila)er Cent., 1866
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1), 6 per Cent.
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