The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-10 00:00:00

ONE,Y MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

• CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Consols are 921- 3 s for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, 931; Three per Cent. Reduced, 932 ;
New Three per Cents, 9:38 12 ; ditto Red SeaTele-
graPb, Aug., 1908, 108 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO,
21 per Cent., —; dtito £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 5 ;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 242 4.
India Stock, 10} per Cent., April, 1874, 213 11 ,
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 ; ditto 4 per
per Cent., Oct., 1888, 102/ ; ditto Enfaced
Paper, 4 per Cent., 921 ; ditto Bonds, £l,OOO, 20
prem. ; ditto under £l,OOO, 25 prem.
In the Foreign Market the quotations are as fol-
lows :—Brazilian, 1865, 83 2 ; Chilian, 1867, 931
941 ; Egyptian, 1864, 871 88 ; ditto 1868, 738 1;
Italian, 1861, 551 to 2 ; ditto Tobacco Loan, 5 52prem. ; Mexican, 15; to 1 ; Peruvian of 1865,
761 to 1 ; Russian of 1866, 921 to 931 ; ditto
Nicolai, 67 to I ; ditto Orel, 811 to 8 ; ditto
MOSCOW, 791 to 801 ; ditto Charkof-Azof, 801
to 4 ; Charcow-Krementschug, 801 to 1 ; Spanish
of 1867, 302 to 31 ; Turkish of 1858, 66 to 67 ;
ditto of, 1862, 64a to 651; and ditto of 1865, 401
4
to

The railway market is firm, and Midlands have
improved / per Cent. ; Metropolitan, e ; Brighton,
; mild Great Western and South Eastern, 1.
The prices are as follows :—London and North
Western, 1191 to 1201 ; Great Western, 531 to j. ;
Midland, 1204 to 8 ; London and South Western,
91 93 ; Great Eastern, 42} to 1 ; Brighton, 52+
to 1 ; South Eastern, 82/ to 83 ; Metropolitan, 11
to / ; Great Northern•, 111/ to 1124 ; ditto A, 111/
to 112 k.

American 5-20 Bonds have risen per cent., and
are now 76i 77k. Erie Railway shares, 24/ to 25 ;
Illinois Central, 93} to 91 ; Atlantic and Great
Western Debentures, 38 to .1 ; and the Consoli-
dated Mortgage Bonds, 40i to 41.
In Miscellaneous Securities National Discounts
are 111 to / ; General Credit, 1i to 1i dis. ; Inter-
national, 18 to 1i dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 13i to ;
Telegraph Construction, 17/ to 18 ; Atlantic Tele-
graph Eight per Cent. Preference, 4 1-6 to 3-16 ;
and Anglo-American, 221 to
There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday.
The New York, from New York, has brought
i46,5c0.
The traffic receipts of the London and Brighton
Railway show an increase of £1,970.
The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 23d ult. show an
increase of £4,112 over last year.
The annual meeting of the British Colonial
Steamship Company (Limited) is convened for the
25th inst.
A general meeting of the Tower Subway Com-
pany is fixed for the 26th inst.
The half-yearly meeting of the Metropolitan
Railway Company is convened for the 24th inst.,
and will be made special "for the purpose of rais-
ing, under the powers and provisions of the Metro-
politan and St. John's-wood Railway (Extension
toHampstead Act, 1865), the sum of £lOO,OOO,
supply the money already subscribed and paid
towards the 5 per cent. preference capital of that
company.),
The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance
Company (Limited) have notified that the ac-
counts, although not yet finally audited, show a
balance sufficient to allow a further dividend of 7f
Peery cent., making a total for the year of 10 per
c.

The report of the Land Securities Company, to
be presented on the 17th inst., shows a steady in-
crease in the business of the past half year, and re-
commends a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per
annum, which will absorb £2,050, and leave, after
an appropriation of £5OO to reserve, a balance of
£1,196.

At the meeting of the English and Foreign Credit
Company (Limited) the directors' report was
adopted, and the usual dividend of ss. per share
for the half-year declared, leaving £4,199 to be
carried forward.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Australian
Agricultural Company, a dividend of 10s. per share
Was declared.
The usual dividend at the rate of £4 10s. per
cent, was declared at the meeting of the London
and Blackwall Railway, and a resolution was agreed
to for raisin.. £20,000 for alterations and improve-
Ments on the line.
The first drawing by lot of Certificates of the
F ore; ...a
6 and Colonial Government Trust has taken
place. The Certificates (amounting to £11,000)
dawn
are to be paid off at par on the 3d of
rch.
The next series of sales of Colonial wool will
commence on Thursday, the 25th instant. The
arrivals to the present date are only 83,574 bales,
viz., 6,490 New South Wales and ueensland, '13,128 Victoria, 356 Tasmania, 15,621 Q South Aus-
tralia, 1,478 New Zealand, and 16,500 Cape of
Good Rope.
California advices mention that the wheat crop
is that State will this year be sown earlier than
1,1_1868, and extend over a large breadth of ground.
Chit is proposed in a circular from Messrs. D.
Chadwick m.r., and Thomas Dickins to hold a
;rng on the 18th inst., for the formation of a
supply association on a basis analogous to that
of the Cotton Supply Association.
is the
appears that the receipts for internal revenue
tne United States were last year $191,180,000,
which inst $265,920,000 in 1867, showing a falling off
rn ', if reckoned in sterling instead of in cur-
`lleY) Would be equal to nearly £15,000,000.
tan
the case, of " Salisbury versus the Metropoli-
RailwY '' Vice-Chancellor James has dis-
t,Bsed the application for an injunction to restrain
e directors of the company in the matter of the
'payment of the forthcoming dividend, without
hearing Sir Roundel' Palmer on behalf of the com-
na declaring that Mr. Salisbury had made out
terv."-% for the interference of the Court, and ob-
thr lag that that gentleman must be a great philan-
of °Pist to concern himself so much in the affairs
rt,AS c(npany in which he possessed so small and so
—414 Stake.

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