The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-28 00:00:00


MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Business to-day was flat, Consols having fallen
Ito 1 per ccut. Foreign Stocks also participated
in the fail to the extent of Ito a per cent. The
gauge of it is a heavy decline in Rentes on the Paris
Bourse owing to the renewed reports of the Em-
peror
being seriously ill. Railways do not improve,
but no change of importance can be reported. Me.
tropolitans went down 1.
Consols are fiat to-day at 921 31 for money ;
ditto, for Account, 93 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 931 1 ; New Thee per Cents, 931 I ;
Lxchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 8 prem. ; June, 6
Prom. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
Pretn• June, prem. ; Bank of England Stock,
d
4 Per Cent., 246.
itto 5 India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 211 9 ;
4_
Pager
per Cent., July, 1880, 1131 13 ; ditto
r
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1011 ; ditto Enfaced
aperr 5 per Cent., 1872, 106.
In the Foreign Market there. is a furber fall
Italian are 1 lower, viz., 511 to 54:: ; 1, at
431
to43a ; Spanish 1, at 28 to 281 ; Russian
(1866) 1) at 93 to 94 ; Mexican 1, at 111 to 12 ;
IS
and. FlYptian (1864) 1, at 961 to 911. Argentine quiet at 791
to 791,
E~I lArn erica ti to ; and Peruvian is dull at 781
Five-Twenty Bonds are 831 to ;
rie Shares, 221 to 23 ; Illinois are 931 to 941,
Erin
g lower.
men
,Railway Shares business is dull, and prices
lower
in Metropolitan, Lancashire and
Great Western. Great Northern (A) is firmer,
oSouth Eastern are 1 better. The quota-
x4astern, 3Y
are now :—Caledonian, 801 to 801 ; Great
61 do. (A), 104 to 105 ; Great Western, 53f to
6to to 371 ex div.; Great Northern, 1051 to
; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1271 to 1271;
t—„ri,g,,htchl 441 to 45 ; Chatham and Dover, 161
; London and North-Western, 119 to 1191 ;
*.se_uth Western, 89 to 90; Metropolitan, 921 to
Midland, 1181 to 1181 ; and South-Eastern,
77 to 771.
Rand and Miscellaneous Securities are very quiet,
and prices show little or no change.
20 Anglo-American Telegraph Shares are steady, at
vi to 20i ; French Cable, 11 to 181; and Con-
struA ction and ;Maintenance is I better, at 281 to 291.
Ea 4. Kira of £ll,OOO in bar gold was sent into the
Yesterday.
£6Tiae Ceylon,
wit from the East, has arrived with
'llO and the Westphalia, from New York,
h £21,900.
LlThe rates upon the Continent are without any
aterial alteration of importance.
I.°wing to the fine weather and the large sup-
plies of foreign produce on passage, the Corn
rket has been very dull,
and pricea have gone
down.
It is understood that the Bank of England will
"e prepared to act upon the recent suggestion of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer at once, and to
dreceive applications for the transmission through
Post of warrants for the ensuing October
these applications
According to the terms of the notice,
on applications should be lodged at the Bank
U 2 or before the Ist September, the date on which
t, Stocks cease to carry the dividend ; but, as
Zere would scarcely be time for the stockholders
iavail themselves of their new privilege, the
onswill, on this occasion, recognise all applica-
received on or before the 15th September.
an The directors of the Great IVestern Railway
uounce their receipts for the past half-year have
Ibeen £2,003,636 ; receipts for the same period of
~a43t year, £1,957,594; increase in favour of pre.
ient halfyear, £46,042. The expenditure for the
ad half year was £946,833 ; for the corresponding
Period of last year, £939,221 ; increase, £7,612.
0f the expenditure on capital account of £157,323,
£83,631 was expended in additional rolling stock,
and <£8,3450n the new goods station at Birkenhead.
The dividend has already been made known.
The following refers to the announcement pub-
lished from the Atlantic and Great
western Railway Company :—" Sir,—Referring
to a letter which appears in your journal yesterday,
" L. J. Woodman," I am desired to say that
111 trustees are dividing the 255. per cent. amongst
the debenture-holders in this company under an
order of the Court of Chancery, made in the pre-
"lee of the counsel of the company, who stated
that lie could make no objection to the order, and
Orly asked as a matter of grace that three months'
Utile should be given to pay the balance due from
the company.—Your obedient servant, W. T.
.auxt,p.r, Secretary. Aug. 27."
At the half-yearly meeting of the Alum and
Ammonia Company the report of the directors was
npted, and the usual dividend, at the rate of 10
'ercerit. per annum, free of income-tax, declared.
The colonial produce markets this week have
maintained an improved tone, and prices remain
steady. The Netherland Trading Company's sale
of
acivava coffee, held on Wednesday, went at some
\crilee on valuations, although about 4 cents.
er May quotations. Plantation Ceylon has
prey aold at full prices, and native upon terms not
,virieviously to be obtained. The further large sup.
l'rate: of East india have found buyers at extreme
the
last
especially for good to fine descriptions, and
at fr cargo of Costa Rica arrived has been taken
in au Prices. A steady business has been effected
ftnavgar, at a slight recovery for West India and
114,41:ng cargoes of foreign. The prospect of an
the
etiffellY heavy yield of beetroot in Europe has
/14 thEitaeet • °f
checking speculative purchases, not-
ill the riding the moderate stocks of raw sugar
lower, United Kingdom. Rice is quiet and rather
fio °wing to arrivals of soft-grain sorts and the
teasl ° 'wea
mar Cher for securing the wheat crops. In the
•"oess i' rket the only feature of interest has been the
ft. new season's teas, the steamer Aglmem.
Ulnae ;el Hankow, having arrived. A portion of
Rood lit. at about ls. 10d. to 2s. 7d. per lb. for
tea, I.nro to the black-leaf congou. Indian
Noes auction oY on and private contract, realised steady

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