The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-22 00:00:00

MONEY Di a a

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The Stock Exchange, as elsewhere, has an in-
creasing holiday appearance to-day. Consols are
dull at yesterday's decline. Turkish Stocks, owing
to the success of the new loan, met a better inquiry.
No change in American Securities. Telegraph
Construction and Maintenance shares have further
recovered ss.

Conso's are now at 92 to 928 for money ;
ditto, for Acyount, 921 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 911 ; New Three per Cents, 91i 2 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, par; June,
2 6 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and .000, March,
prem. ; June, prem. ; Bank of England Stock,
41 per Cent., 237.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 ; ditto 4
per Cent., Oct., 1888, 101 ; ditto Eufaced Paper,
51 per Cent., —.
Tile Foreign Market Turkish Five per Cents.
arc 411 to 451 ; the Six per Cents., 671 to 68 ;
and the Nev, Scrip 1 to 1 prem. ; Spanish, 27} to
281; Italian, 551 to 56 ; Egyptian, 784 to 79 ;
Peruvian, 831 to 84 ; Argentine, 86 to 86} ; and
Portuguese Bonds, 33k.
American Five-Twenty Bonds arc 8:5! to 86 ;
the 1865 Bonds, 844 to 85 ; the 1867 Bonds, 811 to
85 ; the 1867 Bonds, 831 to 84 ; and the Ten
Forties, 82k to 83. Erie Shares, 17; to 171; and
Illinois 991 to 100.

In the Railway Market prices are as follows :
Caledonian 764 to 77 ; Great Eastern, S7l to 371 ;
Great Northern, 108 to 110 ; ditto (A), 109 to
110 ; Great Western, 554 to 564 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1264 to 1274; London and Brighton,
474 to #74; London, Chatham, and Dover,
_l5l
to 154 ; London and North Western, 1214 to 1224;
Loudon and South W estern, 92 to 91 ; Metro-
politans, 834 to 834 ; Midland, 120 to 1201 ; North
Eastern (Berwick, 1224 to 12.2,4 ; and South
Eastern, 774 to 78.
For Bank Shares the prices are as follows :
Agra (A shares), 104 to 11 ; Alliance, 124 to 134 ;
Anglo-Austrian,
,11 to 13 prem. ; Imperial Bank,
164 to 164 ; Imperial Ottoman, 24 to 24 prem. ;
Loudon and County, 48 to 49 ; London and
Westminster, 584 to 591 ; Oriental, 41 to 42 ;
London Joint-Stock, 314 to 321 ; and Union of
London, 87 to 38.

Telegraph) Construction and; Maintenance are
now 351 to 351; French Cable, 141 to 141; Anglo-
American, 181 to 18} ; and Atlantic Eight per
Cents, 1i to 2.
Great Luxembourg Railway Shares are firm, at
121 to 121 ; but Lombardo aro not so good, at 201
to 21.

The Corn trade is firm, but quiet.
There were no gold operations at, the Bank yes-
terday.
The City of Rio de Janeiro, from Brazil, has
brought £57,000.
The tone of the financial accounts from Paris is
favourable, and seems to promise well for the new
year. Money is extremely abundant, " and confi-
dence is entertained in an era of peace under a
Liberal Government."

From Italy, also, the financial advices are satis-
factory and hopeful, founded on the reports re-
ceived from the various parts of the kingdom.
The Manchester markets this week have opened
with increased dulness.

A bill has been introduced into the Aastrian
Parliament empowering the Minister of Finance to
fix a date for the last payment of interest on the
bonds which are to be converted. It also provides
that the bonds remaining unconverted after six
months shall be forfeite(l.

The directors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland
recommend a dividend at the rate of 4 per cant. per
annum on the paid-up stock for the past half year,
and also an extraordinary dividend of 30s, per share
on the £lOO, and 12s. on the £lO, shares.
A telegram from Lisbon announces the arrival
of the Patagonia, of the Liverpool Pacific Steam
Company's line, with later dates from Valparaiso,
Buenos Ayres, and Rio. The rate of exchange at Rio
was firm at 191 d., and the only news from Paraguay
was that Lopez and his few remaining followers
were in a state of demoralizaqon and in want of
food.

According to the latest letters from Brazil the
prospects of the various crops this season on the
province of San Paulo are especially good. At
one tituc apprehensions vt, ere entertained from
drought, but these had been entirely removed, and
it seemed likely that the constantly-increasing
traffic of the San Paulo Railway would experience
throughout the coming year a further remarkable
development.
The traffic receipts of the Metropolitan Railway
show an increase of £1,169. The Metropolitan and
St. John's Wood return exhibits an increase of only
£l3. The return of the Metropolitan District Rail-
way for the week is £724.
At the forty-fourth annual meeting of the
National Bank of Scotland, it was resolved to
pay a dividend of 13 per cent., free of income
tax, and to carry the surplus (£11,494), to the
bank's rest.

Messrs. Neroutsos and Co., of Manchester, thus
describe the state of trade :—" There is a tamer
feeling in the ma-ket, prices not quotably changed,
but the tendency in buyers' favour.
At a meeting of creditors of Mr. George Gled-
hill, cloth merchant, of Leeds and Morley, the
statement of affairs showed liabilities for about
£5,500, with assets valued at £GSO, and it WAS
agreed to accept an assignment.
A circular has been issued to the creditors of Dir.
G. W. Russum, of Church-street, Manchester, cloth
agent and merchant, calling a meeting, at which a
statement of his affairs will be submitted.

At a board meeting of the London and River
Plate Bank, Mr. G. W. Drabble was unanimously
elected chairman for the ensuing year, in the room
of Mr. liackblock, who retires on account of ill-
health.

iiessrs. Crawford, Colvin, and Co. have an-
nounced that they have received the usual re-
mittance to provide for the half-yearly interest on
bonds of the Bombay Municipality, due 31st inst.

BRITISH FUNDS —TWO O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT r vNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, Jan. 6 94
B per Cont. Reduced 9lk
New 3 per Cent
14 ow 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
Du. 0 per Con .1 mi. 1873
&unuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (lied Sea Telet„raph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchogirpr Hills, £l,OOO, 21 p. Ct.3,larch par
Da. 3 do. June
Do £lOO, £2OO & £5OO PM
Bank of England Stock, 44 per Cent

Do. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
n ter-Colonial Oinnium

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECITRITIEb.
t 104 per Cent., April 1874 Shut
De. Opening, for Account
De. o per Uent. July, 1880
Do 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888 , look
Do. Enlaced Pape,. 4 per Cent..,.. —
Do. 5 per Ont., Jan. 1872
Do. 5* per Cent. May 1879
Da , 5 per Cent., Rap. Dar. 1872..
Do do.
Do. do. 1882
De. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bond; 4 per Cent., £l,OOO

Do. under..£l.ooo
FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, 6 por Cent . ......
Do. Account
Au-Arian Bonds 5 per cent .

Do. 1g59 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 44 per Cent. 1859 —
Do. do 1858 —
Do. au 18Gri —

Do. do., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do. Account
.131zenos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 por Cent )
Cuba, 6 per Cent. —
°Aaiun 6 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent..., 744
Do. 3 per Cent., —
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
Do. 6 per cont. 1867 —
C ,loalbitin, 6 per Cent.
Damian, 3 per Cent., 1825
Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent —
Do. Account' •
Do 8 per cent.
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