The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-25 00:00:00

MARKET

MONEY

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

• --4.-

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Consols have receded 8 to-day. They are now
931 5 1 1 for money; ditto, for Account, 931 ;
Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 2 ; New Tkree per
Cents, 911 2 • Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 2 dis. ;
ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £SID, ; Bank of England
Stock, 4 per Cent., 246.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141 1.5; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Enfaced raper, 5
Per Cent., 1041 ; ditto 51 per Cent., •eri; ditto
Bonds £l,OOO,
In the Foreign market Turkish Five per Cent.
Bonds of 1865 have receded 1, and are now 421
43 ; Italian Five per Cents. 1, at 56 561 ; and
Mexican Bonds are 4 lower, at 121 121 ; New
Spanish Three per Cents. remain at 284 281 ; Greek
Bonds at 10 11; and the Honduras Railway Loan
at 83 85.
In the Railway Share Market Great Eastern
have improved I, and Great Northern A 1, Sheffield
t, North British 1, and North Western 1. Metro-
politan are 1, Midland 4, and Great Western I
lower. The quotations are as follows :—Cale-
denial; 775 77.1 . ;
Great Western, 481 491 ;
Great E istern, 371 1 ; Great Northern, 105
106 ; ditto A, 107 108 ; Lancashire, 1224 123 ;
Metropolitan, 971 4 ; Midland, 1131 Y ; Sheffield,
54} 5 ; Brighton, 451 1 ; North British, 34 4 ;
North Western, 1161 7 ; North Eastern 103/ 41 ;
South Eastern, 751 6 ; Chatham and Dover,
161
American Five-Twenties have fallen, the price
now is 781 781 ; and the 1805 and Ten-Forty
Bonds are unchanged, 761 761, and 701 701 re-
spectively. Illinois Central Railway Shares have
risen 1, to 95 951, and Eries remain at 181 181.
Atlantic Telegraph Original stock is 21 23 ; the
Eight per Cent. Preference shares are 31 31 ; and
Anglo-American Telegraph shares 22 224.
The amount of bar gold sent into the Bank yes-
terday was £170,000, making a total of £293,000
since the date of the last return.
The Tanjore, from Alexandria, has brought
£106,000 in gold. The Essex, from Melbourne,
with £72,000, has not yet arrived.
Mexican dollars were disposed of yesterday for
China at 4s. 111 d. per ounce, being 4d. lower than
on Saturday. Bar silver is quoted ss. " buyers."
Telegrams from New York in reference to a
suspension supposed to have taken place on the
other side
of the Atlantic, state that the difficulties
lv,
.7 re only temporary, and that they were imme-
ritatel.,
surmounted.
The sports at Epsom will interfere greatly with
general
operations this week. Already many mem-
_hers of the Stock Exchange. and the proda.m mar-
kets have left for the races to-day. To-na mow,
the Derl,y, will be the national holiday, and Friday,
the Oaks, will draw a full attendance.
The trail.: return of the Great Western Railway
of Canada, for the week enliug the 21st instant,
shows an increase of £653 over last year.
A general meeting of the Madras Irrigation and
Canal Company is to be held on the 31st instant.
Some confusion having occurred, it may peril lips be
as well to mention that it is not this cempaay, but
the East India Irrigation awl Canal Company,
'which has had its capital repai.l to it by the ladi in
Goterntnent. The sum in question, amounting, we
believe, to £1,059,000, was transferred from the ac-
count of the India Office to the credit of the com-
pany on Wednesday last, and the payment to the
shareholders began on Friday.
An extraordinary meeting of the proprietors of
the hellion and Brazilian Bank (Limited) will be
held on the 31 of June, when formal resolutions
will be proposed in favour of the undertaking being
Wound up voluntarily, and of the transfer of the
business to a new batik. Tue chief object of this
proceeding is to reduce the present heavy liability
ou the shares.
An extraordinary general meeting of the share-
holde.ra of the Anglo-Austrian B ink will be held is
Vienna, on Monday, the 281 of June.
At the meeting of the proprietors of the English
Flank of Rio de Janeiro a divi len 1 of Si. per share
Was declared.
A dividend is to be payable 0 1 the shares of the
Anglo-Mexican Mint Company on the 2d of June.
The discount demand has been moderate both at
the Bank and in the open market, aid se far as
enernerzial requirements are concerned the rate
Illight gradually descent to nearly its former low
"cf. But the market during the present year has
not b2e., and is not likely to be governed by the
nature of these requirements. The question is
a luiPlY whether our people upon a return of buoy-
ancy in the prices of stocks will again renew their
daily system of fore'gn investments, and whether
they, together with Continental buyers, are pre-
pared to absorb the millions of United States bonds,
the expected steady and continuous sale of which
constitutes the reliance of New York financiers in
i un..intaining the inflation which has so long been
witnessed•
,traffic on that side.
he Brighton Railway return, being for
wLr
" 81T1 week, shows an increase of £5,001 over
tst Year ; and the South Eastern an increase of
X 4,618.
bil' has been deci led that the New Consolidated
voleci"t Company shall undergo the process of
`lnt "7 liquidation ; anl it has been arranged
714 mr.
Andrew Ross and Mr. T. M. Usborne,
shall be the liquidators. The proposal of Mr.
Richardson to pay out the shareholders at par
was accepted.
The half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the
rnd°4 and Provincial Turkish Bath Company was
3,' at the Cavendish Hotel, No. 81, Jermyn-
arrehe.t, on Monday last. Mr. Arthur Cates, the
e Itect, reported the very satisfactory progress of
th
building, and that the contractors from the
ti
'ue at which they were placed in possession
of the old buildings had carried on the works
withanew
expedition, and in a very satisfactory manner.
r*"`a..sw lease of the premises is in course of prepa-
21°11, and will be granted by the Crown with-
L'at delay when the building is certified as com-
pleted, which it is expected will be the case in the
course of a few months, when the property of the
company will be very much increased in value. The
Profitable balance amounted to £1,015 9a. 7d., and
the directors :proposed a dividend at the rate of 8
Per cent. per annum amounting to £B7B, which was
agreed to.

iatITISII FUNDS—TWO VOLOCK.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 Per Cent. Consols
931
bitto for Account,
91; 2
1 Per Cent. Reduced 9li 2
Zew 3 per Cent
-'°l7 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
A -0. ° per Con Jan. 1873
--71Nnuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 18.8
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth
AA,ploril 1,1 z::
130 Clted Sept Tele6rlLPIL), - -', .
Ezolloqu..,.r Bills, £l,OOO, `li 2i por Ct..
o
Ihnk of England£Blote%k£,24l,pler£os01....
c bc• opeig
aatt:la Openpr Cent. Bonds
I
nter-Colonial Cranium
1 IxDux GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
a lia Mock, 10} C t April 1874... --
per ell ,
1)°. Openiug, for Account -
De. 5 per (.stnt. July, 1880
Do .i 100 i
UO.
• ' Per Cent., Oct. 1858
.-,0. Certificates —
Jo.Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cent..
.... —,
115 Per Coat Jan. 1872 .....,..,. 10.4.
Do -1 ~
' .?2 Per ont. May 1879 —
J'
i) Pe; Cent Itup. Deb. 187')
.) P.
DoDo do 1877 _
~ . do. 1882 —
'-,... Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cont., £l,OOO
lin. under £l,OOO
A.r, .
FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
•
6°o. til'c,ti 11epub!le, 6 per Cent ...
-x
,
u .Irian Bonds 5 per cent
„hrl, Do. .1859
"u ()Allan 5 per Cent
3. If per Coo. 18,),
!,/,'L do. ' 1"-.
18.8. ............. ...
....0. do
186 '
Do. do'
1863 —
B
in°' 5 Per 'Cent., 1865
-'-',.0 Accoout
,I•eLos Ayi.c:, 6 i••er Cent.
,),. 2 per ti , t (D f , •-d 3 , —
U.1,..;01),,, r 'O,-...• e en_ per Coot.:
k. , , per Cent.
!tau 6 per Cent
D! °(0:. 41 Per
CCeenntt.", ......
II); 6 per co- t. 1867 961
' 7 Per Cent., 1800

... 76;