The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-30 00:00:00

MONEY-MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The holiday on Monday has caused sales to be
made to-day to some extent, whieh has brought
a.bout a slight fall in prices both in English and
bringing
foreign Securities. Consols have fallen It, thus
the prices down to what they stood at the
ecllumencement of business yesterday.
Consols arc now at 938 to 93} for money;
ilitto, for Ac:ount, 931 ; Three per Cent. Re-
cilleeci, 92 11 ; New Three per Cents, 911- 2 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., January, 1873, 104- ;
achequer Bills £l,OOO, March, prem. ; June,
prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
Prem. ; June, 5 prem..; Bank of England Stock,
4i per Cent., 239.
India Stock, 10f per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5
per Cent., July, 1880, 115 k ; ditto 4
Per Cent., Oct., 1888, 100-1 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
41 per Cent., 1101 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 25 28
Preen.

The Foreign Market shows a tendency to re-
cede. Prices are now as follows :—Brazilian 834
to 84 ; Egyptian (1864), 86i to 871 ex div. ;
Viceroy Seven per Cents., 1811 to 821; the Nines,
981 to 994; Italian,' 521 to 521; ditto Tobacco
Loan, 84f to 854 ; Mexican, 131 to 131 ; Peruvian,
1321 to 821; Portuguese, 34 to 344 ; Orel, 811 to
824 ex div. ; Nicolas, 681 to 68/ ; Moscow, 831 to
84; Charkof, 804 to 81; Spanish, 271 to 271 ;
and Turkish Five per Cents., 421 to 421.
The Railway Market is also dull ; the prices are
as follows :—Caledonian, 801 to 801 ex div. ; Great
Northern, 108 to 109 ; ditto (A), 106 to 1064 ;
Great Western, 561 to 564 ; London and Brighton,
434 to 434 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 161
to 17 ; London and North Western, 1181 to 1191;
London and South Western, 891 to 904 ; Metro-
politan, 83/ to 841 ; Midland, 1181 to 1181; and
South Eastern, 761 to 774.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 821 to 821
ez div. ; Ten-Forties, 754 to 761; and Erie Rail-
road Shares, 211 to 211.
Lombardo-Venetian aro 201 to 21, and Great
Luxemburg at 121 to 121 ex div.
Anglo-American Telegraph is 204 to 201 ; and
French Cablel, 61 to 161.
Bank Shares are a trifle better. There is a rise
°1 7-6ths in Imperial Ottoman. Anglo-Austrian,
4 to 11 ex new prem. ; Chartered Mercantile, 321
to 331; Consolidated, 41 to 41; Imperial Bank,
16 to 17 ; and Imperial Ottoman, 21 to 21 prem.
In Miscellaneous Securities, Hudson's Bay have
Improved to into 141 ; National Discount 101 to
11 ; and International Finance 24 to 11 die.
The wheat market shows great heaviness ; quo-
tations are nominally the same as on Monday.
Monday next, the Ist of November, will be, as
a holyday at the Stock-Exchange, owing to
the transfer books at the Bank being closed on that
day.

The sum of £25,000 in sovereigns, from South
America, was taken to the Bank yesterday.
The Board of Trade returns for the past month
Purport to show a decrease of £661,515, or about 4
Per cent., in the declared value of our exportations
eeMpared with the corresponding month of last
tear. Among the importations of the month have
,ee'l 3,387,239 cwts. of wheat against only
',,,260,430 in September, 1868, and 3,067,662 in
September, 1867, the United States on the present
°eeasion having contributed 42 per cent. of the en-
t,l,lse quantity, while in the arrivals from Russia and
Germany there has been a comparative falling off.
The report of the Vancouver Coal Mining and
Lid Company (Limited) to be presented on the
, of November, recommends a dividend at the
rate of 15 per cent. per annum, which will absorb
£6)195, and leave £2,359 to be carried forward.
At the meeting yesterday of the shareholders of
the
Imperial Land Company of Marseilles, con-
'elaed by the Credit Foncier Company, great ex-
citement prevailed, and after a lengthy speech from
the chairman, Mr. Mowatt, involving many personal
1),,°11-ds, the 'following resolution was adopted
an application be forthwith made to the
Court of Chancery for an order to remove the pre-
sent liquidators, and to appoint other liquidators in
their stead."
i kr. John Pender, who has taken a leading part
the establishment of submarine telegraphy with
udia, and is chairman of the British Indian and
the
Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta Telegraph
4apanies, proceeds to Egypt to represent then
epmPanies and the Anglo-Mediterranean and the
Pau~eraPh Construction and Maintenance Corn-
s at the opening of the Suez Canal.
ti deputation from the City has presented a peti-
cm to the Metropolitan Board of Works, nume-
!„°,,llBlY Signed, praying the Board to keep open, as a
:eat public improvement, the plot of ground now
aeaut on the west side of the Mansion-house.
The Manchester Courier announces the failure of
k
e 481.4. Percival, Mackinson, and Co., buying
geats of Manchester, with moderate liabilities. It
thiloderstood that the estate will be wound up in
e Court of Bankruptcy.
dAt the meeting of the proprietors of the Stan-
Cir'' Bank of the British South Africa (Limited),
1 Yesterday, the directors' report was adopted.
dividend of 10s. per share was declared on the
ail
i'es with £25 paid, and 4s. per share on those
1"1 410 paid.

, '-' BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
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114 for _ccount, Nor. 4
I tat A 934
kper Cent. Reduced 92 14
*:W 5 per Cent
Z?,sl Plir Cent. Jan. 1894
4,,,,;:i• per Con J an. 1873
Tties, 60 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
-°. ftir 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 n.
414 (B•ed Seaaelei,raph, Aug, 1908 —
cili}clll2r Bills, Xl,OOO, fp. Ct. March
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4.1. £lBO, £2OO Pm
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Be.
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Illt% 4 4 Dar Cent. Bonds —
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'Lodk, 10f per Cent., April 1874 —
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Do, 5 per Cent. July, 1880
C*l Per Cent., Oct. 1888
_
15°. Certificates
80, Enfaced Papa 4 per Cent..,... —
Duo'
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0 per Cent Ru Deb. 91872 .1 I).
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do 1877 —
4Jta- D°' do. 1882 —
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25 28 pm
0. Under
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44v tOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Atet,,lltirle Republic, 6 per Cent
`LA3I Bonds 5 per cent —
hrez,l. DO. 1859 —
pc;,4,11 5 per Cent c. —
0„. It per Cent. 1852 —
Ijsr; do 1858.... -
130 - (10 1860 —N. do., 1863
1) 6 Per Cent. 1865 —
t tie°,e4ceolint '
11,--:i Ayres 6 per
Om; spar Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
%dr Per Cent.
13 44 6 Per Cent —
4:49 Per Cent..., 175
Do. .1 Per Cent.,
Do, " Per Cent., 1866
0, lel,,Per 0eut.1867 —
"Jae; -"Li; 6 per Cent.
1)44i 6t1)1., a per Cent. 1825
t 1) perPrincie 7 per Cent B2
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1,044„ mi, Bfil
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D, (2cood Issue
• 400 C ii„ds _
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1864
D 43. 861 71
c. 4„ Account ...
T), `'''° Bonds ll,' 41k1C Bonds BB4
b.:. 7_ Pe r Cent., 1868 .. ......
(1(0),..1.00 Bonds
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~s. :Per Cent., 1824 5, ex Coaps
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f ' Per Cent —
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