The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-30 00:00:00

Tdoint**"-Cli ranYtwl.

HER MAJESTY.

•

BALMORAL CASTLE, Sept. 27.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise
and Princess Christian, and attended by Lady
Churchill, drove out to-day.
Her Majesty gave a ball in the evening.

ZONE Y MARKET

AND
COAIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The settlement of the account principally occu-
Pies the brokers to-day, and business is conse-
quently very inactive, but prices are maintained
'where any sales have been effected. Foreign Se-
curities remain unaltered, but there is some ques-
tionable speculation going on in the Metropolitan
Railway Shares.

Consols are now at 921 to 93 for money ;
ditto, for Aczount, 921 3 ; Three per Cent. Re-
uced, 911 ; New Three per Cents, 911 ;
,zehequer Bills £l,OOO, Marcb, par ; June,
7 Prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
Prem. ; June, prem. ; Bank of England
Stock, 4 per Cent., 238.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 2104 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141 14 ; ditto
4, Per Cent., Oct., 1888, 100 4 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
• Per Cent., ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 23
Prem,

' In Foreign Stocks prices are now as follows :
Argentine, 811 to 811 ; Brazilian, 83 to 84 ; Egyp-
tian (1864), 89 to 90 ; ditto (1868), 76 to 76} ;
viceroy's
Seven per Cent., 80 to 801 ; ditto Nine
Tobacco
Cent., 97 to 98 : Italian, 52+ to 52+ ; ditto
ibbacco Loan, 84 to 86 ; Peruvian, 79 to 79f ;
Portuguese, 33 to 34 ; Orel, 84 to 841 ; Nicolas,
671 to 67; ; Moscow, 83 to 831 ; Cbarkof, 803
to 801; Spanish, 27f to. 274; and Turkish Five
ver Cents., 411 to 41+.
-121 Bank Shares Imperial Ottoman have ad-
Tbced 2s. 6d., and London and Westminster, 10s.
prices quoted are as follows :—Agra (1)
snares, 1I to 111; Alliance, 124 to 13i ;
Anglo-Austrian, 12 to 15 prem. ; Chartered Mer-
cantile, to 33i ; Consolidated, 41 to 41 ; Impe-
-21 Bank, 16 to 17 ; Imperial Ottoman, 21 to
prem. ; London and County, 49 to 50 ; London
and Westminster, 57 to 58 ; Oriental, 42 to 43 ;
nclon Joint Stock, 30 to 31 ; and Union of Lon-
don, 35 •

d 5 to 36.
ler Railway Shares prices are as follows :.....
onian, 894 to 831 ; Great Eastern 361 to
361 ; Great Northern, 103 to 104 ; ditto (A),
‘,
`,9±,
tto 1001 ; Great Western, 531 to 54 ; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 1234 to 124; ; London and
righton, 431 to 44; London, Chitham, and
Dever, 16 to 161 ; London and North Western,
1151
to 116 ; London and South Western, 891 to
vi ' Metropolitan, 88 to 88i ; Midland, 1151 to
*l6; North-Eastern (Berwick), 1131 to 113; ;
and South Eastern, 751 to 754.
In American Securities Five-Twenty Bonds are
.;`,°:7 83 to 831 ; ditto (1865), 821 to 83 ; ditto
4:1°67)) 811 to 891 ; Ten-Forties, 75 to 751; Erie
-‘444lroad Shares 2.11 to 231 ; Illinois, 93 to 94 ;
Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Bonds,
2°
28; and Debentures, 29 to 30.
-111 Miscellaneous Shares Anglo-American Tele-
graphs are 201 to 201 ; Atlantic Eight per Cents.,
t. t° 2i ; French Cable, 161 to 161 ; Construc-
ts:4l and Maintenance, 281 to 284 ; National Dis-
e°eht, 101 to 111; and Hudson's Bay, 131 to 131.
te There were no gold operations at the Bank yea-
rrclaY• The movements since the date of the last
erturil have consisted on balance of a withdrawal
°'166,000.
The Oneida has left Lisbon for Southampton,
With the Brazil mails and £179,472.
Lab iittUeU Zvi
24)000.
:the directors of the Credit Foncier of Mauritius
(Limited) have issued the warrants to the share-
holders for for the payment of a dividend at the rate of
per cent. per annum.
Advises from Lisbon state that a concession has
fbeen granted for laying a submarine cable between
llgland and Portugal. The tariff for a telegram
20 words is to be 7f.
tjhe intelligence of the disastrous fire among the
g at Bordeaux has occasioned a good deal of
tel,--knees in the minds of those commercially in-
...ehl-e zesetetilt
dein the locality, but no very exact details of
of damage done were received up to the
ti°se cf the usual business hours. It was stated at
brseYds that sixteen vessels were ascertained to have
elea totally destroyed. The names were :—Tourny,
Lipa„tlelnagne, Ariel, Morse, Chemiste, Pionnier,
pit' tenant Bellot, Harmonie, Ulysse, Chomyn,
aa,iatna, Mary, Charlotte, Unico, Joseph and Marie,
ae..' Christine. Four of these were loaded, and
ialav,sell were partly loaded. Several of them were
oftees
ed at Lloyd's and among the marine insurance
Th
Loye accounts from Scotland respecting the
twe.eat are stated to be very favourable. About
beelathirati of the entire acreage have already
the secured, and the remainder will be got in by
is riddle of October. The present fine weather
LaZ gest.reatlY accelerating the conclusion of. the
lleZclotirs have been current, since the recent
a b.et,,,°,f the termination of the Paraguayan war, of
it, loan
being contemplated for Brazil. Thus far
ati4b.certaia
there have been no negotiations on the
eckije."' and in well informed circles it seems to be
vitt tdered
not improbable that the Government
Ina,. Prefer to raise at home whatever sums they
ft at Present require.
11041 f,,,i131 stated that the Peruvian Government have
2,0,30' a combination of French and German houses
thy 111000 tons of guano, about half of which quan-
sigae all Europe or on the way. The present con-
grati's will sell the guano in Europe until the ex-
on Of the existing contract, which, in the case
1872. e English contract, is the 31st of October,
the 1, Subject to the first mortgage in favour of
,Of aderuviall 5 per cent. loan, and the repayment
htlye,...ances due to the present consignees, the
04 air of the 2,000,000 tons will have a mortgage
tale; the guano in Europe and the proceeds of
Thia abcl also on all the guano deposits in Peru.
pubi;_ecrabination obviates the necessity of any
%w: loan.
The net amount which the Peruvian
konthni slant will realise for the 2,000,000 tons, by
tlo nstalments, is calculated at about
:1?°01000.
ge ad
*Peak vices by telegram from New York still
ofWall. the excitement in the neighbourhood of
.street.
seripti, The fluctuations in the speculative
realise
Such as Erie, &c., were of a character
realise ;bb..`lla.t. the operators were compelled. to
Of setae, there was a decline in the quotations
:1444:0
of
io the best, indicating the existence of a
of the eonfid
eeting oefnee. The continued adjournment
the " gold board " was viewed as
listed thing,
_ atm because it was unquestionably be-
business heavy failures have occurred, and that
4cliastine was suspended to allow facilities for an
adopted :It- After the reckless proceedings lately
quite probable endeavours will be
11: effeis
ale to t
cation
of a compromise, and avoid the publi-
Doaed interest in The names.
the City with regard to the pro-
, extension ofthe -
W_:1" to th_ Metropolitan District Rn
f a atib:aalanSiOn House, and the construction
eh a. Y thence to the Royal Exchange, is
tads could
Nyha, only be appreciated by the multi-
111c,ot 'e important avocations centre in that
feetl nci it is understood that a memorial, tier-
Of • unprecedented • its az in the character and weight
feet for 'gnatilres, has been prepared on the sub-
Works, transMissiou to •
the Metroplitan Board of
Accord.
Itilttib lag to the Russian Exchange Gazette, M.
togethearri)_4..merchant of Odessa, is now engaged,
in taak,_ with the Governor-General of that town,
'ug preparations for the construction of a