The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-24 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITT, Two o'CLocK.

Only a limited amount of business was trans-
acted to-day, and even in that a dullness prevailed.
The Government Securities maintain yesterday's
prices, and many of the brokers are preparing for
the fortnightly settlement and the Easter holidays.
In Foreign securities there has been some trifling
alterations, and the American 5-20's are not so good
as yesterday, but Eries have improved slightly.
The Railway market is very dull, Metropolitans
have gone down, but the other alterations are un-
important.
Money is still held for a ; in the house, loans
can be had at 21.
Consols are 92i 3k for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93k ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 91i
New T;;.ree per Cents, 91i ; ditto Red Sea
Telegraph, 191 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 21 per
Cent., par ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent.,
240.

India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 11214 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 1 ; ditto Debentures, 5
per Cent., 1041.
In the Foreign Stock Market prices are as fol-
lows :—Brazililian of 1865, 801 to 1 ; Chilian of
1867, 94/ to 951 ; Egyptian of 1864, 891 to / ;
ditto of 1868, 76 to 1; Italian of 1861,
55j to ; ditto of 1868, 84 to 85 ; Mexican, 14/
to 15 ; Peruvian of 1865, 79 to 791 ; Russian of
1866, 93/ to 941; Nicolai, 67 to j ; Orel, 82 to 1;
Moscow, 791 to 80 ; ditto Charkof, 771 to 1 ;
ditto Charcow, 771 to ; Turkish of 1858, 63 to
54 ; ditto of 1862, 661 to 67 ; and ditto of 1865,
411 to 1.
The mortgage debentures of the Trouville Asso-
ciation are quoted 1 to 1 prem.
In the Railway Market Manchester and Sheffield
are in good demand, and there has been a rise of
k to IT per cent. in Great Eastern, Metropolitan,
and Caledonian ; the other lines are as quoted yes-
terday.
American 5-20's have declined to 831 to but
Erie Shares have improved 241 to 251. Illinois
Central, 96/ to 971; Atlantic and Great Western
Debentures, 321 to 3 ; and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds, 311 to /.
In the Miscellaneous market National discount
are quoted 111 to / ; General Credit, 11 to 1 dis. ;
International, 11 to 1 dis. ; Hudson's Bay 131 to
1 ; Telegraph Construction, 17 to 1; Atlantic Te-
legraph, Eight per Cent. Preference, 31 to 31 ; and
Anglo-American 221 to 22/..
In Bank shares the quotations are unaltered from
yesterday.
The Stock Exchange will be closed on Good
Friday, as well as on Monday next. As Tuesday,
the 30th, and Wednesday, the 31st instant, are
the account days, the preparatory arrangement
will commence on Thursday morning next. Busi-
ness will be transacted at the Stock Exchange on
Saturday.
The Metropolitan Railway traffic shows this week
an increase of £2,844 over last year.
Formal notice is given by the Great Northern
Railway Company that the Board of Trade have
authorised the abandonment of certain important
works.

The report of the Merchant Banking Company
of London (Limited), to be presented on the 25th
inst., recommends a dividend at the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum, which will absorb £9,315, and
leave £2,587 to be carried forward. The reserve
fund has been increased £20,000 during the year,
and now stands at £45,000.

The report of the Home and Colonial Marine
Insurance Company (Limited), to be presented on
the 31st instant, recommends a dividend of 2s. 6d.
per share, being at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum for the six months ended the 31st of
December last. _

The shares of the Metropolitan Railway have
been unfavourably influenced by the issue of a
pamphlet by Mr. Salisbury to the shareholders of
the line on the subject of the late injunction. The
writer contends that after what has passed nothing
will satisfy the proprietors and tha public but an
independent investigation of the accounts of the
undertaking.
A circular signed by Mr. W. P. Andrew, as
chairman, has been addressed to the shareholders
of the Sein.le Railway, informing them that at the
approaching extraordinary general meeting the
question of amalgamating the several and separate
undertakings of the company will be submitted for
consideration.

At a special meeting of the lonian Bank reso-
lutions were passed approving of the arrangement
between the Bank and the Government at Athens,
a.utherisiog further negotiations with the National
Bank of Greece, and empowering the directors,
should they see fit, to pay the 3 per cent. dividend
without the bonus of 2 per cent. for the half-year.
A call of £5 is ordered to be made on the new
shares.
At public sale at the Open Stock Exi.thange
(Limited), yesterday, Brighton Hotel Company
(Limited), £5 fully paid, sold at 21s. to 225. 6d.
per share ; Cramer and Company (Limited), 110
fully paid, £5 19s. 6d. ex div. per share; Grosvenor
and West-end Railway Terminus Hotel Company
(Limited), £lO fully paid, 24 per share; Guild-
hall Taverns Company (Limited), £lO fully paid,
per share, and Leasehold Investment Company
(Limited), £4 paid, £3 19s. per share.
An ordinary meeting of the South Austrian,
Lombardo-Venetian, and Central Italian Railway
Companies will be held on the 28th of April, "to
receive the report of the committee, approve of the
accounts for the year 1868, and to fix the dividend."
An extraordinary meeting is also convened for the
same day, " to ratify the agreement entered into
with the Italian Government for the concession or
leasi,ng of the different lines."
The advices from Brazil by the present mail are
to the 23d of February. The journals contain no
fresh news of importance from Paraguay. The Bra-
zilian General had as yet made no movement in
pursuit of Lopez, but an expedition of Argentine
troops was reported to have returned with about a
thousand Paraguayans of all ages, whom they had
met with in the country they had passed through.
Otherwise for a hundred miles inland they had found
the villages deserted.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cont. Consols
Ditto for Account,
3 per Cent. Reduced 91- I
Now 3 per Cent
New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
De. 5 per Cen Jan. 1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 l9l
Exchcqur.s.r Bills, £l,OOO, 2} per Ct.
1)2 £5OO
De. £lOO & £2OO
Bulk of Eughnd Stock,4} per Cent 240

account
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds
Inter-Celonial Uranium
INDIAN INDIAN CIOVERNMENT SECURITIES
India Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1879

_ .
Do. Opening, for Account --
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates --
Do. Enfaced Pape. 4 per Cent..,.. —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ........ —
Do. 5i-per Cent, May. 1879 —
DJ 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877
Do. do. 1882 —
D.;. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FTTNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ... .
Do., Scrip 145 paid
Auitrian Bonds 5 per cent .. —
Do. 1859 —
Br3.2.ilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 4* per Cent,. 1852 —
Do. do. 1858....
Do. do. 186 1
Do. do., 1863 —
,
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account Bof 1
B .enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Da 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cabe., 6 per Cent.
o.Alian 6 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent 95
Do. 3 per Cent.,
Po. 6 per cent 1867
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
coloaibian, 6 perCept.