The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-21 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 211 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1024 1 ; ditto Enfaced Paper 4
per Cent., 911; ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879,
1094 101; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 20 prem. ; ditto
under £l,OOO, 22 prem.
In the Foreign Market Egyptian of 1868,
Nicolai, Peruvian of 1865, Spanish of 1867, and
Charcow-Keementschug have improved 1 to 1
per cent., while 11Iexican and Charkof-Azof
have declined 1. Annexed are the prices :—Bra-
zilian of 1865, 801 to 1 ; Chilian of 1867, 931
to 94, ex div. ; Egyptian of 1864, 874 to 881 ;
ditto of 1868, 71/ to 72/, ex div. ; Italian of
1861, 531 to 1, ex div. ; ditto Tobacco Loan,
1 to 11 prem., ex div. ; Mexican, 151 to 15/ ;
Peruvian of 1865, 76.1 to 77 ; Russian of 1866, 91
to 92 ; ditto Nicolai, 661 to 67 ; ditto Orel, 801 to
801; ditto Moscow, 781 to 79 ; ditto Charkof-
Azof, 78i to 791 ; Charcow-Krementschug, 791
to i; Spanish of 1867, 311 to 1 ; Turkish of
1858, 63 to 64 ; ditto of 1862, 62 to 63, and ditto
of 1865, 381 to 1, ex div.
In the railway market there has been a decline
13f to 1 per cent. in Metropolitan and Great
Northern A, and a rise of 1 to lin Mid-
land, Great Eastern, and South Eastern. Sub-
joined are the quotations : London and
North Western, 115/ to 116/ ; Great Western,
491 to 50k ; Midland, 1151 to 4 ; London and
South Western, 89 to 90 ; Great Eastern, 421 to
Brighton, 51/ to 521; South Eastern, 814 to
82.; Metropolitan, 1071 to 1; Great Northern,
1071 to 108 ; ditto A, 10821 to 1091 ; Caledonian,
78+ to 1; and London, Chatham, and Dover, 171.
to 14.

American Five-Twenty Bonds are per cent
lower, at 751 to Erie Railway Shares, 26f to
; Illinois Central, 93 to ; Atlantic and Great
Western Debentures, 42 to -; and the Consoli-
dated Mortgage Bonds, 46 to
In the Miscellaneous department Anglo-Ameri-
can Telegraph are 2s. 6d. better, at 2U to 22 ; At-
lantic Telegraph 8 per Cent. Preference, 34 to ;
National Discount, 114 to 124 ; General Credit,
to 14 dis. ; International, 1- to 14 dis. ; Hud-
son's Bay, 151 to ; and Telegraph Construction,
161 to 17.
Bank shares are rather firm, and the quotations
are as follows :—London and Westminster, 651 to
; London and County, 501 to ; London Joint
Stock, 344 to 354 ; Union of London, 364 to 371 ;
Anglo-Austrian, 10 to 11 prem. ; and Imperial Otto-
nlan, 1 to 11 prem.
At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders oj
the London Joint Stock Bank, held to-day, the
report was unanimously adopted and the dividend
declared.
At the general meeting of the shareholders of the
Alliance Bank, held to-day, the report was unani-
mously adopted, and a dividend of £3 per cent. per
lulnuta was declared.
About £49,000 in bar gold was taken into the
Bank yesterday.
The balance of bullion operations at the Bank of
England since the previous return is £29,000 in
favour of the Bank, the withdrawal of gold having
been £20,000, and the amount sent in £49,000.
The principal railway traffics exhibit an increase.
That of the London and North Western an increase
of £8,871, Midland an increase of £8,417 ; and
Metropolitan an increase of £3,153.

The opening of the subscription list for the ex-
pected issue of shares of the Grosswardein-Klau-
senburg-Krohustadt Railway will take place ou the
26th inst. A rumour that the new stock is to be
brought out exclusively on the Paris lionize is in-
accurate, the Anglo-Austrian Bank being entrusted
With the issue, and lists will be opened in all the
chief continental markets. It appears that it is not
intended in the first instance to invite subscriptions
for the whole of the capital, which is 75 millions of

The Vienna Bank of Commerce has commenced
the first of a series of important transactions, the
;)ject of which is the direct importation of cotton
°ll-1 Bombay into Austria, via Suez and Trieste.
„,"
;he various lines, and especially the South Railway,
the
the impetus this must eventually give to
eue cotton industry of the empire, have offered
lerY inducement for promoting the success of the
plan' It seems also to be expected that the Bank
0
Commerce will be able to divert, through the
euillal of the Brenner Railway, the forwarding
0,
cotton for Switzerland and South Germany from
, 4iargethee.
oThe .Manchester Examiner has much pleasure in
n°lling the following highly honourable conduct
ell the Part of a firm which was compelled to suc-
fir in 1865, on account of heavy losses. The
je question is that of Messrs. John Samuels
`d CO commission merchants in this city. Their
iwtora accepted a composition of 10s. in the
mhttld) Which was duly paid. The same creditors
ilate had the satisfaction of receiving a circular,
112atieg that Messrs. Samuels and Co. intend to
t,a,;
then the balance of 20s. in the pound on Thurs-
day next.
au
cik circular from the discount firm of Brightwen
C°- states that MrPh. C. E. Tritton, son of Mr.
41Tritton, of Lombard-street, has joined their
'4'

1111 a register of transfers of the.Anglo-American
Ihe;eigralk Company (Limited) is to be closed from
bac: Ist to the Bth February, preparatory to the pay-
th-Ilt of an interim dividend for the quarter ending
e 81st inst.
iloTtle annual meeting of the proprietors of the Lon-
p and County Bank will be held on the 4th of
ebruary.
E Tile ordinary meeting of the proprietors of the
veft4t London Bank (Limited and Reduced) is con-
d fled for the 28th instant, when a dividend is to be
eclamed.
to bye report of the directors of the Bank of Egypt
pet,„ Preseuted at the annual meeting on the Ist of
de,ituarY, states that the usual dividend would be
the
half at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum for
share• Year (1.12,500), and a bonus of £1 10s. per
(LT he directors of the Midland Banking Company
hastilted) at the meeting to be held on the 29th
cent, ropose to declare the usual dividend of 6 per
Per annum, free of income tax.
'le directors of the National Bank of er-
hh
''(Li miced) recommend a dividend of 10s. per
tree of income tax.
11:4Lie directors of the British and Foreign Marine
jag Ivra.,ll, et) Company (Limited) at the general meet-
/4,4_1'1 will
a further dividend of 2s. p e
of together with a bonus of 4s. per share, free
20 incoine tax, which will make a distribution of
Per cent. for the year.

LOSINO.
-BRITISH If I:INDS —C
tioTtnNAttNT I'lJ D 5.
PRICES.
Per Cent:6 -sole .. . .................. gil33
3 Ditto for A°cotiount, .........
93} i
Ntl;,,,e.l2ent. Reduced
1"blr ')' Per
ee"
.' I. per Cent. Jan. 1894
D
_
A u.O per Cen i i an. 1873
xt,t
-••ntities, SU yrs expire sth Jan., 17.- -).
121
,tx,.Dot) for SO yrs e' xnire sth April 1880
o thd ~ 7 ~', , -,-
h, 1908.-
, Lee
... thet,lttp A Aug;,
_
fi'outquer I,s ills, 4:1u0o, 2 per Ut
1,
De. X5OO ...................... _
114 ...
4100 & X-tOO
244
11: of England Stock, 4 per ()eta
_
r,_ Do .of
....... “ .......
',atiacla 4 per ent. 80nd5.:....................
!titer-Clonial Otnnuun
I ..iNinAls GoYttonstENT bEcvninte.
211
tlita tee4.rir, 104 per Cout., April 1874
~: VPolUng for Account
t)',"' At) Per celit. July 1881)
192 i i
6-.1 Pel. Cett., 0ct.,1888
No. Certificates
per` _
ji.l''°.
,tifaced. ?alibi 4 C~nt
0 per Cett., Jan. i 872
_,,,i ,
°' 5 o,t May 1879
Oa 5- •
peer
Cont., Itup. Deb. 1872

CITY, TWO o'CLocK.
The closing prices of yesterday have been main •
tained, and foreign stocks participate in the im-
proved state of things. Railway shares have not
been very active, and American securities have re-
ceded slightly.
Consols are 92i 3 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93 d ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 93+ i ;
New Tkree per Cents, 93i- ; ditto April, 1885,
121.