The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-03 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
C MER CIA L INTELLIGENCE.

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CI TY, Two O'CLOCK.

Consols are quiet to-day at 921 8 for money ;
ditto, for Ae.;ount, 92-1 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 923. ; New Tkree per Cents, 921 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO,
and £5OO, —; Bank of England Stock, 4 per
Cent., —•

India Stock, 10f per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001
There is still a fair business doing in Discounts,
but the supply of money already increasing, the
terms barely exceed 3f. Advances from day to
day on the Funds arc called 22 per cent.
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In the Foreign Stock Market business has been
contracted but firm. Brazilian Bonds are quoted,
83/ to 831 ; Portuguese, 33/ to 341 ; Egyptian
(1834), 881 to 89k; ditto (1868), 79# to 79i ; Vice-
roy's Seven per Cent., 821 to 83 ; ditto mine per
Cents., 95 to 95i ; Italian, 531 to 53a ; Mexican,
12 to 121; Peruvian, 76 to 76i ; Russian (1822),
85i to 861 ; Orel, 804 to 801 ; Charkof, 784 to
791 ; Spanish, 28} to 28; ; Turkish Five per
Cents., 441 to 44 ; and ditto Six per Cent., 65k
to 66 ex div.

In the railway market Caledonian are 79 to 791 ;
Great Eastern, 381 to 38:1 ; Great Northern, 107
to 108 ; Great Western, 503 to 504 ; London
and Brighton, 441 to 45 ; London, Chatham, and
Dover, 11 to 171 ; London and North Western,
1181 to 119; ; London and South Western, 89 to
91; Metropolitan, 97 to 971.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 80f to 80f ;
and Erie shares 191 to 20.

Iu Bank Shares Loudon and Westminster have
improved, and are now at 61f to Elk; Oriental, at
41 to 42 ; and Union of London, at 361 to 37g.
Agra (A) is + better, at 101 to 11. Anglo Austrian
is firm, at 15 to 16 prem., ex div.
In Miscellaneous Securities yesterday's prices are
unaltered.

The sum of 'L51,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday, including 15,000 sovereigns from
Brazil.

The colonial produce markets this week have
been freely supplied, but there has not been much
activity in the demand. Rather larger quantities
of coffee have been offered at auction, and although
for good and fine qualities steady rates have been
obtained, the transactions in other kinds have
generally been at terms in favour of buyers.
There is still but little inquiry for native Ceylon,
and some parcels brought forward to-day were
bought in. Sugar has been quiet, without altera-
tion. A fair amount of West India has been sold,
and several floating cargoes of foreign for the
United Kingdom. Rice continues dull, and soft
grain qualities have been parted with at lower rates.
The quarterly sales of indigo are advertised for the
12th inst., to contain 7,600 chests. Saltpetre at pub-
lic sale to-day was bought in above the value. A
large business has been effected in cotton, at ad-
vanced quotations. The common descriptions of
cocoa have been disposed of at a slight decline. Tea
has been very quiet, but to-day there was a little
more disposition to buy. Sales of China are de-
clared for next week.

A meeting was hdd yesterday of the Hudson's
Bay Company, when the directors' report was
adopted, an.' a dividend declared for the half year
of Bs. per share, making a total distribution for tiro
twelve months of 145., or Si per cent.
At the meeting yesterday of the Atlantic Tele-
graphiCompany, the report of the directors, which
has already been published, was adopted, and they
were authorised to pay a dividend at the rate of 8
per cent. per annuin on the first and second Pre-
ference Stocks, as well as to apply the debentures
in the hands of the company to paying charges on
capital account.
At the meeting yesterday of the Oriental Hotels
Company (Limited) the directors' report was
adopted. The business of the Galle Hotel hLs con-
tinued to improve, the net profits for the year 1868
being £4,204, or £777 more than in 1867 ; but at
the Cairo Hotel the net profits have been only
£1,229. Since the date of the last meeting the
Board have received the report of the completion of
the Cairo Hotel ; and it was mentioned that the
extra charges for the building and for commission
to architects and surveyors have all exceeded the
estimate. The directors have consequently been
unable to meet the instalments due to the contractor
at their due dates, but he shows continued forbear-
ance and support.

BRITISH FIINDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
3 per Cent. Reduced 92 f
Nevi 3 per Cent
New 2i per Cent. Jan. 18111
Do. o per Can i 112.1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., ISBO —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 --
Do (Red Sea Telehiraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchoqu:r Bills, £l,OOO, 21 p. Ct. March 3 pm
Do. 3 do. June
Do £lOO, £2OO ez £5OO —
Bunk of England Stock, 4} per Cent
Do. opening —
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Ommum
INDIAN UtrisltN2dF.NT SECUIUTEur
India stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Opening, for Account —
Do. 3 per lieut. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Eufaced Pape. 4 per °Ant.. ... —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ....,.. —
Do. 5} per Cent. May 1879
Da per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
Ll. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l.OOO
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FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per,Cent 79 8}
imurian Bonds 5 per cent ...
Do. 1859
Br until 5 per Cent
Go. q per Cont. 1852
Do. do 1858..................
D..•
o. uo• 186 ........ • •-•
Do. do., 1863 .............
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Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 .................. :::
Uo Account B3}
B::enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do '2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
CO% G per Cent.
Cutlian 6 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent
Do. 3 per Cent., ......
1 o. 6 per cog. 1867 94 i
Po. 7 per Cent., 1866
"..1 lo obian, 6 per Cent.
Dausti, 3 per Cent., 1825
Dan..bian Principalities, 7 per Cent —
Do 8 por Cent., 1867
4'qua4or Now Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
E4yptian, 7 per C0nt..... B3
lio Sevood Issue —
Do. £sut Berets . —
Do, .41.00 Bonds ..... 861
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. isno Bonds
Do. 4106 Bonds 9of
Do. 7 per Cont., 1868
ci overt, ne nt Ita.il way DebentureB .
Greek 5 per Oczt., 1824 5, ex Coups —
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
'24..noeunala 5 per Cent .. —
Honduras Goy Bail. Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd 821
ltiiia.o 5 por rent., 1865 —
Do. Account .
Do Martnumana Railway —
MexicaL 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
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