The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-13 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Consols are firm to-day at 93 -41; for money ;
ditto, for Account, 931- ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 934. 3 ; New Three per Cents, 934. 3 ;
Red Sea Telegraph, 191 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO,
10 8 prem. ; ditto £100,1200, and £5OO, ; Bank
of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 2421 2.
India Stock,lol per Cent., April, 1874, 2061 6 8 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001
In the foreign market a further improvement
has taken place in Russian, especially the railway
guarantees. Orel, 811 to 82 ; and Charkof, 801
to 81. The 1866 loan is 911 to 921; Mexican
are better at 124 to 121. Egyptian (1864), 92 to
93 ; ditto (1868), 811 to 811 ; Viceroy Seven per
Cents., 821 to 824 ; ditto Nine per Cents., 961
to 97i ; Brazilian, 831 to 84 ; Peruvian, 761 to
771 ; and Argentine, 791 to 804.
There is an advance of 1. in American Five-
Twenty Bonds, which are row quoted 811 to 82.
The Ten-Forties are 724. to 73. Erie Shares have
advanced 1, to 181. Illinois are steady, at 954
to 951.
In Railway Shares the following are the prices :
—Caledonian, 791 to 801-; Great Eastern, 384 to
381 ; Great Northern, 107 to 108 ; Great Northern
(A), 106 to 1061; Great Western, 504. to 51; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 125 to 125/ ; London and
Brighton, 45 to 451 ; London, Chatham, and
Dover, 161 to 17.
Rather more business is doing in Bank shares.
Oriental and Union of London, are each 4. better,
the former being quoted at 411 to 421, and the
latter at 37 to 38 ; but London Joint Stock is dull,
at 311 to 321 ; London and Westminster is quoted
at 591 to 601.
The sum of £30,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.
The mail steamer Flamsteed, at Liverpool, has
brought £50,326 from Brazil and the River Plate ;
the Neva, from the West Indies, £100,799 in gold
and £115,936 in silver; and the Union, from New
York, £4,160.
The accounts from Spain continue highly favour-
able with regard to the prospects of the harvest
and estimates are entertained that there will be a
surplus of wheat for exportation to the value of five
or six millions sterling. Last year there was not
nearly enough for the wants of the population.
The Brazilian advices by the Flamsteed are eight
days later than those previously received, and indi-
cate an increase of financial confidence, the rate of
exchange being firm at 184. d. to 18/cl. From Para-
guay there was no additional news of importance,
but the last accounts of the successful progress o,
the operations of the Allies arc confirmed.
The advices from Buenos Ayres by this mail
state that the Argentine Senate, by a vote of 19 to
8, had resolved on the removal of the capital to
Rosario. The question will now have to come be-
fore the Lower House, and then for the sanction of
the President.
Our advices from South Australia are to the 22d
of May. The Government was again in the marke

as a borrower, local tenders being invited for
£75,000 of bonds, of which £55,000 is for port and
harbour works, and £20,000 for the purposes of the
Northern Territory. With regard to this settle-
ment nothing had transpired of any importance be-

yond recommendations for establishing a depot
thera for supplying India with horses. Various
movements are on foot in connection with railway
enterprise, particularly the projecte 1 line from Port
• Augusta to the north, under English capital, and
the general preference of railway; as against maca-
damized roads throughout the colony. The ques-
tion of maintaining Imperial trovs in the colonies
was engaging attention in Adelaide, the home
authorities having intimated an intention to with-
draw from the expanse of them at an early period.
The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £l3O on account of the dividenis on the
Debt of Ecuado'r.
The &mitt), Eastern Railway :traffic return shows
this week an increase of £53, compared with the
corresponding period of last year, and the Brighton
a decrease of £222.

The traffic return of the Great Western Railway
of Canada for the week en ling the 9th instant
shows an increase of £1,306 over last ye kr ; and
that of the Grand Trunk, for the week ending the
26th ult., an increase of £4,551.

Thu directors of the National Discount Company
have decided on proposing a dividend at the rate of
15 per cent. per annum. -

The directors of the Lion Brewery Company
(Limited) have declared an interim dividend for the
half-year ended the 30th June, at the rate of 6 per
cent. per annum upon both the preference and
Ordinary shares of the company.
At the meeting of the proprietors of the Union
Bank of Australia, a dividend was declared of 7i
Per cent. for the) six months, making a total
distribution for the year of 15 per cent.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New
South Wales, held at Sydney on the 28th April,
a dividend at tho rate of 15 per cent. per annum was
declared.

At the eleventh annual meeting of the National
Lank of Australasia, held at Melbourne on the
4th May, a dividend was declared at the rate of 10
per cent, per annum in addition to a bonus of Is.
Per share, equivalent to 2fr per cent. per annum.
The fifteenth half-yearly meeting of the Bank of
New Zealand was held at Auckland on the 28th
April, when the report of the directors was unani-
zlously adopted. A dividend was declared at the
usual rate of 10 per cent. in addition to a bonus of
53• per share, being equal together to 15 per cent.
Per annum.
The directors of the British Shipowners' Co/il-
l:141JY (Limited) announce an interim dividend for
-the half year ending June last at the rate of 5 per
eetlt. per annum, free of income tax.

BRITISH FUNDS-TWO O'CLOCK.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
a Per Cent. Consols -
Ditto for Account, July 7
a
• Per Cent. Reduced nak 3
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.mely 3 per Cent
*leir 21 per Cent. Jan.
. LI% 5 per Cen Jan. 1873
4
nnuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
Do. for 30 yrs expire sth April 1885 194
t, o (Bed Sea Teleh,rapli).*Ang., 1908 —
'zehocluer Bills, £l,OOO, 24 p. Ut. March 5 pin
D 3
Do. 3 do. June 10 8
£lOO, £2OO & £5OO —
-ub kak of England Stock, 41 per Cent
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11,11ada 4 por Cent. Bonds —
nter-Colonial Cranium
1 IsioLabi GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
Ilia stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 2061. 6 8
'-40- Opening, for Account —
r,°. 5 'per Cent. July, 1880 -
'ie. 4 loo. Certi per
fic onest Oct. 1888
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°.''. 5 per Oest., Jan. 1872 wr. —
D 3 54 per Cent. May 1879 --
8 per Cent., Bup. Deb. 1872 —
bo do 1877 —
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t‘). Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
)po.°. Bond; 4
£1 per Cent., £l7OOO _
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under . 000
Pm.
Ar FOREIGN per
TWO O'CLOCK.
. gentine Republic, 6 per Cent
-muitrian Bonds 5 per cent —
tr Do. 1659 —
ftlißan 5 per Cent —DO
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ei.,,,,,,) 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Li II?, 6 per Cont.
. 'f)olan 6 per Cent
t'„„o• 4,1 per Cent.... Bl4
o• 3 por Cent.,
1)„' 6_, Per cetit. 18137
(1 1-* ' Ptsr Cent., 1866
1.), `).`nbien, 6 per Cent.
1)„41.1, 3 per Cent., 1825
4pi‘l bian Principalities, 7 ler Cent
xi '-'° 8 per Cent, 1867 —
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Rll 4?r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
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