The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocir.
The bank parlour meeting has not resulted in any
change in the rate of discount. Consols maintain
their yesterday's prices ; but the improvement no-
ticed yesterday in the foreign market has not been
maintained. American securities have again re-
ceded.

Consols are 93 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93i ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 931 ;
New Three per Cents, 93;i.: a ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 21 per Cent., 8.

India Stock, 10/ per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 112 k ; ditto 4 per
Der Cent., Oct., 1883, 1021.
In tile x °reign iiicsi.e.cu vw
Cents. receded I, at 30i 304 ; in Greek Bonds,
at 11/ 12 ; and / iu Mexican Bonds, at 151 1%1 ;
Italian Five per Cents. remain firm, at 55i 551, ;
Turkish Five per Cents. are unchanged, at 39i 39/ ;
and the last Russian Railway Loan is 80 804.
The Honduras Loan is firm, at 86 88 ex coupon ;
and the Egyptian Seven per Cent. Loan is 73;
ex div.

in the railway share market Great Westerns
are ; Great Northern A, ; Metropolitan, k ;
ditto Extension, k ; Midland, / ; North Western,
; and North Eastern (Berwick) 1 better; Lan-
cashire's are ; Caledonian, k ; Sheffield, / ; and
Brighton, k lower. The prices arc as follows :
Caledonian, 79k 80 ; Great Western, 53 k.
American Five-Twenties have improved to 76k
76i ; the Ten Forties, 73 to 734 ; and the Bonds
of 1885, 74k 74/.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Deben-
tures have fallen to 37 39, and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds, 41 44—a fall of lk and k per
cent. respectively. Eries have given way 1 dol.,
to 24k 24/.
Great Indian Peninsula Railway Fours are 93
94 ex div. ; Atlantic Telegraph Original is marked
33 35 ; the Eight per Cent. Preference Shares 4 4k ;
and Anglo-American Telegraph 224- 22k.
At the annual meeting of shareholders of the
London and County Bank, held this day, the re-
port was adopted, and a dividend of 6 per cent., as
recommended in the report, was declared for the
half-year, with a bonus of 2f per cent., both free of
income tax, making the dividend for the whole year
16k per cent.
A further sum of £70,000 in gold was withdrawn
from the Bank yesterday, making a total of
£259,000. .

The Swiftsure, from Melbourne, has brought
£129,000.

The Great Eastern Railway Company have given
notice to the Board of Trade for an inspection of
the Dunmow line, with the view to its being opened
in the course of a few weeks.

The advices from Havannah state that the par-
ticulars had been received of the defeat of the in-
surgents at Bayamo, and their flight to the moun-
tains. They are alleged to have sacked the city
before setting it on fire, and the conflagration is
stated to have lasted three days. The Diario says
that the rebel General, Jesus Perez, has offered to
surrender with all his followers providedlan uncon-
ditional pardon be granted, and that the Spanish
general at Santiago has conceded these terms.
At the meeting of the City of London Brewery
Company yesterday, Sir James Duke in the chair,
the profits for 1868 were stated at £64,166. Of
this sum £3,000 has been written off the leasehold
properties, £4,125 has been added to reserve
(making that fund £50,000), and £20,528 was paid
as an interim dividend in August. Oat of the
balance of £38,813 a dividend of 6} per cent. was
now declared, making a total distribution of 10 per
cent. for the year, and leaving £6OO to bo carried
forward.

The report of the English and Foreign Credit
Company (Limited), to be presented on the 9th
inst., shows an available total of £7,189, and re-
commends a dividend of 53. per share, which will
leave £4,199 to be carried forward.
At the meeting held yesterday of the shareholders
of the City of London Brewery Company (Li-
mited) the accounts of the directors for the past
year were accepted, and a dividend at the rate of
Gk per cent. declare]. The retiring directors and
auditor were re-elected.

A meeting of the shareholders of the English and
Foreign Credit Company is announced to take place
on Tuesday next, the 9th of February, when the
following report will be submitted :—" The accounts
which the directors have now the pleasure of sub-
mitting to the shareholders for the half-year end-
ing 31st December, 1868, show a net profit (includ-
ing the balance brought forward from the preceding
half-year) of £7,189 13s. lid. The directors
recommend that out of this amount tho usual
dividend of ss. per share be declared, and that the