The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-20 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Business to-day was brisk, and Consols improved
slightly ; the same favourable symptoms were ob-
servable in the Foreign Market. The Railway
Market also partook of the improvement of busi-
ness.

Consols are 921 3 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, —; Three per Cent. Reduced, 931 ;
ItockTkree per Cents, 933 1 ; Bank of England
4 per Cent., 241.
ludia Stock, 103 per Cent., April, 1874, 212 13 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1122 1; 3itto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1091.
In the Foreign Market New Spanish Three per
Cents., Turkish Five per Cents., and Mexican
show an advance of t, and Italian Five per Cents.
are nearly better, at 531 531. New Spanish are
11 312 ex div. ; Turkish, 383 38i ; Mexican, 152
; and 14 12.
The Honduras Loan is firm, at 86 87 ex coupon.
Egyptian Seven per Cent. Loan of 1868 has im-
proved to 711. 711 ex div.
In the railway market there has been no improve-
ment.
Caledonian, ; Great Western, 3 ; Great
eastern,
1 ; Great Northern A ; Brighton; 1 ;
North Western, ; South Eastern, 11. The quota-
tions are :—Caledonian, 782 4 ; Great Western,
494 4 ; Great Eastern, 421 2 ; Great Northern,
1,77 8 ; ditto A,51081 109} ; Lancashire, 1292 30;
Metropolitan, 1081 2 ; Midland, 114} 15 ; Sheffield,
472 8 ; Brighton, 52-1 ; North British, 334 41 ;
North Western, 115 I ; North Eastern (Berwick),
4i ; South Eastern, 801 ; Chatham and
Dover, 171 17i*
American Five-Twenties are f better, at 754
to 75/; the Bonds of 1885 are 74 to 741 ; and
the Ten-Forty Bonds at 721 to 722, also showing a
rise of
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are
414 421, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds
46 461- Eries have risen 1, to 262 27 ; and Illinois
Central stock is unchanged, at 92; 931
In Banking and Miscellaneous shares no altera-
tion
in prices.
At the annual general meeting of the proprietors
sof the London and Westminster Bank held to-day,
"ue report, which recommended a dividend to the
shareholders at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum,
and by way of further dividend out of the profits
a bonus of 10 per cent. upon the paid-up capital of
£1)000,000, was unanimously agreed to.
The half-yearly ordinary general meeting of the
shareholdersL of the National Discount Company,
Limited, was
was held this day. The report was
adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 15 per cent,
Per annum free of income tax was declared.
There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday.
From Berlin and other Continental cities the
_accounts of the reception of the speech of the French
Emperor are favourable.
LA deputation from the directors of the lonian
a.ilk had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon
yesterday at the Foreign-office, on the subject of
ther, financial measures contemplated by the Greek
Government.
At the present operators do not show any great
inclination either to buy or sell Turkish Bonds, and
1.1.0 great recovery can for the moment be anticipated
WI the result of the Conference is known.
The rules and regulations of the Stock Ex-
change are now published by Mihill Slaughter,
secretary of the Share ani Loan Department, Stock
zochange.
The Master of the Rolls has appointed Mr. Cape
~.°le official liquidator of the Poole and Cherbourg
'team Packet Company (Limited).
The Lord Justice Giffard has, we understand,
bcen elected a director of the Legal and General
Life Office, in the place of the late Mr. Sergeant
Goulburn.
With reference to the London, Brighton, and
South Coast Railway Company, it is officially
announced that, after paling all preferential
claims, there remains sufficient balance to enable
the board to recommend a dividend of 12s. 6d.
Per £lOO ordinary stock for the half-year ending
the 31st ult.

The meetings of creditors and shareholders of the
b"ramercial Bank Corporation of India aad the
'174% directed by the Master of the Rolls, have been
weld. They were well attended, and a resolution
tiers passed at each of them, with but one dissen-
in, approving of the proposed scheme of arrange-

Messrs. Henry l3rockett and C. F. Kemp, the
voluntary liquidators of the Bank of Queensland,
have declared a second return of capital to the
Seareholders at the rate of £1 per share, payable on
44-1 d after the 18th in9t.
1)44 a meeting of the directors of the Wilts and
°f
°Net Banking
21 Company at Salisbury a dividend
Per cent. was declared for the year.
of The
ordinary general meeting of the proprietors
the London and South• Western Bank will be
Zeld on the 9th of Feb., to declare a dividend, &c.
ile half-yearly meeting of the London Financial
toanciation (Limited) is called for the Ist February
receive the directors' report and the audited
collate for the half year ending 31st Dec. last."
e 4,
,t the meeting of the Fore-street Warehouse
ra°;l3a'nY (Limited) a dividend was declared at the
ilnf 10 per cent. per annum.
am "Le doubts expressed as to 'the reality of the tri-
areNe achieved by the Brazilians in Paraguay
brn 4mply justified by the news now to hand,
,tr'enht by the French packet. If these accounts
gill to be credited, it is by no means certain that
flanka has yet been taken, or even Angostura, the
ittto—Lirnovernent made by the allies across the river
heavy t"e Chaco having resulted in their defeat with
I°6lll While the fleet suffered considerably in
in
-g
Augestura. On the other hand, it is stated,
sitiorlrer Paraguay Was still rising, making the po-
Ntlea ().,,f the Brazilians very critical. The United
Viii:4ljuister, General M'Mahon, had arrived at
nlenand the differences between that Govern-
-441' and
President Lopez had been satisfactorily
had e". It was also reported that Gen. M'Mahon
teal tenewed the offer of mediation. Whatever the
the :tate of affairs may be it is now evident that
boa-easational telegrams transmitted through Lis-
on
utterly unreliable.
o,i,,te Public sale at the Open Stock Exchange
liot—itted), yesterday, the shares of the Agricultural
tali:. and Farmers' Club Company (Limited), £lO
atle; Paid, sold at 395. each ; Bristol Marine Insur-
Per share
(Limited), £2 paid, sold at 17s. 6d.
Paid are; ; City Discount Company (Limited), £5
Beld
41 at 19s. 6d. to 21s. per share ; City of
1304 at Improvements (Limited), £3O fully paid,
QlO f
per share ; Cramer and Co. (Limited),
(1,4 ully
paid, sold at £6 per share; Dagenham
131,4141e5) Dock Company (Limited), £lO fully
Sold at 245. per share.

BRITISH FUNDS CLOSING PRICES.
a ovßii.xstExT IruNDs•
92i 3 2i 31
14:1 Cent
93
a t.tt_o Consolsfccount, .........
.14-` ''ettt• Reduced
931
iiiw 3 per eent
_
61)/'' 21- per Cent Jan. 1894
A -°' 6 per o .
.1873
-441hties, 80 "L.
j piliro sth Jan.,
P‘o• for SO y•Yrsr,se'expire sth April 1908 —
1880 —
E
u(:6 (Red Sea Televaph), A ug,.,
lloquer Bills, 41,009, 2 per (--'t
Pm
bo,
Do. £5OO
Pm
tink f 4100 & .£2OO
Cent
244
ti
.0 teglan,l Stock, 4 per
qatlZ,, neteunt ............................. _
hit '4 4 per Cent Bonds
_
eri:9°lollitd Oinnaun
Irldia.P.4-`1 ,rovEnNmENT 61.c.iLuT77
212
13
t .toek, 01- per Cent., Apiii 1
_ -
a. PPerlits,, for Account
1121 i
Do
:, per Cent. July, 1880
102 i
ou A,Pot• Cent., Oct. 1888
i'•?.o. Certificates
..
tufaced Pape ..
. 4 per Cent
D° !,Per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do
Bu • ',I Per C'3•nt. Mity 1879
0 per Cent ,Ru . Deb. 1872 —
Do:• • dcP). 1877 _
4J ,-, •
do. 1889 —
"eb , 5 e t Aug. 1873 •,* pm
B • per en ..,
bo onde, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
' illider 41,000
PRICES.
digs trOREIGIN. FUNS—CLOSINCi
.;
4jtiti,,,llo Republic, f; per C0n:...... 7`i
4 Itu.! '''t) 445 paid ..
Ilan Bonds 5 per cent •••
larAyn• bo• 1859
'4ll 6 Per Cent