The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-22 00:00:00

-111, O.NEY MARKET

AND
COMAIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The prices to-day were firm, but business was on
a very limited scale. Consols maintained the im-
provement of yesterday, but in foreign and miscel-
laneous shares business was quite at a stand still.
Consols are 931 3 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 938 4 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 91 ;
New Three per Cents, 914 4 ; Annuities, Argil,
1885, 11 15-16 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 2 prem. ;
ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 2 prem. ; Bank of
England Stock, 4 per Cent., 241 40.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1133 8 4 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1003 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4
per Cent., 924 2 ; ditto Debentures, 103/.
In the Foreign Market, the Turkish of 1865
have improved 1 per cent., while Nicolai
and Oriel Vitebsk have declined I. Brazilian
of 1865, 801 to 4 ; Chilian of 1867, 195/ to 96/ ;
Egyptian of 1664, 86 to 8 ; ditto of 1868, 76
t° 4 ; Italian of 1861, 553 to / ; of 1868, 84 to
1; Mexican, 141 to ; Peruvian of 1865, 781 to
; Russian of 1866, 891 to 901 ; Nicolai, 65 to
4 ; Orel, 784 to ; ex div. ; Moscow, 781 to 79 ;
ditto Charkof, 764 to 77; ; ditto Charcow, 764 to
774 ; Spanish of 1867, 304 to 4 ; Turkish of
1858, 634 to 64 ; ditto of 1862, 67; to 88; ; ditto of
1865, 413 to 42.
In the Railway Market prices are now :—Lon-
don and North Western, 1154 to 4 ; Great
Western, 483 to 491; Midland, 1151 to 4 ; London
and South Western, 87 to 89 ; Great Eastern,
374 to 4 ; Brighton, 471 to 3 ; South Eastern,
761 to 761 ; Metropolitan, 1023 to 1031 ; Great
Northern, 1064 to 107 ; ditto A, 1081 to 1094
Caledonian, 784 to 1 ; and London, Chatham, and
Dover, 174 to 173.
American 5-20 Bonds are now 804 to 1 ; Erie
Railway shares, 223 to 234 ; and Illinois Central,
98 to I.
In Bank shares prices are as follows :—City, 114
to 124 ; Imperial, 164 to 174; London and County,
504 to 4.
In Miscellaneous Shares Hudson's Bay are 131
to 4 ; Telegraph Construction, 171 to I ; Atlantic
Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference, 34 to 4
and Anglo-American, 221 to
The sum of £21,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday, making a total of £58,000 since
the date of the last weekly return.
The William Davey, from Sydney, has brought
£25,000.
Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. have issued the
prospectus of the Spanish Government Three per
Cent. Loan. Subscriptions are invited fur
£8,000,000 nominal, part of a loan of 50 millions
of dollars effective, in bonds of the consolidated
debt. The price in London is 291, payable 5 per
cent on. application, 5 per cent, on allotment, and
the remainder by three instalments, the last of which
is on the 2d August next. Interest dates from 31st
December last, and, taking accrued interest and
other advantages into consideration, the return to
,subscribers is estimated to be equal to 10:1 per cent.
The particulars it is thought are favourable, espe-
cially as the interest is equal to 104 per cent. The
usual discount is allowed for payments in advance,
and every endeavour will be made to give vitality
to the operation.
At a meeting of the proprietors of the Chartered
Bank of India, Australia, and China a dividend was

declared at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.
The directors of the Australian Mortgage, Land,
and Finance Company have issued their report.
A dividend is recommended, for the half-year end-
lug the 31st December last, at the rate of 10 per
cent.

The directors of the Varna (Rustchuk) Railway
have commenced negotiations with the Turkish
Government for the sale of the line. The capital of
the company is £900,000, in 45,000 shares of £2O
each, which it is proposed to exchange for Turkish
Five per Cents. The obligations br debentures are
also to be provided for. The line would then be
handed over to the South Austrian Railway Com-
pany, which lately obtained a concession for the
Whole of the intended system of Routnelian rail-
Ways. Alternative proposals have been made to
the Government, but it is considered that the plan
above stated is the one most likely, with certain
modifications, to be adopte I.
The advices from Buenos Ayres by the present
mail quote the Internal Argentine Bondi at 54f.
The Manchester papers state that Mr. William
Blarnires, spinner, of Bradford, has stopped pay-
ment. His liabilities are estimated at £ 12,000 or
£15,000.

An extraordinary general meeting of the Don
Pedro Company is convened for the 27th of May,
to authorise the directors to pay an interim
dividend.

The Government of the Argentine Republic have
arranged for a national exhibition to be held in the
city of Cordoba in 1870, and have invited the co-
operation of manufacturers of machinery in general,
and especially of agricultural implements, &c. Don
Belisario Roldan, chief partner in the house of
ltoldan Hermanos y Amaral, merchants, of Buenos
Aires) has been nominated representative in Europe
431. the Commission intrusted with the management
of the exhibition, and is now in London arranging
for the purchase and forwarding out to the River
'late of such machinery, &c., as may be suitable
to the wants of the country and of sufficient interest
for exhibition.
At a meeting of creditors of Messrs. IVilliam
Dickinson and Sons, cotton spinners, manufacturers,
and machinists of Blackburn, the statement of
affairs submitted showed liabilities of £73,604, of
which about £lO,OOO is secured. The assets show
10s. 6d. in the pound.
A telegram from Athens states that the Prince
andi Princess of wales passed over the Athens and
Piraeus Railway, which has been constructed by an
English company in six months (after 13 years'
previous discussion of the subject), and is the first
railway opened in the country.

BRITISH FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols • 93i
Ditto for Account,
8 per Cent. Reduced 9ll f
New 3 per Cent 91
New
**
New 2 per Cent. Jan. 18•94 ***************
91
i
Do. per Cen Ja.n.1873 ***************
Annuities, 60 yrs, expire sth ******** * il•t•Wi
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 • —ll 15-16
Do (Red Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1908., ,
Excholuor Bills, £l,OOO, 2i per Ct. ****** 2
Do £5OO
pmDo. £lOO & £2OO 2
Bank of England Stock, 4i per Cent
De. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds
Inter-Colonial Omni=

INDIAN UOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Mock, 104 per Cent., April 1874
Do. Opening, for Account
1 1
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do.l per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates 9"
Do. Enfaced Pape,. 4 per Cent.... 92} 2
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ....... —
Do. 51 per Gent. May 1879 —
Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
De do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882
D. Deb., per sCent.,Aug.Au 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l.OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Do. Scrip £45 aid
Aultri an Bonds S per cent ..
o. 1859 —
iirazilian D 5 per Cent —
03. 41 per Cent. 1852 —
Do.do. 1858....
do. 186
,'-'O. do., 1863 63
-"0. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account BOl 791
B .enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 persCent )
Cuba, 6 per Cent
(Lilian 6 per Cent
Do. 4i per Cent —
Do. 3 per Cent.,
Lo. 6 per ce-t. 1867 —
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
C loiibian, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825...
Dan" 'than Principalities, 7 I.er Cent
-Do 8 per Cent., 1867 BB4
Yqualor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
Egyptian, 7 per Cent
De SecOild Issue
Do. £SU(. Bonds
Do. £lOO Bonds