The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-14 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
To-day the price of Consols was firmly main-
tamed, and business altogether seemed to be on the
eve of improvement. There wits a decided increase
in the value of Railway securities, and for Tele-
graph shares the demand was active, and prices
going up.

Consols are now at 93f to 931 for money:;
ditto, for Account, 931 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 911 2 ; New Three per Cents, 92 12 ;
ditto Annuities, 1885, 11 9-16 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, March, prem. ; June, —; ditto £lOO,
£2OO, and £5OO, March, 5 prem. ; June, 11 prem. ;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 2371.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141 14 ; ditto 4
p:a. Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
4 per Cent., 92A- ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 25 29 pm. ;
ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 29 prem.
In Railway Shares quotations have somewhat
improved, and are now as follows :—Caledonian
821 to 822 ; Great Eastern, 36k to 364 ; Great
Northern, 105 to 106 ; ditto (A), 102 to 1021;
Great Western, 56 to 561 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 124 to 1241 ; London and Brighton,
441 to 45 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 16/
to 174 ; London and North Western, 1171 to
1172 ; London and South Western, 90 to 91;
Metropolitan, 89 to 891 ; Midland, 118 to 1181 ;
North Eastern (Berwick), 1151 to 116 ; and South
Eastern, 771 to 771.
In the Foreign Market the supply of stock is
about the average. The prices are as follows :
Brazilian, 83 to 83k; Egyptian (1864), 851
to 86k ex div. ; ditto (1868), 74 to 77 ; Vice-
roY Seven per Cents., 811 to 814 ; ditto Nine per
Cents., 981 to 994; Italian, 520 to 53 ; do. Tobacco
Loan, 844 to 851; Peruvian, 792 to 801 ; Portu-
guese, 33 to 34 ; Ore], 842 to 851 ; Nicolas, 68 to
684 ; Moscow, 831 to 831 ; Charkof, 80/ to 81;
Spanish, 261 to 27 ; and Turkish Five per Cents.,
42i. to 42i.

American Five-Twenty Bonds are 84/ to 841 ;
Ten-Forties, 751 to 7G; Erie Railroad Shares, 23/
to 24 ; and Illinois, 931 to 94.
In Telegraph Shares, Anglo-American are quoted
at 201 to 20i1; French Cable is steady at 171 to
171 ; and Construction and Maintenance is /
higher, at 314 to 31/.
ho Bank Shares prices are not quite so firm
Anglo-Austrian, 9 to 11 ex new prem. ; Chartered
Mercantile, 324 to 331 ; Consolidated, 41 to 44 ;
Imperial Bank, 16 to 17 ; Imperial Ottoman, 24 to
411 prem. ; London and County, 484 to 491 ; Lon-
,(I". and Westminster, 57 to 58 ; Orien'cal, 43 to 44 ;
-London Joint-Stock, 301 to 311 ; and Union of
London, 351 to 361.
In Miscellaneous Securities Hudson's Bay are
.I‘3/ to 14 ; General Credit, 1/ to 1. die. ; National
Jilscount, 10/ to 114 ; and International Finance,
21 to l dis.
There were no gold operations at the Bank yester-
dav-
ihe transactions during the week since the
last return have been limited to a withdrawal of
£15,000.

Some intimation is now exp ected from day to day
With regard to the method to be proposed by the
Government for raising the amount to be paid to
the Telegraph Companies. According to agreement
the settlement is to be effected before the end of the
sear.

The advic€s from Mexico state that Congress was
°Petted on the 16th ult., and. that shortly afterwards
the inauguration was performed of the Puebla and
°-exican Railway. The report of the Secretary of
the Treasury presented to Congress stated the
receipts for the fiscal year ended the 30th of June
t° have been $13,765,000, and the expenditure
$13,500,000—a result solely due to the dishonour
of the foreign obligations of the country. According
tlolextihce census just concluded, the population of
o
is 8,567,000.
The directors of the Australian Mortgage Land
and Finance Company- (Limited) have resolved to
Pay the usual ad inte.Pint dividend at the rate of 10
Per cent per annum.
The directors of INrinters Freehold Gold Mining
eftpany (Limited)( if Ballarat, Victoria, announce
a further limited issue of shares, the number
being 500 shares of .4.1 5 each, to be placed on the
London register, atn/paid up to the amount of £lO
each.

A. second dividend .of 3s. 4d. in the pours dis
110vf beipg paid to the creditors of Harper Tw lye-
trees (Limited).
The London and Niarth-Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of £2,495 over
14t Sear, and the M id land an increase of £6,828.
The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway
°f Canada for the week ending the 25th ult. shows
an increase of £482 over last year.
With reference to the Great Western Railway of
Canada, we are officio ily informed that " from the
accounts of the half year ended the 31st July last,
after p
sroviding for ate dividend on the Preference
a.t°,,k7the board have decided upon recommending
p:vidend on the ordinary shares at the rate of 3
At
per annum, frce of income tax.
`lt the meeting of the Erie Railway Com-
p
any,held yesterday in New York, the directors
Were) according to telegrams, re-elected without
4130sition.
crifle half-yearly meeting of the Great Central
;48 Consumers Company be held on the 29th
e United Ports and General Insurance Com-
thos'n,"vhe have lately made an arrangement with
me 'nglish Assurance Company, have called a
vo,eting of
their shareholders for the purpose of
qudtor.
halaeetarity winding-up, and Vice-Chancellor James
• aPPointed Mr, Cape the provisional official

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