The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-25 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Business to-day was not so good as might have
been expected, and Consols gave way j, but foreign
stock generally speaking maintained Saturday's

quotations. In railway shares we have to notice an

improvement in Metropolitans to the extent of I.
Consols are 93 for money ; ditto, for Ae-
eount, 931,- 4 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 9311 ;
New Thee per Cents, 931 t 1.
India Stock, 10i per Cent., April, 1874, 211 ;
ditto 4 per Cent., Oct , 1888, 1024 ; litto En-
faced Paper, 51 per Cent., May, 1879, 1101 ; ditto
Bonds £l,OOO, 22 prem.
In the Foreign Market Italkn Five per Cents.
improved to 53:1 531 ; Turkish Five per Cents.
have receded to 381- 381 ex div. ; and New Spanish
Three per Cents. are 311 311 cx div. ; Greek
Bonds remain at 111 12 ; and Mexican are at
151 151.
Italian Tobacco Scrip is unchanged, at 1 11
prem., the last Russia❑ Railway Loan, 1 dis., par

The liinduras Loan is firm at 86 88 ex coupon ;
and the Egyptian 7 per Cent. Loan of 1868 has
improved to 725 725 ex div.
In the railway market Caledonians are 1 better,
Great Western 1, Great Northern 5, Metropolitan
1-, ditto Extension, 1, Midland Brighton, 4,
South Eastern h. The quotations are :—Cale-
donian, 781 781 ; Great Western, 491 501 ;
Great Eastern, 485 485 ; Great Northern, 1071
81 ; ditto A, 1081 91; Lancashtre, 1291 30 ;
Metropolitan, 1095 s ; ditto Extension, 1034 44 ;
Midland, 1141 15 ; Sheffield, 471 81 ; Brighton,
511 241. ; North British, 345 5 ; North Western,
1151 16:; North Eastern, 1034 41 ; Chatham and
Dover, 175 5 ;:South Eastern, 811 1.
American Five-Twenties remain at 751 to 751,
the Bonds of 1885 are 5 lbwer, at 735 735, and the
Ten-Eorties are unchanged, at 721 721.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Deben-
turez are 411 414 ; and the Consolidated Mortgage
Bonds, 45 45.
Great Indian Peninsula Railway New Four per
Cent. Debenture Stock is 90 91 ex div.

No bullion operations of importance took place
at the Bank on Saturday. _ _

The Massilia, from Alexandria, has brought
£2,700 in specie. The steamer Delta takes out to-
day £148,228 in specie for the East. Subjoined
are the particulars :—For Galle, gold, £5,000 ;
Madras, gold, £993 ; Calcutta, silver, £15,400 ;
Hong Kong, silver, £24,635 ; Shanghai silver,
£7,500 ; and for Bombay, gold, £14,500, and
silver, £80,200.
According to reports from Paris, the proposed
Turkish loan, of whose amount and object so
many surmises have been hazarded, is to be in-
creased from £5,000,000, the total originally con-
templated, to £8,000,000, of which some English
firms will take half, the Societe Generale and other
French institutions subscribing the remainder.
The report of the London Financial Association,
to be presented on the Ist of February, states that
the liabilities have now been reduced to £242,000,
while the nominal assets, locked up in debentures,
shares, and Lloyd's bonds of English, Welsh, Irish,
and other railways, amount to £1,439,803, many
of which are of an improving character, such as
to warrant au expectation of considerable ultimate
realisations. The requisitions made upon the
shareholders have been well met, so that out of the
£1,200,000 of capital called up only £16,500 is at
present unpaid, and the directors have thus been
enabled to avoid sacrificing properties which require
time for their development. In the existing position
of the company it is hoped it will be found practic-
able at the next half-yearly meeting to reduce the
nominal amount of the shares, which at present
stand at £5O, with £3O paid.
An extraordinary meeting of the Millwall Free-
hold Land and Docks Company is called for the
Bth of February, " for the purpose of considering,
and, if approved, of sealing a deed of arrangement
between the Canal Company, of the first
part, John Kelk, and John Aird, and John Aird
the younger, of the second part, and the Credit
Foncier of England (Limited), of the third
part." The half-yearly meeting of the company
will also be held on the same day, for the purpose
of receiving the directors' reprt and statement of
accounts.
The report of the Euglish, Scottish, and Austra-
lian Chartered Bank recommends a dividend at the
rate of 7 per cent. per annum.
The report of the Provincial Banking Corporation
(Limited) recommends a divider I at the rate of 7
per cent. per annum.
The half-yearly meeting of the North Stafford-
shire Railway Company is convened for the 12th
February, at the City Teraiinui 1-1 itel.
A. special meeting of the Australian Agricultural
Company is called for the 9th February, to ree..ive
" a report on the affairs of the company."
The half-yearly meeting of the South Eastern
Railway Company will be held on the 25th of
February.
It was represented that the new bill filed in
Chancery ag dust the Metropolitan Railway was
by Salisbury, " on behalf of himself, a large
bolder of the deferred shares, and other share-
holders," but it is now alleged that he holds
only 200 new ordinary £5 stock, on which there
is but £3 paid, representing a total value of £6OO,
and that in the bill there are no other plaintiffs
named.
The weekly return, under the Cotton Statistics'
Act, states that the quantity of cotton imported in
the week ending the 21st instant, was 73,449 bales
--of which 25,531 were American, 8,667 Brazi-
lian, 30,583 East Indian, 7,439 Egyptian, and
1,229 miscellaneous. The total export was 21,566
bales, of which 3,009 were American, and 16,910
East Indian.

BRITISH FUNDS—T W 0 O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUND°.
6 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
$ per Cent. Reduced 93f 1
New 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
. Do. 5 per Con t .1 an. 1873
Atinuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 3u yrs, expire sth April 1885 --
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
/Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21'per Ct.
Do. £500
Do. £lOO & £2OO 4
Bank of England Stock. 4 per Cent
Do account
eanada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Umnittin
INDIAN ,iOVEIOMENT SECURFILEb
India stock-, 10* per Cent., April '!1874... 211
Do. Opening, for Account -
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 -
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. ISB
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced I'apei 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872
Do. 5i per Cent. May 1879 llo}
D-) 5 per Cent., Blip. Deb. 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
D;,. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 18i3 ~....
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,000
O. nnthu. £l.OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, t; per Cent ...
Do., Scrip £45 paid ..
Auitrian Bonds 6 per cent .. —
•

Do. 1859 621
Brazilian 5 per Cent
%. li per Cent., 1852
Do. do. 1858
Do, do., 1860
Do. do., 1P.1.1 6Bl
De. 5 per Cent., 1865
80:
U o Aceonns
13 .epos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cont. (Deferred 3 per Lletit —
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
C.,.ziatn 6 p Cent —
.. 4i per Cent..„..•• ......... .*
Do. 3 per Cent~
94
Do. 6 per ce-t. 1867
10
o. 7 per Cent., 1866
C lonibi,D, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 pt:r Cent. 1825
Dan,iiiian Principalities, 7 i.er Cent —
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 —
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
kgyptian, 7 per Cent ...
'•'u Necoed Issue .
Do. .£s':)l, Bowls —
Do. .ClOO Bonds
Do. 1864 :—
Do. Account
Do. £sno 130nds
Do. 4100 Bonds .
English Scrip, 1868. 72} i
Do do. £45 pd — dis
Government R9.ilwav Debentures
Ctreek b per Out, 1824- f., ex Coupe. --