The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-28 00:00:00

MONti'-RARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

CITY, Two o'CLocK

In the Stock Exebange to-day the settlan-erit
Claims a large share of attention. Consols remain
Unaltered. In the Foreign Market the encouraging
lama from Mexico has caused a recovery of a i❑
Mexican Stock. The Railway Market is also

Consols are now at 931 to 93i fer money ;
ditto, for Account, —; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 91i 2 ; New Tkree per Cents, 91i 2 ;
Lxchequer Bills £l,OOO, Marcb, prem. ; June,
6 Prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
prem. ; June, prem. ; Bank of England Stock,
4i per Cent., 237 9.
India Stock, 10i per Cent., April, 1874,

ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1143 15 ; ditto 4
per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001; ditto Enfaced Paper,
5 Per Cent.,
The Foreign Market maintains the firm tone
which prevailed yesterday afternoon, especially for
Mexican and Peruvian.
The Railway Market is decidedly stronger, and
the prices are as follows :—Caledonian, 804 to 801
ea div- ; Great Eastern, 37 to 374 ; Great Northern,
107 to 109 ; ditto (A), 105 f to 1051 ; Great
/Western, 56/ to 57 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
124 f to 125 ; London and Brighton, 43/ to 44 ;
London, Chatham, and Dover, 16/ to 17 ; Lon-
don and North Western, 1181 to 119} ; London
and South Western, 90 to 91 ; Metropolitan, 841
to 851.
In Bank Shares there was very little doing, but
Prices are steady. The principal descriptions are
quoted as follows :—Agra (A) Shares, 10/ to 111 ;
Alliance, 123- to 13/ ; Anglo-Austrian, 9 to 11 ex
new prem. ;IChartered Mercantile, 328 to 33}; Con-
Solidated, 4t044 ; Imperial Bank, 16 to 17 ; Ira-
Aerial Ottoman, 21 to 2k prem. ; London and
County, 48 to 49 .
Telegraph Shares are in fair request, and prices
are well supported. French Cable is / higher, at
161 to 161 ; Anglo-American is firm, at 20/ to
2„,91 ; Atlantic Eight per Cents., 204 to 20/ ; and
Construction and Maintenance is rather dull, at
32/ to 32i.
Miscellaneous Securities are quiet. Hudson's
13aY is unaltered, at 131 to 14 ; National Discount,
Pi to 108 ; General Credit, 11 to 1/ dig. ; and
International Finance, 2/ to if die.
Continental Railway Shares are well supported.
Great Luxemburg is dealt in at 121 to 12/ ; and
1-4 onabardo-Venetian at 201 to 21.
In American Securities the Government Bonds
are firmer, and there is some improvement in Erie
shares, while Illinois, and Atlantic and Great
,INeatern are lower. The present prices are :-
-"ye-Twenty Bonds, 818 to 82/ ex div. ditto
8365), 814 to 81/ ex div. ; ditto (1867), 82/ to
1; Ten-Forties, 751 to 76f ; Erie Railroad
Shares, 22 to 223 ; Illinois, 97 to 98 ; Atlantic and
isGreat Western Consolidated Bonds, 24 to 25 ; and
uebentures, 25} to 26f.
f The sum of £14,000 in gold was withdrawn
j°l3a the Bank yesterday. The general transac-
,'°4B of the week since the date of the last return
840 W an influx on balance of £28,000.
'4e City of Washington, from New York, has
brought £6,500.
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Paris letters state that the £2,400,000
Italian loan on the ecclesiastical properties will be
Introduced on the sth of November.
Madrid advices state that the loan of £2,000,000
which Was reported to be under negotiation with
bi3ank of Spain and some French financial esta-
“lurnents is simply on a number of the reserved
;°i'ds of the last loan authorised by the Cortes, and
to not, therefore, to be regarded as a new transac-
v°". According to the Correspondencia of Madrid
the affair is adjusted.
he directors of the English Bank of Rio de
lJaneiro have declared a dividend on account of 4
per cent. (Bs. per share), free of income-tax.
A further redistribution of 12s. per share will be
made,, on November 5 to the proprietors of shares
ogilt them,
Societe Financiere d'Egypte, having £lO paid
tetill'em, making, with the previous payment, a
x 6 'll of £4 4s. per share. The shares with only
paid on them have been canciled by decree of
the trench
Law Courts.
a; a meeting of the Regent's Canal Company a
di At
of 9s. per share was declared.
general court of the Hudson's Bay Company
"il be held on the 23d of November.
Petitions for the winding-up of the Waterford
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1, (1 Passage Railway Company and the Chubwa
beef 4 Company of Assam (Limited) are to be hoard
INT °II Vice-Chancellor Malin on the sth of
ovember.
444:1 Petition for the winding-up of "John King
Co. (Limited)" is to be heard before
Vice-
Chancellor Stuart on the sth of November.
St at the ,half yearly meeting of the Royal Mail
divi'dul Packet Company it was resolved to pay a
he .end of £1 10s. instead of £1 per share out of
0,
„Insurance fund, as recommended in the report
',lote directors.
4 meeting of the Delhi and London Bank a
I.e2end at the rate of 2f per cent. for the past half
was declared.
4,111-telg.e directors of the English Bank of Rio de
te4..l,r° have resolved to pay a dividend, on ac-
ke of the past half year, of Bs. per share, free of
°toe taxl i" .
reaobred-cderstood that vigorous steps have been
the A uPon in the interests of all the creditors of
as Atlenti
of t, c and Great Western Railway, as well
resort 'a shareholders in the Erie Railway, for a
the
ci
.0 every means that can be found either in
or
of v or criminal law of the State of New York
Justice me United States to obtain some measure of
ti * A most experienced and influential legal
/I jilthave received the requisite instructions, with
of 'lllation that they are to listen to no pretence
kitt4ttlerlife.recl compromise, but are to carry the
there 0 Its
f Sr legitimate end. The question whether
e any methods by which the property of
from 84 in America can be protected or rescued
test,
tPOliation, will thus be brought to a definite
f.ti
° the advantage of all who may for the
%-atz:terlysa thrown into financial relations with that
The •
rePort of the Great Central Gas Consumers'
tee4,,_". Y 1 to be presented on the 29th inst., recom-
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the accustomed dividend of 10 per cent.

i (4 IttITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
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4., to to
mktple,r2ueperr
ueecnotunt, Nov. 4 931 1
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91i 2
(tba, i Per Cent. Jan. 1894 _
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hilai,Per Oen J m 1.1873
7;0. 1,-);." 380 Yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
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h l'3r bills 41 UOU 2} p. Ct. March
Pm
ta-elbt 13*. 1 ' ' Juno 5
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4} per Cent
•er.o Per Cent. Bonds
()Tamura —
110 41%1
hitt tot UOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
---0, opec:.? 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
o. 5
t, King, for Account —
i• 4 Pet Cent. July, 1880
/30. Orr. Cent, Oct. 1888
00. , rt4catee —
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