The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-27 00:00:00

MONEY-MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL IN TELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLoCK.
Consols are steady to-day at 931 3 for money ;
ditto, for Account, —; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 931 3 ; New Tkree per Cents, 93 2.1 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, —; ditto £lOO, £2OO,
and £5OO, 11 prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 4 p.r
Cent., 245 31.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 209 71 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 112 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 101 ; ditto Eufaced Paper, 4
per Cent., 92 ; ditto 51 per Cent., 1101 ; ditto
Bonds under £l,OOO, 21 25 prem.
The Foreign Market is dull, and sensitive to
every unfavourable circumstance, so that sales are
encouraged, where a little firmness would sustain
prices. Argentine are quoted 79 to 791; Egyptian
(1861), 91 to 92 ; ditto (1868), 77 to 771; Vice-
roy Seven per Cent., 814 to 824 ; ditto Nine per
Cent. Loan, 971 to DTI ; Italian Bands, 541 to 541;
Mexican, 121 to 121 ; Peruvian, 774- to 774 ; Rus-
sian (1866), 93 to 95 ; Orel, 83 to 831; Charkof,
8141 to 821 ; Spanish, 281 to 21; I urkish Five per
Cents., 44i to 441; ditto Six per Cents., 661 to 67 ;
and Honduras, 83 to 81.
English l'agway Shares are steady. The fol-
lowing are the present irices : Caledonian, 811 to
811 ; Great Eastein, 381 to 381; Great Northern,
1061 to 1073 ; Great Northern (A), 104 to 105 ;
Great Western, 50i to 511; Lancashire and York-
shire, 1261 to 126/ ; London and Brighton, 454
to 454 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 161 to 17 ;
London and North 'Western, 1181 to 119; London
and South Western, 89 to 91 ; Metropolitan, 1001
to 1011 ; Midland, 1171 to 1174 ; North Eastern
(Berwick), 1081 to 109; and South Eastern; 761
to 77.

A further decline of 1 per cent. has taken place
in American Securities. The Five-Twenty Bonds
are 82 to 821; Ten-Forty's, 73f to 74 ; Erie, 181
to •19 ; Illinois, 931 to 941 ; Atlantic and Great
Western, 221 to 221.
Foreign Railway Shares are rather dull. Lom-
bardo-Venetian is quoted at 22 to 22. ; and Great
Luxemburg at 101 to 101.
The receipts of the Great Luxemburg Railway
for the week ending July 25 show an increase of
£669 Os. 4d.
Little business of importance is doing iu miscel-
laneous Securities, and the only quotable change
iu prices is a decline of / in Anglo-American Tele-
graph, the price being 211 to 211; French Calke
is steady, at 221 to 221. Hudson's Bay, is marked
at 121 to 13 ; National Discount, 111 to 111 ;
General Credit, 1+ to 1 dis. ; and Internation
Finance, 2 to 11 dis.
Although not much business is doing in Bank
shares prices are well supported. Union of London
is 10s. higher, at 341 to 351 ex div. ; and Imperial
Ottoman 1, at 3;1- to 31 prem. Agra (A) is steady
at 101 to 111 ; Alliance, 14 to 15 ; Anglo-Austrian,
12 to 20 prem. ; Cbnsolidated, 41 to 41 ; London
and County, 501 to 511 ; London an 1 Westmin-
ster, 581 to 59 ; Oriental, 42 to 43 ; and London
Joint Stock, 301 to 311.
The sum of £14,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.
The White Rose, from Port Phillip, has brought
£12,500 ; the Cambrin, from the Cape of Good
Rope, £50,000 in specie and diamonds; the Hansa,
from New York, £134,754; and the Etna,
Making a total of £198,404.
Proposals have been issued by the well-known
firm of Messrs. Peter Lawson and Son, of London
and Edinburgh, for a 6 per cent. loan of £757,700
for the Republic of St. Domingo at the price of 70,
redeemable at par in 25 years by an accumulative
sinking fund. The loan is specially secured by an
hypothecation of the Customs' dues, and by the
royalties on the guano deposts of the island of
Alto Velo, for the working of which, together with
the mines and minerals of the Bay of Samana, an
exclusive contract has been granted to Messrs. Law-
son. The instalments extend to the Ist December
next, and the applications, with 5 per cent. deposit,
are to be sent to Messrs. Lawson and Son, or to
111.2ssrs. Mullens, Marshall, and Co.
It has been notified that a fault was discovered
on Saturday in one of the Atlantic cables, that
of 1866, 130 miles from the Irish coast. Com-
munication through this cable still continues, but
steps are being taken to repair the fault as soon
as Possible. 'The cable of 186.5 is in perfect
condition.

According to communications published in the
San Francisco papers a plan is nearly ripened to
Separate the States of Chihuahua and Sonora from
the Mexican Republic, together with Lower Cali-
fornia, Sinalva, and part of Jalisco.
The South-Eastern traffic for the week exhibits
an increase of X 753.

The traffic of the London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway exhibits an increase of £2,146.
The traffic return of the Great Western Railway
of Canada shows an increase of £2,863 ; that of the
Detroit and Milwaukie Railroad an increase of
£227.

The unfavourable tone of advices from Madrid
respecting the Carlist movement had the effect of
weakening Spanish Bonds, and they closed with an
uncertain market, although not quite at the lowest.
At the thirty-second half-yearly meeting of the
proprietors of the English, Scottish, and Austra-
lian Chartered Bank the report was adopted, and a
dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, free
°I income tax, was declared payable.
At the twelfth ordinary half-yearly meeting of
the proprietors of the London Financial Associa-
tion (Limited) the report was unanimously adopted,
and the proceedings passed off in an unusually har-
monious manner.
Mr• George Whiffin, the official liquidator of the
'efci Cilcen Mining Company (Limited) has an-
33°1inced that a second dividend of 108. in the
Pound, making 155., will be paid on Tuesday, the
34 of August.

BRITIIII FUNDS-TWO O'CLOCK.

8 UOYEILNAIENT FUNDS.:
Per Cent. Consols
8 Litt° for Account, July 7
N Per Cent. Reduced 93f 3
ile,,'", 3 per Cent
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'1- J
11 2i. per Cent. an. 1894
A °. 5 per Con J an. 187 3
•.,14uities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 18811 —
D°• for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
E.o (lied Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1908 —
`elloquzr Bills, £l,OOO, 2f p. Ct. March pm
Do. 3 do. June
1.13
£lOO, .£2OO & .£5OO ll
lia.„,.
--' of England Stock, 4} per Cent
Cis L° of opening
L.,,44 4 per Cent. Bonds —
""°r-Colonial Uranium
r .I,:sw/AN CioyEANMENT BECUPtITIE6 ,
...,
4114 riteek, 10k per Cent., April 1874 -09 ' i
1,.)10. Opening, for Accoun t -
5 per emit.
Oct
1860
p°• 4 per Cent., Oct. 1836 . lOl
L}°'
Certificates —
...o. Enfaced Pape,. 4 per Cent..,.. 92
1)0
h per Cent., Jan. 1872 ... •
84.-°' 51 Per Cent. May 1879 llof
5 per Cent., Rduop. .Deb. 1872
Do 1877 —
"'
Do. do. 1882 —
,;• Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ —
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under
..£1,000
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FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
, tontine Republic, 6 per Cent kA ultrian kends 5 per cent . •••• —
v.iliati 5 per Cent
14., Do. 159 —
'3. 41. per Cent. 1852
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do 18:)8.... .............
-0. co 1860
14'. d 0.,. 1863 7"f 1
1.1, -
,c• ° per Cent., 1865 —
B
yeo Account —
;st, os Ayres 6 per Cent. -
ll', 6 ' rent.
, , per
,j‘ittUttl per Cent
~,,,"^. 4i per Cent .....• - no. 3Cout ,
I„0. 6 per ea, t. 1867
°,. 7 per Cent., 1866
b '0 ,'1,1,.11, 6 per Cent
-,-,al.lidli, 3 p.,r Cent., 1825
Bun„
Princjpalities, 7 per Cent...,
per Cent., ,
RD° 8 lB- ~. 91;
,quad.or New Uonsolidated, 1 per Cent .I,44tian, 7 per Cent.... B3
•,1,;(1 Second issue —
",.,0- 4548, Bonds —
o." £lOO Bonds
Do. 1864 • •••• --
Do. Account 02
1210.4500 Bonds
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