The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-09 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COAIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY; Two o'CLooK.
Consols are 931 I for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 931 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 2 ;
New Tkreo per Cents, 92 Ij. ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, par; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, Far;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.
India Stock, 10f per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1131 1; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001.
In the Foreign Market there is a rise of in
Italian, and 1-16 in New Spanish Three per Cents.
Prices are follows :—ltalian Five per Cents., 55
65/ ; Mexican, 144 15 ; Greek, 11} 12 ; New
Spanish, 31 311 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 41 411 ;
Peruvian Five per Cents., 79 791 ; Honduras Rail-
way Loan, 82 83 ex coupon.
The Danubian Commission Guaranteed Loan is
1, 1 prem.

In the Railway Market Caledonians are 1 better,
Great Eastern 1, Great Norther A 4, Metropo-
litan 1, Alidland 1, Brighton 1, South Eastern 1,
all better. The quotations are as follow :
Caledonian, 794 to 804 ; Great Western, 49
to 491 ; Great Eastern, 371 to 37; ; Great
Northern, 107 to :4; ditto A, 109 to 4 ; Lanca-
shire, 123 to 1234 ; Metropolitan, 1021 to 1024 ;
do. Extension, 1001 to 1011 ; Midland, 1161 to 4 ;
Sheffield, 56 to 561 ; Brighton, 481 to 4 ; North
British, 35 to 4 ; North Western, 1154 to 1154 ;
North Eastern, 1021 to 103 ; South Eastern, 754 to
76 ; Chatham and Dover, 161 to 164.
American Five- Twenties are 835 834 ; the Bonds
of 1885 are 82 821; and the Ten-Forty Bonds 734
74. Erie Railway shares are unchanged at 24 241,
and Illinois Central, 961 97.
Atlantic Telegraph Original Stock is 26 27, the
Eight per Cent. Preference shares, 31 34, and
Anglo-American Telegraph shares, 224 22 4.

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The sum of £lOO,OOO in gold was withdrawn
from the Bank yesterday, chiefly from Brazil.
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The Suffolk, from Melbourne, has brought
£81,216; the Rhuddlan Castle, £42,600; the Ocean,
from Geelong, £16,904 ; and the Cambrian, from
the Cape of Good Hope, £4,000—making a total of
£144,720.
The Bank bullion is now reduced to a point lower
than has been touched for nearly two years and a
half. When it was last at its present amount the
rate of discount was then also 4 per cent.
At the meeting of the proprietors of the Delhi
and London Bank, the report was received, and a
friendly committee was appointed to examine the
accounts and confer with the directors. It was
also suggested that the board and the committee
should consider the advisability of reducing the
liability on the shares.
A memorandum from the Varna Railway Com-
pany inti►uates that the direct postal service with
Constantinople via Rustchuck commenced on the
sth instant.

Th Stock Exchange Committee have ordered
the first issue of 55,000 shares, being part of an
ultimate total of 120,000 shares by the British
Inndian Submarine Telegraph Company (Limited)
to be quoted in the official list.

It appears from a notice just issued by the Im-
perial Russian Sinking Fund that on the Ist Jan.,
1869, there remained in circulation of the Russian
Three per Cent. Loan of 1859 an amount equal to
£6,458,900 sterling, besides 64,000 silver roubles.
The number of the bonds redeemed in the year
1868 are at the same time published.
The London, Chatham, and Dover Railway

traffic return, including the Metropolitan Extension
and branches, shows this week an increase of
£2,046, compared with the corresponding period of
last year ; the Metropolitan Extension, separately,
an increase of £747 ; the North Eastern, an increase
of £2,496 ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire, an in-
crease of £473 ; and the Manchester, Sheffield, an d

Lincolnshire, an increase of £2,949.
At a meeting of the Imperial Gas Light and Coke
Company a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum was declared.

At a meeting of the Surrey Consumers Gas Com-
pany, a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per an-
num was declared.

The return of paid clearing for the week ending
April 7, issued from the Bankers' Clearing-house,
is as follows :—Thursday, April 1, £13,745,000 ;
Friday, gd, £10,946,000; Saturday, 3 l, £14,139,000;
Monday, sth, £10,438,000; Tuesday, 6th April,
£10,702,000 ; and Wednesday, 7th, £10,075,000 ;
total, £70,045,000.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ended the 7th of April gives the following
results when compared with the previous week : -
Rist
Pullin deposits
Other deposits 18,803,252 ... Increase ... 1323,950
On the other side of the account :
Government securi-
ties .£14,970,798 ... Decrease ... 28,255
Other securities 18,480,653 ... Decrease ... 1,650,1.57
Notes unemployed 7,264,780 ... Decrease ... 597,515
The amount of notes in circulation is £23,975,030,
being an increase of £362,505 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £17,225,105, showing
a decrease of £347,918 when compared with the
preceding return.
Subjoined is a comparison of the present position
of the Bank of England and the prices of Consols
and French Routes with the corresponding week of
last year :

Same Week
last Year.
Bullion
Reserve
Notes in circulation 23,974,030 ... 24,611,045
Rate of discount
Consols
Frew;la Iterates

At Present.