The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-13 00:00:00

CITY, Two o'CLoort.
Business was not so brisk as yesterday, but the
settlement doubtless may account for the drooping
tendency of the market. Consols have receded a
trifle for money, but for the account they remain un-
altered. In the foreign Spanish continued to decline,
and in the Railway Market Great Western and
Brighton have gone down, but North Westerns
and Caledonians have improved. The rate of dis-
count in the house is about f below the Bank rate.
Consols are 931 2: for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93i ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 91/ ,
New T!iree per Cents, 91,1 z 2 ; ditto Red Sea Tele-
graph, 193 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, ; ditto
£lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 2 prem. ; Bank of England
Stock, 4 per Cent.,
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 210 12 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1134. 14 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1003 I ; ditto Ikinds under
£l,OOO, 15 prem.
In tae Railway Market prices are quoted as
follows: London and North Western, 114 to ;
Great Western, 49k to 491 ; Midland, 1151 to 116 ;
London and South Wt stern, 87 89 ; Great Eastern,
373 to .11 ; Brighton, 473. to 1 ; South Eastern, 751
to 76 ; Metropolitan, 1023 to 1 ; Great Northern,
107 to 108 ; ditto A, 109 to I ; Caledonian, 804.
3 ; and London, Chatham, and Dover, 171 to 3..
In the Foreign stock prices are as follows :—Bra-
zilian of 1865, 801 to ; Chillian of 1867, 953 96 ;
Egyptian of 1864, 864 to 1 ex div. ; ditto of 1868,
764 to ; Italian of .1867, 553 to 3 ; ditto
of 1868, 84 to 3 ; Mexican, 151 to / ; Peruvian
of 1865, 78/ to 79/ ; Russian of 1866, 903 to
91, ex div. ; Nicolai, 65 to ; Ore], 811 to
82 ; Abscow, 781 to 79 ; ditto Charkof, 761 to
771 ; ditto Charcow, ./61 to 77+ ; Spanish of 1867,
30} tot ; Turkish of 1858, 633 to 64 ; ditto of
1862, 671 to 1 ; and ditto of 1865, 41i to
American 5-20 Bonds are 83t to ; and Erie
Railway sharos, 231 to 244.
In Bank'ng and Miscellaneous Shares prices are
as previously quoted.
There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday.
The Ben Nevis, from Melbourne, has brought
£14,148.
The traffic of the South-Eastern Railway ex-
hibits a decrease of £2,094, and that of the London,
Brighton, and South Coast a decrease of £5,459.
The Humboldt, from Brazil, off Cowes, bound to
Antwerp, reports great activity in B sugar market, with sales of 4,000 eases onthe ahia
the 17th of
March. Prices, 3,400 to 3,450 rein per arroba.
Exchange, 181 d.
and
The ship Zemindar, owned by Messrs. Nicholson
of Liverpool, arrived in the West In-
dia Dock from Shanghai yesterday, with the largest
cargo of tea ever brought to this country by a sail-
ing vessel, being 1,502,2601 b. She has also on
board 161 bales of silk.
From a statement just issued it appears that the
value of the wheat imported into France during the
past year was £11,300,000, against £7,300,000 in
1867, and only £660,000 in 1866. Of cotton the
value imported was £11,800,000, against £948,000
in 1867, and £17,000,000 in 1866. On the other
band, ber shipments of wine were valued at
£4,400,000, against £4,040,000 in 1867, and
£3,720,000 in 1866.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week a decrease of £5,459, compared with the cor-
responding period of last year.
The traffic return of the Great Western Railway
of Canada, for the week ending the 9th inst.,
shows an increase of £5ll over last year.
Messrs. Baring have invited applications for
£11,110,000 Russian 4 per Cent Bonds at the price
of 63, redeemable at par by annual drawings in 82
years, with a dividend from the Ist of May next.
A second call of £2 per share, making £4 paid,
is to be paid on the third issue of shares of the Para
Gas Company (Limited) by the 3d of May.
The twenty-second half-yearly meeting of the
Cape Railway Company will be held on the 30th
instant.

A petition for the winding up of the Madras
Coffee Company (Limited) is to be heard before
Vice-Chancellor James on the 17th in,t.
The suspension of Messrs. Hallam and Madge,
tie-plate manufacturers, of Morriston, Swansea,
has been announced. The debts and liabilities it is
expected will reach £BO,OOO to £lOO,OOO, and the
assets it r 3 believed wilt prove considerable.
man; one of the late managers of Agra
and Masterman's Bank (Limited), has issued a
letter to the shareholders, explaining his transac-
tions with the late establishment in order to justify
his conduct. He, like others, at the time, antici-
pated a profit instead of a loss, but of course the
panic Caine and involved almost every one.
A shareholder of the Credit Foncier Company of
England has circulated a pamphlet respecting the
proposed issue of debentures, iu which be objects
to the course pursued, and explains his reasons,
believing that the measures proposed will not prove
successful.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
8 per Cent. Reduced Oll 2
New 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cont. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Con Jan. 1873
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 188( —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), At g., 1008 lOl
Exclioqu:x Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct.
Da .£500
Do. £lOO & £2OO —
Bank of En,gland Stoelr,l4l per Cent
De. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial 0

au finniuni
I.xmAli dOVERNMENT BECI.IItITIES.
India stock 10f per Cent., April inc 2lO 12
Do. Opening, for Account
i
Do. 5 per Ucat. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1868
100 f i
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced Pape, 4 per Cent..;,,,.„ —
Do. 5 por Cert., Jan. 1872 ........ —
Do. 51 per Dent. May 1879
D..) 5 per Cont., Rup. Deb. 1872
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882
DJ. Deb., 5 per Cent., Au... 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l7OOO
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per cent ... 791
Do., Scrip 145 paid .
Auitrian Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859.
Do. 41 per Cont. IC:::
Do. do.
186 '
Do. do.
Do. do., 1863
it
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
.....
Do Account
B zenos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred
Cuba, 6 per Cent. 3 per Cent.) 5
__l
(Lilian 6 per Cent
Do. 4} per Cent —
Do. 3 per Cent~
Do. 6 per cont. 1867 y lO2
Do. 7 per Cont., _
1866
C lo nbian, 6 per Cent.
_
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 . Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent —
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 —
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Esuptiau, 7 per Cent •
Do Second Issue B2l
Do. £sol, Bonds
Do. £10,) Bonds
Do. 1864 • ••••
•
Do. Account
D
O. 4Il4; Bonds
English Scrip, 1868 761 i
Govern
DO do. :£45 pd _ die
Greek ment Railway Debentures ll7}
5 per Cent.
D , 1824 5, Account
„....ourone ..............ex Coups
... —
.
,iluo. kjee,unt
.............................. . .
Guatemala 5 per 1);;;I7 ...................
...•••
11itTiliaa
jaurassGovilail•Loan., . 10. .... ........ ..... -
De. Ag,',;ll;ci"-1., 1865
meDxoi
clalrsxr3e zpnaT acuoaai a. 71. W. a. .y.
Ditto for Account
1-4 i
Dn. 186.;
Do 3 per Cent. Anglu-IF
MOtitt,Vidertu 6 per Cent . r°n"
Id a orish imperial 5 per Cent •....
• ' .....
•••
New Granada
De 8
per
oen
PDo.
Deferred
epruoyirt4srCont. 18Go' :: ...... :
pAcc0unt....................
o II per Cont. (IJl:l)arren) ........
. ••
Do 4 per Cont.. 1862 -,