The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Conso"s are 934 4 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 931 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 924 4;
New Tree per Cents, 924 4 ; Annuities, April,
1885, 11 15-16 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 prem. ;
ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 3 6 prem. ; Bank of
England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 115 144 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1004 ; ditto Enlaced Paper,
51 per Cent., 110 ditto Bouds £l,OOO, 810
prem.

There is an average advance in the Foreign
Market this morning of 1 per cent. The following
are the prices : —Brazilian, 791 to 804 ; Egyptian,
1864, 86 to 87 ; do., 18(38, 76 to 761 ; do. Railway
Debentures, 984 to 981 ; Viceroy's Seven per
Cents., 80 to 801 ; ditto Nine per Cents., 974 to
97i ; Italian, 551 to 564 ; Tobacco Loan, 841 to
851 ; Peruvian, 771 to 78 ; Portuguese, 354 to
354 ; Russian (1862), 86 to 87 ; Orel-Vitebsk, 78
to 781 ; Nicolai, 651 to 66 ; Moscow, 79 to 791 ;
Chark of, 76,41 to 774 ; Spanish, 291 to 291 ; Turkish
rive per Cents., 421 to 43 ; and ditto Six per
Cents., 661 to 67.
With the exception of a decline of in Great
Western, at 49 to 491, and London and North-
Western, at 1151 to 116, the change in English
Railways are favourable, to the extent of about I per
cent. Caledonian shares are quoted, 77/ 784; Great
Eastern, 381 to 381 ; Great Northern) A), 1084
tolo9 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 123 to 124 ;
Brighton, 471 to 48 ; London, Chatham, and
Dover, 171 to 17/ ; Metropolitan, 1031 to 104 ;
ditto Extension, 1001 to 101} ; Midland, 1141 to
115.1. and South Eastern, 76± to 764.

United States Bonds are firmer at 80j to 801
Erie are unaltered, at 21f to 22, and Illinois is 98;
to 984.
Another panic has occurred in Atlantic and
Great Western Securities, which have fallen 2 per
cent., and are now without any recovery. The
Bonds are 23f to 24f, and the Debentures 25/
to 26k.
There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday. The transactions of the week since the
date of the last return have resulted upon balance
in an influx of £3,000.

In 'view of the resumption of the drawings by the
India Government there has lately been less de-
'nand for bar silver, and sales have been effected
during the last few days at 60id. Mexican dollars
have been settled at 59L1., and being scarce are
LOW firm.

The report of the creditors' representatives of
Barned's Banking Company (Limited) has been
Published, and it details the progress made in the
liquidation. The estates of some of the partners
have not realised a large amount.
The steamer Hipparchus has arrived from Brazil
with a small parcel of specie, value £2,011.
The failure has been announced of Messrs. Inglis
and Morris, manufacturers at Glasgow, with liabi-
lities for £37,000.
Mr. Henry Dever (Deloitte, Dever, and Holle-
bone) has been appointed official liquidator of the
Aberdare Merthyr Steam Coal Company (Limited).
The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway
of Canada for the week ending the 10th inst. shows
au increase of £2,104 over last year.

At the meeting of the Royal Mail Steampacket
Company the directors' report was adopted.
The large operations connected with Turkish Se-
curities have, it is said, been conducted by parties
intimately associated with those who have know-
ledge of the financial intentions of the Government.
It is understood that a plan for perfecting the
system of Turkish railways, with its attendant mea-
sures for raising the necessary capital, will imme-
diately be brought forward. The arrangement of
the network of railway communication in the
East will, it is asserted, be vigorously prosecuted
—both French, English, and German capital
being likely to be extensively employed iu the
development.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Australian
Mortgage, Laud, and Finance Company (Limited),
the report was adopted, arid a dividend declare•] at
the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
An informal meeting of the shareholders of the
Great Central Gas Consumers' Company is called
for this evening at the Guildford Coffeehouse, " to
discuss the desirability of appointing a committee
of investigation of the accounts of the company,
and for other matters."

The second ordinary general meeting of the
Belgian Public Works Company (Limited) is called
for the 6th of May.
With reference to the East India Irrigation and
Canal Company (Orissa undertaking), it is notified
that " the agreement for sale of the Company's
Undertaking and Works in Orissa to the Secretary
of State in Council of India having been confirmed
11 Act of Parliament, the Trarafer books of the
Company are now closed.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
. (iOVERNMENT fUNDS.
° Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
3 per Cont. Reduced
92i i
blew 3 per Cent
New per Cent. Jan. 1894
-'-'O. per Cen J an. 1873
Annuities, SU yrs, expire sth Jan., lbtil' —
Do. for du yrm, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
Xxchociwzr Bills, £l,OOO, 2i per Ct.
Do
Do .£sotl
. ZlOO & .£2OO 3 6
Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent
D. opening
es.nada 4 per Cent. Bonds
Intel•-Colonial thrm=
INDIAN dOVERNMENT SECIMITI.Nb.
India ;;lock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Opening, for Account
Do. 5 per Cont. July, 1881)
Do. I per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cent...... —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ........ —
Do. 54 per Cent. May 1879 llO i
DJ sDod per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872
r

lo 1877 _
Do. do. 1882
D... Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. under .£1.009
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Repub:ic, 5 per Cent
Do., Scrip £45 paid ...
A.nitrian Bonds b per cent
Do. 1859 66

Iratilians-p er Cent
00. 44 per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do. 1838 —
Do. do. 186 '
68
Do. do. 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account BOl
11 .enos Ayree 6 per Cent.
CDDo 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent
6 per Cent.
Ou.itian 6 per Cent —
De. 44 per Cent - -
Do. 3 p©r Cont., ......
o. 6 per ce .t. 1867 —
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
C loxibian, 6 per Cent.
Dan sn, 3 por Cent., 1825
Dan .hian Principalities, 7 I,er Cent 76
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 BB4
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
Esyctian, 7 per Cent..... • •••
Ile Secood Issue Bl4
Do. .£s.li, Bonds
Do. £lOO Bonds ... 83
Do. 1864
Do. Account
!.,10- £5OO Bonds
*• 1.106 Bonds B7
aglis.h Scrip, 1868 764 i
Do do. £45 pd — die
Govornn enl Railway Debentures 9B}
Grcez 5 per CLD.t., 1824 5, ox Coups
Do. Ace;:unt
Do. Co.-

our
--
911 d
Do. Account
G laternala S per Cent ..
flonduras Gov Rail. Loon., lop. Ct., all pd
It ~iao 5 pet Cent., 1865
•10. Account . -
Do Alxrernmana Railway
&lexical:. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Accoutt - i
Dn. 1864 —
Do g per Cent. Anglo-French
al ontevids'au (.3 per Cent. .. —
Mc Drisk Imperial 5 per Cent -
NOW Granada l7i
Do 3 per Cep —
Do. Deferred
Pertirian 5 per Cent. 1865 .....
Do Account .
.. 77i
Do 44 per Cont. (th:l,arren)
Do 4* per Cent.. 1862 l••••• ........
Do Account
Portat,-uusc 3 per Ct., :`v',-)3,'G, 7, '3,'6l.),'VZ 34