The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Business to-day was very restricted, but in the
Foreign Market Spanish have advanced owing to
the satisfactory news from Spain. In railways
prices have not materially altered, but in Ameri-
can Securities quotations have given way. The
rate for money, on short loan, in the house is
2 to 21.
Consols are 92i for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 -I;
New Tree per Cents, 911 ; Exchequer Bills,
£l,OOO, 21 per Cent., 4 preen; ditto £lOO, £2OO,
and £5OO, 5 prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 4
per Cent., 242.

India Stock, 10} per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1124 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, —;...,ditto Enfaced Paper 5 per
Cent., 1882, 1051; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 14
prem.

In the Foreign Market Spanish are very good, at
a rise of a ; Italian also are 1-16. Turkish 1-16,
and Peruvian of 1865 4 higher ; the Bonds of the
Honduras Railway Loan are 85 to 87 ; the
Danubian Guaranteed Commission, 4 to 1 prem. ;
Argentine Six per Cents., 784 to 794 ; Bralilian
of 1865, 794 to 794 ; Chilian of 1867, 844 to
954 ; Danubian Eight per Cents., 854 to
864 ; Egyptian Nine per Cents. 944 to 95;
ditto Viceroy Seven per Cents., 794 to 794 ;
ditto Seven per Cents. of 1868, 754 to 76 ;
Italian Five per Cents., 554 to 554 ; Mexican,
15 to 154 ; Peruvian of 1865,784 to 784 ; Portu-
guese Three per Cents. of 1867, 364 to 37 ; Russian
Five per Cent. Orel and Vitebsk, 81k to 814. ;
ditto Four per Cent. Nicolas, 664 to 67 ; ditto
Moscow Jaroslaw, 794 to 80 ; Spanish New Three
per Cents., 314 to 32 ; Turkish Five per Cents.
of 1865, 404 to 404 ; ditto Six per Cents. of
1862, 654 to 664 ; ditto Six per Cents. of 1865,
634 to 634.
In the railway market prices are as follows :
Caledonian, 804 to 81 ; Great Eastern, 374 to
374 ; Great Northern, 1074 to 1084 ; Ditto A
Stock, 1054 to 1064 ; Great Western, 484 to
48i ; Great Trunk of Canada, 154 to 154 ;
Ditto Fourth Preference, 174 to 18 ; Great Western
of Canada, 144 to 144 ; London and Brighton,
484 to 494 ; London and North Western, 1134
to 1134 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 164 to
17 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1234 to 124 ;
Metropolitan, 103 to 1034 ; Midland, 1164 to
1164 ; North Eastern, Berwick, 1004 to 1014 ;
ditto York, 904 to 914 ; Sheffield, 524 to 524 ; and
South Eastern, 754 to 764.
American Five-Twenty Bonds have receded
to 83 to 834 ditto 1865 issue 4, to 814 to 82 ;
the Ten-Forty Bonds, 734 to 734.
Bank Shares are quiet. Chartered Mercantile,
31 to 32 ; Consolidated, a to 4 prem. ; London and
County, 504 514 ; London Joint Stock, 32 to 33 ;
Oriental, 434 t,.) 444 ; Union of London, 364 to
374 ; and London and Westminster, 644 654.
IniMiscellaneous shares prices are recorded as
follows :—Anglo-American, 224 to 23 ; the Eight
per Cent. Preference, 4 to 44 ; Credit Foncier, 24
to 4 ; International, 11 to 14 dis. ; Telegraph Con-
struction, 174 to 174 ; Hudson's Bay, 14 to 144.
There was no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday.
The Tasmanian, from the West Indies, has
brought £200,247, and the Louisiana is stated to
have arrived at St. Nazaire with £544,500, chiefly
for England.

The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Friday, the 19th inst., a special settling day in the
shares given in right of the bonds of the Italian
Government Six per Cent. Tobacco Loan.

A circular has been issued by the Great Central
Gas Consumers' Company to their shareholders, in-
forming them that robbery to a large extent has
been systematically carried on by one of their prin-
cipal clerks, and that a warrant has been issued
for his apprehension. Professional accountants
are engaged in the investigation of the company's
accounts.

The directors of the Caledonian Railway have
announced a dividend for the half-year at the rate
°f 34 per cent. per annum, against 2k for the cor-
responding period of 1867.
The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows
this week an irAcrease of £2,715 over last year.

Manchester advices announce the suspension of
Mr. Joan limner (formerly llurst and limner), of
Farnworth and Manchester, with liabilities amount-
ing from £15,000 to £20,000 ; also of Mr. William
IlorJail, manufacturer, Cannon-street, and Messrs.
W. and A. Openshaw, spinners, Farnworth, with
it is believed, only small liabilities.
The report of the Argentine Central Railway, to
be presented ou the 24th inst., states that the whole
line from the port of Rosario to the city of Cordova
is expected to be opened before the end of the pre-
sent year.

The prospectus of the Trouville Association
(Limited), Trouville-sur-Mer, Normandy, has been
issued. A loan of £400,000 is proposed to be raised,
secured by 7 per cent. mortgage debentures of £lO
each. The bankers and directors are highly respec-
table, and the objects of the association are the pur-
chase and development of the freehold property
at Trouville-sur-Mer, in Normandy, and particu-
larly the freehold land and houses. An opinion of
the soundness of the security and of the value of
the distributive share of surplus offered to the de-
benture-holders may be formed from the several
reports, and the consideration that Trouville is one
of the choicest marine resorts in France, where the
nobility spend their summer. From London Trou-
ville may be reached via Dover and Calais, or
Folkestone and Boulogne, or via Southampton and
riavre. From Paris it is only five hours and a half
distant by railway. All debentures applied for to
be paid up in full will receive priority in full.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
. per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
..per Cont. Reduced 9li i
11,ew 3 per Cent
14 ow 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. o per Con J 9.11.187 3
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 lll
Do (Red Sea Teleh,raph), Aug., 1908—
ExcLoquz.r Bills,£ £5OO 1,000, 2-1 per Ct.
Do
Do. £lOO & £2OO 5
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent
De. account
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Orunium

iNDIAN GOVERNMENT SEcintrriEs.
India t•ock, 10f per Cent., April 1874
Do. Opening, for Account - -
Do. 5 per Vent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 -
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Pape, 4 per Omit —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872
Do. 51 per °cut. May 1879 —
D 0 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
1)o. do. 1882 lO5l
.1)..;. Deb, 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., .£l,OOO
De. under .£l.000

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent 7Bi 9
DO., Scrip £45 paid . .
Auitrian Bends b por cent

Do. 1859 —
Bruilinn 5 per Cent —
Da. li per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do. 1858..... —
Do. do. 1861 —
Do. do., 18.9 7l

Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account 791
/3';enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) 55
utit.Al 6 per Cent.
o... Wan 6 per Cent —
he. 41 per Cent...,
1)0, 3 per Cent.,
1 o. 6 per ce4. 1867
o. 7 per Cent., 1866
C 10 ii bl'i 11, 6 per Cent.
Dan 6n. 3 p,r Cent., 1825
Dati.,l,iau Principalities, 7 I.cr Cent 7si
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 „. 87
r qu ,1 ~, ,
ao A.ew ,;onsolidatiod, 1 per Cent.
li,Uptian, 7 per Cant —
Do Secood Issue
D0..£50t Bonds —
D0..£100 Bonds ..... 83}
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. £suo Bonds
D,0•4106 Bonds
English Scrip, 1868 76}
Do . do. .£95 pd — dis
Government Railway Debentures -