The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-06 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
Consols unproved to-day, at 921 3 for money;
ditto, for Ac .ount, —; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 93 24 1 ; New Three per Cents, 931 2f 1 ;
ditto Annuities, April, 1885, 11 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, March, 3 7 prem. ; June, 9 prem. ; ditto
£lOO, £2OO, and £r-,00, March, 3 7 prem. ; June,
9 prem.
; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.
dltnodia Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 209 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 1 ; ditto 4 per
o
etit"
Cent.,O et
101 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
per
The market for Foreign Government Securities
firlil) but there is not much doing. Spanish keep
1,11134 29' Egyptian are steady, the 1864 Loan
"eLng 91 to 92, and the 1868 Loan 961 to 97. The
Viceroys Loan are 1 to 1 better, the Seven per
Cents. being, .801 to 804 ; and the Nine per Cents.
97i to 97/. Turkish are dull, and the Five per
C ell ts. are 1 to 1 lower, the quotations being 43f
,44i. The Six per Cents. Bonds are 66 to 661.
ii;eureurveiiasnio 78ailteration in Argentine, at 791 to 80 ;
to 791 ; Honduras, 83 to 84 ; Por-
tuguese, 33} to 24 ;and Brazilian, 84 to 85/.
The business in English Railway Shares is very
limited, but beyond a relapse of f per cent. in
Great Western and Brighton, last night's prices are
ill_ al ned. They are as follow :—Caledouiau,Bl to 811;
tb-reat Eastern, 38/ to 381 ; Great Northern, 106
-1,°1,19.7 ; Great Northern (A), 1041 to 1041 ; Great
19es1e113, 51-1 to 51/ ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
16i to 1271 ; London and Brighton, 441 to 441 ;
~°lldc'sr Chatham, and Dover, 161 to 17 ; Lon-
"n and North 'Western, 119 to 119/ ; London
a. nfl South Western, 91 to 93 ; Metropolitan, 100
to 1001; Midland, 1171 to 1181 ; North Eastern
(Berwick), 1111 to 112 ; and South Eastern, 761
to 164.
The downward tendency of United States Five-
twenty Bonds continuEs, and the present price is
..142t better than 83 to 83k. Erie Shares remain at
-19 to 20; and Illinois, 94f to 941.
Indian Guaranteed Railways are steady. Bom-
;lay... and Baroda is inquired for at 107 to 108 ; East
-I 110 i to 111 ;
i and Great Indian Peninsula,
109 to 110.
Continental Railways are not in much request,
_Great Luxemburg is unaltered at 101 to 11; and
Lombardo-Venetian, 211 to 221.
The only feature in Bank Shares is an improve-
se4nt Of 10S. in Oriental transactions, being marked
„.-31 to 441; London and Westminster, is steady at
to 581 ex div. ; London Joint-Stock, 80 to 31
ex div.
0l- ; Union of London, 35 to 36 ; imperial
_ottoman, ,
tr to 4 prem. ; Chartered Mercantile,
2.91 to 301 ; Anglo-Austrian, 201 to 211 prem. ;
Alliance, 121 to 131; and Agra (A), 101 to 11 1.
Telegraph Shares are scarcely so firm. Anglo-
American is 1 lower, at 201 to 208 ; Atlantic Eight
Per Cent. Preference, 21 to 21 ex div. ; and French
Cable,
2rt:g A
In 20k
ltno 21.11
o n g Shares, St. John del Rey is
quiet, at 17 to 18 ; Port Philip, 4 to a prem. ; Don
Pedro, 34 to 4 preen. ; and Chontales, 1 to 11.
The operations in Miscellaneous Securities are
very trifling, and prices are without material
change..r Hudson's Bay is quoted at 121 to 12f ;
•iiational Discount, 11 to 111 ex div. ; General
Credit, la to if dis. ; and International Finance, 2
t 0 l 4 dis.
The sum of £204,000 iu gold was taken to the
Bank Yesterday,
The City of Brooklyn has left New York with
£lO,OOO for England, and other steamers have also
sailed, with an aggregrate of £llO,OOO.
The Bank of France return this week shows a
further increase of £272,000 in the stock of bul-
lion.
At the meeting of the London and County Bank
yesterday,
Mr. F. Francis in the chair, the report
showed an available total of £90,827, including a
previous balance of £5,817, and the usual dividend
of 6 per cent., with a bonus of :21 per cent., being
at the rate of 17 per cent. per annum, was declared,
leaving £6,225 to be c irried forward. At the cor-
responding date of last year the dividend and
bonus were at the rate of 16 per cent. per annum.
The paid-up capital is £l,ooo,ooo,against £959,996,
in July, 1868 ; the reserve is £500,000, against
£459,996, showing an increase in each case of
£40,0C4 ; the deposits held are £12,411,805, an
increase' of £407,328, and the acceptances are
£1,455,035, a decrease of £221,272.
The London agency of the National Bank of
Liverpool (Limited) will in future be conducted by
the London Joint-Stock Bank.

The liquidators of the London Colonial Company
(Limited) have announced a further dividend of
ls. 6d. in the pound.
The Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta Telegraph
Company (Limited) have given the order for
the manufacture of their cable to the Telegraph
Construction and Maintenance Company, with the
cash for the first instalment payable under the con-
tract.

The arbitrators under the London, Chatham, and
Dover Arbitration Act of this year, Lord Cairns
and Lord Salisbury, with Mr. Reilly as assessor
and Mr. Tucker, secretary, had their first formal
meeting yesterday on an interlocutory application
the party of the City Lines lenders for per-
"44oll to deal with the lands and to have some
their lord
ships thought the application premature,
as they expressed their determination to under-
stand all the material facts bearing on the affairs of
eta).
.° eninpany before coming to any decision on ape-
points.
Tha return from the Bank of England for the
ended the 4th August gives the following
r-e°44est 11k it
-K3 when compared with the previous weekpuLlic :—
................... £3,408,707 Increase £lB6
Otk dePosits ...... 3,740,685 ... Decrease ... 530,196_
04".. deposits ......... 18,103,655 ... Decrease ... 1,505,0 r o
ctovetriae other side of the account :
tis,urnent 'scud-
Oth„, .... : ... ...... £14,800,856 ... Decrease... 52140698
NOtee gecunties ...... 14,294,659 Decrease ... °
ThenliaenaPloyed... 10,266,460 ... Decrease ... 492 i 2:360
bnill an
beinz"4l°lnt of notes in circulation is £24,271,705
increase of £724,330 ; and the stock of
j°ll in both departments is £20,507,047, showing
precner.!aBe of £lB5 851 when compared with the
ing retUrn
of
the joi
tn ed is
receding
Sub .
a comparison of the present position
and p arlk of England and the prices of Consols
last ranch Rentes with the corresponding week of
Year

Same Week
At Present. last Year.
13ulli
371 989
Iles 04 ............... ... £20,507,017 ...
£2
1'408,609
I,Toter"r.e ............ 11 235,342 01,1'963 380
, , ell in. eirculatio. ...... 24,271705 ... ,
2 per Cent.
o'_'° of discount 3 per cent. ... 941-
Zechls
R. ...................... 92i
70f. 27e.
The elates: ......... 72f. 7Uc.
cheques
following is.
4114 bills
the _e cleared in the Bankers' Clearing
the official return of th..eho
wiik;rnildcialyng Wednesday, Aug. 4 :
£9,781,000
11% .. 24,907,000
Clearing-house for
Saturday ll 821,000
Roda,- ."
117010,000
..piacio ,
Cd4e3daY

£80,998,000

tRITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
(IoVERNMEXT irUNDS.:
Per Cent 0 i
Ditto . • OLISOIS 921 3
_
8 ',O lor Account Sept 8
liowNP" (-1014 it.ii,o4
~,,,,,„ 3 •
tent.., „.,_ . ......................
ti3_ 21 j,
21Pet
T, 2 per Cent. Jan. 1894
~,o ,
_
it„._ . . per Len J an. 1873
t!ituties, 80 vrs expire sth Jan., 1880 —
E Do for 3u yr ,s 'expire sth April 1885 lll
Eue? (Ited Sea al expire
Aug., 1908 —_, _
40(1: Hills, .£l,UUtt, 21 p. (_. t. March 3 i pm
Do.
3 do. June 9
h to
eAL,,,. £lOO, £2OO & £5OO 3 7
Cii",, of England Stock, 4i per Cent
iti. QP"ing
hi, -4
4 Per Cent. Bonds
or-Colonial °manilla
10'4144N UOVBRNNIENT SECURITIES
20J
ipu.sok;k2loi Per Cent., April 18i 4
—6ll
i, uPening for Account
Jo,
5 ,
1111 1 12
00. A Per Lent. July, 1880
101 b ',Pet.' Cent., Oct. 1888 (:,• l.ertiticates
b?• t nfuced Pape, 4 per C.ut.. .... —
6",: t ,Per Cert., Jan. 1872 ..... ..... Tioi 11
0" 1 Per ()eat. May 1879
4 5 pet Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 ....