The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-13 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The business to-day was Of a more active de-
scription than yesterday, although we cannot say
the market was brisk. Consols maintained their
price, and the same may be said generally of the
transactions in the foreign market; but banking
securities were on the decline with one or two

exceptions.
Consols are 924 s for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93 211 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 93/ ; New
Three per Cents, 93 1 3 ; Bank of England Stock,
4 per Cent., 2411 3.
India Stock, 10/ per Cent., April, 1874, 213 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121.
In the foreign Market stocks are steady, with
the exception of Italian Five per Cents., which
have given way 1, to 531 531 ex div. ; Peruvian
Five Per Cants. have advanced !, to 77 771 ex
all ; Mexicans Bond 1, to 151 151 ; and New
Spanish Three per Cents. remain firm, at 301 301
ex div. Turkish Five per Cents. are now quoted
at 38 381 ex coupon, and Greek Bonds remain at
11! 12.
The Honduras Loan is marked 85 87 ex coupon.
Egyptian Seven per Cent. Loan of 1868 is firm
at 74 74/. The Italian Tobacco Loan is 111
prem.. and the last Russian Railway Loan 1
discount, par.
In the railway market Metropolitan and
South Eastern are not quite so firm as yester-
day. Caledonian, Great Eastern, and North
Western have recrded 1, and Chatham and
Dover, Lancashire, and Great Northern A 1.
Metropolitan has risen 1, and South Eastern 1.
Prices are as follows :—Caledonian, 771 4 ; Great
Western, 48/ a ; Great Eastern, 421 1; Great
Northern, 107 8; ditto A, 1074 81 ; Bancashire,
129 k ; Metropolitan, 1091 4 ; Midland, 1144 15 ;
Sheffield, 471 4 ; Brighton, 494 501; North British,
331 4 ; North Western, 1131 ; North Eastern,
1031 41 ; South Eastern, 80 1 ; Chatham and
Dover, 164 17.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway New Four per
Cent. Debenture Stock is 90 91 ex div.
United States Five-Twenty Bonds have improved
it, to 751 751; the Bonds of 1885 are 1 better, at
752 731 ; and the Ten-Forty Bonds are firm at 72
721. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Deben-
tures are firm, at 42 421, and the Consoli-
dated Mortgage Bonds at 45 452. Eries have
given way to 254 26, and Illinois Central stock
151 better, at 961 961.
In Bank and Miscellaneous Shares prices are as
last quoted.
The report of the directors of the Union Bank of
London, presented to the shareholders at the half-
yearly meeting to-day, was adopted, and a divi-
dend at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, free of
income tax, declared.

The sum of £15,000 in bar gold was sent into
the Bank yesterday.
The City of Baltimore, from New York, has
brought £20,000 in specie.
The amount of Australian gold known to be on
the way to England is £605,000, of which about
£215,000 will be due in the course of the next
fortnight.
At the half-yearly general meeting of the Lon-
don and Greenwich Railway Company yesterday a
dividend of £1 Os. 83. per cent., or ss. 4d. per
share was declared.

At the meeting yesterday of the North British
Australasian Company (Limited), a dividend was
declared at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free
of income tax.

At a meeting of the creditors of the London,
Bombay, and Mediterranean Bank (Limited), held
yesterday, a committee was appointed to obtain full
information respecting the assets, the position of
the contributories, and generally to promote a more
satisfactory and speedy liquidation.
At the meeting of the Palace and Burlington
Hotels Company, a dividend at the rate of 6 per
cent. per annum, and a bonus at the rate of 4 per
cent. per annum, was declared.

The directors of the Colonial Company (Limited)
have declared an interim dividend of ten shillings
Per share, being at the rate et five per cent, per