The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-22 00:00:00

X 0 N ARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CI EY, Two O'CLOCK.
Cor.sols are 931 1 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 931 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 4 ;
New Tkree per Cents, 911 4 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 10 dis. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, par;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 244 5.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, —•;
ditto 5
per Cent., July, 18S0, ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct.,
1888, —; ditto Eufaced Paper, 51 per
Cent., 1091; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 5 prem.
1
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 78k to 78k,
being
higher ; Erie Shares are 191 to 19i ; and
Illinois Central Railway Shares, 94 to 95.
In the Railway Market there has been a fall of 1
in Lancashire and Yorkshire and London, Chat-
ham, and Dover, the former at 1221 to 1221, and
the latter at 16: to 16i.
In the Foreign market prices are marked as.
fellows;—Egyp7sl to 75 - tian (1864), 85 to 86 ; ditto (1868),
4- Viceroy's Seven per Cent., 791 to 80,:;
ditto Nine per Cent., 971 to 98; Italian 561 to
561 ; Tobacco Loan, 86 to 861 ; Peruvian, 77 to
77:1 ; Portuguese, 341 to 354 ; Orel Vitebsk 781
to 71e3
• ; Nicolas, 631 to
.61.
In Miscellaneous Shares Anglo-American Tele-
graph are quoted at 22 to 221; Hudson's Bay,
12' 12i ;
General Credit, lk a dis. ; Interna-
tional Finance, 21 1 dis. ; and National Discount,
11 to 14.
The Macgregor Laird, from the Wrest Coast of
Africa, has brought, £1,480; the Scotia, from New
lurk, £2,000 ; and the Cimbria, from New York,
£22283 for France, and £2lO for Hamburg.
In the matter of the London and Bombay Bank,
31" f in liq uidation ,
.1
a call of £2 per share, on
"Ie aPplication of the official liquidators, has been
..."lered by the chief clerk to Vice-Chancellor Stuart.
The amount is payable in London on the Ist July,
411(1 in India on the Ist September.
The 211111 of £33,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.
Advices from Lisbon state that the Cortes on
theiri meeting have passed a Bill of Indemnity, ren-
dering "ring legal all the Acts taken by the Government
the interregnum since the dissolution of the
Ste Chambers ; also, that the Finance Minister has
submitted a measure for the impositionof fresh
taxes, calculated to yield £900,000 per annum,
ivhieli, together with
certain economies, will, it is
represented, nearly make up the difference between
theeurrent revenue and expenditure.
it utnours of failures in America and on the Con-
tinent
are in circulation. One of the houses is in
New York, with branches in California and Lon-
don ; two others are Hamburg firms, in oil and
seed trade ; and another is a house in Brazil, having
an agency in England.
The Honduras Railway Loan ad:aueed to 83 85
nc the success which the supplementary loan has
I
net with on the Continent, the subscririons having
already been large.
Ine report of the British li.dian Submarine Tele-
graph Company (Limited), to be submitted on the
28th inst., states that the whole of the capit d re-
quired from the public —viz., £530,000, has been
subscribed ; that the order for the cable has been
given to the Telegraph Construction and Mainten-
alce Company, and the first payment of t 50,000
made to ti
as provided by the contract ; that
200 miles of core have been completed, while about
500 miles are in the various stages of manufacture,
that there is every reason to believe it will be
completed within the contract time. With regard
to the prospectus issued in March last of a pro-
posed " direct English, Indian, and Australian
Submarine Telegraph Company," to lay light cables
between England and the East, it is mentioned
that 44 the scheme has been withdrawn, and the de-
Posits returned, so that the threatened opposition is
at an end."

The ship Star Queen, 1,500 tons burden, be-
longing to Messrs. James Baines, Taylor, and Co.,
sailed on the 18th inst. from Greenock for Queens-
land. Thii is the ninety-first vessel that has been
"espatched on the land order system of emigration,
under the immaliate direction of the Queensland
tu'v'ziluient Enkration Office. She contains 295
souls, diviled into paying, assiste 1, and free pas-
-I:ieuger.l, and consisting of 143 me nbers of families,
'°,Bingle men, and 57 single females.
leport of the 'Fruit and Loan Company of
Canada, to be presented on the 31st inst., recom-
illends a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per
annutn, less income-tax.
A Prospectus has b..eu jailed of the Monarch In.
Bai
talrance Company (Limited), with a proposAp ca-
ot, t'looo,ooo, in 200,000 shares of £5 each.
fir'e coulpany, it is stated, is formed to undertake
th:
non-tariff dttnaarifrrine insurance business, the former on
principle.

BRITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVEItXIIEXT Furins.
93
i
Per Cent. Consols
931:-
itto for Account,
911 /
~8 PQr Cent. Iteduced
17? 3 Per Cent -
-Iv 21 per Cent. Jae. 1894
kiuuitbiesP,e3oeyeurs, er9i;irleBs7t3h J au., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 --
~.. Do (Red Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1908 7 _
tketterptzr Bills, .£l,OOO, 21 21 per Ct lO "'3
• 4
par
hankDo
£lOO, £2ol', 4 £5OO , ,
of England Stock, 4f per Cent
1-1('• opening
s'oada 4 per Cent. Bonds _
Inter-Colonial (Annum
1 INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
Liia stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 —
Jo.Do Opening, for Account --
-
r Cent. July, 1880
''',„°. 't per Cent., Oet. 1888 —
_
uo. Certificates
Do. Etifaced Pape. 4 per CAnt...... —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 , ..
—1094
1)„°- 54 per Cleat. May 1879
_
+J.) 5 per Cent Ru Deb. 1872
~ P•
_
Do
do 1877
Do.
do. 1882 _
po.Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
1' 5
pm
rso Bon
undedrs, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
. £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
I
4r -;entine Republic, per Cent 784
Do., Scrip £45 paid ..
Initrian Bonds 5 per cent
tratilian 5 per Cent 00. li per Cent. 1852
Do.
, do. 1858.....
Do. do. 186'
Do. do.,_ 1863 67}
O. 5 per Cent., 1865
__
B
Do Account
6
' Lie n o2s
perAy rcnt. eesper ent. _
(Deferred
3
eutio, 6 per Cent. per Cent.)
....
Minn 6 per Cent —
De. 41 per Cent . —
96/
Do. 3 per Cent~
Po. 6 per colt. 1867
1034
Cent... 6
0 loaibiapn,r 6 per
D,auish, 3 per Cent., 1825.........
4ian',l3ian Principaities, Cent —
7 per
881 ,„ Do 8 per Cent., 1867 Vont,
~,quatlor New Consolidated, 1 per
•r'Syptian, 7 per Cent...
-
Do Secood Issue
Do- .£sot, Bonds
3 8
Do- £lOO Bonds ....•
Do. 1864
86
uo. £5OO Bonds ccount
Do. £lO6 Bonds
EnglDish Scrip, 1868 75/ i
_- die
o do X 45 Pd
- .
la
ree Government Railway DebentuteB- ••. 981
k 1)0 5 per
u Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups
9Accznt
0- Coupons
,-. i•J°. Arco:int •
'-luatertiala 5 per cent ,liond **
it) Ct all Pd 83i
tt
,i. uras Gov Rail. Loan., I). ~
:,141' Per Cert., 1865
-,0- Account •
.. Do Il.trernmanit Hallway '•""..4.'ar 3 er Cent
Ditto fort Accontt
.., D. i).
9. 0"11°I or\ 1864 -
idoaCuoGrat. Anglo-French
..
.per Cent.
--
!!ocrish imperial 5 por Cent
AeW Granada.
18
Do per Cen
_ Do. Deferred , . .. .. - •
rerurian 5 per den-; . '865
Do Accouut .. ...c.. . ............. .. 77/ I
Do 41 per Cenliti;*:`,:t ........ ... '—
Do 4
_.i- .• h 1,... Cent.. 1862 -
Po-0 Account .
....
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r_Lb•gliese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7, '9,'60,'2. •
.-0. do. D. 7. —
.o, "0. do
Scrip, £2O paid —
....Is .• - •
blau, D par Cent., 182, £
St
Do 4i per Cent. 1850
Doo
12 44 per Cent., 1860
3 per Ceut., 1859
Do per Cent., 1862
8-11
Do
Int•
do, Scrip
Do. Anglo-Dutcb, 1864, £lOO Bondk., B3
.1)0,
du. £B4 15s. do —