The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-06 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND liv
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The transactions to-day on the Stock Exchange
have been very limited, but Consols have recovered
the slight fall experienced yesterday. Foreign Se-
curities are dull, but Railway shares are improving.
The rate of discount is 2-} per cent.
Consols are 93 8 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, *93 I ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 93j ;
New Three per Cents, 93;31 1113- ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 21 per Cent., 10.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 213 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 1; ditto 4 per
per Cent., Oct., 1883, 1094 ; ditto Debentures, 5
per Cent. Aug., 1873, 1041 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO,
21 26 prom.
in the Foreiom Stock Market Italians and Turk-
have receded 1, while Brazilians have improved
i• Prices are :—Chilian of 1867, 94 95 ; Egyptian
of 1864, 87 to 88 ; ditto of 1868, 73 to 1 ; Italian
of 1861, 551 to 1 ; ditto Tobacco Loan, 41 to 5
Prem. ; Mexican, 151 to Ili; Peruvian of 1865,
76 to 764-i ; Russian of 1866, 92 to ;`,- ; ditto
Nieolai 67 to 1 ; ditto Orel, 811 to 4; ditto
Moscow, 791 to 801 ; ditto Charkof-Azaf, 801
to 4 ; Charcow-Krementschug, SO to 1.
In the railway share market there has been a
rise of -
per cent. in Great Northern A, viz., to
114
to 112. London and North Western are
119 i. to
120 ; Great Western, 53i to k ;
Midland, 119 to 4; London and South Western,
oo 92 ; Great Eastern, 421 to a ; Brighton, 52
toU ; South Eastern, 891 to 4; Metropolitan, 1101
to°I; ; Great Northern, 1111 to 112 ; Caledonian,
"°1 ; and London, Chatham, and Dover, 17i
to

American 5-20 Bonds are 764 to but Erie
Railway shares have improved 11 per cent., the
present price being 254 to -a. Illinois Central,
931 to 94; Atlantic and Great Western Railway
Debentures, 37 to 38 ; and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds, 391 to 40.
Banking and miscellaneous shares are without
Variation, in the absance of dealings of importance.
There was no bullion operations at the Bank yes-
tOrday,, but £41,000 received from Australia by the
Lightning was purchased for the Continent.
The steamer Massilia took out yesterday £126,717
1111Peeie for the East. The particulars are as fol-
-1 For Ceylon, gold £2,934; Bombay, gold,
3,900 ; and silver, £Bl,OOO ; Madras, silver,
fc.2,,!°°° ; and gold, £1,195; Hongkong, silver,
.640,688.
8 The Netherlands Trading Company's first coffee
ale of the year is not yet announced.
The holders of the bonds of the Italian Tobacco
Loan are to exercise the option between Monday
next and the 20th inst. of taking one share of 500
lire
with every 5,000 lire obligation.
At the meeting of the Credit Foncier of Eng-
land (Limited) the report of the directors was
unanimously adopted, and they were authorised to
effect'
a settlement with the former directors of the
c°repany.
At the meeting of Canal Cavour Septennial bond-
holders to-day the report of the retiring committee
was adopted, and a permanent committee was ap-
pointed to watch over the interests of the bond-
holders.

The report of the Australian Agricultural Corn-
Oily, to be presented on the 9th inst., recommends
an, increase of 2s. 6d. per share in the interim divi-
dend.
The following dividends have been declared
:
The General Credit and Discount Company
(Limited), a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum ; the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile
Agency Company (Limited), a dividend of 10 per
cult. for the past year ; the Telegraph to India
Company, a dividend at the rate of 21 per cent. per
annum ; the Electric and International Telegraph
Company, a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum was declared.

The following are the dividends on the North-
Eastern lines :—Berwick, 6 per cent. per annum ;
York, 51 per cent. ; Leeds, 31 per cent. ; Carlisle,
8 per cent. ; Darlington, 8 per cent.
' Au extraordinary meeting of the Metropolitan
District Railway Company will be held on the 18th
instant.

The half-yearly meeting of the Great Eastern
Railway Company will be held on the 26th inst.
The balf-yearly meeting of the Midland Railway
Company is called for the 22d inst.
A bill for the appointment of a financial agent
in foreign countries, who will have the function of
disbursing all expenditures on account of the
United States on the continent of Europe, and for
the support of the American navy in the adjacent
seas, Upon condition that he shall disburse the funds
'l3r such expenditure without expense to the United
States, is under consideration at ‘Vashington.
With regard to the Nictheroy (Brazil) Gas Com-
pany, it is stated that the concession for lighting
the City of Nictheroy with gas, though only granted
for 20 years, has at the expiration of that period to be
r_onewed, or the works must be purchased by the
.*nvernment at a valuation to be fixed by arbitra-
tion. In this, as in all its conditions, the conces-
sion is near]
(Limited) y identical with that of the Rio Gas
The Lancashire papers express dissatisfaction at
hthe fact that the recent frauds at the Rio Custom-
_°ase, in which some English firms are believed to
have been implicated, appear to have been compro-
d without the names of the parties being made
Public, and suggest that the matter might be use-
uly takennlerc e,
up by the Manchester Chamber of Com-