The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-08 00:00:00

NEY MARKET

AND
COAINIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Settling accounts is the principal business to-
day, and from the limited supply of stock the
" bears" have commen3ed their operations, but
whether their exertions will produce the desired fall
in price is yet a great question. Consols have in-
creased in price, and the 'Threes and New Threes.
The abundance of money has given rise to favourable
anticipations, and indeed so sanguine are some
very influential persons that a reduction of the
minimum official rate, from 4 to 3i, within a fort-
night, is fully contemplated.

Consols are 93f f for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93i; Three per Cent. Reduced, 93*;
New Dire° per Cents, 91i 21 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 4 pin par ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO,
par 5 pna ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent,
240 39 ex div.

India Stock, 10/ per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 131 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1011 4 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 5
per Cent., Jan., 1872, 105 ; ditto 58 per Cent.,
May, 1879, 1091.
In the Foreign Market prices are follows :
Brazilian of 1865, 80 to 1 ; Chilian of 1867,
95 to 1 ; Egyptian of 1864, 86 to i
ex div. ; ditto of 1868, 761 f
to 77 ; Italian
of 1861, 551 to 1 ; ditto of 1868, 838 to
841 ; Mexican, 141 to 151 ; Peruvian of 1865,
79 1 ; Russian of 18'66, 901 to 911, ex div. ; Nicolai,
68 to 681 ; Orel, 82 to 1 ; Moscow, 79 to 791 ;
ditto Uharkof, 77 to Spanish of 1867, 31 I; ditto Charcow, 77 to 1 ;
1 tot ; Turkish of 1858, 631 to
411 to 1.
64 ; ditto of 1862, 67 to ; and ditto of 1865,
American 5-20 Bonds are better, viz., 83/ to /.
Erie Railway shares are 24 to 241 ; Illinois Cen-
tral, 96 to 97 ; Atlantic and Great Western De-
bentures, 31/ to 321 ; and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds, 311 to 321.

In the Railway Market stocks Londonand
North
Western, Midland, and Caledonian have gone up
4to I, but Great Goeat Eastern and Metropo-
litan have fallen 1. The prices as as follow t :
—London and North Western, 115 to ;
Great Western, 494 to 494 ;
; Midland, 1161 to
London and South Western, 87 to
to South B9 ; Great
Eastern, 371 to ; Brighton, 484
Eastern, 754 to ; Metropolitan, 1011 to 102/ ;
Great Northern, 107 to 108 ; ditto A, 109} to
110 ; Caledonian, 801 to 3 ; and London, Chatham,
and Dover, 164 to 4.
For Bank shares prices are—City, 12 to 4 ;
164 to 4 ; London and County, 514 to 52/ ;
London Joint Stock, 334 to 4 ; London and West-
minster, 644 to 4
; Union of London, 364 to ;
Anglo-Austrian, 17 to 18 prem. ; and Imperial
Ottoman, 2 to 4 prem.
In Miscellaneous stocks National Discount are
111 to 1 ; general Credit, 14 to 1 dis. ; Interna-
tional, 11 dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 124 to ;
'Telegraph Construction, 164 to 17 ; Atlantic
Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference, 31 to 4
and Anglo-American, 221 to
The scrip of the Guatemala Loan is quoted par
to 4 prem.
The mortgage debentures of the Trouville Asso-
ciation are quoted par to 1 prem.
The Suffolk, from Port Philip, has arrived with
£Bl,OOO in gold.
There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday.
It is doubted if there has been good foundation
for any of the recent notifications regarding the
Spanish Crown. It was highly improbable that
Senor Olozaga would go to Lisbon either to offer