The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-15 00:00:00

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raitEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocg.

Consols are 923 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 924 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 914 ;
New Tkree per Cents, 901 1 ; ditto Annuities,
April, 1885, 11 15-16; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, —;
ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 10 dis. ; Bank of Eng-
land Stock, 4 per Cent., 2424.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1004 4 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
5 per Cent., 104 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 3 dis par ;
ditto under £l,OOO, 3 dis par.
In the Foreign Market prices are as follows :
Brazilian, 784 to 791 ; Italian, 56 to 561 ; Tobacco
Loan, 841 to 851 ; Pruvian, 761 to 77 : Portuguese,
334 to 345 ; Russian (1862), 834 to 844; Oriel
Vitebsk, 77 to 78.
In Railway Shares business is dull. Lancashire
and Yorkshire are 1211- to 1224 ; South Eastern,
741 to 75 ; Great Northern A, 106 to 1061 ; Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, 161 to 161; Midland,
1101 to 1101; Metropolitan, 98/ to 994.
Atlantic and Great Western Bonds are 254 ;
Erie, 21 ; Illinois, 96 ; American Five-Twenties,
784.
Bank and 'Miscellaneous Shares are quoted as fol-
lows :—lmperial Ottoman, 21 to 24 prem. ; Lon-
don and County, 504 to 511 ; Hudson's Bay, 124
to 124.
The sum of £24,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.
The Seine, from the West Indies has brought
£121,000, of which £48,000 is gOld And the re-
mainder silver.

The Pera, for Alexandria, took out £46,647.
On Whit Monday the Stock Exchange will be
closed.

The Parliamentary re!urn of the duty paid upon
fire insurances during the year 1868 has appeared,
and has a special interest as showing the exact
amount proposed to be surrendered by the Govern-
ment in the abolition of this impost. The gross
amount received for the years 1867 and 1868
amounted to £1,024,013 and £1,072,632.
The Colonial Produce Markets this week have
not experienced any improvement. Business will
not be fully resumed until next Wednesday, on ac-
count of Whitsuntide.

On Wednesday the shipping intelligence an-
nounced the burning and abandonment of the ship
Omar Pasha, from Brisbane for London. Mr.
Chatteris, the father of one of the passengers, im-
mediately telegraphed to Gibraltar, and has received
a reply that the passengers, 43 in number, were
safely taken on board an Italian barque, the Anita
Tagliavia, bound for New Yolk.
The suspension has been announced of Messrs.
Evans and Co., of the Borough, hop merchants.
Their debts aed liabilities are placed at £lOO,OOO,
and the assets, it is believed, will be satisfactory.
The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-

tance of £l,lBB on account of the dividends on the
debt of Ecuador.
The half-monthly accounts in foreign stocks and
railway shares have passed over with only one de-
faulter.

The shareholders iu London of the Erie Railway
are organ
sing a movement with the view of pro-
tecting their interests, and of securing some in-
fluence in the management of their affairs on the
other side of the Atlantic. It will be very satis-
factory if they shall succeed, especially to prevent
the ruinous fluctuations which have taken place in
prices.
The directors of the Union Bank of Scotland
have issued their report. The balance of profit
available is £143,170. It is proposed to apply it
as follows :—ln payment, on Ist June and Ist
December next, of a dividend to the proprietors at
the rate of 11 per cent. per annum, free of income
tax, 1.10,000 ;by transferring to rest account
£20,000 ; by carrying forward to credit of profit
and loss account for the current year the balance of
£137,170--£143,170.
Mr. A. 11. Phillpotts, a director of the Bank of
British North America, has been elected to the
board of the National Bank.
Time ordinary general meeting of the Madras Ir-
rig Aim and Canal Company will be held on the
31st instant.
A special meeting of the Rhymuey Railway
Company is convened for the Ist of June.
A general meeting of the London, Italian, and
Adriatic Steam Navigation (Limited), in liquida-
tion, is called for the 24th instant.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

GOVERNMENT rUNDS.
1
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
92
3 per Cont. Reduced
91f
New 3 per Cent
OW 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894
. Do. 5 per Cen J Rm. 187 3
'inanities SO Trs, expire sth Jan" 1880.
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 ll 15-16
Do (Red Son Televaph), A eg., 1908 —
Exc4c(p.r.3. Bills, £l,OOO, 2i 21 per Ct —
Do
£5OO
Do. 4100 & £2OO lO dis
Batik of England Stock, 41 per Cent
D.. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
later-Colonial Otnnium
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECIJRITIEe
'Milt `kook 101 per Cont., April 1874 —
Do. Opening, for Account
;41
Do. 5 per Utut..luly, 1880
01 1
Do. 4 .;c-.;c-Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Eufaced Pape. 4 per Cent....
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 104
~..... _
Do. Si per Cent. May 1879 _
D..) 5 per Cent Rup. Deb. 1872
~ • _
Do do 1877
Do. do. 1882
D..,. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 -
Do. Sonde,4 per Cent., £1,000
Du. under .Cl.OOO -

lOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Arpatine Republic, F per Cent .... . 771 i
Do., Scrip £45 paid ..
Initrian Bonde 5 per cent
D. —
Brazilian 5o
per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do. 1858....
Do. do. 1861 —
1)0. do., 1863 —
' Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account 79 8}
B:enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
11a 2 per Cent. (Deferred 8 per Cent )
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
(Lillian 6 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent
Do. 3 per Cent.,
Lo. 6 per ce-,t. 1867
Po. 7 per Cent., 1866
o 10 tibial), 6 per Cent.
Dan;sti, 3 per Cent., 1825
Dan , hian Principalities, 7 per Cent 7_6

Do 8 per Cent., 1867
quador New Uonsoliduted, 1 per Cent.
E;yptian, 7 per Cent
Do Secood Issue
Do. £5Ol, Bonds
Do. £lOO Bonds
Do. 1864 .....................
Do. Account ..................

Do. X5OO Bonds .. ,
Do. £IOC Bonds it.l..
English Scrip,:lB6B 7.111
die
Do o.d £45 pd _... 8
Government Railway Debentures Vicii
Greet 5 per Cont., 1824- 5, ex Coups
10i
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
G.tatemala 5 per Cent . 7O
Honduras Gov Rail. Loan., 10 p. Qt., all pd 821
Itiiian 5 per Cert., 1865 —
Do. Account . —
Do Maremmana Railway —
Mexican. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French —
montevid9au C per Cent. --•
M c-..rish Imperial 5 per Cent ..
--
New Granada —
Do 3 per Con 37
Do. DeforYed
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1665
Doo
4A4A Ice cciocetuut; n 1:- tit
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... (1U816:2' , a
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95
Portsguese 3 per Ct 1853 '6 7,'9,'60,'2.' 311
1867 ..
Do. do. ",
'
Do. do.
Scrip, .£2O paid —
ltusAan 5 per Cent.. 182, .£ St
Do 4i per Cent , 1850
Dr) 4i per Cent., 18itO
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ... 84i 4
Do d
D o, Scrip — pm
o. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonde., 89
Do. a.. £B4 15s. do.
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds BBl
Do. d..) £B4 15s do —
Do Nicolas Railway —
Earainian 5 pt.r Cent
18PaUish 3 per Cen .'