The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-03 00:00:00

0 MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The transactions to-day on the Stock Exchange
were by no means active, yet in English Securities
prices were maintained, but in Foreign there was a
slight decline. Railways also are lower.
Consols aril very dull at 921 to 93 for money;
ditto, for Account, 928 3 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 911 a ; New Thee per Cents, 911 4 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 2 prem. ; June, 10
8 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
prem. ; June, prem. ; Bank of England Stock,
4 per Cent., 244.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1131 ; ditto
4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 991 ; ditto Enfaced
Paper, 5 per Cent., 1872, —.
In the Foreign Market Turkish Five per Cents.
are to 1 lower, and the Six per Cents. tl e
prices being 431 and 66 respectively. Egyptian
are flat also. The 1864 Loan is 90) to 911 ; ditto
(1868), 76 to 761 ; Viceroy Seven per Cents., 80;
to 814 ; ditto Nine per Cents., 97; to 981; Italian,
54 to 541 ; Peruvian, 78; to 791 ; Portuguese, 314
to 34; ; Orel Vitebsk, 84; to 854 ; Moscow, 834
to 834 ; Charkof, 814 to 811 ; and Spanish, 284
to 281.
In the English Railway Market Metropolitan
have declined and Great Eastern are also
lower. Prices are now as follows :—Caledonian, 80;
to 814 ; Great Eastern, 374 to 374 ex div. ; Great
Northern, 104 to 1041 ; Great Northern A, 1021
to 103 ex div. ; Great Western, 54 to 541; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 125 to 1251 ex div. ; London
and Brighton, 45 to 451; London, Chatham, and
Dover, 164 to 16; ; London and North-Western,
1161 to 117 ex div ; London and South Western,
891 to 901 ex div. ; Metropolitan, 90; to 91 ; Mid-
land, 1174 to 117; ex div. ; North Eastern (Ber-
wick), 1144 to 1154 ex div. ; and South-Eastern,
76 to 761 ex div.
American Five-twenty Bonds are lower, at 831
to 834. Erie Shares quiet, at 231 to 24 ; and Illi-
nois, 94 to 941.
In Bank Shares, Imperial Ottoman have im-
proved, and are now, 28 to 2i prem. Agra (A) is
marked at 11 to 111: Alliance, 121 to 13i ; Anglo-
Austrian, 16 to 19 prem. ; Chartered Mercantile,
321 to 33; ; Consolidated, 44 to 48 ; Imperial, 16
to 17 ; London and County, 49 to 50 ; London and
Westminster, 55 to 56.
lludson's Bay is unaltered at 121 to 12i ; Gene-
ra) Credit, 1 to 4 dis. ; International Finance, 2 to
18 dis. ; and National Discount, 108 to 112.
The gold operations of the Bank comprised a
withdrawal of £50,000, of which 120,000 was in
bar gold, supposed to be for Paris, while the
remainder was in sovereigns, for shipment to
Lisbon.

There has been little or co demand for money
at the Stock Exchange, and the supply is larger
than ever. Loans from day to day on the Funds
are freely negotiated at 1 f per cent.
The decrease of the bullion in the Bank return
may be attributed to coin required for harvest
operations. Taking the £70,000 decrease in the
figures, this, with £79,000 on balance sent in dur-
ing the week, makes altogether £150,000 so ab-
sorbed. A large number of grain vessels are
coming forward, and as it is expected that the
cargoes will have to be paid for without much
delay, a proportionate supply of capital will have
to be provided.
Mexican advices to the 13th ult. state that the
conspiracy just discovered against the life of Presi-
dent Juarez was found to have been rather widely
organised, five Generals having been arrested for
complicity in it. The Mexican army, it is said, is
henceforth to be filled up by enlistment instead
of conscription. " Recruiting parties will be sent
throughout the country, and extra inducements
offered."

Advices in the Panama Star and Herald of the
sth August state that the Guatemala mint was
Progressing with the coinage of the gold recently
received from California out of the proceeds of the
loan, and that the money thus coined has been
employed in redeeming the internal debts bearing
the heaviest interest. There is no political news;
the country is in the enjoyment of perfect tran-
quility, and there was an excellent harvest. With
reference to Venezuela, no political news has been
received. The arrival of Mr. Eastwiek, DI P., as
conaniissioner of the bondholders, was expected at
the end of August, he having left St. Nazaire for
La Guaira on the Bth of that month.

•
The prospect of a large immigration of Chinese
labour to the American cotton States seems to gain
ground. Iu Mississippi the price of plantations
along the river is alleged to have experienced in con-
sequence an advance of between 25 and 50 per cent.
within the last few months. In Louisiana the ar-
rival of this class of labourers is awaited with great
luterest in order that they may be set to work upon
the rebuilding of the levees, which are in a very
'ulapidated condition. Agents are actively em-
ployed throughout the South in canvassing for
,e,°lltraets for bringing over large numbers, and
they are stated to have been very successful. A
have
Planters in South Carolina are reported to
'ave contracted for 1,000, and the first shipload is
ejPected about the Ist of January next. From
teru it is mentioned that about a thousand are
forking, on the East Side Railroad in that State.
w -the return from the Bank of England for the
ree:: ended the Ist of Sept. gives the following
Rest when when compared with the previous week :—..
puLii ..................... £3,679,258 Increaso ... 282,564
ether deposits ...... 3,909,825 Increase ... 143,419
r,_ deposits ......... 18,412,679 Decrease... 291,477
v4jolvthe other side of the account :
tips.' securi-
°tiles ............ £14,330,928 ... No change.
Net,: Beeurities ...... 14,355,909 Increase ... 554,386,
lulemployed... 11,348,300 Increase ... 388,250
beien 41:11011nt of notes in circulation is £23,583,780,
bullion
an increase of £315,540 ; and the stock of
• pn in both departments is £20,961,926, showing
Prr. elease .of £70,751 when compared with the
-cetking return.
of ttlAbinciined is a comparison of the present position
-unok Of England and the prices of Consols
144 • Freuell Rentes with the corresponding week of
Year

Ilion

Same Week
last Year.