The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-13 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The operations to-day were confined principally
to sales, and this brought about a general dulness.
The increased demand for specie for the Continent
has not tended to improve the state of affairs. The
Government Securities gave way a shade in value in
sales for money, but for the Account the prices of
Yesterday were maintained. The demand for
United States and Continental Securities
has not been better than that for English, and as
far as improvement goes we can only note Ame-
rican 5-20 Bonds as the stock to which such favour-
able return has taken place. The railway market is
by no means active, but an improvement has taken
Place in South Westerns.

The rate of money on 'Change is 3 per cent. for
first-class paper.
Consols are 92:1 H for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 91i i;
New Tree per Cents, 914 ; Exchequer Bills,
£l,OOO, 2k per Cent., par; Bank of England
Stock, 4 per Cent., 242,%.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1124 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1004 j. ; ditto Enfaced Paper 4
per Cent., 93.
According to Reuter's telegram this morning the
French Itentes were 70f 85c.

In the Foreign market Italian of 1861 and Peru-
vian of 1865 are to 1 per cent. lower, at 541- to 1
and 79 to 1, respectively, but Spahish of 1867 have
risen /, the present price being 311 to 31/.
Brazilian of 1865, 79f to 80 ; Chillian of 1867,
94- to 95} ; Egyptian of 1864, 811 to 891 ;
ditto of 1868, 75,1 to 76 ; Mexican, 141 to
1511 ; Russian of 1866, 931 to 94 ; Nicolai, 661 to
67 ; Orel, 811 to I ; Moscow, 791 to ; Turkish o
1858, 62k 63 ; ditto of 1862, 66 to 1 ; and ditto of
1865, 401 to f.
American Five-Twenty Bocds have risen to 831
to 1. Erie Railway Shares, 25} to 4 ; Illinois
Central,97 to f. • Atlantice and Great Western De-
bentures, 33 to 1 ; and the Consolidated Mortgage
Bonds, 32f so 33.
In the railway market London and South
Western are 1 per cent. higher, viz., 88 to 90.
Great Western has improved I, viz., to 484 to 49.
London and North Western, 1131 to ; Midland,
1161 to I ; Great Eastern, 374 to 1 ; Brighton,
498 to 1 ; South Eastern, 76/ to 1 ; Metropolitan,
1021 /, ex div. ; Great Northern, 1071 to 108;
ditto A, 105 k to 106 ; Caledonian, 781 to ; and
London, Chatham, and Dover, 161 to 1.
No intelligence has yet come to hand respecting
the overdue ships on which such high premiums
have been paid, namely, the River Hooghley, C.
C. Colgate, Santiago, Jeff Davis, and the West.
The premiums paying on the ship John o'Gaunt,
for Calcutta, have receded to-day from 50 guineas
to 40 guineas, an opinion prevailing that she got
safe out of the Channel, and that the wreck seen to
founder off the Smalls was a much smaller vessel.
The tenders for the unallotted portion of the
Victorian 5 per cent. Railway Loan were opened
Yesterday at the London and Westminster Bank.
The total mount tendered for—at or above par,
the fixed minimum—was only £347,400, of which
£85,700 was above par. The highest price offered
Was £lOO 12s. 6d. It is understood that the rest of
the loan will be held over until receipt of fresh
instructions from the Victorian Government, which
cannot arrive before July next. As of the £643,000
tendered for on Tuesday only about half was on
account of genuine applicants, it appears that the,
total now taken of the £2,107,000 offered is but
about £700,000, a natural result of a too exciting
policy.
At the meeting of the Great Western Railway
Company, Sir Daniel Gooch in the chair, the report
Was adopted after a short discussion, and the divi-
dends declared. The chairman stated that next
month the broad gauge to Birmingham would be
done away with, and the rails taken up immediately
upon the narrow gauge being found secure.
Bills of exchange on the Government of Ceylon
for 200,000 rupees were disposed of yesterday by
tender at the offices of the Crown agents for the
colonies. The minimum fixed was ls. 11.1 d. per
rupee, and the whole amount was taken above that
rate.

The report of the London Bank of Mexico and
South America (Limited), to be presented on the
19th inst., shows an available total of £25,049, in-
cluding a previous balance of £4,954, and recom-
mends a dividend for the half year at the rate of 8
per cent. per annum.
Advices from the North give a further list of
small failures, mostly caused by recent embarrass-
ments of larger firms. At Manchester the suspen-
sion is announced of Mr. George Milne, cotton
Spinner, of Oldham ; and at Glasgow that of
Messrs. Wilson, Ker, and Co., and Messrs. Mac-
donald and Co., the latter in the woollen shawl
trade. In neither case are the liabilities believed
to be heavy. _

Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart yesterday
granted an order for the Port Philip and Colonial
Gold Mining Company (Limited) to reduce its
capital from £500,000 to £200,000, and the shares
from £5 to £2; and that the words ,g and reduced',
be removed from the company's title from this
date.

At the public sale 'at the Open Stock Exchange
(Limited), yesterday, Agricultural Hotel aad
Farmers' Club Company (Limited), £lO fully
paid, sold at 293. per share; Albion Bank (Limited),
15 paid, £8 17s. per share ; and Alhambra Com-
pany (Limited), £lO fully paid, x.d., £9 17s. per
share.

The weekly return under the Cotton Statistics
Act states that the quantity of cotton imported
during the week ended yesterday was 33,808
bales, of which 11,405 were American, 10,216
Brazilian, 8,577 East Indian, 2,656 Egyptian, and
951 miscellaneous. The export was 9,868 bales,
of which 6,593 were East Indian, 1,482 American,
1,280 Brazilian, 146 Egyptian, and 367 miscella-
neous.

The creditors of the International Life Assurance
Society are required to send in the particularr of
their debts to Mr. E. S. Symes, the official liquida-
tor, by the 31st inst.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
~ GOVERNMENT
• per Cent. Consuls
Ditto for Account,
tPer Cent. Reduced 9l-fr
.k,g • vii 3 per Cent - 911
g oyr '2i per Cent. Jan. 1894
, Do. 5 per Cen J 9.n. 1873
+nnuitiesl SO yrs, c z Are sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telei.raph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchcquor Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Ct.
1)0 £5OO
Do. £lOO & £2OO
Bank of England Stock, 4 pir Cent
Dl. account
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Celonial Omniurn

~. INDIAN dOVER Eb NMENT SECUItITI.
44Jia Stock, lO4 per Cent., April 1874
Do. Opening, for Account --
Du. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 1 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paoli 4 per Cent 93
UO. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872
Do. 51.- per Cz.-ut. May 1879 —
D.l 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do du 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Ar4entine Republic, 6 per Cent
ii
60, Scrip £45 paid ..
Aultrian Bonds 5 per cent

Do. 18.59 —
Br izilian 5 por Cont
Do. q per Cent. 1852 —
De. do. 18 %8 —
Do. do. 186 '
Lo. do 186._; 7O
~
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
, ijo Account SO
*1 5 .enos Ayros 6 per Cent.
Da 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont ',
C,e)a, 6 per Cent.
utlian 6 per Cent
I io. 4i per Cent •
Do. 3 per Cent.,
i.e. 6 per ce-t. 1867 954
liso. 7 per Cent., 1866
C lo nbian, 6 per Cent.
Danish; 3 per Cent., 1825 ,
Dan, bian Principalities, 7 Far Cent 7s}
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 „. 86
E.qualor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
IdZYptian, 7 per Cent —
Da. SeC944 14.6110 western 00000 .Isii, 000000

Do. -£sot, Bonds B2
D0..£100 Bonds
Do. 1854
Do. Account
Do. £5(10 Bonds
Do. /100 Bonds 9O
English Scrip, 1868 76 }
Do do. .C-15 pd — dig
Government Railway Debentures
Greek 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups —
1)o. Aeccunr
Do. Coupons -
Do. Account
G.tatemala 5 per Cent • . —
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd 85}
lt ',lax 5 per Cert., 1865 —
,-)o. Account
Do larommatut Railway —
%;,,xicar, 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
yiontevidQau 6 per Gent. .. —
ML rish imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada —
Do 3 per Cen —

Do. Deferred
Porurittu 5 per Cent. 1865 -
Do Account .. 7:1
__ .. .

- -
Do 4i per Cent. (I.ll:',arren) •••
Do 41 per Cent.. 1862 -
•
Do Account—
P,,rtuguese 3 pc.r Ct., 1853, '6, 7,1-.1,'60,'2,':
Do. do. 167 :,71
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —ll, Issiau 5 per Cent. 1822, .6 St,
Do 41 per Cent , 135'):
Do 4i per Cent., 186 U -
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Aug-to-Dutch, 1861, £loo4l3onde„ 94 1
Do. du. £B4 15s. do —
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds... 94}
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 67f 6i
Sardinian 5 lAA. Cent —
Spanish 3 per Cen . —
Do. Accffunt .... I.
Do. 1867
Do. Account -
Do. New Deferred
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Do do, Scrip — lin-
Turkish 6 per Cent.( •P - . . -
Do Account
yo 6 per Cent. 1858 --
Do Account ,., 631

Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1864

Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 186 a 631.
Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. Ace, ant
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in 1 .onlo,
Austrian n par Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 4i per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch '4 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail.,
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
Do. Account
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Italian 5 per Cent. 1861, Ex. Zsf.
Do Account 54!
CLOSING PRICES.
6'onsols, Money 921
1100. Account, April 84 ... 92i 3

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE.

PUTNEY, Friday.
ILLNESS OF ONE OF TIIE CAMBRIDGE C HEW. —The
aquatic public will learn with !he deepest regret, fully
shared in by the Oxford crew, that one of the Cambridge
men, Mr. Mellor, No. 7, is so unwell that he is obliged to
be withdrawn from the boat. He was labouring under an
affection of the throat and cold, on Thursday, when Mr.
Stall, of Caius College, took his place for the day. On Fri-
day Mr. Mellor resumed his place in the boat, but this
morning was so much worse than before as to leave no
prospect of his being able to renew his labours in the
boat. _ _

The Oxonians went out this morning a little after 11
down through Putney-bridge for a paddle. T hey ere
rowing strongly and well.

SPORTING PROPHECIES.

THE NORTHAMPTON MEETING.
" BELL'S LIFE."

Northamptonshire Stakes—Cap-a-Pie or Mr. Savile's
chosen one ; Marquis of Carabas may prove a dangerous
outsider. Stand Plata—Chapel Royal or Islam. North-
amptonshire Cup Stakes —Friday or Acaster. Wakefield
Lawn Stakes—Sister to Veda. Whittlebury Stakes—
Lumley, Cocoa Nut, or Elferon. St. Liz Handicap —Blue
Gown, Cap-a-Pie, or Lady Beaconsfield.

" THE ERA."

Northamptonshire Stakes—Mr. Saville's best or Van-
sittart. Whittlebury Stakes—Lumley. Wakefield Lawn
Stakes—Silt rto Veda or Master Willie. Stand Plate
Handicap—lslam or Actma. Northamptonshire Cup
Stakes—Success cr Amster. Earl Spencer's Plate
Leonia or Dryad. Althorp Park Stakes—Elferon or
Miami c. St. Liz Handicap—Blue Gown; Vixen g for a
place. Sulby Handicap—Miss Martineau f.

SPOII:FING LIFE."

Northamptonshire Stakes—Blueskin and Birthday.
Whittlebury Stakes—Lumley. Northamptonshire Cup—
Success. Wakefield Lawn Stakes—Sister to Veda. De-
lapre Free Handicap—Benevolence, Coup d'Eclat, or Pa-
trician. Stand Handicap—Ventnor or Wynnstay. Al-
tborp ~Palk Stakes—Tit-bit. Spencer Plate —Loonie,
Dryad, or the best of Sherwood's lot.

" THE SPORTS)UN."
Northamptonshire Stakes—Birthday or Buckenham's
dam f.

" THE FIELD."

Northamptonshire Stakes —Blneskin or Cap a-Pie.
Stand Plate—Pirate Chief or Veda. Northamptonshire
Cup Stakes—Acaster or Miss Gratwieke. Delapre Free
Handicap -Quality or Kicksey Wicksey. Wakefield
Lawn Stakes - Sister to Veda or Pate. Whittlebury Stakes
—Lumley. St. Liz Handicap—Blue Gown. Earl Spencer's
Plate—Dryad or Nanny Ttiormanby. Sulby Handicap—
Mimus or Nelly Hill c. Althorp Park Stakes—Pate or St.
Leonards. Sweepstakes of 20 sovs.—Master Walter or
S tephanotis.
" SPORTING GAZETTE."

Wakefield Lawn Stakes—Sister to Veda. Whittlebury
Stakes—Lumley. Northamptonshire Cup S takes —S uc-
me. Northamptonshire Stakes—Cap-a-Pie or Mr. Savile's
representative. Stand Plate—Pirate Chief, Acta3a, or
Warlike. St. Liz Handicap —Blue Gown or Kingsland.
Earl Spencer's Plate—Bounceaway, Dryad, Lictor, or
Leonie. Sulby Handicap —Nelly Hill c, Houtleur, or Fig
Leaf.

" SPORTING TIMES."

Northamptonshire Stakes—Cap-a-Pie or Vansittart.
Whittlebury St kes—Lumley. Wakefield Lawn Stakes
—Sister to Veda. St. Liz Handicap—Blue Bown or Ves-
pasian. Althorp Park Stakes —Hollandais3. Earl Spen-
cer's Plate —Mr Pitt or Bessie axon. Stand Plate Han-
dicap—Pirate Chief, Bounceaway, or Islam.

" SUNDAY TIMES."

Stand Plato Handicap—Joseph Dawson's selection or
Acaster. Delapre Free Handicap Problem or Miss
Frances. Northamptonshire Cup Stakes—Nutrition or
Success. Whittlebury Stakes—Lumley or Cocoa Nut.
Wakefield Lawn Stakes—Sister to Veda. Northampton-
shire Stakes—Mr. Saville's best or Cap-a Pie. Sulby
Handicap—Wedling Chimes or Miss Nierryweather.
Spencer—Leonie or Bounceaway. St. Liz Handicap—
Vespasian or See7Saw. Althorp Park Stakes—Pate.

Ludlow Races are postponed for the present.
Light Cloud (3 yrs) has gone to C. Peck's, of Malton,
to be trained.

Monrrru RACES.—This revived meeting will take place
on March 23.

Charlotte was sold at Warwick, on Thursday, to Mr.
Begot, for 26 guineas.
Bishop Stortford Steeplechases have been postponed to
Saturday, April 10.
The Northumberland Plate has obtained 52 subscribers
—seven less than last year.

Captain Ballard has let the stallion Clapham, by Stock-
well, to a gentleman in Lincolnshire. He will be located
near Horncastle during the ensuing season.
CHABLEs IL—This horse has been turned out of train-
ing, and sold to private gentleman.
Hilda, the winner of a Handicap Plate at Warwick on
Thursday, was sold to Mr. Fletcher for 91 guineas.
It is satisfactory to learn that the long-pending an-
tagonism between the bagmen and listmen has been ami-
cably adjusted.
Brambridge, prior to running second to Hereford in the
Handicap Plate at Warwick on Thursday, was sold to
Lot d Westmorland.