The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-12 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Consols are 923 for money; ditto, for, Ac-
count, 921 11; Threo per Cent. Reduced, 90i-
New Tkree per Cents, 91 1 904 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, —; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 5 dis. ;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 212 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
5 per Cent., 104 ; ditto Debentures, 1021.
The Foreign Stock Market is somewhat heavy.
Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and one or two
others are fractionally lower. The quotations are :
Brazilian. 77 to 78 ; Egyptian (1864), 841 to 851 ;
ditto (1868), 74 to 741 ; Viceroy Seven per Cents.,
771 to 78 ; ditto Nine per Cents., 95 to 96;
Italian, 554 to 56 ; Tobacco Loan, 851 to 861 ;
Peruvian, 754 to 751 : Portuguese, 33 to 34 ; Rus-
sian (1862); 83 to 831 ; Orel Vitebsk, 761 to 77 ;
icolas, 63 to 631 ; Moscow, 78 to 79 ; Charkuf,
741 to 751 ; Elonduras, 82 to 81 ; Spanish, 271 to
271; Turkish Five pir Cents. 411 to 41i ; ditto
Six per Cents., 65 to 651.
Railway Shares are rather stronger, but the actual
changes in prices are comparatively unimportant.
Caledonian, London and Brighton, and Metropolitan
are each 4- better, being quoted at 771 to 78, 451 to
46, and 100 to 1001 respectively ; but London,
Chatham, and Dover is lower, at 164 to 161.
Great Eastern is steady, at 37 to 374- ; Great Nor-
thern, 1051 to 106 ; ditto (A), 106 to 101 ; Great
Western, 474 to 471 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1221 to 1221 ; London and North Western, 1144
to 1141 ; Metropolitan Extension, 951 to 961 ;
Midland, 1114- to 1111 ; and South Eastern,
741- to 74-i.
American Securities are flat. The Five-Twenty
Bonds are 1 lower, at 78. Erie Shares are quiet,
at 191 to 181 ; Illinois, 954- to 96; and Atlantic
and Great Western Bonds, 24 to 25.

In Canadian Railways, Grand Trunk is 1 better,
at 131 to 141 ; while Great Western of Canada is
lower, at 13i to 13.
Continental Railway Shares are steady. Great
Luxemburg is unaltered at 10 to 101 ; and Lom-
bardo-Venetian at 19k to 198.
Very little business continues to be done in Bank
Shares, and prices generally are steady, the only
change being a decline of I in Imperial Ottoman,
the quotation being 18 to 2} prem.
111i,cellaneous securities show no particular
Change. Anglo-American Telegraph is inquired
for at 22 to 221 ; Hudson's Bay is quiet at 128 to
12i ; National discount, llf ; General Credit, 18
to 11 dis. ; International Finance, 2i to 1-1- dis.
The Corn trade is quiet, but prices are firm upon
short supplies.

The sum of £31,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday. Owing to the turn in the ex-
changes, occasioned by the extent to which holders
of foreign securities have lightened themselves dur-
ing the past few days by sales to Continental
buyers, it is thought probable a portion of the
£165,000 brought by the Somersetshire may also be
tent in.

The report of the English Bank of Rio de Janeiro,
to be presented on the 24th instant, recommends
a dividend of 3s. per share, making, with the pre-
vious distribution of like amount, 8 per cent. for the

Year.
The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of £2,708 over last year.
An extraordinary meeting of the Great Northern
Railway Company will be held on the 25th instant,
" When an agreement between the Company and
the Metropolitan Railway Company for the use of
the 'Metropolitan Rail way between King's-cross and
Meorgate-street, and the stations thereon, will be
sustained for approval."
The annual meeting of the Trust and Loan Com-
pany of Upper Canada is convened for the 31st
inst., when a dividend is to be declared.
The half-yearly meeting of the Anglo-Egyptian
Banking Company, (Limited) is called for the 19th
inst., when an interim dividend will be declared.
It transpired yesterday that a clerk of old stand-
ing in a leading banking-house has absconded, but
the reports as to the amount of his defalcations
Were greatly exadgerated.
The passages of the Somersetshire, which has
just arrived from Melbourne, were 60 days out
and 60 days h0w.... She was coated for the first
line with Messrs. Lamont and l‘Plnnt:s's compo-
sitions, and the results were awaited with some
interest.
The state of panic which has existed the last few
days
has almost passed away. A little anxiety is
manifested with regard to the future value of
money alai the progress of diplomatic relations
between England and America. For the present
the fluctuations in all classes of securities have re-
ceived a check, and some short period will have to
elapse before prices will recover their former buoy-
ancy- The repression of speculation will be satis-
factory, because the introduction of the numerous
large loans and the extensive operations in Ameri-
can securities had placed affairs in a rather fictitious
position. After next week it is believed, if Conti-
nental finance should remain in the same quiescent
state, there will, at least in several directions, be a
favourable change.
At yesterday's sale at the " Open Stock Ex-
change (Limited)" :—Agricultural hall and Far-
-lers' Club Company (Limited), ully paid, sold at
21l
98. per share ; Bryn Gwiog Mine, Cost Book,
111 callspaid, paid, 6d.; Confederate States Cotton
Loan (Schroder's), 4i per cent.; Consolidated
Zan(' Company of France (Limited), Bonds
1,1,0 each, 6 per cent. interest, redeem-
awe 1873,
3f per bond ; Credit Foncier
of England (Limited), fully paid, 2i per
Snare; East Bottle hill Mine, Cost Book, all call
6d- per share ; Imperial Land Company of
arseilles, Bonds £2O each, 6 per cent. interest,
redeemable 1873, 51 51 per bond ; London Taverns
Company (Limited), £5 paid, £2 4s. 6d. per share ;
Uatlands Park Hotel Company (Limited), full paid,
228,

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A ultrian Ronde 5 per cent.. —
Br tzilian.Dsop.er CentlB —
1859
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1)0.7 per Cent., 1866
C 10 nbien, 6 per Cent
Danish; 3 per Cent. 1825......... —
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Do 8 per Cent, 1867
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