The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-10 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The business transacted to-day was mostly sales,
buying stock being carried on to a very trifling ex-
tent. The uncertainty of the result of to-morrow's
parlour meeting, although to a great extent pro-
vided for, tends to check general business. The
feature in the Railway markei has been the drop of
1 per cent. in Metropolitans, and 1 being the price
of the contango. American Five-Twenties are firm
at the prices quoted ; and in the Discount market,
although money is abundant, the price of yester-
day is still maintained.
According to Reuter's telegram this merning the
French Rentes were 70 70f. 95c.
Consols are 921 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, 921 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 ;
New Thee per Cents, 911 1 1 ; Bank of Eng-
land Stock, 4 per Cent., 244.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 213 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121‘; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct.; 1888, 1001 ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO,
10 pr€m.
In the foreign market the quotations are:
Brazilian of 1865, 791- to 801 ; Chifian of 1867,
941 to 951 ; Egyptian of 1864, 88 to 89 ; ditto
of 1868, 751 to 1 ; Italian of 1861, 541 to 1 ;
ditto of 1868, 84 to 85 ; Mexican, 15 to 151- ;
Peruvian, 791 to 791 ; Russian of 1866, 931 to
94 ; Nicolai, 661 to 67 ; Ord, 81f to 1; Moscow,
794 to 4- ; ditto Charkof-Azof, 774 to 1 ; do. Char-
eow-Krementschug, 7 (-4- to 1, ex div. ; Spanish of
1867, 311 to 1; Turkish of 1858, 611 to 621 ; do.
of 1862, 651 to 1 ; and do. of 1865. 401 to 1.
In the railway market Metropolitan have fallen
1 per cent. ; London and North Western, Midland,
and Great Eastern are 8 lower. The prices are as
follows :-- London and North Western 113 to ;
Great Western, 481 to 8 ; Midland, 115 to f ; South
Western, 88 to 90 ; Great Eastern, 36 to a ;
Brighton, 491 to 4 ; South Eastern, 758 to 1-;
Metropolitan, 104/ to 1 ; Great Northern, 107 to
108 ; ditto A, 1054 to 1 ; Caledonian, 77 to 4 ; and
London, Chatham, and Dover, 168 to 1.
Bank Shares are inactive. Imperial, 161 to 174 ;
London and County, 514- to 511 ; Loudon Joint
Stock, 324 to 321; Anglo-Austrian, 15 to 16 prem.;
and Imperial Ottoman, 21 to prem.
There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday.

The tenders for the Victorian Australia Railway
Loan for £2,107,000 were opened yesterday at the
London and Westminster Bank. The total amount
tendered for was £3,231,570, of which £643,000
was at and above the minimum, which had been
fixed at par. The lowest tender was at the rate of
£92 ls. 6d. per cent. for £6,900, and the highest
was at £lO2 per cent. for £150,000. The total
number of tenders was 439. The committee have
Eisen notice that they will receive tenders for the
balance of the loan at and above par up to two
Pau. on Friday next.
A. telegram from Berlin states that the new
Moscow-Smolensk Loan has been fully subscribed
for.

A telegram from Mauritius intimates that the
sanitary state of the island was gool. The rains
Were abundant and the plantations fine.
At the meeting of the Great Eastern Steamship
Company (Limited) the report was adopted. Th
directors congratulated the shareholders on their
improved prospects, by the arrangements made
With the Telegraph Construction and Mainten-
ance Company for the charter of the Great
Eastern, to lay, first the Transatlantic cable be-
tween Brest and St. Pierre, and afterwards the
British Indian Submarine Company's cable, be-
tween Aden and Bombay. The disputed liability
arising out of the French charter has been com-
promised by a payment of £4,758 12s. Bd. ; and
further claims in connection with the suit in the
Admiralty Court have been adjusted by the pay-
ment of £4,583 18s. ; but a claim will be made on
the estate of the French company for the amount
due. The profit and loss account shows a credit
balance of £4,113 18s. 3d. _ _

At the annual meeting of the Commercial
Union Assurance Company a dividend and bonus,
amounting to 7f per cent., were declared for the
past year.
The accounts of the Alauritius Land, Credit, and
Agency Company (Limited) to be submitted at the
general meeting on the 17th inst., show a balance
of £1,338.
The half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Rail-
way Company will be held on the 30th instant at
Glasgow.
The ordinary general meeting of the British
American Land Company is called for the 31st
instant.

The transfer books of the Anglo-Mediterranean
Telegraph Company will be closed from the 17th
to the 20th instant, preparatory to the payment of
an intertn dividend of 4s. per share, free of in-
eome-tax, on account of profits for the three months
ending the 15th instant.

A petition for the winding up by the Court of
Chancery of the Marine Investment Company
(Limited), or that the liquidators appointed under
the voluntary winding up of the undertaking may
he removed, and new liquidators be appointed, is
to be heard before Vice-Chancellor Malins on the
19th inst.

!he prospectus of the Holloway Hall Company
(Limited) mi ted) has been issued ; the capital sought to
be subscribed is £5,000, in shares of £1 each. The
company is established for the purpose of erect-
lag a public hall, library, reading, and other rooms,
for
the districts of Holloway, Highgate, and
liorusey.
Glasgow advices report the failure of Messrs.
James Black and Son, commission agents. This
!allure, combined with previous bad debts, has also
led to the stopping of Messrs. Ward, Armitage,
aad Co., of Manchester.