The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-10 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Consols are 93/ 3 k for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 938 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 931 ;
New Three per Cents, 93* 1 -A-; ditto Red Sea Tel-
egraph, Aug., 1908, 10k ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO,
4 per Cent., —; dtito £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 5 ;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 242 4.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 213 11 ,
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 ; ditto 4 per
per Cent., Oct., 1888, 102 k ; ditto Enfaced
`per, 4 per Cent., 921 ; ditto Bonds, £l,OOO, 20
prem. ; ditto under £l,OOO, 25 prem.
lu the Foreign Market the quotations are as fol-
lows :—Brazilian, 1865, 83 2 ; Chilian, 1867, 934
941 ; Egyptian, 1861, 871 88 ; ditto 1868, 738 1;
1861, 551 to :7 ; ditto Tobacco Loan, 5 51
prem. ; Mexican, 151 to 1 ; Peruvian of 1865,
762 to 4 ; Russian of 1866, 92:1 to 934- ; ditto
Nicolai, 67 to ; ditto Orel, 8i to -k ; ditto
Moscow 794 to 801 ; ditto Charkof-Az )f, 80/
to I ; Charcow-Krementschug, 801 to ;41 ; Spanish
of 1867, 301 to 31 ; Turkish of 185 S, 66 to 67 ;
ditto of 1862, 6451 to 65/ ; and ditto of 1865, 401
to

The railway market is firm, and Midlands have
improved ;41- per cent. ; Metropolitan, ; Brighton,
; aid Great Western and South Eastern, 11-.
The prices are as follows :--London and North
Western, 1198 to 120-k ; Great Western, 538 to b ;
Midland, 120/ to ; London and South Western,
91 93 ; Great Eastern, 421 to it ; Brighton, 52/
to A 8 ; South Eastern, 82,1 to 83 ; Metropolitan, 111 i
to 4 ; Great Northern, 111; to 112/ ; ditto A, 1114
to 112 k.

American 5-20 Bonds have risen if per cent., and
are now 761, 77e. Erie Railway shares, 24; to 25 ;
Illinois Central, 931 to 94 ; Atlantic and Great
'Western Debentures, 38 to 1 ; and the Consoli-
dated Mortgage Bonds, 401 to 41.
In Miscellaneous Securities National Discounts
are 11f to 4 ; General Credit, 18 to 1a dis. ; Inter-
national, 18 to 18 dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 131 to ;
Telegraph Construction, 174 to 18 ; Atlantic Tele-
graph Eight per Cent. Preference, 4 1-6 to 3-16 ;
and Anglo-American, 22; to 1.
There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday,

The New York, from New York, has brought
£46,500.
The traffic receipts of the London and Brighton
Railway show an increase of £1,970.
The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 23d ult. show an
increase of £4,112 over last year.
The annual meeting of the British Colonial
Steamship Company (Limited) is convened for the
25th inst.
A general meeting of the Tower Subway Com-
pany is fixed for the 26th inst.
The half-yearly meeting of the Metropolitan
Railway Company is convened for the 24th inst.,
and will be made special "for the purpose of rais-
ing, under the powers and provisions of the Metro-
politan and St. John's-wood Railway (Extension
to Rampstead Act, 1865), the sum of £lOO,OOO,
supply the money already subscribed and paid
towards the 5 per cent. preference capital of that
conipany.,7
The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance
Company (Limited) have notified that the ac-
counts, although not yet finally audited, show a
balance sufficient to allow a further dividend of 7i
per cent., making a total for the year of 10 per
cent.

The report of the Land Securities Company, to
be presented on the 17th inst., shows a steady in-
crease in the business of the past half year, and re-
commends a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per
annum, which will absorb £2,050, and leave, after
• an appropriation of £5OO to reserve, a balance of
£1,190.

At the meeting of the English and Foreign Credit
Company (Limited) the directors' report was
adopted, and the usual dividend of .ss. per share
for the half-year declared, leaving £4,199 to be
carried forward.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Australian
Agricultural Company, a dividend of 10s. per share
was declared.
The usual dividend at the rate of 10s. per
cent. was declared at the meeting of the London
and Blackwall Railway, and a resolution was agreed
to for raising X.=)0,000 for alterations and improve-
ments on the line.
The first drawing by lot of Certificates of the
Oreign
and Colonial Government Trust has taken
Place. The Certificates (amounting to £11,000)
7,,awa are to be paid off at par on the 3d of
March.

The next series of sales of Colonial wool will
ce'reinence on Thursday, the 25th instant. The
arrivals to the present date are only 83,574 bales,
viz., 6,490 New South Wales and Queensland,
43,128 Victoria, 356 Tasmania, 15,621 South Aus-
tralia, 1,478 New Zealand, and 16,500 Cape of
Good Hope.
California advices mention that the wheat crop
1.4 that State will this year be sown earlier than
In 1868, and extend over a large breadth of ground.
t is proposed in a circular from Messrs. D.
Chadwick M.P., and Thomas Dickins to hold a
_7,eeting on the 18th inst., for the formation of a
supply association on a basis analogous to that
of the Cotton Supply Association.
It appears that the receipts for internal revenue
in
the United States were last year $191,180,000,
vagts.iast $265,920,000 iu 1867, showing a falling off
r "Ich) if reckoned in sterling instead of in cur-
"'V) would be equal .to nearly £15,000,000.
lu the case of " Salisbury versus the Metropoli-
tan Railway" Vice-Chancellor James has dis-
thissed the application for an injunction to restrain
Pa
directors of the company in the matter of the
aYeaent of the forthcoming dividend, without
,earing Sir Roundell Palmer on behalf of the com-
ray, declaring that Mr. Salisbury had made out
se° ease for the interference of the Court, and ob-
thrviog that that gentleman must be a great philan-
thropist to concern himself so much in the affairs
regentmpany iu which he possessed so small and so
a stake.

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