The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-08 00:00:00

BIONEY-MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLoox.
Consols are 918 21 11 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 921 1 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 901 II;
New Three per Cents, 901 / f 1 ; Exchequer
Bills £l,OOO, 5 dis. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO,
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 210 11 ;
ditto 5
per Cent., July, 1880, 1041 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 100 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
5 per Cent., 1051; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, par ; ditto
Under £l,OOO, 3 prem.
Foreign Bonds are very flat, and those current
being much stronger, and not considerably below
yesterday's final prices. Italian, at 551, are 1 lower
wily, and Peruvian, at 751, and Turkish Five per
Cents., at 411, are likewise 1 lower. Spanish are
dull at 271.
A further decline has taken place in Eng-
lish Railways. There is this morning :a fall of
in Metropolitan and Midland, 1 in Great
Western, London and North Western, Caledo-
nian and Great Northern A ; and 1 in Brighton
andlSouth-Eastern. The present quotations are :
Great Eastern 37 to 371 ; South Eastern 748 to
75; Metropolitan, 1001 to 101; Great Northern
105 to 106 ; ditto A, 206 to 107 ; Caledonian, 77
t 9 771-; Brighton, 461 to 46! ; Midland, 111 to
1111 ; London and North Western, 1134 to 111 ;
and Great Western, 47 to 471.
In Cable Shares Atlantic Telegraph are 1 lower,
the present quotation being 23 to 24. The Eight
Per Cents. are quoted at 31 to 31; Anglo-American
Telegraph shares are 1 higher, at 221 to 22k.
Great Luxemburg shares are 1 lower, at 91 to 10.
American 5-20 Bonds have fallen to 771, Erie
Railroad Shares to 17, and Atlantic and Great
Western Mortgage Bonds 22.
The sum of £27,000 in gold was taken from the
Bank yesterday for Brazil.
The Nyanza, from Alexandria, has brought
£5,435.
A report was report was circulated yesterday
by the adverse operators that a withdrawal was
contemplated of £1,000,000 in gold for Russia, but
It was entirely without foundation. Other parties
Were busy in disseminating an equally baseless
rumour of some large failure.
A report on the German railways, including those
of the Germanic-Austrian provinces, has been pub-
lished by the Vienna Board of Trade. According
to this there were 13,639 English miles open for
Public traffic. The working expenses amounted in
the highest case to between 90 and 100 per cent. on
the gross receipts, and in the lowest to 30 per cent.
--viz., the Turnau-Kralup and Kaiser Ferdinand's
line. The highest dividend paid was 25 per cent.,
the lowest 2 per cent., and there were seven lines
that paid nothing. By accidents during the last
three years, from 1865 to 1868, there were 478 per-
sons killed and 636 injured.
The official liquidators of the London, Bombay,
and Mediterranean ',.Bank :(Limited), have given
notice of a first dividend of 2s. Gd. in the pound to
the creditors.
The annual report of the Trustees of the Bankers'
Guarantee and Trust Fund states that 485 new
policies were issued during the year, and that the
total receipts to date have been £37,518, and the
claims
£5,101. The accumulated fund is £23,739.
The report of the Colonial and Foreign Banks
Guarantee Fund wates that 174 new policies were
Issued during the year, and that the total receipts
to date have been £22,169, and the claims only
£626. The accumulated fund is £17,462.
The Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Com-
pany (Limited) have notified that their Corfu
,Offiee has just been connected with Santa Maura
by a telegraph cable laid by Messrs. Newall
and Co., of Gateshead, and it is expected the
other Greek islands will be joined in a few days.
'hese islands will be connected with Athens,
and by a cable to Syra, the chief port in the
Levant.
The traffic of the Caledonian and North British
Railways show an increase of £3,721.
The Secretary of State for India in Council has
given notice that the tenders for bills of exchange
°n Calcutta and M alras will be received at the
Bank of England on Wednesday, the 19th instant,
on the terms stated in the announcement issued
on the 10th 31 November, 1863, to the amount of
35,00,000 rupees.
The Yorkshire Post states that a meeting of the
ere litors of Mr. Al•Maliony, woolstapler, whose
suspension, with liabilities of £20,000, occurred on
Monday, was held on Wednesday at Bradford. A
composition of 7s. 63. in the pound was offered.
The meeting came to the resolution to require the
Insolvent to make an assignment of his estate for
the benefit of his creditors, for whom assignees were
appointed.
In the colonial produce markets the demand for
some e articles has shown rather more steadiness,
but
generally the tone is still quiet. There has
been an improved inquiry for sugar, with large
transactionsi in West India, which closed about 6d.
per cwt. higher. Other kinds, including Manilla,
ave occasionally obtained a similar advance, and
refinedeti. is also more firm, owing to the diminished
reaPiPillTd• Floating cargoes of rice continue to be
at low
e prices, and landed parcels are very
dull' The
public sales of Plantation Ceylon coffee
have latterly gone off spirit, and the moderate
with
quantity offered 18. 64. red has been disposed of, at fully is to
Salt per cwt. above the depression of last week.
petre is unchanged. The tea-market has been
aggceedin 1y d
ul., and the large public sales held
ring the week have in many instances led to
B°rne trifling decline in common as well as other
grades of es
s.Ongou.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
e, (401rXRNILEST FUNDS.
Ditto
' Per Cent. Consols
8 for Account,
~,Per Cent. Reduced 9Ol /
jlew 3 per Cent
evcr 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 6 per Con Jan. 1873
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
~ (Red Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1908 —
Do '"lequo:lr Bills, .£l,OOO, 21 21 per Ct 5 d
.C5OO
Do.
£lOO & £2 —
Batik of England Stock 00
, 41 per Cent
130. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds
Inter-Colonial Uranium
INDIAN 'JOVERNMENT 3ECURITISB
India 'hock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 2lO 11
Do. Opening, for Account
Do, 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 por Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced lfapet 4 per CAW.... 7,
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872
........ .104
Do. Si per Cent. May 1879 _
Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 18/2 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
D... Deb 5 Gent Aug. 1873
~ per ~
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,000
1)0. under £l.OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS-0
01
Ar.ine Republic, 6 per Cent `l
Au 7
_
Doont., Scrip £45 paid .
6.. LOSING ?'RILES
I 0... ErS..
an Bonds 5 per cont
Do. 1859 —
Brazilian 6 per Cent
_
Do. q per Cent. 1862
Do.
Do. do. do. 18 :-)8....
186) —
Do. do.,
1863 _
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 _Uo Account,.
B.enos Ayres::.; ........... ...
CuDo,
2 per nt
per Ce(Deferred 3 per Cent ;
ba 6 Cent._
(Lilian 6 per Coat
1)0. 3 por Caul. ......
I 0. 6 per ce t. 1667 9G I
1)0, 7 per Cent. 1t166 .........
D 0 lo „blau 6 per 'Cent
an,.,,50, 3 per Cent., 1825 ........
an Principalities 7 par Cent
Do 8 per Cent, 1867 B6i.
Equalor New ColLsolidated, 1 potr Cent
I: cYttian,.7 per Cent....
Setoed Issue . •.• --
............ ••••
)o. -slit Bonds
O. .£lOO Bonds ........................
Do. • 1864
Do. Acco—
Do. XotiO Bonds unt
1)0. 4.10 C Dentlß
...........
English
Do Scrip, 1868
Greet do. £l5 pd — dis
Governtrent RAil Way De 5 per Cont., 1821 5, ex Coups
Do. Accculat
Du. Coupons
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