The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-22 00:00:00

MONEYMARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Consols are 93,1- 1 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 931 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 91i a ;
New Tree per Cents, 911 a ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 10 dis. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, par;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 244 5.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, --• ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, I ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, —; ditto Enfaced Paper, 51 per
Cent., 1091 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 5 prem.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 78i to 78/,
being 1 higher ; Erie Shares are 191 to 194 ; and
Illinois Central Railway Shares, 94 to 95.
In the Railway Market there has been a fall of 1
in Lancashire and Yorkshire and London, Chat-
ham, and Dover, the former at 1221 to 1221, and
the latter at 16f; to 16g.
In the Foreign market prices are marked as
fellows:—Egyptian (1864), 85 to 86 ; ditto (1868),
751 to 754 ; Viceroy's Seven per Cent., 791 to 80',;
ditto .I.\'ine per Cent., 971 to 98; Italian 561 to
; Tobacco Loan, 86 to 861 ; Peruvian, 77 to
77:1 ; Portuguese, 341 to 351 ; Orel Vitebsk 781
to 784; Nicolas, 634 to 61.
In Miscellaneous Shares Anglo-American Tele-
graph are quoted at 22 to 221 ; Hudson's Bay,
12i 121 ; General Credit, : 1 dis. ; Interna-
tional Finance, 21 18 dis. ; and National Discount,
11 to 14.
The Macgregor Laird, from the West Coast of
Africa, has brought, £1,480; the Scotia, from New
York, £2,000 ; and the Cimbria, from New York,
£22,283 for France, and £2lO for Hamburg.
In the matter of the London and Bombay .Bank,
now in liquidation, a call of £2 per share, on
the application of the official liquidators, has been
ordered by the chief clerk to 'Vice-Chancellor Stuart.
The amount is payable in London on the Ist July,
and in India on the Ist September.
The sum of £33,000 i❑ gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.

Advices from Lisbon state that the Cortes on
their meeting have passed a Bill of Indemnity, ren-
dering legal all the Acts taken by the Government
during the interregnum since the dissolution of the
late Chambers ; also, that the Finance Minister has
submitted a measure for the imposition of fresh
taxes, calculated to yield £900,000 per annum,
`which, together with certain economies, will, it is
represented, nearly make up the difference between
the current revenue and expenditure.
Rumours of failures in America and on the Con-
tinent are in circulation. One of the houses is in
New York, with branches in California and Lon-
don ; two 'others are Hamburg firms, in oil and
seed trade ; and another is a house in Brazil, having
an agency in England.
The Honduras Railway Loan advanced to 83 85
ot the success which the supplementary loan has
111 et with on the Continent, the subscriptions having
already been large.
The report of the British Indian Submarine Tele-
graph Company (Limited), to be submitted on the
28th inst., states that the whole of the capital re-
quired from the public—viz., £550,000, has been
subscribed ;
that the order for the cable has been
given to the Telegraph Construction and Mainten-
alee Company, and the first payment of £50,000
Itshad,' to them, as provided by the contract ; that
4,00 miles of core have been completed, while about
00 Miles are in the various stages of manufacture,
ani that there is every reason to believe it will be
completed within the contract time. With regard
to the prospectus issued in March last of a pro-
Posed 4, direct English, Indian, and Australian
Submarine Telegraph Company," to lay light cables
between England and the East, it is mentioned
that " the scheme has been withdrawn, and the de-
posits returned, so that the threatened opposition is
at an end."

The ship Star Queen, 1,500 tons burden, be-
longing to Messrs. James Baines, Taylor, and Co.,
sailed on the 18th inst. from Greenock for Queens-
land. This is the ninety-first vessel that has been
despatched on the land order system of emigration,
under the immediate direction of the Queensland
60vernment Emigration Office. She contains 295
8"18) divided into paying, assisted, and free pas-
sengers, and consisting of 143 members of families,
°°,single men, and 57 single females.
the report of the Trust and Loan Company of
Canada , to be presented on the 31st inst., recom-
mends a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per
annum, less income-tax.
A prospectus has I.);en issued of the Monarch In-
surance Company (Limited), with a proposed capi-
tal £1,000,000, in 200,000 shares of £5 each.
' he company, it is stated, is formed to undertake
tlre and marine insurance business, the former on
he non-tariff principle.

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