The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-10 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Consols are still flat to-day at 923 i for mouey;
ditto, for Ac :ount, 99.3- ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 93* 23 ; New Tkree per Cents, 93/ 3 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, prem. ; June, 8
prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
prem. ; June, 8 prem. ; Bank of England Stock,
4 per Cent., 244.
India Stock, 10/ per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 111/ 12 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 111 1004 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
5 per Cent., 106.
In Foreign Stocks Peruvian have declined I, to
791, upon the much lower price of the new issue.
Egyptian and Turkish are a point lower. Spanish
are 29, and Italian 55*. Russians Stocks are not
much inquired for, but the prices are firm.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 831, Erie
Shares have advanced to 19f, and Illinois 94f.
In the Railway Market South Easterns, London
and North Westerns, London, Chatham, and Dover,
and Brightons are 11 better. The prices are as
follows :--Caledonian, 808 to 81 ; Great Eastern,
381 to 388 ; Great Northern, 106 to 107 ; Great
Northern (A), 104 to 104/ ; Great Western, 511
to 5141; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 126* to 127 ;
London and Brighton, 441 to 441 ; London,
Chatham, and Dover, 16* to 161; London and
North Western, 118 to 118/ ; London and South
Western, 90 to 92 ; Metropolitan, 100 to 100/ ;
Alidland, 1171 to 117/ ; North Eastern (Berwick),
111/ to 112 ; and South Eastern, 76/ to 764.
Bank Shares are quiet, but steady. Alliance are
quoted at 12/ to 13/ ; Anglo-Austrian, 21 to 22
prem. ; Chartered Mercantile, 29} to 30/ ; Con-
solidated, 41 to 4/ ex div. ; Imperial Ottoman,
33 to 43 prem. ; Imperial Bank, 154 tol6l ex div. ;
London and County, 50/ to 51/ ; London? and
Westminster, 57 to 58 ex div.; Oriental, 43/ to
to 44/ ; the London Joint Stock, 30/ to 31/ ex
div. ; and Union of London, 351 to 36/.
In Telegraph Shares French Cable are 19 to 19/ ;
Atlantic, 2/ to 2i ; and Anglo-American, 19/ to 191.
The sixty-sixth half-yearly general meeting of
this company was held at the Terminus, Fenchurch-
street, to-day, Mr. C. Wheatham in the cnair. The
chairman, in moving the adoption .of the report and
accounts, said it afforded him great pleasure to day
that the directors were able to declare, in addition
to the ordinary dividend, a bonus of 1 per cent. per
annum to the holders of consolidated stuck. The
report was after some discussion adopted, and thanks
voted to the chairman and directors.

No bullion operations took place at the Bank
yesterday.

The Rhein, from New York, has brought
£32,000 in specie ; the City of Brooklyn, £lO,OOO ;
and the City of Baltimore, £4,500.
The undermentioned ships are on the way to
England from Port Philip, viz. :—The Lady
Jocelyn, with £46,000; the Lincolnshire, with
£36,500 ; the Kent, with £19,500 ; the Yorkshire,
With £67,000 ; and the George Thompson, with
£33,500. The steamer Malta has reached Point de
Galle from Melbourne, with £429,500, which will
be due here iu about a month. The aggregate by
these seven vessels is £1,159,000.
The half monthly settlement in shares and
foreign stocks will begin to-morrow (" continua-
tion day"), and end on Friday.
At the ordinary general meeting of the Charing-
cross Hotel Company (Limited) a dividend at the
rate of 10 per cent. per annum, free of income tax,
Was declared.

It is announced that the French Atlantic Tele-
graph Company have adopted the reduced tariff of
the Anglo-American of £1 103. per message, the
two undertakings on these terms simply competing
as regards expedition. While it is not for the ulti-
mate interest of this branch of enterprise that re-
ductions should be recklessly carried on, the public,
it is remarked, have hitherto derived a very sub-
stantial advantage from the establishment of the
alternative route, the charge having been £5 for
each message to America when the French Com-
pany was formed last autumn.

The report of the Electric and Irternational
Telegraph Company, just issued, states that the net
profit for the half year ending 30th of June last
amounted to £89,780. The directors recommend
that a bonus of £5,000 be divided amongst the
staff, and that a sum of £2,500 be paid to Mr.
Weaver, the secretary, as an acknowledgment of
zealous and valuable services. After making these
Payments, and paying the dividend to the share-
holders at the rate of 25 per cent. per annum, as
previously announced, there will remain at the
credit of the trust fund a balance of £58,308
". Bd., which it is proposed to reserve for future
distribution.
It is announced that the liquidators of Hodges's
Distillery
Company (Limited) have determined
to sell the freehold, copyhold, and leasehold
estates, with the plant and machinery, as a going
concern.

The Peninsular and Oriental steamer, with the
Australian mails, is expected this week to bring
£500,000 in gold, while the New York steamers
Which left on Saturday have £lBO,OOO on board.
Messrs. Thomson, Bonar, and Co. have invited
subscriptions for a 5 per cent, guaranteed Peruvian
Railway Loan (Pisco Yea), with dividend from the
Ist
ult., at the price of 70, and redeemable at par
within 25 years by a cumulative sinking fund.
,The Manchester journals announce the stoppage
(13' Mr. William W. Ogle, cotton spinner and mann-
acturer, Orchard Mills, Croston, near Preston, but
the amount of liabilities is not stated. It is under-
, 1:13° t3od this failure is a result of the suspension of
• Livesey and Thorpe.
0, Master of the Rolls has, on the application
the official liquidator, ordered that a further divi-
hildu ,of 5s- in the pound be paid to the creditors of
&Lumber Iron Works and Shipbuilding Com-
-1:s (Lin
thmited),
unmaking, with former dividends,
8. 6(1. ie pod.

ILITIIIi MIDI-TWO O'OLOOK.

UOVERNMEST rUNDS.;
92 1
a Pet Cent. Consols
921
DittO for Account, Sept 8
93i 2/
Sk, Per Cent. Reduced
93/ 3
.4 eV, 3 per Cent
Aevr 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
A Do. 5 per est, , 9,12.1873
Annnities, 80 Yrs, expire sth Jan. 1880.
.
Do,'o. for 30 yre, expire sth Apri
1908.- --
b (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., . f Maren - pm
l 1880 —
4*Zeheqll3l. Bills, Cl,OOO, 21 P. U-• 8
Do.
3 do. June
DO
£5,00 —
A 244
Cabe:Bn f England Stock, 4i per Cent
.....
.£lOO, £2OO &
opening
Itnada 4 pe alent. Bonds
14ter-OolonOnaniurn
~,,,INIO UOVERNMENT SECURITIES. _
1 -,-'a. tock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 _
4),.,0. Opening, for Account
1111 12
'l°. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
101 1001
'-'„e• 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
"0. Cercates
Do. Enfaced Pape, per 0.nt......
106
Do. 5 per Oeut., Jan. 1872 ,....
Do. 6,i Per Cent. May 1879
-' °per Cent flu • Deb. 1872
, P•
.00
do 1877
Do.
do. 1882
.U., Deb., 5 er Cent , Aug. 1873 .....•
under
Do Bonds 4P er Celli , £l,OOO
De. '41P,000 .... .......................n —oLooxlmn.
FORE YITNDII- TWO -:--
4t'entine Republic, 6 per Cent
I. Arian Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859
trizilian 5 per Cent . .• •
3. ii. per Cent. 185.2
°he. do
1858....
O. Ut.,
186 ' .......... ..
De. do.
1863
r, 1)e. 5 per L'ent., 1865
0 Account
-4,seees Ayres 6 ...... Cent. .................
(1111 too 2._p Cent. (Deferred 3 per Clout.)
-.'ie),ei• I( peerr Cent.
ne.e 6 per Cent
4 i per Cent..., ........... ... ...........
oi, I )q. 631,7 i ppl)l,:e per Cent
6e(c:ler::::::1C8.1:68:7.6.t.61.
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_
,N.uantsti 3 por Cent , 1825........
"aetthiat, Prin i lities, 7 per Cent
nalt
t e. 8 per Cettet.P, 1867 ............. ...... ' .
c111"er Nelv o.,n.solidated, 1 per Cent
861
RYlDtlan, 7 per Cent....
130 Do Siecoed Is ............ .••
80. . 45eL Bonds
XlOO Bonds. ............ .•••• *
...............
Do.
1864
80.
Account