The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-20 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
CO3I3IERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Consols are 93 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
eount, ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 91i ;
New Thee per Cents, 941 8 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 2i per Cent., 1 pm ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and
£5OO, par; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent.,
shut.

India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 1 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 1 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOC',
13 ; ditto under £l,OOO, 18 13 prem.
The Foreign stock market was rather dull.
Italian Five per Cents. have declined to 551551, ;
and Brazilian Five per Cents. of 1865 1, to 791
80 ex div. Peruvian Five per Cents , however,
have risen a further 1, to 791 7931. Mexican
Bonds remain at 141, 15- ; Greek Bonds at 114
121 ; Turkish Five per Cents. at 411 411.
Railway shares have receded. Midland. Sheffield,
and Great Northern A have declined : and Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, Metropolitan, Great
Western, and South-Easterns are I lower. Cale-
donian ;and North-Eastern ( Ber wick) stocks
are rather firmer than last evening. The
following are the quotations :—Caledonian, 801 I ;
Great Eastern, 37 a ; Great Western, 491 50 ;
Great Nerthern, 1071 81; ditto A 1071 8 ; North
Western, 114 I ; North Eastern (Berwick), 102 3 ;
South Eastern, 751 1; Sheffield, 54 1 ; Metro-
politan, 103 4 ; Chatham and Dover, 161 1 ;
Brighton, 49 f Lancashire, 123 1 ; Midland,
1161 4.
United States Bonds are not so firm, the Five-
Twenties marking a decline of /, at 851, 831, and
the 1885 /1, at e2l 821. The Ten-Forty Bonds re-
main without change, at 73i 73k. Atlantic and
Great Western Railway Debentures have receded
1-, to 32 33; but the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds
are unaltered, at 311 32.
Atlantic Telegraph securities remain steady at
the reduction of yesterday. The Original stock is
28 30, the Eight per Cent. Preference shares
31 1, and the Anglo-American Telegraph shares
are 221 221.
The sum of £25,000 in gold was taken from the
Bank yesterday.
The Tycho Brahe, at Liverpool, from the River
Plate and Brazil, has brought £10,140, and the
Holsatia, from New York, £2,800.
The greater part (about £250,000) of the dollars
brought by the French Mexican steamers has been
disposed of at 591 d. per oz., showing a decline of
id. from the price realised for the small arrival at
the beginning of the month. Bar silver has been
sold at 60 7-16 d. per oz., a fractional decline from
the last rate.
it has been resolved by the Board of the Agra
Bank to recommend to the shareholders for de-
claration at the ensuing annual meeting, a dividend
for the past year to the A shareholders of 9 per

cent., making, with the interim distribution of 4
per cent. in September last, 13 per cent, for the
year 1868, and, with the 7 per cent. declared for
the year 1867, the full preferential dividend apper-
taining to them of 20 per cent. for the last cwo
years.

At the meeting of the proprietors of the London
Bank of Mexico and South America (Limited) the
directors' report was adopted, and a dividend de-
clared for the half-year at the rate of 8 per cent.
per annum, free of income-tax.

The ordinary meeting of the shareholders of
the Atlantic Telegraph Company was little more
than formal, and an adjournment was arranged
to the 2d July next, when the accounts for the
financial year will be received from the Anglo-
Americ In Company. The chairman congratulated
the shareholders on the growing revenues of the
company, the messages amounting to £7OO a day,
and said that he hoped at the next half-yearly
meeting there would be a dividend for the ordi-
nary shareholders. The question of a further
reduction in the tariff of messages was under con-
6deration, and a lower scale would probably be
decided upon.
At the annual general meeting of the British
Equitable Assurance Company it was reported
that 3,086 new policies were issued during the past
twelve months, assuring £535,211, and l roducing
£16,293 in new premiums. Nearly £30,000 have
been added to the accumulated fund, which now
amounts to nearly £183,000.

The report of the Van Diemen's Land Company
which has been issued recommends a dividend of
2s. 6d. per share.
A meeting has been held of the creditors of
Messrs. Waterhouse and Kendall, of Stockport.
The statement of their affairs showed liabilities
£26,000, and assets, £9,000. An assignment was
made.

The ordinary general meeting of the City Offices
Company (Limited) will be held on the 30th inst.
The director; have made another call of £5 per
share, payable on the Ist of May. This will make
£35 per share paid, and leave a liability of £l5.
The weekly return under the Cotton Statistics
Act shows that the import inithe week ending yes-
terday was 34,343 bales, of which 16,486 were
American, 5,820 Brazilian, 7,744 East Indian, 2,668
Egyptian, and 1,725 miscellaneous. The export
Was 7,229 bales, of which 1,220 were American and
4,573 East Indian.

Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. announce that
the scrip certificates for the bonds of the United
Canal and Railroad Companies of New Jersey will
be exchanged for the receipts held by the allottees
on and after the 22d inst.

A sixth dividend of 2s. 4d. in the pound is pay-
able on the 22d and 23d inst. to the creditors of the

Oriental Commercial Bank, Limited.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
3 per Cent. Reduced 9li
New 3 per Cent
Now 2k per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. o per Cen J 9.11.1873
Annuities, 80 yrs, txpire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for SU yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telekraph), Aug., 1908_
Eacticqu?_r Bills, £l,OOO, 2f per Ct.
Ds £500
Do. £lOO k £2OO —
Rink of Englind Stock.4f per Cent Shut
J • account
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
luter-Colonial ()mutt=
INDIAN dOVEItNMENT SECUII.IIIEb
Illlizt '.;rock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Opening, for Account -
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates •••

Do. Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872
Do. 54 per Cent. May 1879 —
Di 5 per Cont., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
D... Deb., i per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do, under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent 79} I I
Uo., Scrip £45 paid ..
Anitrian Bonds a per cent
Do. 1859 651
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 44 per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do. 1858....
Do. do. 186 i 704
Do. do., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account BO4 80
li ,enos Ayres 6 per Cont.
DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cu'A, 6 per Cent.
U .Iban 6 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent... —
Do. 3 pfir Cent.,
1 .0. 6 per ce,,t. 1.867
1.0. 7 per Cent., 1866
0 lo Irbil+ n, 6 per Cent.
Danisq 3 per Cent., 1825
Dan ,t.iaii Principalities, 7 prr Cent 761
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 .
l'qualor New Consolidatcd, 1 per Cent
E uftian, 7 per Cent...,. —
I,n Set wid Issue •. •.
Do. .£sot. Bonds
Do. .£lOO Bonds ..... 834
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. .£5OO Bonds
Do, 4106 Bonds 9O i 1
English Scrip, 1868 761 6
Do do. £45 pd — die
Government Railway Debentures
Gratqc b per Cent., 1824 5, ox Coups. -
Do. Aeccunt -
Dn. Coupons --
Do. Account
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%.7-uttezaala 5 per Cent ‘ —