The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-19 00:00:00

NEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two 'CLocx.
Government Securities to-day shared the general
dullness that prevailed at the Stock Exchange.
Prices gave way slightly, and the quotations for most
of the leading Foreign Securities were the turn lower.
In the Railway Market the only advance in price
was Caledonian. The rate of discount in the house
is still; below the Bank minimum.
4
Consols are 93 4 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 ;
Now Tkreo per Cents, 91a ; Annuities, April,
1885, 11 13-16 ; Exchequer Bills£l,ooo, 6 prem. ;
ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 4 prem. ; Bank of
England Stock, 4 per Cent.,
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, 210 ;
ditto
5 per Cent., July, 1880, ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per
Cent., 92 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 12 8 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish and Italian Five
per Cents. have declined 1. Italian are 551 551 ;
Mexican, 141 144 ; Greek, 111 12 ; New Spanish,
3°4 394 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 411 411.
Russian Charkoff-Azof Railway, 77 ; and the
Honduras Railway Loan at 82 83 ex c.
The Danubian Commission Guaranteed Loan is
4, 1 pretn
In railway market ,Caledonians have improved
,and Metropolitan 4. Great Eastern have fallen
34°, Great Northern 1, Lancashire 4, Metropoli-
tan 4, Midland 4, Sheffield 4, and Brighton k
411 lower. Prices are follows :---Caledonian,
7
EBaiE:ter9n, ; 37Gtreait ; Western, 494 : Great
Great Northern, 107
ditto A, 100 i 94 ; Lancashire, 123 ; Metropoli-
tan, 1021 3 ;
1144 ditto Extension, 1001 1/ ; Midland,
Sheffield, 551 6 ; Brighton, 47f 8} ;
North British, 35 ; North Western, 114/ 151 ;
North astern, 1021 ; South Eastern, 76 ;
ChathaM and Dover, 17 to 4. 1
BAmerican 5-20 Bonds have declined 81 to 81 ;
on 1885 Bonds 1, to 79 791 ; and the Ten-Forty
974 98
are 4 lower, at 731 731 ; Illinois Central are
98 ; and Eries are 1 better, at 23/ 24.
b The Bum of £7,000 in gold was taken to the
aJank on Saturday.
The India and China mail steamer Ceylon has
taken out £258,449.
t It is reporte 1 that the negotiations with regard
o the contemplated Italian loan on the ecclesiastica
properties recently in progress with some French
banking establishment have been broken off, and
that
resort will for the moment be had to the home
Market.
It is also stated that arrangements for the carry-
ing out of the general scheme for the construction
of Turkish railways have been concluded with the
South Austrian Railway Company.
There is a rumour that the subscription list for
410,0000000 Three per Cent Stock on account of
Messrs,
Spanish Loan, recently contracted for by
axleBBrB. Oppenheirn and Co., of Paris, and Messrs.
Sulzbach, of Frankfort, in concert with several
Powerful establishments, will be opened in Paris on
the 22d and 23d inst.
The coupons due the Ist May on the'Russian 3
per Cent. Loan of 1859 are advertised for payment
in due course.
With reference to the second Russian Govern-
'tent 44 per cent. Loan, negotiated through Messrs.
Baring Brothers and Co., and Messrs. hope and
of Amsterdam, 920 bonds, amounting to
£lOO,OOO sterling, are to be paid off on the let of
June next.
The fiscal agents of the Guatemala Government
have given notice of the cancelment of £lO,OOO Five
per Cent. Guatemala Bonds of 1856, on account of
the Sinking Fund. The clauses relating to the
Sinking Fund being not clearly worded the repre-
sentative of Guatemala has applied to his Govern-
ment for authority to cancel an additional sum of
£lO,OOO during the present year, " in order to give
most liberal interpretation to the provisions of the
bonds."

The fifth ordinary general meeting of the share-
holders of the Australian Mortgage Land and
Finane.; Company (Limited) will be held in the
City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, ou the 28th
inst.

The ship Lord Palmerston, 1,075 tons register,
outward bounl to Calcutta from Liverpool, has
been totally lost. A telegrAin received from Lis-
bon at Lloyd's reports that she foundered on the
18th of March, and that her craw were saved. She
had on board 1,680 tons of salt, which, with the
ship, was insured at Lloy'ds.
The report of the Nictheroy (Brazil) Gas Com-
pany (Limited), describes the preliminary opera-
tions, and states that the directors are assured that
as 50011 as the works have commenced, the exten-
sion of the privileges already applied for and re-
conamencled by the directors of the public works
will be granted.
A Special general meeting of the Metropolitan
District Railway Company is convened for the 4th
of Alay, to consider a bill now pending which pro-
poses to grant further powers to the company.
The report of the directors of the London and
Provincial Law Assurance Society, presented at the
annual meeting, stated that the new policies issued
were 220 in number, assuring £306,625, and pro-
ducing„ in new premiums the sum of £10,067 19s.
°d. T
he total premiums received in the year were
£77,237 98. 6d., and the income from all sources
amounted to £97,937 12s. id. The claims by death
which have been paid during the year amounted,
including bonuses, to £24,174115. 11d. The exist-
mg assurances exceed two millions and a half. The
assets of the society amounted to £495,183 14s. 9d.

13RITISII FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

. CiOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Per Cent. Consols ................. . 93 f
IDitto for Account, ......... .. 9211
,54. per Cent. Reduced 9lf
,eW 8 Per (lent 9ll f it
mevf 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
De. 5 per Oen Jan. 18 7 3 —
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 188 V
Do. for SO yrs, expire sth April 1885
Ekcli
Do (Red Sea Telek.raph), Aug., loquor Bills, 41,00 V, 2} per Ch. ...908 _.
... 6
D 2
£5OO 4 ptn
Do.
£lOO le £2OO 4
Dank of England Stock, if per Cent.
Canad De. opening
Intera 4 per Cent. Bonds ...................
-C olonial Onannun -
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India W, cock, 10f per Cent., April 1874 210
Do. Opening, for Account -
Do. 5 per Cent..fuly, 1880 _ Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 —.
Do. Certificates -.... Do. Enfaced Pepin 4 per Cent.„... 92
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ~...,„,„,
Do. 5} per Cent. Mayp1e8b7.9...7.2. _—.
D 3 5 per Cent., Rup.
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882
D.,:i. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
_—
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., .£l,O .......
.
12 8 pna
Do. under .£l.OOO
FOREIGIst" FUNDS—CLOSING
7P9li BtICiES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Do., Scrip £45 paid ..
A.intrien Bonds 5 per cent
Brazilian 5
Do. 1859 —
per Cent
741
O.
DD 4} per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do.
1858....
1-)0.
Do. do. 186 i 7Ol.
do., 1863 6Bf
Do. 5 per Uent , 1.865 _Do Account .
B ;enos Ayres 6 per Cont.
oilDbao,26!Deerraceenutt..(Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Outlier& 6 Der pant
Do. 41 .2.. - ................ "
T 0, per Cent
—.opal. conc.. ........... .
Do. C per e „ .) ...
,--6
Do. 7 _ _ It t. 18,i7
C 1 I,,Per Cent.,, 1866
_ . 0. vi itn, u Per Cent
11144ETs'ioll11413117:nCeelit'itli8e2s.,5:i.k.74r."Ceut ---
-D° Per c ,
kquadsr NeLnh 1867 ................ . .....
E,;yptia9, 7 e
_?nsolidated, 1 'tor Cent
Do spe,,ni-i'l riBl'e 1..... ..................
......... ...•• ••
Do. £lOO Bonds .............................................. .
o.
Do, 1864
h.ccount
Do. £5OO Bonds
Do. 410„ Bonds —
En•. "Li S
0811 Scrip, 1868
Do
die
do. X 45 pd
GreGeoityserptent Railway Debentures
Cent , 1821 5, ©s Coups —
Do. Account .•
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.. riciount
......
G.,,uateinala 5 per..eent.....
40/Idtu'asCioV Rail. Loan.. 10g Ot all pi --
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