The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-26 00:00:00

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Government securities to- day were rather
dull, but the prices were quite equal to that of
Saturday. In the Foreign market there was a fall
in Spanish stock, and prices in the principal rail-
Way shares were the turn lower, excepting Metro-
politans and Great Northerns.
Consols are 934 14 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 931 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 92 11 ;
New Three per Cents, 914 2 1 2 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 2 pretr. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 2
prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Ceat.„Tuly, 1880, 1141 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, —; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 13;
ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 13 15 prem.
In the foreign market Peruvian Five per Cents.
have risen 4, to 774 774. New Spanish Threes are
flat at a reduction of 4, at 30, 304. I.:than Five
per Cents. are unchanged, at 551 554 ; Mexican at
144 144 ; Greek, at 11 114 : Turkish Five per
Cents., at 424 424 ; Russian (Azof) Dailway Bonds,
at 761. 77 ; ditto New Scrip, par, 4 prem ; and
Honduras Railway Bonds, at 82 84 ex c.
The Danubian Commission Guaranteed Loan is
41 prem.
In the Railway Markets Caledonian are 4, Great
Eastern 4 ; Great Northern A I, Metropolitan 4,
it, Midland 4 better, while Great Northern Ori-
ginal have receded I, and Great Western, I.
The prices are follow :—Caledonian 78 ;
Great Western, 48/ 9 ; Great Eastern,
37i 4 ; Great Northern, 1064 I ; ditto
Al 1084 to 9 ; Lancashire, 123 34 ; Metro-
politan, 1034 4 ; .diito Extension, 100 to 1;
Midland, 1141 154; Sheffield, 554 6 ; Brighton,
474 8 ; North British, 35 I ; North Western, :115
At; North-Eastern (Berwick), 102/ 34 ; ' South
Eastern, 76 4 ; Chatham and Dover, 17 I.
American 5-20 Bonds are 801 to 801 ex c. ;
the 1885 Bonds at 784 784 ex c. ; and the Ten-
Forty Bonds at 734 734. Eries Railway shares are
unaltered at 224 to 224, and Illinois Centrals at
98fr 99.
The subscriptions in Paris to the new Spanish
loan are stated to have been larger than was an-
ticipated.
The sum of £40,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank on Saturday.
The Avoca is telegraphed as having arrived at
Point de Galle, with the Australian mails and
£160,000, the bulk of which is understood to be for
England. She announces that the Somersetsbire,
With £165,500, the Agamemnon, with £164,000,
and the Wave of Life, with £44,000, had sailed
from Melbourne, and the Chile, with £215,960,
from Otago—making, with the amounts previously
announced, a total sum of £1,353,960, irrespective
of that by the Avoca known to be on its way to
this country.
The following official notification has been for-
warded to us :—" Sir,—l am directed to inform
you, with referenza to the arrangement with the
Canadian Government mentioned in the half-year's
report of this company, that the chairman has re-
ceived a cable telegram intimating that the Cana-
dian Parliament has unanimously adopted resolu-
tions confirming the arrangement, and that the bill
to carry them into effect will now be passed as a
matter of course.—l a 'in, sir, yours truly, BRACK-
STONE BAKER, Secretary."
The traffic receipts of the railways in the United
Kingdom for the week ending April, amounted on
13,496 miles to £757,887, and for the correspond-
ing week in .1868 on 13,308 miles to £739,452,
showing au increase of 188 miles and of £18,435 in
the receipts. The gross receipts on the 14 princi-
pal lines in the United Kingdom amounted for the
Week on 9,816 miles to £631,847, and for the cor-
responding week of last year on 9,647 miles to
£613,855, showing on increase of 169 miles and of
£17,992 in the receipts. The traffic receipts on 52
other lines in the United Kingdom amounted on
8,680 miles to £126,040, and for the similar week
of last year on 3,661 miles to £125,597, showing an
increase of 19 miles, and of £443 in the receipts.
The total receipts of past week, as compared with
those of the previous one, ended 11th April, exhibit
all increase of £799.
The report of the Fairbairn Engineering Com-
pany (Limited), to be presented on the 29th inst.,
states that the net earnings of the business barely
allaiee to pay a 5 pet cent. dividend.
The failure of Mr. Lewis Langworthy, South
American merchant, has been announced at Mm-
Chester- The liabilities are stated to he large.
Letters from Rotterdam state that a concession
has been granted to Mr. W. 11. van Meukeren, of
that Place, by the Government of Holland and
Prussia, to construct a railway, commencing by a
Junction at Boxtel (in Holland) with the State
I"ilway, and, crossing the Maas River at Gennep,
terminating at Wesel (in Prussia) by a junction
With the Paris Hamburg line of the Cologne Min-
den Railway. This, it is said, will form the shortest
and most direct communication from the seaports
Flushing, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Dordrecht to
Hamburg, Hanover, Berlin, Bremen, and the North
Germany.
The Bangalore has arrived from Alexandria with
£131,400, chiefly in Australian sovereigns.
The Massilia has taken out £77,355 in specie for
non-lbay.
The report of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Com-
PanY, to be presented on the 28th inst , states that
11.0 dividend can be declared on the present occa-
-I,n, and that the result of the diminished state of
I_lo earnings for the whole year is that, after cre-
diting profit and loss with the surplus on the work-
Ug account, and debiting it with the usual per-
ntage for repairs, there is only a balance of
£10,796 available to be written off the value of the
loleet for depreciation for the year 1868.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSIN PRICES.

0, GOVERNMENT itiliD3.
°,Per Celt. Consols
Ditto for Account,
8 per Cent. Reduced 92 lf
New 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cen J 9.11.1873 -
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885—
Do (Red Sea Teles.raph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchog= Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Ct.
£5OO
Do
Do. £lOO & £2OO .... 2
Bank of England Stock, ili per Cent, _
De. opening —
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Omni=

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIIM
India stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874
Do. Opening, for Account -
Do. 6 por Cent..fuly, 1880
Do. 4 per Cont., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced Pape, 4 per Cant..,., —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
„°. 5} per Cent. May 1879 —
"-) 5 per Cent., Rp. Deb. 1872 —
duo
Do 1877
„ O. do. 1882 —
Alj. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. tinder .£l.000

FOREIGN FUNDS—OLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, EC per Cent
Do., Scrip £45 paid ••
A.nitrian Bonds a per cent
tra Do.
1659 —
tilian 5 per Cent —
00.41 per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do. 1858....• —
I.y
„o. Do, do. 186 t •
do
1863 —
~
1105 per Cent., 1865 —
, Do Account —
-0 ;silos Ayres 6 per Cont.
(9Do 2 per Cent. (D,,krred 3 per Cont )
,41',1, 6 per Cent.
'''''',4olo 6 per Cent —
1." o• 41 per Cont....—. ......... .• ........
1-10.3 per Cont.,
"-,°. 6 per ce,lt. 1867
,-, per Cent 1866
,i,-,ka;sh, 3 per Cent. 1825.•••••••• — Lian,ibian Principalities, 7 ler Cent 761
1.1)0 8 per Cent.,
,r4quador New Uonsolidated, 1 per Cent.
43YPtitin, 7 per Cent —no Second Issue ••••• . —
00.450 i, Bonds —
00. XlOO Bonds
Do. 1864
.., Do. Account
lio. £5OO Bonds
1°0• 4106 Bonds .................. .............871
English Scrip, 1868 761 51d
DO do. 445 Pdmmsette• -- die