The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-06 00:00:00

MONEY-MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE•

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The Government Securities were firm to-day, but
the business transacted was very limited, the
settle-
ment
ef
occupying the greater part of the
attentione
brokers. The foreign Securities remain unai terrrhe
and the same may be said of Railway shares•
rate of discount is firm at 31.
Reduced, 911 ;
Consols] are 92-i 3 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, —; Three per Cent.
New Three per Cents, 914 ; E
£l,OOO, par; ditto £lOO, £2OO, andlc £5OO, 4 pal.
hequer Bills
ril, 1874,
par ; Bank of England Stock, 4 pAer Cent., 238/.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., p
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880,
17,11f3 ; dittod 4 per;
ditto n ace Paper, 5
Cent., Oct. 1888, 1001 ;
Per Cent., Jan., 1872, 105 ; ditto Bends under
£l,OOO, 14 prem.
In the Foreign Market prices are follows :
Brazilian of 1565, 80 to ; Chilian of 1867,
Egyptian of 7
64 to 77 ; 1864,
944 to 954 ; 854 to 861,
ex div. ; ditto of 1868,
Italian
of 1861,
55/ to ; ditto of 1868, 84 to
85 ; mexican, 15 to ; Peruvian of 1865,
784 79 ; Russian of 1866, 91 to 92, ex div. ; Nicolai,
661 to 671; Orel, 82 to 4 ; Moscow, 794 to 8 ;
ditto Charkof, 77 to I ; ditto Charcow, 77 to I ;
Spanish of 1867, 31 to Turkish of 1858, 634 to
64 ; ditto of 1862, 674 to 4 ; and ditto of 1865,
41 to 4.
In the Railway Market Midland is 4 per cent.
better, 1164 to 1161 ; but Brighton has gone down
to 48 to 484. London and North Westarn, 1154
to 4 ; Great Western, 491 to 494, ex div. ; London
and South Western, 87 to 89 ; Great Eastern, 374
to ;,.South Eastern, 754 to 4 ; Metropolitan, 1011
to ;4rbit Northern, 107 to 108 ; ditto A, 108;
to 1091 ; Caledonian, 794 to 4 ; London, Chatham,
and Dover, 164 to 4 ; and Sheffield, 564 to 57.
American Five-Twenty Bonds have dropped to
834 to 4 ; Erie Railway Shares, 24 to j ; Illinois
Central, 964 to 97 ; Atlantiacnd the and Great
Consolidated
Western
Debentures, 32 to 33; 1,
Mortgage Bonds, 314 to 324.
In Bank shares Anglo-Austrian, are firm, the
price being 17 to 18 prem. Imperial Ottoman, 2
to 4 prem. ; London and County, 514 to 52/ ;
London Joint Stock, 334 to 4 ; London and West-
xi:duster, 644 to 4 ; and Union of London, 364
to I.
In miscellaneous securities General Credit are
14 to 14 dis. ; International, 14 to 1 dis. ; Hud-
son's Bay, 124 to 4 ; National Discount are
114 to 12 ; Telegraph Construction, 164 to 17 ;
Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference,
34 to t ; and Anglo-American, 224 to 4.
The Mortgage Debentures of the Trouville
Association are quoted 4 to 4 prem.
The sum of £lO,OOO in sovereigns was withdrawn
from the Bank yesterday for South America.
The ship Red Jacket has brought from Port
Phillip 10,262 ounces of gold, value in sterling
£41,048.
The steamer Massilia has arrived with i,2,328 in
specie. The Germania, from New York, en route
for Hamburgh, brings a small parcel of £2,120 for
London, and the Oneida has reached Southampton
from Brazil with £7,121, giving a total of specie
arrivals to the amount of .£11,569.
The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Thursday, Bth April, a special settling day iu the
Definitive Bonds (£60,000) and Scrip (both classes
£75,000) of the Four per Cent. European Commis-
sion of the Danube Loan.
A general meeting of the San Paulo (Brazilian)
Railway Company is called for the 16th inst., when
a dividend will be declared.
The number of passengers conveyed over the
Metropolitan, the Metropolitan District, the Ham-
mersmith, and the St. John's Wood Railways dur-
ing the Easter holidays, from Friday, March 26th,
to Thursday, April Ist, both days inclusive, was

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
93
Ditto for Account, 921 3
5 per Cent. Reduced 911
i
New 3 per Cent 911 -/
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
_
Do. 5 per Con ,an.1873
Annuitis, 30 -yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880. _
for 30 yre, expire sth April 1885 —
Do. Aug., 1908 —
Do (Rod Sea Televaph),
Exchoquar Bills, £l,OOO, 2i per Ct.
De£soo
Do. £lOO IL £2OO
Bank of Enghnd Stock, 41 per pent.... 238
De. opening .................................. .
--
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds
.....
Inter-Colonial Uranium .....................
INDIAN dOVERNMENT SBCIJRITIEb.
India Steck, 10i per Cent., April 1874... --
Do. Opening, for Account .................. _ -_-_.
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 ............... 11_5_,
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 ............... 164
................
Do. Certificates .............. --
Do. Enfaced Pape, 4 per Cent..... ......
r Cent.
..Jan. 1872 .... ~,,.. ......
Do. 5 pe 105
Do. spe May 1879 ............. ---
5 i
per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 .........
03 do 1877.........
Do
. do. 1882 .........
Di). Do
. Deb. , 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873•.....
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO .. --
14
Do.under £l.OOO ...........................
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ..... ...... 76
Do., Scrip 145 paid .. ...... ..
....
Auitriau Bonds 5 per coat •. ............. --
Do. 1859 ........................
Brazilian 5 por Cent ...........................
Do. ti per Cent. 1852 .....................
.... ..
Do. do. 1858.... ..........
Do. do. 186 ' ........ .- ..........
Do. do., 1863 .....................
Do. 5 per Cont., 1865 .....................
00 Account ........ ... ......................... 801 80
Blienos Ayres 6 per Cent. ..................
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont.)
Cuba, 6 per Cent. ... ........................... --
o,,ibau 6 por Cent —
Do. 41. per Cent .. ............ 73
Do. 3 per Cent.,
e. 6 per co-A. 1867 —
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
P 1011
C do übiau, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825........
Danubian Principalities, 7 I or Cent --
Do 8 por Cent., 1867 BBl
Eqtuulor New Cousolideted, 1 per Cont. --

800,120.
The traffic return of the South-Eastern Rai_
way exhibits an increase of £3,507, and that of the
London, Brighton, and South Coast an increase of
£2,487.
The traffic of the Great Western Railway of
Canada exhibits a decrease of £973, while that of
the Detroit and Milwaukie Railroad stands at an
increase of £573.
The London and Brazilian Bank (Limited) pro-
pose a reconstruction of the Bank lay a reduction of
the nominal capital and other measures. In lieu of
the present capital of £1,691,090, with £731,625
paid, it is proposed to create 50,000 shares of £2O
each, with £lO paid, amounting to £500,000. For
each £lOO share, with £45 paid, three £2O shares
are to be given with £lO paid ; and for two £2O
shares with 108. paid, one £2O share with £lO
paid. These will represent £487,750 of the present
paid-up capital (£731,625), and the remaining
£243,875 of that capital, consisting chiefly of sundry
debts due to the Bank, " will be applicable as
recovered for the purpose of forming a reserve
fund."
Notice has been given that the Argentine Go-
vernment have resolved to defer till the 31st of
August next the adjudication of the prize of $B,OOO
(about £1,600) which was to have been awarded in
six months from the 2d of November last to the
inventor or introducer of the best system of pre-
serving fresh meat on a scale capable of extensive
development.
A memorial on behalf of the holders of Anglo-
Austrian Bonds has been addressed by the Council
of Foreign Bondholders to the Austrian Govern-
ment, through Count d'Apponyi, the Austrian Am-
bassador in Lond
Con, y whom it was
Lord Clarendon o
the 20th ult. toCount von Beust.
has intimated that her Majesty's Ambassador a
Vienna will support unofficially the representations
of the Council. The Council have consequently
recommended British holders of Anglo-Austrian
bonds to suspend the conversion of their bonds,
awaiting the action of the Austrian Government.
The proposal made by the committee of share-
holders and creditors of the General Exchange
Bank (Limited), that the creditors should accept a
present payment of lls. 6d. in the pound, making,
with previous sums, 19s. in the pound, in full dis-
charge of their claims, having been assented to, the
liquidators are now paying the final dividend.