The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-09 00:00:00

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MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
An impression on the Stock Exchange is gaining
ground that a further advance in the Bank rate is
probable in face of the foreign loans with which we
are threatened. Consols remain without alteration,
and Foreign Securities with difficulty maintain their
prices.

Consols are now at 938 to 931 for money ;
ditto, for Account, —; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 911 11; New Tkree per Cents, 911 f ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 5 prem. ; June,
5 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March, 5
Prem. ; June, 10 prem.; Bank of England Stock,
41 per Cent., 239.
India Stock, 10} per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1151 148 131; ditto 4
Per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1008 ; ditto Eufaced Paper,
4 per Cent., 92k ; ditto 5 per Cent., Jan., 1872,
1054 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, '23 prem.
In the Foreign Market Argentines are quoted
831 to 831 ; Egyptian (1864), 86 to 87 ex div.;
do. (1868), 77 to 771 ; Viceroy Seven per Cents.,
821 to 821 ; ditto Nine per Cents., 99 to 991 ;
Italian, 52f to 528 ; ditto Tobacco Loan, 848 to
854 ; Mexican, 131 to 13f ; Peruvian, 821 to 821 ;
Portuguese, 320 to 331; Orel, 801 to 811 ex div. ;
Nicolas, 651 to 65i cx div. ; Moscow, 831 to 831 ;
Charkof, 80 to 80f ; Spanish, 268 to 261 ; and
Turkish Five per Cents., 42k to 42k.

The Portuguese Loan is quoted 1 to 1 premium.
In the Railway Market prices are as follows:—
Caledonian, 804 to 811; Great Eastern, 361 to 37 ;
Great Western, 551 to 55; ; London and Brighton,
42 to 421; London, Chatham, and Dover, 161 to
16i ; London and South Western, 89 to 91 ; Me-
tropolitan, 82 to 821; Midland, 117/ to 1181 ;
and South Eastern, 761 to 77.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 831 to 831
ex div. ; Ten-Forties, 771 to 771 ; and Erie Rail-
road Shares, 201 to 211.
Bank Shares are :—Alliance, 121 to 131; Anglo-
Austrian 6 to 8 prem. ; Chartered Mercantile, 32 to
33; Consolidated, 4} to 41 ; Imperial Bank, 16
to 17 ; Imperial Ottoman, 21 to 21 prem. ; Lon-
don and County, 58 to 59 ; and Oriental, 411 to
421 ex div.
In Miscellaneous Shares Anglo-American Tele-
graph is quoted at 201 to 201.
The South-Eastern Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of £BlO compared with the
corresponding period of last year, and the Brigh-
ton a decrease of £451.
The traffic return of the Great Western Railway
of Canada for the week ending the sth inst. shows
an increase of £3,312 over last year.
The half-yearly meeting of the Imperial Conti-
nental Gas Association will be held on the 30 inst.,
When a dividend will be declared for the six months
ending June last.
Creditors of Young, Carrington, and Company
(Limited) are required to send the particulars of
their claims, by the 20th of November, to the
liquidators acting in the voluntary winding up,
tinder the supervision of the Court of Chancery
at Glasgow, the 3d of December having been
appointed by Vice-Chancellor Malins for adjudi-
cating thereon.
The discount demand is active to-day both at the
Bank and in the open market.

The sum of £lOO,OOO in sovereigns, from New
York, was taken to the Bank yesterday.

The llama, from New York, has brought
X 16,200, and the City of Brussels £4,660.

Advices from Peru have been received via New
York, per Atlantic Cable, dated the 13th of Octo-
ber, announcing that the interval from the 30th of
September to the 4th of October, the predicted
Period of terrible earthquakes, having passed with-
°lit any disturbance, the alarm was over, and the
People bad quietly returned to their pursuits.
The Mincing-lane Markets have been generally
inactive, without change in prices, excepting that
tetton and tallow are rather lower. In the metal
market chilian copper bars advanced, in conse-
quence of telegrams reporting small charters at
Valparaiso.
The number of messages through the French
Atlantic Telegraph during the week ending the 6th
i"vember was 885, the cable charge thereon being
X 1,928, showing a reduction of £667 from those of
the preceding week.
The Smyrna and Aidin Railway Company have
l'eeeived a telegram from Constantinople announc-
41g the payment of £BO,OOO, which, with £50,000
received in August last, makes £130,000 on account
Of the guaranteed interest due from the Imperial
'tternan Government to the company up to the
'()th June, 1868.
The Stock Exchange Committee have ordered the
Rued portion (viz., £178,700) of the scrip and
I°°ds of the San Domingo 6 per cent. Government
'eau to be officially quoted.
It is stated that the telegraph office in the Lom-
bard Exchange and News Room will be connected
with the central Government office by a pneumatic
tube,Q and that it is the intention of the Postmaster-
elleral to use this station for postal as well as
telegraphic business.
The Anglo-Italian Bank (Limited) have issued,
cNeintly with the Societe Generale at Paris, and
t ertain financial houses at Berlin, Hamburg, Frank-
f c'rt) Amsterdam, Trieste, and Geneva, proposals
f °I. a 5 per cent. Italian loan of £5,200,000, on the
11 ational domains, at a price equivalent to about
?21 Per cent. These bonds are to be redeemable at
Pa:
the Within 12 years by payments commencing foin
7 nd are also at all times to be received at par
ti purchase of the domain lands of the king-
01°111 new in course of sale. They constitute part
the £16,000,000 authorised in 1867, and of the
mount
r now to be put forth £2,000,000 are reserved
subscription in Italy. The coupons " will be
prable in Italy in Italian currency, and in London,
ois,
ill and Frankfort at the respective exchanges
e the day at those places on Italy, and wbe
exempt from all charges by the Italian Government,
t'°,sl3t Italian income tax"—that tax at present
4tiling about 8i per cent. The prospects of the
"eribers will depend in a great measure on the
hi PiditY with which the domain lands are purchased,
tollee) as the bonds now offered at 72k will reckon
,3j 100 in the payments for these lands, they will
th course be taken up for that purpose so long as
eY may remain under par. The chief subscription
expected to be in Paris.

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tit.er Cent. Reduced 915 5
liou.' 3 Per Cent
Dolt' per Cent. Jan. 1894
41 '''' Per Con J 9.n. 187 3
Doiities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ei) for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
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813 Do. 3 do. June
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Do Per Cent. July, 1880
LI ' 1 Per Cont., Oct. 1888
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Do: do 1858 —
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D . ° Per Cent. 1865
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