The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-30 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
There was :but a limited demand to-day, and
Consols were a shade lower than yesterday.
Foreign stocks, however, maintained their prices,
which in some instances advanced, but in railway
shares there was no alteration of moment. The
discount market was firm, but, notwithstanding
that, money was abundant, and first-class paper
was taken nearly 1 below the bank rate.
Consols are 9:4 3 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
intuit, _ ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 931 1;
l'e'sv Three per Cents, 931 1 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 21 per Cent., 10.
India Stock, 10/ per Cent., April, 1874, 213 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 ; ditto 4 per
per Cent., Oct., 1883, 102-1 ; ditto Enfaced
Paper, 4 per Cent., —; ditto 51 per Cent., May,
1879,1401.
In the Foreign Market Turkish, Moscow—Taro-
Wavy, and Charkof-Azof, have advanced 1 to 1 per
Cent, but Egyptian have relapsed 1. The prices
are follows :—Brazilian of 1865, 80 to 1; Chilian
of 1867, 921 to 91; Egyptian of 1864, 87 to 89 ;
ditto of 1868, 721 to 73, ; Itolian of 1861, 51/
to i. ; ditto Tobacco Loan, 3 to + prem. ;
Mexican, 154 to 16 ; Peruvian of 1865, 761 to
1; Russian of 1866, 91 to 92 ; ditto Nicolai, 661 to
67 ; ditto Orel, 804 to 81 ; ditto Moscow, 791 to
i ; ditto Charkof-Azof, 79 to 801 ; Charcow-Kre-
Inentschug, 79/ to 90 ; Spanish of 1867, 31 1-16 to
3-16 ; Turkish of 1858, 64 to 65 ; ditto of 1862, 63
to 1; and ditto of 1865, 381 to
In the railway market Great Western is lower,
531 to i ; London and North Western, 117/ to
1181; Midland, 1171 to 1174 ; London and South
Western, 89 to 91 ; Great Eastern, 42/ to a;
Brighton, 521 to i ; South Eastern, 89 to 1 ; Me-
Metropolitan, 109 to i ; Great Northern, 110 to i ;
ditto A, 1101 to 111; Caledonian, 791 to 1; and
London, Chatham and Dover, 171 to /.
United States 5-20 Bonds hrve risen / per cent.,
viz., to 75Z- to 1. Erie Railway shares, 26/ to 1 ;
Illinois Central, 92 to 1; Atlantic and Great
Western Debentures, 414 to 421 ; and the Consoli-
dated Mortgage Bonds, 454 to 461.
Banking and miscellaneous shares are inactive.
The amount of gold withdrawn from the Bank
Yesterday for the Continent was £52,000.
The Nyanza, from Alexandria, has brought
£36,329 in specie. Of the £220,000 by the Atrato,
from the West Indies, £133,000 is silver and £70,000
gold. The Poonah takes out 170,000 in silver and
£5,800 in gold for Bombay.
Of the £868,000 in Australian gold in course of
transmission to England, only about £130,000 is
Yet due, but a c3nsiderable sum will possibly arrive
from the United States next week, £210,000 being
known to be on the way to Europe.
The settlements have passed over in a very fa-
vourable manner, and the credit of the speculators
has been remarkably well sustained.
The call of £5 on the shares of Overeud,
Gurney, and Co. (Limited), recently stated to
be necessary to meet the promissory notes due the
15th of March, has been ordered to-day by Vice-
Chancellor Malins. It is to be paid on the Ist
of March.
An interim dividend, at the rate of 5 per cent.
Per annum, has been declared by the Merchant
Shipping Company (Limited).
At the meeting of the Scottish Australian Invest-
ment Company a dividend was declared at the rate
of 5 per cent. per annum.
Tho International Financial Society has de-
clared a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per 1
annum.

The directers of the North Staffordshire Rail-
Way have decided to recommend a dividend of 24
Per cent.

At the meeting of the York City and County
Bank yesterday, a dividend of 8 per cent. and a
bonus of £1 10s. per share were declared.

The National Bank of Liverpool has declared a
divi lend of 10A., and the Adeiphi Bank G per c:fit.
for the half-year.

At a fleeting of the eroditord of Messrs. Piper
and Co., builders, who recently failed, the liabili-
ties Were estimated at £51,458, an I the assets at
£42,771. It was resolved that the estate shall be
a',signed to trustees, who are to employ builders to
complete the contracts, and to sell the works, plant,
irn plan en ts, &c.
The Manchester Courier announces the failure of
Messrs. Crffala Brothers, of that city and Zante,
With liabilities to the amount of £lO,OOO.
A remittance of £1,700 has been received on
account of the dividends on the debt of the
Equador.

It is stated that the subscription opened at Paris
for the shares of the Eastern Railway of Hungary
has been very successful.
The Mexican advices state that great efforts are
being made to have the railway line from Mexico to
Puebla inaugurated on the sth of May.
The last accounts from Peru state that, owing to
the excess of tonnage at the Chincha Islands wait-
ing to load, the Government had authorised cuttings
to be made for supplying them from the islands of
Quanape and Macabi.
The Philadelphia advices mention that the muni-
cipality have appropriated £l,OOO for the purpose
of having the names of streets affixed to the lamps
at each corner. It seems that all large foreign
towns will accomplish this simple but indispensable
duty long before it is likely to be undertaken in
t'ondon.
The news from Brazil by the mail steamer Danube
I,'B again satisfactory, the rate of exchange at Rio
having. experienced a further advance to 190.
Attacks are announced against the last fortifica-
tions of the Paraguayans from the 21st to the 27th
of December, which are described to have been
completely successful, the Allies capturing 46
cannon, 2,000 prisoners, and the baggage of Lopez,
'tho is stated to have fled into the forest, where he
'Was closely surrounded.
The Foreign and Colonial Government Trust
have lodged with the Austrian Ambassador a pro-
teat against the forced conversion of the Austrian
'eht, which has now commenced. A copy of the
Protest was also left with the Committee of the
Loudon Stook Exchange ; the object apparently
be.‘eing to put a pressure hereafter upon the Imperial
`-/overnment, by shutting out new Austrian pro-
jects from this market till the claims of the credi-
tors shall have been satisfied. It is very lamentable
!,13 see Austria acting upon a policy which can only
'aye the effect of alienating the sympathies of the
capitalist public of this country.
At the " Open Stock Exchange (Limited)" the
Clare's of the Albert Life Assurance Company, £3
taidl sold at 83. 3d. per share ; Bedford Hotel
ctilPany (Limited), fully paid, 31s. per share ;
Brighton 2 Hotel Company (Limited), fully paid,
(0* 6(1. per share ; City Discount Company
ll,lnlited), £5 paid, 18s. per share ; Grosvenor and
e. st-end Railway Terminus Hotel Company
(Limited), fully paid, £2 18s. to £2 19s. per share ;
Guildhall ;
Taverns Company (Limited), fully paid,
paid
per share ; Waterloo-bridge Company, fully
per share; Westminster Palace Hotel
°lnPany (Limited), fully paid, £4 2s. per share.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
COVERNMEXT FUNDS.
u Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
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7,„ Per Cent. Reduced 93i
A
2
levr 3 per Cent
53i
" i per Cent. Jan. 1894
D -
A °. 6 per Oen J an. 1873
-tanuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1881' —
Ex De. for 30 yrs,' expire sth April 1885 --
° (Bed Sea Teleh.raph), Aug., 1908" —
10
cquar Bills, .41,000, 2i'per Ct.
be.
.£sooe.
£lOO k £2OO —
'Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent
.... Do. account
(anada per Cent,. Bonds —
!titer-Colonal Oninnun
~ , iRDIAN UOVERNMENT SECURITIES
In ha Shock, Ing 0i per Cent., April 11874... 213
9,0. Openi, for
DoLi Account _— T.,0". 4 5 per Cent. July, 1880
. per Cent., Oct. 1888
DDo. Certificates
o.Enfaced Pap:. 4 per Cent —
5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 , —
7,?* 5,.1- Per Cent. May 1879 lloi
''''' ° Per Cent Rup. Deb. 1872
•, •
Do do, 1877 —.