The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-01 00:00:00

Isl6-NEY MARKEi

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Increased activity was observable to-day on the
Stock Exchange, and prices were in a great many
cases better. The rise on the French Bourse of
in the Rentes has exercised a beneficial influence
on foreign stocks generally, Turkish excepted, the
latter, being affected by the hitch in the negotiation
of the new loan. In the discount market the de-
mand for money is rather brisk, but the rate re-
mains at about 21 per cent.
Consols
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are firm to-day at 93/ 1 for money ;
ditto, for Account, —; Three per Cent. Re-
dp:r :tend. ; 1;
New Three per Cents, 933- ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 7 prem. ; June, 6
ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
4; June, prem, ; Bank of England Stock,
.1 per Cent., 245.
India Stock, 10A- per Cent., April, 1874, 211 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1134 ; ditto
41, Per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1011 ; ditto Enfaced
aPer, 5 per Cent., 1872, 105/.
In the Foreign Market prices were as follaws
7YPtien (1864), 91 to 92 ; do. (1868), 76i to
BViceroy Seven per Cents., 814 to 81a ; ditto
ao per Cents., 97,1 to 981 ; Brazilian, 811 to
: Chilian, 941 to 951 ; Danubian Seven per
Cents', 80 to 81 ; Italian, 541 to 54Z ; Peruvian,
—icOlas.,Ql6l 8 ;4-
79 to 7n Portuguse, 31 to 34f ; Spanish, 281
Charkof, 81 to 82 ; Moscow, 83 to 84 ;
to 684 ; and Orel, 841 to 85.
The business in the Railway Share Market is
lot So
44,sterngo3d81:s yesterday. The following are the
r,a`eat prices :—.Caledonian, 811 to 82 ; Great
to 38j ex div. ; Great Northern,
10°1 to 105 ; Great Northern A, 1031 to 1041 ;
Jeat Western, 541 to 544 ; Lancashire and York-
e' 125 to 1251 ; London and Brighton, 45
don 5i ; Chatham and Dover, 161 to 161 ; Lon-
and North-Western, 117 to 117 k ex div ;
Metropolitan
and
South Western, 891 to 901 ex div. ;
wetropole._ "Lan 910 to 921 •; Midland, 1171 to 11.7 i ;
orth Eastern (Berwick), 114 Z to 1151 ex div. ;
dSouth-Eastern 76 to 761 ex div-
-1:11° SUM of £103,000 in sovereigns from Brazil
lywa..s. taken to the Bank yesterday, and £13,000 was
thdrawn for exportation.
The lient from Melbourne, has brought £19,376.
pelt is stated that after every arrangement for the
aid Turkish loan of 12 millions sterling was con-
ered to have been finally concluded on Saturday,
between the Government at Constantinople and the
(Imperial Ottoman Bank, a new difficulty was sud-
deoillY interposed which resulted in the entire aban-
nrilent of the affair by that institution.
er J-he Lancashire markets have opened with an in-
ease of heaviness.
Ihe Board of Trade Returns for the past month
show the large increase of £1,646,682, or about 10
Per cent., t -
In the declared value of our exportations,
compared with the corresponding month of last
arf and also with that of 1867, but it must be re-
peated that no reliance can be placed on these
h_gures• The increase appears principally under the
ea,d of iron manufactures and woollen goods.
t.i-he sale by auction of the property of Ilodges's
Auction
Company took place yesterday at the
e_"etion Mart. The distillery, with the freehold,
v'uePe'hold, and leasehold properties, and goodwill,
offered in one lot. The biddings were opened
at re
fiari,ls,ooo, and reached £24,600 ; there being no
trier offer the auctioneer made the vendors' bid
of £50,000.
At the eighty-ninth half-yearly meeting of the
shareholders in the General Steam Navigation Cora-
Ili% the report of the directors, and a statement
the accounts for the half-year to the 30th June
'?t' were read to the meeting and unanimously
liahnopted. The customary dividend of 14s. per
e.nret being at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum
as declared, and the cordial thanks of the pro-
Prletore voted to the chairman and directors for
h eir continued exertions iu the management of the
company's affairs.
r At the annual general meeting of the Mediter-
ancan Hotel Company, a dividend. of 5 per cent
as declared.
th.A. Person calling himself S. L. Lucas arrived in
i„,O island of Madeira in June last with a letter of
-"Lroduetion to Messrs. Blandy Brothers and Co.,
_tating that they might safely take his draughts on
(7,0d01; upon which he succeeded in obtaining not
111 Y an advance, but letters of introduction to other
L.,l34nees- This letter, which purported to be from a
;41€10n firm, was subsequently found to be a for-
gery is travelling with another person calling
e-Pself Lawrence, and he left Madeira on the 20th
tn."' June for Lisbon, whence he is said to have gone
laclrid on the 23d of June, since which date he
1,4 not been heard of. He is said to be rather
whew the average height, with black hair and
a alicers, and dark complexion, and to have been
IvPitParently lame. Lawrence is tall and rather slim,
L
bright dark eyes, fair complexion, and black
:7 Ade
e vices from Suez describe the cutting of the
44 to admit the water of the Red Sea into the
paYtteapnraolwhiechextends as far as Chalouf. The
alter proceeded in steam launches from Suez, and
t 0 fill tne Slight ceremonies the dyke was cut, but
will this section a flow during six or seven days
the required. When it shall have been filled
then water will be let into the Bitter Lakes, and
ked;,t is said, the waters of the Red Sea and the
lLerr _
an'un will for the first time actually
ee,eefan: With regard to the Bitter Lakes, there
thet be no doubt they are five metres below
titti,eee! of the Mediterranean, and at the present
rise iBVith the stream flowing from that side, the
But the Ilof more than three centimetres a day.
Ile
stronger flow from the Red Sea is expected to be
accord„ than that from Lake Timsah, and it is
it
tuegly caltn ed culated that on its waters being
than the rise will for some time be at more
all doubl
th• e its present rate ; still, taking
sa
100 ings
a v into account, it is thought that
workete" map be required ; and, looking at the
all °pia. ue finished from Serapeum to Lake Timsab,
with as n is expressed that the complete opening
can a".
3 tQlinh as eight metres of depth throughout
trio earcehr ,
appeit4 ue hoped for by the 17th of December,
OfA cre ed day.
ular has been issued by Mr. T. L. Henly,
ioio hiTtleyVilts, inviting respectable families to
%verereett forming
a colony upon some of the
Nee, nt land at the River Plate, for the pur-
latt crowingfor
wheat and flax, and preparing the
stated the
t° English market. The scheme is
114 a
have the approbation of the President,
alb of
press
It 4t in t's Excellency Senor de la Riestra. ,at
Is likewise country as Minister Plenipotentiary.
i?aree of I regarded with interest as a probable
nen tr great future advantage to the British
ad
The e•
11, letters
by eat In of allotment of the shares in the
eetea isenee, and Panama Telegraph Company have
"' %eve "
.and it is stated that the practical work
'netlon has already commenced.

RITIIB/1 rUNDII—TWO O'CLOCK.
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titto for onsol3 921 4,
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1111111 ii Dor C6ll J an. 1873
t_96°. feT.!3° Yrs, napire sth Jan., 1880 —
0 (Red
r,),, yrst, expire sth April 1885
zcheql,,ztie,al elotAaph), Aug., 1908 —
ill; 41 000 2' p. Ut. March
bc, Do. " 34' do. June
Atili ZlOO, 4200 & .C5OO — pin
of p
, -tiltind Stock, 4,1 per Cent
C`ittt'l (Telling '
-
int< 4 Per Cent. ....... .
r , 1%/,'"lle'laitt,l Otunnun
44 tia ~, AN OXitNNIENT .Sr.exatrriEs.
be.'P"S 104,- per Coat April 1874 2ll
~
'JO ,p,rliug, for Account...
N.. 4 Per ent..fuly, 188 u •.
, 113,1
4
1)0 ( 1 Pe'' Cent 0 .t, •18z8
o„ertine,, ~ c .
. ii..,f. ',eß
Co:Co• , aced Pape. 4 por ()Aut.. ~
5 "Aareett., Jau. 1872 ~.......- • 1051
1:),•" per ce,
0p: 0 It. May 1879
b, eta., Rup. Deb. 1872
if. beb., e
_do. 1882 —
„, )30„,„") r Oeut., Aug. 1873 .„ —
I'ml,o. 44-ci`e4;l.liPtA• Cent., £l,OOO uuo
011E'rri, 4.,taeliti„. --=,4 FUNDS- 'I7WOO'CLOCK.
*4•44rict-4°44oPublac, 6 por ()Qat 70k
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