The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-03 00:00:00

MARKET

MONEY

AND
COADIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two oCLocx.
Prices to-day were at the opening with some dif-
ficulty supported, but towards the middle of the
457 Consols receded about /. There was a steady
business doing in railway shares.
Consols are 93 2/ for money ; ditto, for Ac-
Count, 92/ ; Three iper Cent. Reduced, 91i / ;
New Tkree per Cents, 91/ -"/ i•
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 112/ 1 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 100 a x.d. ; ditto Enfaced Paper
5 por Cent., Jau., 1872, 106 ; ditto Bonds under
1,000, 18 prem.
Foreign securi.ies were dull. American Five-
Twenties have given way. Egyptian of 1868 and
Peruvian of 1865 have improved k per cent. 'I he
Prices for Egyptian of 1864, 89 to 90 ; ditto of
1868, 761 to 77 ; Italian of 1861, 56/ to 57 ;
kevican, 16/ to 1 ; Peruvian, 80/ to ; Russian
of 1866, 931 to 941 ; Nicolai, 66/ to 67/ ;
Orel, 824 tot ; Moscow, 804 to ; ditto Charkof-
-42°f,78/ to 4, ex div. ; ditto Charkow-Krement-
achog, 78/ to ; Spanish of 1867, 32/ to / ;
Turkish of 1858, 64 to 65, ex div. ; ditto of 1862,
661 to 67 ; and ditto of 1865, 44 to 44.
The Honduras Loan is steady, at 85 87 ex coupon.
The Railway market shows a rise of 1 in Metro-
politan Extension, but the Original stock is /
lower; Great Northern A and Brighton improved
and South Eastern, Great Western, Sheffield,
and North Western are better ; Caledonian,
Chatham, and Dover, and Midland receded 1,
and North Eastern (Berwick) Stock is lower.
The quotations are as follows :—Caledo-
nian, 761 7 ; Great Western, 481 1 ; Great
x'astern 37/ 4 ; Great Northern, 107 8 ; ditto
1044 4; Lancashire, 124 j ; Metropolitan,
; ditto Extension, 105 6 ; Midland, 116 ;
'3l3efaeld, 53 1 ; Brighton, 50/ I ; North British,
304 4 ; North Western, 114/ ; North Eastern
(Berwick), 1021 3 ; South Eastern, 76 7/ ;
Chatham and Dover, 161 /.
sum of £36,000 in bar gold has been taken
front the Bank for shipment to the Continent.
The Marpesia, from Melbourne, has brought
£20,996.
The Royal Mail steamer Shannon is announced
with West Indian mails, bringing also specie to the
Value of £249,765.
From the Board of Trade returns it appears that
the total revenue from Customs duties last year,
after deducting drawbacks and allowances,
amounted to £22,411,783, against £22,434,755 in
/867, and £21,741,538 iu 1866. The principal
receipts in 1866 were—From corn, £864,097 ;
:Pirits, £4,333,371 ; sugar, unrefined, £5,185,072;
'eat £2,672,980 ; tobacco, £6,578,719 ; and wine,
t 1,521199.
The Master of the Rolls has sanetioned the 1 ay-
zron
t of a third dividend of 12s. in the pound to the
,:e.ditors of the Breech-loading Armoury Company
Limited) —making with previous distributions
15,,. 4d.

Tbeiletropolitan Railway traffic return shows
'l4 week an increase of £2,710 over last year.
At the meeting of the London General Omnibus
e
°tePanY (Limited) a dividend was declared at the
rate of 5 per cent per annum, free of income tax.
At the meeting of the Telegraph Construction
1.4134 Maintenance Company (Limited) the directors'
bePert) 'which announced a total payment for the
Tear of
per cent., was adopted.
The annual general meeting of the North British
Elll Mercantile Insurance Company was held at
dinburgh. A dividend and bonus, together 20s.
" Share, or 16 per cent. on the paid up capital
at
e'ek, was declared.
The state of trade at Manchester is thus described
7, Messrs. Ward, Armitage, and Co., by telegram :
erte We have a very flat market with receding
but few offers making, except too low to re-
!suite -.,
busines.s."
The arrangements for the introduction of the
Turkish loan of the Societe Generale has been com-
pletedieted with less delayithan had been anticipated ;
l
e Prospectus is therefore expected to be published
117 Thursday. The amount will be £2,480,000
zi,,lling in 6 per cent. bonds, at 83 (or, reckoning
nowaue(s, about 80), redeemable at par in certain
proportions
in 1872 and 1873, annual revenues of
large amount being specially assigned as security.
At the proposed price, taking into account the
periods for repayment, the bonds will give a return
Of 121 per cent. per annum. The subscription will
be tffected in London, Paris, Constantinople, and
414sterdam.

The advice 3 from Frankfort state that the resolu-
tion of the American Congress with regard to the
redemption of the 5-20 bonds in gold has created
great excitement, and been followed by a rise of
Illy 4 per cent. in the course of a few days,
although large amounts were thrown on the market
from London and New York. Heavy buying orders
rlured in by telegraph from Southern Germany anda
11 enna, so that the aggregate transactions reached
immense amount. Indeed, all kinds of Ameri-
ntral
'fan stock, 1865, and 10-40 bonds, and even Pacific
Central
Railway mortgage bonds, were taken at
tieing prices to any amount offered.
gThe rage for speculation on the Vienna Bourse
t:"les more serious every week. The new banks
rkt with the most extravagant projects—such as
th4nstrian-Indian trading company, steamers on
ijae banube, tenders for army equipments, enlarg-
ng theArienna streets, and a number of other things
new
foreign to regular banking business ; still all
tw.iBSUeS command a premium, and so long as
14._.uhis itshthveocratesex.every class of society will be drawn
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BRITISH FUNDN—CLOSING PRICES.
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De 6
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4 e• 4500
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00. oPer Cent., Oct. 1888
Do ert itieates —
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tiktni O. 1859 67 i
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D 44 411. 31, 6 per Cent.
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121 44 Pr' • "
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