The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMAIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocs.

The Government securities to•day were rather
den, but the prices were quite equal to that of
Saturday. In the Foreign market there was a fall
le Spanish stock, and prices in the principal rail-
way shares were the tur❑ lower, excepting Metro-
. Politans and Great Northerns.

Consols are 931 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93a ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 92 1; ;
New 'Three per Cents, 91i 2 1 2 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 2 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 2
prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.

India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, —; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 13;
ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 13 15 prem.
In the foreign market Peruvian Five per Cents.
have risen 1, to 771 774. New Spanish Threes are
flat at a reduction of 1, at 30, 304. Italian Five
per Cents. are unchanged, at 55} 551 ; Mexican at
141 14/ ; Greek, at 11 111 : Turkish Five per
Cents., at 42/ 421 ; Russian (Azof) Dailway Bonds,
at 762 77 ; ditto New Scrip, par, 1 prem ; and
Honduras Railway Bonds, at 82 84 ex c.
The Danubian Commission Guaranteed Loan is
1 prem.
In the Railway Markets Caledonian are 1, Great
Eastern 1; Great Northern A I, Metropolitan
1, Midland 1 better, while Great Northern Ori-
ginal have receded 4, and Great Western, 1.
The prices are follow :—Caledonian 78 ;
Great Western, 48i 9 ; Great Eastern,
371 1 ; Great Northern, 1061 ; ditto
A, 108/ to 9 ; Lancashire, 123 3} ; Metro-
politan, 1031 ; diito Extension, 100 to 1;
Midland, 114/ 151; Sheffield, 551 6 ; Brighton,
471 8 ; North British, 35 ; North Western, :115
1; North-Eastern (Berwick), 102 f 31 ; South
Eastern, 76 1 ; Chatham and Dover, 17 I-.

American 5-20 Bonds are 801 to 801 ex c. ;
the 1885 Bonds at 781 78i ex c. ; and the Ten-
Forty Bonds at 73i 731. Eries Railway shares are
unaltered at 221 to 22k-, and Illinois Centrals at
98i 99.
The subscriptions in Paris to the new Spanish
loan are stated to have been larger than was an-
ticipated.
The sum of £40,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank on Saturday.
The Avoca is telegraphed as having arrived at
Point de Gall; with the Australian mails and
£160,000, the bulk of which is understood to be for
England. She announces that the Somersetshire,
with £165,500, the Agamemnon, with £164,000,
and the Wave of Life, with £44,000, had sailed

from Melbourne, and the Chile, with £215,960,
. from Otago—making, with the amounts previously
announced, a total sum of £1,353,960, irrespective
of that by the Avoca known to be on its way to
this country.
The following official notification has been for-
warded to us :—" Sir,—l. am directed to inform
you, with reference to the arrangement with the
Canadian Government mentioned in the half-year's
report of this company, that the chairman has re-
ceived a cable telegram intimating that the Cana-
dian Parliament has unanimously adopted resolu-
tions confirming the arrangement, and that the bill
to carry them into effect will now be passed as a
'natter of course.—l am, sir, yours truly, BRACK-
STONE BAKER, Secretary." _ _ _

Tne traffic receipts of the railways in the United

Kingdom for the week ending April, amounted on
13,496 miles to £757,887, and for the correspond-

ing week in 1868 on 13,308 miles to £739,452,
showing an increase of 188 miles and of £18,435 in
the receipts. The gross receipts on the 14 princi-
pal lines in the United Kingdom amounted for the
week on 9,816 miles to £631,847, and for the cor-
responding week of last year on 9,647 miles to
£613,855, showing on increase of 169 miles and of
£17,992 iu the receipts. The traffic receipts on 52
other lines i❑ the United Kingdom amounted on
8,680 miles to £126,040, and for the similar week
of last year on 3,661 miles to £125,597, showing an
increase of 19 miles, and of £443 iu the receipts.
The total receipts of past week, as compared with
those of the previous one, ended 11th April, exhibit
an increase of £799.
The report of the Fairbairn Engineering Cora-
'Any (Limited), to be presented on the 29th inst.,
states that the net earnings of the business bare►y
sutlice to pay a 5 per cent. dividend.
The failure of Mr. Lewis Langworthy, South
American merchant, has been announced at Man-
chester. The liabilities are stated to he large.
Letters from Rotterdam state that a concession
has been granted to Mr. W. H. van Meukeren, of
that place, by the Government of Holland and
Prussia, to construct a railway, commencing by a
junction at Boxtel (in Holland) with the State
Railway, and, crossing the Maas River at Gennep,
terminating at Wesel (in Prussia) by a junction
with the Paris Hamburg line of the Cologne Min-
den Railway. This, it is said, will form the shortest
and most direct communication from the seaports
Flushing, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Dordrecht to
Hamburg, Hanover, Berlin, Bremen, and the North
of Germany.
The Bangalore has arrived from Alexandria with
£131,400, chiefly in Australian sovereigns.
The Messina has taken out £77,355 in specie for
Bombay.
The report of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Com-
pany, to be presented on the 28th inst , states that
no dividend can be declared on the present occa-
sion, and that the result of the diminished state of
the earnings for the whole year is that, after cre-
diting profit and loss with the surplus on the work-
ing account, and debiting it with the usual per-
centage for repairs, there is only a balance of
£10,796 available to be written off the value of the
fleet for depreciation for the year 1868.