The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-08 00:00:00

310 -14 t Y MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The demand for accommodation in the general
discount market continues moderately active, and
the rates demanded for the negotiation of first-class
short dated paper is fully 3 per cent.; in a few ex-
ceptional instances, however, business has been
done at 217-, per cent.
About £5,000, in Amerieln eagles, were taken
from the Bank of England yesterday.
The City of Baltimore had brought about
461,900 in specie.
:rile last accounts from Brazil state that the re-
ceipts of the San Paulo Railway were daily increas-
ing, and that the traffic was likely soon to be much
In excess of the capacity of the rolling stock at pre-
sent on the line. Additional engines, &c., it is said,
duConsequently to be sent out with all possible
pa th.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
remain steady at 39 34 ; and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds at 21 22.

Two ()Timm
A healthier tone pervades the Stock Exchange.
There is not much animation, speculation being
"II) and the dealings for transfer too limited to im-
Part much vitality to the respective markets. The
brilliancy of the weather, the abundance of money,
and the improved aspects of politics, home and
foreign, sustain quotations, and Consols are very
.I'll3' 914 4 for the settlement in June. This
Morning a very favourable effect has been
Produced by a rise of 2 per cent. in the
Shares of the Brighton and South-Eastern
Companies by the proposed amalgamation. The
Nev'Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 1 ;
Exchequer Bills, 225. prem. ; Bank of England
Stock, 2511 253 ; India Stock, 217 ; do. sper Cents.,
1101 4 ; do. 4 per Cents., 95 4 ; do. Enfaced 5
Per Cents., 102 ; and do. Debentures, 525. prem.
In the Foreign Department of the Stock Ex-
change considerable firmness prevails. Italian
have advanced 1, to 4814 ; Mexican 4, to 151 16 ;
Greek 4, to 13 1 ; and Spanish Certificates 4, to
13 4. Spanish Passive are 194 to 204 ; Turkish 5
Per Cents, 284 29 ; and Russian, Chilian, and
Danubian Scrip are dealt in at nominal prices.
The operations in the Railway Share Market have
been to a fair extent, and a firmer tone has pre-
vailed. Caledonian, Great Western, North-
Western, and Midland, have each improv ed 1
Alanchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and South-
Eastern__ each / ; and Brighton, 2 ; while South-
Western have receded 14 ; and Great Northern A
Stock, 1.
The foreign and colonial lines exhibit no ma-
terial change. Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian
are dealt in at 144 144 ; Great Western of Canada,
at 144 ; East Indian, at 1081 1 ; and Great Indian
Peninsula at 1081 1.
The business officially marked was as follows :
Brazilian 5 per Cents., 1865, 73 ; Buenos Ayres 6
der Cents., ; Chilian 6 per Cents., 1867, 79; ;
_N. Scrip, 44 1 dis. ;• Danubian Scrip, 54 dis. ;
•".',FYptian 7 per Cents., 1864, 80 ; do. £lOO Bonds,
34 ; Italian 5 per Cents., 1861, 484 1; do. 1865,
'6hl ; Moorish Imperial, 941 51 ; Peruvian 44 per
B,e,'lts., 1862, 721 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 1862,
,u 2 ; do.
Cents' Anglo-Dutch, 1866, 854 ; Spanish 3 per
i„ 'B* (New Deferred), 31 ; Turkish 6 per Cents.,
53 721 4 ; do. 1858, 52 ; do. £lOO Bonds, 1862,
._,
54
; do. 5 per Cents. 1865, 284 94 84 ; do.
Guaranteed
4 per Cents., 101 ; and French Rentes,
67f. 75c.
American Securities are not quite so steady.
Erie Shares have declined 1, to 404 411 ;United
:ea 5-20 Bonds 1, to 71 1; while Illinois have
Miscellaneous
1, to 744 7;1.
l3Miscellaneous and Finance Shares are neglected.
g'n-Ainerican Telegraph remain steady at 184
;.; General Credit arid Discount at 44 ; National
'count Co. at 12 ; and Rio de Janeiro Improve-
ment at 197
Bank•
shares are dull, at barely previous values.
..o
ndc,— „
London
and Westminster are marked 914 92 ;
" Joint-Stock, 421 ; Imperial, 19 ; London
and
County, 564 ; and Union of London, 39 391.