The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-23 00:00:00

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NEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

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TWELVE o'CLocK.
The discount market is quiet and quotations tend
downwards. No perceptible change, however, has
yet taken place. The rates for short-dated paper
range from 7/ per cent. Loans from day to day
on Government Securities are negotiated at 3/ per
cent. •

At the forthcoming meeting of the Bank of Egypt
the directors will submit a resolution authorising
the increase of the capital of the company by the
issue of 5,000 new shares of £25 each.

The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
pointed Thursday, the 25th inst., a special settle-
ment in the shares of the following companies :
Gale's Protected Gunpowder Company, which are
to be marked in the twice a week lists; and in the
Accidental and Marine Insurance Corporation,
which aro not to be officially quoted.
At the third ordinary general meeting to-day of
proprietors o► the Imperial Mercantile Credit As-
Oclation the report presented stated that the
balance of undivided profits brought forward after-
Payment of the dividend in July last w,as £53,141
155., and the amount of net profit realised during
the past half year, after payment of expenses,
and after providing for all bad and doubtful
debts, and for rebate of interest on loans
and bills not yet matured, is £91,860 17s. 7d.,
making a total of £145,002 2s. 7d. to be now dis-
posed of. It is recommended that the above sum
be appropriated as follows, viz., that £50,000 be
applied to the payment of a dividend for the past
Six months of 10s. per share, being at the rate of 20
Per cent, per annum ; £833 Gs. Bd. to payment of
Income-tax, and that from the balance the sum of
£75,000 be placed to the credit of a " rest ;" leav-
ing a sum of £19,169 ss. lid. to be carried forward ;
total, £145,002 12s. 7d.

Two O'CLOCK.
According to Reuter's telegram the French
Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted at 68f. 50c.
After an improvement of per cent. the English
Funds have again exhibited weakness, and relapsed
to their former values. The market indicates dull-
ness and depression, with little prospect of an
im-
mediate revival. Consols are 86i 87 for money,
and 87 4 for the account. The New Threes and
deduced Annuities are 864 87 ; Exchequer Bills,
68. to 4s. dis. ; Bank of England Stock, 245 247 ;
India Stock, 208 ; ditto 5 per Cents., 1021 4 ; and
.ditto Bonds, 15s. prem.
A fractional improvement is shown in some of the
Principal Foreign Stocks. Turkish 5 per Cents.
are 391 4; Mexican, ; 214 ; ditto New, 184 191 ;
Spanish Passive, 25i 4 ; the Certificates, 13ft 4 ; '
Greek, 134 144 ; Italian, 61i 4 ; the Confederate
Loan, 6 7:3 Egyptian Railway Loan Scrip, par
to 6f prem. ; and Brazilian Scrip, 4 prem. United
States Government 5.20 Bonds are 66 4; Erie
Shares, 551 56 ; and Illinois, 75
Business in the Railway Share Market has shown
more animation, and prices have varied to a slight
extent. North Western, Metropolitan, and North
Eastern (Berwick), have each improved 10s., and
Great Western 55., while Great Eastern have de-
clined 15s. London, Chatham, and Dover, and
South Eastern were 10s., and South Western and
Midland each ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continue in fair
demand at steady rates. Great Luxembourg are
marked 154 16, and Grand Trunk of Canada have
hnproved to 36* 4.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in better re-
quest, and in most instances sustain former values.
Imperial are marked 28i. London Joint Stock,
801 4 ; Union of London, 511 52 ; Hudson Bay
Company, 161 16/ ; London Financial, 184 ; and
verend, Gurney, and Co., 201.
English and American Bank shares are quoted
1 4 prem. ; British Convention Bonds of Mexico,
68 70 ; London Steam Towing Company, 11 2
Prem. ; Charles Lafitte and Co., 24 24 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
. GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
B per Cent. Consols
, Do. Account, Fob. 8 B7l 1
°,,,Per Cent. Reduced B6l 7
87 61 7
No 3 per Cent
93
NOW 3f per Cent. Jan. 1894
A Do. 6 per Cont. Jan. 1873 —
Qamuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
LDo (Reel Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 -
I°llequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent, 4
Do. £5OO 5
Do £lOO and £2OO
Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent
ilndnianaSlltoeck,"l7l p3l::enENTS
tE.
7C
AtntipriinElsB.74
208
Do Account —
D 0.5 per Cent. July, 1870
4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
D 0.451 per Cent., May 1879 —
per Cent., Aug. 1866 —
Do. Bonds, 0
Do. under .£l,000
. FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
q-,Jlstrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859
tirasillian 5 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
. Do. 1863
Do. 1865
Do Account 74/ 1
Do. Scrip, £25 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Do. Account
Do 1 per Cent (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Olulian 6 per Cent --
Do. 41 per Cent
velenabian 6 per Cent.
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 —
Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 t—
-1)0. 5 Ditnub ian pePrinci pr Cent,alities 1773-77, £25 paid
ItDo Account 72/ 1
ador New Consolidateol, 1 per Cent —
°., Provisional Land Warrant
Egypthtn. 7 per Cent.
—.—
Do., Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds 92
1864 9l
1
Do.
C
Do £lOO Bonds
I;,eek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
• -vo. A.ccount
Do. Coupons
„eDo. Account
aa xican 3 per Cent —
Do. Account
Do 1864 —
DO 6 per Cent. Anglo-French 46
141)o French Scrip, Ex. 25f 2.0 c —
letdovidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid
~,, oorish Imperial 5 per Cent
me,W Granada l3l
_.
4-10 2 per Cent
De Deferred
1,0130 Land Warrants (Hectares)
1)0
• 6 Per Cent, 1864
p DoGuaraner Cent teed, 4 per Cent. —
ernvian. 5
. Accoupnt
3 per Cent. rib
Do 41 per Cent, (U 1862 arren)
P
Do Account
°lll4 guess 3 per Cent, 1853
Do 3 per '6O, '9, '7, Cent~ 1856,
_
„ DO. A.ccount
atussian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do
Do 41 per Cent. 1850 BBi
41 perlB6o '
Do 3 per Cont.t 1859
Do 5 per Cent. 1862 891 k
_ Do 5 per Cent. 1864
93f
tiardintan 5 per Cent
Do £ICO Bands
c
~ . IPanishl3r Cent —
per Cent
Pauish 3 per Cent
Ditto account —
Do New Deferred —• Do Account
e,
liDo Account . .. . -
....... .., .. 251 clattish Cort. of Coup ..
no. . . ... t, fundedn.delt
„, Do Account
°Wedish 4 per Cent ..,. ....
, Do.
41 per
per Cent . Cent. 1184'.••..•••.....••.•..••
--
42,5 h 6
Do Account
Do 6 Do Acc peountr Cent. 1858
691 70
D„,O £lOO Bonds 6B
uo 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account 6Bl 1
Do £lOO Bonds - 6Bf i i
Do 6 per Cent.,1863
°/. 5 per Cent. 1865
1,0 Scrip, £35 paid
39}
-"„o Account
yetliooez.l4ecpicaeoru3nCpteenrtc. Genuta.ranteed
er..._
-.Jo 6 per Cent., 1864
A_ . Dividends on the above payable in London.
riStylan, 5 par Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
b
‘"rigla, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
ouch Routes 3 per Cent _
Dutch, 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull 6l/
L'o 4 per fiates —
Italian. 5 per Cent.,, 1861, Ex. 25f. ••••
DO Account ............. 61/ 1
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Con THREE O'CLOCK.
j)°' Account y
B°lB for mono
............................... 861 7
.................................... 87 1 I