The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-02 00:00:00

ZIOTIEY-14ARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

The money market presents an active and rather
stringent appearance, and the best short-dated
,P,aper cannot now be negotiated under 6 per cent.
-11, at even this charge is merely temporary, as the
orders have invariably made an agreement that if
the'Bank rate be advanced to-morrow, a propor-
tionate rate shall be enforced.
Gold .to the amount of £50,000 was taken from
the Bank of England yesterday.
,The Anglo-Egyptian Bank have announced an
laieritn dividend of 10s. per share, being at the rate
of 8 Per cent. per annum for the past half year, and
have also made a call of £7 10s per share, payable
la two instalments, viz., £4 on the 31st instant,
and £3 10s. on the 15th June next.
The appointment of Mr. Coleman, of Messrs.
BColeman, Turquand, Youngs, and Co., and of Mrf
,nner, of Messrs. Harmood; Banner, and Co., o
yrerpool has been confirmed by the meeting of
ahareholders of Barned's Banking Company.
_The directors of the Otago and Southland' In-
vestment Company recommend, in their report for
presentation at the ensuing meeting of shareholders,
a„dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, in
4adition to the interim dividend of 8 per cent. de-
clared last July.

Two o'CLooK.
The value of British Government Stocks con-
mies to decline ; nor can any astonishment be ex-
plessed at the retrograde movement. The market
ituallY receives additional supplies, and there are
v°3l reasons to account for the sales effected.
the
the unsatisfactory results of the division on
le. Reform Bill ; secondly, the state of foreign
politics ; thirdly, the consequent extraordinary de-
Il'ession of the Paris Bourse ; and fourthly, the ex-
tent of confidence everywhere exhibited, exceptwith
regard to trade, which is tolerably healthy, but
Ilhich without these drawbacks would be far more
ljeaPerous than it is at the present moment.
c(4ls°lB are 861 for money, and 861 1 for the
, --unt- The New Threes and Reduced Annuities
tate marked 841 ; Exchequer Bills, June, ss. dis.
Par ; India Stock, 210 ; ditto Five per Cents.,
1 ; ditto Four per Cents., 94 ; ditto Five per
Lent Enfaced Paper, 101! ; and ditto Bonds, 255.
Preto.
sSeveral dealings have taken place in the Foreign
trek Market, but prices, with a few excep-
„"s2 are lower. - Turkish 5 per Cents. are 30 4 ;
12 scan' 19 4 ; the New Loan, 174 4 ; Greek,
Itali' Spanish Passive, 251 }; the Certificates, 16 1 ;
872 an, 431 44 ; the News
Loan, 59 61; Brazilian
‘p ".4.1, 3
dis.. United States 5-20 Bonds, 68,1
; QI
Erie Shares, 501 514 ; and Illinois, 781 '79.
In the Railway Share Market business has been
rearther dull, and prices generally show a further I"de-
Brighton have receded 11 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln,
ea6'l O
4 10a. ; and Great Eastern and South Eastern,
each r

The Foreign and Colonial lines remain at about
Previous rates, with the exception of Grand Trunk
of Canada, which have declined to 21i 21/.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are dull at about
Previous quotations. Alliance are marked 22 4 ;
Credit
Foncier and Mobilier of England, 41 ;
Ittlperial Mercantile Credit, 4 51 ; and Overend,
Gurney, and Co., 41 I.