The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-22 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

CO AMERCIAL INTELLIGENok.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Business was by no means active, but neverthe-
less Consols improved to the extent of 8, a circum-
stance that gave a little encouragement to those
wishing to engage in operations. In the foreign
market Greek Bonds futrher receded, but there was
a opposite tendency both in Turkish and Italian
Stocks. In railways the only alteration from yes-
terday is Metropolitans have gone up, and Cale-
donians down a little.

Consols are 921 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 921 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 92k 1; New
Three per Cents, 921 41.
India Stock, 10/ per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1021; ditto Enfaced Paper 4 per
Cent., 911; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 3 preen.
In the Foreign market we have to note a rise of
in Italian Five per Cents., which are now 551
56 ; Turkish Five per Cents. are I higher, at 37i
38 ; and Mexican Bonds are improving, being now
144 15 ; Greek Bonds have fallen 1, to 11 111 ; and
Peruvian Five per Cents. are at 781 79 ; New
Spanish Three per Cents. remain at 321
321; and Egyptian Seven per Cents. are 72 721.
Italian Scrip has improved, and is now quoted 2/
21 prem. ; Charkoff-Azof Scrip has improved 1, to
3f 3 die ; and the last Russian Railway Loan is 2
11 dis.
The Hondnras Loan is steady, at 894 901.

In the railway share market prices, with very few
exceptions, remain at yesterday's quotations.
Metropolitan Original and Extension stocks
have improved 4, Brighton 1, and Great
Western Caledonian stock, on the other
hand, has given way 1. The prices are as follows :
—Caledonian, 73/ 4 ; Great Western, 484 ;
Great Eastern, 414 ; Great Northern, 1054 to
64 ; ditto A, 1074 to 1081; Lancashire, 1272 to 81;
Metropolitan, 1021 4 ; ditto Extension, 984 994 ;
Midland, 1121 1121- ; Sheffield, 471 4 ; Brighton,
48k 9 ; North British, 32 4 ; North Western, 1114
; North Eastern, 994 100 ; South Eastern, 781,-
; Chatham, and Dover, 164;17.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway New Four per
Cent. Debenture Stock is 94 95.

Erie shares have risen to 251 26 ; and Illinois
Central Stock is unchanged, at 95 95k.
The American Five-Twenties have improved
to 731 74 ; the Bonds of 1885, to 72i 72i ;
and the Ten-Forty Bonds are firmer at 7171}.

In Bank and Miscellaneous shares we have no
alterations to make in yesterday's quotations.
The sum of £5,000 in gold was taken to the Bank
Yesterday.
The Deutschland, from New York, has brought
£49,532.
The advices from Buenos Ayres by the present
mail notify the offer of a reward by the Argentine
Republic of 8,000 hard dollars (about £1,600) to
the inventor or introducer of the best system of
Preserving fresh meat on a scale which, in the
opinion of the Government, shall be capable of ex-
tensiye development.
It is understood that the litigation which has
for some months past prevented a division of the
assets of the Commercial Bank Corporation of
India and the East is practically at an end. An
arrangement has been made between some of the
principal creditors and the various classes of share-
holders, the effect of which will be that the credi-
tors will accept 17s. in the pound (of which they
have received 10s.) in discharge of their debts with-
out interest. No further call will be required.

At the annual meeting of the National Bank of
Scotland, at Edinburgh, the Governor in the chair,
the ordinary profits of a dividend of 12 per cent.
Was declared.

A meeting took place yesterday of the share-
holders of the London and River Plate Bank. A
dividend for the half-year was declared.

The adjourned general meeting of the Dagenham
Thames Dock Company, called for yesterday, was
further adjourned to the 22d February.
The thirteenth ordinary general meeting of the
Alliance Bank (Limited) will be held at the City
Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, on the 21st of
January next.
A general meeting of the Russian (Vyksounsky)
Iron Works Company (Limited) is called for the
30 inst.
The half-yearly meeting of the Aerated Bread
Company (Limited) is convened for the 31st inst.,
When the directors will submit a report upon the
Proposed reduction of the liability on the shares of
the company.
There has been a farther advance, telegraphed
from Cornwall, of £3 per ton in the standard for
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have announced
the dividends due the Ist of January on the
Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Loan of
1850; also on Canada Sterling Debentures, Nova
Scotia Six per Cent. Sterling Bonds, New Bruns-
wick Six per Cent. Sterling Bonds, Maryland State
Sterling Five per Cent. Bonds, Boston City Sterling
Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Bonds, Eastern Railroad
of Massachusetts Six per Cent. Bonds, and Argen-
tine Six per Cent. Bonds.
The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of £l9, compared with the
corresponding period of last year, and the Brighton
a decrease of £:773.

The traffic return of the Great Western Railway
Of Canada, for the week ending the 18th instant,
allows an increase of £1,027, compared with the
corresponding period of 1867.