The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL LNTELLIGIINCB,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Stock Markets are quiet at the reduced
prices current at the close of yesterday. The realisa-
tions which were effected in the afternoon caused a
relapse in Consols of per cent., and there has not
since been any recovery. The sympathetic reaction
which took place in other securities has, in some
Cases, been partly regained. The completion of the
settlement to-day is chiefly occupying attention, and
in the absence of anything political to disturb the
market. the tendency would appear to be upwards.
The Discount Market is active this morning at 2 per
cent. and upwards. There is a good inquiry for
general trade purposes, but the bulk of the business
is in connection with the settlement in the Stock
Exchange, where advances on Consols are quoted
to 2 per cent.
The corn market is quiet but firm, with very short
supplies.
The English Funds are not quite so firm, and re-
main at yesterday's close, 934- to 944 for money and
ac mint ; New an.l Reduced Three per Cents., 92,1,
t 92?„ India Five per Cents , 116 to ; Bank
Stock, 243 to 245 ; Exchequer Bills, 12s t• 1.7 s
mem. I

Of Foreign Stocks Egyptian have chiefly fluctuated.
After giving way at the close yesterday, they are this
morning a little firmer. The 1864 Bonds are quoted
79A to 805- ; Railway Debentures, 89 to 89A ; Vice-
roy's Seven per Cents., 701 to 701 ; and the Nine
Per Cents., 89 to 895. Otherwise the market is
steady, but without movement. MexicAn Bonds
stand at 15k to 15/ ; Greek, 121 to 121 ; New
Spanish, 355 to 354 ; Italian (1S61), 485 to 48i ;
Turkish, 34k to 34 ; Portuguese, 395 to 40 ; and
Chilian (1867), 96 to 965.
The New Honduras Loan closed at par to 1 prem.
The Spanish Colonial 8 per Cent. Loan fully paid
up has improved to 901- to 91/, and the Scrip to 25
to 15 dis.
In American securities United States' Five-Twenty
Bonds are steady; at 70 to 70g ; Erie shares are
lower, at 94 to 95, while IltinoiS. are 5 better, at 465
to 474.
Atlantit and Great Western Railway Debentures
nave rise" 4, to 29 to 30, and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds remain,firm at 33k to 34.
English Railways are steady, with a recovery of
in Great Northern and Sheffield, and of in London
and North Western, Great Eastern; and Great Western.
The quotations are : Lancashire and Yorkshire,
12n to 1285 Midland, 108.5 to 109:1- : South
Eastern, 74 to 74k ; Loudon and North Western,
116 to 116 k ; Great Northern. 1025 to 1031 ; ditto
A, 98 to 99 ; Great Eastern, 34,1 to 341 ; Great
Western 53k to 54 ; Brighton, 52/ to 521 ; Sheffield,
431 to 445 ; Metropolitan, 1111 to 112 ; and Caledo-
bian 745 to 75.
Bank' Shares are quiet, and not a single variation is
reparted in prices. Agra (A shares), 95 to 105 ;
Alliance, 13 to 12 dis. ; Anglo-Austrian, 41- to 41
P1;e11).; Chartered Mercantile, 28 to 29 ; Consolidated,
t° 4g- ; Imperial, 185 to 191 ; Imperial Ottoman,
tb 5 prem.; London and County, 51 to 52 ; London
and Westminster, 67k to 685 ; Oriental, 425 to 435 ;
London Joint-Stock, 33 to 34 ; Union of London,
325 to 33k.
Finance Shares are without movement, and attract
but little attention. Credit Foncier is quoted at 21
I,°. 3 ; General Credit, 2,i- to 24 dis. ; International
"mauce 2 to 1/ dis.; National Discount, 10k to 11.
In foreign mining
shares, St. John del 'keys are
!teady at 195 to 20k ; Port Philip, 1 to 11, being
*.fer ; Chontales, 25 to
iinida Miscellaneous Shares there is little business doing,
el Prices are without change. Anglo-American
egraPb, 23 to 23f ; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per
;=t.) 55 to 55.; Hudson's Bay, 145 to 145 ;
London General Omnibus, 15 to 25.
•Bar gold, valued at £lB,OOO, was sent into the
golTdbesocinitwy
"tnk of England yesterday, and £5,000 in foreign
as withdrawn.
of Paris, the Bremen, and the Cuba have
together brought £44000 in specie from New York ;
and
the Seine has arrived at Lisbon from the Brazils
with £32,000 in specie.
i,Tbe silver market is fiat, and bars have declined
A", business having been effected at 601 d per ounce.
special meeting of the Midland Railway Company
b1864%1.,.i1ed for the 14th May, to consider the bills now
"A‘Ang in Parliament.
4q,.-°- meeting of the shareholders of the Eastern
r7telange Bank (Limited), (in voluntary liquidation)
48 hold at Liverpool yesterday, when after a state-
Plat of accounts had been submitted, it was
naninioasly resolved that when the directors see fit
,
of P;I4 15s Y a final balance of 5s per share—making a total
pa
64 per sirare (1:70 p. id) returned— the
141111
Idators should take as their remuneration the
reinli •
' 'ling assets of the bank, which were estimated
t4t. ric::.fli'e between £l,OOO and £2,000. Special votes
s,„"ankA were also riven to the and to
111.'Kean the manager.
Tenders for the Tasmanian Government Loan were
!),.Pened yesterday afternoon at the Bank of
New
The amount of the loan is £400,000 in
u Per cent. bonds. The total amount of the tenders
cwect:t.1:1;:',),,719,490. The minimum fixed was 101 per
X 1 ,
,418,2 the amount tendered at this price was
tw
Tenders at .£lO2 Is will receive about
„Yo_
am 00.
a above i.
The traffic ll
n receipts of the Metropolitan Railway
the past week show an increase of £ll3 over the
tiZecT°"ding period of last year, and the Glasgow
oonth-Western an increase of £332.
I:)Trithhee.rtirianffiacilrwie,yceipts of the Buenos Ayres and Great
for the week ending March 8, show
an increase of £655 17s 9d ; those of the Grand Trunk
lilway.of Canada, for the week ending April 11,
chow
an increase of £253, as compared with the cor-
P"ding period of 1867 ; those of the Great Lux-
emburg Railway, for the week ending the 26th inst.,
i„. increase of .£992 5s 6d ; and those of the Bombay,
klaroda, and Central India Railway, for the week
leilding the 7th tilt., a decrease of £3:38.
The following is Mr. Sam Mendel's report of the
Manchester market, dated April 28 :—" The absence
pf sales to any extent has caused disappointment to-
day. Prices are firmly maintained, and with some
:Very few exceptions, in cases of stock being held,
Ahem is no pressure to sell or concede abatement from
the full quoted rates."
The London freight market is considerably dis-
organised by the release of the tonnage engaged on
the Abyssinian expedition. Freights at Bombay are
reported to have fallen to 40s.

As compared with the corresponding period of last
year, the present stocks of produce, with few excep-
tion; show a marked increase. There is an in-
crease of 1,112 packages of cinnamon and 471 of
clove stalks, 2,331 bags of cochineal and 438 of cocoa,
4,861 tons of coffee, 7,998 bales of cotton, 1,186 casks
°I. molasses' 1,866 tuns of rice, and 1,584 emks of
tallow. The chief decrease is in jute, there being
F'8,236 bales less, and of cuttings 12,492 bales. There
"!% a falling off of 6,309 packages in cloves, 1,664 chests
111 lac dye, 165 packages in mace and 810 in nut-
Tege, 1,950 tons of black pepper and 23 of white,
'''2sB bags of pimento, 4.490 puncheons of rum, 28
tons
of sago, 387 of sago flour, 22,250 of sugar, and
3,270 of saltpetre.
I• The following is from the Don Pedro North del
teY Gold Mining Company (Limited). Mr. F. S.
,Ymons reports per Tycho Braho steamer :—" Morro
Santa Anna, March 20, 1868.—Dear sir,—l have
ch Pleasure in informing You that on the night of
e 18th. we succeeded in ventilating No. 4 line, and
Cleaning it of bad air. Yesterday eighteen boxes of
°„e,,ln stuff were taken from it, which will give from
the to 1,000 oitavas. We are engaged in cleaning
at present, and have not finished. This letter, I
purl)°, will arrive in Pao 'for transmission- by the
is enell. packet. In the other parts of the mine there
psr"tiung new. An air machine is being made, to
Leyent trouble from foul air in future.—l re-
sy..th, dear sir, yours faithfully (signed) FRANCIS S.
410118:1

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