The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-06 00:00:00

tiOtitY MARTiET

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The Markets are firm, but not animated. The
Demo' account, beginning.to-day, has perhaps some-
thing to do with the want of an active general busi-
9ess. The chief feature is a recovery of per cent.
in Peruvian (1865) Bonds upon the announcement
this morning of the bonds drawn for payment at par
!_mounting to nearly three hundred thousand. pounds.
Russian Railways are rather fiat upon the new loan.
English Railways are fractionally firm, with the ex-
Deption of Metropolitan and Caledonian, which are
Rat. Joint Stock Bank Shares are in One or two
eases lower.
The Money Market has a downward tendency, in
view of the payment of the dividends, which takes
Place in a few days. The rate is 1 per cent. for the
best bills.
English wheat is is to 2s lower.
The Funds are very firm, at Saturday's close.
Consols are in demand, at 95 to 951- for money, and
95k to 951. for account. New and Reduced Three
lUer Cents., 941, to 95 ; Bank Stock, 240 to 243 ;
ndia Five
per Cents. unaltered, at 1142 to 115 i ;
Exchequer Bills, -15 s to 20s prem.
The movement in foreign Government Bonds are
aavourable. Peruvian (1865) are per cent. higher,
i'eing quoted 82/ to 83. There is also an advance
ell in Viceroy's 7 per Cent. Bonds, at 74-i to 75, and
Turkish,, at 40k to 41, and of in Italian, at
°2l to 53. Mexican Bonds are 151 to 16ri ; Greek,
121 to 131 ; -New Spanish, 36i to 36i ;
to 93), ; Egyptian (1864), 82 to 83 ; and Hon-
duras, preen.
Russian railway bonds are lower, the Orel-Vitebsk
Mock being 83i
to 84 : Nicolai, 65/ to 651.
In American Securities United. States 5-20 Bonds
Zs firm at 73k to 73k, being an improvement of
ie lOll Shares better, at 45i to 461 s • Illinois 10] kto
.

Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are 28 to 29 and the Consolidated Mortgage
Bonds, 34f-to 342.
Great Indian Peninsula Railway New Foui
ber Cent. Debenture Stock is 96 to 97-
In Foreign Railway
better, atto ;
it l2q L do-Venetian,lsi
shares, Great Luxembourg are
and om ar
to 16k.
As compared with Saturday's unofficial close there
is an advance of f in Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail-
way shares at 1272 to 128 k ; in Great Northern at
1011 to 1021 ; in Brighton at 512 to 52k ; and in
Sheffield at. 412 to 44 • and of in Midland at
105 to 105 i • and in South' Eastern at 73k to 732.
London and 'North Western are steady at 1132 tc
114 ; Great Eastern at 36k to 36g ; and Great
Western at 491 to 492. Metropolitan are lower at
'l2l to 1122 ; and Caledonian k at 72 to 72i.
Colonial Government Securities are steady. Canada
6 per Cents. is marked at 101 to 103 ; ditto 5 per
Cents,, 90 to 91 ; Mauritius 6 per Cents., 102 to
104 ; New South Wales 5 per Cent., 98 to 100 :
New Zealand 6 per Cent., 110 to 112 ; Queensland
per Cent., 1051 to 100- ; Victoria 6 per Cent.,
111 to 113.
Bank Shares continue dull. London Joint Stock
1S 1 per cent. lower, at 31k to 32 ; and London and
Westminster at 69 to 70 ; Agra (A), 11 to 12 ;
Alliance, 114 to 10i dis. ; Anglo-Austrian, 42 to
51 prem. ex div. ; Chartered Mercantile, 28 to 29
Fix thy- ; Consolidated, 4g- to ; 18 to
; Imperial Ottoman, to 141 prem. ex div. ; Lon-
don and County, 491 s to 501 ; Oriental, 42k to 43i ;
Union of London, 32 to 33k.
In Finance Shares there is little or no business
doing, and prices are without movement. Credit
Foncier is quoted at 2i to 3k ; General Credit, 2a to
2k dis. ; International Finance, 114-to 1 ; and London
Finance, 22 to 20 dis.
Foreign Mining Shares are steady. St. John del
CRey is quoted at 19 to 20 • Port Philip, 1i to 12 ;
Chontales, 2to2f ; and Rossa Grande, to is
eal.
Miscellaneous Securities are almost at a stand-
still for want of business. Anglo-American Telegraph
remains at 21 -a to 21/ ; Atlantic Telegraph 8 per
Cent-, 4 13-16ths to 4 15-16ths ; Atlantic and
Great Western Mortgage Bonds, '34 to 35 • Hud-
s'-'ll's Bay steady, at 15f to 15i
; London General
Omnibus, to 2i ; Fore-street Warehouse, par to Is
A special meeting of the shareholders of the
Brighton Hotel Company is called for the 17th inst.,
to authorise the raising of money, and for other impor-
tant
purposes.
The Australasian has arrived with £75,000 in
specie from New York, and the Allemania £140,000.
The Bangalore from. Alexandria has brought
-1-4,204 in specie.
Bar gold to the value of £12,000 was sent into the
Lank on Saturday.
Advices from the leading grain markets in France
are to the 3rd inst. ; and they state that generally
they were better supplied than for several days pre-
viously, while holders in all appeared more disposed
to make concessions. Neither at _ Marseilles nor at
Bordeaux were any changes established on Saturday.
The Belgian markets on Thursday all tended down-
wards. At Alexandria, on the 23rd ult., the Egyptian
crops are reported to be exceptionally abundant,
though the market was tending upwards in conse-
quence of arrivals being checked by a fall in the
the Nile and those of the canals. The
letters from Odessa which are dated the 20th, are
generally unfavourable in their tone.
__The
„adjourned half-yearly general meeting of the
Aletropolitan Railway Company has been called for
the Bth inst.
_ The annual general meeting of the East Indian
Railway Company has been called for the 16th inst.
The Midland line of railway between London and
Bedford, through St. Albans and Luton, will be
opened for passenger traffic this day. The trains will
run from and to Moorgate-street in the City.
The numbers are published of 1,308 bonds of the
Consolidated Peruvian Five per Cent. Loan of 1865,
amounting to £289,800, which were drawn on the Ist
lest., for repayment on the Ist of October. The
numbers are also published of 273 Brazilian Five per
tent' Bonds (1865) amounting to £37,500, which
have been drawn for payment on theist of September.

TII.RDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
GOTEUNMENT FUNDS.
8 per Cent. Consols ............ .•"••••••..... 95} 5
3 Ditto for Account, July 9 —
Nper Cent. Reduced ......... . 95
ew 3 per Cent 95
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent,. an. 1873 A inuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908
Do.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct
£5OO
ZlOO it £2OO
Et ink of England Stock, 41- per Cent.,.,, 242 40
Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874
Do. Opening, for Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
DDo. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent 9l
o. o. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
15i per Cent., May 1879
Do,
Do 5 per Cent , Rup. Deb. 1872 lO9
Do. do. 1877

_..v. do. 1882 —
105}
D,. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., 41,000
O. under .£l,OOO
FORISIGN FTINDS—TIVO "CLOCK•
Argentine Repulic, 6 per Cent
62i
Auitrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 185'9
- ad
Bruilian 5 per Cent 03. 4} per Cent., 1852 —
Do. do. 1858....
lio. do ,
1860 —
bo. do. 1863 —
~
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account
13 ueiaosA.yres 6 per Cent
Da 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
nba, 6per Cent.
84i
Cailian 6 per Cent
Do. 4} per Cent
Do. 6 per Cent B
.131,01 1867 4
'-'O.l 7 Per ,Cent, 1866
Do., Scrip £32 paid
ot' tablet, 6 per Cent
D tnisti 3 plr Cent., 1825.•••••••• ''''''''''''
D Lnithi'an Principalities, i per Cent 7: „
Do 8 per Cent , 1867 ............... ...••••••• 78 i
kikillitdOr NOW Uonsolida.ted, 1 per Cent.
o,Le,yptian, 7 per Cent
..•
I-1 SOCOild 188110 ...... . .............. •••••' —BOl 2 80}
bo £5OO Bonds
Do' .410 C Bonds
_
Do,
1864
821
D° ccount
83 I-
bo• 451t0 Bonds
Do. 4100 De:.Els
••••• 81}
G (4°"rtututut Railway Debentures .... 92}
reek sper Cent 1824 5, ex Coups — i
DoGo• Acccunt 4
Do. Coupons .................................. , •
. AccJunt
_
Guatemala 5 per Cent
ouduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., .£25 p
Do__
It3lian 5 per Cent , 1865
80
, Account . . _
.30. Alarerumana Raiway
_
lititticti,r. per Cent
151
Ditto for Account
___
Do.
1864
Do 6 Per Cont. Anglo-French
lilentevid9au 6 per Cent. ......... ..
koorish Imperial 5 per Cent
15i i•
New Granada.
Do 3 per Con•
Do. Deferred
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Peruria 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Acconnt.. ................. .. Do 4} per Cent. (Uribarreu......... ..- B2l 3 11 21
) ...... ••••••