The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-19 00:00:00

ta.ARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGIINOR,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Stock Markets retain all the firmness of tone
and tendency which prevailed during the greater part
of yesterday •, but there is no further advance in
values. The brilliant weather and the glut of money
were the two main causes of the present position, and
as long as they continue in operation investments
must be stimulated. English railways aro steadier,
the fine weather encouraging the anticipation of a
good holiday and agricultural traffic.
The discount . market continues to show increased
inactivity, and 14 to 2 per cent. is now the minimum
rases in the °pea market. In the Stock Exchange, 1
per cent. fails to encourage borrowers.
In Liverpool, cotton is easier.
Consols are firm at yesterday's advance, being dealt
in at 04/ to 1)1 for money, and 931 to 932- ex div.
Lar account ; New and Reduced Three per Cents.,
to 531,1 ; India Five per Cents. steady at 116 to
(;5. ; Bank Stock, 246 to 218 ; Exchequer Bills,
to Ms prem.
There is no particular change in Foreign Stocks.
Mexic.in Bonds :ire quoted at 151 to 16 ; Greek, 131
t° 13:1 ; New Spanish, 35:; to 354 ; Italian (1861),
491 to 49k ; Turkish (1865), 34;2 to 35 ; Portuguese,
401 to 401 ; Eayptian (1864;, 81 to 82 ; ditto Rail-
-51 to 92 ; Viceroy's Seven per Cents., 72 to
; ditto Nine per Cents., 91 to 91i ; and Peru-
vian, 821 to 831.
The .INTew Honduras Loan is par to 1 prem.
American Securities are dull. United States 5-20
ilonds are quoted at 7n-to 71 . Erie Shares and
Illinois are each f lower, being marked at 45f to 451,
and 941 to 951 respectively.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
nave improved to 281 to 291 ; but ditto Con-
solidated Mortgage Bonds have receded to 314
to 32.
In Colonial Government Bonds prices are well
maintained. Canada Six per Cent. is quoted at 1031
to 104 ; the Five per Cents., 904 to 91i ; Mauritius
Six per Cent., 104 to 106 ; New South Wales Five
Per Cent., 100 to 106 ; New Zealand Six per Cent.,
100 to 102 ; Queensland Six per Cent., 107 to 108 ;
Victoria Six per Cent., 1121 to 1131.
In Foreign Railway Shares Lombardo-Venetian
are quoted at 147 to 15 ; and Great Luxembourg at
10/ to ilk.
English Railway shares are on the whole well sup-
ported, but the movements in prices are merely
nominal. The following are the prices :—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 1271 to 1281 ; Midland, 101 to 1071 f ;
South Eastern, 761 to 77 ; London and North
Western 115f,' to 1154 ; Great Northern, 102 to 103 ;
ditto (A), 90- to 97 ; Great Eastern, 34k to
344 Great Western, 54k to 54 ; London,
Brighton, and South Coast, 54 to 54- ; Manchester,
kleflield, and Lincolnshire, 42 to 43 ; Metropolitan,
1121 to 1121 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 18/ to
191 ; Caledonian, 741 to 751.
,nank shares show very little change, the movements
being confined to an advance of in London and
_vestminster, and of k in Anglo-Austrian the former
being dealt in at 71 to 72, and the latter at
'*x to 51 prem. Alliance are steady at
LI to 12 dis.; Agra, 91 to 10i ; Chartered Merean-
tile, 27 to 28 ; Consolidated, 4i to 41 ; Imperial,
18 to 19 ; Imperial Ottoman, 78 to 784 prem.;
London and County, 52 to 53 ; Oriental, 42 to 43 ;
London Joint-Stock, 344, to 351 ; Union of London,
344 to 35A,
Finance shares are rather dull. Credit Foncier is
marked at 2 13-16 to 2 15-16 ; General Credit, 213-
to 24 dis. ; International Finance, 2 to 14 dis.
Foreign Mining Shares are very quiet. St. John
del Rev remain at la to 17k ; Chontales * lower, at
21 to 27g-; Port Phillip steady at J to 1/.
Miscellaneous securities are without feature. Hud-
;"?n's Bay is steady at 15i' to 1N- ; Anglo-American
Telegraph, 221 to 23 ; Atlantic Teegraph Eight per
Cent., 5 to 5 ; Fore-street Warehouse 2to 1 dis.;
London General Omnibus, 14 to 2i.
The City of Cork has brought £1,500 in specie
from New York, the Union with £96,000, and the
Siberia, with £44,000.
Ear gold to the value of £71,000 was yesterday
Sent into the Bank.
The silver market is flatter, and the Mexican dol-
lars by the French West Indian Mail have been sold
4t, the reduced price of 584 d per ounce.
The Australian gold ships which are known to
ne at sea for this country are the following, to the
date of March 30th :—The Holwsdale, with
£190,000 ; the Canterbury, £27,720 ; Dover Castle,
£,71,684 ; Champion of the Seas, £86,748 ; Norfolk,
'140,960 ; Christina Thompson, £26,000 ; the
Niagara £101,784 ; the Thyatira £125,636 ; the
Great Britain, X 317,263 ; the Wellesley, £27,400 ;
the Reigate, £30,932 ; the Marpesia, £330,672 ;
the Sobraon, £96,000 ; and the John Duthie
X 11,600 —toget her, £1,514,404.
The Stock Exelange Committee have appointed
alst, May. a anecial settlinz day in the
shares of the Anglo-Argentine Company Quiaaieu).
No quotation was applied for.
A special general meeting of the British Colonial
Steamship Company has been called for the 4th
of June.
The ordinary general meeting of the London
Chartered Bank of Australia has been convened
for the sth June, for the purpose of declaring a
dividend.
Melbourne advises report the failure of Messrs.
Appleton and Tweddell, drapers' with liabilities
estimated at £21,000 ; assets, £26,000. Messrs.
harlot and Co., a squatting firm, have failed for
£30,000, with assets estimated at £20,000.
The following is from the Fortune Copper Mining
Company of Western Australia, Limited :—Mr.
Samson advises, under date of March 31st : The lead
ore now in course of shipment per Hastings is 200
;
tons
,the 83 tons copper ore and 24 tons lead ore, I
noPe, to ship shortly.
Letters from Marseilles, dated the 15th inst., an-
nounce very large arrivals of wheat at that port from
the ports of the Black Sea. They had not then exer-
cised any influence upon the market, which remained
calm ; but a fall was expected, which it hoped might
reanimate business.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this week
an increase of £642 over last year, and the South-
Eastern an increase of £1,120.
The traffic return of the Great Western Railway of
Canada, for the week ending the 15th inst., shows an
increase of £3B over last year.
The traffic receipts of the Varna Railway, for the
week ending April 29th, were £2,274, and the corre-
sponding week last year, £1,161.
The receipts of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay
United Railway for the four weeks ending the 26th
March amounted to £10,696, comparing with £9,817
for the corresponding period of last year.
The working of short time is increasing in the
cotton manufacturing districts. In Stockport, Tod-
morden, and Rossendale it is the rule, and throughout
the manufacturing districts it is being more or less
generally adopted. The decrease of the production
encourages holders of stocks not to yield further in
brim

BRITISH FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, June 4 •
3 per Cent. Reduced 931 i
New 3 per Cent
New 23- per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. o per Cent. al an. 1873
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Teleh,raph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills. £l,OOO, 2 por et — Pm
Do. £5OO
Do. £lOO & .£2OO 8
Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent 2171
Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April1874
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent..fuly, 1880 . ll6 1
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
no. 5i per Cont. May 1879 —
Do 5 per Cent., hup. Deb. 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 lO2l. .
Do. do. 1882 —
D... Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l.000
FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO CLOCK.
Ar;exithie Repubc, 6 per Cent..
'Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent — xd
ho. 41 por Cent., 1852 —

Do. - .do , 1858 —
bo. do., 1801 —
~.,1)0. do., 1868 66
uo. 5 per Cont., 1865 —
, Do Account 76i
Jo Lenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
(4 IAI 6per Cent .
1?,.) 2 per Cont. (Doferred 3 per Cent )
6
, Lillian 6 per Cent 741
no• 41 per Cent —
Uo. 6 per Cent., B ••• --
1.,.°., 1867
Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 lO2l
, 1)0., Scrip £32 paid ....
'Jr, )1, mbian, 6 per Cent.
uanish 3p it Cent., 1825..% , ............ --;
13 knutdan Principalities, 7 par Cent iI2I 31
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 BO
tluador New Consolidated, 1 per Cen' —
.YPtian, 7 per Cent ...
"0. Seuaad Issue •• •••
n.s. £5,10 'MlAS
Do. 4,10 C 80nd5.... .. Bl
Do. 1861 —
Do. Account
no. .£5OO Bonds Bll
no. .£1.40 Bonds B2l 1 3 21 4
• Government Railway Debentures .... 92 14
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, es Coups. —
Do. Account - .. --
Pe. counnn.
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