The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-09 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL t.NTitIeLiGN N

CITY, Two ()Timm
The Stock markets are exceedingly quiet and inac-
tive`, and there is not a single change of import-
ah6e from the quotations of yesterday. Virtually
there will be no business, after to-day, until Tuesday
next, when the fortnightly settlement commences ;
and Consequently many of the transactions have
reference to that events The funds are steady ; and
in the foreign market a principal feature is some
amount of heaviness in Spanish and Italian stocks.
A good demand is prevailing for money this morn-
ing at 12 to 14 per cent. on the best bills. As
to-morrow is a dies non, preparations for the close of
the week are making to-day as well as against the
partial holidays of the ensuing week.
Consols are quiet at 93f to 934 for money and
account ; New and Reduced Three per Cents., 92 to
,92i.; India Five per Cents. firm at 114 to 1145 ;
Rank Stuck, 244 to 246 ; Exchequer Bills, 13s to
183 prem.
There is no particular feature in Foreign Govern-
ment Securities, but the tone is steady. 'I he changes
since last night are confined to a rise off in Greek, at
125 to 13 ; and in Egyptian Railway Debentures, at
Spanish are flit,
895 to on ; and of in Mexican, at 152 to 16. New
to 48k ; at 3.5 i to 35k ; (1861), 48i
Portuguese, 39:1 to 40, ; Egyptian (1864),
81 to 82 ; and the Viceroy's Seven
to 74. per Cents., 722
In American Securities, United States Five-Twenty
Bonds remain at 73 to 73k. Erie shares, 475 to
481, being lower. Illinois steady, at 945 to 955.
English Railways are quiet, and without particular
variation. Great Western, Great Northern (A), and
Caledonian are f lower, and Brighton, 5, while
tiondon and North Western, and Lancashire and
Yorkshire, are 5 better. The prices current are :
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 125 k to 126 ; Midland,
105 t. to 1051 ; South Eastern, 73f to 735 ; London
and North Western, 1144 to 115_; Great Northern,
102 to 103 ; ditto A, 97 to 975; Great Eastern, 355
t° 331 ; Great Western, 60 to 72 ; Brighton, 504
to si
-s ; Sheffield, 435 to 44 ; Metropolitan, 1121
to 113 ; and Caledonian, 70 to 705.
In Bank Shares, Chartered Mercantile is 4 lower,
at 28 to 29, while London Joint. Stock is 4 better, at
315 to 325. Agra (A shares) steady, at 10 to 105;
Alliance, 13 to 12 dis. ; Anglo-Austrian, 44 to 5
rem. ; Consolidated, 44 to 4g ; 17 to 175 ;
mperial Ottoman firm, at to 15 prem. ; London
and County, 51 to 52 ; London and Westminster,
674 to 685; Oriental, 425 to 435 ; Union.of London,
31 to 32.
Finance shares are without alteration. Credit
Poncier, 25 to 3 ; General Credit, 2g- to 25 dis. ;
International Finance, 2 to lk dis.
In Miscellaneous Securities very little business is
doing. Anglo-American Telegraph is steady, at 222
to 225 ; Atlagraph 8 per Cents., 5 to 5f ;
Fore-street Warentic Telegraph 8 per Cents., sto sk;
Fore_street Warehouse. 24 to 14 dis. ; Hudson's
33ay; 14k to 14f ; London General Omnibus, 12
to 2.
A special general meeting of the London and North
Western Railway has been called for the 25th inst.,
for the purpose of considering the bills affecting the
Company now before Parliament.
A special general meeting of the Great Eastern
Railway Company has been called for the 2d May, for
the purpose of receiving the report and further to
authorize the directors to raise a sum or sums not ex-
ceeding
.£3,000,000.
_ Bar gold to the value of £37,000 was sent into the
16,,ank yesterday, and £31,000 in coin was withdrawn.
un the week these operations have been in favour of
the sock held to the amount of £82,000.
The Shannon leaves to-day for the Brazils with
£2,967 in gold.
The ordinary general meeting of the Smyrna and
Cassaba
Railway Company has been convened for the
_29th inst., for the purpose of receiving the directors'
report and statement of accounts.
The next general assembly of the Leeds and Liver-
Pool Canal and Douglas Navigation Company has been
nailed for the 10th inst.
t, At a meeting yesterday afternoon of the creditors of
:_ue,•European Bank the proposed terms of payment
all within eighteen months were accepted.
Ile traffic receipts of the Bahia and San Francisco
Railwayshow
Company for the week ending February 29
resow an increase of £359 as compared with the car-
,l,),°llditns week of last year.
ut) directors of the London and County Bank
V shortly open a branch in the premises adjoining
theand near Railway Station, Aldersgate-street,
"no near to the New Smithfield arkets.
bThe following is from the Bank of British North
tuerica In accordance with the intimation given
tiya the chairman at a meeting of proprietors, held on
wo December last, that the accounts of the bank
101.11i1,be published in future at as early a date as
Ltistui the directors now beg to submit the
''hee-sheet and statement of profit and loss
'-oo
that the net unt, as on the 31st December last. It will be
seen
profit for the year 1867 amounts
to
the sum of £77,583 is sd, which will allow of the
t'Z'r'ent of a dividend, at the customary period, at
De ate of
le! ents., being
per cent. per annum, and a bonus of 15
av
the same distribution as last year,
ring the slim of £2,583 is 5d to be carried to the
est,' or balance of undivided profit."
s
directory of the Clion tales Gold and Silver
''nes have received information that Mr. Belt, the
t newthe
commissioner, arrived safely and in good health
lTdhae advised he manes on the 23rd February. Remittance of
go
323 ounces.
dill(
circular following is Messrs. Durant and Co.'s monthly
dated April 8 :—" We have to report a
1110
funnth of fairly current business in silk, with deliveries
gisj 11,13 to the improved rate of February, and
she 'ladY stiffening prices--confirming to some extent
°Peful prospect of increased use of Asiatic silk.
lionser to the
it must not be forgotten that the direct importas
Continent are more or less exhausted, and
lone.rge as our figures would indicate. So, also, on the
cases hand, the improvement in prices is in many
e__es decidedly greater than the small alterations in
being, in good medium silk. Bengal silk has been
eAeac"lns' favoured in the increased demand, the
ea ' ustion of European stocks inducing comparatively
N,g.er inquiry for the finer sizes and better qualities.
Surdah has been sold at 315."
low. essrs• Layton and Co.'s Tea Circular has the fol-
sea leg Since our last report transactions in the
a„,litrket have been continued upon a large scale,
ee7,l n the absence of fresh arrivals importers have sues
ed in obtaining a further substantial advance for
all common grades of congou, which have been eagerly
Is arch; both for home use and speculation, at from
tO is 3d per lb., the latter being the actual
lealkti°ll at the close. Medium qualities of black
Ll,Ort'ave, from their relative cheapness, also attracted
ane attention, and sales of tes at ls 4d to ls 7d
ew an improvement of quite tilde per lb. In monings
to 23 ,4'snws a moderate business has been done up
id, the
11111 ch , quantity of fine in first hands being now
are 0 ,requced. Oolongs of fair to medium character
chet.atY saleable with great difficulty at a further re-
Iva „' n ; really fine and finest are on the other hand
n'ed, and would command fully previous pricee

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a GOVARNMENT FUNDS.
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101
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0., Secoad Issue
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uo• 4100 Do. Bonds
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