The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

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LIONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, Two o'CLocic.

The Mock market reopened this morning without
anY material change in the position of affairs. The
Consol settlement engages attention, but so far
the realisations on the part of speculative holders
have not been equal to the amount being taken
off the market, so that the tendency has
been to increased firmness. Generally business is
b' isk, orders having accumulated. In forejgn stocks,
Italian, Peruvian, and United States securities are
to it higher. Turkish are flat. Railways are flat.
Great Luxembourg are much better, but the Americas
lines are f to -A lower, and there is no recovery in
home shares. Among banks, London and West-
minster, and Imperial Ottoman are better. Inter-
national Financial keep the advance established on
Saturday.
There is no change in discount at 1 to Ift per cent.
for the best short-dated commercial paper.
The City of Paris has brought £263,500 in specie
from New York, and the Sobraon £26,000 Australian
gold.

The English Funds are firm. Consols are a shade
better at 95i to 96 for delivery, and 94g to 94k ex.
div. for account ; New and Reduced Three per Cents.,
944 to 94)4 ; India 5 per Cents, steady, at 1162 to
11'4 ; Bank Steck, 246 to 248 ; Exchequer Bills,
78 to 123 prem.
In foreign Stocks, Italian are chiefly firm, the
present price being 521 to 52i with an upward ten-
dency. Peruvian, at 872, are 1 better ; and Viceroy's
9 per Cents, have advanced at 88i ; Brazilian and
Turkish have declined 1, at 774 to 771, and 372 to
38 respectively ; and Egyptian (1864) are lower, at
84 to 821 ; 111exican are steady, at 164 to 16g ;
Greek, at 13/ to 14/ ; New Spanish, at 371 to 37k ;
Egyptian Railway Debentures, at 92 to 93 ; and the'
Viceroy's 7 per Cents., at 73k to 74.
The New Honduras Loan is par to 1 prem.
In American Securities, United States 5-20 Bonds .
are firm, at 724. to 73k, being an advance of g; Erie
Shares are lower, at 46/ to 462 ; and Illinois +, at
b7l to 972.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are 29/ to 292, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds
321 to 33f.
In foreign railway shares, Great Luxemburg have
been very firm, and dealings have taken place at 12k,
being a rise of R. Lombardo-Venetian are also I
better, at 15 to 14.
The sudden and serious relapse of 1 to 2 per cent.
in Metropolitan on Saturday after regular hours has
not induced purchases, so that this market remains
very flat. Railway Shares generally are without
improvement at quotations :—Lancashire and York-
shire, 1282 to 129/ ; Midland, 106; to 107 ; South
Eastern, 761 to 77 ; •London and North Western,
1151 to 114 ; Great Northern, 1021 to 103 i ; the
A Stock 96i to 97A ; Great Eastern, 352 to 36 ,•
Great Western, 532 -to 56 •, London, Brighton, and
South Coast, 522 to 53 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 441 to 442 ; Metropolitan, 111 to 111 k ;
Caledonian 74/ to 742 ; London, Chatham, and
3)Over, 20 to 21.
Batik Shares are aniet, but prices are well sup-
Ported. London and Westminster are better, at 71
to 72 ; and Imperial Ottoman at 4to 4- prem. ;
Agra (A shares), 10/ to 102 ; Alliance, 13 to 12 dis.;
Aitgl
, 0-Anstrian, 51 to 51 prem. ; Chartered Mercan-
til▪
e, to 28A ; Consolidated, 4i to 42 ; Imperial,
18 to 19 ; Lon;:lon and County, 52 to 53 ; Oriental,
42 to 43 ; •London Joint Stock, 35 to 36 ; Union of
14°Ildoe, 341 to 35A.
In Finance Shares, Internatianal Finance is firm,
nt IR to 11 dis. ; General Credit steady, at 2k to 1-ii;
Credit Foncier, 3 to 31.
• Foreign Mining Shares are in a little better request.
John del Beys are quoted at I.Bk to 19i, being an
teprovement of / ; Port Philip steady, at 1i to 11 ;
Chontales area lower, at 1H to
The dealings in Miscellaneous Securities are merely
T'nlinal and prices are for the most part unaltered.
'"-')g:0-Anterican Telegraph is marked at 22/ to 221
ex div.; Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cent., 4 15-16 to
5 1-16 ; Hudson's Bay, 16g to 165.
A special general meeting of the British Ship-
owners Company has been called for the 11th inst.,
for the purpose of confirming the resolutions passed at
the previous meeting to reduce the capital of the
Company.
The annual general meeting of the Scinde Railway
°,1311-Tatty has been convened for the 26th inst., for
the transaction of the ordinary business of the
company.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Geelong left Point de Galle on the 2:3rd April for Mel-
bourne with London mail of March 27.
According to Messrs. Bucker, Offor, and Company's
ircultir, the freight market during the past month has
been
cen active at previous rates. The termination of the
Abyssinian war had caused freights at Bombay to de-
cline to 40s.
The sum of £153,000 was sent into the Bank of
-England yesterday.
The directors of the Angle-Austrian Bank have
made a call of lOs per share, payable the Ist
July.
Messrs. A. Young and J. H. Norman, the liqui-
dators of the Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi Bank
instant.
Cor-
Vration, announce that a further return of 2s Gd per
re will be made to the shareholders on the 12th
instant.
kilt!, a meeting of the Don Pedro North del Rey
'flog Company yesterday, a dividend for the quarter
dill' the 31st March of Is Gd per share was de-
clared.
The upward movement in foreign stocks during the
et monthto ;of May was remarkable. Brazilian (1865),
d?Se 2 per cent. ; Egyptian (1864), 24 per cent.;
Railway Debentures, 3 per cent. ditto Viceroy's
2 !en per CCents.,; ditto Viceroy's Nine per Cents,
be,"oeek , ; Italian (1561), 4 ; Mexican, 1 ; Peru
(1865), 4 ; Russian (1864), ; ditto Anglo-Dutch
`1806), ••' ditto Nicolai ; Spanish, 2/ ; Turkish
1.8541, 1 ;ditto (1858), ditto (1862), 11 ' • ditto
ix per Cents. (1865), 3i ; ditto Five per Cents.
(1865), 34 ; Venezuela (1864), 1k ; United States
4-20 Bonds, 2 ; and 10-40's, 1.
The half-yearly meeting of the Hibernian Banking
Company was held in Dublin yesterday. The report
was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent,
free of income tax, was declared.
Paris advices state that the heavy fall in six
marks flour, and the depressing tone of the advices
received from Marseilles, have completely dis-
couraged sellers, and that while merchants are
(laily increasing their offers to sell, the downward
movement is further precipitated by the farmers bring-
g forward their remaining stocks. On Saturday all
the markets in every one of the departments of France
were greatly depressed, and it was felt to be quite
eertaln that if nothing occurred to disappoint the
hopes inspired by the appearance of the crops, the fall
.7) uld make
onusfrther progress in the present week. At
_lN.lairseilles, aturday, business could only be done
~t_itturther concessions in price, as it was estimated
, from the present time up to the end of July
toless than 2,000,000 hectolitres of wheat have still
arrive.
R. ,
dab,s ennuth Schwartze's wool circular of yester-
an:7, date report that the tone of the market keeps firm,
eCt.s.Purehases spirited. As compared with the prices
id t'ned at the March sales there is an advance of
t:ll_49,:allijadni,n good to superior Australian washed, 'id
Ali,t" in middling and inferior and all greasy
and ld in Capes. Owing to the large
ilaB4t tt 3- brought forward daily, the sales will INA/
till the 29th inst.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
a u OYERNMENT FUNDS.
aII3F Cent. Consols
a te, for Account, Juno 4
1,433er Cent. Reduced 94 i
Isle: ~ per Cent
D°2 4fi per Cent. Jan. 1891
411°•,0 per Oent../ an. 1873
touttios, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
-1) • for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 l2}
Z eh° (Red Sea Tel4,raph), Aug., 1908 —
I/ie:N.ller Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct lO 13 pm.
Do .£5OO
Bank it 100 & £2OO — 11
Ijo.leEcnoFland Stock, 4i per Cent 246

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to• a tock ‘NI)TAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
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5 per Cent. July, 1880
D°' 4 pei- Cent., Oct. 1888
to. Certificates —
b°. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent 9Ol
11°' 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
1),-• ',l per Cent., May 1879 llO
" per Cent Rup. Bob. 1872 —.,
Do,
do. 1877 —
I) • do. 1882 —
'• Deob 5 per Gout., Aug. 1873
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1)°- 30uds, 5t per Cent., £l,OOO
25 pm
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AL., trO,.TIEIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
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691
"14. Bnnds 5 per Cent. 1859
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,',1,_)., 1867
131, •' SeriP £32 paid
44. ''rElbi", 6 per Cent.
I),Zblif 3 P.-'r Cent., 1825. •
bo 8411 Principalities, 7 per Cent 73i
Per °eat., 1867 Bl 2