The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-16 00:00:00

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MONEY MART ET

A ND
COM.MERCIAL INTELIAGENCII,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

This being the last day of the settlement, the Stock
Markets are more or less neglected for the immediate
business in hand. The funds are flat upon the appre-
bension of the mischief resulting from the continued
dry weather. Foreign Stocks, however, keep steady,
but the upward movement is not important. Peru-
vian and Egyptian are better, and the Argentine
Scrip is called 1 prem. In railways, one leading
feature is the advance of 1 per cent. in Metropolitan
on the passing of the Finance Bill. Otherwise, home
railways are quiet. Foreign are again firmer, the
reaction in Great Luxembourg being encouraged by
an increased traffic this week of £2,853 .53 Bd. Bank
*hares are flat.

The Money Market is quiet, at la per cent., with
exceptional transactions at 11 per cent.
The English Funds are fiat. Consols show a decline
of it, at 94 to 941 for Money, and 941 to 947 for
Account. New and Reduced Three per Cents.,
9.1;1 to 911 ; India, Five per CentF. quiet, at 114% to
115 ; Rink Stock, 247 to 249 ; Exchequer
145 to 18s prem.
Foreign Government Securities are steady. Mexi-
can are quoted 16 to 161 ; Greek, 13% to 14 ; New
Spanish,. 37 to 38 ; Italian, 53% to 53g ; Turkish
(1865), 381 to 39 ; Peruvian, 88% to 89 ; Danubian
(1861), 72 to 74 ; ditto (1867), 81 to 83 ; Argentine,
to 1% Prein•, _Egyptian • (1864), 81% to 82% ; and
V'iceroy's Seven per Cents., 74 to 74%.
• Egyptian Nine per Cent. Bonds aro 872 to 88k.
The New Honduras Loan is par to 1 prem.
American Securities are steady. United States 5-20
Bonds are inquired for at 731 to 73a ; Erie Shares,
15% to 46 ; and Illinois, 99% to 100%.
Atlantic and Great Vestern Railway Debentures
are 29 to 29%, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds,
83± to 331.
In English Railway Shares the dealings have been
very moderate, and the only feature is a rise of 1
per cent. in Metropolitan, which is in request at
112 to 113. Great Northern Ais I better at 103 to
104, while the A Stock is 4- lower at 96 to 97 ; and
kanchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, also f, at
43,} to 431. The following are the prices :--Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 128% to 129 ; Midland, 1051 to 106 f ;
London and North Western, 116 to 116% ; Great
Eastern, 37 to 37f ; Great Western, 53 to 53% ;
London, Brighton, and South Coast, 52 to 52f ;
Caledonian, 73 to 73% ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
20% to 201.
Colonial Government Securities present no feature,
the dealings being merely nominal. The following are
the quotations :—Canada 6 per Cents., 105 to 107 ;
ditto 5 per Cents.. 93 to 95 ; Mauritius 6 per Cents.,
105 to 107 ; New South Wales 5 per Cents., 100 to
,102 ; New Zealand 6 per Cents., 110 to 112: Queens-
Land 6 per Cents., 109 to 110 ; Victoria 6 per Cents.,
114 to 116.
Foreign Railway Shares are firm. Lombardo-Vene..,
Lan and Great Luxembourg are each b better, being
dealt in at 15k to 15f, and 122 to 13 respectively.
In Bank Shares rather more activity is displayed,
tut prices on the whole are rather dull. London and
County and Union of London are each % lower, the
former being quoted at 51 to 52, and the latter at 34
t° 35. On the other hand Chartered Mercantile is %
nigher at 30 to 31 ; Agra (A) steady, at 114 to 12f ;
Alliance, 10% to 9% dis.; Anglo-Austrian, 5% to 6
Prem. ; Consolidated, 41 to 5 ; Imperial, 18 to 19 ;
Imperial Ottoman, 11,- to lif prem.; London and
Vestminster, 71f to 711 ; ditto New, 48/- to 481 ;
• Priental, 42% to 43% ; London Joint Stock, 34 to 35.
, In Foreign Mining Shares the only feature is a
Lail of I in Chontales_, at la to n- ; Rossa Grande,
3-16 to 5-16 prem. ; St. John del Rey, 18% to 19% ;
Port Philip, 1% to 11.
Miscellaneous Securities are steady. Hudson's
ray remain at 16g• to 16g. ; Anglo-American Tele-
•i'aPh, 22f to 22g ; Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cent.,
to 5 ; Fore-street Warehouse, it dis. to 4 prem. ;
London General Omnibus, 2% to 2R.
4:26,000 in bar gold was sent into the Bank yester-
day.

j. The Bremen has arrived from New York, with
4.41,000 in specie.
The 'ordinary general meeting of the Crystal Palace
Company has been convened for the 30th inst., for'
the purpose of receiving the directors' report and
statement of accounts.
retnittance of £303 18s 4d has been received on.
account of Ecuador dividends.
The traffic receipts of the South Eastern Railway
for this week show a decrease of £2,502 as compared
with the corresponding week of 1867.
The traffic return of the Great Western Railway of
eitnada for the week ending the 12th inst., shows a
decrease of £1,016 over last year.
• The Chontales add Mining Company have received
reluittance of 137 ounces of gold.
• The total receipts ut the Panama, New Zealand,
and Australian Royal Mail Company for the year 1867
were £96,107 Os 31 ; and the disbursements, includ-
N insurance and the appropriation to repair, renewal,
account, .1:336,994 153 3d, exhibiting a loss of
~'30,F.87 153. To this must be added the interest on
debentures, &c., and other home expenditure. in all
-1-24,427 12s id making the total £55,315 7s ld,
with the previons balance of £9,581 Os 3d,
;418es the stun to the debit of profit and loss account
o X 64,896 7s 41
. There is, consequently, no divi-
nend to be declared. It is satisfactory, however, to
nd in the report that several considerable items of
!Pettditure are this year being -greatly reduced, and
that the revenue has increased. The information
which
the directors possess enables them, without
hesitation, to express the opinion that not only has
„ tuille maximum loss been fully ascertained, but that
ve.eelnpany's fleet is now being worked with results
melt will tend to compensate for past losses, and to
ensure a remunerative return on the Capital invested.
A The tenth annual report of the National Bank of
fist,
with statement of balances on 31st March
iltst, states that the net profits for that half-year, after
411'161.1g provision for bad and doubtful debts, and
laid for rebate on bills current, and interest
rd and accrued on deposits, amount to £41,961
l 3 11d ; balance forward from last half-year, £3,210
d ; making an available total of £45,171 15s 6d,
ulch sum the directors recommended should be ap-
Drepriated as follows :—Dividends at the rate of 10
her cent. per annum, £27,000 ; bonus of is per share,
rmivalent to 2 per cent. per annum, £6,750 ; reserve
ttlid (making 2150,000), .£5,000; reduction of bank
I:eulises account, £5,000; balance carried forward,
•r ,421 15s 6d ; total, .£45,171 15s 6d.
1.-ilie mail from South Australia brings dates to the
25th Anil. The weather had been fine, and plough-
ttig cperations were being proceeded with. The yin-
Lage nad been rainsut with a moderate yield. There
1;;(1 been plentiful in the far north. At the land
Sale at Mount Gambier over 15,000 acres were pur-
reuased by four agents. The south-eastern wheat
acre
exactly come up to the average. The yield per
uvre has been only 4 bushels 401 b ; 55,716 acres were
I"eaped ; of 7,478 farms cultivated, 1,908 produced
kged wheat ; 2,337 middling ; and 3,233 inferior. In
victoria an almost similar depreciation has been expo-
,,teheed. There were 220,734 acres under cultivation,
;lid a yield of 3,489,893 bushels ; the average yield
15.4 bushels, the decrease over a million bushels,
41'1 a similar decrease had been sustained in the yield
Oats. The following were the statistics :—Govern-
ent receipts (March 31), £170,380 ; expenditure,
3181,815 ; immigration (April 18) 18,895 ; emigration,
cereal exports, £183,158 ; customs receipts,
1„11CL`",,993 • imports, £574,023 ; exports, £752,048 ;
sold, 55,677 acres, yielding £61,830. Wheat
0,93 per bushel ; flour, £2l to £23 per ton. The
,4111 cs sold drafts on London at 60 days' at 1i per
e4t., and bought same at 1 dis.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
° Per Cent. Consols
for Account,
Ditto
a... 94i
Per Cent. Cent. Reduced 94; I I
New 3 per Cent
21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 r Cent.. Jan.
A • Pe
inuaies, 30 vrs, expirelB73 sth Jan., 18811 —
,Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
x DO (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
1(11,10quer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct l4 pm
Do. £SOO
.8-ta of England Stock, 41 per Cent 246 8
Do. Account
t INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
a ',rt A •
Do.
stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874
-u,so. Account
:it). 5 per Cent. July, 1880
O. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent 9ll 1
Do. 5 per Cont., Jan. 1872
Do. ser Cent., May 1 —
Do 5 per Cent., Rnp. De b. 879 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —

P". Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 por Cent., £l,000
no. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
hr Rentine Ropuic,
latrio,n Bonds,l 5 per Cent. 1859
retilian 5 por Cout — xd
23. 4i- per Cent., 1852 —
'',.o. do. 18-8.. . .. —
"„„°- do., 18 A.
1;0. do., 1863
r,°. 5 per Cent, 1865 —
13 uo Account 761,
li,enosttyreS 6per Cant
0 -u.) 2 per Cont. (Defemd 3 per Cent )
0' „.bill 6per Cent. —
,wan per Cent _
•uo. 4i per Cent —
1)°• 6 0 t B
Do,'
• per on „
r,c1.1 1867
"3.1 7 per ,Cent., 1866 -
J:)1 Scrip .432 paid •• • • •