The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-01 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL lIATIALLIGENCE,

Cur, Two O'CLOCK.

thr as foreign stocks are concerned, the market
this morning is animated. The success which
has attended one or two of the recent loans has en-
couraged the introduction of others, and upon the
growing belief that prices are in the ascendant,
there are large purchases of all the leading
securities, otherwise the markets are dull.
The funds are very quiet, and in spite of the
accruing dividend there is no movement. Railway
Shares are likewise offered, the public continuing to
abstain from purchasing. Among the minor shares
there is a further improvement in Imperial Ottoman
Bank, in sympathy with the rise in Turkish Bonds.
The Money Market is supported by a fairly active
demand for discount at 2 per cent., with exceptional
business at 1 per cent. The supply is moderate.
The Liverpool Cotton Market opened active and
aavancing.
Corn is quiet, but firm.
The English Funds are without change. Consols
are quoted at 93 to 93 for delivery, and 931 for
the May account ; New and Reduced Three per
Cents., 912 to 914, ; India Five per Cents., 1132 to
1141 ; Exchequer Bills, 7s to 12s prem.
The Foreign Stock Market is very firm, at an ad-
vance of /to per cent. in the leading low-priced
descriptions. Italian (1861) are 42- better, at 491 to
49 ; and there is an advance of /in Mexican, at
151 to 161 ; in Greek at 121 to 13 ; in New Spanish,
354, to 364, ; in Turkish (1865), 334, to 344, ; and in Orel-
Vitebsk, at 80 to 81 ; and of k in Portuguese, at
to 1 prem. ; Egyptian are steady ; the 1864 Bonds
are 82 to 83 ex. div. ; Railway Debentures, 89 to 90;
Viceroy's Seven per Cents., 722 to 73/ ; and the
Nine per Cents., 882 to 89/.
The Spanish Colonial Government 8 per Cent. Loan
has been favourably received, and is dealt in to-day
at 1, U prem.
The New Honduras Loan is steady at 2 to 1± prem.
In American Securities United States 5-20 Bonds
are steady, at 714, to 72A- ; Erie Shares unaltered, at
48A to 49. Illinois k better, at 89i to 90.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
remain at 26 to 27, and. the Consolidated Mortgage
Bonds at 31 to 311.
Home railway shaies are mostly flat. As comparea
with last night's prices, Caledonian are 1# lower ;
Great Northern, ditto A, Great Eastern, and
Sheffield, I each ; and London and North Western,
and Metropolitan, each. On the other hand,
Midland are k better ; and Lancashire and York-
shire, South Eastern, and Great Eastern, *
each. The quotations are : Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 125.5 to 126 ; Midland, 1042 to
1051; South Eastern, 722 to 73/ ; London and
North Western, 114/ to 1142 ; Great Northern,
1021 to . 103 k ; ditto A stock, 961 to. 971; Great
Ra.stern, 33 to 337 g ; Great Western, 48 to 49 ;
London, Brighton, and South Coast, 50k to 502 ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 43i to 44±;
Metropolitan, 1122 to 113 f ; Caledonian, 70/ to 702.
In Bank shares there is not much doing and prices
are little altered, the only changes being a decline of
in Chartered Mercantile at 28 to 29, and a further
improvement of 13/4- in Imperial Ottoman. Consoli-
dated, 4a to ; Alliance, 13i to 124 dis. ; Anglo-
Austrian, 4to 41 prem.; Imperial, 17 to 171 ; Agra
(A Shares), 10 to 10k ; Oriental, 411 to 42k; London
Joint Stock, 31 to 32; London and Westminster,
67 to 68.

In Foreign Mining Shares the dealings are unim-
portant. St. John del Rey's are quoted at 23 to 25.
Port Philip, to 1. Chontales lk to 1 dis.
Miscellaneous Shares are steady, the only feature being
an advance of k in Anglo-American Telegraph, which
are quoted at 224 to 24. Atlantic Telegraph 8 per
Cent., sto 51- ; Hudson's Bay, 14k to 14 ; London
General Omnibus, 1/ to 2.
The traffic receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada, for the month ending March 14, show an in-
crease of £1,178, as compared with the corresponding
week of last year.
The liquidators of the English Joint-Stock Bank,
Messrs. C. F. Kemp and Henry Chatteris, have issued
proposals to the creditors, offering promissory notes
for the remaining four shillings, payable in July and
January next, on condition that all further interest is
given up.
The Investigation Committee of the shareholders
In the late Birmingham Banking Company have de-
termined to call a meeting of the holders of the last
issued shares, to consider the propriety of taking
action against the members of the late board who
assented to that issue.

The sum of £4,000 in bar gold was withdrawn from
the Bank yesterday.
The steamer L:t Place has brought £31,000 in
specie from the River Plate ; and the Hermann
X 9,000 from brew York.

At the ordinary general meeting of tilt) Cliartorp.d
Bank of India, Australia, and China, to be held op
the 22d inst., the directors will propose a dividend at
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the half-year
ended the 31st of December last.

The following is Messrs. Mocatta and Goldsmid's
bullion circular :—"After the date of our last circular
the silver market was very inactive, the demand for
India not being renewed in consequence of the receipt
of lower exchanges, but the quotation continued
nominally GOO for some days. On the 27th inst.,
however, a small amount was disposed of at 600,
which was the rate previous to the sudden rise. The
market is now firm, and as the latest telegrams from
India report the exchanges again improving, it is pro-
bable that a slight advance may be obtained for the
silver just arrived by the West India steamer. The
dollars by the French. Mexican packet were sold on
the 20th inst. at 590, but the price subsequently de-
clined to 59. We anticipate, however, a slight im-
provement in correspondence with bar silver. The
arrivals of gold have been very trifling, and some
portion of them has gone into the Bank, there being
little or no demand for export."
_ _ _

Messrs. Frichling and Goscherd notify that the
coupons of the Egyptian Government Loan of 1864,
due Ist April, and the Bonds drawn for redemption,
will be paid at their offices, 12,. Austinfriars, on that
date, and on every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and
Friday afternoons.

Thew traffic return of the London, Brighton, and
zouth Coast for last week shows an increase of £4,100,
as compared with the corresponding period of last
year ; the Metropolitan shows an increase of £405,
and the Glasgow and South-Western an increase of
£333.

The traffic receipts of the Great Luxembourg Rail-
way for the week ending 29th March shows an increase
of £1,162, as compared with the corresponding week
of last year.
The subscription list of the Foreign and Colonial
Government Trust will close on Thursday next, the
2d inst , for London, and Friday, the 3d inst., for
country applications.
The following, dated Manchester, March 31, is
Mr. Sam Mendel's report of yesterday's market :
"A very marked advance in cotton has served to
force up prices in this market much above the prices
of last Tuesday, and in so far check business, yet
there is a strong disposition to give out orders for
goods at not very much below the rates that would
most propably be accepted. In yarns there are sales
at prices quite equal to the recent advance in cotton,
but the general demand cannot be called active. The
market is fully stronger since morning, with more
disposition to give out orders where some moderate
concession can be got from the full quoted prices."
Messrs. J. Henry Schroder and Co. have an-
nounced the divirlend (due 15th April next) on the
Four and a Half per Cent. Swedish Government
Loan of 1864 for £2,223,000 sterling.

BRITIS a FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per ()out. Consols
Do. Account, April 9
a per Cent. Reduced 9ll
New 3 per Cent 9ll 1
New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent,. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
T
Do (Red Sea elevaph), Au,..., 1908 —
Eschoquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct.
Do £5OO
Do. £lOO & £2OO lO
Bank of England Stock, 4} per Cent —
Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India tock, 10f per Cent., April 1874
Do. Account -
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Eufaced Paper 4 per Cent BB
Do. 5 per Cont., Jan. 1872
,119- 5i per Cent., May 1879 lOB ;
-1-'0 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb., 1879
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
D.. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 por Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under .£l,OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent —
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 —
Bruilian 5 per Cent 9B
00. 41. per Cent., 1852 —
Do. do. 18.;8 —
DO. do., 18 ln
Do. do., 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
00 Account 7l li
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cullen 6 per Cent
•i 6 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent ---
Do. 6 per Cent, B
.. 671.
Do., 1867
Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866
Do., Scrip £32 paid
C ~. mbian, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 p u- Cent., 1825
Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent —