The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-22 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERQIAL INTELLIOICITOR,

•
The stock markets are less firm than they were this
time yesterday, but there is no average change as
compared with last night's unofficial close. There
continues to be some realizations of the Russian
Guaranteed Stocks, and both Orel-Vitebsk and
Nicolai are offered. Part of the rise in American
shares noticed yesterday has been lost, con-
sequent upon a reaction at New York. The
English Funds keep firm, being supported by the
scarcity of stock, and the diminished activity of the
money market. India Five per Cents. have further
improved, but as regards English railways there is
less tone upon speculative sales. Great Eastern have,
however, recovered 1 per cent. upon a statement that
the Marquis of Salisbury does not contemplate re-
signing his seat.
The Discount illarlret continues to he only mode-
rately active as compared with last week, but as the
rate for•the best short-dated paper is 2 per cent., the
bulk of the business is taken to the Dank of England.
Should the present state of the market continue we
thall Prato bly see the outside rate yield a little.
The Liverpool cotton market is quiet at previous
prices.

The corn market is firm at Monday's rates.
The English
Funds are steady at yesterday's close.
Consols are inquired for at 93;1 to 931, for money and
account ; New and Reduced Three per Cents., 92
to 921, ; India 5 per Cents. firm at 1142 to 114 ;
Bank h,Stock, 243 to 245 ; Exchequer Bills, 13s to
Zs prem.
Foreign Government securities are steady, but with-
out particular variation in prices. Greek are
good at 124 to and Spanish are firm at
3511 to 351. Turkish (1865) have declined It,
at 34a to f.ic. Of Egyptian the Viceroy's
Seven per Cents. are better at 702 to 711. The
Nine per Cents. keep firm at 882 to 891,
and the 1864 loan is 81 to 82. Mexican
Bonds show no change at 151 to 152 ; Italian (1861),
48g to 48g.
Of foreign Government guaranteed railways, Nicolai
shares are dull at 651- to
.661; Orel-Vitebsk are
steady at 782 to 79 ; and Egyptian Debentures,
891 to 902.
The Spanish Colonial Eight per Cent. Loan fully
paid up is 90 to 90.1,, and the Scrip, 31 to 21 dis.
The New Honduras Loan closed at par to 1 prem.
American securities continued firm. United States'
5-20 Bonds are better, at 701 to 70g. Erie shares
steady, at 46 to 47 ; Illinois -A- higher, at 93 to 94.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
nave declined at 29 to 31 ; and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds , at 341 to 35.
The chief movement in English Railways is a re-
covery of 1 in Great Eastern, at 34 to 34±. The quota-
tions current are :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 127± to
1282 ; Midland, 1071. to 1081 ; South Eastern, 74 to
741-, ; London and North Western, 116 to 1161; Great
Northern, 1021 to 103- ; ditto A, 981 to 991 ; Great
Western, 51 to 511 ; Brighton, 52 to 522 ; Metro-
politan 112 to 1121 ; Caledonian, 732 to 74i ;
Sheffield, 432 to 44j- ; and Chatham, 19 to 191.
Foreign Railway Shares are firmer. Great Luxem-
burg
is 1 better, at og to W- ex. div. Lombardo-
Venetian unaltered, at 14n to 141.
Bank Shares are without feature, and not a single
movement is reported in prices. The following are the
quotations :—Agra (A) Shares, 91 to 102;
13 to 12 dis. ; Anglo-Austrian, 4 to 41- prem. ;
Chartered Mercantile, 28 to 29 ; Consolidated, zlif
to 4g- ; Imperial, 18 to 19 ; Imperial Ottoman, to
; London and County, 51 to 52 ; London and
Tirestnainster, 67 to 68 ; Oriental, 421- to 431 ;
London Joint Stock, 32 to 33 ; Union of London,
34 to 321.
In Foreign Mining Shares there is little doing.
St. John del Reys are quoted at 201 to 211 ; Port
Philip, 14 to ; Chontales, 3to 31.
xellengViapish.cellaneous Shares business is dull. Atlantic
8 per Cent. is flat, at 51 to SR, being a
tcloecic,in, of ; Anglo-American Telegraph quiet, at 231
`‘)g- • Hudson's Bay, 141- to 14± ; Fore-street
Warehou' se, 2 to 11- dis • London General Omnibus,
ltd to 2k 2 ••,
The sum of £53,000 in gold coin was withdrawn
real the Bank yesterday for export, of which £47.000
were sovereigns for Alexandria.
4.'1%e Peruvian has arrived from
Portland with
'21,000 in specie.
e
.r.; The steamers leaving New York yesterday for
ur
_ep took £50,000 in specie.
The particulars of the New Tasmanian Government
'all were announced last evening. It is for the
amount of £400,000, in 6 per Cent. Bonds, re-
vayable between 1893 and 18971 Tenders will be
received by the Bank of New South Wales (by whom,
aad the Consolidated Bank, the Loan is introduced)
to the 28th inst., and the allotment will be made to
the highest bidders, provided the prices offered are
not below the minimum fixed previously. Ten per
30• t• is payable on allotment, and the balance on June
This loan will bring the public debt of the colony
11a to £1,073,000, and the revenue in 1867 was
4253,726 35 6(1.
The report of the Standard Bank of British South
Africa for the half-year ending the 31st of December
shows a net profit of £13,004 Os 3d. The directors
recommend a dividend of lOs on the £25 shares and
bon those with £lO paid, which will leave £5OO to
be applied Ur preliminary expenses account, £2,000 to
added to the reserve, and X 1213 3s 3d to be carried
forward. ,
A general meeting of the Trinidad Petroleum Com-
ua*Pj has been called for the 29th inst.
.%).-clithhe ordinary general meeting of the London and
to
African Bank has been called for the 7th May,
wvidend, re__•
,„ receive the directors' report and to declare a
The a
oannual meeting of the Illinois Central Railroad
ompanyn will be held in Chicago on the 27th May.
The directors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland
Ithave called the yearly meeting for the 21st May for
the transaction of the ordinary business of the
company.
The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
traffic return shows this week an increase of £295
compared Metropolitan
with the corresponding period of 1867 ; the
an increase of £7ll ; and the Glasgow
and South Western an increase of £ll6.
The traffic receipts of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway Company for the month of March
amounted to £76,244, showing a decrease of £11,365.
The receipts of the Great Luxemburg Railway
the week ending the 19th April, show
an increase of
£1,236 2s lld ; the Grand Trunk Railway for the
'week ending the 4th inst., an increase of £2,848 ;
,and the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway for
the week ending the Ist of March, a decrease of
£1,426 5s Bd. •
The following is Mr. Sam Menders weekly report
of the Manchester markets, dated April 21 :—" The
position of this market has not varied much during
~entpast week. The demand shows no improve-
yet there is no decided pressure to make sales.
ll'utreices are slightly weaker, yet, on the whole,
,110.,,_adilY maintained, and only occasional re-sale lots,
w offering on a much more restricted scale, can be
a_t any material reatiolion nom spinners' and
""taufacturers' prices."

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