The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-05 00:00:00

DI 0 iN MARKET

AND
qOXIIERCIAL INTELLIGENCII,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Ministerial statements last night have been
favourably received, and, in spite of the attention
required by the monthly settlement, Consols opened*
per cent, better. They have since, however, upon the
absence of business, been less firm. Foreign stocks
are unsettled, particularly Egyptian ; all but
the. Viceroy's Seven per Cent. Loan have declined.
The unsettled state of the proposed financial arrange-
ments is the chief cause of the present instability of
the market. New Spanish keep firm. English rail-
Waya are in request, and quotations have an upward
tsndeney. Some of the leading banks are also firmer.
Foreign mines are flat.
The Money M.irlset is quieter, but a good business
is being done both at the Bank and out of doors, at
per cent. and upwards.
Consols opened firm, at an improvement of ?-;, but
Live .since relapsed to yesterday's prices, and are now
(Inete,l at 931 to 934- for money and account ; New
and Reduced Three per Cents., 921 to 024 ; India
I' ive per Cents., 1151 to 1161 ; Bank Stock, 243 to
215. Exchequer Bills, 125 to 17s prem.
In foreign stocks the leading feature continues to be
the unsettled state of Egyptian Finance. The Egyp-
tian 1864 Loan is k lower, at 79 to 79k ; and the
Viceroy's 9 per Cents. are also k lower, at 89 to 90 ;
and the Railway Debentures have declined 1, at
83 to 89. The Viceroy's 7 per Cents. are
alone steady, at 70k to 70/. There is a de-
cline of * in Peruvian, at 83 to 84, and of
iti Mexican, at 15g to 15k, and there is a rise of
In Chilian (1866), at 101 k to 102 k ; and of * in
Italian, at 481- to 481 ; Greek are 13k to 14 ; New
Spanish, 35f to 35k ; Turkish, 34a. to 353 ; and
Brazilian (1865), 75 Co 76.
The Spanish Colonial 8 per Cent. Loan, fully paid
'P, is 91 to 91k, and the Scrip, 2 to 13 dis.
The New Honduras Loan is par to 1 prem.
American securities are quiet. United States 5-20
Bonds are steady, at mg to 70 ; Erie shares k better,
at 46 to 47 • Illinois are without change, at 95 to
97A.
axe2s2tl9artio 0 ;
Atlantic
3and Great Western Railway Debentures
33.i-Fotroei3:n. and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds
Railways axe dull. Lombardo-Venetian is
lower, at 14/ to 15. Great Luxemburg, 10 to 10k.
English Railway shares are generally firmer,
although the improvement in prices are not very im-
portant. . Great Northern is higher, ditto A Stock,
Lanca.shire and Yorkshire, Midland, and Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, k each ; and South-
Eastern, Great Eastern, London, Brighton, and South
(toast, and Metropolitan, * each ; but Great
Western is Is lower. The following are the quota-
tioo3 :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 128 to 128 k;
Midland, 107 to 107 k ; south Eastern, 741 s to 75 ;
London and North Western, 115* to 116 ; Great
Northern, 103 to 104 ; ditto (A), -97* to 98*
Great Eastern, 34 to 34L- ; Great Western, 54- to
541 ; .London, Brighton and South Coast, 54 to 54* ;
Metropolitan,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 43k to 441 ;
'netropolitan, 112* to 113 • Caledonian, 75i to 76 ;
• and London, Chatham, and Dover, 181 to 19f.
Sank Shares are in some request, and prices are
generally firm. London and County, and London
Joint-Stock again show an improvement of *, the
former being quoted at 51* to 52k, and the latter
4to 35, Anglo-A.ustrian is also k better, at 4i
sst 5 prem. • and Imperial Ottoman, at ft to * prem.
unis s '-
sn os London, 33 to 34 ; London and West-
4Tninster, 68 to 69 ; Oriental, 41* to 42* ex div. ;
West-
Agra (A), 9i to ; Chartered Mercantile, 28 to 29.
.8 Finance shares are without feature. Credit Fancier
dis.unaltered at 2i to 3 ; • General Credit, 2a to 2i#
; International Finance, 2 to 11 dis.
8 ()reign mining
shares are flat. St. John del Rey
t lower, at 18.1 to 19b and Chontales at 2k to
2. Port Philip,'l2 to 111.
In Miscellaneous there is not much doing, and
Prices are almost stationary. Anglo-American is
Illviaidrro's_ Bay
quoted at 23k to 23g ; Atlantic Telegraph, 5f to s;i;
F treet
steady, at 14/ to 15 ; Fore-street
1 to 1' dis. ; London General Omnibus,
14 ,t° ruses,2-; cean Marine Insurance is
°ahem
so 15 * higher, at
ssAn extraordinary general meeting of the Great
Railway Company has been convened for
'unreo 19th inst., for the purpose of considering and ap-
Tviiing the bills now pending in Parliament.
bv
(11
stane
,annual general meetincr of the Trust Loan Corn-
*o Upper Canada has been called for the 29th
for the purpose of declaring a dividend,
CuA special .general meeting of the Leather Cloth
tlt,il,.l%patiy has been called for the 3rd June.
pitY thousand sovereigns were withdrawn from
Ilieena 'lt Yesterday for Egypt, and 10,000 for St.
The ss, eser has brought £83,500 in specie, from
It 13 ,rk, for this country. •
tQ
satisfactory to state that sanction has been given
He Props of the liquidatots of the English
ll_ tit Stock Bank, Limited, Messrs. C. F. Kemp and
July and
to issue promissory notes, payable on
etLiuse:o7otChb,ratut
chr!ditiors, thereby
and the 10th January vest, in dis-
ut+ge of the remaining 4s in the pound due to the
the
a are ho saving a very large sum to the
Irl ,
Cernuschi,• of Paris, is stated to have obtained
on behalf of "a
Concession of the forthcoming Egyptian Loan
English
bankers." group of Fsench and
heik_ railway is about to be constructed between Mann-
"ll and Carlsruhe5 for the-execution of which bonds,
Mann-
beam 4i per cent. interest, will be issued to the
krnt of 3,000,000 florins.
" Now Zealand Government Five per Cent. De-
sentsi
inv.
uol res for £1,114,000, for which subsc!iptions were
Lted on Friday last by the Crown Agents for the
ester Yesterday. The total amount applied for at that hour
of £4l
£2,660,700 and a pro rata allotment was made
£4l 17s 4d per cent. A new feature has been
introduced into this loan of paying the interest
quarterly instead of half yearly, which will doubtless
Prove convenient to the majority of the investors, and
add to the popularity of the securities.
Mr. Mackintosh Dalfour_has been appointed secre-
tary and treasurer of the New Dank of Bombay, and
is expected to take up his appointment some time next month.
The customs duties received at the port of Liver-
Pool during the month of April amounted to
£297,330 103 7d, being an increase of £49,908 6s 10d
as compared with the corresponding period last
rear.

tbThe following is a copy of a telegram received by
, Pestarena United Gold Mining Company,Limited:
nlia.telicia2nd May, 1868. 12710 11.113. Pestarena
---Have remitted to-clay to office, 1,025 ounces
g'ld• Would have been larger had we not been
"3' short of water. We have now a full supply.
FRANCFORT."
uhe Somersetshire, which left Gravesend for Mei-
"o roe on Wednesday, at 4.30 p.m., arrived at Ply-
-11111,,°11t,11, on Saturday, morning at 5.30, where she took
6-, the remainder of her passengers, and left at
v. u. for Melbourne.
ve-ktle Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
epo' decrease of £1,482 compared with the corre-
uier e tng week of last year, and the South-Eastern an
ase of £5BO.

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