The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL IN TELLIGENCF,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
day, the French Three per Cent. Rentes were 69f.
22c. Flat.

I,lle progress of the monthly account, which con-
chines to-morrow, is supporting the Funds, stock being
Scarce. A demand has sprung up for Indian Five per
Cents., and there is a further rise of 10s this
morning. In American securities there has also
ueen more activity. In Erie shares, lately so
much depressed, the rise is considerable. Foreign
stocks and railway shares are without average
change. The market for these descriptions is steady,
and stock is scarce, but purchasers do not come for-
Ward. Among the minor shares London Joint Stock
flank is quoted higher and Imperial Ottoman are
flat.

The discount demand is active, and the rates
current are 1 to 14 per cent.
English wheat is meeting with slow sales at Mon-
day's reduction.
Consols are steady at yesterday's prices ; 934 to
931 for money and account ; New and Reduced 3 per
Cents. 92 to 924 ex div.; India 5 per Cents. are
higher,, at 1121 to 113 ; Bank Stock, 249 to 251 ;
Exchequer Bills, lOs to 15s prem.
The Foreign Stock Market is rather dull. Greek
and Spanish Bonds are, however, exceptionally firm.
The former, at 124- to 12/, are f better, and the
hitter, at 35g to 36, have advanced Egyptian
Bonds were flat. The quotations current were
the following :—Mexican, 151 to 151 ; Greek,
,121 to 12/ ; New Spanish, 351 to 36 • Brazi-
lian (1865), 71 to 72 ex div.; Italian (1861), 441 to
45 ; Turkish(lB6s),32ito324 ; Russian Railway 761. r
to 74 ; Egyptian (1864), 86 to 88 ; ditto Deben-
tures, 901- to 91i ; Viceroy's Seven per Cent. Bonds,
73i to 74 ; and the Nine per Cents., 88i to 89.
to 89
Egyptian Nine per Cent. Bonds are steady at 881
The principal feature in American Securities is a
rise of 31- in Erie Railroad, which are now quoted at
46 to 48 ; Illinois are ± better, at 89± to 891; United
States' Five-Twenty Bonds show a further improve-
ment of 1, at 71-i to 711.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are steady, at 26 to 27, and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds, at 27 to 271. •
There is only a moderate inquiry for English rail-
way shares, and there is no average change. Cale-
donian are better, and Great Western it, but
South Eastern and North British are lower, and
I\letropolitan and Brighton, 4. The prices are as
follows :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1251 to 126 ;
Midland, 1061 to 107 ; South Eastern, 72i to 73 ;
London and North. 'Western, 1151 to 116 ; Great
Northern, 1051 to 1061 ; ditto A, 104 i to 105 i•
Great Eastern, 291- to 30 ; Great Western 45 to 45g
livighton, 4S to 48-1-; Sheffield, 41f to 4'2; Metropo-
litan, 111 to 11115; Caledonian, 83 to 84; and
I\rorth British, 34 to 34k.
Bank Shares are quiet, and the only quotable
changes have been in London Joint-Stock and lin-
perial Ottoman, the former is 1 better, at 32k to
331 ; while the latter is lower, at to ± dis.
Alliance, 14 to 13 dis.; Anglo-Austrian, 31 to 44-
rem. ; Consolidated, g to -if prem. ; London and
Westminster, 67-i to G 8 ; Oriental, 42 to 43 ;
'Union of London, 34 to 35 ; Agra (A. shares), 101.
to 11.

Finance shares are steady ; Credit Foncier, 2i to
General Credit, 2.1 to 2i dis. ; London
rinance, 26 to 24 dis. ; National Discount, 10. to

Poreign mining shares are without change ; St.
John del Rey is quoted at 16 to 18; Port Philip,
to 1} ; Chontales lg to 1 dis.
Miscellaneous 'Securities are again very inactive,
awl not a single variation has taken place in prices.
Anglo-American Telegraph steady, at 101 to 191 ;
Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cents, 5 5-16 to 5 7-16.
Ymison's Bay quiet, at 14k to 14k ; London General
omnibus, 1 to 2.
the
The sum of £124,000 in gold was withdrawn from
-1.4
-Lank, including £49,000 in bars, 60,000 sovereigns
for Turkey, and 15,000 sovereigns. for Egypt, while
21,000 sovereigns from Lisbon were sent in.
Itl consequence of the falling off in the foreign
aemand for corn, gold is beginning to be in increased
request for export.
The Bar Silver by the West India packet has been
sold at 60d per ounce, being a point above th
previous price.
The City of Baltimore has arrived from New York
with £15,000 in specie.
The, Dundee Advertiser says the stoppage is re-
ported of Messrs. Thomas Brough and SOD, canvas
inufacturers. The liabilities are said to be about
£OO,OOO, and the estate is not expected to realise

The half-yearly meeting of the Briti§b Gas-light
'company has been convened for the 25th inst., for
the transaction of the ordinary business of. the cow-
Dany and to declare a dividend.
A special general meeting. of the Mauritius Land,
eredit, and Agency Company has been called for the
17th iast., to declare an interim dividend.
Letters from Marseilles to Saturday last mention
that
some further large arrivals of wheat have taken
Place from the Danubian and Black Sea ports, by
~Which the quantity to hand was increased to 500,000
hectolitres. Additional cargoes were expected for
!ieveral days to come. The total imports of grain
into Marseilles during the month of February amounted
to 1,600,000 hectolitres.
The traffic receipts of the Great Luxemburg Rail-
.lf4l' Company for the week ending nirch 1 shows an
increase of .£6OO as compared with the correspondiurt
Week of last year.
The receipts of the Metropolitan Railway for the
'eel;
ending March 1, amounted to £4,603, and for
e corresponding period of last year to £4,291.
lshowing an increase of £312.
cu The following is Mr. Sam Mendel's weekly cir-
„,lar) dated Manchester, March 3, 1868 :—" ere is
40etter inquiry to-day both for yarns and goods; offers
toe Made on a free scale, at prices that appear likely
result iu transactions at or about present range of
Values."

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
CiOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Per Cent. Consols
8 Do. Account, March 5 93
NPer Cent. Reduced 92 xd
8%7 3 per Cent 92 1 1 xd
01r 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 751
. o. 6 per ent den. 1873 —
".linuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 l2 7-16 xd
e. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
E D 0 (Red Sea Telehraph), Au,4. 1908 —
etlefiuer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct.
Do £5OO l5 10 pm
11, Do. £lodr £2OO l5 1,1"' 01 England Stock, 41 per Cent 251 49p1n
Do. Account
, INDIAN UOVERNMENT SEOTJRITIEB.
44dia Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874
Do. Account
-
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
1200. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
DO. Certificates
Do. Enlaced Paper 4 por Cent —
D 0.5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
-hp°. 5/ per Cent., May 1879 —
''''° --
D per Cent Rup. Deb., 1872 —
.1
Do. do. 1877 —
I, Do. do. 1882 —
DO''-',. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 —
pm
Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO
DO. under £1,000
4 rOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.:
:I:47itaiiineslpteeprublic, 6 per Cent Zrklaitrian Bonds b 5
per Cent, 1859
'Cent —
D°•°li per Cent., 1852 —
ij%
d0.,1858..... 66
1)0 do., lB6O _
35. do., 1863 —
01' 0 per Cent., 1865
Oilb
;)° Aoyres 6 per Cent _
',Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
0 gilt ° Per Cent.
brs.'; 6 per Cent
Co `.,1. Per Cent —
Do. ' Per Cent. B —
bo•I 7 1867
, b'l R Per ,Cent., 1866 —
1., )1,,m1 "feriP £32 paid
Danish
l'lan, G per Cent.
Do ,p4l Principalities, 7 per Cent —1.; ~,„' Per Cent 1867 6Bl
t `-',,nr N '' .
Zypti New Consolidated, 1 par Cent —
°•fi ant 7 per Cent Sp
I),-cood Issue —
, • .fSUO Bonds
--,0. tin, „
861
D" Bonds /40. 0 1
13 5)0 Bonds
D 0,71
4100 Bonds
1864
r 0 , r(I0 eeta Railway Oebentures
i)o.is 15 'L
, per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups —
Do. Z3count
.
Gbo, A °llPons
• ---
,te Ac pons
•
4°,lquilrala 5 Per Cent
Itii,ali a:SGOV. Rail. Loan , 10p. Ct., .£25 p
)30, ,° Per Cer.t., 1865. —
9._,ifs:oenocl.:onii:tentelonuanlttai way — ').llh •
471
Dittof3 P°l' Cent —
lee 6 Per , 1864 —
I.,''ll4,vid
.. %Jolla. Auglo-Frerch —
N
!,)c)li,il ,'I per cent.
",
~,11.ntpittl 5 per Cent
413 Per ceo
, -I) iNfer,•e,i '
P- ...,k1,,, ,
etavia., I.' Narrante (hectares)
1)0 A ° Per Cent. 1865 1)0 ``cceunt ..
b 0 4i Per ~(1.1
1, . k-; ,t. (Uribarren)
~ 00
.&1„1_)431 Ctait., 1862
'erthil'oTunt ........ . . !
Do.1)0. 'e
3 Per Ct., 18.5.3,'.6., ..... '9,'60,'2,' 01
do., 15•67 391 9
(101 Scrip, £lO paid ii Pill