The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-29 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

Cm-, Two O'CLOCK.

The Stock Markets are generally steady without
kny particular change from the final quotations of
yesterday. The funds have improved about half a
point and they present some appearance of firmness,
11. d in foreign stocks the variations are unimportant.
The Railway Market is quite inactive without offering
any special features.

There is a good demand for money, and rates are
Erni at 15 to 14 per cent. on the best commercial
paper. On the Stock Exchange the terms for short
advances are 2 per cent. •
The Bangalore leaves to-day for the East, with
£173,180, chiefly gold, for Alexandria.
The funds are firmer. Consols are quoted 93 to
93A- for money and account ; New and Reduced, 93g
94 ; Bank Stock, 249 to 251 ; India 5 per Cents.,
112 to 1125 ; and Exchequer Bills, lls to 15s.
Foreign Government securities are steady at the
tabjoined prices ;—Mexican, 15'4 to 152- ; Greek, 125
to 12 ; New Spanish, 352- to 351 ; Italian, 441 to
155 ; Turkish, 441 to 455 ; Portuguese, to 1 prem.;
Russian (1862), 81 to S 5 ; Egyptian (1864), 86 to 88 ;
ditto Railway Debentures, 84 to 85 ; Viceroy's Seven
per Cents., 732 to 74. f; and the Nine per Cents., 881
So 89i.
United States' 5-20 Bonds are flat, at a reduction
the price being 71 to 71k ; Illinois Shares are -5
better, at 83 to 89 ; Eries are the same, at 44 to 45.
In Railways North British are firmer, but beyond
that there is not much change. The quotations now cur-
rent are : —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 126 to 1265
Midland, 1065 to 107 ; South Eastern, 72/ to 73k ;
London and North Western, 116. E to 116.1 ; Great
Northern 104 to 105 ; ditto A, 104 to 1045 ; Great
Eastern, 291 to 301 ' • Great Western, 455 to 46 ;
Brighton, 46 to 465 ; Sheffield, 415 to 42 ; Chatham,
18.1 to 19 ; Metropolitan, 111 to 1111 ; Caledonian,
83i to 832 ; and North British, 341 to 35k.
In foreign railways Lombardo-Venetian Railway is
lower, at 145 to 15 ; Luxemburg steady, at 911 to
Iq"._

Finance Shares are steady. Credit Foncier, 4- to
4 dis.; General- Credit, 3 to Z. dis. ; International
Finance, 2k to 1. dis.; London Finance, 26 to 24 dis.
Miscellaneous Securities are extremely quiet, and
prices in most cases are without change. Anglo-
American Telegraph, 19 to 19k ; Atlantic Telegraph
8 per cent., 5 to 5l ; Hudson's Bay, 14 to 144 ;
London General Omnibus, 1k to 2 ;. Ocean Marine
Insurance, 14 to 16 prem. ; Thames and Mersey
Marine, 2to 21-; Universal Mine, k lower, at td-
dis.

Bank Shares are steady at yesterday's prices. Al-
liance, 13 to 12k dis.; Chartered Mercantile 28i to
29; Consolidated, to -t,l ' prem. ex dir. • Imperial
Bank, 17 to 18 ; Imperial Ottoman, to * dis ' • Lon-
don and Westminster, 674 to 68& ; London Joint-
Stock is dull at a decline of I, being quoted at 33 to
34 ; Union of London, 33 to 345.
A special meeting of the shareholders of the United
ICingdoin Electric Telegraph Company has been called
for the 17th March, for the purpose of confirming
the resolutions passed at the meeting of the 25th
inst.

The annual general court of the proprietors of the
Canada Company will be held on the 26th March, to
receive the report.
A further withdrawal of £74,000 in sovereigns for
Alexandria took place at the Bank yesterday.
The following remarks upon the bullion market are
from Messrs. Mocatta and Goldstuid's circular of last
evening :—" There is still but very little activity in
our market ; the arrivals of silver and dollars have
been unimportant, and the prices remain without
variation. The quantity of gold received has also
been limited, and with the exception of what may
arrive from Australia and some casual shipments
from the United States nothing on a lar..e scale is
expected for the present. The inquiry for exporta-
tion to the Continent has sensibly declined, and is
not, sufficiently strong to cause withdrawals to any
large extent front the Bank, nevertheless whatever
comes to hand is still forwarded to France, and.within
the last few days some amounts of sovereigns have
been taken for Egypt."
The monthly Como' settlement begins on Monday,
and concludes on the following Thursday. The new
account is fixed for the 2d of April.
Some of the German papers are calling attention
to the remarkable results attained by the railways
of Prussia in the ten years ending with 1867.
A table is given of twenty-seven linesdifferent
running through all parts of the Prus-
sian dominions, their prices on the 31st
becember, 1858, and on the 31st December, 1867,
with the dividends they paid in the year 1861
The general result is to show a return of 8i per
Cent. in dividends, and an increase of 25 per cent.
upon the prices of the stocks. This result is
claimed to be unique ; and much credit is taken
for avoiding the errors which have produced embar-
rassment in England and elsewhere. It is also
claimed, as a result of the policy that has been followed,
that Prussia can raise, in the form of redeemable
°l)ligations, any amount of capital that may he re-
quired for the construction of branch or secondary
lines under extremely favourable conditions.
M. Salaverria, late Finance Minister, has been
nominated, with the assent of the Spanish Govern-
'bent, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Spain.
ilurseilles advices to the 25th inst. describe an •
active grain market, and very firm prices. Arrivals
are still limited, and they are only front the Black
Sea ports ; but the Constantinople steamer of the
19th, which reached Marseilles on the 25th, brought
news that, though prices there were advancing, a
eonsiderable number of grain-laden ships were passing
aown the Dardanelles for the French Mediterranean
Ports.
The Anglo Austrian Bank give notice that on and
after the 2nd March, proximo, the letters of allotment
°f shares in the Anglo-Hungarian Bank, issued in
tendon, accompanied by the banker's receipt, may be
exchanged for provisional share certificates. In cases
re here the allottees do not personally attend the
tter of allotment must be accompanied by their
Written order for delivery of the certificate.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
a GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Dr Ueut. Consols
Hbo. Account, March 5
oer Cent. Reduced 934 4
Kw 3 per Cent 934
er\l'r 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
4 '°. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
tittuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
D 0• for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
E 0 (Red Sea Telef.„raph), An,.,., 1908 —
tehcquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct. — pm
Do £5OO — ti Pin
Do. ZlO & £2OO pin
Beak of England Stoco 11 15 10
k, 44 per Cent —
1210. Account
1 jr,tntAx GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
kila Mock, 101 per Cent., April 1874
DO. Account -
u„uoo. 4 . 5 per er Cent
Cent.,. JOct. uly,
1888 1880
Do,
p -
t-' o . Certificates Po. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent
",,o. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
.i.,"0. si. per Cent., May 1879 lOB4
4'° per Cent., Rup. Deb., 1872
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 1034
--',-• Deb 5 er
'Cent.,
Bonds, P
po. 5 per Cent., £l,O Aug.g.
73
00
0. under £l,000
A , FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICI S.
,firr.tine Republic, 6 per Cent —
k„.it,riari Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
ijdiart 5 per Cent —
.o°. 44 Per Cent., 1852 —
i,°' do 1858....
Do,
do.,
18 ;0 —
D „ do., 1863 64
by• 0 per Cont., 1865
/p°B Ayres 6 per Cent —
,112.0 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Q4d'S 6 per Cent. -
D 0,44 4 1 6 per Cent —
i Per Cent 67
.1)2. 6 per Cent, B —
Do' 1867
'C.' 7 Per ,Cent., 1866 —
Ciii °;'crip £32 id
tk-sumo 6 Cent.
tlitii. „ , per
14,05.,. 6 p -3r Cent., 1825
,Do B'4ll Principalities, 7 per Cent —
''4lilEtti Per Cent., 1867 —
t'O•yo-tPr New Consolidated, 1 per Cont —
l'-);' tan, 7 per Cent —
D,; "ecoad Issue —
t 0; .5`)() Bonds
£loe Bonds —
Do Do 1864 —
D'(;: 5, '0 Bonds 874
i, (i. -,1.00 ponds ..... 89;
kire(ll:7runient Railway tiebentures .....
Do. ;Per Cent., 182415, ex Coups —
1)0. '„ecount
"4
'°uPens
. 4 ca• Ace
„_41.1,1„, , °nut
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I,tomigrala 5 per Cent .. —
'1)40 a,:s Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., .£2sp
Do,A"' Per Coat., 1865 —
Ac Per
72 4
43k7214,reintnana Raiway
I)ittoki'.Per Cent
De /3"°l Account
lo e ,„• 1864
Olit,,Cr Cent. Ang,,lo-French —
NuoriBi, ivall 6.per Cent.
ew ~.,.. mperial 5 per Cent
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Do'iu"fervad
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44, 'Mint •
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per`4°., Scrip, £lO paid —Pm
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