The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-28 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

A ND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENGR,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Little change has taken place in the stock markets,
but, on the whole, they have assumed rather a stronger
aspect, more especially Italian, and a few ogler stocks.
The Funds are unaltered, and slightly dull. They are
indirectly affected by the probable increase in the new
French Loan. Railways are, for the most part,
steady. This is the first day of the fortnightly settle-
ment, and to some extent the arrangements connected
with the adjustment of Ithe account interferes with
ordinary business.
A good demand continues to prevail for money, and
rates are maintained at 2 per cent. on the best bills.
Consols are without movement, at 93 to 931 for
money and account ; New and Reduced Three per
Cents., 91 to 92 ; India Five per Cents. are firmer
at 114 to 114 k. Exchequer Bills, 8s to 12s prem.
The Foreign stock market is firm. Italian aro in
chief demand, and the price of the IS6I Bonds is 48
to 481, showing an advance of 1. Egyptian Railway
Loan (1864) is also 1 higher, at 90;; New Spanish are
to better, at 35i to and there is an ad-
vance of in Greek, at 121 to 13, and in
Peruvian, at 781 to 79 ; Mexican is the same, at 151
to 16 ; Turkish (1865); 33 to 331 ; Portuguese, 1 to
prem.; Egyptian (1864), 86 to 87 ; Viceroy's Seven
per Cents., 72 to 721 • ditto, Nine per Cents., 88/ to
89 • and the Orel-Vitebsk Bonds are 79i to 79g.
In American Securities United States 5-20 Bonus
are steady at 72 to 72.± ; Erie Shares unaltered, at
46 to 47 ; Illinois better, at 89/ to 901.
Great Western Railway shares opened firm, at 48
to 48-i, but there has since been a fall of 1 per cent.
Caledonian are steadier, ;at 75k to 76 Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1251 to 1252
; Midland, 105 to 1051 ;
South Eastern, 72/ to 73 ; London and North
Western, 1144 to 1142 ; Great Northern, 1021 to
103 k ; ditto (A), 971 to 981 ; Great Eastern, 321
to 331 ; Brighton, 491 to 50 ; Sheffield, 43 to 431 ;
and Metropolitan, 1132 to 114/.
The allotment letters of the Metropolitan District
Railway Debentures were issued this morning, and the
price is quoted 21 to 3 prem.
Bank Shares continue in quiet demand, and prices
are unaltered. Agra (A shares), 10 to 10/ ; Alliance,
131 to 121 dis. ; Anglo-Austrian Chartered Mercantile,
281 to 29 ; Consolidated, 41 to 4a Imperial, 17 to
17}; Imperial Ottoman, dis. to k prem. ; London
and County, 51 to 52 ; London and Westminster,
67 to 68 ; Oriental, 42 to 43 ; London Joint Stock,
301 to 311 ; Union of London, 31 to 32.
In Foreign Mining shares St. John del Rey is
-k lower, at 191- to 20/ ; Port Philip, 12- to 1/ ;
Chontales, 11 to 11 dis.
The dealings in miscellaneous securities are few
and unimportant. The only change in prices is a de-
cline of in Hudson's Bay, at 141 to 14,E ; Anglo-
4iner;can Telegraph, 8 per Cent., 5i to 5k ; Fore-
street Warehouse, 21 to 2 dis. ; London General
Omnibus, 11 to 2 ; Thames and Mersey Marine In-
surance dull, at 41 to 4a.
The half-yearly meeting of the Great Luxemburg,
Railway Company will be held in Brussels on the
15th April to receive the report of the directors and
statement of accounts.

The sum of £G,OOO in foreign gold coin was with-
drawn from the Bank yesterday.
A further amount of £11,600 in foreign gold coin,
has left for New York by the Saxonia.
The Ceylon leaves to-day with £120,000 in English
gold coin for Egypt.
_ _

The price of bar silver has been further reduced to
GOhd per ounce, and dollars to 59d.
An officjill proposal is made to settle the claims of
the creditors of the European Bank by a payment of
is Gd in the pound at once, and lOs in three half-
yearly instalments, commencing on October 15.
This with the previous distribution will make a pay-
luck in full.

The Dundee Advertiser states that a jute spinning
and manufacturing firm, with works in the neighbour-
hood, have stopped payment. Liabilities are esti-
mated at £10,003 ; but it is expected that arrange-
ments will be made to resume payments at once.
The stoppage is also announced of a manufacturer
here, with liabilities to the extent of about £7,000.
A. meeting of Mexican bondholders was held yes-
terday, when a permanent committee was formed, in
the place of the provisional committee, with the view
of taking such steps as may be deemed Jost calcu-
lated to protiNte the interests of the bondhlders.
The loan of 4:47,000 for the city of Liege has
been wholly subseriLd in Belgium. In was intro-
duced on Monday last, by Tuesday many more
than the 118,700 obligations jnto which the loan is
divided had been applied for. It has been deter-
mined in the allotment that the applie.:tions on the
first day shall receive in full, but that those sent in
on the 24th shall be subject to a fixed scale of redii,?-
tion. Thus, applicants who asked for one and two
obligations will receive in full ; those from three to
ten are subjected to a reduction of one half, and
those above ten, to a reduction of 30 per cent.
At their meeting yesterday the Devonshire Great
Consolidated Copper Mining Company declared a
dividend of £7 per share.
Major General Saunders Abbott, late Commissioner
or Lucknow, is appointed agent of the Punjaub and
Delhi railways.
The Railway Shareholders' Association of Man-
chester have convened a "national conference of
railway shareholders" for Tuesday and Wednesday,
the 14th and 15th of April, in that town. On the
opening day Lord Cranborne, M.P., will preside ; and
on the second day Mr. John Platt, M.P., and many
distinguished public men will be present. The objects
are to effect improvements in railway administration
and legislation, and to secure mutual co-operation
amongst railway companies.
The- receipts of the Caledonian and North British
Railway Companies for the past week show an in-
crease of £3,631.
The traffic receipts of the Great Central of Belgium
Railway from the 19th February to the 3d of March
show an increase of £4, 730 as compared with the cor-
responding period of last year.
The half-yearly meeting of the Grand Trunk Rail-
way Company has been convened for the 30th April,
for the transaction of the ordinary business of the
company, after which the meeting will be made
pecial for the purpose of authorising and approving
411 agreement between the Grand Trunk Railway
°1 Canada and the Great Western Railway of Canada.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES,
. GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
° Per Gent. Console
Do. Account, April 2 —
t Per Cent. Reduced 914 2
Zew 3 per Cent 914 2
New 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Annuities,Do. 5 per Cent. uan. 1873
80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880. xdDo. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprillBBs —
, Do (Red Sea Telehraph), AuA., 1908 —
mirchcciuer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct. pm
Do £5OO — pm
1. Do. £lOO et £2OO — pm
'atilt of England Stock, 44 per Cent — ,
Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., AprillB74 •••
DO. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
0,0. 4 per Cent., Out. 1888
1-,!0. Certificates —
uo. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
120. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
DO. 54 per Cent., May 1879 —
Do 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb., 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
, Do. do. 1882 —
D. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO
1)0. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
A gentine Republic, 6 per Cent. _
r3trian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
Titalian 5 per Cent —
D 3. 44 per Cent., 1852 —
0. do., 1858....
"0. do., 1860
,
1.,'0. do., 1863 —
',O- 5 per Cent., 1865 —
-ue Account 724 2
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent ..._
0 Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) 42
ellba, G per Cent.
Do.`Winn 6 per Cent
1) 44 per Cent —
.121°. 6 per Cent., B —
°. 1867
1)°•: 7 per Cent. 1866 -/3_ Scrip 7 7 .
0 3,, 0., £32 paid
b ' 'tabian, 6 per Cent.
ellisti, 3 p3r Cent., 1825 , .•
Lnlibian Principalities, 7 per Cent —DO _,, 8 per Cent., 1867 714 24
tundor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
OPtian 7per Cent
O. , o••
-,
,•Second Issue
'r,‘ • £5OO Bonds
:00. 4D1:(1,)6. Bonds
1864 8446 454
, • 4o 10 Bonds. B6-}
-"0. £lOO Bonds ~... 87:1 7 8
41,4vornment Rail way Debentures ..... 90 884
t , 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups —
,0. Account
A '.. . .
-;
:,'( ' • Coupons
•
q."l 0. Account
.• --
1404ternala 5 per Cent .. —
It,!l,4nras Gov. Rail. Loa.n., lop. Ct., £2sp
Dp, Ac t
li 5 per Cent., 1865 -
0 oun .
itt,. Marommana Raiway —
i''ear, 3 per Cent
b D^. 186 i
ttoom
alu,. Bt9V Per n
-French
ic Cont.t.
er Cgloent.
40,,cY1,n Imperial 5 per Cent
130. per Cen —
/3 Dufor,-3,1
l'er,4-!-. and Warrants (Hectares) - -
D, 'at 5 per Cent. 1365 784
Do Account
.. 784
1)0 d”
er Per Cont. (tlribarren) ,.•
9. PCent.. 18(? •