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

MONEY. MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIOANCIL.

Cm'-, 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 k
Par cent. better. They have since, however, upon. the
absence of business, been less firm. Foreign stocks
imsettled, particulaily Egyptian ; all but
the Viceroy's Seven per Cent. Loan have declined.
The unsettled state of the proposed financial arrange-
nlents is the chief cause of the present instability of
the market. Now Spanish keep firm. English rail-
ways are in request, and quotations have an upward
It:adency. Some of the leading banks are also firmer.
7'l tw:
.g" mines are flat.
the M'ney Market is quieter, but a good business
13 being doee both at the Bank and out of doors, at
2
Per cent. awl upwards.
°n'nsols opened firm, at an improvement of -A, but
since relapsed to yesterday's prices, and are now
quoted at 933 to 94 for money and ace-stint ; New
and Reduced Three per Cents., 92* to 92g ; India
per Cents., 1131 to 116 k ; Bank Stock, 243 to
215. Exchequer hills, 12s to 17s prem.
In foreign stocks the leading feature continues to be
the unsee.tled state of Egyptian Finance. The Egyp-
IrtiaicaerolyB,B 9 1861 Loan is I lower, at 79 to 79k. ; and the
per Cents. are also f lower, at 89 to 90 ;
and the Railway Debentures have declined 1, at
83 to 89. The Viceroy's 7
alone steady, at 70* to 701. per Cents. are
There is a de-
cline of A in Peruvian, at 83 to 84, and of
K in Mexican, at 15a to 15k, and there is a rise of
to Chilian (1866), at 10 to 102 k ; and of k in
Italian, at 48k to 481 ; Greek are 13A- to 14 ; New
Spanish, 35 to 35k ; Turkish, 34i to 35k ; and
Brazilian (1865), 75 to 76.
The Spanish Colonial 8 per Cent. Loan, fully paid
up, is 91 to 91k, and the Scrip, 2 to 112 dis.
The New Honduras Loan is par to 1 prem.
American securities are quiet. United States 5-20
Bonds are steady, at 70g- to 70,e • Erie shares better,
at 46 to 47 • Illinois are without' change, at 95 to
95k.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are 293 to 30 ; and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds
33A to 34:
Foreign Railways are dull Lombardo-Venetian is
lower, at 141 to 15. Great Luxemburg, 10 to 10f.
English Railway shares are generally firmer,
although the improvement in prices are not very im-
portant. Great Northern is k higher, ditto A. Stock,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland, and Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, each ; and South-
Eastern, Great Eastern, London, Brighton, and South
Coast, and Metropolitan, k each ; but Great
Western is lower. The following are the quota-
tions ns:—Laneashire and Yorkshire, 128 to 128 k ;
Midland, 107 to 107 A • South Eastern, 74k to 75 ;
London and North Western, 115 k to 116 ; Great
Northern, 103 to 104 ; ditto (A), 97k to 98k ;
Great Eastern, 34 to 34A ; Great Western, 54* to
54i ; London, Brighton and South Coast, 54 to 54k ;
.Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 43i to 44,E ;
Metropolitan, 112 k to 113 ; Caledonian, 75k to 76 ;
and London, Chatham, and Dover, 18i to 19i.
Bank Shares are in some request, and prices are
generally firm. London and County, and London
form-Stock again show an improvement of k, the
termer being quoted at 51k to 52k, and the latter
,1t 34 to 35. Anglo-Austrian is also I better, at 4k
o 50. prem.; and Imperial Ottoman, k,_ at g to k prom.
nunton of London, 33 to 34 ; London and West-
Annster, 68 to 69 ; Oriental, 41k to 42k ex div. ;
gra (A), si to 10i ; Chartered Mercantile, 28 to 29.
F•
in,anee shares are without feature. Credit Foncier,
tt
I_,sisunaltered at 2k to 3 ; General Credit, 2e to 2b
vocelingtnernational Finance, 2to die.
.s
mining shares are flat. St. John del Rey
- lower, at 18k to la, and Chontales k, at 2f to
fort Philip, 1g to Q.
ta Miscellaneous there is not much doing, and
prices
quoted at 23 almostk stationary. Anglo-American is
patrehouses, •Atlantic
1:11,ds
n,s to 23a , Telegraph, 5i to sa;
- Bay steady, at 14/ to 15 ; Fore-street
11 to dis. ; London General Omnibus,
11 2i; Ocean Marine Insurance is
o troth elrsxn,
„Am higher, at
traordinary general meeting of the Great
Railway Company has
9th inst., for the purpose of considering and ap-
nroping co.nvened for
the bills now pending in Parliament.
GiCue annual general meeting of the Trust Loan Conl-
in- tIY of Upper Canada has been called for the 29th
-sant, for the purpose of declaring a dividend,
special general meeting of the Leather Cloth
Ilnany has been called for the 3rd June.
the T,wentY thousand sovereigns were withdrawn from
.urreie'naluk yesterday for Egypt, and 10,000 fur St.
-,,,._Tlileyleser has brought £83,500 in specie, from
York, for this country. . .
to-1.,15 satisfactory to state that
motion has been given
tee proposal of the liquidatois of the English
Ileljr it Stock Bank, Limited, Messrs. C. F. Kemp and
the ry h
July and
to issue promissory notes, payable on
and the 10th January next, in dis-
er:drfie of the remaining 4s in the pound due to the
`',ers, thereby saving a very large sum to the
arenolders.
▪ Cernuschi, of Paris, is stated to have obtained
0": g
concession of the forthcomin Egyptianbankers."
Loan
,ers.bankers."behalf of "a group of Fteuch and English
leA. railway is about to be constructed between Mann-
tenn and Carlsruhe, for the execution of which bonds,
aring "4 per cent. interest, will be issued to the
131,211t1t of 3,000,000 florins.
The New Zealand Government Five per Cent. De-
,o;lentures for £1,114,000, for which subscriptions were
I„vited on Friday last by the Crown Agents for the
.!0010 pies, at £97, were all taken up by ten o'clock
esterday. The total amount applied for at that hour
:,s £2,660,700, and a pro rata, allotment was made
441 17s. 4d per cent. A new feature has been
i▪ ntroduced into this loan of paying the interest
quarterly instead of half yearly, which will doubtless
_prove_ convenient to the majority of the investors, and
and to the popularity of the securities.
Mr. Mackintosh Balfour has been appointed secre-
tary and treasurer of the New Bank 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 10s 7d, being an increase of £49,908 6s 10d
as compared with the corresponding period last
Year.
The following is a copy of a telegram received by
the Pestarena United Gold Mining). Com paey,Limited
cPallauza, 2nd May, 1868. 12.10 11.111. Pestarena
suited.—Have remitted to-day to office, 1,025 ounces
gold. Would have been larger had we not been
l'ry short of water. We have now a full supply.
ict
FEANCFORT."
The Somersetshire, which left Gravesend for Mel-
bourne on Wednesday, at 4.30 p.m., arrived at Ply-
mouth on Saturday morning at 5.30, where she took
141) the remainder of her passengers, and left at
134 n. for Melbourne.
1:13e Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
weeka.d
ahnct▪
ine ecrease of £1,482 compared with the corre-
,--n
144 week of last year, and the South-Eastern au
ease of £5BO.

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