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TUZSIMIT EVZNIXO.
A further fall took place to-day in the value of our
home government securities, the accounts received from
the Cape, by which it appears that no progreas has
been made towards The reduction of the rebel KOHN,
being added to the other unfavourable influences in
operation on the market. The accounts of the
potato blight in Ireland, a rising corn market, and
the American fishery dispute, all continue to be can-
vassed, and thus there is no rally from the late
depressed rates, although there was a purchase
to-day of more than 100,000!. stock by the broker
who usually acts for the Bank. Consuls were
first marked 99!, for cash, but fell to 99. and
finally leR off quoted 991 to 1 for money and Thurs-
day, or 1 per cent, worse than yesterday. The settle-
ment of the account progresses quietly, the continua-
tion to the Bth September ruling at 4 per cent. The
account is '• bullish " and this has undoubtedly some
influence in producing the prevalent depression.
The transactions to-day were decidedly more nume-
rous, and it would appear that a few of the more
timid holders of stock have been frightened
into realising. The views of a section of
speculators would be exactly met by such
a movement as this. The oncial list of
the day's transactions is as follows :—Three per
Cent. Consols, for money, 99: 99, a,
ditto, for account, 991, 1. Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 994, /,,1, 4. New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents., 1031, 3,1, 24, 31, 3. Long Annuities,
1860, 61; ditto, 30 years, isa, 64 • ditto, 1860,
6 11-16. India Stock, 281. Bank dtock was de-
cidedly lower, marking only 227.
The unfunded securities were scarcely touched,
and quotations are nominally unchanged at 755. to
78s. prem. fur the March Exchequer Bills, and 91s.
to 941. prem. for India Bonds.
Foreign stocks were flat, but Peruvian Deferred
was the only description that was sensibly affected
in price, marking only 58 to 59. The day's transac-
tions are stated below: Austrian Five per Cent.
Scrip, prem. Brazilian Old Five per Cent., 1021.
Belgian '1 wo-and-a Half per Cents., 541. Danish
Three per Cents., 821; ditto Five per Cent., 108.
Dutch Four per Cent. Certifs., 974, 1, 4. Mexican
New Three per Cents., 241, 25, 244. Peruvian
Actives, 101; ditto New Deferred Three per Cents.,
59, 58. Russian Five per Cents., 120 ; ditto Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 1041. Sardinian Five per
Cents., 944, 95. Spanish Old Three per Cents.,
481; ditto New Deferred Three per Cents., 214,
224 ditto Committee's Certifs., 3 per cent.
Bank of Australasia shares have been dealt in at
58 ; London Joint Stock Bank, 191 19, ex div.;
Union Bank of Australia, 461, 47, ex div.; General
Steam Navigation, 284; Peninsular and Oriental'
Steam, 85.
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The directors of the Newport, Abergavenny, and
Hereford Railway, have made a sixth call of 21. per
share, making 141. paid.
To-day was held the last examination meeting at
the Bankruptcy Court in the case of Baker and Son,
stockbrokers, of Threadneedle-street. The amount
of liabilities is stated at 21,221/., the losses at 8,022/.;
and the bad deb eat 3,5121. There was no opposition
and the bankrupts passed, the certificate meeting
being fixed for the 23rd September.
A deputation from the Committee of Mexican
Bondholders, consisting of Mr. Capel, the deputy-
chairman, and Mr. Sadleir, M.P. (who attended in
consequence of the severe indisposition of the Baron de
Goldimid), waited on Lord Malmesbury yesterday af-
ternoon, in order to pl ace before his lordship a memorial
of the grievances suffered by the bondholders,owing to
the repeated failures of the Mexican government to
fulfil with punctuality their solemn engagements. Mr.
Capel in a very able and succinct manner detailed to
his lordship the sacrifices to which the bondholders
have submitted, amounting to about 23,000,000 dol-
lars in capital (as admitted by the Mexicans them-
selves), besides a reduction of the interest from 5 to
3 per cent., on the express stipulation that they
should have revenues assigned to them which would
pay, the reduced dividend of 3 per cent. with punc-
tuality. His lordship's attention was particularly
drawn to the tact that these revenues, although re-
presented as ample for the purpose with proper
arrangements, have not produced, in consequence of,
the high tariff, more than 1,000,000 to 1,200,000
dollars per annum, in lieu of 1,500,000 dollars which
were required to pay the dividends, and that the
Mexican Congress had broken up without providing
for the deficiency, thus acting in opposition to good
faith, good policy, and the express clause in
the agreement made with the bondholders, which
pledged the legislature to provide for any deficiency
in the event of the revenues assigned not being suffi-
cient. Mr. Capel next proceeded to detail other
grievances, especially the injustice inflicted on those
bondholders who had been shut out of the previous
conversion, in consequence of the over issue of bonds
by Molars. do Lizardi and Co., and concluded his
statement by requesting, not only the strenuous in-
terference of the British government on behalf of the
interests he had tho honour to represent, but also by
requesting his lordship to invite the representatives
of -France, Holland, and the United States, the citi-
zens of which countries hold about one-fourth of the
foreign debt, to join in an united remonstrance to the
Mexican government and Congress, with a view to
obtaining redress for the grievances complained of.
Lord Malmesbary received the deputation in the most
courteous manner, and inquired whether, in the
written memorial of the grievances presented by the
deputation, any remedies were suggested ? On re-
ceiving an answer in the affirmative, his lordship
proceeded to ask the deputation which was the chief
grievance complained of; to which Mr. Sadleir re-
plied that if one grievance was more serious than
another, it was the non-payment of the dividends
when due. His lordship then assured the deputa-
tion that he would do everything:in the power of
the British government to sustain the claims of the
bondholders, and that instructions should be sent to
Mr. Doyle by the next packet. He also promised
that he would endeavour to obtain the iv-operation of
the governments whose citizens were holden of Mex
ican bonds, in joining her Majesty's minister in Mexico
in a joint representation to the government and legis-
lature, and ho trusted their united efforts would be
crowned with success. The deputation, after thank-
ing his lordship for his promised support, then with-
drew. The ill-used bondholders of this state will
hail with much satisfaction the renewal of action on
the part of their committee. This action, however,
ought not to end here. The committee ought at once,
as already suggested by us, to place a formal protest
against the non-payment of the dividends in the
hands of Colonel Facio, and also themselves open a
correspondence with French, Dutch, and United
States holders of Mexican Bonds, that they may
urge on their governments the necessity of co-opera-
tion. Now that the movement for bringing the
Mexican legislature to a proper sense of its duty to-
wards its foreign creditors has fairly commenced, the
parties to whom the bondholders' interests are com-
mitted must spare no exertion to put affairs on a better
footing. It appears certain that there will be esta-
blished a stronger administration in Mexico, or very
grave changes in the political position of the nation
will inevitably occur.
Reports were revived in the Stock Exchange to-
day that the London and North-We-tern Railway
directors have made overtures of so reasonable a
nature to the Great Western Company, with a view
to preventing the ruinous rivalry between the two
companies, that the latter cannot well decline them.
An arrangement in this sense would be hailed with
feelings of the liveliest satisfaction by the share-
holders of both companies, who will otherwise dearly
pay in purse and in the depreciation of their noble
property for the pugnacious propensities of their
directors. Reports of this descnption, however,
have been so frequently propagated, that they have
little effect upon the market.
Hamburg letters, received to-day, notice reports
similar to those prevalent here of blight in the wheat,'
which bad caused holders to raise their demands
Is. 6d. to 25., and as buyers would only purchase at