The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-12 00:00:00

GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

Unite Redeemable. Per Cent.
d States 6 per Cent..los 107
'United States 6 per Cent.. 1867-1868.
Bonds 1868...106 103
STATE S
California 7
per Cent. BondsE CURITIES.IB'7O... SO 81.
IlarYland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds)...
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds). ...101 103
Mi"issiPpi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk.
Bonds lB4l-1871... 45 47
Pennsylvania
6 per Cent. Union Bk. Bonds ... 20 22
5 per Cent. Stock
Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds '877... 82i 85
Carolina 5 per Cent. Bonds
(Palmer's)
Virginia, 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 88 89
*Virginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1888... 83 85
••,, CITY SECURITIES.
-uovton 5 per Cent. Bonds (Divers) ... 90 92
-Montreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... 83 85
New Orleans 6 per Cent. Stock 1883... 80 82
Pittsburgh 6 per Cent. Stock 1869-1883... 76 78

RAILROAD BONDS.
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage,
not Convertible 1875... 70 72
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland
Bonds 1860... 76 77
Michigan Central Bp. Cent., no Mort. _lB6o_ 90 91
New York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 91 96
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort-
gage 1883... 84 86
N. York and Erie 7 per Cont. Sinking
Fund 1875.- 79 SO
Panama 7 per Cent., Ist Mortgage (Ster-
ling Bonds) 1859-1864... 93 96
Pennsylvania Central 6 p. Cent., Convert.lB6o.- 89 91
There is greater ease in the discount market this
morning, and much of the pressure for accommo-
dation has subsided now the immediate cause is
removed, viz., apprehension of another impending
turn of the Bank "screw." The requirement of
silver for India and China is moderated, and there
Is less gold being shipped to the Continent.
The English Stock Market has been mainly in-
fluenced
the by the state of the account, this being
day when the delivery of Consols sold
Since the last settlement has to be made. The
quotations are fully 1 per cent. higher than
they ]eft
off yesterday, and the enormous spe-
°lllative sales recently would probably have
occasioned a still more decided rally, but that the
bankers have also parted with stock, having, tem-
porarily, made profitable employment for their
capital. The ic contango" has been about I, though
at one time yesterday afternoon, it was fully 5-16
per Cent.. For present delivery the quotations
have been 87 to 871, and for November 8 from
811 1, up to 87g I. The discount upon Exchequer
Bills has been as much as 3s. to Bs., as there is an
Inducement to effect an exchange of investments
1101+ the funded debt rules low. East India Bonds
have been ss. discount to par. Bank Stock is
quiet at 207 to 209. The New 3 per Cents. are
871 to 87g, and the Reduced 86i to 71.
Speculative dealing in the Foreign Market is
almost exclusively confined to Turkish Securities,
which have naturally benefitted by the improve-
naent in the Funds. To the New Scrip, however,
this more particularly applies, the quotations hav-
ing ranged from 4i to 38 discount, being at the
Present moment about 3/ discount, or nearly 1 per
cent. above the prices at the official close yester-
day. The Old Six per Cents., which are rather
quiet, have risen to 80$ 1. Mexican Stock is 211,
being firmer. French Scrip remains at par. Bel-
gian 41 per Cents. are 94 to ±. Dutch 21 per
Cents. 64, and the 4 per Cents. 931. Brazilian
Small Bonds are marked 991.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ; Mexi-
can, 211 to 21i ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto Three
Per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents.,
43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to
98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88 ;
Spanish New Deferred, 371 to 38 ; ditto Three
per Cents., 191 to 198 ; ditto Certificates, 4i to
4g ; ditto Passive, 42 to 5.
A notice has been sent out by the Austrian Con-
801s Mining Company informing the shareholders
of what was done as far back as June last. That
is early information ! The circular states

" The Committee of Management of the Australian
Consols Gold and Copper Mines Company beg to
acquaint their shareholders that they have received the
resignation of their manager in Australia, at the time
they were considering what course they were to pursue in
consequence of not receiving from that gentleman such
general information as they felt justified in expecting on
his arrival at Segenhce.

"The resignation was at once accepted, and steps taken
(temporarily) to place the interest of the company in
other hands.

" Whilst discussing the appointment of a successor,
the chairman of the committee of management, who has
a large pecuniary interest in, and who is well acquainted
with all the details of, the company from its formation,
offered his services to go out and obtain by personal
inspection and inquiry that information which the com-
mittee and the shareholders have so long desired to
Possess ; this offer was gladly accepted, and that gen-
tleman left Liverpool, in June last, for Australia, in the
Ben Nevis.
"The committee have had many interviews with the
gentlemen appointed at the last general meeting of share-
holders as a committee of conference to consult and ad-
'else with them on the company's affairs, and they have
expressed
unqualified satisfaction with the above arrange-
ment.

"The committee regret that they have bad so long to
try the patience of the shareholders, and although they
cannot hold out the same results which their early ar-
rangements would have produced had there Von no dif-
ficulty in the title, they are nevertheless sanguine that
their interests must eventually assume as satisfactory a
solidity as those of any other land company in Australia."

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Most of the English Railway Shares are at a de-
cided improvement, but this, however, has not
excited dealing, the market continuing extremely
quiet. In Midland, North-western, South-
Western, and others, the advance is about ss. per
share, Antwerp and Rotterdam are steady, but

French lines are again nominal. The Banking
and Mining shares are inactive, and the Miscel-
laneous likewise.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES

(Prop, the Oficial Lid.

llnginess done
209 7

863
87t 7 bill
87i 4 7 a

Bank Stock
3 per cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Lme Annuities, Expire sth Jan.. 1860 ..
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 161 5-16
India Bonds, £l000
Ditto, under £lOOO 5 d par
Consols tior Account, Bth November 874 i 1 8 71
Exchequer Bills, 94d 24.
£IOOO
£SOO
email .
Exchequer Bonds 1858, 34 per Cent.... 98$ / 4
Ditto 1859, ~ .. 08a i 4
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent.
Ditto Small
2
Nllxican 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 214 A i
Peruvian Bonds, 44 per Cent
Ditto for the account 724 2
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent —
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account .. I9A 1
Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent BO4 $
Ditto for the account BO 1i 80$ x a
Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent.
ruvideod, on th, above payable in London.
French llentes, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Scrip 2nd Loan of 1855
Belgian Bonds, 24 per Cent. ex. 25 fr —
Ditto 44 per Cent. Ex. 25 fr 94/ 4
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil 6l
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates ....»._ —
Ditto for the Account 934
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols
Mitts for the Account of Nov. 8

par 6 pm

IRONMASTE.RS" QUARTERLY MEETING.

BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—The third of the series of
the meetings of the ironmasters for the current quarter
was held in the Town Hall here this afternoon. The at-
tendance was large, and a moderate amount of business
was done; but most of the principal buyers have already
bought, so that the orders given to-day were not large.
As was intimated in the report of the meeting at Wol-
verhampton yesterday, all idea of a further advance of
prices has been abandoned, and the trade is steady with-
out being brisk. The pressure on the money market has
mainly contributed to check the disposition to make fur-
ther advances, and the certainty that the rate of discount
will be again advanced is sufficient to check anything ap-
proaching to speculation. For some descriptions of the
commodity, as well as particular makes (rods in particu-
lar), the rise has been 30s. a ton ; but, with this excep-
tion, the rise on the various kinds of Staffordshire iron
has been It. per ton on the prices of last quarter-day.
Sheets are rather less in demand ; but to-day pigs were
more inquired after, and the stocks in hand show that
the conversion into manufactured iron goes on at a rapid
rate. Shropshire makes are quoted as high as 5/. 103.
to 5/. 15s. a ton. The tin plate trade is improving.
Within the last few weeks there has sprung up a consi-
derable demand for this description of manufacture, and
prices have advanced. Altogether the meeting to-day
passed off satisfactorily. When the fact became known
that the Bank directors had separated without advancing
to (3 per cent., as was expected, it put the trade in better
spirits ; and as the orders in hand are considerable, it is
probable that the present range of prices will be steadily
maintained. As regards the payment of accounts the
meetings so far have passed off without complaint.

MARKRT NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

A very moderate supply of English wheat has been re-
ceived up to our markets this week, coastwise and by land
carriage. To-day the show of samples was small, never-
theless the demand for most kinds was rather inactive at
Monday's currency.
The imports of foreign wheat have been only 5,440 guar.
ters. We had a slow inquiry for most descriptions. Im-
porters, however, were firm, and the quotations were sup-
ported.
Floating cargoes of grain were tolerably active.
The supply of barley was small, yet the demand for that
grain was heavy at barely stationary prices.
There was a good sale for malt at full quotations.
The oat trade was firm, but no advance took place in
prices.
Beans, peas, and flour as on Monday.
ARRIVALS THIS WISES.
1 Wheat. Barley. ( Malt.
English .. 1,750 1,040 1 1,460
Irish .... 1
Foreign 3 1 5,410 I -- I

Oats. Flom-.
210 910
5,250
4150 hks
10,980 —brls

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

A very limited supply of beasts was on sale in to•day's
market, in inferior condition. For most kinds we had a
steady demand, and, in some instances, prices were 2d.
per 81bs higher than on Monday. With sheep we were
scantily supplied, and the mutton trade was firm at full
quotations. The show of calves was very moderate, and
the veal trade was active. Prices had an upward tendency.
Pigs sold steadily at very full currencies. Milch cows sold
steadily, at from 14t. to 191. ss. each, including their
small calf.

Per Sibs to sink the offals.
s. d. s. d.I s. d. s d.
Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 Prime Southdown 410 5 0
Second quality.... 3 8 4 2 L,-trgo crse. calves 4 0 410
Prime large oxen 4 4 4 61Prime small do 5 0 5 4
Primo Scots, Lee. 4 8 4 101 -Larvo hogs
Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3$ (Small porkers 4 6 5 2
Second quality ...3 10 4 2,Suckling calves 22 0 29 0
Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 4 B,Quarter old pigs 22 0 28 0
TOTAL SUPPLY., FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts 649 , Beasts.• ..•• •• •• •••• • 135
Sheep .•• •• ..•• •• 4,500 Sheep ..

Calves ..... ............. 31'0

Ca1ve5.................. •. 210

..••....•••••••••••• 450 •• .• •• . •••••

LEADENHALL.
td for each kind of meat, at

the carcase.

s. d. s. d.
34 3 8
.3 10 4 2
44 4 8
3 10 5 0
,4 6 5 4