The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-03 00:00:00

ELECTION RIOTS IN BELGIUM.

A telegram dated Ghent, Aug. 3, says :—The Par
liamentary elections were held here yesterday. Last
night serious disturbances occurred, and several convents
were wrecked. The Gendarmerie and the Civic Guard
bivouacked in the menaced localities. The troops have
arrived and order re-established.

Another from Brussels, Ang. 3, says :—Some disturb-
ances occurred here yesterday. The Chambers have
been convoked.

HIE MONEY M ARKET

AND

OMM ERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Business to-day on the Stock Exchange was very dull,
but the arrival of the intelligence of the taking. of Saay-
bruck caused some excitement. In the foreign markets
prices• are lower, and there is no further change in the
British Funds. American securities are better, but there
is a decline in railways.
Consols are now 881 to Sfli for money, and 881 to
881 for account ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 881 to 89;
New Three per Cents., 881 to 891 ; Exchequer Bills,
4 prem..; Indian 104 per Cents., 202 ; Indian Five per
Cents., 1084; ditto Four per Cents., 100 to 1004; ditto,
54 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1044 ; Metropolitan 80-ard
of Works, 34 per Cent. Stock, 90k.
In the Foreign Market Brazilian Bonds of 1865 are
861; Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1864, 82; ditto
of 1868, 664 to 671; Spanish of 1867, 231 to 241; ditto of
1869, 231 to 231 ; ditto Quicksilver, 65 to 68 ; Peru-
vian, 831 to 2; Turkish Five per Cents of 1865, 374 to 381,
ditto of 1869„ 474 to 481 ; and Five per Cent. Italian of
1865, 82.

The Railway Market—Metropolitan are 64 ; Great
Eastern is 30k to 30 ; London and Brighton, 33 to 321 ;
Caledonian, 71i to 72k; South-Eastern 64i; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 38i ; Great Northern, 113 f to
113} ; ditto (A), 118}; North Eastern, 130 ; London
and North-Western, 1211 ; Midland, 121 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 127 ; Great Western, 61k.
Canada Six por Cents. are quoted 100 ; New
South Wales Five per Cents., 97 to 99 ; New
Zealand Five per Cents., 93 to 94i ; Queensland 103 ;.
Victoria Five per Cents., 98 to 97f; and ditto Six per
Cents., 108.

Telegraph Shares—Anglo-American, 85 to 85} ; British
Indian, 6i ; China, 5i to 5 dia.; Falmouth, 8i ; French
Cable, 15 to 151 ; and Construction and Mainten-
ance, 22i.
In American Securities, Five-Twenty Bonds are quoted
at 821 to 831 ; Ten-Forties, 79 to 81; Erie Shares, 15
to 14 ; Illinois, 98 to 100 ; Atlantic and Great Western
Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 19 to 21 ; and ditto De-
bentures, 25 to 30.

In Bank shares Alliance are quoted 122 ; Anglo-
Austriaa, 15 i; Chartered Mercantile, 28 .to 28 ;
Consolidated, j I ; Imperial► Ottoman, 101 to 91. ; London
and County, 50; London and Westminster, 59, 61; London
Joint Stock, 31 33 ; and Union of London 35k.
In Miscellaneous Shares Berlin Water Works are quoted
11 12 pm; Viceroy ofEg,ypt;9per cent. Mortgage Loan, 68f;
National Discount Company, 101; and Peninsular and
Oriental Steam, 39 41.
After several days, during which there was no transac-
tions, bar silver has been sold at 602 d. per ounce, and a
quantity of Mexican dollars at 591 d. These terms show
a reduction of nearly 1 per cent. from the high rates ob-
tained ten days since, and indicate that there is no longer
a demand for exportation to Germany.
Telegrams from Bombay and Calcutta report a com-
mercial panic at both places.

The ad vices from Ametica mention with reference to
the question as to the extent to which the commerce of
the United States is likely to be affected by the war in
Europe that last year they imported from France goods
to the value of £7,120,000, and from the North German
Confederation £5,050,000, while their exports were
£8,720,000 to France and £8,250,000 to Germany.
It is understood that the Submarine Telegraph Com-
pany's new cable will be submerged between Beachy Head
and Havre about the 12th inst., after which the electrical
communication between Paris and London will doubtless
greatly improve. Meanwhile great delay occurs, the
present lines being much occupied with Government and
mercantile messages. At the same time some of the most
experienced telegraphists have left Paris to join the French
army, and their places have been taken by persons of less
experience. .

The report of the North Australian Company (Limited)
has been issued. It states that the proceedings ordered
to be taken against the Government at Adelaide have
commenced in the Supreme Court, and the directors fully
expect to hear by an early mail that the case has been
tried, and the Government " made responsible for its
breach of contract."

It is announced that the directors of the Midland Rail-
way Company have decided to recommend a dividend on
the company's stock for the half-year ending 30th june
last, at the rate of 61- per cent. per annum.
The Great Northern Railway will pay a dividend at the
rate of £5 per cent. per annum, against £4 ss. at the cor-
responding date last year. This distribution will give for
the half-year £2 10s. per cent. for original stock, £3 per
cent- on the B, and £2 per cent. on the A, Stock.
A dividend, at the rate of 4 per cent., is proposed by
the London and South-Western Railway Company, being
the same as in the corresponding period of 1869.
The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed Thurs-
day next a special settling-day in the Scrip and Six per
Cent. Sterling Bonds of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, which are to be marked.
The half-yearly meeang of "the North London Railway
Company will be held on the 18th inst.