The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-15 00:00:00

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CUT, Two O'CLOCK.

Business to-day was very flat, but prices in some
instances for Foreign securities were improving.
Consols have not been so good, but the decline has
not been to any serious extent. Telegraph shares
were in demand, and Railway shares steady.

'Consols are now at 91k 2k to 92 for money;
ditto, for Account, 921 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 92 1 ; New T.:ree per Cents, 914 a 2 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 5 preen. ; June,
2 7 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
preen. ; June, 6 prem. ; Bank of England Stock,
41 per Cent., —. . . .

India Stock, 10f per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 ; ditto 4
per Cent., Oct., 1888, 100: ; ditto Eufaced Paper,
5 per Cent., 1951. _ _ .

In the Foreign Market Turkish Fives have im-
proved to 44} to 44 ; Italian 551 to 551 ; Egyp-
tian (1864) Bonds are 87 to 88 ; and the 1868
INBI to 781. Spanish are 271 to 27f ; Charkof,
81 to 821 ; Orel-Vitebsk, 82} to 821 ; Peruvian,
831 to 841 ; and Mexican, 131 to 13}.
In Railway Shares Great Northern (A) is higher,
109 j to 110 i ; Great Western, London and
Brighton, 56 to 561 and 471 to 481. Caledonian,
781 to 791 ; Great Eastern, 37i to 88i ; Great
Northern, 107 to 108 ; London, Chatham, and
Dover, 15 to 15} ; London and North Western,
121 i to 122 ; London and South Western, 93 to
94 ; Metropolitan, 82} to 83.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are firm, at 851
to 86i ; Eries are 191 to 201; and Illinois are 99}
to 100.

Lombardo-Venetian is 201 to 211 ; and Great
Luxemburg, 121 to 121.

Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Shares
arc 35} to 35; ; French Cable, 15f to 154 ; Anglo-
American, 194- to 19i ; and Atlantic Eight per
Cents., 11 to 2.
In Bank Shares Imperial Ottoman are 2f to 2i
prem. ; London and Westminster, 581 to 59f ;
Oriental, 41 to 42 ; London Joint-stock, 30f to
3l I ; and Union of London, 37 to 38.
In Miscellaneous Securities Iludson's Bay is
124 to 13 ; General Credit, lf to 1 (ha. ; and Na-
tional Discount is 104 to 11i.
A sum of £48,000 in bar gold was sent into the
bullion office of the Bank yesterday.
The Somersetshire, from Melbourne, has brought
£49,592.

About £25,000 in bar gold, recovered from the
wreck of the Carnatic, has been handed over to the
underwriters at Lloyd's.
Mr. Gladstone, of the firm of J. Thomson, T.
Bonar, and Co., has just arrived from Constanti-
nople, having settled the guarantee on the
£2,000,000 capital of the Varna Railway.
A circular has been issued announcing the sus-
pension of Messrs. Jorss and Co., woollen mer-
chants and exporters, of Leeds. The liabilities are
supposed to be about £50,000. A meeting of the
creditors of Messrs. Nicholls and Co., of Leeds and
Morley, has been convened to receive a statement
of the affairs. in this case the liabilities are esti-
mated at £40,000.
At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Charles
Vidal and Co.. commission agents, of Manchester,
the liabilities were stated to amount to £16,294
3s. 6d., and the assets to £4,833 12s. 10d. An ad-
journment was agreed to with the view of making
further inquiry.
From a statement of the affairs of Messrs. Pim
and Co., corn merchants, of Dublin, London, and
Liverpool, whose failure was recently announced,
it appears that the estate shows a dividend of
about 95., the liabilities being £50,250, and the
assets £23,723.
A special general meeting of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society was held yesterday for the pur-
pose of considering the decennial statement of the
value of all .the different assurances now existing
as determined by a computation of the value of
every policy. This statement, in which the assu-
rances are all classed under ages, exhibits the
sums assured, the bonus additions which have been
made, and the premiums now payable under all the
existing policies, with their respective present values,
each separately stated. From. these data it is ascer.
tained that the net value of all the existing assur-
ances amounts to £2,778,550 lls. id. ; and that the
surplus fund, after providing for all these liabilities,
amounts to no less than £1,741,019 4s. 10d. It
was resolved unanimously, in accordance with the
recommendation of the Court of Directors, to
make a further addition to the sums assured by
existing policies of £1,591,476, the present cash
value of which is £1,155,339, and to reserve
£585,670 for the benefit of the present and future
assurers.

It is said that a Russian line of steamers from the
Black Sea to Bombay, via the Suez Canal, is about
to be established, with cJatracts already made by
one house at Moscow to ship 4,000 bales of cotton
per week.
The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of £1,291 over last year ; the
Metropolitan and St. John's-wood an increase of
£l5 ; and the Glasgow and South Western an in-
crease of £528.

The directors of the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and
Coal Company (Limited) have declared an interim
dividend of 10s. per share, payable on the 28th
instant.

The Committee of the Stock Exchange have
ordered that the Second Preference Debentures of
the Northern Railway of Canada shall be inserted
for quotation in their daily official list.
A meeting of the London and Manchester As-
surance Company will be held on the 22d instant,
" for the purpose of passing an extraordinary reso-
lution, and other business, fully set forth in the
circular to shareholders."

A special general meeting of the Vale of Llan-
gollen Railway Company will be held on the 31st
inst., when a resolution wiil be proposed in favour
of raising the sum of £5,000 by the issue of new 5
per cent. preference shares of £lO each.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT rUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, Jan. 6 921
8 per Cent. Reduced ... 92 If
New 3 per Cent
~.. 911 2
Now 21 per Cont. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Con J an. 187 3
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yre, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 p. Ct. March
Da. 3 do. June
De £lOO, £2OO & £5OO 6 pm
Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent -

De. opening • _ _
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds
later-Colonial Omniura

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India, 5 Lock, 10* per Cent., April 1874 Shut
Do. Opening, for Account —
Da. a per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888
Do. Cortificatea —
Do. Eufaced Pape. 4 per Cent..,,,.. —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 5} per Cent. May 1879
Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Dote. 1872.. —
Do do. Itivm,.,
Do. do. 1882 —
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ...„
Do. Bond; 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l,OOO —
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Aegentino Republic, f; per Cent EGI I
luitriam Ronde 5 per cent ..

Do. 1856
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. q per Cent. 1852
Do. do 1858 —
Do. no 166) 7l
1)o. do., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Ik. account .. .
B tenor Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Ouilian 6 per Cent —
f o. 4f per Cent —
Do. 3 por Cent., —
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
Do. 6 por cont. 1867 99i f
0 lombian, 6 pot Cent.
Dauisu, 3 per Cent., 1825
Dan"bian Principalities, 7 par Cent B5
l'o. Account

Do 8 per Cont., 1867 —
Ecuador Now Consolidated, 1 per Cent
Egyptian, 7 per Cent...
Po Secoad Issue .. —
D0..£506 Bonds
Do. 1864 —