The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-17 00:00:00

nili SUN, LONDON, WEIIINESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1869.

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JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Business
Share NAME. Paid. Price done
10 Agra Limited, A tall 101 111
10 Do B lO 34 41 34
50 Albion l5 9 7
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 231 241 p 244 4
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 5 4
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 13
20 Do issued at 2 pm._ , 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lint.
25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39
10 Bank of New Zealand all 154 161
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, Bnd China all 18 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India.
London, and China all 32 34
20 City lO 10 11 101
100 Colonial 25 36 37
10 Consolidated, Lim.
50 Delhi and London, lint
so East London, lir
20 English and Anw -lean, lint 10 ... ...
20 English Bank of Rio de J ft-
neiro. lim lO pr 1p
20 English, z.7cottish, and Aus-
tralian Chartered .. all 161 164
284 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation al] 36 33
•
281 Du new ll/ 4 5
100 Imperial, lint 2O 15 16
20 Imperial Ottontaq
1b lonian all 19 '22
25 Do new 5 6 3
Lnd Mortgage of India, lim 4 34 31
100 Do sp.e. De b 5.1864, 30 all 76 76 80
100 London Bank; of Mexico
and South America, lint. 20 7 6
100 London and Brazilian, line. 45 15 30
20 Do new 71 5 41
100 London &River Plate, Rm. 40 6 8
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 23t 234
20 London and County 2O 494 501
50 Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd. 11 ... ...
London Joint Stock Bll 321
London and South African al 8 9
100 London & S.-Western, lim, 20 13 11
50 London & Venezuela, lim 124 ... ...
100 London and Westminster 2O 571 584 57 4
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O
100 Merchant, lim 25 61 54
10 Metropolitan, lim all 71 74 94 4
00 Midland, lim 2O 11 1
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lint l5 3,1 alp
00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ...
10 Do
50 National. 3O ... ..
20 New South Wales all 41 43 381 9
20 North-Western 7l
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42
50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim lO 61 51
80 Provincial of Ireland 25 90 92
10 Do new. all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, line 25 14 11
100 Do issued at 6 pin lO 8 6
25 Union or Australia all 46 41
100 Union of Ireland, line
50 Union of London

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

ITIEiTiIo-American Tei., lira all 204 201 201
10 Anglo Mediter Tel., Hui.— 10 17,1 176 17 •
at Atlantic Telegraph lO 15 17 1.5
at Do. 8 per cent.
at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., hm lOO 163 163
at Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 251 259
10 Do. New 8 12 13p
25 Indo-European Tel., hm lO ld pr
5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lim all al I
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all j 1p
10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., Jim all 61 71 71
25 Reuter's Telegram all 79 81
20 Societe Transatlant., hm all 10 164 16 4
at Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all 1; 2
SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 7 71
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 41 5 p

THE KING OF THE BELGIANS.

On Tuesday afternoon Sir J. C. Lawrence, Vice-Presi
dent, and Mr. Alderman Cotton, and Captain Charles
Mercier, honorary secretary, of the Belgian Reception
Committee, proceeded to Windsor as a deputation, in
order to have an audience with the King of the Belgians,
and learn his Majesty's pleasure as to the presentation of
the national address. His Majesty received the deputa-
tion in a drawing-room at the Castle, and cordially shook
hands with each member of it. Sir J. 0. Lawrence said
the deputation had come to announce to the King officially
that the address from the nation was ready for his
Majesty's gracious acceptance. Captain Mercier then
handed the list to his Majesty, who was deeply touched.
He said he could not possibly express the feelings of
gratitude with which he received the announcement that
an address of such magnitude was to be offered to him
from the whole of the English nation. It had in his
estimation a value that was beyond calculation, and no
offering that could be thought cf would have proved so
acceptable. To receive such an expression of a nation's
regard, and welcome, howeier much he loved the English,
and however unworthy he was, was a return he certainly
could never have looked for, and one for which he could
not sufficiently express his thanks. He wished to say how
grieved the Queen of the Belgians was that she was pre-
vented from attending. Tie last twelve.menths had been
most trying to her
,health, and she was now fai
from well. To have joined with his in receiving
so magnificent an expression of regard would, he
need hardly say, have been beyond measure gratifying
to her. Her Majesty Queen Victoria had intimated her
wish that the address should be presented to him a,
Buckingham Palace, and he would have the greatest pos-
sible pleasure in attending there on Thursday, the 25th
inst., at twelve o'clock, to receive it. Sir 3. C. Lawrence,
in thanking his Majesty for his gratifying reply, alluded tl
the invitation that had been conveyed through the Com-
mittee to his Majesty from the Lord Mayor of London, as
president of the committee, that the King would be pleased
to attend a grand banquet, to be given, in honour of this
event, at the Mansion-house on the evening of the day
upon which the address is presented. His Majesty said
that he had received the invitation, and, as he had already
intimated, would accept it with the greatest possible plea-
sure, The ceremony of presenting the address at Buck-
ingham Palace will be upon a scale commensurate with the
occasion. The lord-lieutenants and high sheriffs of
counties, the mayors and ex-mayors, with deputations from
corporations, will attend in official costume and robes of
office. The militia and volunteer commanding officers
have also received invitations to be present at the
ceremony.

SIR STAFFORD NORTHOOTE ON INDIAN
BAILIV AYS.

Some important correspondence on the subject of the
extension of railways in India and their future construc-
tion and management has been issued. The last letter is
a despatch from Sir Stafford Northcote, the then Secretary
of State for India, to the Governor-General in Council,
dated the 24th November 1868, which, after dealing with
several of the propositions raised on the railway question,
proceeds :—" If it would be politically dangerous or embar-
rassing to Government to have very large English capital
invested in Indian railways, because of the responsibility
for interest, that danger or inconvenience would in no
degree, I think, be removed by the adoption of the Governor
General's proposal to buy the railwaya. For, however or
whenever they might be bought, it would still be with
borrowed money, so that the amount of English capital
jeopardised in India would still remain the same though its
form would be different; neither could it possibly be advis-
able or economical to set aside, out of borrowed money, a
sinking fund for the purpose. lam very distinctly of opinion
that it would not be practicable to make any change in tho
manner of dealing with a surplus revenue over the guaran-
teed interest. I believe that the prospect and even the pos-
sibility of such a surplus has real importance in determin-
ing the value of Indian railway shares ; and that if, in any
future contract, this prospect were interfered with, or cut
off in the manner suggested, much higher terms would
be necessary to ensure success. I have elsewhere observed
that the political and military advantages of the present
commercial railways to the Government would be cheaply
purchased, even were the railway system more costly
to the Government than it is ; and looking forward
to similar advantages hereafter, from the construction of
future railways of that character, I am not disposed to
hinder their construction by the demand of too onerous
terms, or to insist too strongly upon the pecuniary sacrifices
involved in their completion."