The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-08 00:00:00

Cent., --.

The large diamond of 83k carats, lately discovered
at the Cape, has reached London, consigned to
Messrs. Joseph Moscnthal and Co.

The directors of the London and Westminster
Bank have resolved to declare at the ensuing gene-
ral meeting a dividend and bonus equal together to
8 per cent. for the half• year ended the 30tb of June,
carrying forward £1,200. This is the first dividend
upon the augmented capital of two millions, and is
equivalent to a division of 16 per cent. upon the old
capital of one million. The dividend and bonus
declared at the corresponding period of last year
were equal to 12 per cent.
The dividend to be declared by the Union Bank
of London at their meeting on the 14th inst. will be
at the usual rate of 15 per cent. per annum ; to
which will be added a bonus of 2f per cent. on the
paid-up capital, making together 10 per cent. for
the last half-year.
The suspension has been announced of Messrs.
E. Rodgett and Co., spinners and manufacturers
at Blackburn, owing to losses from one of the re-
cent failures at Manchester. The liabilities, which
are understood to be chiefly in Liverpool, are be-
lieved to be rather large.
A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. George
Smith and Son, millowners and spinners, Preston,
was held yesterday. The assets consisting of
stock-in• trade, are said to amount to £2,719, and
the machinery is valued at £l,OOO, the total de-
ficiency being about £82,000. Messrs. Livesey
and Thorpe, who failed in Liverpool on the 10th
ult., are understood to be creditors for £BO,OOO,
While the security held by them amounts to
£60,000.

Notice is given that in consequence of the Thames
Tunnel being required for the East London Rail-
Way works it will be closed for traffic on and after
the 21st inst.

BRITISH FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
GOVEIINMENT FUNDS.
6 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
„r 8 per Cent. Reduced 931.3
* 3 per Cent
~..A1 0
-,N cm 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
per Oen J an. 1873
A-unUities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs expire sth April 1880.,, --
Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
ExeliequDr Bills, £l,OOO, 2k p. Ct. March pm
Do. 3 do. June 10
Do £lOO, £2OO & £5OO —l3artk of England Stock, 4f per Cent
r, Do. opening —
`-janadt. 4 per Cent. Bonds —
In ter-Colonial Ommum —
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India 7tock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 206
Do. Opening, for Account —
Do. 5 'per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates _
Do. Enfaced Pape. 4 per CAM..... —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 „.„„. los}
Do. 5} per Cent. May 1879 —
Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 _
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
V:). Deb., 5 per Cent. Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,000
Do. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS— TWO O'CLOCK.
4•„z'gentine Republic, 6 per Cent ... .
-Atiitrian Bonds 5 per cent
o. 1859 —
Brazilian D 5 per Cent —
Do. 4} per Cent. 1852 ._do 1858.... .............
Uo. eo, 186 ' —
po. do., 1863 —
4-,0- 5 per Cent., 1865
Jj .- Do Account
..
-enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
e Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3w per Cent ) --
6 per Cent.
kj,ilitto 6 per Cent .
Do. 41 per Cent..., —
--
Do. 3 per Cent.,
per cent. 1867 —
, Do. 7 per Cent. 1866
i:) to: ibial!, 6 per 'Cent
Dan,,
3 per Cent., 1825
"atie IX:La Principalities, 7 per Cent —Bol
per............. .40 • • 0.• ...... ipttaclor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
4Yrtian, 7 per Cent....
•••
1,.t, Sts'eChill Issue
'-iriso• .£set. Bonds BU I
'up. £lOO Bonds ..... 86-1
Do. WI —
Do. Account
1)0. 4500 Bonds
1))0. 4106 Bonds
‘,7 per Cont., 1868
Ql,e7 erremeni Railway Debentures
7-,' 5 por Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups —
'-'O. A.ecount . .

India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 206 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1114 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 100 i j ; ditto Eufaced Paper, 5
per Cent., 1051 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 16 20 prem.
In the Foreign Market Italian are lower, at
53i ; Mexican I, 12 to 12i ; and Spanish, at 28}
to 28f ; and TUrkish, at 45i to 45!, are nearly I
lower. Argentine, 781 to 791 ; Egyptian (1864),
90 to 91.; Egyptian (1864), 79i to 80i ; Orel-

Vitebsk, 804 to 81i; Charkof-Azof, 791 to 80-1 ;
Spanish, 28k to 28}; llocduras, 83 to 84 : and
Brazilian, 831 to 84.

In Railways there has been an improvement.
Prices are now as follows :—Caledonian, 79 to 79f ;
Great Eastern, 381 to 38/ ; Great Northern, 107 to
108 ; Great Northern A Stock, 107 to 1071 ;
Great Western, 50/ to 51/ ; London and Brigh-
ton, 44f to 45 ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
16/ to 17 ; London and North Western, 1181 to
119/ ; London and South Western, 89 to 91; Me-
tropolitan, 97f to 98 ; Midland, 117/ to 117/ ; and
South Eastern, 77 to 771.

American Five Twenties are 811 to 811, and
the Eries are i lower, at 19 to 19g.
In Bank Shares the changes are unimportant,
and in Miscellaneous Securities Hudson's Bay are
I lower, viz., 121 to 13 ; National Discount is
steady, at Ile to llf ; and General Credit, 1 to
i d is.

There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday. The amount sent in during the`week since
the last return has been £239,000.
The payment of the dividends at the Bank of
England, with the outflow of those on foreign
securities, has already sent an enormous amount of
capital into circulation. When the distribution in
the cases of banks, railways, and others shall have
been effected,. the total will prove greater than
ever. Without, therefore, some impetus to trade
is given, large sums will have to remain idle or be
forced into investments for the sake of returning
interest.

There is a rumour that the Government will in-
vite tenders for the maintenance of the telegraph
system of the United Kingdom as soon as it comes
into their possession, and that, in this case, the
scope of the operations, as well as of the profits
of the Telegaaph Construction and Maintenance
Company, is likely to be considerably increased,
scarcely any other establishment in the kingdom
possessing equal facilities for this class of work. '
On the 15th of September next the creditors of
Overend, Gurney, and Co. will receive another ls.
dividend, which mill make 20s. in the pound, and
that all that will then remain due to them will be
the interest on their claims. The amount of this
was according to arrangement to have been paid
concurrently with the final ls. of principal, but the
liquidators have continued to find more difficulty in
realising the assets than there was reason to expect
when these first passed into their hands and criminal
proceedings.had not been commenced, and are there-
fore compelled to ask for an extension of time till
the 30th of June next. The required sum might be
raised by calling up from the shareholders a part of
the £lO which still remains uncalled for on their
£5O shares, but this would be a needless aggrava-
tion of their distress, since the assets still in hand
are believed to be ample for the purpose.
The tenders for £325,000. in bills on India re-
ceived yesterday at the Bank of England, when
the amounts allotted were—to Calcutta £315,100,
and to Madras £9,900. The minimum price was
fixed as before at Is. 101 d. on Calcutta and Madras,
and tenders on those presidencies at ls. llid. will
receive about 66 per cent. ; those above that price
in full.