The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-27 00:00:00

American Securities are steady. The 5-20's are
801 to 80i ; Erie, 291 to 23 ; Illinos, 98 to 99 ; and
Atlantic Bonds, 26 to 961.
Railway Shares are dull, and in several instances
Prices show a relapse. Metropolitan Extension is }
lower, at 991 ; Great Northern (A) at 1081 to
109 ; and a decline of i is marked in Great Wes-
tl'rn, at 49 to 491.
Continental Railway Shares are in fair request.
Great Luxemburg is rather 'inner at 101 to I, and
Lombardo-Venetian at 18i 19/.
There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday.
The Neva, from the West Indies, has brought
£173,000, the Niagara, from Melbourne, £31,000,
And the Hansa, from New York, £2,105.
The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £1,154, on account of the dividends on the
debt of Ecuador.
The Syria left Marseilles with £lO,OOO for Singa-
pore, £30,000 for Penang, £63,000 for Calcutta,
and £237,000 for Bombay.
To do away with any temptations for unscrupu-
lous persons to attempt bribery to get inferior goods
Passed in case of disputes or differences of opinion
with the receiving officers as to quality, the an-
nexed memorandum has been issued :—" Complaints
having been preferred by contractors and others
of their articles being rejected on insufficient
grounds it is to be understood that in any case in
future where parties may consider themselves in-
jured by rejections, their Lordships will be pre-
pared to consider the question with a view to an in-
dependent re-inspection of the articles on applica-
tion being made in writing to the Financial Secre-
tary of the Admiralty.—By command of their
Lordships, " W. E. BAXTER."
The East Indian Railway Company have noti-
fied that they have received authority from the
Secretary of State to issue 50,000 shares of £2O
each, bearing interest at the rate of £5 per cent.
per annum, at a premium of £1 per share. A de-
posit of £5 per share, with the premium of £1 per
share, must be paid on or before the 11th of May
next, and further calls of £5 per share will be made
at intervals of about three months from that date.
The allotment will be made rateably among the
shareholders.

Letters from the Republic of Ecuador state that
on the 19th of March a General Veintermilla at-
tempted to make a revolution in Guayaquil against
Don Garcia Moreno and in favour of the former
Government. He had the artillery on his side, and
it is thought might have succeeded in taking the
town if he had not been shot after fighting for more
than four hours. Nearly 100 are reported to have
been killed, and 50 or 60 wounded. Mary of the
citizens also were wounded or killed by the dis-
charge of grape shot in the streets. Business was
at a stand.

A great, and to the mercantile community most
Welcome, change appears to have been inaugurated
at the Admiralty in their mode of transacting com-
niercial business. Hitherto the purchases for the
navy carried ou under the contract system with an
interminable number of stipulations and penalties
to prevent fraud have resulted in the Government
being exposed to an organised course of chicanery
which has operated most disastrously for the public
service.

It is stated that the works of the Tatuboff-Kos-
loff Railway arc progressing rapidly, and that the
line will be opened in September next. It forms
a continuation of the Rinzau-Kozlow Railway, the
receipts of which amounted in 1867 to 1,918,417
roubles, and increased in 1868 to 3,084,553
roubles.

The Stock Exchange Committee have ordered
the scrip of the Victoria (Australia) Five per Cent.
Railway Loan to be officially quoted.
At a meeting of shareholders of the Societe Agri-
°plc et Industrielle d'Egypte, Mr. A. S. King,
the chairman, reported the progress made by the
committee sinea the last meeting in prosecuting the
claims of the shareholders upon the Viceroy of
Egypt• It was stated that the Foreign Office
had adopted the case, and had telegraphed in-
structions to the Consul-General in Egypt to
insist upon an immediate settlement on the same
terms as those just obtained by the French Foreign
Office.

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riank Shares are again without particular feature,
and prices generally are steady.
Foreign Mining Shares are very quiet.

BRITISH FUNDS-OLOS-NG PRICES.

• GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
o.:Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
L 8 per Cent. Reduced u2 I 1 `2/-
lovr 3 per Cent
A Cyr 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 . —
Do. per Cen 1873
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Teleh,ra,ph), Aug., 1908 —
Exehocitru Bills, £l,OOO, 21per Gt
• -
De £5OO — pm
Do. £lOO rir £2OO 2
Bank of England Stock, 4i per Cent
Do. opening —
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds — • Inter-Colonial ()minium
INDIAN CTOVERNMENT 6ROURITIE6
India stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874...
Do. Opening, for Account
Do. 5 per Uwnt. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Pape. 4 per Cent..,.„ 92-1
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ~...,.... lO5l
Do. hf per Cant. May 1879 —
D.) 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872...,
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
DO. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l.000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ...... 79 8z
...... 4
Do., Scrip £45 paid
Auitrian Bonds a per cent .. _

Do. 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent 651
Do. 4} per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do. 1858.... —
-1 Do. do. 186 ' ........•.
Do. do., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Th
Do Account —
tenos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont ',
Cuba, 6 per Cent. -
Outlian 6 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent —
Do. 8 per
Po. 6 per colt. 1867
Po. 7 per Cent., 186 G
0 lonbian, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825.........
Dann bian Principalities, 7 Far Cent 751
Do 8 per Cons ....
Equador NCewenolidated, 1 per Cent.
MgyFtian, 7 per Cent..." BOl
Ide Secoad issue
Do. 450 C Bonds —
134. 4100 Bonds • ••• --
Do. 1864
De. Account
;iist. 4500 Bonds
• 410 C Bonds ft7l
flesh Scrip, 1868 751 61
Do do. 445 pd — ills
Government Railway Debenturis - 9 Bl, 981,
Greet 5
Do
per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups. —
uo. Account
Itllian 5 per Cent., 1865
Do. Account .... B3/
Do Ilxreminana Railway
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do, 1864 .
Do 6 Der Cont. Anglo-French —
51011t0NidPall. G per Cent. • • —
Mocrish Imperial 5 per Cent -
Now Granada l7/
Do 3 per Cen
Do. Deferred
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account .. 77i GI
Do 41 per Cent. (lll:harren)
Do 41 per Cent,, 1862 • 96 :
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ot., 1858, '6, 7, '9,'60,'2,'8 34