The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-13 00:00:00

annum.

The report of the International Financial Society,
to be presented on the 29th inst., shows an avail-
able total of £59,550, including a previous balance
Of £6,854, and a dividend is recommended at the
rate of 5 per cent. per annum, which will absorb
£18,750.

The report of the Consolidated Bank (Limited),
to be presented on the 14th instant, shows an
available total of £32,956, and recommerds a divi-
dend of 2s. 6d. per share, or at the rate of 61 per
tent• per annum.

The report of the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold
Mining Company, to be presented on the 21st inst.,
recommends a further distribution of ls. 6d. per
share, making, with previous distributions, 22k per
cent, for the year.

A call of ss. per share falls due on Wednesday
on the shares of the Indo-European Telegraph Com-
pany, amounting to £85,000.
Formal notice is given that a petition for con-
firming a resolution reducing the capital of the
City Discount Company (Limited and Reduced)
from £500,000 to £300,000, was presented to the
Master of the Rolls on the Bth inst.

It is said that the accounts of the London and
St• Katharine Docks Company, to be presented at
the meeting called for the 26th inst., will admit of
a dividend of only 11 per cent. for the half year.
srhe failure of Mr. W. T.Piper, trading as Messrs.
Iper and Co., of Bishopsgate-strect and Pimlico,
has been announced, and the liquidation, it is be-
lieved, will be favourable. An accurate account
of the debts and liabilities has not yet been pre-
Pared.

Messrs. Alexanders, Cunliffes, and Co., have re-
duced their rate of interest on deposits at fourteen
daYs' notice of withdrawal from 2f to 2k per cent.
The latter quotation is therefore the highest now
allowed for temporary loans. The other discount
houses have not followed the same course, but re-
fuse to take fresh deposits under 2f. It is probable,
however, that the present excess of floating capital,
caused chiefly by the distribution of the dividends,
Wlll Soon be absorbed by the repayment of advances
to the Bank and the ordinary requirements of the
trade of the country.
The establishment of more harmonious arrange-
mentso for the interchange of traffic between the
South Eastern and London, Brighton and South
Coast Railway Companies, is indicated by the
aPPearance of an official notice that, from the Ist
of February next, return and season tickets be-
tween Loudon and a number of other stations
' will be available by the trains, and to and from
any of the London stations, of either company, in-
cluding Charing-cross,Victoria, Cannon-street, &c."
It was recently notified that the Spanish Provi-
Tonal Government had decreed that goods shipped
hl foreign vessels to the Spanish West Indies and
the Yhillippines would be charged only the same
rate of duty as if they were shipped in Spanish
vtBsels. A mercantile correspondent, however,
ates that the fact has not been officially intimated
to the Spanish Consulates, and that the only infor-
Illation they have is that furnished by the Gazette of
the 23d of November.
s At the Open Stock Exchange, Limited, yester-
day, the shares of the Agricultural Hotel and Far-
r ers' Club Company, Limited, fully paid, sold at
na4s. ; Alhambra Company, Limited, fully paid,
.8. 81 per share ; Credit Foncier of England,
I,L'iMited, fully paid, 2s. 11d. per share ; Crystal
r,alace Company, £lO ; Consolidated Seven per
rot. Preference stock, £lO 7s. per share; Joint
7°_,.clt Coal Company, Limited, 15s. paid, Is. to is.
Luildeu+;
share ; London and Suburban Laud and
Company, Limited, £5 paid, £5 per share.

BRITISH FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
a UOVERNMENT FUNDS.,
per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
Neerper Cent. Reduced 91,14
Account,
per Cent
'"'"3W I•per Cent. Jan. 1894
I'M per Cent. u an. 1873