The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-29 00:00:00

India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 1 ; ditto 4
per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 1; ditto Enfaced Paper,
4 per Cent., —.
In the Foreign Market there is a trifling decline.
Egyptian (1868) are quoted 80 to 801, Viceroy's
Seven per Cents., 83 to 831; Italian, 56 to 561 ;
Mexican, 131 to 131 ; Peruvian, 84 to 841 ; Brazi-
lian, 871 to 881 ; Russian (1866), 901 to9ll ; Orel,
821 to 821 ; Charkof, 801 to 81; Spanish, 271 to
271; Turkish Five per Cents., 45 to 45+ ; and the
Six per Cents., 681 to 681.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 851 to 86+,
being an improvement of 1 ; Erie Shares are 1
better, at 171 to 181 ; and Illinois are 1 lower, at
99} to 100.

In Bank Shares there is an improvement of * in
Imperial Ottoman, the price being 2i to 2i prem.
The' following are some of the principal quota-
tions :—Agra (A), 10i to 111; Alliance, 121 to
131; Anglo-Austrian, 11 to 13 prem.; Chartered
Mercantile, 32 to 33 ; Consolidated, 4 1-16 to
4 3-18 ; Imperial, 161 to 161 ; London and County,
48 to 49 ; London and Westminster, 58/ to 591 ;
Oriental, 41 to 42; London Joint Stock, 31k to
321 ; and Union of London, 37 to 38.
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance opened
without change, but have since advanced it, the
present price being 36 to 36/. French Cable is
also s better, at 161 to 161 ; and Anglo-American
at 19/ to 19f.

In Railway Shares prices show a slight decline,
except in Great Northern and Metropolitan. The
former is I higher, at 109 to 110 ; and the latter 1,
at 814 to 81 ; London and Brighton is now 47
to 47f ; North Eastern (Berwick)* lower, 1231 to
1251 ; Midland an f lower, 1221 to 1231 ; and
London, Chatham, and Dover 4., at 15 to 15f ;
Caledonian, 761 to to 761 ; Great Eastern, 384. to
38f ; Great Eastern, 381 to 38f ; Great Northern
(A), 109 k to 110; Great Western, 562 to 571 ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1274 to 1272 ; London
and North Western, 1231 to 1232 ; and South
Eastern, 781 to 78i.

At Mark-lane to-day the attendance was Mode-
rate. The suiplies of English produce light-, those
of forvign fair. Engl'sh wheat firm at Monday's
advance of I.s. per quarter. Foreign also firm at a
similar improvement for best qualities. Grinding
barley very firm. 'Malting steady in valne with
moderate inquiry. Flour the turn dearer for both
sacks and barrels. Beans and peas the turn
dearer.

There were no gold operations at they Bank yes-
terday.
The arrivals of specie from abroad included a
sum of £11,660 by the steamer City of Brooklyn,
from New York ; and a small parcel, value £2,718,
by the Syria from Alexandria.
The traffic receipts of the Metropolitan Railway
show an increase of f. 503. The traffic of the
Metropolitan and St. John's-wood Railway exhi-
bits a decrease of £4. The receipts of the Metro-
politan District Railway represent £738. A de-
grease is exhibited in the case of the South-
Eastern of /731. The decrease of the Brighton is
£491. . .

It is stated in reference to the affairs of the
Atlantic and Great Western liailway that, accord-
ing to a private telegram, Air. M'llenry and the
other directors of the railway have been suspended
by order of the Court.
'1 he llionehester Courier stat•:s that Mr. William
Alfred Packer, cotton spinner, Alma Mills, Old-
ham, has called a meeting of his creditors, which
will take place immediately. The liabilities are
not large. The liabilities of Mr. James Potter,
Paradise Mill, Oldham, prove to be £9,300 ; assets
about £BOO. The creditors have accepted a deed of
assignment.

Messrs. Neroutsos and Co. thus describe the
state of trade at Manchester by telegram :
" Market steady, but business not yet actively
resumed, and transactions insufficient to tes`. prices
fairly."
In the Mincing-lane markets business is inter-
rupted by the holidays, but there has been an active
inquiry for cotton, resulting in sales of some ex-
tent at stiffer prices.

A prospectus has been issued of a company for
promoting emigration, to be called the Emigrant
and Colonists' Aid Corporation, with a nominal
capital of £250,000, in shares of £l. By the
selection of poor families of good character for
settlements on lands to be obtained by grants or
purchase, and taking engagements for repayment,
with adequate interest, of passage-money, and
other advances, it is hoped to make the scheme
commercially profitable.

The following relates to the degree of scrupulous-
ness manifested respectively by Prussia and
Austria in dealing with the holders of their public
debts

" THE ANGLO-AUSTRIAN DEBT.
" Council of Foreign Bondholders, 18,
Palmerston-buildings, Dec. 28.

"Sir,—lt has been announced that Prussia had
proposed a law converting the 4 per cent. Prussian
Consolidated Bonds into a 4i per cent. debt, and
suspending the sinking fund thereon for the

present.
" Although the Prussian debt is an internal debt,
this arrangement is not compulsory, but left to the
free choice of the holders, who are offered the pre-
mium of 1 per cent. on their freely accepting the
proposal.
" This honourable and statesmanlike proceeding
of the leading German Government contrasts forc-
ibly with the suicidal conduct of Austria, the other
leading German country, which decreed a compul-
sory conversion of the Austrian debt, including even
the public loans contracted in England, compelling
the English holders thereof not only to convert their
bonds into an internal debt, but inflicting a 16 per
cent. income tax, without adequate compensation,
and abolishing the sinking fund altogether.
"May Austria at last learn from the prosperous
finances of her rival that honesty is the best policy!
" Your obedient servant,
" HYDE CLARKE."

The recent agitation both at home and in the
Colonies, with reference to the wool trade, has re-
sulted in plans for reducing the warehousing
charges, which amount to a not inconsiderable per-
centage on the value of the wool. New warehouses
arc to be opened in February at Millwall Docks, to
consist of a ground floor only, capable of showing
upwards of 10,000 bales, and to lot all the wool
offered for sale on one day.

The eleventh half-ye,,rly report of the National
Bank of Australasia shows au available total of
£50,873, and announces a dividend at the rate of
10 per cent. per anutuu, with a bonus of is. per
share, equal to 21 per cent. per annum, leaving,
after au appropriation of £3,000 to the reduction of
premises account, £4,623 to be carried forward.
The half-yearly meeting of the London and
Creen wich Railway Company is called fur the 11th
J-,t,uaiy, when a hall-yearly ,;ividend of ,£.l 7s. ld.
per cent., or ss. sd. per share, clear of income-tax,
via be recommended upon the ordinary stock.

With reference to the conversion of the Exten-