The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-16 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

TWELVE OCLOCK.
The discount market has closed for the'
week with
the same steady demand which has been evinced for
sonic time past, although the amount of floating
capital is not quite so abundant the rates have
Undergone no change; 1 per cent is now more
frequently obtained than hitherto.
The specie movements during the past week
have been on a rather extensive scale.
The imports, which have amounted to about
£456,997, have included £17,520 from New
York by the Persia, £14,627 by the Geneva, £5,000
by the City of Paris, £21,500 by the France, and
£l,OOO by the China. The Essex, from Melbourne,
has brought £120,000 ; the Sir John Lawrence,
from Sydney,
£951,409. £17,300 in gold has been
received from Portugal, and £8,650 in silver from
the Continent. The exports have been £B,OOO to
to the Brazils by the Seine, and there have been
remittances to the Continent through private
sources estimated at £331,676, the total amounting
to £339,676.
The suspension was announced yesterday of
Messrs. William Alfred White and Co., hop, seed,
and isinglass merchants, with liabilities reported to
smount to more than £70,000. Nothing appears
Yet to have transpired with regard to the assets,
but the connexions of the firm are said to be wealthy.
Speculative purchases of hops and clover seeds
are mentioned as the cause of the difficulty. From
1863, when the house was formed, until last year,
when si dissolution of partnership took place, its
title was Hewitt, White, and Co.
A meeting has been held of the East Anglican
Railway, when the propositions of the Great
Eastern Railway, with regard to the financial re-
lation of the two interests, were rejected, and a
committee of five was appointed to consider any
other arrangement which may be suggested.
The report of the directors of the Oriental Gas
Company, to be presented to the ordinary general
meeting on the 25th November, states that the
general revenue account shows a balance available
ffor dividend—after, adding £l,OOO to the reserve
—nu—of £12,192, from which the directors recom-
mend a distribution of 6 per cent., free of income
t") payable
Makinn the 3d day of December next,
eki with the interim payment of 3 per cent. on
sth June last, a total dividead of 9per cent. for the
Year. p
Messrs. J. H. Schroder and Co., of Leadenhall-
_street, have announced the dividend due on the Ist
December on the Bonds of the Cienfuegos and
Villa Clara (Cuba) Railroad Company.
nav
tlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
e advanced ie to 20 21 ex div. ; and the Con-
solidated Mortgage Bonds are steady, at 18k 19k.
The New Honduras Loan is i prem.
The directors of the English and Australian
Copper Mining Company (Limited) have received
it(jvices from their manager, dated Port Adelaide,
oorinth September
larst. The quantity of coal at
the Porgat was 72 tons, at Kapunda 50 tons, and at
liri
607 tons. There were three furnaces at
fork at Kooringa, and five furnaces and one re-
nerY at Port Adelaide. A shipment of 100 tons
Copper would be made in a few days from the date
of writing.
ha The directors of the Argentine Central Railway
the full
notified that they have succeeded in raising
ue full capital for the completion of the line. The
sum required was £600,000 to make up the
'1)800,000 originally specified in the concession,
and which is to carry a guarantee of 7 per cent. Of
thee the
. Argentine Government subscribe £300,000,
the
r remaining moiety will be taken by Messrs.
-;l,aseeY, Wythes, and Wheelwright in 7 per cent.
d—entures of the company
for rs to run.
completin Yea at par, having five
At the same time the period fixed
e• the line has been extended to the
31st of October next.
The committee of the Hudson's Bay Company
have issued their report, of which the following is
all abstract The report at this season cannot
Profess to give the results of the
to predict accurately the nature of the accounts,
which will be made up on the 31st May next. We are
able, however, to state that the returns of the year
promise to be satisfactoryfurs, s far as the quantity of
taken is concerned, although a partial falling off has
v place in martens, and although a large por-
tion of the returns from
-Mackenzie's River has not
sbeen forwarded. The ships which sailed for Hud-
ion's Bay •in June last have returned in safety,
:having delivered their cargoes, outward and home-
3.erd, in good order. The attempt made by us to re-
aPncin trade with the Esquitnaux, north of Churchill,
profit in Some degree by the whale fishing, has
not been successful. The failure, however, in the latter
branch of The
is, we believe, common to the
"ect la the same
Oceas,
-"YmPh, and to almost every other vessel en-
pursuit. The present condition
street,
i°3l_en commercial affairs in the City of London has not
on such
e favourable for the sale of our property in Fen-
church.
prepared to a
British terms as the committee are
Island and ncePt. The depression in Vancouver's
the
tl'e United
unsettled Columbia still continues, and
ed state of
e believe, h the question of the capital of
Col -
'W •
110 to take Colon has a tendency to augment it.
owever, that we have placed our busi-
ness there on
tin. a sounder footing, and we shall con-
inn
of
with
measures for reducing the expenses
,urred on the West Coast of America, so far as is
cernpatible • maintaining the commercial position
ue
c°
share •
ls to belnPallY. The usual dividend of Bs. per
paid in January.

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Two o'CLocc
En her
is Very little animation exhibited in the
,ails, Stock Market, although a firmer tone pre
-
auk Consols for money remain at 911- i ;
'or the account ex dividend they have whiled
improve
1-16th to 93i.
Dji hi° 14.0,* Threes and Reduced Annuities. ar:
Per
off ; India 5 per Cents., 116 15! 1161 ; ditto l -ents., 100 i; and Enfaced ditto, 881.
1.„,4 the Foreign Stock Market the tone has bfen
.
rl"'"er firmer. Italian have advanced /I, to 45 45k ,
Tree i, to 113 124 • Mexican +, to 14; 15; ; and.h
13„4:k,i811 5 per 4Centei. 1, to 32 324 , while Spanish Cent., retnain steady, at 204 ; ; and the New 3 per
~e4t,, 32i1.
Unit .rneriean Securities show a general improvement..
I.*eci States 5-20 Nonds have advanced 4, to. 70.1 il
s 1Q
Shares
(.0 85 86. ) 1 per cent.. to 47148} ; and Illinois 1,
N,,e,,°Rilhtiulleci depression has prevailed in the Rail-
-9t further-"aro Alarket, most of the principal lines being
3 Midland
d 6 reduced rates. Caledonian have receded
14reht1;0-::::
_ _ -caeer North Eastern (Berwick), each 1; ;
alt-I:ad(:loirkshire 1, Great Eastern and
1 _es.tern, and sou ht, and Great Western, North
Eastern, each -I.
anylnbe Forei,n
.Inateril mid Colonial lines remain without
. variation. San Paulo are marked
ofd Bahia and San Francisco, 134; Great Westarn
r'r anada, 16i I ; '-i.,,ciat Indian Peninsula, 109
.t•
East Indian, 110; 111 ; and
to.t‘ank Shares have been in very limited request.
504.1ti1l and County, however, have improved to
of London, to 34; 35; ; Lon-
dn and 'Westminster remain at 70 704 ;and Lon-
u‘.J.Stock, at 351 a
::::111:11:111:::::::: Finance Shares in one or two
tm sanees are a shade flatter. Peninsular and Orien-
ho -teaill have declined to 55 1 ; Fore-street Ware. -
at use, to 19
1 -1 ; Anglo-American Telegraph remain
81 481. ; and Royal Mail Steam, at G 5 651.

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MINING MARKET.

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SATURDAY, Two P.M.
,teik 'very limited amount of business has been trans-
eh.el in the Mining. Share Market. The shares
v,,,,1e,f1Y in request are Prince of Wales, West Chi-
,,:'°n, Chontales, and South Frances. Annexed
`4,,,, the closing quotations :
Quiii"3 13rea, 25 30 ; Chiverton 3,f00r, 5f 6 ; Cliontales
...,.. , 31; Clifford Amalgamte, 61 61; East Basset,
:1 , -r-ast Oarado 61 61 • L 11 • East Russell,
1;k13"a. r . n'
-I
' 'ist
"e
:' 18 Od - Groat
x , rontino and Bolivia Gold, 16s Od
i:S' 1' i 18 ; Great Rehtlick, 313! ; Great laVh a' 1 Vor,
"; ilitrk V 1 ' t h-Crofty, 2131;
Tr k 1 e' a leY, C , -
-1 q- • North 1.4'4' °I I, Sts 36a ; Prince of Wales, 51-s o'l ")33 ; South
North
451" 2i West Chiverton, 0 71 i Who Basset,

90 93; Wheal Chiverion, —; Wheal Grenville, 22s
24s ; Wheal Soton, 97i 100.

BRITIS II FUN DS.—CLOSING PRICES.
UoVEUNIIENT FVNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Do. Account, Dec. 5 93i xd
3 per Cent. Reduced 92i }
New 3 per Cent 921 I
Now 2} per Cont. Jan. 1894 —
Do. o per Cent,. Jan. 1873 —
innuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 183' —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do.(Red Sea Tolevaph), Att.,., 1908..
March.
:xchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 &V; per Ct — pm
Do £5OO — pin
Do. £lOO & £2OO — pna
Bank of England Stock, 51 per Cent —
Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 10k per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Account
Do. 5 per (Joni. July, Mu
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1BEE
Do. Certificates
Do. Enlaced Paper 1 per Cent BBl
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51., ler Cent., Xiay 1879 —
Do. 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb., 1t;;--) —
- Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 188-)
Do Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cont., £l,OOO - ptu
Do. under £1,000

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, ( per Cent
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
Brazilian 5 por Cent
Do. 4 per Cent., 1852-58-60

Lo. ' 1863
DJ. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account 74}
D0..£100 Bonds
Buonos Ayres 6 per Cent
DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 37}
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Cuilian 6 per Cent
Do. 4k per Cent
00. 6 per Cent., B .
Do., 1867
Do., Scrip, £74 paid
Do., 7 per Cent., 186 G
Do., Scrip, £32 paid
C n mbian, 3 per Cent.
Danish, nor Cent., 1523
D4nubian Principalities, 7 per Cent —
Do 8 por Cent., 1867 6l
F. It; ador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
4gyptiar, 7 per 'lent Bl}
)o. See, nd Issue —
D '..£100 Bonds
Do. 1864
Do. .fsio Bonds B5 6
Do. £lO6 Bonds B7
Government Railway Debentures
G latemala 5 per Cent .. —
It 'llan 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do, Account
Do. Maremmana Railway —
Idixicar. 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
Do. 1861 —
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French —
Slontevidean 6 per Cont. • . —
kloorish Imperial 5 per Cent —
Now Granada —

Do 3 per Con.
Do. Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 5 per Cont. 1865

Do Account

Do 41pe.- Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 41 per Cent.. 1862
Do Account
Pot tsguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 401 1
a issian 5 pc- Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cont., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds BB 71
Do. do. £B4 15s. do.
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds B6l
Do. do. £B4 15s. do —
Sardinian, 5 per Cent 74/
Spanish 3 per Con -
Do Account
Do Now Deforron —
Do Account 314
Do Passive —
Do Amount —
Do Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do Account
Turkish 6 por Cent., 1854
Do Account
Do 6 per Cont. 1858 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 por Cent., 1862 —
Do Account
±

Do £lOO Bonds.
Do. 1863
Do 5 per Cont., 1865
Do Account
Do 6 per Cont., 1865... - SIIA
Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed
Dividends on the above payanlo in London.
Dutch 4 per CAnt. Ex. 12 Guil 531
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Italian 5 per Cont. 1851, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 4si
TllO •AIPLUQt.
Consols, Money 94} f
Do. Account, ex div 93 xd

June.

61

[The following appoarol is oar Latest ISaitioa of yester-
day •moniaa.]

CITY, HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK.

Since two o'ciock the English Funds have re-
covered, and close at the same prices as yesterday
afternoon, .viz., 94} 1 for money, and 93 for
the sth December. Foreign Stocks have improved.
Italian are 451 ; Greek, 12 1 ; Mexican,
14; 15; Spanish Passive, 201 1 ; New Spanish 3
per Cents., 321 ; ; and Turkish 5 per Cents.,
32

American Securities closed at 70f I for United
States 5-20 Bonds ; Erie Shares at 47 i ; and
Illinois at 84f 85.

Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are steady at 20 21 ex div ; and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds at 19 20.

Alex. Collie and Co's. report, dated Manchester,
Friday, Nov. 15, says —" Business continues in-
active, and the tendency of prices is in favour of
buyers."

The traffic receipts on the East Indian Railway
Company, for the week ending 29th September,
amounted to £33,461 14s. 7d., against £37,328
16s. ld. in the corresponding period of last year,
and showing a decrease of £3,861 ls. 6d.
The traffic receipts on the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway, for the third week in October,
amounted to $122,232, against $145,101 in the cor-
responding period last year, showing a decrease of
$23,872.

The following are the closing quotations of some
of the principal Railway Companies' Shares :
Caledonian, 794 to 804 ; Great Eastern, 30 to 304
Great Northern, 107 to 109 ; Great Western, 45
to 454 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1214 to 122 ;
Brighton, 52 to 53 ; Metropolitan, 121 to 1214 ;
Midland, 1161 to 116 i ; North Eastern (Berwick),
99} to 1001 ; and South Eastern, 66 to 66i.
The New llonduras Loan closed at 3 31 prem.
Gold to the extent of £12,000 was taken to the
Bank of England to-day.

APPEARANCE OF MR. DISRAELI IN
EDINB RG IL

A correspondent of the Dumfries Courier gives
the following pen-and-ink sketch of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer as he appeared in the Music
Hall :—" Mr. Disraeli is a man of sixty-two, but
he does not when standing look more than forty-
five. When walking ho appears more like his years.
His hair is still yet black and comparatively abun-
dant ; the famous ringlet still droops pensively over
his high white forehead, and the imperial and thin
beard on the edge of the chin still assert a modest
existence. Mr. Disraeli is an animated speaker,
but though his hands are rarely at rest he uses
little action. His favourite attitude is with his arms
crossed on his breast; this is in his loftier moods ;
but the constant nervous movement of the fingers
even then shows with what activity—under all the
assumption of calm—the mind is working. When
be becomes chatty and humourous he employs his
hands to pull down his waistcoat, then he throws
them behind his back, brings them to the front
again, and so on da tap. The principal im-
pression left on my mind was that her Ma-
jesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is also,
as " Men of the Time" informs me, 'a
novelist, biographer, and statesman,' is likewise a
consummate artist and actor, and that in the latter
capacity he could make his £lOO a week on any
stage. For example—by a gesture of the hand he
threw the audience into convulsiris of laughter. It
was when replying to Mr. Moncrieff's speech—a
reply which he closed by saying, ' And this, gentle-
men, I maintain, notwithstanding anything that
may have been said by an ex-Lord Advocate, accom-
panying the last words by an indescribably comic
fillip of his fingers across his face, as you have seen
a man throw away the remains of a pinch of snuff.
It was very amusing, but not much more dignified
or statesmanlike than the chaff at Galashiels and
Dunbar railway stations. Then the tones in which
he mimicked Mr. Gladstone when he avowed his
m-pla-cable hostility' to some part of the measure
Would have wade the fortume of a comedian."