The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
'7O3IIMERCIAL ,

CITY, Two o'CLoCK.

The market is prejudiced by the appearanoe of 4,9
new Russian Railway Loan, and the prospect of the
early introduction of the Egyptian Loan, and the
reports of others to follow. The present price of
COllBOlB is 921 to 92k, which is lower than the quota•
tion of the past month. In addition to the
demands of foreign Governments, the English
Funds are likely to be affected by the increas.
jog employment for money. Bankers and others
Will be anxious to sell .at the present high prices
as soon as there is a reasonable chance of using the
Proceeds in the more remunerative business of dis-
counting. The fact that nearly all their recent in-
vestments have been made at high prices will only
precipitate the process of realization. Foreign Stocks
are very heavy. " There is no inquiry for the new
Railway Loan, and Egyptian Bonds are 1 per cent.
I.p.ver.
The Discount Market is steady at 1g to 1.1 per cent.,
with full supoiies.
The Liverpool Cotton Market is firm, at yesterday s
advance.

Consols are fl it, at 92/ to 921 for Money and acct.,
being a decline of It New and Reduced Three per
Cents., 93 to 93k. India 5 per Cents., 1114 to 1121.
I ank Stock, 248 to 250. Exchequer Bills, 154 to
20s prem.
Foreign Stocks are depressed, the following being
the quotations :--Mexican, 15/ to 161 ; Greek, 121
to 13 ; New Spanish, 351 to 361 ; Turkish, 321 to
32,1 ; Italian, 43/ to 44 ; Portuguese, 391 to 40 ;
Peruvian (1865), 741 to 75 ; ditto (1862), 911 to 92 ;
Egyptian (1864), 87 to 88; ditto, Railway Loan, 911
to 921 Viceloy's Seven per Cent., 731 to 74;
ditto, Nine. per Cent., 88 to 89.
The New Honduras Loan is steady at I to lt
prelll.

In American Securities United States Five-Twenty
Bonds are steady, at 71ft to 71i ; Erie Railroad
better, at 49k to 50i, while Illinois are lowers at
88-is to 89.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have receded, to 271.t0 28, but the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds remain steady at 251 to 26..
In Foreign Railways, Lombardo-Venetian Railway
is better, at 141 to 15. Luxemburg Railway, 9to
9,lL_

-The Railway Market is quiet. Lancashire and
Yorkshire are quoted 127 k to 128 ; Midland, 107 k to
108 ; South Eastern, 72i to 73* ; London and North
Western, 1181 to 1191 ; Great Northern, 108 to 109 ;
ditto (A) 109 to 110 - ; Great Eastern, 30 to 30} ;
Great Western, 451 to 46k ; Brighton, 46 to 46i ;
Sheffield, .42/ to 43i ; Metropolitan, 110* to 110# ;
Caledonian, 781 to 79f ; Chatham, 19k to 191 ; and
Great Western of Canada, 151 to 16i.
Bank shares are on the whole steady, the only
variation being an advance of in London and West-
minster, being quoted at 68 to 69 ; Alliance, 13 to
12 dis. ; Consolidated, to prem. exdiv.; Imperial,
17i to 18 ; London and County, 51 to 52 ex div.;
London Joiut Stock, 34 to 35.; Union of London, 34
to 35.
Foreign mining shares are dull. Chontales have
fallen it, at 1* to 1 dis.; St. John del Rey, 21 to 23 ;
Port Philip, 1k to 1-Is.
In miscellaneous securities the variations are unim-
portant. Hudson's Bay is * lower, at 14k to 14k,
and London General Omnibus Company *, at 1 to
2*. Anglo4tmerican Telegraph steady, at 19k to
19i. ex div. Atlantic Telegraph 5 1-16 to 5 3-16.
The sum of £65,000 in bar gold was withdrawn
from the Bank yesterday for export.
The Tanjore has brought £83,000 in Australian
gold from Alexandria, and the New York £90,000
from the United States.

Messrs. Thompson, Boner, and Company announce
the issue of the remaining Provincial Orel-Vitebsk
Railway Loan, amounting to £2,500,000, in £lOO
bonds at 75, with interest at the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum, the first haltyearly dividend to be payable
in April next. The original amount was £4,500,000,
£2,000,000 having been issued in 1867. The princi-
pal is repayable in 85 years by the operation of an
annual sinking fund. The issuing price of 75 only
refers to those to pay in full on allotment. Those
who delay payment to the 14th of March will be
charged 75Z- ; to the 31st of March, 751 ; and to the
15th of April, 75g. £5 is to lie paid on application.
Both interest and principal are unconditionally
guaranteed by the Russian Government.
The numbers are published of Bonds of letters
and N of the Egyptian Government Loan of 1864,
which have been drawn for repayment at par on the
Ist of April next.
The ordinary general meeting of the Surrey Com-
mercial Dock Company has been Called for the 12th
March.

The official liquidator of Barned's Banking Com-
pany announces that a further dividend of is in the
pound will be payable in a few days, making 33 paid.
The eanit..l unm, to other with thA find interest
coupons thereon, of the bonds of the second and final
series of the Chilian six per cent. Government Loan,
1860, negotiated by Messrs. J. Thompson, T. Bonar
and Co., will be paid on the 15th March.
The directors of the Chontales Mines regret to state
that the advices dated 7th January, received by this
mail, bring the sad intelligence that cholera had again
visited the mines. Several fatal cases had occurred
amongst the natives, but only one Englishman had
died. No further cases had occurred since the 24th
December. The medical officer hoped, therefore, the
epidemic had finally left the district. As on the
former occasion, most of the natives left the mines,
and, consequently, there is no remittance of gold.
The contractors had continued their
,operations, and
the works at the Paron were progressing towards com-
pletion, the wheel pit and frome being scoured.

BRITISTI FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
. GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
0 per Dent. Consols
Do. Account, March 5 921 ; 1
8 per Cent. Reduced 93 /
blew 3 per Cent 93/ 2;
New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
DO. 5 per Cent. o an. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 vrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telefaraph), Au,., 1908 —
Erchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct.
Do £5OO pm
o. £10& £2OO
Bank oDf
England Stock, 41 per Cent 549 50pm
Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. .
India P,tock, 101 per Cont., April 1874
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent..fuly, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 5/ per Cent., May 1879 lOBl I
Do 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb., 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
Do= Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l.OOO
pm
FOUBIGN FUNDS—TWO OLOOE.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent.......
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 631 1
Brazilian 5 per Cent
)0.4/ per Cent., 1852 _
Do. do., 1858....
Do. do., 180
Do. do., 1863 64
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account 741 4
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Cuilinn 6 per Cent —
Do. 4} per Cent —
Do. 6 per Cent., B .
Do., 1867
Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 93/ 1
Do., Scrip £32 paid
0 } mbian, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3p :r Cent., 1825
D tnubian Principalities, 7 per Cent 69
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 —
/ktuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l2l
Cgyptian, 7 per Cent —
Do. Second Issue —
Do. .£5OO Bonds
Do. £lO6 Bonds 9Ol 88

Do. 1864
-90..£5'i0 Bonds B6l
Do. £lOO Bonds ••••• 88 7
'I
Government Railway Debentures ..... 91 90 1
'lreek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ox Coups —
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Guatemala 5 por Cent .. •
on liduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., £25 p
Its iian 5 per Cert., 1865 —
Dt), Account .., 451
....Do. Maremmana Raiway
lexica;; 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
~.., D.. 1861 —
M
'0 8 nor Cont. Anglo-Freuch —
ontevkl,mn per Cent.
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
liew Granada...... —
P.,0 3 per Cue. —
-,-,0.. Defo-,,,t
..
Pep° lir-xi Warrants (Hectares',. —
Pi", lax. 5 per Ceut, 18,35 . —
Do Account 741 5 4151 41
Do 41 per Cent. (liribarren)
Do 4!- per Cent.. 1J,62
Do Account .
-curl:l-I:rues° 3 por et., 185!;. '6, '7, '9,'",'.2,%1
Db. do., 1767 4O
.h. Do. do., Scrip, £lO paid lOl pm
15,ussian 5 per Cent., 18zz, £ St B7
D 0 41 per Cent. 1850
,o 41 per Cent., 1860
-",.,0 3 per Cent., 1859
DO.D
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Anp • oglo-Dutc
,-;0 5 er Cent., 1.?A2
*tih, 1864, £lOO Bonds B9
6
do. £Bl 15s. do -
D°., 1866, £lOO Bonds
trdipian
Do., .1
do. £811.55. do — '
Ppatash. 3, 5 per Cent —
per per
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