The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-05 00:00:00

ONE MARKET

A ND
COMIIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY', Two O'CLOCK.

A further improvement has taken place in all the
leading railway stocks, averaging to per cent.,
and they are firm at the advance. Railways, in-
deed, are beginning to be regarded as having seen
their lowest, while the dividends declared by the
Midland and the South Western appear to have
inspired some investments. Foreign Stocks are dull
upon good supplies, but there are cases in which
no change has taken place. The Funds are un-
altered. .

The rate for money continues at lj per cent.,
with a very limited demand, and supplies are with-
out any appreciable diminution.
The Wheat Market is quiet, at Monday's quo-
tations.

Consols are steady, at 93} to 931 for money
and account. New and Reduced Three per
Cents., 93} to 93i ; Bank Stock, 247 to 249 ;
India Five per Cents. , 111 i to 112; ; Exchequer
Bills, 20s. to 255. prem.

The Foreign Stock Market is scarcely so firm,
there being some speculative sales. New Spanish
and Italian (1861) Bonds are f per cent. lower, the
former at 36k to 35a, and the latter at 421 to 431 ;
Turkish (1865) Bonds are lower, at 32 to 321;
Mexican, 15f to 16 ; Greek, 13 to 14 ; and Turkish
(1862), 60k to 61k.

Egyptian Nine per Cent. Bonds are firm, at 891
to 90k.

The New Honduras Loan is steady, at to lf
prem.

In Colonial Bonds, Canada 6 per Cents. are
quoted at 98 to 100 ; do. 5 per Cents., 86 to 87.
New Zealand 6 per Cents., 108 to 110 ; New South
Wales 5 per Cents., 99 to 101 ; Mauritius 6 per
Cents., 103 to 105 ; Queensland 6 per Cents, 1031
to 1041 ; Victoria 6 per Cents., 110 to 111.

American Securities are flat. United States 5-20
Bonds are 71f to 721, being I lower. Erie Rail-
way f lower, at 47f to 481; and Illinois at 861
to 871.

Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have receded j, to 27k to 28f, and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds k, to 25/ to 26k. _ .

The Railway Market is active, and business is re-
ported at an average advance of 1 per cent. There
is a rise of 4 in London and North Western, at 118 k
to 119, and in Midland, at 1051 to 106 ;of in
Caledonian, at 771 to 781 ; of 1 in North British,
at 36k to 37 ; in London and South Western,
at 87 to 89, and in Lancashire and Yorkshire, at
1261 to 127 ; of in South Eastern, at 701 to 701 ;
and in Metropolitan, at 108} to 1091; and of
in Sheffield, at 431 to 434 ; and in Great Western,
at 45/ to 461. There is no change in Brighton,
at 451 to 46 ; Great Eastern, 311 to 311 ; and
Great Northern, 1071 to 108 f.
St. John del Rey Mine shares have changed
hands at 20. Mr. Gordon, in the letter published
this morning by the company, states that he is not
prepared to point out the best course to pursue re-
specting the mines.

In Bank Shares the only feature is an ad-
vance of in London and Westminster, at 671
to 68f. The following are the quotations :
Union of London, 33f to 341 ex div. Orien-
tal, 42 to 43 ; London Joint Stock, 331
to 34f ex div. ; London and County 53 to
54 ; Imperial Bank, 17 to 18 ; Imperial Ottoman,
to dis. ; Consolidated, ito prem. ex div. ;
Alliance, 13 to 12 dis. ; Agra (A shares), 11 to 11k ;
Anglo-Austrian, 3 to 31 prem.

Credit Foncier shares are 3f to 31 ; General
Credit, 21 to 21 dis. ; International, li to 11 dis. ;
and National Discount, 11 to 11f.
Anglo American Telegraph shares are 191 to 191;
Atlantic Eight per Cent. Preference, 5 to b}; ditto
Ten per Cent., par to 1 prem.

CITY, TWELVE Q'CLOCE:'
The sum of £103.000 in bar gold and coin wa
'withdrawn from the Bank yesterday for export.
The City of Boston has arrived from New York
with £41,000 in specie, and the Bremen, with
£30,000.

The official liquidators of the European Bank
announce that a further dividend of is in the pound,
making 83 Gd, will be distributed to the creditors on
Friday, Saturday, and Monday next, at the offices of
Messrs. Harding, Whinney, Gibbons, and Company,
Old Jewry.
The dividend of the Midland [iailway Company
will be at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, against
6/- per cent. for the corresponding period of the pre-
vious year.

After the ordinary half-yearly meeting of the South
Staffordshire Railway Company, on the 19th instant,
the meeting will be made special for the purpose of
cancelling all unissued shares in the authorised capital,
and for the purpose of creating new shares in lieu
thereof, at a fixed and preferential dividend, and fur-
ther to authorise the directors to exercise the borrow-
ing powers of the Company.
Tuesday the 11th inst. has been appointed for tne
ordinary general meeting of the Mariquita and New
Granada Mining Company (in liquidation), when the
proposition of the directors of the Mariquita Mining
Company to pay the sum of £7,000 in full discharge
of the claim of the company against the Mariquita
Mining Company will be accepted.
The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the Bucking-
hamshire Railway Company has been called for the
Bucking-
hamshire
inst.

The half-yearly meeting of the National Steamship
Company has been called for the 26th inst. for the
transaction of the ordinary business of the company.
The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders
of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com-
pany has been convened for the 27th inst., and that
of the mortagees on the 28th inst.
The directors cif the British Colonial Steamship Com-
pany have convened their annual meeting for the 20tk
anat.

BRITISH FUNDS CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS. '..
3 per Gent. Consols
Do. Account, Feb. 6 931 1
a per Cent. Reduced 935 1
New 3 por Cent 935 I 1
New 24 per Cont. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent..) an. 1873 —
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Alio., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 /424 per Ct 25 pm
Do £5OO 25 pm
r. De. £lOO St £2OO 25 pm
zank of England Stock, 44 per Cent 249 8
Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian gtock, 104 per Cent., AprillB74 —
Do. Account -
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 54 per Cent., May 1879 lOB5
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,000
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent —
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 45 per Cent., 1852 7l
Do. do., 1858....
Do. do., 18y0 675
Do. do., 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
..,„ De Account 77 5
zuenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Ouba, 6 p
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 por Cent.)
per Cent.
°Lillian 6 per Cent lO2
Do. 45 por Cent —
Do. 6 per Cent, B . •—•
13.,,c., 1867
Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866
, Do., Scrip £32 paid
.3)1, mbian, 6 por Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent
'
E per.,
Do 8 Cent., 1867 674
.
„Jaader New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
nYptian, 7 per Cent
po. Se, oud Issue - 901
D,,. £5OO Bonds
Do. .£l.OO Bonds 93
Do. 1861
Do. £5,)0 Bonds 914
Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 925
Govern Railway Debentures .... 93
reek, 5 per Cent., 182115, ex Coups
-u,„O. Account
..13
Do. Coupons
_ Do. Account
.t.)„,iateniala, 5 per Cent .. —
14onduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 100. Ct., £25 p
Italian 5 per Cent., 18ti3 —
11)0, Account
..)0
1,,, • Maremmana Eaiwav
•i&exicar. 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
itieolori6Dper Cont. Anglo-FrenchlB64
nontevidean 6 per Cent. .. —
ushraulmadpaerial 5 per Cent