The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-21 00:00:00

110 x 1

• AND
CC,'2,zIMERCIAL IN'EELLIGENCI4,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Business is inactive to-day, but Consols maintain
their yesterday's price. A slight improvement has
taken place in railway shares, but miscellaneous
and banking securities remain inactive.
Consols are 94 for money; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 92i 4 ; New Three per Cents,
928 *; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 2 per Cent., 15
prem. ; ditto, £5OO, 15 20 prem. ; ditto, £lOO and
£2OO, 15 20 prem.

India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 2178 ;
ditto, 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 116 ; ditto, Bonds
£l,OOO, 12 ; ditto, Bonds under £l,OOO, 16 prem.
In the Foreign Market the Moscow-Jaroslaw Rail-
way Loan has declined to 81:41 to 821 ; Brazilian are
771 to 784; Chilian, 944 to 95f : Egyptian, 84
to 82 ; ditto of 1868, 74 to 4; Italian, 56 to f ;
ditto of 1868, 31 to 1 prem. ; Mexican, 151 to 8 ;
Peruvian, 84 to 1;, Russian, 931 to f ; Nicolai,
651 to I ; ditto Orel, 801 to 818 ; Spanish, 388 to
; and Turkish, 678 to 68.

In the Railway Market a rise of per cent. has
occurred in Great Easterns, South Easterns, and
Great Northern A. The prices are now quoted
as follows :—London and North Western, 113+ 1;
Great Western, 491.50+ ; Midland, 121 1 ; London
and South Western, 87188 f ; Great Eastern, 43+ 1;
Brighton, 481 to ; South Eastern, 79+ to f ;
Metropolitan, mi. to 106 ; Great Northern A,
1041 to 105 ; Caledonian, 741 to 75 ; and London,
Chatham, and Dover, 17 to I.

In Miscellaneous and Banking Shares prices are
as quoted yesterday.

Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have announced
the dividends due the Ist December on New Granada
Three per Cent. Bonds ; also on the Old Active
Bonds, at 14s. 9d. per £lOO, and on the Deferred
Bonds at 4s. 7id. per £lOO.
The half-yearly dividend due the Ist December
on the Moscow Jaroslaw Five per Cent. Loan is ad-
vertised for payment by Messrs. Baring Brothers
and Co.

A telegram, posted at Lloyd's, reports the safe
arrival of the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's steamer Berlin, at Hamburgh, this morn-
ing, having on board £1,300,000 in gold for
Russia.

The Italian Irrigation Bondholders' Protection
Association have recommended, with the concur-
rence of the New Defence Association, the English
bondholders not to sign any form of assent to the
proposed concordat, as they have good ground for
believing that the claims of the bondholders will be
settled on more favourable terms.

The Loan contracted at Paris by the Portuguese
Government with the Societe Generale is to be for
100 millions of francs, in a 3 per cent. stock; to be
issued at 335 francs, redeemable in 30 years by
drawings every six months, the conditions being
Such as to render the cost to the country about
B.loths per annum. Half of the stun raised is to
be paid over by the Ist of December next, and the
balance early in 1869, which will enable the Go-
vernment of Portugal to pay off its entire floating
debt, both home and foreign.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
pointed Tuesday, the 24th inst., a special settling
day in the Scrip and paid-up Scrip of the Italian
Government Six per Cent. Tobacco Loan. The
Consideration of the question of official quotation is
adjourned to Monday, Dec. 7.
The following telegram with reference to the
Erie Railway has been received :_44 Gould has been
appointed receiver. The company authorised by
eottrt to buy on its behalf twenty million dollars'
stock. Price fluctuated between 60 and 42, clos-
ing 45."

Notice has been given of a dividend in the estate
of lLssrs. Palmer and Co., the East India mer-
chants, who suspended in 1864, and that all claims
are to be sent to Messrs. Edwards and Cash before
the 31st of January next.

A prospectus has been issued of the Britannia
Fire Association, with a capital of £500,000, in
shares of £lO, to act in concert with the Briton
Medical and General Life Asscciation.

The report of the directors of the Trust and Loan
Company of Upper Canada rJeom:nencla a divi-
dend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, less in-
come tax.

The liquidators of the London, Bombay, and
Mediterranean Bank have declared a dividend of
19. 6d. in the pound, and the official liquidators of
the London, Bombay, and Mediterranean Bank
intend to pay a first dividend of 2s. in the pound
before the close of the year. They state that of
the calls due in Bombay by shareholders in the
bank, to the amount of £122,000, only £3,73G has
been collected, many of the contributories having
disputed their liability. They also state that a call
of virtually £2 per share will be made on the con-
tributories about the end of February next ; but
they consider this sum insufficient, and think that
the whole uncalled liability of £6 per share will be
required.

Annexed is a list of prices obtained at public sale
at the Open Stock Exchange (Limited) :—Aerated
Bread Company (Limited), £6 paid, 3 per share ;
Alhambra Company (Limited), £lO fully paid, £8
Per share ; Bishop's Waltham Railway Five per
Cent. Preference shares, £2O fully paid, 11s. per
share ; Brighton Hotel Company (Limited), £5
fully paid, 28s. to 30s. per share ; City Discount
Company (Limited), £5 paid, 19s per share; Con-
federate States Loan, 1864, $l,OOO Bonds, interest
6 per cent., 9s. to 10s. per bond; Dagenham
bock Company, £lO fully paid, 38s. per share ;
Rercules Insurance Company (Limited), £2 paid,
7s• Gd. to 12s. Gd. per share ; Joint-stock Coal
Company (Limited), 153. paid, ls. per share ;
Alaraquita Mining Company (Limited), fully
Paid, ls. per share ; New Quebrada Company
(Limited), £4 4s. paid, 2s. 3d. per share ; Royal
Swedish Railway (Ordinary), £5 fully paid, 2s. 6d.
Per share ; Worthing Mining Company (Limited),
£1 fully paid, 7s. 3d. per share.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, Dec. 1
„8 per Cent. Reduced 921 f
;,,evy 3 per Cent
.1716 w 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telef„raph), Aug., 1908 —
Exclacquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct l5
Do. £5OO
aa
Do. ZlOO & .£2OO l5 20
iik of England Stock, 4per Cent
Do. account ... —
"anada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Omnnun
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
India tock 10f per Cent., April 1874.,, 217 f
Do. Opening, for Account —
O. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates -
„Do. Enfa.ced Pape, 4 per CAut —
"0. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 —
.D..) 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882
-1-,. Deb., 5 per Cont., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
o. under £l,OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
lkr ;satins Repub:tc, 6 per Cent
Do. Scrip -15 paid .. _
AtritriAn Bondsj 5 par cent ..
Do
nrazilia 1859 n
5 Per Cent _
°O. 11 per Cent., 1852
_
Do. do., 1860 _
Do. do., 1863
Do. 5 per :3ent., 1865 —
B , i)o Accoun+ -
enos A.yres 6 p,n• Cent
• 0..) 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 er Cent )
Cti'''t, 6 per Cent. p
C..ilian 6 per Cent
b)00: 43 Ji p le) err
Cent.,
74
. , —
Do. 6 per co•.t. 1867 961.
90. 7 par Cent., 1866
,ol tut,i.in, 6 per Cent.
D, 42n'sb, 3p ir Cent., 1825 •
-Oart 1 Lian Principalities, 7 ler Cent —
~. DJ 8 per Cent., 1867
„nosuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
Zigyptian, 7 per Cent •.•
liu Secoad Issue
Do. £srtt Bends —
Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 811
Do. 1864
Do. DO. £5OO Bonds Account