The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-09 00:00:00

MARIiET

AND
CO AMEROIAL INTELLIOENCA,

CITY, Two o'CLoci.
Government securities were in better demand to-
day, and must be quoted the turn higher, the diffi-
culty between the Governments of Turkey and
Greece giving business an impetus. Foreign stocks
shared in the improved state of things, and Metro-
politan Railway Shares have gone up 4 per cent.
The charge for loans is still 14 to 2 per cent.
According to Mr. Reuter's telegram, this morn-
ing, the Three :per Cent. French Rentes were 71f.
35c. Flat.
Consols are 924 4 for money; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 924 ; New Tree per Cents, 921 a 4 ;
Exchequer Bills, £lOO and £2OO, 24 per Cent.,
10 prem•
India Stock, 104 per Cent , April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 12 ; ditto, En-
laced Paper, 5 per Cent., 1872, 1054.
In the Foreign 'Market business was on the in-
crease- Egyptian, Italian, Peruvian, Turkish, and
theCharcow Railway Loan have risen 4 to 4 per cent.
Prices are quoted :—Brszilian of 1865,78 to 4; Chilian
of 1867, 96f to / ; Egyptian of 1864, £3 to 84 ;
ditto of 1868, 734 to 74 ; Italian of 1861, 564
to 57 ; ditto Tobacco Loan,34 to 4 prem. ; Mexi-
can, 151 to 4 ; Peruvian of 1865, 814 to 4 ;
Russian of 1866, 894 to 904 ; ditto Nicolai, 654
; ditto Orel, 794 to 804 ; ditto Moscow-
Jaroslaw, 784 to 79, ex div. ; ditto Charkof-Azof,
14 to I dis. ; ditto Charcow Krementschug, 4 dis.
to 1 prem. ; Spanish of 1867, 334 to 4 ; Turkish of
1858, 61 to 62 ; ditto of 1862, 62/ to 631 ; and
ditto of 1865, 394 to 4.
In the railway market stocks are firm, and
with the exception of Great Eastern, which has
declined -4 per cent., show a fresh rise. London
and North Western and Metropolitan have im-
proved 4 per cent. ; South Eastern, Great North-
ern A, and Caledonian, 4 ; and Brighton 4. The
others as last quoted.
United States 5-20 Bonds are 744 to 4 ; Rrie
Shares, 26 to I ; Illinois Central, 96 to 4 ; Atlantic
and Great Western Debentures, 36/ to 371 ; and
the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 374 to 38.
For Bank Shares prices are improving slightly.
City are 114 to 121 ; Imperial, 174 to 181 ; London
and County, 514 to 4 ; London and West-
Minster, 674 to 684 ; Union of London, 384 to
394; Anglo-Austrian, 74 to 8 prem. ; and Imperial
Ottoman, 1 to 14 preni.
In Miscellaneous Shares prices are as follows :
National Discount, 114 to 121 ; General Credit,
2to dis. ; International Financial, 14 to 14
44. ; Hudson's Bay, 134 to II ; Telegraph Con-
struction, 154 to 4; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per
Cent. Preference, 3 11-16 to 13-16 ; and Anglo-
American, 214 to 4.
, A num of £96,000 in bar gold was sent into the
bullion office of the Bank yesterday.
The Ville de Paris has arrived at Brest from
New York, with £53,000.
The directors of the National Provincial Bank
of England will, at the approaching meeting, re-
commend a dividend at the rate of eight per cent.
Per annum, and a bonus for the half year of six
Per cent., together equal to 20 per cent. per
annum.
The judgment given by Vice-Chancellor Malins
1.4 a suit instituted by the Mexican bondholders de-
termines the right to an appropriation of certain
1110rIe3re which had been sent to Messrs. Baring from
Mexico,
on account of dividends. The holders of
the 1864 bonds claimed an equal right to the
amount with the holders of the original 1851 loan,
and the Vice-Chancellor upheld this view, and de-
creed that the money was divisible rateably among
all the bondholders, according to the amount of
their securities.
It appears that the estimated value of the cargo,
311 the New York steamer Hibernia, wrecked off the
Irish coast on her homeward voyage, is £lOO,OOO.
It principally consisted of flour, grain, and provi-
sions. The vessel was insured at Lloyd's, and with
Liverpool and Glasgow underwriters. She was of
iron, and belonged to the Anchor Line of New
York and Clyde steamers.

At the meeting
.of the Societe du Cable Trans-
atlantique Francais (Limited), held yesterday, the
directors' report, which has already been published,
Vas adopted. It was announced that the Right
lion. Robert Lowe, M P., has resigned his post as
Chairman cf the company, owing to his appoint-
Xtent as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The directors of the National Provincial Bank
of England have declared a dividend at the rate of
8 per cent. per annum, and a bonus of 6 per cent.
for the half year, being equal to 20 per cent. per
auritun.

At the meeting yesterday of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company the report of
the directors was adopted, and a dividend of 3 per
cent. declared for the half year.
At
,the extraordinary general meeting yesterday
of the Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company (Li-
mited) the resolution previously passed in favour
_,f the fully paid-up shares being converted into
'mares to bearer was confirmed.
The ordinary general meeting of the Crystal
Palace Company
~ will be held on the 23d inst. A
Pecial meeting is also convened for the same day,
for the purpose of considering the introduction of
c bill into Parliament next session to enable the
required
to grant leases of parts of their land not
for the immediate objects of the company,
a also to consider any notice of motion which
may be duly submitted and appended to the re-
port."
According to a circular of Messrs. Arles-Dufour
and 4 Co., of Lyons, the revival in the silk-market
wil.ticipated for November failed to occur. The
I,lllter season for goods, both in London and
arlB7 Was delayed by mild weather, while the
elections in the United States, as well as in Eng-
alicl) have also impeded the placing of orders.
The Continental advices attribute the resolve
row taken by Turkey to compel Greece to some
Observance of international obligations solely to
the
speech of Lord Stanley on the 13th of Novem-
ber last, in which he spoke of the inevitable peril
°.f the Ottoman Empire from financial collapse
and rebellion in its own provinces. The Sultan, it
argued, in the face of such predictions from the
°reign Minister of one of the protecting Powers,
could no longer exercise forbearance which was
decay.
The to be construed only as a sign of helpless
mecay.
t, The Indian railway companies are now an-
tAllneing the arrangements in preparation for the
'ltYraelit of the half-yearly interest on their ea-
A Petition to continue the voluntary winding up
Of
'abject
Trinidad Petroleum Company (Limited)
hs"'"ieet to the supervision of the Court of Chancery
t° be heard before Vice-Chancellor Malins on
the 18th inst.
At a meeting of the contributories of the Una-
zi
- °.t° Plantation and Trading Company of Natal
(Lireited), held yesterday, Mr. James Waddell,
Ohs of the liquidators, explained the past dealings
and the present position of the liquidators, who
there authorised to settle with the old company on
° 468 of the circular of 28th November.