The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-25 00:00:00

YI ON E Y IIAI ET

AND
",OMMERCIAL iNTZLLIGZ

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The settlement of the half-monthly account was
the chief business transacted this morning. Con-
sols support their price, but there has been a
trifling decline in Spanish and Turkish Securities.
The principal feature in the American Securities is
the sudden change of Erie Shares. The rate of
discount in the open market is from 21 to 2i per
cent.

The St Laurent has reached Brest, from New
York, bringing specie to the value of £46,000.
Consols are 944 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 94; ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 928 ;
New Three per Cents, 921 1 ; ditto, 31 per Cent.,
Jan., 1894, 101 ; Exchequer Bills £1,090, 2 per
Cent., 18 prem.; Bank of England Stock, 4 per
Cent., 2451.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 219 ;
ditto, 5 per Cent., 'July, 1880, 116 161 ; ditto,
4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 103.
In the Foreign Market Spanish and Turkish
have improved, the former 4 and, the latter ;
Italian is 1-16 better; Chilian Six per Cents. of
1867 are 954 to 96 ; Egyptian Seven per Cents. of
1864, 82 to 824 ; ditto of 1868, 711 to 741 ;
Italian Five per Cents., 551 561: Mexican Three
per Cents., 151 to 151 ; Peruvian Five per Cents.,
811 to 811 ; Spanish New Three per Cents., 341
to 341 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 1865, 418 to 42 ;
ditto, Six per Cents., 1865, 65/ to ; Viceroy of
Egypt's Loan, Seven per Cents., 75; to 751 ; ditto
Nine per Cents., 901 to 91; Honduras Bonds, 90
to 901.
In the Railway Market Brightons are 411 481 ;
Caledonian, 751 75a ; Great Eastern, 421 431 ;
Great Western, 491 49.1 ; Great Northern A, 1051
to 106 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 128/ to 1281 ;
London and North-Western, 1121 to 113/ ; Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, 17 to 174 ; Metropoli-
tan, 106 to 1064 ; Midland, 1118 to 1121 ; North
British, 32 to 321 ; Sheffield, 474 to 471; South
Eastern, 791 to 79g.
United States Government Six per Cent. Five-
Twenty Bonds have improved f, to 741 to
75 ; ditto 1865 Issue it, to 734 to 731; the
Ten-Forty Bonds remain firm, at 711 to 72 ;
Illinois Central Railway Shares at 95/ to
964, while Atlantic and Great Western Deben-
tures have advanced 1, to 381 to 381 ; ditto Conso-
lidated Mortgage Bonds f, to 39; to 391; and Erie
Shares, 261 to 27. Canada 6 per Cents., 1081 ; ditto
5 per Cents., 95 to 951 ; New Zealand 5
Ser Cent. Consolidated Bonds, 961 to 974; New
outh Wales Five per Cent. Bonds ;of 1875, 1014
to 1(:)21 ; ditto, 1888 to 1896, 7001 to 101 ; Nova
Scotia Six per Cent. Bonds, 1875, 105 to 1051 ;
Queensland Government Six per Cent. Bonds of
1844-5, 1081 to 109 ; Victoria Six per Cents., 1091
to 1091.
In B:111k. Shares we quote :—Chartered Mercan-
tile, 291 to 301; City, 111 to 121; Consolidated,
to 4 prem. ; London and County, 501 to 511;
London and Westminster, 66 to 68 ; Oriental, 421
to 431; Union of London, 36 to 37.
In miscellaneous shares the following are the quo-
tations :—Anglo-American Telegraph, 22 to 224;
sight per Cent. Preferential, 3/ to 4 ; Hudson's
Bay, 14f to 14+ ; Luxembourg; 101 to 101.
At the Bullion-office at the Bank of England
yesterday there was a withdawal of £lO,OOO in
sovereigns for shipment to India. The City of
Paris, from New York, has brought £3,000 in
specie.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Imperial Con-
tinantal Gas Association a dividend of £2. 10s.
per share and a bonus of £1 per share were de-
clared.
The directors of the National Bank have con-
vened a special general meeting of the share.
holders for the removal of Sir J. N. M‘lienna
from his seat at the board. The cause is not as

signed.
At the annual meeting of the Ilfracombe Hotel
Company (Limited) the report was adopted, and
II dividend of 6 per cent. declared.
At a mating of the Don Pedro (Brazilian) Gold
Company, Mr. Ilaymen in the chair, a dividend of
3s. Gd. for the quarter was declared, being at the
rate of 100 per cent. per annum.
At the meeting of the Hudson's Bay Company,
the chairman, the Earl of Kimberley, said that
great exertions are being made to turn the territo-
rial rights of the undertaking to the best advan-
tage,
but he considers it would not be prudent, in
the present state of the negotiations, to lay the
Whole of the particulars before the proprietors. The
Payment in January of an ad inter in: dividend of
63. per share was agreed to.
It is stated that up to Monday afternoon, the
23 inst., 350 nautical miles of the French Atlantio
deep-sea cable had been completed and certified by
the engineers.
At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Hock-
illeyes and Co., commission agents, of Manchester,
the liabilities were stated at £59,527, and the assets
at £22,541. It was resolved to wind up the estate
Under an assignment.
A petition for the winding up of the Belgian
Public Works Company (Limited) is to be heard
before Vice-Chancellor Malins on the first petition
day in December.
The subscription for an issue of £780,000 of 5
Per Cent. Bonds of the Lemberg-Czernowitz Jassy
Itailway Company was closed yesterday. It has
transpired that the bonds offered have been fully
subscribed for in the Vienna and other foreign
markets.
Parliamentary notice has been given for the for-
/illation of a tramway company, which proposes to
lay down lines from the outskirts of London to
Blackheath, Croydon, Richmond, Hounslow, 'lra-
ridge, Edgware, Harrow, and Barnet. They are to
be worked subject to the surpervision of the Board
Of Trade and the Trustees of the Highways, in
ciorder to preclude all possibility, of annoyance or
Danger to other descriptions of public traffic.
.j'c'ree power is contemplated in the first instance,
but it is believed the introduction of steam will
Ultimately be found practicable. The trains will
on a level with the general surface of the road,
thus presenting no obstacles to ordivary;vehicles,
and they will be adapted to existing omnibuses. It
'4 estimated that the expense of construction per
file may be kept within £l,BOO. The designs
hare been prepared by Mr. Page, C.E., the archi-
tect of Westminster Bridge, and among persons
*Connected influentially with the trade of the me-
ttropoiis
an impression is entertained that the sys-
,elll, from the facilities it will afford, is certain
be rapidly extended.
The following are some of the prices obtained at
public sales at the open Stock Exchange (Limited)
'cieeterday :—Aerated Bread Company (cum divi-
I"), £6 paid, sold at £2 19s. per share; Brighton
hotel Company (Limited), £5 fully paid, 31s.
„er
that., ; Chontales Gold and Silver Mining Com-
s,4l3Y (Limited), £5 fully paid, £2 11s. 6d. per
2:re ; City Discount Company (Limited), £5 paid,
.• per share; City of Milan Improvements
L4,ti e na"ed)' £3O fully paid, 71 per share ; Confede-
States Loan, 1864, $l,OOO Bonds, interest 6
Per Cent 98. Gd. to 10s. per bond ; Hercules In-
-earan,
e Company (Limited), £2 paid, 14s. per
e ; Inns of Court Hotel Company (Limited),
13° 'ads, 14 4s. per bond.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
..
911
Per Cent. Consols
8 DI itto, for Account, Dec. 1 -1f
92i I
, 1 er Lent. lteduced
921 i
f!evi' 3 per Cent
101
'lfilly 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894 i.),0. ler 3u yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
t u,' (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908
1 Pm—
N(-'l,equer Bills, £1 000, 2 per (,t8
i I
Do. £5OO
dank of Englan
.. d £lOO & £2OO l4 Pm
stock, 4por Cent -15i
~_ lio. account
!janUater-ada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
-Colonial Onmitun
1 De. . INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
Openin
Do
Stock, 101. per Cent., April 1874 219
g for Account —
nIIG i I
per cent. July, 1880
—,
,Oct.°' 4 Dec Per Cent. Oct 1888
"0. CertiEcates
Do. Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cola —