The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-16 00:00:00

Foreign Stocks are firm, at an improvement of
Turkish Five per Cents., and New Spanish
rillree per Cents. arc 4 better. Ocher descriptions
aGr:eeukueltia:r;
I..litaliian:ls; per Cents. are 521 521 ;
'Turkish Five 2 Mexican, 164 to 161 ;
per Cents. of 1865, 41 411 ; New
„81344jah Three per Cents., 331 331 ; Egyptian
—beriP, 3 2k dis; and Rassiaa ( ‘10320W Jaroslaw)
Aailway Scrip, 41 41 prem.
The Indian Ten and a Half per Cen!s. are
." !quoted 214 to 217 ; the Five, 1141 to 115 ; the
".r) 1031 to 101 ; and the Bonds, 20s. to 255.
ktem-, and the Debentures, 1054 to 106. Bank
2 -t°ek, 212 to 241; and Exchequa Bills, 16s. to
os. min.
The Honduras Loan is firm, at 90 91.
, The scrip of the new Italian Loan has improved
to Li
1! prem.
01.
railway shares there has been some inquiry.
lGreat Northern (Original) has improved 4 per cent.,
Qnd 1, ancl Great Western and Brighton 4.
real Eastern however, has declined 4. Prizes
."'e quoted as follows :—Caledonian, 71} to ;
,I-eadon and North-Western, 1124 to 4 ; the
reat Western, 481 to 49 ; Midland, 1121 to ;
London and South Western, 874 to 884 ; Great
1,
n
6 , 404 to 104 ; Brighton, 521 to 524 ;
euth Eastern, 77i ; Metropolitan, 1061 to ;
„..Great Northern, 108 to ; ditto A, 106 to :1 ;
Le
r, Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1281 to ; London,
Sheffield,
and Dover, 171 to 18 ; and Manchester
heffield, and Lincolnshire, 471 to 484.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway New Four per
/I.llt. Debenture Stock is 94i 954.
toLondon and Westminster Bank Shares, 654 to 1 ;
n 1" and County, 48/ to 491 ; Union, 33/ to
Anglo-Austrian, 6 to 4 prem ; London and
Brazilian, 30 to 25 dis. ; Imperial Ottoman, 14 to
prem. ; and Consolidated, 4 to 4 prem.
American 5-20's rose 4 per cent., viz., to 724 4; Erie Railway Shares, 32 to 4to 1; Illinois Cen-
tilts, 1'
904 to 961 ; Atlantic and Great Western De-
-374 to 384; anl the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds, 394 to 404.
4_ The return of paid clearing for the week amounts
'0 £63,169,000, being £2,725,000 less than last
4
_week. It does not include the Stock Exchange
etlernent, which concluded yesterday.
iThe sum of £20,000 bar gold was taken to the
nk yesterday.
The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Ceylon has
brought £4,234.
The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £738 15s. 3d., at 90 days, on account of
the dividend on the debt of Eucador.
The Mexican dollars by the West India packet
'Were sold yesterday at 5831, being the same price
as that recently current.
The advices from Paris speak very favourably
of the prospects of finance. All securities were im
Proving. Italian Five per Cents. and the Tobacco
Loan had further advanced.
The arrangements for the long-talked-of advance
to the Turkish Government, it is said, have been
443.11 y concluded. The amount is £5,000,000, and
the security consists of bonds spread over a number
of years.

The Creditors' Committee of the Commercial
Bank Corporation of India and the East have
"sued their report and request a meeting of credi-
tors
, on Tuesday next. Litigation, they say, can
only result in diminishing the assets, which are not
ttov? sufficient to pay the debts.
A. Creak, the chairman of the Committee
of Shareholders of the Grand Trunk Railway of
batiada) by whom the policy of the board has lately
een contested, has issued to-day a circular to the
stock
and bondholders of the company "to con-
t-1 in the strongest possible manner the unjus-
alazele attack on Sir Elwa,rd Watkin," made by
n ItetiVe member of that committee.
beea and Company's Distillery, which has
v for
B°lne years in Chancery, has lately been
8: Subject of a further order, by which its absolute
leby Public auction is directed.
Itassian (Vyksounsky) Iron Works Com-
4111Y announce a further call of £3 per share, pay-
e °n the 2d November, JO per cent. will be
—afgeci for delay.
10-`lll interim half-year's dividend, at the rate of
per annum, is announced by the Aus-
a.lan Alortg ge Land and Finance Company.
tpl:4lP.tert checoatd.journed meeting of the creditors of the
tliiaria) New Zealand, and Australian Royal
th,4iezeraPanY (Limited) the recommendation of
ofei;JeLat committee for the granting of a letter
deli to the company for 12 months, con-
sati.°laallY on the Board being reconstructel to the
„,nifaction of the joint committee„was adopted.
he Alexican Railway Company have invited
cuuscription for 1,560,000 First Mortgage 8 per
ent. Yearlyl33nds, at 85, redeemable at par by half-
Year
swings,dr
extending over a period of 30
ta from the d tte of issue, and secured by the
Au rove
revenues of the portion of the line open from
"lie° to Apixaco, now yielding £45,619, and
the the branch which will soon be completed to
co- "nportant city of Puebla. The Board of the
cor4PanY consists of the leading London merchants
rlaected with Mexican and South American
commerce.
rrhe return from the Back of England for the
reek ended the 14th of October gives the following
tisut 1 t s
When compared with the previous week :--
elltai £3,081,950 Decrease ... £540,769
Ottiere,dePosits •
3,838,119 ... Docrease ... 1,468,505
, uePosits 20,231,481 ... Increase .. 2,209,035
00;t43 other side of the account :-
li:ran:lent securi-
-00,2_ .......... £15,935,874 ... Increase ... £396,158
1,10t731-8 securities 15,822,238 Decrease ... 231,890
0
liaentployed 9,567,955 ... Decrease 477,065
6l . arnount of notes in circulation is £20,515,915,
b-g
a decrease of £131,997; and the stock of
in
a both departments is £20,164,200, showing
decrease of £543,692 when compared with the
Aree d.
},
_! lug return. This reduction is due chiefly to
uifibursement of coin for the dividend but the
;:vetnents in connection with the approaching
fl 441 election likewise seem to have some in-
""tlence.
Thea lank of France return this week shows a
reduction of £BBO,OOO in the stock of bullion.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
4 UOVERNMENT FUNDS.
•Pe• Cent. Consols
3 Ditto for Account, Nov. 5 94f
~,, per Cent. Rednced
to il:v7 3 per Cent
"ilw 21 Per Cent. Jan. 1894
-0 5
44 •, . per Cent. dan. 1873 .. _
totar,unit 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880•
. 0 yra, expire sth April 1885 l2l
E,
.? (Red Sea Telei,raph), Aug., 1908
1-8
pm
I!:oncipier Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ut 4-' .
N. £5OO
9 /
..._.
71
CA & £2OO
Illuic of Fn land Stock, 4 per Cent
, R _r, 0 • account kosnad
17
I .. a 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-C4
°aluma,
tild.ltblAN UOTERNMENT SECURITIES.
lo• ,• Dock, 104 per Cent., April 1874
De I ir, • Opening, for Account —
1141 15
Bo'
5 Per Cent. July, 1880
..,Doo:
,:ipretrifE:t.s, Oct. 181,8
D •
O. Enfaced Pape, 4 per Cent. ",o• 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do per Cent., May 1679 —
° 5 Per Cent It Deb. 18-2
~ up. ,
Do.
do. 1877 —
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent .Z 1 000
•• •
25 Pm
Do. under .£l.OOO
FOREICiN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
t4r4lioe Republic t: per Cent
tyi!tn Bonds 5 Per Cent. 1859
zdian 5 Per Cot
,
1., „
n-' *I Per Cent., 1852
-,,°. do. 1858....
L'• do., 1850 .!••