The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-20 00:00:00

OOMMERCIAL INTELLIGIENOB

Bank Shares are again quiet and prices unaltered.
Agra (A) is quoted at 11i to 12 • Alliance, 11 to 10
dis. ; Anglo-Austrian,6 to 7i prem. ; Chartered
Mercantile, 28 to 29 ; Consolidated, 4i to 41 ;
Imperial, 17 to 18 ; Imperial Ottoman, to prem.;
London and County, 50 to 51 ex div.; ditto New,
531 to 541 ; Oriental, 44 to 45 ; London Joint-Stock,
32 to 33 ; Union of London, 34i to 35k.
Colonial Government Bonds are without feature, and
prices remain as follow :—Canada Six per Cent., 103
to 105; do. Five per Cent., 91 to 93; Mauritius Six
per Cent., 103 to 105; New South Wales Five per
Cent., 99 to 101 ; New Zealand Six per Cent., 110
to 112 ; Queensland Six per Cent., 105 to 106 ;
Victoria 6 per Cent., 113 to 115.
In Finance Shares, Credit Foncier is quoted at
24- to 3 ; General Credit, 2k to 2 dis.; International
Finance, 1i to 18. dis.; London Finance, 23 to
22 dis.

Foreign Mining Shares are little dealt in.
St. John del Rey is marked at 19): to 20i ;
Port Phillip, 1 to 1 ; Chontales, Tlf to 2;
Rossa Grande, ±to prem.
In Miscellaneous Securities the dealings are only
nominal, and prices are dull. Anglo-American Tele-
graph, 21i to 21i ; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per
Cent., 3 15-16 to 4 1-16 ; Fore-street Warehouse,
dis. to prem. ; London General Omnibus, 1i to 2.
A further sum of £49,000 in bar gold was sent
into the Bank yesterday, making, since the date of
the last return, a total of £150,000.
Advices from San Francisco, to July 14, state that
though the new crop of wheat was coming in sparingly,
it was of better quality than the average of past
seasons, and considerably greater as the result of the
largely increased breadth of land under cultivation.
There had been a good demand from Australia, to
which 5,000 tons of shipping had been despatched
with cargoes, and, with the portion yet to go, 25,000
tons would altogether have been sent since the Ist
April. The Australian demand, however, was nearly
satisfied ; and the Californians were beginning to
look to the United Kingdom and to France for mar-
kets for their supplies. Farmers and shippers were
alike being urged by the mercantile community to
encourage the trade by mutual concessions. A
dozen vessels were expected to be despatched in
August. _

The biddings for bills on India took place yester-
day at the Bank of England. The amounts allotted
were to Calcutta £185,400, and to Madras £14,600.
The minimum price was fixed as before at is 101 d
per rupee on both presidencies. Tenders at is 101 d
will
receive about two per cent., those above that rate
will be allotted in full. No tenders on Bombay were
invited. These results show another slight diminu-
tion in the demand for the means of remittance.
The traffic receipts of the London and North-
Western Railway for the week ending August 16
show a decrease of £2,629 as compared with the cor-
responding period of 1867 ; the Madras Railway for
the week ending June 27, an increase of £1,838; and
the Bahia and San Francisco Railway for the week
ending July 11, an increase of .£lB5.
The Stock Exchange will be closed on Saturday
next for the purpose of repairs.
clThe ordinary general meeting of the United King-
on, Electric Telegraph Company has been called for
the 3rd September, after which an extraordinary
general meeting will be held for the purpose of sub-
nutting a resolution authorising the sale and convey-
ance to the Postmaster-General of the whole of the
electric and other telegraphs, &c., of this company.
An extraordinary general meeting of the English
and Australian Copper Company has been called for
the 27th inst., for the purpose of receiving a state-
tient kof the company's affairs since the last general
Meeting.
Annexed is an extract from the circular of Messrs.
Satterthwaite and Co :—We learn from a reliable
frosource that a telegram has been received this day
to New York, announcing that this company has
13assed a resolution calling in one million dollars of
the Seven per Cent. Construction Bonds, at the rate
tern2o per cent. It will be remembered that by the
s of the mortgage given by the company to the
trustees to secure the Construction bondholders, it
was agreed that the money received upon sales of land
mortgage should, as received, be applied to the
cancellation of said bonds, either by purchase in the
market, or by calling them in and paying accrued
kr,iterest and principal, with a bonus of 20 per cent.
be
numbers of the bonds called in will, no doubt,
?0 shortly announced. This step is gratifying, as a
roof that the affairs of the company are progressing
of a most satisfactory way. The previous retirement
13clids was for $3,000,000 in October, 1864.

BRITISH FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
GorEuNstErr FUNDS.
8 Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, Sept. 8
~,a ,Per Cent. Reduced 94 3} •L'i e Cent
4
.?„ w per Cent
"e„." 21 per Cont. Jan. 1894
A •UO. 5 per Cent. J an. 187 3
d'Ltinuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Pe. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
1, "0 (Red Sea Tele,raph), Aug., 1908 — xd
.--"ehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct pm
Do.
N £5OO
£IOO It
p 00er Cent
0 "0. Account
—1)
anada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
1,.,.1ND1AN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
"1.,,'L1a gtook, 10i per Cent., AprillB74 ... 214 k
".,„0. Opening, for Account —
r%jo. 5 per Cent.
Oct
1880
DO.
4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
,i-,0. Certificates —
V.,0. Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cent —
Do''''. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do.,
' 5i per Cent., May 1879 —
5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
D do. 1877 —
Do•do. 1882 —
lk• n 01..)., 5 por Cent., Aug. 1873
~
u Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
nder £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO CLOCK.
Ar,E,„.•
4, t",tm."fle Republic, 6 per Cent Pm
1341 Ilan Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
134iiiela 5 per Cent _
n°' 4} Per Cent., 1852
rjo°:
~d 0.1858....... —
" 1)0, "., 1860 —
_. , do. 1863
~' 0 per Lent., 1865
li
_4-'0 Account 77 i
OD`l.,!ooskyres 6 per Cent —
2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
,O. 6per Ceut. '11) 'Z'''llG PerP Cent
Cout —
D 'O. 0 per Cent., B —
D° .) ,0., 1867
Do, , 7 Per Cent., 1866
O u°l ScriP £32 paid
wish,ml44e, 6 per Cent.
1) 3 Per Cent , 1825
113aubian Principalities ler Cent
Cou° 8 Per Cent., 1867
I,B6lpadtioarnie;verUtio,enisiotlidated, 1 per Cent.
Do.—
Second issue
z £5OO Bonds
D°. 410 t Bonds B6f
Do,
1864
1) Dsoo ' Bonds Account -
0..£
°• £IOJ Boutis
1868 .
English'crlP,
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CITY, Two o'CLock.
The depression of business on the Stock Exchange
is unabated, and it has further prejudiced operations
in the Funds and in several Foreign Stocks. hallways,
however, are, for the time, less under this particular
influence, the meetings of the Metropolitan and Mid-
land Companies being regarded as satisfactory, while
the dividend of the South-Eastern Company has
strengthened holders. The market is now steady.
After to-morrow the Stock Exchange will be closed
until Monday. This circumstance has bad the effect
of further diminishing the attendance. The fortnightly
settlement cotnmences on Wednesday next.
The demand for money is quiet, at about 18 for the
best bills.
Consols aro flat, at 931 to On for money and
account, being a decline of New and Reduced
Three per Cents., 933- to 94 ; India Five per Cents.,
1141 to 115 ; Bank Stock, 243 to 245 ; Exchequer
tills 153 to 20s prem.
English Railway Shares on the whole are steady,
but business is restricted. Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire is better, at 43 to 43} ; but Mid-
land and Great Eastern declined - each, the former
at 10614 to 107; and the latter at 37i to 37g.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 129 k to 130 ; South
Eastern, 761 to 761 ; Great Northern, 106 to
107 ; ditto (A), 103 to 104 ; Great Western, 48k
to 48i ; London and North Western, 116 k to 117 ;
London and South Western, 89 to 91 ; Caledonian,
76 to 7614; London, Chatham, and Dover, 19f to 20.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are
38k to 381, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds
38.1 to 39i.
The Honduras Loan is 821 s to 83k.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway New 4 per Cent.
Debenture Stock is 9514 to 96k.
With the exception of Egyptian (1864), which has
further improved f per cent., to 8414 to 85k, the
Foreign Market is dull and nearly generally lower.
The decline is about per cent. all round. Brazilian,
7614 to 77i ; Mexican, 15 to 15i ; Spanish, 33i to
341 ; Italian, 511 to 52. E ; Greek, 13 to 1314 • Peru-
vian, 79i to 791 ; Portuguese, 38 to 3814 ; Turkish 5
Per Cents., 3814 to 381 ; Viceroy Loan, 73 to 73k.
iln American Securities, the 5-20 Bonds are quoted
t higher, at 7114 to 711; Erie Railroad, however,
has further declined 14, and Illinois ', the former
being quoted at 3014 to 31i ; and the latter at 90 to
91.