The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-02 00:00:00

MONEY HARNET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGHNOII,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Stock Exchange was not opened to-day in
consequence of the closing of the transfer office of
the Bank for the preparation of the half-yearly
balance-sheet. Consols for money were last quoted
On Saturday 941 to and for the account 941 to
The following has been issued by the Bank of
England : " Notice i 3 hereby given, That in
order to prepare the dividends due on the sth
Jan., 1869, the balances of several accounts in the
following funds will be struck on the night of Tues-
day, the Ist Dec., 1868, viz.:—£3 per Cent. Con-
solidated Annuities, New £5 per Cent. Annui-
ties, New £3 10.1. per Cent. Annuities, 1854,
NeW £2 10s. per Cent. Annuities, Annuities for
terms of years, India £5 per Cent. Stock. On
Wednesday, the 2d December, the above-named
funds will be transferable without the dividend due
OP the sth January next,"
According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
day, the French Rentes were 70 77. Firm.
The shipmelits of specie to the East by the
steamer Ceylon amount to £195,519, of which
£86,245 is for India, £53,041 for China and the
Straits, £50,263 for Ceylon, and £6,090 for
Alexandria.
The Pera, from Alexandria, has brought £B,OOO,
and the Pacific, from Valparaiso and the River
Plate, is announced at Liverpool with £60,000.

Proposals for subscriptions to the guaranteed
bonds of the Charko-Azof (Russian) Railway
Company have been issued ;by Messrs. R.
Raphael and Sans. The amount will be £1,319,280
sterling, bearing interest at 5 per cent., of which
£2,000,000 is offered in London, and the remainder
in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Frankfort at the price of
80, or, reckoning allowances, 78k. Twenty per
cent. is payable on allotment, 30 pm. cent. on the
17th of December, and 30 per cent. on the 28th of
January next. The bond capita is to be re-
deemed at par in 85 years by annual drawings com-
mencing December, 1870.
The Cape of Good Hope, it is rumoured, will
enter the market for a guaranteed loan, iu conse-
quence of new gold dis2overies. in two different
directions, the one accessible from Aigoa Bay, the
other from Port Natal.

The scrip certificates of the Tobacco Loan will
be ready for delivery on and after Tuesday, Nov.
3, in exchange for letters of allotment and banker's
receipt,
The Don Peiro North del Rey Company have
received the following telegram from Lisbon re-
lative to the September produce Cleaned to 2d
Oct., 20,071 oitavas ; estimated produce for Sept.,
21,000 oitavas."

We are informed that the Board of the Great
Indian Peninsula Railway Company have ap-
Pointed Mr. Walter Knox, formerly general traffic
manager on the company's line in Bombay, to the
Post of agentin Bombay, in place of Gen. Rivers,
who retired some mouths ago.
The Great Eastern has appointed trustees to re-
ceive weekly from the first net profits of the com-
Pany the sum necessary to secure the payment re-
gularly of the interest due on debentures.
A call of £25 -is due to-day on the Five par
Cent. Guaranteed Stock of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, amounting to
£94,959.
At the half-yearly meeting of the-Great Central
Gas Consumers' Company, Mr. Alderman Dakin
in the chair, the usual dividend at the rate of 10
Per cent, per annum was declared, and authority
Was given to the Board to apply to Parliament for
Power to raise £lOO,OOO additional share capital to
meet the requirements of an increased business.
The Anglo-Mediterranean Cable has, since its
Submersion between Malta and Alexandria, been
Worked with accuracy and success. The result is
Most gratifying, for it shows that the cable is de-
cidedly the best ever yet constructed, its capacity of
transmission being at the rate of more than twenty
Words a minute. The returns for the last fortnight
show that the traffic will yield from 15 to 20 per
cent. on the capital. It is expected that Sir James
Anderson will come from Alexandria in a few days,
and it is probable that arrangements may be then
entered into for extending the line across Suez
down the Red Sea, and so direct to Byribay.
The Great Western Comp lay (says the Ittitvay
News) is at th's moment in the enviable posiuou of
having more money than it knows what to no with.
The time was, and that not many mouths ago, when
it Was impossible for them to obtain a renewal of
their debentures, and the concern was on the verge
of bankruptcy. By the financial arrangements,
however, which they have recently made, they now
find themselves in a position to pay off all the de-
bentures as they fall due ; but such is the perversity
of capitalists that they decline to be paid off, and
ask to have the bonds renewed at a reduced rate of
interest. Meanwhile the surplus which remains in
the hands of the company is placed at loan with
the bankers, at something like 2 per cent., to be
available in case of necessity.
The traffic receipts of railways in the United
Kingdom amounted, for the week ending Oct.
17, on 13,355 miles, to £809,676, and for the
e°rresooncling week of last year, on 13,039 miles,
to £776,930, showing an increase of 316 miles and
of £32,746. The gross receipts on the 11 principal
railways amounted, in the aggregate, ou 9,677
tiles, to £679,031, and for the corresponding week
'• 1867, on 9,425 miles, to £651,211, showing an
increase of 252 miles and of £27,820. The total
receipts of the week show a decrease of £8,360, as
compared with those of the preceding week, ending
the 10th October.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.
SATURDAY.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
1 Per Cent. Console
Ditto for Account,:Nov.:s
a
93 2i
per Cent. Reduced
ci el,. 3
93 24
.k, per Cent
et.. 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. tor 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
E Do (Red Sea Telo‘raph), Aug., 1908 —
lehcquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct 2l pm
.£5OO
Do £lOO & £2OO l7 pm Etak•of England Stook, 4 per Cent
DO. of
nada 4 per Cent. Bonds
er-Celonial Omniuua
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
4ditt stock 104 per Cent., April 1879 —
DO. Opening, for Account —
D 0.5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 Po. Cerpe tificates e Cent., Oct. 1888
_—
uo. Enfaced Papei 4 per Cent 9l}
D 0.5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
;.:°. 51 per Cent
.) ~ May 1879 110!
"4 5 per Cent Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
~, Do. do. 1882
4"„ k;• Deb. 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ LlO5l
Bonds, 4 per Cent., Xl,OOO
bo. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
T-.lentine Republic, l per Cent ... .
~t,„"°l Scrip £3O paid
"Arian Bonds 5 per Cent. 1859
gr
iii Do. 1859
n 634
44 5 per Cent _
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C ent , 1852 —
°• do. 1858....• —
°• do., 1860 —
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1863 O
• Acc . 0 pount "er Cent 1865 —
78i
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'4enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
0 Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
b
wilt(l 6 per Cent.
Den 6 per Cent
1)1)001. 464ppeerreCeenutt B —
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Cont.
,° i 1867 --
.1.70
0 . .1 7 per Cent., 1866
nibian, 6 per Cent.
ii
.' t_1:11, 3 p,r Cent., 1825........
Tr,' Iltan Principalities, 7 par Cent 737
ie " 8 Per Cent., 1867 .. 841
(tuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
"oaYPtian, pe Cent ... ,9,e( oad Issue
Do. f5OO Bonds
DO. 4100 Bonds B2
Do. 1864
„ Do. Account
DO. £SOC Bonds B2
• Do. £lOO Po '
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•ungltsh Scrip, 1868 73± 4
Do do. £l5 pd — die
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r:3, 5 per Cent., 1821 5, ex Coups —
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•,. - .„,1-10. Account
J-Jo 6 per Cont. Anglo-French —