The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-02 00:00:00

Oil El TILAAKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTPLLIG.E.Z.,IOII,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Business was resumed in the Stock Exchange this
morning, but the fine weather and the absence of
any disturbing news have combined to make
tile attendance less than usual. The market gene-
rally is firm, and the tendency is upward.
The funds are, perhaps, barely so good as they closed
on Thursday, purchases being checked by the position
of political parties, though they have improved since
the opening. Foreign Government securities aro
firmer, part'cularly Egyptian, upon the fresh financial
arrangements made by the Treasury. Cable shares
are in more request, and there is a fresh rise oft in
ritulson's Bay. Credit Shares are dull.
The commercial demand for money is rather more
Petive at 2 per cent., and tendencies continuo
upwards.

The English Funds opened tilt. but they are now
skadY. Consols are 931, to 94 ; New and Reduced,
9'..41 to 92A ; and Exchequer Bills, 12s to 17s prem.
Inflift 5 pir Cents. are HG to 11Gi. Dank Stock is
243 to 215.

The leading feature in the Foreign-Stock Market is
the firmness of Egyptian upon the new financial
arrangements. The 1861 loan is better, at 80 to 81,
and the Viceroy's 7 per Cents. are 71 to 72, being f
better. The 9 per Cents. are firmer, at 89 to 90, and
the Railway Debentures, 89 to 90. Peruvian are 4
better ; Greek, ; and Italian, Brazilian are flat,
but there is no change in Mexican, 15k to 15/ ; New
Spanish, 35f to3si ; Turkish, 34g to 3-4.
There is no change in American securities. The
5-20's are 70k to 701 ; Erie, 46/ to 461; and Illinois.
95_to

In Foreign Railway Shares a better tone prevails.
Great Luxemburg is better, at 9i to 10k ; Lom-
bardo-Venetian firm, at 141 to 15.
In Railways, Great Northern A, Great 'Eastern, ana
Great Western are flat ; and Sheffield, Metropolitan,
Caledonian, • London and North Western, and
Great Northern are firm. The quotations are—Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 128} to 1281 ; Midland, 109 to
1091 ; South Eastern, 74k to 74i ; London and North
Western, 116 to 116 i ; Great Northern, 103 to 104 ;
Great Northern A, 98 to 99 ; Great Eastern, 34 to
; Great Western, 54i to 541 ; Brighton, 521 to
53i
112 ; Sheffield, 43/ to 44f ; Metropolitan, 1121 to
19. / ; Caledonian, 76 t 076 ; and Chatham, 18f to

In Bank Sit:l,es business is merely nominal, and
prices are, for the most part, without change. Im-
perial Bank is flat, at 18 to 19, being ik lower ; Agra
(A) steady, at 9f to 10f ; Alliance, 13 to 12 dis. ;
Anglo Austrian, 41 to q prem. ; Chartered Mer-
cantile, 28 to 29 ; Consolidated, 4i- to 4g; Imperial
Ottoman, fto prem.
Finance shares are in rather better request. Lon-
don Finance is * better, at 22 to 21 dis.; General
Credit, 2g to 2i dis. • Credit Fonder, 2f to 3.
Foreign Mining
john del shares are without change. St.
Rey are marked at 194- to 20f ; Port
Philip, 1 to lg ; Chontales, 2* to 2f.
Miscellaneous securities are generally firm. The
principal feaaytu,re is a further improvement of in
which are now quoted at 15} to 151 ;
cinlo-American is firmer at 23k to 23f ; Atlantic
'..'elgraph a shade better, at 5*- to ta ; Fore-street
-Warehouses, 11 to 1* dis.; London General Omnibus,
1i to
The directors of the Russian (Vyksounsky) Iron
,alVhiao.rrek,s Company (Limited) have made a call of £2 per
payable on the 20th inst., "to meet tbe lia-
13directors have so far not been enabled to issue new
debentures to replace the existing bonds."
ki The directors of the St. John del Rey Mining
ompany have received the following report, dated
MarroVelho, March 28, 1868 :—" Produce second
41 "'Woo of March, eleven days, 2,483 oitavas ; yield
,207 oitavas per ton. Gera produce for tha same
period 313 oitavas. Remittance 16,495 oitavas."
The Anglo-Brazilian Gold Mining. Company have
oreeoeived a remittance of 5,283 oitavas, the Don Pedro
1r at del Rey Gold Mining Company a remittance
23)550 oitavas, and the Rossa Grande Gold Miuing
I°lnPany a remittance of 2,096 oitavas.
The half-yearly meeting of the Imperial Continental
Gas Company has been convened for the 26th instant,
to receive the directors' report and to declare a
dividend.
Theordinary general meeting of the Bank of
.ia
.versitteisrh Columbia has been called for the 12th inst.
Thereda:ivere no bullion operations at the Bank
The ouytgoing mail to the East takes £23,793 in
V'eel; of which £5,773 is gold for Madras, and in
ver there is £17,300 for Bombay, £420 for
illngha. and 1:300 for Galle.
_ The Russia and the Pennsylvania have arrived
troin New York with £62,600 and £17,000 in specie
l'esnectively.
eThe terms are advertised on which various loans of
Nee
Zealand, amounting to £4,510,000, may be con-
iirted into uniform 5 per cent. debentures, secured by
e Consolidated revenues of the colony, upon applica-
.9l
itoo before the 15th of June next, and at the same
subsetiptions are invited for additional sums of
's i•-c. 1,115000 in such 5 per cent. debentures, to be
ued at 97.
It is understood that the bill for the collection and
üblication of cotton statistics, which was brought in
oYMr. Bazley, M.P., will be read a second time
Wednesday next, and that the Marquis of Salis-
bury has undertaken the charge of the bill in the House
of Lords.
f Advises from Marseilles state that very large orders
2°„l.,_tile purchase of grain were received there on the
3,-41 ult., and that on that day the sales exceeded
",000 hectolitres, while the arrivals were under
14,000.
814TahRlwi
eahialfiy
-yearly meeting of the Great Indian Penin-
Company has been called for the 29th
foI2BL, for the transaction of the ordinary business of
rcompany ; after which the meeting will be special,
the purpose of authorising the directors, with the :Sanction of the Secretary of State in Council of India,
to
raise all or any part of the- money which has been
raised on Debenture Bonds, to be called Debenture
Stock, instead of and to
the same amount as the
money which is now owing by the company or bond,
or which the company has power to raise, and to
authorise the directors to attach to the stock so created
some fixed and perpetual irredeemable or redeemable
interest.

The following is Messrs. Pixley, Abell, and Lang-
aey's bullion circular :—Gold : Since our circular of
the 23rd instant, the following arrivals have come to
band :—.£11,960 per Albion, from Brazils ; £6,500,
14iPParchus, from ditto ; £31,850, Seine, from ditto ;
£2,700 Briton, from Cape of Good Hope ; £69,000,
Australasian, from New York ; £20,000 City of
Paris, from ditto ; £4,000, Bremen, from ditto ;
4°,000, Cuba, from ditto ; £20,000, Nestorian,
:reim ditto ; £60,500, Atrato, from West Indies—
£2l6,slo. The demand for the Continent is
Indies—
but
Thet, slack, and the amounts arriving go off but slowly.
Bank has received £78,000 during the week, and
uuout £lO,OOO, in eagles, have been withdrawn.
acLie Alas-silia has taken .£150,000 in sovereigns to
ipexandria. The Overland mail reports the sailing of
onal vessels for England during the month of
Thttreb) with gold to the value of £734,ooo.—Silver
The Saxonia has brought £23,185, Dore, from New
ork, the
Atrato £80,500 from the West Indies, and
tn.e.,Nestorian .£17,000 from Portland. There is but
little demand for the East, and the fine bars have been
geld at
Thrato has
Gold to sogd per oz. standard.—Mexican
ars : The La France has brought £76,000 to St.
Ara're, of which £12,000 is for England ; and the
brought £40,000 from the West Indies.
hitvere is not any demand for China, and these arrivals
tplire is
been sold at 59kd per oz. for refining
at 6Po",,es• Exchange on India for drafts by the banks
%lays' sight remains unchanged, but flat. We
acitilli°tlesra.te,s is llid to is llid Calcutta and Madras ;
Lean to is Bombay.----India Government
I,oB°t'es are somewhat firmer, and may be quoted
I to 109 for 5i per Cents.; 103 id to 104 d for
vet Cents.; and 88/ to 89 for 4 per Cents.

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