The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-08 00:00:00

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XOSE3I MARKET

AND
'7OTVIMEACIAL

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The Stock Markets are quietly good. Pending the
vacation of the next few days there has been a closing
of trsnsactions, while very few new ones have been
?petted, more especially as the fortnightly settlement
takes place in the early part of next week. The
Funds remain at about last night's improvement, and
they are quite unaffected by the occasional revival of
disturbing political rumours.
A fair amount of business is in progress in the
Discount Mark-et, very little effect having so far been
produced by the commencement of the dividend pay•
talents. The best bills are taken at 11 to 1i per cent.
Consols are not quite so firm at 931- to 93i for
money, and 93,4 for account ; New and Reduced
Three per Cents., 92 to 94 ; ndia Five per Cents.,
114 to 114!;- ; Bank Stock, 244 to 246 ; Exchequer
tills, 7s to 12s prem.
The Foreign Stock Market is quiet, but steady.
Portuguese, and the Viceroy's Nine per Cents., are
alone offered at a decline, the former being lower, at
kto 1 prem.; and the latter ±, at 89 to 84 On the
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other hand, there is an advance of in Greek, at 14
to 13 ; and in Egyptian Railway Loan, 89fr to 90 ;
and of-A- in Italian (1861), at 49;1,- to 44 There is
no change in Mexican, at 15/ to 16 ; Greek, 121 to
4.13 ; New Spanish, 350. to 35k; Turkish (1865), 34i
"o 3-4 ; Egyptian (1864), 81 to 82 ; and Viceroy's
Seven per Cents., 73 to 74
In American Securities, United States Five-Twenty
Bonds are -A- better, at 722 to 73. Erie shares are
lower, at 48 to 49 ; while Illinois are I higher, at
942 to 951..
English Railway Shares are alniost exclusively in-
fluenced by transactions in anticipation of the settle-
ment which will take place immediately after the
h°lid"Ys. The prices current aro :—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 125 k to 126 ; Midland, 105 to 1052 ;
South Eastern, 72/ to 731 ; London and North
Western, 114 to 114 k ; Great Northern, 102 to 103 ;
ditto A, 962 to 971; Great Eastern, 344. to 35i ;
Great Westrn, 501- to 501 ; Brighton, 50- to 51
Sheffield, 43 to 44 ; Metropolitan, 113 to 113 k ;
Caledonian' 69/ to 701 ; and North British, 331- to 34.
Bank Shares continue quiet, and prices show no
change of importance. Consolidated is -A- lower, at
q to 4k ; Agra (A shares), 10 to 10,1,-; Alliance, 13
to 12 dis. ; Anglo-Austrian, 4 to 5 prem. ; Char-
tered Mercantile, 28 to 29 ; Imperial, 17 to 17k ;
Imperial Ottoman, 1 to 1 prem. ; London and
County, 51 to 52 ; London and Westminster, 671 to
682; Oriental, 42 to 43 ; London Joint Stock, 31 to
32 • Union of London, 31 to 32.
in Finance shares little or no business is doing.
Credit Fourier, is marked at 21 to 3 ; General Credit,
2;-- to 24 dis. ; International Finance, 2 to lls dis.
Foreign Mining Shares are steady. St. John del
Rey is quoted at 19 to 21. Port Philip, 11. to 1A-
Chontales, 1 to / dis.

Miscellaneous Securities are without feature, ann
prices are merely nominal. Anglo-American Tele-
graph, 223 ; Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents., 5 to
; Fore-street 'Warehouse, to 2 dis. ; Hudson's
Bay steady, at 14A- to 14i ; London General Omni-
bus, 11 to 2 ; Ocean Marine Insurance, 14 to 15
brem. ; Thames and Mersey Marine, 4i to 43.
There were again no bullion operations at the Bank
of England yesterday.
The City of Baltimore has arrived with £1,750 in
specie from New York.
The silver market is very quiet, in sympathy with
the decline in cotton.
The Continental exchanges are rather more favour-
able to the accumulation of gold here.
The ordinary general meeting of the Paragusssu
Steam Traluroad Company has been convened for the
30th inst.
A dividend of £1 per share for the past half-year
is announced by the Union Steamship Company.
The directors of the Sao Vicente Mining Company
announce that arrangements have been made with
Captain Thomas Treloar, the consulting engineer of
the Don Pedro North del Rey Gold Mining Com-
pany, to act as consulting engineer to this Company
also.
The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of £713 over last year, and the
‘idaso•ow and South - Western an increase of
P'ae The traffic of the Atlantic and Great Western
days
for the second week in March, being six
uaYs, was 85,073 dols., being 27,951 dols. less than
for seven days as compared with the corresponding
Period of last year. The traffic receipts of the Great
Luxemburg Railway for the week ending the sth
inst.tshow an increase of £1,140, and the receipts of
the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway,
or the week ending Feb. 15, show a decrease of
The stocks of produce in London are, with tile
single important exception of cotton, considerably be-
low the quantities bed this time last year. The in-
crease in cotton is 21,457 bales. The decrease in
ante is 43,891 bales ; in black pepper, 2,096 tons ; in
Rimento, 7,794 bags ; in cocoa, 2,277 bags ; in cloves,
2
,1,51 packages ; in saltpetre, 2,831 tons ; and in
1,367 casks.
Tho4British Empire Mutual Life Assurance
;111,,Pa4 held its annual meeting yesterday, at
, The amount of new business effected
during tho-ear 1867 was £207,956. The income for
the year Was £90,906 3s Bd, and the accumulated
fund, arisinc, solely from premiums, had reached
£389,437 44d, showing an increase of £45,993 in
the Year. The company has now attained its majority,
ha •
\ring just completed its twenty first year. Since
its formation it has issued 17,394 policies, assuring
an aggregate sum of £3,899,870. It has created
Profit; to the extent of £190,828, the whole of which
!um has been appropriated amongst the members, and
it has paid on death claims £305,041 10s.
The following is Mr. Sam Mendel's weekly
circular, dated Manchester, April 7, 1868
During the past week a fair but not very active
business was done in this market at daily advancing
values,
chiefly in re-sale lots of shirtings at irregular
Prices, varying 3d to 94-per piece below manufacturers'
quotations. Yarns found favour and were placed some-
What freely by spinners at advancing rates. This
morning there was less animation both in yarns and
goods, with some moderate reduction in values, but
at no time was there any marked pressure to make
sales, and since noon there is a better feeling and
More disposition to give out orders at some moderate
reduction from the quoted prices."

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