The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-25 00:00:00

AR ET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Funds, which closed firm yesterday, notwith-
standing the absence of business, are again firm this
morning, at a slight advance ; and the principal
Foreign Stocks are well supported. The strength
of
the market is caused not by any demand from the
public, but simply by a cessation of the undefined
forexaggerated apprehensions of war which have
weeks past disorganised business on the Paris
Bourse. In Railways there is no particular change.
Great. Western have further improved, and Great
Eastern are better ; but in most other cases prices are
stationary. American 5-20 Bonds have decained.
The demand for money has fallen off this morning,
and transactions have taken place at 1- per cent.,
thoughfor the present quotations nominally remain at
1i to 1 per cent.
Consols are quoted at 93i to 94 for money, and
94 to 94A- for account, and they are firm in tone. New
and Reduced, 94i to 94k ; India Five per Cents.,
114 k to 115 ; Bank Stock, 244 to 246 ; Exchequer
bills-, 16s to 20s m.
English Railway Shares attract little attention,
and, with the exception of a further decline off
in
tiLondon and South Western, prices are without par-
cular change. Great Northern (A) is i lower, at
.1.03 i to 1031 ; while Great Western and Great
Eastern are each i. better, the former being inquired
Ifur at 4!--4 to 50f, and the latter at 36 to 364 ;
ncashire and Yorkshire steady, at 129 k to 130 ;
Greatl\and
~,, western
, 106:& to 104 ; South Eastern, 754 to 76 ;
Northern, 106 to 107 ; London and North
to 116 ; London and South Western,
to 529 0 ; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 52
42i to- Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
ham, and Caledonian, 75f to 76 ; London, Chat-
Foreign never, 18k to 19.
Italian
dealingeiga Stocks
on the whole are firm, but the
Cents.s
at 34i restricted. Spanish New Three per
:I:l°.atintle
other haon3d4 are each i better, being dealt in
.h.and 52i to 52f respectively. On the
Brazilian 76f
Egyptian is i lower, at 841 r to 85f ;
..‘.ezican, 141 to 15 ; Greek, 121 to lat ; Turkish
Five Per Cent., 38± to 39 ; Peruvian, 79 to 79} ;
Viceroyof ' to 77i : Danubian, 75i to 76f ;
tnl:, .e,gypt Loan, 73 to 73k.
.rinance -Shares General Credit- is quoted at 2i
... Foreign
1;„" dis. •; Credit Foncier, 21 to 3 ; international
—ance, li to 4" dis.
Mining Shares are extremely quiet. St.
idAn del Reys are quoted at 19 to 20 ; Rossa Grande,
187 t° to 2i. prem ; Port Phillip, lf to 1± ; Chontales,
aa
liieS doi
in the market for Bank Shares there is little busi-
lowand the only change is in Imperial which is
fanerng, , at 16f to 17f ; Anglo-Austrian steady at 6f
1.1
prem. ; Consolidated, 4f to 41- ; Imperial Otto-
- to
to 68, i prem. ; London and Westminster, 67
a. rae.rican
. Miscellaneous Shares are very quiet. Anglo-
Telegraph remains at 21A- to 24- : At-
81lantic Teleraph, Eight per Cent., 34 to 4 ; Hud-
s, Bay, 15k to 15±.
:Ine Royal Mail steamer Neva has arrived with the
,v.,estPndia Mails and with the New Zealand Mails
ta alnama. She has brought £97,500 in specie.
.r, A private meeting of shareholders in the National
1%.a ank has been held in Cork, at which a committee
„re appointed to consider the measures to be taken
La a reconstruction of the board of directors.
i The liquidators of the London and Middlesex Bank
_nave announced, through Mr. Oswald Howell, ac-
-I,;:anatatit, that they will make a final distribution of
thee assets among the shareholders immediately after
30th September.
fumA firm of stockbrokers suspended yesterday with
e considerable speculative engagements in several
ig and railway stocks.
2, •The Right Hon. J. Stuart Wortley has informed the
htnte.B that the letter purporting to have been written
113' hi that
as a director of the Credit Foncier, and an-
-o,?uneig his intention to make restitution of £lB,OOO
a account of " imaginaryand unrealised profits," is
a forgery.
sa cx 41;_t the meeting yesterday of Halcomb and Co.,
„,aged Contractors (Limited), a dividend was de-
total ared of u,.
per cent. for the half-year, making a monthspayment of 12 per cent. for the twelve
oirectors'
0 The half-yearly meeting of the Charing Cross Hotel
eti)PanY (Limited), was held yesterday, when the
report was adopted. The profits on the
xPerations of six months are £9,923, after placing
n 400 to the credit of the fund for repairs and re-
aleiwals, £2,302 interest on debentures, and charging
.., Other incidental expenses. A dividend was de-
iared at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, free of
e°me tax,
it.T. he traffic receipts of the Oude and Rohilkund
'ttwaY (Lucknowand Cawnpore line), for the week
ending July 12, were £385, against £272. in the cor-
eVonding week of last year.
The first annual meeting of shareholders of the new
t. i.
ld
; 444 of 130»ibay (Limited) was to be held on the 6th
dec
g)stant at Bombay, when the report and the dividend
sharer by the directors was to be submitted to the
eholders.
The "Compagnie GLerale Transalantique " of
jlla.lic e is inviting subscriptions in Paris, for a second
ii°ll or 16,000 fr.,
0 n obligations for 500 fr. each, bear-
iaterest at the rate of 25fr. per annum payable
1i,,!! Yearly in January and July. This is the company
viueleh has a concession of the new French postal ser-
i): in the Pacific with a subvention of 750,000 fr.
2,0-nannmu, which eventually is to be increased to
465r,000fr. per annum. The price of issue is
last `r• if paid in full with dividend from the Ist July
raysidering,
the ; or 470 fr, if paid by instalments extending to
eon 25th December next. It is calculated that,
the allowances, the bonds will pay
abler more than 6i per cent. They are redeem-
anne at the par of 500 fr. in twenty-three years, by
Thal drawings commencing on the Ist July, 1869.
tocL directors of the Millwall Freehold Land and
that 4 Company have issued their report. It states
I‘l,l, f,r°lll the commencement of business, on the 14th
hav-,,ellast, 292 vessels, amounting to 98,605 tons,
crea-„ueen admitted. The business has steadily in-
theleu) and the earnings have risen from £167 for
year, firs
to .£1,044 for the last week in the half-
that' The general manager gives it as his opinion
tie revenue revenue of about £1,400 a week will be suffi
fere `,°,Provide for the debenture and existing pre-
von7Atial capital, while one of about £2,000 a week
the „", in addition pay a dividend of 3 per cent. on
first "„r,eent ordinary stock. He is satisfied that the
half „ these stages will be reached during the current
the half 0f
and considerable progress made towards
eeie ec°lld. The revenue account shows a total re-
antied between the 14th of March and the 30th of
after of £9,327 17s ld ; the balance carried down,
les 31aYing all working expenses, being £1,344
tettern from Copenhagen state that the harvest
eia„.,
111 B"ut Denmark,- which, as in England, corn.-
new at
is
least a fortnight earlier than usual,
4 or, cotipleted, and that the yield of wheat is above
betirverage, is all that could
whilst the quality
feeble ~eth Even on lands where the plant was.
Riven "ue yield was good, and the same report is
describeof the crop of rye. Letters from Odessa
Rrewe a condition of something like alarm among
oo,„rli in consequence of the falling markets of
aid t° and France. The news from London is
A 4 saki be "deplorable," while that from Marseilles
magi „to be " worse day by day," because the de-
ell k 'r°rll Spain upon that market had been
ha ee
ed b
1-18, Y the downward tendency. One letter
141 cl Exaggerated" or not, the great fall in Eng-
and
eod b Prance has strongly affected our prices ;
the quite is paralysed.' It is then added that
I:eore
~a4Y of the new wheat is good, and from the
bef,,, Lostant districts better than has ever been seen
tip e'e• Th
04%1 e new wheat from Bessarabia is very highly
of,

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