The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-17 00:00:00

ONE/ 111.AliTiET

AND
COMIdERCIAL INTELLIGENCX,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The attendance on 'Change to-day was rather
less than usual, and as a consequence business was
not by any means brisk, but prices were generally
Fell supported, Consols, however, being just a
shade lower than yesterday. There was a trifling
rise in the foreign market, and excepting a slight
decline in Brighton shares the railway market re-
mains unaltered.
The price charged for discounting choice bills is
It to if per cent. ; the charge for loans remaining
as yesterday.
Consols are at 9-1,1 to for money, and 914
Rfor
educed, 931-
the account (Nov. 5) ; the Three per Cents.
93 to I; and New Three per Cents.,
1 to
la the Foreign Market the quetations were as
follow :—Brazilian of 1865, 774 to 781 ; Chi-
liaa of 1867, 94 to 1 ; Egyptian of 1861, 82
to div. ;
I Italian of 1861, 52-to 4 ; Mexi-
eiao) 61 tol ; Peruvian of 1865, 791 to
sslan of 1866, 901 to ; Nicolai Railway Loan,
is!
eJ-Baroa.w,
t° I ; ditto Orel, 854 to I ; ditto Moscow
83 to 1 ; Spanish of 1867, 331 to 1 ;
Turkish of 1858, 674 to 4 ; ditto of 1862, 694 to
and ditto of 1865, 41 to 4. Indian Ten and a
half Per Cents, are at 214 to 217 ; the Five, 114,1
2115; the Four, 1031 to 104 ; the Bonds, 20s. to
E
the Debentures, 1051 to 106 ; and the
chequer Bills, 16s. to 20s. prem. Bank Stock,
242 to 244.
Imperial Ottoman are firm, at 14 to 1 1 prem. ;
4
ngi°-Austrian, 6 to prem; Consolidated, Ito
_Pretn. ; London and Westminster, 654 to ;
7ndon and County, 48/ to 494 ; and Union of
4-i°.,tl€l") 334 to 344.
a the railway share market we have to quote
a l
reduction of 1 per cent. in Brighton, the
trice being now 521 to .1; Caledonian, 711 to ;
Lteatern, 48.1
ondon and North-Western, 112/ to 1 ; Great
_iLlastern 401 to 49 ; Midland, 112/ to a ;
~"clOll and South Western, 87k to 881 ; Great
to 401 ; South Eastern, 774 to -1 ;
Metro 40
106; to 107 ; Great Northern A,
-64 t° 107 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1284 to
▪ London, Chatham, and Dover, 171 to ; and
Manchester,_ Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 471 to 48.
n Miscellaneous Shares prices are almost station-
ttri
Gen. Credit, '2 5-16 to 3-16 dis. ; International
11 to 11 dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 151 to 4 ;
~-ielegraph Construction, 151 to 161 ; Atlantic
4-1. el egraph Eight per Cent. Preference, 3i to 4 ;
an Anglo-American, 21 to 4.
hnited States 5-20 Bonds are 4- per cent.
igher.

The sum of £21,000 in gold was taken to the
yesterday.
The Anglesey has arrived from Melbourne with
gold to the amount of £114,000.
The ship Wimmera is announced from Port
Phillip with 66,742 ounces of gold, value in ster-
ling £266,968.
The liquidators of the London and Mediterranean
,45-Ink have notified the payment of the first divi-
dend at the rate of Is. 61 in the pound.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
pointed Monday, the 19th inst. a special settling
dap in the new Five per Cent. Preference Shares
of the Midland Railway Company, which are to be
luarked
.

In a paragraph yesterday in reference to the
attacks on Sir E. Watkin, Mr. Heseltine was spoken
Of as " an active member of the shareholders' com-
mittee." Mr. Heseltine is not on that committee,
and Mr. E. F. C. Ritter, the only " active member"
of the committee, writes to say he has never made
any attack, either justifiable or unjustifiable, on Sir
Edward.
Of the new Turkish Loan of £5,000,000, con-
tracted at Paris with the Societe Generale,
£3,200,
, 000 is reluired for the extinction of por-
tlooB of the publie debt becoming due. The amount,
't is said, is to he remitted in six months' bills on
the Ottoman Bank.
Speaking of the proposed issue of £560,000 8 per
Ceut
°nds at 8.5 by the Mexican Railway Com-
" 1 ''
Y, it is stated that according to estimate the net
rteov,e,nue of the upper section of the line from Mexico
will,
'tecte -3ixaco, which now exceeds £45,000 per annum,
on its extension to Puebla, which may be
£l4O d
,000. ie eight
The debenture holders of the Panama, New Zea-
land' and Australian Royal Mail Company met at
p c°4lPanY's offices yesterday, ani unanimously
baased resolutions to the same effect as those passed
slate the general creditors at their meeting a few days
the• A strong feeling was manifested to support
vi cnnatnittee in their efforts to continue the ser-
;Laud keep the concern out of liquidation.
tiBbEle latest items of intelligence from Brazil, via
tee,,„"' era again favourable, and indicate a farther
eh -very of
financial confidence, the rate of ex-
teange having advanced to 19d. 19id. Accordirg
al l'l,, e despatch, Tebicuary had been taken by the
At and Lopez was flying towards Villa Rica.
had atilse"s Ayres reports were current that Lopez
avar-"andoned the country and that the Paraguayan
A:as thus entirely terminated.
reportvices from Caracas by the West India Mail
Qtl the adhesion of the -important State of
to aYana to the new Government, which continued
of ache the confidence of the people. A number
arras ales had been projected in relation to the
et jengernent of the public debts, but it was under-
eleetl that nothing would be done until after the
ke:4ello, to be held during the present month.
see;7,hile) it was alleged that the Government
veo-,,e" disposed to devote 30 per cent. of the re-
-1:17 to that purpose.
tank Creditors' Committee of the Commercial
kii,7 Corporation of India and the East have
torrd their report, and request a meeting of credi-
tor (ic:b.ll, Tuesday next. The present debts ranking
how -'clend are about £2,538,000, and the balance
total thereon is about £1,213,000, while the
would assets available for immediate division
be
the £710,000, which would pay the 10s. in
Yet pound to those creditors who have not
the :leceived the first dividend, and a fur-
all ormi4vidend of about ss. 9d. in the pound to
alreol,Litors, 4s. of which could be distributed
for e3litnniediately, and the balance, allowing time
sip th()ttecting and completing arrangements in about
reo),-;°llths• After paying the ss. 9d. there would
reol-tn a balance of debt of about £515,000. The
babittliug assets, carefully managed, would prod-iti .
tj: Yield further dividends of about 2s. to 2s. 3d.
result Nund) on the original debts, but this latter
Would necessarily occupy time.

t, BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
a • XIiNMENT FONDS.
941 i
Per 0041
oi, •Consols
Ditto for Account, NOT. 5
931
.1
I,,rPt'r Cent. Reduced
93i
iit'''' 8 per Cent
)3? 2,* per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
, °•,O per Cent. a an. 1873
, Ilinties, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880..
1 to. for 30 expire sth April 188 a
txcL° (lied seas,Telei„raph), Aug., 1908 •
16 20 pm
stio'ocfner Bills, 41,000, 2 per Lt
16 20 . 71
Do.
4500
Do.
16 20 71
11 oi k
£lOO & 4200
244
D~•
of England Stock, 4 per Cent
°ail • account ..
71
Inter 444 4 per Cent. Bonds
eolonial Orannun
1 INDIAN G
.rji OVERNMENT SECURITIES. _
ta . tock, 104 per Cent., AprillB/1 ...
u°' Jelling, for Accoun t
115 14
rj°. 0 Per Cent. July, 1880
103 i i
tDo• 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
))0. Certificates ........... .
ipo. Eufaced Pape. ..
4 per Cent —
• per Cent., Jan. 1872
B°6 per Cent., t•~Dlay 1879 —
U° Per Cent., Rup. Bob. 1872 —
h°•Do
•
do. 1877
Pm
e Bonds, 4 per Cent., 41,000
pia
under £l,OOO .. _
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SING
no, •44'3.4ilian 5 per Cenpte.
r Cent. . 1..8.3.1
..
3* 14 Per Cent., 18. V; ..
Bo
' do• 1858. .
6°. do
1880.. -,
T,6°. do.' ..0. 5 *, 1883
Lb_ . ter Cent., 1.865
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404scrunt
_ni 8:
D°
2 Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)