The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-17 00:00:00

2t[oz;EY IttAREET

AND
-!OMISIEROIAL INTELLIGZXOL

CITY, Two o'CLocK

Business is dull to-day, and the price of Consols
has slightly given way. The Foreign Market is
quiet ; and the price for railway shares remains un-
altered. he rate of discount for bills is 2} par
cent.

lig Consols are 948 38 4} for money; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 921 n 8 ; New 'Three per Cents,
924 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 2 per Cent., 15
prem. ; ditto, £lOO and £2OO, 20 prem ; Bank of
England Stock, 4 per Cent.. 2458.
India Stock, 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1158;
ditto, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 103 ; ditto, Enfaced
4 per Cent., 914 ; ditto, 5 per Cent., Jan., 1872,
1053 ; ditto, Debentures, Aug., 1873, 1051.
According to Mr. Renter's telegram, this morn-
ing, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 71f. 95c.
Animated.

In the Foreign Market the prices are as fol-
lows :—Brazilian of 1865, 77f to 73 ; Chilian
of 1867, 94i—to 951 ; Egyptian of 1864, 81 to
82 ; ditto of 1868, 74 to f ; Italian of 1861, 55+
to 561 ; Mexican, 15+ to 16 ;lc Peruvian of
1865, 811 to ; Russian of 1866, 901 to ; ditto
Nicolai Railayw Loan, 651 to + ditto Orel, 814 to
; ditto Moscow-Jaroslaw, 82} to 4 ; Spanish
of 1867, 34 to ; Turkish of 1850, 68 to
69 ; ditto of 1862, G 8 to 69 ; and ditto of 1865,
411 to 42.

United States Five-Twenties are steady at 73
to 8.

The Tobacco Loan is 24 to 3 prem.
The railway market quotations are as follows :
London and North Western, 113 to ; Great
Western, 501 to k ; Midland, 112 k to ; London
and South Western, 87i to 88} ; Great Eastern,
44 to ; Brighton, 49; to k ; South Eastern,
79fr to 4 ; Metropolitan,lo6l to j ; Great Northern
A, 1041 to a ; Caledonian, 744 to 75 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 1281 to 129 ; London, Chatham,
and Dover, 17i, to k ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 474 to 48i.
In Miscellaneous and Banking Shares the prices
are as last quoted.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
pointed Thursday, the 19th inst., a special settling
day in the scrip of the Charkoff-Azof Railroad
Company, to be marked.
The report of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of
India, London, and China, to be presented on the
18th inst., shows an available total of £58,131, after
Payment of the interim dividend of 3 per cent. for
the half-year ended June 30.
At a general meeting yesterday of the Egyptian
Commercial Trading Company, the chairman
stated that in all probability there would be a re-
turn of 12s. 6d. per share by the end of the present
month.
At an extraordinary general meeting of the Don
Pedro North Del Rey Gold Mining Company, to
beheld on the 24th inst., an interim dividend of 3s.
6d per share, being at the rate of 100 per cent. per
annum, will be declared.

An extraordinary general meeting of the Char-
ing-cross Hotel Company was held yesterday. Re-
solutions were passed authorising the transfer of
the estate by way of mortgage to ➢lr. Charles
Morrison for the sum of £BO,OOO. The rate of 5
per cent. to be repaid by half-yearly instalments of
£2,500 each.

IVe are informed that, on the 14th instant, 250
nautical miles of the French Atlantic deep sea
cable had been completed and certified by the
engineers.

A petition for the winding up of the Interna-
tional Life Assurance Society is to be heard before
Vice-Chancellor Malins on the first day of petitions
in December.
The great irregularities that have hitherto existed
in the Danubian Principalities with regard to the
delivery of letters will, it is expected, henceforth
cease, a new postal treaty between Austria and Rou-
mania. having been dawn up, which the Austrian
Minister of Commerce will shortly lay before the
Iteichsrath for their approval.
It has transpired that Messrs. Baring Brothers
and Co. intend commencing immediately with-
drawals of bullion from the Bank for £1,000,000,
the money lately received on account of Russia for
the purchase of the Alaska territory. The with-
drawal of so large an amount from the Bank's
resoure,:s has created an impression that an ad-
vance in the official minimum will not be much
longer delayed.
Our latest advices from Portugal state, pro-
fessedly on the authority of the Minister, that the
recent temporary loan obtained in Paris and
Frankfort was at 15 per cent. instead of 16 per
rie,ent., as mentioned in one of the Lisbon journals.
They also assert that the Government have pre-
pared a satisfactory settlement of the claims of the
bond and shareholders of the South-Eastern Rail-
Way of Portugal, the terms of which will be made
"nvfn in the course of the week.
It appears that the Greek Government feel ag-
grieved that England objects to Greece appropria-
ting any part of her revenue to the claims of her
thdinary creditors until she have complied with
e condition by which she is bound to meet
the interest of the loan guaranteed by the protect-
ing Powers in 1833. It would be impossible, how-
!jet') for any English Cabinet to surrender the na-
tional rights in this respect without the sanction of
4-arliament. The protecting Powers hold a first
mortgage, and it is not for any individual Cabicet,
in, a of generosity either to Greece or her bond-
rlders, to give it up. That the mortgage ought
"ver to have been given or accepted is a point that,
the time
may be reasonably maintained, since at
the time it was entered into Greece had already
mortgaged all her revenues to her then bondholders,
ailcl without their consent no title could equitably
be created to override their claims.

BRITISH FUNDS-TWO O'CLOCK.

- - QOVERNNIENT FITNDS.„ --- ---
u Per Cent. Consols
. Ditto for Account, Dec. 1
New 3 per Cent
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
XDo (Red Sea Telek„raph), Aug., 1908._
hoquer Bills,£ £1
500 ,000, 2 per Ct.
Do. £lOO & £2OO 2O
la auk of England Stock, 4 per Cent
Do. acc
Canada 4pe per Cent. Cent. Bonds . --
litter-Colonial Cranium
INDIAN UOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
"Ilia stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874
n. Opening, for Account
1151
lq."„°• 6 per Cent. July, 1880
103
Cf,' 4„ Pet' Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
~0, p.,,,
911
j,), —, 4iaced Pape. 4 per Cent
1051
Ds' 4 Per Cent., Jan. 1872
I)°,,* 811- Per Cent., May 1879 —
" 6
.I
Do Cent Rup. Deb. 1872 -
Do do. 1877 _
Do. do. 1882
120. Bo
Dv, beb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
''o. under £l,nds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
000
FOREIGII FUNDS—TITO O'CLOCK.
tree
tiue Republic, 6 per Cent 781 if
4 1114 ~ Scrip 145 paid ..
riall Bonds 5 per cent
k ~ Do. 1859
.I
ea4uiau
a, i 5 per Cent
i
ID
°. Per Cent., 1852 —
,"• do. 1858....
•
;
do., 1860 — .I.O•A° . do 1863 —
...do 5 '
r)•
ccount per Cent., 1865 —
13
78 ecos Ayres 6 per Cent.
`01)3, De 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 51
~6 per Cent
,',Latu 6 per Cent —
on. 4i per Cent —
Do. 3 per Cent., .....
i,
93f
u • 6 per co, t• 1867
••
1866 i lO3
Col °.
71'4'r Cent.,
Den: 111blati, 6 per Cent.
ban
84, 3 por Cent., 1825 ........
tan Principalities, 7 I.er Cent 73
Do
_ 8 per Cent., 1867 B4
,(luador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
t4lB3rpian, 7 per Cent —
)u Secood Issue ........
......
Do.£s'it, lio.pie
0..£100 Bonds ......... '
811
............... .•••
Do.
1864 — Do.
Account
D'). •C3OO Bonds
bo.
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n, 3
-r, '.l-",, Bon
'4lgl'Bh 'Scrip, 1868
Do
do. 415 pd —. dis