The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-14 00:00:00

!O k It 2. A LK E T

A ND
CO UMERCIAL INTELLIIGENCE,

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
Business to-day seemed to turn better as there
appeared a desire to make purchases, more particu-
larly in foreign stocks ; but with respect to Con-
sols the demand was quiet, but prices were main-
tained. We have to notice an improvement in
Metropolitan Railway shares to the extent of t,
and Great Easterns must be quoted higher. The
demand for money is but limited, and the rate in
the open market is 2-3. to 3.
Consols are 921 t k for money; Three per Cent.
Reduced, 928 } ; New Tkree per Cents, 92} 1.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto, 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1118 ; ditto, 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888. 1028.
In the Foreign Market prices are firmer, New
Spanish Three per Cents. having recovered 1, to
32} 32! ; Peruvian Five per Cents. 1, to 811 814 ;

and Turkish and Italian Five per Cents. are 1
better, at 391 391 and 56e 561 respectively ;
Mexican Bonds remain at 151 15i ; Greek at 12
121; and New Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1868
at 74 741.
The price of the Honduras Loan is 891 911.
The Italian Tobacco Loan has dropped to 3, 31
prem. ; and the new Russian Railway Loan is firm
at 1 dis., par.
In Railway Shares Great Easterns are better,
Great Northern, A ; Metropolitan, a ; ditto
Extension, 2 ; Caledonian, 1; Great Western, 1 ;
Great Northern Original 1, Midland 11 Shef-
field -I-, Brighton 1, all better. The quotations
are ; Caledonian, 74 to 1 ; Great Western, 481 to
9 ; Great Eastern, 411 to 411; Great Northern,
106 to 7 ; ditto A, 108 to 1 ; Lancashire, 128 to 1 ;
Metropolitan, 1011 2 ; ditto Extension, 98, 100 ;
Midland 112 1; Sheffield, 471 ; Brighton, 481 ;
North British 32 1 ; North 'Western, 112 1; North
Eastern (Berwick), 991 100 ; South Eastern, 791 ;
Chatham and Dover, 16 17.
America❑ Five-Twenty-Bonds are stationary at
741 741 ; the Bonds of 1855, 721 721 ; and the
10-40 Bonds, 71 711.
Errie Shares stand at 271 28 ; and Illinois Cen-
tral Stock, at 96 961.
The steamer Ripon, on Saturday, took £170,196
in specie for the East. The particulars are as fol-
lows, viz.:—For Bombay, gold, £45,514 ; ditto,
silver, £33,000 ; Galle, gold, £6,557 ; Madras,
gold, £10,070 ; Calcutta, gold, £3,000 ; ditto, sil-
ver, £24,8000; Singapore, silver, £19,500; Hong
Kong, silver, £25,755 ; and Shanghae, silver,
£2,000.

The sixteenth annual meeting of the shareholders
of the Conservative Land Society will take place at
their offices on Tuesday next (to-morrow), the 15th
instant, at two p.m. precisely—Viscount Ranelagh
in the chair.

A call of £5 is to be paid on the shares of the
Indo-European Telegraph Company (Limited) by
the 14th January.
A general meeting of the Para Gas Company
(Limited) is convened for the 19th inst., when a
dividend is to be declared.
The Societe Generale de l'Empire Ottoman have
given notice that the coupon of six per cent. for
the year 1868, upon the £8 per share paid, and
amounting to 52,5600 P., will be paid on the 2d of
January.
A meeting has been held of the creditors of
i&essrs Joseph Dixon and Son, of Preston. The
unsecured liabilities were estimated at £20,000,
and secured debts at £lO,OOO. An assignment was
made for the benefit of the creditors.
The East London Railway Company are pre-
pared to receive subscriptions for debentures under
the power given to the company by its Act of in-
corporation to borrow £466,666 against its share
capital of £1,400,000, the whole of which has been
jasued and registered, and of which more than
£1,000,000 has been paid up. The debentures will
be issued at par for a term of two years, and will
bear interest from the date of issue at 6 per cent.
per annum, payable half-yearly, and will be trans-
ferable by endorsement without stamp.
The directors of the Great Western and Brent-
Lord Railway Company are prepared to accept loans
upon debenture bonds, bearing interest at 41 per
cent• per annum, for periods of three, five, or seven
Years, to replace other debentures falling due.
The directors of the Metropolitan and St. John's-
Wood are prepared to receive tenders for loans on
debenture, bearing interest at 5 per cent. per annum,
to meet bonds falling due.
The swindlers who wrote to parties on the Con-
tinent professing to have received valuable parcels
Or documents from Australia to California, which
theY will forward on a remittance being sent to them
"3 cover expenses, are again actually at work. They
call themselves "agents," or " Continental agents,''
and usually give the address of some mean house in
'e suburbs, where, on inquiry, it is found they
simply call for their letters. The Old-Kent-road
seems at present to be their favourite locality, and
it Would be well for the Post-office, in conjunction
With the police, to take steps to detain the remit-
tta"es they thus fradulently cause to be sent to
h , em• The trade evidently answers very well, for
;"
, is carried on with printed documents and in a
ellsiness-like manner.
the meeting of tradesmen and others, to consider
proposed scheme for a railway between the
Cit.7and West-end by means of a tunnel under
Uzford-street, has been held, and Mr. Hawk-
sth awl the engineer of the undertaking, attended
2 explain its nature. He stated that the line
xr_"ae intended to run underground from the
thle-arch through Oxford-street and Holborn,
ttw2. the General Post Office. Between these
o points it was proposed to have nine stations,
ofa distance from each other of about a third
a• mile. Locomotives would not be em-
ployed, and the traffic would be worked by fixed
engines, placed at intermediate stations. The car-
etillages would be of a very light construction ; so
at the vibration caused by their passage would be
almosta. imperceptible. In constructing the line it
Was not intended to interfere with the surface of
t;'e roads, so as to stop the traffic, and at the sta-
tions where the roadway would have to be opened
the
Work would be effected during the night. Mr.
alvkshavv's explanations did not satisfy the meet-
_Lig, and a resolution disapproving of tho scheme
IYas carried.