The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-30 00:00:00

MONEY MARTIET

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ntimEttorAL

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Consols are 941 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93k 4i ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 921 4 ;
New Three per Cents, 921 1:; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 2 per Cent., 12 prem. ; ditto, £5OO,
12 prem. ; ditto, ZlOO and £2OO, 12 prem. ; Bank
of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 244.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, 218 ;
ditto, 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1164 ; ditto, Bonds,
Under £l,OOO, 14 prem.
Consols and Foreign stocks are firm this morn-
ing.

Foreign securities are rather better. Turkish
Five per Cents. showing a recovery of I, and
Italian Five per Cents. and Greek Bonds are f
higher. New Spanish Three per Cents. and
Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1868, on the other
hand, are f lower.' The quotations are !—ltalian,
65i 551; Mexican, 151 151 ; Greek, 13 131 ; New
Spanish,
341 34f ; Turkish, 411 411 ; Peruvian
Five per Cents., 811 82 ; and Egyptian, 1868,
73; 741.
The Honduras Loan is firm at 90 91.

Italian Scrip has declined I, to 2/, 3 prem.
Russian (Charkoff-Azof) Railway Scrip is
better, at par f prem. ; and the New Charkoff.
lireraentschug Railway Loan has receded to I
prem.

In the Railway Share Market there is an
additional fall of 11 in Metropolitans. The
Prices are as follows :—Caledonian, 72f a ;
Great Western, 48; 49 ; Great Eastern,
44 ; Great Northern, 105 k 61; ditto A, 105 f ;
Lancashire, 1281 ; Metropolitan, 101- 1; ditto
Extension, 97 9 ; Midland 1111 ; Sheffield,
47+ ; Brighton 48 1 ; North British, 32 1 ;
Northoi Western, 1121 ; North Eastern, 99i
lo
; South Eastern, 79 -A. ;
168171. Chatham and Dover,

United States Bonds are dull on higher quota-
Cone of gold from the other side. The Five-Twen-
ties have declind 1, to 74t 74f ; the Bonds of 1885
remain at 73 731 ; and the Ten-Forty Bonds at 71i
72.

Ango-American Telegraph shares are rather
better at 221 224 ; but the Eight per Cent. Prefer-
ence shares are dull at 3! 4 ; and Atlantic Tele-
graph Original Stock at 30 32.
In Bank Shares Alliance have been done at 12; ;
Anglo-Egyptian, 181; Chartered Mercantile, 30k
English and Rio Janeiro, 91 ; Imperial, 18 ;
Impe-
rial
Ottoman, 111 ; London and Westminster,
681 ; ditto Scrip, 651 4 ; Union of London, 374.
In Miscellaneous descriptions, Credit Foncier
Shares are marked 2. General Credit at 5/1
9-16, Hudson's Bay at 141, and Ocean Marine
at 20.

The Bruckley Castle has arrived from Sydney
with £124,500 in gold ; and the Ripon, from
-Alexandria, with £4,575.
The interest due th 3 11th December on the
Danish Four per Cent. Stock of 1862 is advertised
LOT Payment by Messrs. Hambro and Sou.
It is stated that the applications already received
for the bonds of the Charkow-Krementschug (Rus-
sian) Railway, introduced by Messrs. Schroder, the
allbSeriptiOli lists for which close to-morrow in
and Berlin, already amount to a sum equal
to
The
entire total of the loan.
he indications of the Board of Trade returns
for "'
the past month are again satisfactory. In the
declared value of our exportations compared with
the corresponding month of last year there has been
anincrease of £1,027,756, or 6f per cent, while,
compared with October, 1866, they show neither an
increase nor a diminution.

At the meeting of the East India Irrigation and
Canal Company the directors' report was adopted,
and a special resolution was passed, accepting the
offer of the Government to purchase the works of
the Company in accordance with the arrangement
already entered into.
An extraordinary general meeting of the Anglo-
Egyptian Banking Company (Limited), is con-
vened for the Bth December, to confirm the resolu-
tion passed on the 19th instant, fur enabling the
company to issue share warrants to bearer in ex-
change for nominatire shares at the option of the
proprietor. . .

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The annual meeting of the Royal Exchange
Assurance Corporation will be held on the 23d of
December, when a dividend will be declared.
At the meeting of the London Chartered Bank
0 Australia on the 11th of December a dividend of
4 Per cent. for the half-year (£40,000) is to be re-
eernmended, together with the appropriation of
"0,000 to the reserve fund, leaving £11,885 to be
carried forward.

The report of the Bank of British North Ame-
rica, to be presented on the Ist of December, re-
e°ratnends the usual half-yearly dividend at the rate
of 6 per cent. per annum, and states that, notwith-
standing the recent occurrence of banking and
other failures in Canada, the directors see no rea-
son to anticipate that the distribution for the pre-
sent year will fall short of that of last year.
A circular has been issued to the shareholders of
the Credit Foncier of England (Limited), from
hich we extract the following :-44 The committee
aPPoluted by a resolution passed at a meeting of
.rytthareholders, summoned by advertisement of Messrs.
4. J. Brown and E. P. Rowsell, and held on the
4th August last, beg now to report as follows :
,
'hat an interview which the committee sought
With the directors, in pursuance of such resolution,
being declined on the ground of the informal cha-
racterL of the committee's appointment, the mem-
bers of the committee could only accept an offer
made to them to confer, as shareholders, with the
chairman.. With Mr. Mowatt, accordingly, they have
4adseveral commuuications,and they now announce
the results. The following is an outline of the in-
formation received :-1. That the question of the
return of commission taken on disputed profits has
been, and is, under the consideration of the board,
r.„atICI Will, it is hoped, be settled by arbitration. 2.
411 at the office expenses have been greatly reduced,
and that since the 30th June last the directors have
refrained from taking any remuneration for their
services. And the chairman promises as follows :
That at a special general meeting, to be held in
January, he will propose important amendments of
the articles of association. Among other changes he
Will move the reduction of the board to five direc-
tors, and the leaving the appointment of directors,
and settlement of their remuneration, in the hands
of the shareholders."

Vice-Chancellor Malins has appointed Mr. Thos.
'l. Thomas, of Cheapside, woollen merchant,
uquidator of the Commercial Clothing Company
sr Limited) and Messrs. Rooks, Kenrick, and Har-
1°74) of 16, King-street, Cheapside, solicitors in
the „natter.
_ _

Regarding the Indian cotton crop, Messrs. Smith,
Fleming, and Co., referring to a recent telegram
from their Cawnpore correspondent, dated the 20th
~°f October, state that a message received from them,
dated the 23d inst., is not so satisfactory :--.4lDoab
threatening
now about two-thirds last year ; scarcity,
that,
famine; no rain.,, It was expected
hut, rain having fallen in other parts of the North-
viveBt Provinces, there would have been a sufficient
f,
Cl also in the Doab, but apparently as yet this
Pe has not been fulfilled.

tRITISEE FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
, GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
8 ,1* Cent. Consols
itto for Account, Dec. 1
Neer Cent. Reduced 93i 4}
92} i
Kw 3 per Cent
4," 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894
ut). tor 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
-cd
i, 1)0 (Red Sea Telet,,raph), Aug., 1908 —
Do. x.chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct l2
De .£5OO
Bonk £lOO & £2OO l2
lio• hof England Stock, 4per Cent
ci acceinit
4 per Ce B
later-Colonial On:lnt.mm onds
lNotAv UOVP.RNMENT SECURITIES.
in lia ,Vtock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 2lB
Do. Opening, for Account
Do. 5 per Cent July, 1880
1:,),0. 4 pec Cent., Oct. 1888
uo. Oortificates -
Do. Eufaced Papt,. 4 per CAnt —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
'''°' 5} Per Cent., May 1879 .....