The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-13 00:00:00

MVIMY MARKET

A ND

•C,OtIMEROIAL

CITY, Two o'CLocit.
The general character of the Continental news is
favourable—that is,
.there is a cessation of immediate
alarms wising in part from the moderate speech
addressed by Gen. Menabrea to the Italian Parlia-
ment. This circumstcnces, combined with the
plethoric state of the money market, has strength-
ened the funds, and they have iini roved. From
the same cause the more speculative foreign
stocks have improved, and they are generally firm.
As to railways, attention is chiefly occupied with
the settlement, and no particular change has been
established, though a supply of stock has checked
any, immediate tendencies to improvement.
Consols are firm at 92 to 92i for money and
account; New and Reduced Three per Cents., 9211
to 921 ; India Five per Cents., 1111- to 111! ; Bank
Stock, 240 to 242 ; Exchequer Bills, 225. to 275.
prem.

No change can be reported in the money market.
The supplies are most abundant, and quotations for
first class discounts range from 1 to 14 per cent.
The Liberator has arrived with £45,000 in Aus-
tralian gold.

The corn market is quiet at last week's prices.
The speculative Foreign Stocks are in more de-
mand, and this morning's prices are k to 1 per cent.
better. Turkish (1865) and Italian (1861) are I
higher, at 301- to 301 and 41k to 42k respectively,
and New Spanish at 341 to 351 ; and Mexican, at
15+ to 153-, there is an advance of 1. Greek Bonds
are firm, at 12 to 121 ; Portuguese Scrip, 1 to 1
Prem. ; Egyptian Railway Loan, 90 to 91; and
Brazilian (1865), 75 to 76.
American Securities are firm. United States
Five-Twenty Bonds are k better, at 711 to 711;
Erie Railway k higher, at 50 to 61 ; and Illinois
at 871 to 881.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have risen 4, to 231 to 241, and the Consolidated
Mortage Bonds 1, to 201 to 211.
The English Railway Market is quiet. Great
Northern shares are 1 lower, at 105 to 106 ; ditto
A, lower, at 107 to 108 ; and there is a fall of
in Midland, at 103 to 103 f ; and London
and North Western, at 1131 to 1141. There
is no change in Lancashire and Yorkshire, at 123
to 1231 ; South Eastern, at 671 to 68; Great East-
ern, 29 to 291 ; Brighton, 48 to 481 ; [Sheffield,
44 to 441 ; Caledonian, 73 to 731 ; and Metro-
politan, 115 f to 1151.
Alliance Bank Shares are flat at 14 discount. Im-
perial, 18 to 19 ; London and County, 54 to 55 ;
and London and Westminster, 694 to 704.

CITY, TwELvg O'CLOCK.
The gum of £67,000 in bar gold gas withdrarn
40tn the bank on Saturday for export.
.„._The steamers which left New York on Sat,adav for
4.471:0pe took £200,000 in specie:
The Seine, with £66,400 in speci-, from the Brazils
has arrived at Southampton.
The Port Philip and Colonial Gold Mining Com-
panyhave declared a dividend of is 6d ner share,
17 Per cent. for the year.
c„,The mail from Australia brings dates to Nov.
his „The colony was en fete owing to the arrival of
Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. Red
rust had unfortunately shown itself in the wheat, and
fears were entertained for the harvest. The Sultana
vine had been successfully introduced from the
Pipe. The Port Augusta and Northern Railway
with a government guarantee of 5 per cent. for 30
Years,, on an expenditure of £3,700 per mile (200
miles of line), had been passed by both Houses. The
Railway Loan Bill of £Bll,OOO, at six per cent., had
passed the Assembly. The following were the statis-
tics to November 16 :—lmmigration,
le, 3,435; Cereal Exports, 3,406 ; Emigra-
£933,ls2 ; Customs'
x2ecneicpts, £178,338 ; Imports, £1,683,244 ; Exports,
£1 520„126 ; Land sold, 136,760 acres, valued at
g6,'47. The Banks sold drafts on Londan at 60
ays„ at I per cent. prem., and purchased the same at
torA. call of
per cent. dis.
2s per share has been made by the direc-
tr of the Rossa Mande Gold Mining Company,
"Able on the 29th of February.
has
The half yearly meeting of the Consolidated Bank
the
called for the 23d inst., for the transaction
"e ordinary business of the company.
of 11.
#tr. spencer Herapath has been elected a director
b,,‘"e Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway Com-
in lieu of Mr. John Fair, resigned.
",eircular issued by the North Staffordshire Rail-
-1,,, Board states that the directors propose, with the
th°A Board
of the shareholders, to make application to
of Trade for authority to abandon lines not
yet contracted for, the authorised capital of which
an'?nts to nearly balf-a-million of money.
18,,,h1 Namur and Liege Railway Company have
prelu Proposals for the gradual redemption of the
tionerfence shares upon the system now in opera-
share;or the gradual redemption:` of the ordinary
eeThe London and North-Western and Great 'Western
kerPanies have decided to work the traffic across the
Ferry
in boats of their own, instead of employing
as steamers of the Birkenhead Commissioners
..,onweretofore, and orders have been received by Messrs.
on
tidier and Chaffer to construct two large steamers
The
directors
principle for that purpose.
to
_ue directors of the National Bank have arrangea
tompen a branch at Notting Hill, immediately on
P
02u_
081etion of the necessary alterations to the premises
Ee ttTte to the site of the railway station, 158, High-
t, Which have been taken for the purpose.

nitITIBX ItIiNDS—TWO OILOCI.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 Per Cent. Consols
De• Account, Feb. 6
3„Per Cont. Reduced
New 2
92t i
tlew 3 Pel. . Cent
921 I 1
1 per Cent. Jan. Do 1894 —
• 0 per Cent. J an. 1873 —
itinnities, 80 Yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — De. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885. —t, °0 (Red Sea Telegraph), Ate., 1908 —
'''lchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 ez 2i per Ct 26 22 pm
° Do £5OO
Pm.
D ez
440 k of 'England Sto£loo £2OO
ck, 41 per Cent —Pm
o. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
llbliaO Mock, 10i per Cent., April 1874... ad
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
DO 1, Pe; Cent., Oct. 1888
4-',,0. 't-iertificates
'JO. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
no. 5i per Cent., May 1879
Do. 5 per Cont., Rup. Deb., 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
Do Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ...
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l,OOO
pm
FOREIGN" rul(Ds—TWO O'CLOCK.
'Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do. 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account
D0..£100 Bonds
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Da 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Cuilian 6 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent
Uo. 6 per Cent., B • 1)0,
1867 _
Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866
Do., Scrip £32 paid
° 4. rabian, 6 per Cent.
-Danish. 3 p )1- Cent., 1825 .
Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent —
Do 8 per
tquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
4SYptiar, 7 per Cent
O. Secoed Issue
Do. .£lOO Bonds —
~, Do. 1861
,iO. £s'oo Bonds —
...D0..£100 Bonds
•••••
GC Uovernnient Railway Debentures ..... 91 901
121
,eek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups
,110. Account
..
00. Coil ons
•
ll°. Account
, .
liCr,t.tteinain 5 per Cent .. —
onduras Goy. Rail. Loan., 7 p. Ct., .£l5 IA
tl ital.' 6 per Cc r. t., 1865 —
DO,D Account .. —
It Account
Raiway
'dear; 3 per Cout
Ditto for Account
Do.
1864
DO A
1 I,er Cont. Anglo-French —
leulyvidQti. i'., per Gent. . —
~
eeoluth imad perial 5 per Cent
'Nw Gran
Do
Do 3 per Cen —
. Deferred
bebe Laud Warlants (Hectares)
1- rarian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account _
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarrt n)
4i per Cent.. 1862
p ,Do Account
T, 'rti!glio,k) 3 per Ct , 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,':1 38 } "ii 81
', tl,:ilatt 5 per Cent:, 1822, £ Si _
).3 41 per Cent. 1850
`4 per Cent. 1860
—_
-1,-), 3 per Cont., 1859

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