The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-28 00:00:00

lAAICKET

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COMMERCIAL EgTELLlCittutiii.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

For a Saturday business has been more active
than usual, and Consols have increased
in price. We have to record a trifling fall
in Railway Stock, but not to any serious ex-
tent. Loans are obtainable on 'Change at 1i to 2
per cent., and best paper is discounted at 4 per
cent. below the Bank rate.

Consols are 94 3i 4 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 94 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 921 ;
New Three per Cents, 921 4 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 2 per Cent., 13 12 prem. ; ditto, £5OO,
14 prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent.,
245 i.

India Stock, 105 per Cent., April, 1874, 220 ;
ditto, Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent., 92.
In the Foreign Market Orel Railway Loan has
declined 1, and Brazilian of 1865, Moscow-Jaros-
low, and Turkish of 1158 and 1865 4to 4. The
Prices are now as follows :—Brazilian of 1865,
775 to 78 ; Chili= of 1867, 961 to 961 ;
Egyptian of 1864, 82 to 83 ; ditto of 1868, 734
to 744 ; Italian of 1861, 564 to 4 ; ditto of 1868,
24 to 34 prem ; Mexican, 164 to S ; Peruvian of
1865, 814 to 82 ; Russian of 1866, 894 to 901;
ditto Nicolai, 655 to 4 ; ditto Orel, 804 to 5 ;
ditto Moscow-Jaroslaw, 814 to 82 ; Spanish
of 1867, 341 to 4 ; Turkish of 1858, 664 to
674 ; ditto of 1862, 67 to 68 ; and ditto of 1865,
414 to 5.
In railway stocks Metropolitan are inquired after
at improved prices, 1034 104 ; London and North-
Western, Great Western, and Brighton have im-
proved si; while Great Eastern and Caledonian have
receded 5 ; Midland are 1114 to 4 ; London and
South Western, 875 to 885 ; Great Easter, 415 to
41; South Eastern, 794 to 5 ; Metropolitan, 103 to
; Great Northern, A, 1055 to 106 ; Chatham,
and Dover, 164 to 175.
United States 5-20 Bonds show no movement at
744 to

The scrip of Charkow-Krementschug Railway
Loan is at I to / prem.

Prices of other Securities, including banking and
financial shares, are unaltered.

The Mexican dollars brought by the West India
packet have been sold for China at 591 d. per
ounce, showing an advance of id. upon the price
realised for the last arrivals. In the interim sales
had been effected at 59ed. A parcel of Maria
Theresa dollars just arrived has been sold at 54
9-16 d. per ounce.
It is understood that Mr. George Lyall will be
recommended as the next Deputy Governor of the
Bank of England, the election for which office is in
April next.

The folowing relates to the New Granada debt :
*--" Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. hava received
the following remittances on account of New Gra-
nada dividends, viz., from Savanilla, £489 ; from
Santa Marta, £1,280 ; from Cartagena, £734 ; from
Bogota, £l,OOO ; total, £3,503.—N0v. 27, 1868."
l'he directors of the Cape Copper Mining Com-
pany (Limited) have announced a further dividend
Of 15a per share, making, with the interim dividend
of 10a. per share paid in February last, a total dis-
tribution of 255. per share for the year ending the
31st of December.

A meeting of the shareholders and creditors of
the London Offices Company (Limited), now in
liquidation, is called for the Ist December, "to
consider the affairs of the company, and to pass
resolutions with reference to the winding up."
A petition for the winding up of the North-
West of England China Stone and Clay Company
(Limited) is to be heard before the Master of the
'tolls on the sth of December.
A meeting of the proprietors of the City of
Moses, Gas Company has been adjourned until
Ithe 3d December.
A general meeting of the proprietors of the
London Joint-Stock Bank is called for the 21st of
January.
An extraordinary general meeting of the share-
holders of the Chartered Bank of Australia is con-
vened for the 11th of December, for the declaration
of a dividend.
The joint traffic return of the Caledonian and
North British railways shows this week an increase
of £2,661 over last year.

Mr. William Henry Hodges has been appointed
manager and secretary to the Commercial Indem-
nity Corporation of Great Britain.
The numbers are published of 4,225 bonds of
£2O each, amounting to £84,500, of the Ottoman
Six per Cent. Loan of 1865, which have been
drawn for repayment at par on the Ist of January
next.

The steamer Massilia takes £75,749 in specie for
the East. The particulars are as follows, viz., for
to
ay,
bar silver, £ll,OOO ; ditto, gold, £
2,600 ;
(3raile, gold, £30,191; Madras, gold, £2,270 ;
Calcutta, gold, £5,000 ; and Hong Kong, dollars,
£24,
688.

The prospectus of a loan for the completion of a
railway in Russia, between Odessa, St. Petersburg,
and Moscow, called " The Charkow-Krementschug
Railway," has been issued and will b 3 f,,u[Al in
our advertising columns. The company is under
the
especial tprotection of the Emperor, who gua-
fantees the principal and interest of the loan. The
length of the line is about 175 miles. The road
:ill chiefly lie in the provinces of Pultawa and
-.}larkov,f, where most of the grain grows which is
exported from Odessa. The amount of the present
loanis £1,716,000, of which £1,300,000 is re-
served for London. Bonds will be issued bear-
Zig the Imperial Russian stamp of £lOO, £5OO, and
.:1000. The price of issue is 80, in a 5 per cent.
eek, with interest in favour of subscribers from
Ist September last. Subscriptions must be paid 5
_Per cent. on application, 10 on allotment, 15 on
7th January, 1869, 15 on March Ist (less coupon),
.!
011 lst April, 30 on Ist May. Subscribers can
Pay all the instalments at once, under discount of
Per cent. Reckoning the accrued interest and
rebate of discount, the price 'is reduced to 77i.
The loan, granted as it is doubtless, will be accepted
ail a first-class security.
The following is a list of prices obtained at rublic
Ala of the Open Stock Exchange (Limited), yes-
terday :—Alhambra Company (Limited), £lO fully
.„,,Paid, sold at £7 14s. to £7lss. per share ; Brighton
"'lntel Company (Limited), £5 fully paid, 28s.
Per share ; City Discount Company (Limited),
5 paid, 17s. 6d. per share ; City of Milan
"Inprovements (Limited), £3O fully paid, 7 8-16ths
Per share ; Consolidated Land Company of France
(Limited) £lO fully paid, 103. 3d. per share ; East
London Bank (Limited), £5, paid, 3f per share ;
Joint-Stock Coal Company (Limited), 15s. paid,
fa• per share ; Oriental Hotels Company (Limited),
fu y paid, £2 6s. per share ; Price's Candle Com-
pany (Limited), £2O fully paid, 5i per share;
Royal Swedish Railway Company, £5 fully paid,
2s.
6d. per share.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
8 UOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Per Cent. Consols
8 Deitto, for Account, Dec. 1
isa r Cent. Reduced 92k 1
li"1 3 per Cent
41-17 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
4-'O. tor 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
DOx,,, (Red Sea TeleE,raph), Aug., 1908 -7
—ctioquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ot l3 12 p
"Jo.
.
£5OO 14
I
b
B 13°' £lOO & £2OO
tuit of England Stock, 4 por Cent
0245}
p • account .
ill,,anada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
ter-C9lonial Uranium
I N—hLiN t.T r 1
I . OVERNMENT SECURITIES.
nha dock, 10f or Cent., April 1874 220
Do n P
n • Opening, for Account —
6°. 0 per cent. July, 1860
h°•l per Cent., Oct. 1888
la 0 . Certificates —
O. Enfaced Pap,l 4 per Cent O2
Do.
5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do°' ,/ Per Cent., May 1679 —
0 per Coot Ru D b 1872
-, P. e •
Do. Do. do. 1577 —
Do.
do. 1882
Deb., 5 per Cent , Aug. 1873
Do
Bonds, 4 per Cent.,. £l,OOO
be. under £l.000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICE S.
Aronttue Republic, 8 per Cent .....
Au , Scrili 4:45
;trixti l3onds 6 per cent