The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-16 00:00:00

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Y MAREET

AND
CO IMEROIAL ENTEL.LiGENC.4

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The Government securities to-day maintained
the price of yesterday, but the news from abroad
respecting the state of affairs in Turkey and Greece
sent down foreign stocks. Metropolitan Railway
Shares improved if, but in other stocks the business
Was inactive. The rate of discount in the house is
2-,1 to 3.

Consols are 921 1 for money; ditto, for Ac-
ount, 921 n Three per Cent. Reduced, 922 1 ;
New Three per Cents, 921 ; Exchequer Bills
£lOO and £2OO, 2f per Cent., 5 prem.
India Stock, 102 per Cent., April, 1874, shut;
ditto Account, 211 x. d. ; ditto, 5 per Cent., July,
1880, 1121 114 ; ditto, 4 per 4 per Cent., Oct.,
1888, 1021 1 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent.,
912 ; ditto Debentures, 5 per Cent., Aug., 1873,
1041 ; ditto Bonds, 4 per Cent. £l,OOO, 5 prem.
In the Foreign Market a decline has occured in
Turkish, Italian, and Peruvian Bonds. Prices
are now as follows :—Brazilian of 1865, 78 to
1 ; Chilian of 1867, 962 to 97 ; Egyp-
tian of 1864, 831 to , ; ditto of
1868, 734 to 741 ; Italian of 1861, 56 to 56k;
ditto Tobacco Loan, 3 to 32 premium ; Mexi-
can, 15 to 151 ; Peruvian of 1865, 811 to 812 ;
Russian of 1866, 891 to 1 ; ditto Nicolai, 651
to 654 ; ditto Orel, 791 to 794 ; ditto Moscow-
Jaroslaw, 781 to a ex div. ; ditto Charkof-Azof, 2
to 1 :dis. ; ditto Charcow-Krementschug, 1 dis. to
; Spanish of 1867, 32, to 1; Turkish of 1858,
611 to 622 ; ditto of 1862, 622 to 631; and ditto of
1864, 39 to 1.
In Railway shares prices are as follows :—Metro-
politans, 1024 to 103 ; London and North
Western, 112 to 1 ; Great Western, 481 to , ;
Midland, 1118 to 1121 ; London and South
Western, 87 to 88 ; Great Eastern 411 to 1;
Brighton, 49 to 1 ; South Eastern, 79 to 1; Great
Northern, 105} to 1062 ; ditto A, 1081 to , ; Cale-
donian, 74 to 1 ; and London, Chatham, and
Dover, 161 to 171.
American 5-20 Bonds are 741 to ; Erie Rail-

livay shares, 27 to ; Illinois Central, 96 to I ;
Atlantic and Great Western Debentures, 40; to a ;
and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 414 to 42i.
Lohdon Joint Stock Bank Shares are 354 to 361;

London and County, 501 to London and West
rainster, 66k to 67f ; Union of London, 381 to 39 ;
AnglooAustrian, 71 to 81 prem. ; and Imperial
Ottoman 11 to 11 prem.
For Miscellaneous shares prices are as follows :
Telegraph Construction, 16 to 161; National Dis-
count, 114 to 121 ; General Credit, 2 to 11 dis.;
International, 18 to 11 dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 134
to 131; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Pref-
ference 3-a to 3i ; and Anglo-American, 211 to
214.

No bullion operations of importance took place at
the Bank yesterday.
The Union, from New York, is announced with
£36,900.
It is authoritatively stated that the contemplated
new Australian Loan for £2,000,000 will not be
placed upon the market at present.
The report of the London and River Plate Bank,
to be presented on the 21st instant, recommends a
dividend of 5 per cent. for the half year and a
bonus of 31 per cent.
On Change yesterday the rates for bills on Ham-
burg, and for three months draft on Holland, were
quoted slightly lower, but as regards Vienna and
Madrid the terms were somewhat more in favour of
this country.
The report of the Ceylon Company, to be pre-
sented on the 22d instant, shows an available
total of £13,278, and recommends an interim divi-
dend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, which
Will leave £3,485 to be carried forward.
At the meeting to-day of the Upper Assam Tea
C°lnpany (Limited), the directors' report, which
did not recommend the payment of any dividend,
was adopted.
Advices from Frankfort state that the applications
for the Alfolder Railway Bonds have been so large
that subscribers will only receive 3 per cent. of their
subscriptions.
At Berlin the subscriptions for the Roumania
Railway Loan have been very considerable, and
the scrip has been largely dealt in at a premium.

An instalment of 30 per cent. is due on the 17th
instant on the Charkoff-Azof Railway Loan, and
another of like amount in January.
statement that the expected Victorian Go-
'7ernrnent Railway Loan will be introduced this
'Week is understood to be incorrect.
The numbers are published of 178 bonds, amount-
ing to £84,500, of the Turkish Six per Cent. Loan
01.., 1858, which have been drawn by lot, and are to
be paid off at par on the Ist of March. As com-
pared with the price now current in the market, the
,bonus to the holders of the drawn bonds is equiva-
lent to upwards of 38 per cent.
The coupons of the Chilian Seven per Cent. Loan,
1866) £1,120,920; also the Chilian Six per Cent.
L°4n, 1867, £2,000,000, due Ist January, 1869,
:Will be paid on and after that date at the counting-
house of Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co.
The dividends due the 31st instant and the Ist
January on the undermentioned securities are
advertised for payment, namely, on Italian Five
Per Cents. of 1862, Danish Five per Cents. of
1864,
~ and Zealand Railway shares, by Messrs. C.
" Rambro and Son ; and on the Monte Videan 6
Pet' Cent. European Loan of 1864, by Messrs. Maua
and Co. As regards the latter loan, Messrs. Maua
4.4,14 Co. announce that they will be prepared on
the sth of January to purchase, on presentation,
at the then current market value, bonds to the ex-
tent of £13,193, being the amount applicable under
the Sinking fund.
..It appears that Saturday, the 26th inst., the day
ter Christmas Day, will, with very few exceptions,
b4I
e kept as a general holiday, and that many of the
great city warehousing firms intend to remain closed
1?() the Monday also. In various retail trades the
londay will likewise be kept as a holiday, although
illOng these houses the Saturday will be the day
to
°U generally observed both in London and the
Provinces.

A nainnte of the Commissioners of Customs, just
°raulgated, makes certain alterations in the scale
riA payment of the clerks of that establishment, con-
fltient on the memorials addressed during the past
tew Years to the Government. No reply appears
° have been attempted to the statements of unjust
treatment
15 exceptionally experienced by the great
etic)clY of employes in this department, and the
tinges announced are of a petty character, such,
h.lB said, as rather to augment than diminish the
``evious irritation.

BRITISH FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
a UOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Per Cent. Consols
.13 92/ II xd
% itto for Account,
INltli3er cent. Reduced 92/ 4
4.,,...t 3 per Cent
1)- " 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894
4,- O. 5 per Cont..)an. 1873
~,anities, 0 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
ut,o. for SU yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
tx"'? (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
--,,''lloquer Bills, £1 000, 2 per Ct — pm
,i,o. _ 7
£OOO
bo
Batik. £lOO & £2OO 5 m
1_ of England Stock, 4 per Cent
cja.4.• accemat
Ikt ada 4 per Cent. Bonds
,
er-Colonial Cranium
I di4DIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
4,0 took, 104 per Cent., April 1874 Shut
ou Opening, for Account 2ll
D°. 6 per Cent..fuly, 1830
o°. 4 pet. Cent., Oct. 1388
13°. Certificates
U
Eufaced Pape, 4 per Cent 9ll
bs'o• 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
0 ,' Si per Csat. May 1879 —
" °Per Cent Rup. Deb. 1872 —
°•D ~
do. 1877 —
Do
D • do. 1882 —
bo-•
,I)eb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
1) • u00(18, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
0. Under £l.000
FOREIGN F UNDS—T WO O'CLOCK.
44.
bo elltine it epubhc, 6 per Cent
,
441trlaboebrioPu8 S
J. 45 paid - .
per cent ..
lar,,iii Do. 1.59 —
00. ao 5 per Cent, —
00. 4i Per Cent., 1832 —
Uo' do., do 1858
. 1860....