The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-31 00:00:00

lIONEY MARTiET

AND
f]OAILIERCIAL iNTELLIG2NCIL

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The Stock Exchange to-day was quiet, and al-
though it will not be open before Tuesday next,
business was not by any means brisk. Prices in
inost instances remain unchanged, with the excep-
tion of the Tobacco Loan, which has improved.
The rate of discount is 1 to 4, and fcr loans 1 per
Cent.

Consols are quoted 941 1.; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 93 21 ; New Three per Cent., 93 21 ; Ex-
chequer Bills, £1,009, 21s. ; do., £5OO, 17s. ; do.,
£lOO and £2OO, 17s. prem.
In the Foreign Market business slightly im-
proved. Brazilian Stock went up 1, the price for
that of 1865 being 79 to 1; Chilian of 1867, 941 to
1; Egyptian of 1864, 811 to 823 ex div. ; ditto of
1868, 73/ to a ; Italian of 1861, Ma to 8 ; Mexi-
can, 16 to 1; Peruvian of 1865, 821 to 83 ; Russian
of 1866, 903 to 91; ditto Nicolai Railway Loan,
671 to 1 ; ditto Orel, 811 to 1,-ex. div. ; ditto Mos-
ccw-Jaroslaw,lB23 to 83 ; Spanish of 1867, 341 to
; Turkish of 1868, 68 to 3 ; ditto of 1862, 70 to f;
and ditto of 1865, 411 to 8. •
The Italian Tobacco Loan has further improved
the price is now 23 to a prem.
India Stock, 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 115 ;
ditto 4 per Cent., October, 1888, 1021 ; ditto
Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent., 911 ; ditto 5 per Cent.,
January. 1872, 1051 6 ; ditto 53 per Cent., May,
1879, 1101 ; ditto Debenture 5 per Cent., August,
1873, 1051 ; ditto Bonds, under £l,OOO, 17.
In the railway market stocks are quoted as fol-
lows ;--London and North Western 1113 1121;
Great Western, 481 to 3 ; Midland, 112 to 1 ; Lon-
don and South-Western, 873 to 881; Great
Eastern, 421 to 8 ; Brighton, 491 to 503 ; South
Eastern, 78 to 1; Metropolitan, 105/ to 106 ;
Great Northern, 104 to 105 ; ditto A, 1041 to 1041;
Caledonian, 721 to 1, ex div ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 1281 to 8 ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
17 to 1 ; and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 4 471 to
•_ - .

United States Five-Twenty Bonds have risen i
per cent., 73/ to i.

In Bank Shares prices are stationary.

In Miscellaneous Shares there is little doing.
General Credit are 21 to 21 dis. ; International
Financial, 11 to 1 dia. ; Hudson's Bay, 141 to 1 ;
National Discount, 111 to 12 ; Telegraph Con-
struction, 151 to ; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per
Cent. Preference, 3i to 4 ; and Anglo-American,
21.1 to 22.

The BUM of £Bl,OOO in gold was taken from the
Bank to-day.
The price of gold at Paris, reckoning the short
exchange 25f. 13c., continues about 1-10th per cent.
dearer than in London.

At the general meeting of the Standard Bank of
British South Africa yesterday the report was
adopted, and dividends were declared of 10s.
per share on the £25 shares, and of 4s. on the £lO
shares.

The meeting of the Upper Assam Tea Company
Yesterday was only pro pima, for the purpose of
adjournment to the 15th of December.
Mr. Alfred Good has been appointed liquidator
of The Dorchester Antelope Hotel Company
(Limited).
The Defence Committee of the Cavour Canal
Septennial Bondholders think the terms proposed
to them by the Italian Government inadequate and
unacceptable.
The proposed loan has improved Spanish Secu-
rities, the belief being that the greater part of it
will be subscribed in Spain, especially if the state-
ment be correct that the receipt given by the Caja
de Depositos for money deposited there will be
taken as cash for the loan. Confidence is placed
in the desire, not only of Senor Figuerola, the
Finance Minister, but of the Spanish people, to
See their finances placed on a clear and solid
foundation, and the country enabled to emerge
from. the discredit in which it has been kept by the
corrupt course of the previous Government.

The Oneida is telegraphed at Lisbon from Brazil
and the River Plate with £102,380. The telegra-
phic advices on this occasion show that at Rio
the tendency to financial confidence was maintained,
the rate of exchange being 19d. to 194 d. From
the seat of war the news is that the allies were
within three leagues of Lopez, who was fortifying
himself at Villeta.

The following vessels are now at sea from Aus-
tralia ; —Th e Liberator, from, Sydney,with £24,000 ;
Kent, from Melbourne, with £272,000 ; Buckley
Castle, from Melbourne, with .1.:124,5%/0—making a
total of
£420,500.
On Monday next the United States Treasury will
have to disbursebetween £4,000,000 and £5,000,000
°f specie in payment of dividends, including a con-
siderable amount due in Europe. This will be in
addition to £600,000 of gold sold by the Treasury
during the past fortnight.
Several exchanges have been made within the
last day or two by persons selling the Great Eastern
Debenture Stock, which is a second mortgage,
and buying the A Debenture Stock, which is a first
lortgage, the price of both being 1064.
Messrs. Pixley, Abell, and Langley's bullion cir-
cular states that the demand for gold for the Con-
tinent has been brisk during the week, and the
orders have been sufficient, not only to absorb the
arrivals, but also £255,000 withdrawn from the
14/auk. £72,000 was sent in in the early part of
the week, but the operation is not likely to be re-
peated for the present.
Messrs. Mocatta and Goldsmid, in their bullion
circular of this date, state that within the last few
days the market for all descriptions of silver has
Mexican
decidedly firmer. The large amount of
'Ylexican dollars received at the beginning of the
month was principally taken for China, the greater
Part having been sent round the Cape in sailing
'easels. Since then, very little silver of any de-
13cription has come to hand, and the market for bars
is go bare that, in order to supply any fresh de-
731and, we should be obliged to import from the
Centinent at GOid., or above.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
$ GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Par Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, Nov.:s
t per Cent. Reduced 93 21
NSW 3 per Cent
.k., 41 . W 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. !or 30 yre, expire sth April 1885 —
.t., Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
4xchoquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 par Ct 2l
Do. £5OO
Do £lOO dc £2OO l7
11 ank of Englsnd Stook, 4 per Cent
n Do. atcanit
t tada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Ilt er-C•lonial Umuntm -
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Adia Stock 104 per Cent., April 1879 —
Do., Opening, for Account —
uo• 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Pape. 4 per Cent 9ll
13°. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do
, •Si per Cent. ay 1879 llo}
'J.) 5 per Cent., hup. Deb. 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882
D,,,.. Dab., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 llos}
‘.O. -Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
i)o. under £l,OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
4 r .•:Ota •
77i- Bni° Republic, 6 per Cent ... .
A DOS, Scrip £3O paid
DOS,
Bonds 5 per Cent. 1859
Do 1e59 63/
razalian 5 per Cent
41 -
n- Ai Per Cont., 1852
'',l3. do. 1858....
-I,°. do , 18,il,
,"°. do., 1863 GS-I
4-'O. 5 per *Cent 1665
~
P, ye per
78 k
•eros Ayres 6 per Cent.
0 Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
pr Ce nt
e4ilitin 6eer Cent —
De. 4/ per Cent i
DO. 6 per Cont., 13
oo 1867
C
Du., 7 per Cent. 0.866
D,..,.ii L• 6
87k
.tu ian, per Cent
. inisii, 3 p•-.:r Cent., 1825
uanubian Principaities, 7P or Cent 73i"
v,I)0 8 per Cent., 1867 841
bluador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
'''gYptian, 7 per Cent 1)0 Second Issue ...
Po. £5OO Bonds
00. 4100 Bonds B2