The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-05 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY., TKO O'CLOCK.

A further improvement has taken place in all the
leading railway stocks, averaging to per cent.,
and they are firm at the advance. Railways, in-
deed, are beginning to be regarded as having seen
their lowest, while the dividends declared by the
Midland and the South Western appear to have
inspired some investments. Foreign Stocks are dull
upon good supplies, but there are cases in which
no change has taken place, The Funds are un-
altered.

The rate for money continues at 11 per cent.,
with a very limited demand, and supplies are with-
out any appreciable diminution.
The Wheat Market is quiet, at Monday's quo-
tations.

Consols are steady, at 93} to 931 for money
and account. New and Reduced Three per
Cents., 93f to . 93i ; Bank Stock, 247 to 249 ;
India Five per Cents. , 1111 to 112 f ; Exchequer
Bills, 20s. to 255. prem.

The Foreign Stock Market is scarcely so firm,
there being some speculative sales. New Spanish
and Italian (1861) Bonds are per cent. lower, the
former at 361 to 351, and the latter at 42j to 43} ;
Turkish (1865) Bonds are I lower, at 32 to 321;
Mexican, 151 to 16 ; Greek, 13 to 14 ; and Turkish
(1862), 60} to 61k. _ _ .

Egyptian Nine per Cent. Bonds are firm, at 891
to 901,
The New Honduras Loan is steady, at t to li

prem.

In Colonial Bonds, Canada 6 per Cents. are
quoted at 98 to 100 ; do. 5 per Cents., 86 to 87.
New Zealand 6 per Cents., 108 to 110 ; New South
Wales 5 per Cents., 99 to 101; Mauritius 6 per
Cents., 103 to 195 ; Queensland 6 per Cents, 103}
to 104 f ; Victoria 6 per Cents., 110 to 111.
American Securities are flat. United States 5-20
Bonds are 714 to 72k, being 4 lower. Erie Rail-
way 4 lower, at 474 to 48f ; and Illinois I, at 86}
to 874.

Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have receded 3, to 271 to 28k, and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds 3, to 253 to 26i.
The Railway Market is active, and business is re-
ported at an average advance of f per cent. There
is a rise of 1 in London and North Western, at 118}
to 119, and in Midland, at 1053 to 106 ; of it in
Caledonian, at 773 to 783 ; of 3 in North British,
at 363 to 37 ; in London and South Western,
at 87 to 89, and in Lancashire and Yorkshire, at
1263-to 127; of lin South Eastern, at 703 to 701;
and in Metropolitan, at 1081 to 1094 ; and of
in Sheffield, at 433 to 43/ ; and in Great Western,
at 453 to 461. There is no change in Brighton,
at 453 to 46 ; Great Eastern, 314 to 311 ; and
Great Northern, 1073 to 108 k.
St. John del Rey Mine shares have changed
hands at 20. Mr. Gordon, in the letter published
this morning by the company, states that he is not
prepared to point out the best course to pursue re-
specting the mines.

In Bank Shares the only feature is an ad-
vance off in London and Westminster, at 671
to 681. The following are the quotations :
Union of London, 331 to 34} ex div. Orien-
tal, 42 to 43 ; London Joint Stock, 331
to 34f ex div. ; London and County 53 to
51; Imperial Bank, 17 to 18 ; Imperial Ottoman,
ito dis. ; Consolidated, Ito f prem. ex div. ;
Alliance, 13 to 12 dis. ; Agra (A shares), 11 to 111 ;
Anglo-Austrian, 3 to 3} prem.
Credit Foncier shares are 31 to 31; General
Credit, 21 to 21 dis. ; International, 11 to 111 dis. ;
and National Discount, 11 to 11i.
Anglo American Telegraph shares are 191 to 191;
Atlantic Eight per Cent. Preference, 5 to 51; ditto
Ten per Cent., par to 1 prem.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK'
The sum of £103.000 in bar gold and coin wa
'Withdrawn from the Bank yesterday for export.
The City of Boston has arrived from New York
with £41,000 in specie, and the Bremen, with
£30,000.

The official liquidators of the European Bank
announce that a further-dividend of is in the pound,
making 8s 6d, will be distributed to the creditors on
Priday, Saturday, and. Monday next, at the offices of
Alessrs. Harding, Whinney, Gibbous, and Company,
Old Jewry.
The dividend of the Midland Railway Company
Will be at the rate of s;i: per cent. per annum, against
61' per cent. for the corresponding period of the pre-
vious year.

After the ordinary half-yearly meeting of the South
Staffordshire Railway Company, on the 19th instant,
the
meeting will be made special for the purpose of
cancelling all unissued shares in the authorised capital,
and for the purpose of creating new shares in lieu
thereof, at a fixed and preferential dividend, and fur-
ther to authorise the directors to exercise the borrow-
ing powers of the Company.
Tuesday the 11th inst. has been appointed for tne
ordinary general meeting of the Mariquita and New
Granada Mining Company (in liquidation), when the
Proposition of the directors of the Mariquita Mining
Company to pay the sum of £7,000 in full discharge
of the claim of the company against the Mariquita
Mining Company will be accepted.
The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the Bucking-
hamshire Railway Company has been called for the
21st inst.

The half-yearly meeting of the National Steamship
Company has been called for the 26th inst. for the
transaction of the ordinary business of the company.
The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders
of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com-
pany has been convened for the 27th inst., and that
of the mortagees on the 28th inst.
The directors of the British Colonial Steamship Corn-
,l34ny have convened their annual meeting for the 20th

BRITISH FUNDS—TWO O'dOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
E Per tient. Consols
, Do. Account, Feb. 6 9314 -
N2,per Cent. Reduced 931 1
3 per Cent 931 1 1
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. can. 1873 —
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), An,., 1908 —
xixchoquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 & 21per Ct 25 pm
Do £500.. 25 pm
Sank
Do. £lOO & £2OO 25 pm
''ank of England Stock, 41 per Cent 249 8
Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Account -
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cont., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb., 1872 —
Do. do. 1877
Do. do. 1882 —
Do- Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
Do. under £l.000
FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852 7l
Do. do, 18-8 —
Do. do., 18i0 671
.., Do. do., 1863 —
-uO. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
b Do Account 77 I
'"lleuos Ayres 6 per Cent --1.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
r,'lba, 6 per Cent.
~,tilian 6 per Gent lO2
Do. 41 per Cent
00. 6 per Cent., B .
Do., 1867
Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866
o "N., Scrip .£32 paid
./.)'' mbian, 6 per Cent.
/2,4111811 3 p3r Cent, 1825 ...
tuubian Principalities, 7 per Cent —
1.. 1)0 8 per Cent., 1867 671
t:ol,uador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
bYptian, 7 per Cent
t
,•)0. Second Issue 9Ol
. i
,L 1 ' • .£590 Bonds
"0. .£I.OC Bonds 93

Do. 186.1
",0..£5,i0 Bonds 9lf
-u0..£100 Bonds ~... 92*
, Uovoruntoot Railway ilebentures ..... 93
('reek, sper Cent 1824-5, ex Coups
I 1 .7 -
. 13
.„--o• Account
.„'"u. Coupons
tio. Account
(14 latetnala 5 per Cent .. —
°lldu G 111.1 I oan 10p. Ct., £2sp
it ras ov. u. 4 ,
4,;lan 5 per Cent., 1b65 —
'0 Account
1,"0. Ilaremmana Raiway 46
'-'3xicar. 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
.r., Do, 1864-
4'o 8 per Cont. Anglo-French
uolitevidaau 6 per Cent. • —
t.,oorish Imperial 5 per Cent
I'ICW Granada —