The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-17 00:00:00

MONEY MAREET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCI,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Business is dull to-day, and the price of Consols
has slightly given way. The Foreign Market is
quiet ; and the price for railway shares remains un-
altered. The rate of discount for bills is 2f per
cent.

r Consols are 94i 34 4i for money; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 924 ; New Three per Cents,
924 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 2 per Cent., 15
prem. ; ditto, £lOO and £2OO, 20 prem ; Bank of
England Stock, 4 per Cent.. 2454.
India Stock, 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1154;
ditto, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 103; ditto, Enfaced
4 per Cent., 914 ; ditto, 5 per Cent., Jan., 1872,
1054 4; ditto, Debentures, Aug., 1873, 1054.
According to Mr. Renter's telegram, this morn-
ing, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 71f. 95c.
Animated.

In the Foreign Market the prices are as fol-
lows :—Brazilian of 1865, 77} to 73 ; Chilian
of 1867, 94i to 951 ; Egyptian of 1864, 81 to
82 ; ditto of 1868, 74 to 1 ; Italian of 1861, 551
to 56i ; Mexican, 151 to 16 ;1 Peruvian of
1865, 811 to f ; Russian of 1866, 90+ to ; ditto
Nicolai Railayw Loan, 65f to 1 ditto Orel, 81+ to
it; ditto Moscow-Jaroslaw, 82} to ; Spanish
of 1867, 34f to 1 ; Turkish of 1850, 68 to
69 ; ditto of 1862, 68 to 69 ; and ditto of 1865,
41 to 42.

United States Five-Twenties are steady at 73
to I.

The Tobacco Loan is 2i to 3 prem.

The railway market quotations are as follows :
London and North Western, 113 to ; Great
Western, 504 to k ; Midland, 112 k to f ; London
and South Weateria, 87i to 88i ; Great Eastern,
44 to I; Brighton, 491 to ; South Eastern,
79i to 4 ; Metropolitan,lo6l to i; Great Northern
A, 1044 to ; Caledonian, 744 to 75 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 1281 to 129 ; London, Chatham,
and Dover, 174 to ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 474 to 484.
In Miscellaneous and Banking Shares the prices
are as last quoted.
.The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
pointed 1 huraday, the 19th inst., a special settling
day in the scrip of the Charkoff-Azof Railroad
Company, to be marked.
The report of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of
India, London, and China, to be presented on the
18th inst., shows an available total of £58,131, after
Payment of the interim dividend of 3 per cent. for
the half-year ended June 30.
At a general meeting yesterday of the Egyptian
Commercial Trading Company, the chairman
stated that in all probability there would be a re-
turn of 128. 6d. per share by the end of the present
month.

At an extraordinary general meeting of the Don
Pedro North Del Rey Gold Mining Company, to
be held on the 24th inst., an interim dividend of 3s.
6d per share, being at the rate of 100 per cent. per
annum, will be declared.

An extraordinary general meeting of the Char-
'°g-cross Hotel Company was held yesterday. Re-
solutions were passed authorising the transfer of
the estate by way of mortgage to Mr. Charles
Morrison for the sum of £BO,OOO. The rate of 5
per cent, to be repaid by half-yearly instalments of
£2,500 each.

We are informed that, on the 14th instant, 250
nautical miles of the French Atlantic deep sea
cable had been completed and certified by the
engineers.

A petition for the winding up of the Interna-
tional Life Assurance Society is to be heard before
Vice-Chancellor Malins on the first day of petitions
in December.
The great irregularities that have hitherto existed
in the Danubian Principalities with regard to the
delivery of letters will, it is expected, henceforth
cease, a new postal treaty between Austria and Rou-
mania having been dawn up, which the Austrian
Minister of Commerce will shortly lay before the
lieicharath for their approval.
It has transpired that Messrs. Baring Brothers
and Co. intend commencing immediately with-
drawals of bullion from the Bank for £1,000,000,
the money lately received on account of Russia for
the purchase of the Alaska territory. The with-
drawal of so large au amount from the Bank's
resources has created an impression that an ad-
vance in the official minimum will not be much
longer delayed.
Our latest advices from Portugal state, pro-
fessedly on the authority of the Minister, that the
recent temporary loan obtained in Paris and
Frankfort was at 15 per cent. instead of 16 per
cent., as mentioned in one of the Lisbon journals.
They also assert that the Government have pre-
Pared a satisfactory settlement of the claims of the
bond and shareholders of the South-Eastern Rail-
way of Portugal, the terms of which will be made
known in the course of the week.
It appears that the Greek Government feel ag-
grieved that England objects to Greece appropria-
ting any part of her revenue to the claims of her
ordinary creditors until she have complied with
the condition by which she is bound to meet
the interest of the loan guaranteed by the protect-
ing Powers in 1833. It would be impossible, how-
ever, for any English Cabinet to surrender the na-
tional rights in this respect without the sanction of
Parliament. The protecting Powers hold a first
Mortgage, and it is not for any individual Cabinet,
in a fit of generosity either to Greece or her bond-
holders, to give it up. That the mortgage ought
never to have been given or accepted is a point that,
Perhaps, may be reasonably maintained, since at
the time it was entered into Greece had already
mortgaged all her revenues to her then bondholders,
and without their consent no title could equitably
be created to override their claims.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

GOVERNMENT FUND&
6 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, Dec. 1
$ per Cent. Reduced 2l fa
New 3 per Cent
Now 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
_•
Do. tor 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885._
Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct l5
PIA
..Do. £5OO
Do. £lOO & £2OO 2O
PDa
31 tnk of England Stock, 4 per Cent
Do. acceuit ***
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
lAter-Colonial ()minium

I._ iNDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
''lhia tock, 10k per Cent., April 18i4
",,0. Opening, for Account —
0. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
DO. I per Cent., Oct. IS118
'O. Certificates _
Do. Enfaced Pape, 4 per Cent...—. .....
1),,c. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
',a. 6} per Cent., May 1879 —
'Jo 6 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
De. do. 1877 —
, Do. do. 1882
D"L.. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
o:Bonds, 4 per Cent~ £I,OOO ...
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
duza., Scrip £45 paid ..
,
trian. Bonds a per cent .. —
a.,,, Do. 1859 —l
rtzilian 5 per Cent —
°a. 41 per Cent., 1852 —
D„o• do. 1858....
.„`-'O. do lB6O —
~10. d 0.,. 1863 —
.."0. 5 per Cent.lB6s
, Do Account 7B
II ‘enos A.yres 6 per Cent.
Cube 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 51
11.6 Per Cent.
er Cent
Do. 4} per Cent —
DO. 3 per Cent
~
10. 6 per cent. 1807 9s}
D: robia
Pn, 6 per er Cent.,Cent. 1W : lO3
1 Danubian Principalities, 7 lar Cent 73
.Da 8 per Cent~ 1867 .
sgyptian, 7 per Cent
•••
D 0 Second issue
Do. .£soi, Bonds BOl
Do. £lOO Bonds ..„. 811
_Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. £SOO Bonds
3
Engliah Scrip, 1868 74 1
Do do. £45 pd - +US