The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGRN!.It.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

Very little change has taken place in the Stock
Markets. The Consol settlement is making progress,
without causing any variation from the final prices
of yesterday. Railway Stocks are moderately firm,
with perfectly unimportant alterations except in
the case of Caledonian and London and North
Western Stocks. The former have advanced 1/
per cent., upon the anticipated issue of the report.
Foreign Stocks are quiet, at yesterday's prices,
there being no news to affect them.

The Discount Market is quiet, with rates nomi-
nally at to 2 per cent., but business is not re-
fused at 14 per cent. The supplies of money are
large, and they will be increased by the payment of
the dividends, which commences on Wednesday
next.

Consols are steady, at 92} to 92f for delivery,
and 92; for account. New and Reduced Three per
Cents., 92 to 921 ; India Five per Cents., 1101 to
1111 ; Bank Stock, 239 to 241 ; Exchequer Bills,
22 to 27.

In the Foreign Market the Scrip of the Por-
tuguese Loan is quoted at 1 to II prem ; Mexican is
lower, at 151 to 151 ; Greek, 12 to 13 ; Italian,
411 to 411 ex div.
Railway stocks are in several cases rather above
the opening prices, and they are generally steady,
though business is perfectly inactive. The prin-
cipal feature is an advance of l per cent. in
Caledonian Stock, which is now quoted at 71! to
72i. A slight improvement has also taken place
in London and North Western, the price of which
is 113/ to 1141. Great Eastern, 30i to 31. Other
stocks are without change.
American Securities are quiet. United States
Five-twenty Bonds are i lower, at 721 to 721;
Erie Railway, 48 to 49 ; Illinois, 88 to 89.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have risen 1., to 211 to 22, and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds at 18 19.
The Now Honduras Loan is 4,1 prem. ex Coupon.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The steamship Syria takes out to-day £10,645 in
silver for Shanghai, £372 in gold for Point de Galle,
and £3OO in gold for Alexandria.
The steamships Russia and Virginia have, together,
brought £256,000 gold from New York. The Cala-
bar has £13,000 in gold from the West Coast of
Africa.

The sum of £7,000 in sovereigns, received from
Lisbon, were sent into the Bank yesterday.
The general meeting of the Ocean Marine Insurance
Company is called for the 30th inst.
The total amount of the dividends paid by British
mines in the year 1867 was £268,258 9s.
The subscription list for the issue of £1,000,000 of
mortgage bonds of the Panama Railroad closes :
to-
day.

Annexed is an extract from the monthly Bullion
Circular of Messrs. W. C. Sillar and Co. of Cornhill
Business remains generally without any improvement,
though transactions in bullion have been to a fair
extent, but without any material alteration in prices.
Our imports consist of £2,301,198, and our exports
of £1,009,186, showing a balance in favour of this coun-
try of a million and a-quarter, the bulk of which has been
sold for the Continent, but having only arrived within
the last day or two, it has not yet had time to appear
among our exports. The details of the month's im-
ports and exports are as follows :—lmports--.£942,000
from. West Indies, £640,000 from Australia,
£500,230 from America, £75,808 from Alexandria,
£09,110 from Brazil, £6, 200 from West Coast of Africa,
£61,830 front the Continent. Total, £2,301,198,
Exports--£27,800 to Alexandria, £65,818 to Brazil,
£30,900 to China, £30,000 to Cape of Good Hope,
£l,OOO to Bombay, £7OO to West Indies, and
£851,978 to the Continent. Total, £1,008,196.
The shares of the Anglo-Argentine Company are
quoted ato prem.

BRIT IS FUT UN D S.—CL 0 SING PRICES.
. GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
4
6 per Una. Consols
1
Do. Account,
$ per (:/mt. Reduced 9ll 4
l 4.
New 3 per Cent oi 2
Row 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 por Cent. ..1 an. 1873
• Annuities, 30 vrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, aspire sth April 1885 l2l 4
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), An,., 1908 —
Dxcholuer Bills,
£l,OOO, 2 k2i pin- Ct 2.2 6 pna
Do £5OO 22 6 pin
Do. £lOO St £2OO 22 6 pin
Bank of England Stock,
D 41 per Cent
o. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
todiau Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 84 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 £1,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent —
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
_
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do. Loper Cent., 1852-58-60
1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account 751 i 44 51
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) 43 21
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Ouilian 6 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent —
Do. 6 per Cent., B
Do., 1867
Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866
Do., Scrip £32 paid 0 )I,,mbian, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 par Cent, 1825
Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 —_
Ecuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cont —
47ptian, 7 per Cent
Do. Second Issue .................
Do. £5OO Bonds
Do. .£lOO Bonds
Do. 1864 Do. £fsoo Bonds •••.•..•..••...., —.
Do. £lOO Bonds .. 88
Government Railway Debentures . ...
... 921
Greek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex C0up5.....,,
Do, Account
.. 12
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent .. —
lionduras GeT. Rail. Loan., 7p. Ct., £l5 pd pm
It9iian 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do, Account
Do. Maremmana Raiwa —
Mexican 3 per Cent Y
Ditto for Account
Do, 1864 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French _
Montevidean 6 per Cent.
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent . —
99
New Granada
114
Do 3 per Oen, —
Do. Deferred
Peruvian Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account —
D 0441 per Cent. (Uribarren) —
1 per Cent.. 1862
Do Account
Portiliguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,%-i
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 4} per Cent. 1850
44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds BB
Do,
do. £B4 15s. do.
Do,
13°.) 1866, £lOO Bonds B7l 4
do.
ardinia,n, 5 per Cent £B4 15s. do —
—.Bpanish 3 per Con —
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Passive 251 1
Do Account
TlDiureloci CsAhocrac6o .uonetrt. of Coup. not funded
per Cent. —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account .. 591
Do £lOO Bonds —
~Do 6 pe
r Cent , 1862
Do Account .
Do £lOO Bonds 6l
Do. 1863 —
DCent.,o 5 per 1865 —
Do Account32l
Do G per Cent., 1865
„..1210 4 por Cent. Guaranteed
v Imozuela, 3 per 'Cent. —
-Do Account
12 Do 6 per Cont., 1862 -
.L, Do 6 per Cent. 1864 —
IDividends on the above pay:tole in London.
Itrelach Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251. —
%hall 5 per Cont. 18G1 Ex. 2sf.
Do. Account '
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money! 921 4+.
.c.
Do, Account