The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-26 00:00:00

IfIONEY MA ST

AND
GOZIMERCIAL INTMLLIGENCit,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

, The prospect of a splendid harvest all over Europe,
;be efforts of the present Government to insure peace
by bringing about a disarmament, with the extraor-
linary character of the flow of gold to the Bank, •
Ind the absence of apprehension concerning home
politics, have combined to encourage an animated
business in both English and foreign Government Se-
inrities. The advance in Consols during the past
!ortniglit is 1 per cent., the present price being 95* to
)5a for delivery. The chief feature in foreign stocks
8 the demand for Turkish. In shares there is no im-
orovement, and the preparations for the settlement,
"jell concludes ou Friday, form the principal buai-
lCSS in progress.
viscount is very quiet, at 13- to 11 per cent.
• Consols show a further improvement of k, being
iealt in at 041 to 94'1 for motley, and 931 to 93k for
tecount .; New and Reduced Three per Cents., 931
to 93,i lndia Five per Cents. are steady at 116
to 11(4 ; Bank Stock, 247 to 249 ; and Exchequer
Bilk, 5s to 10s prem.
Among foreign Government securities Turkish are
Per cent. better than the advanced price of last
evening, the present quotation being 37. New
Spanish,. Italian, and the Pasha Loan are firmer.
lite quotations are :—Mexican, 15k to 16 ; Greek,
131 to 131 ; New Spanish, 36. E to 36} ; Italian, 51
to 511 ; Egyptian (1864), 81 to 82 ; Viceroy's Seven
per Cents , 72. E to 721 ; and the Nine per Cents..
861 to 87/ ex div. -
American Securities are well supported. United
States 5-20 Bonds are k better, at 7.11 to 711. Erie
shares unaltered, at 45i to 46. Illinois inquired for
at 95i to 90.
English railways are dull, at a decline of per
Cent., but are otherwise without feature. Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire are 128 to 1281 r Midland, 1062
104 ; South Eastern, 764 to 76:1 ; London and
North Western, 115 to 115 k ; Great Northern, 102
to 103 ; ditto A, 962 to 97i ' • Great Eastern, 332 to
34 ; Great Western, 52/ to 531 ; Brighton, 514 to
511 ; Sheffield, 421 to 434 ; Metropolitan, 1111 to
114 ; Caledonian, 741 to 75f ; and Chatham, 19 to
19k.

In Foreign Railway Shares, Great Luxembourg is
higher, at 111 to 11-g- ; Lombardo-Venetian steady,
at 141 to 15.
Rankshares are steady at yesterday's quotations.
Agra (A) is marked at 10 to 104 ; Alliance, 13 to 12 ;
Anglo-Austrian, 41 to 5J ; Chartered Mercantile, 27
to 28; Consolidated, 4i to 41; Imperial, 18 to 19 ;
Imperial Ottoman, I to 1 preen.; London and County,
52 to 53 ; London and Westminster, 71 to 72 ;
Oriental, 42 to 43 ; London Joint Stock, 3r; to 36 ;
Union of London, 35 to 36.
Foreign mining shares are dull. St. John del Rey
18 worse, at 171 to 1.E4 ; Port Philip Mining, 11 to
11 • Chontales, 14 to 2.
In Miscellaneous Securities Hudson's Bay shares
are 1 better, at 15ito 15k, while Anglo-American
Telegraph is lower, at 22ft to 22 ; Atlantic Tele-
graph Eight per Cent. a shade flatter, at 5 to 5/- ;
Fore-street Warehouse, 2 to 1 dis. ; London General
Omnibus, ig to 2. •
The failure is reported from Manchester of Messrs.
Nichols and Monk, manufacturers, of Halshaw Moor.
Their liabilities are said to be small.
The New York has arrived from New York with
461,250 in specie, and the China with £90,000.
Bar gold, amounting to £76,000, was sent into the
Bank yesterday.
A Russian Loan of £1,200,000 was negotiated in
A.ntsterdam on Friday last.
It is understood that a Turkish Loan of £5,060,000
hag been arranged at Paris with the Societe Generale.
ll
t will be a Six per Cent. Stock at 68, redeemable in
ten or twelve years. It is not proposed to appeal to
this market.

A remittance of £16,675 has been received on ac-
count of New Granada dividends.
The Syndicate of the Agents de Change of Paris
have, it is stated, informed the Finance Minister of the
Imperial 'government, that if the Austrian legislature
Persists with the proposed tax on Austrian securities,
all Austrian stocks, without exception, will cease to
be dealt in -or quoted on the Paris Bourse. The reso-
lution was notified simultaneously to the Austrian
sinister in Paris, Prince Metternich.
The report of the London and Brazilian Bank, for
the half-year ending December, gives the net profits at
6s 11d, but the whole of this sum, as well as
the amount carried forward from the last account, and
£8,354 15s 4d from the reserve, has been appropriated
to meet losses on unpaid remittances. The reserve
fund now stands at .£11,645 4s Bd.
The accounts of the London Chartered Bank
of Australia for the year 1867 to be submitted
to the meeting of the sth June show a net
balance of £51,096 9s 3d, out of which the directors
_ecoittitiencl a dividend for the half-year at the rate of
8 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, leaving
£11,090 Os 31 to be carried forward.
Letters from France state that the temperature
throughout the country last week was exceedingly
favourable to vegetation ; and that, if complaints of
Want of rain in the south be excepted, there was only
one opinion as the promising appeapince of the grow-
-1,1)g crops. An average fall of lf. to 2f. per hectolitre
ft,
.45 been established at all the principal markets below
the prices of the preceding week ; while large arrivals
continue to be reported at Marseilles, to sell which
the holders hail to make considerable concessions.
The
journal L'Ecole Aricole expresses, however,
some doubts whether the reduced prices will not
be followed by a reaction, as they have been
ea ct .
~.used chiefly by foreign arrivals, which are not
likely to continue upon a sufficient scale to prevent a
ion
At Marseilles on Saturday only one cargo
arrived.

The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of £638 over last year. The
traffic of the Cape Railway for the month of March
Was £5,030, against £4,244 in March last year.
The following, in reference to the LOndon Colonial
Wool sales, is from the Leeds Mercury :—" The
monetary question is one of serious moment, for the
total amount required to lift the two great sales of
colonial wool will touch between nine and ten millions
of money, to be added to which there is the English
Clip, German fairs, &c., &c., so that an abundance of
Money, and a low rate of interest, will have an im-
portant effect on the value of wool during the anxious
months of harvest, on the fruitful production of which
so much will this year depend. The general state of
the woollen trade can scarcely be quoted brisk, and
any variation from its present condition would tell
Most seriously on the price of the raw material, the
growth of which is now ample, even for a good, sound.
and prosperous trade."
At the fifty-fourth annual meeting of the Scottish
Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society, held at Edin-
burgh on the 22nd instant, it was reported that assur-
ances had been effected in 18G7 for sums amounting to
811,411, yielding a premium revenue of .£27,595, that
2,22 membersaims for had died during the year, giving rife to
c.£337,281, and that £169,876 had been
lastaoled to the realised fund, which at 31st December
amounted to £4,541,871.

BiITISH FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
GOVERNAIENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols 951 ;-
Ditto for Account, Juno 4
.„I
8 Per Gent. Reduced 93
'e'r 3 per Cent
...
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 • / ... 8
A D 0.5 per Cent. ott.n. 1873
"uulties, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 l2 9-16
E Do, (Red Sea Telovap,
2 h), AugGt ~ 1908 —
4" 'Neer Bills, £1,009 per
1)0. £5OO
Do. £lOO & £2OO —
'Atlk of England Stock, 41per Cent 249 7
1)o. Account .•.
1 INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
••
T.OOIE, 10i per Cent., AprillB74 ... 2161 18
Do. Account
D 0.5 per Cent. July, 1880
,•, 4 Per Cent., Oct. 1888
.-,0. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent B9l
00.5 per Cent, Jan. 1872
11°- SI per Cent., May 1879 lO9
-1° 5 per Cent Rup. Deb. 1872 —
-
Do. I
do. 1877 —
, Do. do. 1882 —
"t'• Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
• ,"o• Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
ITtrif):4tirii
Argentine
OREIGN FUNDS—TWO CLOCK.
Repulic, 6 per Cent...
_
BSopnedrs,csenpter Cent. 1859
xd
1-I°. 4+ per Cent., 1852 —
LO.-0. do , 1858....
do., 1860 —
D 0•-11 do:, 1863 _
"). 5 per Cent., 1865
li 90 Acooun• _
761 1
',1°013 Ayres 6 per Cent —
c. '';'‘' 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
C
.;`,,, 6per Cont. 'tau per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent —
tic'. 6 per Cent B
1)0.1 1867 " ..•
CO.,
7 Por ,Cent., 1866 —
0 ~ onep £32 paid
Dv' ae, 6 per Cont.
atz)l.lsti 3p u• Cont., 1825 ••• . .
ilnbfan Principalities, 7 per Cent 721
le, ° 8 Per Cent., 1867 .......... ...... 791
I,,suador Now Consolidated, 1 per Con'. 13
B.l)Ptic,ao, 7 per Cent
7.,!; k3eVOlld 'BRIO •••••• -, • £5OO Bonds —
D 0• £IOC Beads B2 80
DO.
1864 —
Do. Account
Do. 451 nonik,
i.,°- XlOO Bonds .••••
N Oro-":°:7"rittuent Railway Debentures .... 92
e' 5 Per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups —
0. Account