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

110.1:4EY EIARTiET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGZNCS,

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
most instances remain unchanged, with the excep-
tion of the Tobacco Loan, which has improyed.
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 28 ; 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
; Egyptian of 1864, 811 to 821 ex div. ; ditto of
1868, 73i to 1; Italian of 1801, 541 to 1; Mexi-
can, 16 to 1; Peruvian of 1865, 821 to 83 ; Russian
of 1866, 901 to 91; ditto Nicolai' Railway Loan,
671 to 8 ; ditto Orel, 811 to vex. div. ; ditto Mos-
now-Jaroslaw;B2l to 83 ; Spanish of 1867, 341 to
; Turkish of 1868, 68 to 1 ; ditto of 1862, 70 to 1;
and ditto of 1865, 411 to j.
The Italian Tobacco Loan has further improved
the price is now 21 to 1 prem.
India Stock, 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 115 ;
ditto 4 per Cent., October, 1888, 1021 ; ditto
Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent., 918; ditto 5 per Cent.,
January. 1872, 105/ 6 ; ditto 51 per Cent., May,
1879, 1101 ; ditto Debenture 5 per Cent., August,
.1873, 105; ; ditto Bonds, under £l,OOO, 17.
In the railway market stocks are quoted as fol-
lows :—London and North Western 1118 1121;
Great Western, 481 to 1 ; Midland, 112 to 1; Lon-
don and South-Western, 871 to 881 ; Great
Eastern, 421 to / ; Brighton, 491 to 501 ; South
Eastern, 78 to 1 ; Metropolitan, 105/ to 106 ;
Great Northern, 104 to 105.; ditto A, 1041 to 104/;
Caledonian, 721 to 1, ex div ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 1281 to I ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
17 to .1 ; and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 471 to t.
United States Five-Twenty Bonds have risen
per cent., 731 to /.

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 dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 141 to 1;
National Discount, 114 to 12; Telegraph Con-
struction, 151 to 4 ; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per
Cent. Preference, 31 to 4 ; and Anglo-American,
211 to 22.

The sum. 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 forma, 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-
/neat be correct that the receipt given by the Caja
de Deposilos for money deposited there will be
taken as cash for the loan. Confidence is placed
la 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
front 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 tendeucy to financial confidence was maintained,
the rate of exchange being 19d. to 19/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 : —The Liberator, from, Sydney,with £ 24,000 ;
I(ent, from Melbourne, with £272,000 ; Buckley
Castle, from Melbourne, with £124,500—making a
total of £420,500.
On Monday next the United States Treasury will
have to disburse between £4,000,000 and £5,000,000
0f 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
mortgage, the price of both being 106 f.
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
trrivals, but also £255,000 withdrawn from the
&)ank. £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
become
the market for all descriptions of silver has
'ecome decidedly firmer. The large amount of
Mexican dollars received at the beginning of the
month was principally taken for China, the greater
Part having been sent round the Cape in sailing
'vessels. Since then, very little silver of any de-
scription has come to hand, and the market La- bars
is so bare that, in order to supply any fresh de-
mand, we should be obliged to import from the
Continent at 60/d., or above.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
U
. OTERNILENT FUNDS.
0 Per Cent. Consols
Ditto-for Account, Nov.'s
~„1 per Cent. Reduced - 93 2}
.„4,•vf 3 per Cent
AOW 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. tor 30 yre, expire sth April 1885 —
E Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
lelicquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 par Ct 2l
,
• De.
.£5OO
Do £lOO & .C2OO l7
X '
44k of England Stook, 4 per Cent
QI. 0. acclaim t
nada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
ilt er-C•lonial Uranium

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
I2dia tock, 104 per Cent., April 1879
Do. Opening, for Account —
DO.. 5 pkar Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888,
De. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Pape, 4 per Cent 9l/
I),°. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
D
54 per Cent., May 1879 llO4
'l3 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882
'"t•• Deb• 5 Cent., Aug. 873 ~ 11054
~ per ~ b•
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
DO. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
A rgentino Republic, 6 per Cent ......
Do S .-
~ —el ip £3O paid _
Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent. 1859
b Do. 1859 634
_
razilian 5 per Cent
Do ti
n • -2. Per Cent., 1852 —
",.0. do. 1858....
-„'"°. do•, 18'l0 —
'"'°. do. 1863 684
~
1)0. 5 per Cent , 1865 —
t 1)0 A.ccont * 7Bl
4etios Ayres 6 per Cent.
C Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
e bit) 6 Per Cent
Cilia 6 per Cent —
Uo• 4i per Cent I
co. 120., 6 per 1
867 Cenl t B
),
. e 7
ii
nisi per
per Cent., 1866
.;-.; i , 6 per Cont.
-1,-) tnish, 3 p3r Cent. 1825
-uAtubian Principalities, 7 I,er Cent 734
Z,., Do 8 per Cent., 1867 844
nuador New Oon.solidated, 1 per Cent — 43Yptian, 7 per Cent
"o Beconti Issue . •••
Do. £5OO Bonds
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Do. #IOC Bonds B2