The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-29 00:00:00

XONEY- .E4ABIIET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGN N Cit.

CITY, Two o'CeocK.
The prices of Government Securities have but
ghtly varied since yesterday, and the market has
a firmer tone. Bank Stock has improved, and
the Foreign Market also exhibits a greater
firmness in prices. The Bank rate still continues
unaltered, but in the open market money can be
obtained at 11 to t per cent. The price for loan
purposes is 1 per cent.
Consols are quoted 941 for money and the
account, the Three per Cents. Reduced, 92* to 93 ;
and the New Three per Cents., 93 921. Exchequer
Bills, 17s. prem. Bank Stock 9441 51.
In the Foreign Market we have to note a fall of
*in Italian Fives of 1861, to 52 528, and an im-
provement of *in Turkish Fives, to 41,- 4. Greek
13°11ds remain at 121 13 ; Mexican at 16 :161 ;
New Spanish Three per Cents. at 33k-
331 ; Peru-
vian Five per Cents. at 811 821 ; and New
gyptiau Scrip at 728 72:1.
Italian Loan unaltered, at 21 prem.
The Honduras Loan is firm, at 91 92.
India Stock, 10f per Cent., April, 1874, 216 ;
ditto
5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141- 15 ; ditto 4
per Cent., October, 1888, 103 ; ditto Enfaced
Paper, 5 per Cent., January, 1872, 1061 ; ditto
Debenture 4 per Cent. Bonds, £l,OOO, 18 pm.
The quotations for railway stocks are :—Caledo-
tian, 721 to 2; London and North-Western, 112 to
Great Western, 48 to 1 ; Midland, 114 to 1 ;
London and South-Western, 871 to 881; Great
eastern, 411 to 42*; Brighton, 50-.1 to 51 ; South
, 781 to 1 ; Metropolitan, 106 to 1 ; Great
Northern, A, 1051 to 1061 ; Lancashire and York-
thire, 1288 to 129 ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
164 to 17 ; and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 48 to 1.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway New Four per
Cent. Debenture Stock is 941 951.
nited States Five-Twenties Bonds are per
?est, better, at 731 to 1 ; Atlantic and Great
Western Railway Debentures, 361 to 374; and the
Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 38 to 391.
In Miscellaneous shares Hudson's Bay have ex-
perienced a decline of 2s. 6d., viz., to 14* to ;
iktlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference, 3*
° 4; and Anglo-American, 21/ to 22*.
,4 further sum of £150,000 in bar gold was
taken out of the Bank. The total withdrawn since
last return amounts to £214,000, while £143,000
has been taken in.
The Somersetshire, from Melbourne, has brought
28,8)824. lhe Kent is announced to have sailed
with £272,000 ; the Bombay, for Suez, will bring
£120,000 for England; and the steamer Hipper-
VIII; bringing the River Plate and Brazil mails,
tal arrived at Liverpool, with specie to the value of
£14784.
oShe ship Bruckley Castle sailed on the 31st of
"gust from Sydney far London, with 31,120
un,„ces of gold.
The new Mexican dollars brought by the West
ahactia packet have been disposed of at 59d. per oz.,
fie wing an advance of id. The small quantity of
India at
silver by the same arrival has been sold for
'llla at Oil
t T-he mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
alle° of £1,351 9s. 3d., at 90 days' sight, on ac-
count of the dividends on the debt of Ecuador.
theit appears that the amount to be reimbursed of
e FegYptian Debt next year is £3so,ooo—namely,
°MOO on the 1862 loan, and £300,000 on the 1864
loan. The interest paid by Egypt on these next
Year will be £1,966,000.
The French mail steamer Neimen passed the
thriglisit Squadron, Lord Warden, Caledonia, Are-
efasae and another ironclad, at anchor in the Strait
'Magdalena on Saturday, the 24th inst.
The wadjourned meeting of the Caledonian Rail-
Taj Couvany was held yesterday in Glasgow.
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chairman, without making any allusion to Mr.
Glen or his interdict, contented himself with mov-
ittg that a dividend be declared on the ordinary
ktaelt at the rate of 1* per cent. per annum, which
Ras agreed to.
Meeting of the Royal Mail Steam Packet
°4lPany took place to- day. The report was
unanimously adopted.
At the half-yearly meeting of the General Fi-
4._alle) Mortgage, and Dis Company (Limited)
" reeport, recommendingcount a dividend at the rate of
Per cent, per annum, was agreed to.
The directors of the English Bank of Rio de
Janeiro (Limited) have declared a dividend on ac-
CuntCac-
of 4 per cent. (Bs. per share), free of income
;On the paid-up capital.
The directors of the Recife and San Francisco,
ernambuco, Railway Company (Limited) intimate
that the whole of the debentures bearing interest at
7 Per Cent, have been subscribed.
At the meeting of the Bahia Gas Company divi-
dends were declared of 10 per cent. on the pre.-
eilee, and 3 per cent. per annum oa the orat-
ory shares.
4:l° Regent's Canal Company have declared a
dig he
a 10s. per share.
Jlth reference to the proposed settlement of the
tea auoi Cavour " difficulty the following is a sum-
therY of the terms which have been transmitted to
Go General Agency (Limited) from the Italian
of !ernment for the consideration of this committee
• the bondholders :-
04" jhe guaranteed interest and redemption fund
the .(,))000,000f. of capital to commence to run from
4:lit of July, 1868, and the coupon of the Ist of
nary,;4 1869, to be paid at due date.
at o°llds and obligations to be redeemed annually
arrears
per cent. premium, this premium including
of
afterinterest and a bonus of £5 per bond.
bree drawings will be effected immediately
hoertthe acceptance of the proposed terms, and the
beat drawn will be paid off on the 31st of March
The next drawing will be effected on the
of
uly.
tieb",,ll,w securities to be created for the floating
iiiknearing 6 per cent. interest, and redeemable
etiatt.e mane with bonds and obligations after the
the ing Year. Government formally acknowledges
tewarbitrators' award, which is to be the basis of the
„ Nor of things.
latie4kfWr Payment of these first charges the ba-
te
„e to be divided among the shareholders by way
to c:lnortisement and dividend, and a new Board
appointed with the concurrence of the Go-
satoeut.',

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