The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
00:3-111EROIAL INTELLIGEI‘4Ot,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Business on the stock Exchange continues quiet,
but there is a moderate degree of strength in most
departments, more especially in railways, concern-
ing which the present current of opinion is favour-
able. Several of the leading stocks have advanced,
in one or two cases substantially. In the Foreign
Market the principal feature is a decline in Brazilian
Stocks. The British Funds are steady.
Money is in quiet demand only. The quota-
tion in Lembr,rd-street is generally 11 per cent. on
the last commercial paper.
The Russia, from New York, has brought
£72,316 in specie.
Conso's are steady, being quoted at yesterday's
prices, at 934 to 934 for money and account. New
and Reduced Three per Cents., 931 to 931 ; India
Five per Cents., 112 to 1121 ; Bank Stock, 248 to
250 ; Exchequer Bills, 18s. to 235. prem.
The Foreign Stock Market is rather steadier.
There is a recovery of I in the Viceroy's 7 per Cent.
Bonds, at 75•1- to 76+ ; and the Egyptian Bonds
(1864), at 89 to 90, are per Cent. better, and the
Railway Loan is 4 better, at 924 to 93. The quo-
tations are :—Mexican, 151 to 161 ; Greek, 121 to
13 ; New Spanish, 36 to 3641 ; Italian (1861), 43,1
to 43:'1; Turkish (1865), 321 to 321 ; Portuguese,
391 to 40 ; Peruvian (1865), 76-1 to 764 ; and ditto
(1862), 92 to 93.

Egyp. tian Nine per Cent. Bonds arc steady, at
90} to 91.

The New Honduras Loan is steady, at Z to 11
prem.

American Securities are firm. United States 5-20
Bonds are 71i to 72k ; Erie, 48k to 49} ; and Illi-
nois, 88k to 89k.

Atlantic and Great Western Railway Deben-

tures have risen 11, to 28 to 29 ; and the Conso-
lidated Mortgage Bonds remain firm, at 25 to 26.

Colonial Bonds are unaltered. Canada Six per
Cents. are quoted at 98 to 100. Mauritius Six per
Cents., 103 to 105. New South Wales Five per
Cents., 99 to 101. New Zealand Six per Cents.,
1031 to 1041. Victoria Six per Cents, 110 to 111.
English Railways are steady, at the following
quotations :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1271 to
1271 ; Midland, 1071 to 1071 ; London and North
Western, 1191 to 1191 ; Great Northern, 1081 to
1091 ; Great Northern A, 1091 to 110 ; Great
Eastern, 30 to 301 ; Great Western, 461 to 471 ;
Metropolitan, 1101 to 1111 cum div ; Caledonian,
77/ to 771 ; Sheffield, 421 to 431 ; Chatham, 191
to 191; and London and South Western, 84 to 86.
Bank Shares are firm. London and County is 1
better, at 53 to 54, and Union of London, 1, at 34
to 35. Agra (A. shares), is quoted at 11 to 111 ;
Alliance 13 to 12 dis. ; Consolidated a to .1- prem. ;
Imperial, 171 to 18.

Foreign Mining Shares are steady. St. John del
Reys are quoted at 20 to 22 ; Port Phillip, 11 to
; Chontales, s tog prem.
The only variation in Miscellaneous Securities
are in Hudson's Bay, which are lower, at 14i to
144 ; London General Omnibus, 18 to 2i ; Na-
tional Discount, 101 to 111.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
A total of £156,000 in bar gold and sovereigns
'vas taken from the Bank yesterday for export.
The Madras Railway Company have paid £435,000
into the Treasury of the India Office on account of
the new issue of share capital.
The directors of the Cape Copper Mining Company
have notified an interim dividend of 108 per share on
account of estimated profits of December 31.
The suspension is announced of Messrs. M`Nab
and Co.' shipbuilders, Greenock.
At the annual meeting of F. Braby and Co.
(Limited) held yesterday, the directors' report was
Unanimously adopted. After making due provision
for bad debts, &c., and writing off a portion of the
Preliminary expenses, there remained a surplus of
£5,431 12. s 10d, which, added to the unappropriated
balance from 1806, showed a total of £7,744 8s 10t1
for distribution. A dividend and bonus equal to 12i
Per cent, per annum was declared, leaving the sum of
£2,324 is 7d to be carried forward to the next
account. The retiring directors were re-elected, and
the usual vote of thanks passed.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have
" crdered Metropolitan Railway stock to be quoted
ex interim div.," instead of "ex div." However,
such is the disturbing character of the proceedings in
Chancery, that many of the dealers refuse to do
business with the dividend off, and make special
bargains " cam div."

The traffic receipts of the Lombardo-Venetian
Railway for the week ending the 28th January show
an increase of £15,221 183 9d, and those of the Dutch
Rhenish for the week ending Feb. 7th a decrease of

At an extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the
Ilercules Fire, Life, and Marine Insurance Company
(Giinited), Mr. Josiah J. Merriman, of the firm of
Merriman and Buckland, Cannon House, Queen-
street, Cheapside, was unanimously appointed solicitor
to the company.
The following has been received from the Committee
cf Administration of the Atlantic and Great Western
•
tailway

"The Committe of Administration have not deemed it
advisable to notice or reply to various anonymous and other
communications which have recently appeared in the public
press oa the subject of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway, believing that the good sense of the
creditors would preserve them from being influenced
by the undue alarm which many of these communications
appeared designed to create. A circular has, however, been
Put forth by Mr. Ridsdo.le's committee, containing an
extract from the opinion of Mr. J. H. Lloyd on the subject
of the relative positions of the Consolidated Bonds and the
Certificates of Debenture. As the publication of an extract
°2l3' is calculated to mislead, the Committee of Administra-
o feel it incumbent on them to make known the
entire opinion without note or comment. It is
annexedi hereto. At the present moment, pending
the receipt of thelegal opinions now being taken in America,
the Committee of Administration do not propose to take any
further action as regards the certificates of debenture ; but,
for the information of those concerned, it may be well to
state that they are distinctly advised that, if any registra-
tion of this debt in the American courts be necessary or
practicable, the proper mode is for each bolder to take pro-
ceedings for the full amount of his claim (for which purpose
it would, it is believed, be necessary for each holder to
forward his original certificate of debenture to America) the
value of the collateral securities being afterwards brought to
account as a set off, and that it is not at all requisite to make
any sale of the collaterals before proceeding to effect such
registration. Many allusions bare been made to the
alleged insufficient representation of the debenture holders
on the Committee of Administration. That such state•
ments may be disposed of once and for all, it is only need-
ful to state that the member of the Cotnmittte who has
been generally regarded as representing this interest, holds
Personally £9,000 of these securities, besides £ll,OOO
thereof pertaining to trusts in which he is concerned."
The report of the Val Antigoria Gold ;I,Lining
Company (Limited), dated Crodo, Ist February, is as
follows :--

Amalgam on band, 4,747 grammes. Gold remittance
will be made by the end of this month. The walls of the
Asw crusher-house are under construction, and, as far as
the weather permits, our surface work connected with the
new machinery is being urged. The lode in the adit north
Velds 10 dwts. of gold 'per ton of ore. The lode in the
'JO- 1 winze sinking below the twenty, yields 14 dwts. of
1°j(1 Per ton of ore. The lode-in the 30 end south is worth
10, dyne. of gold per toa of ore. The winze on No. 2
"_,uree under the 10 fathom is very regular, ore worth 12
. of gold per ton."

BRITISH FUNDS—TWO VOLUME.
8 CIOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Per tient. Console
„ o. Account, March 5 93
Z,per Oent. Reduced 931 1 I
New
3 per Cent 931 i i
" 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
41
DO2. -
• 0 per Cent. oan. 1873 —
tuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
le• for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
E.. I) (Red Sea Tele,raph), Au,.., 1908 —
kehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Gt.
o £5OO 22 18 pm
L 1 Do. £lOO & £2OO 22 18 pm
4-' ,_,O Ilk of Englan d Stock, 41 per Cent 250
Acconnt
itiri• attDTAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
-r; Mock, 10; per Cent., April 1874 —
°. c, 2 _
oAccount
D°. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
r:). 4 Pet- Ceut., Oct. 1888
ke. Certificates
Ee• Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent B7i
o°''). Per Cent., Jan. 1872
1:),. •,1 per Cent., May 1879 —
u 5 per Cent., Rup, Deb., 1872 —
Do.
do. 1877 —
Do• do. 188-)
o
Do bel; 5 er Cent Air,. 187 J ....,. 105
pm
D .13
38
1) ' °l'd, 5 p
per cent., £l,OOO
0. under £l,000
Al, FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO CLOOK.
Aru:3etrltt.tinneeniepdt
51ic, 6 per Cent 74
_
14 Lli„ -
, 0
per
cenrr Cent. 1859
n—ll per Cent., 1852 —
u
"--'-). do., 18-.8 —
~". do., 18 ;i• —
12°75. per do.,
18651863 651
_
11..'-e Account 751 5
~,,013 Ayres 6 per Cent
'0 2 per Cent. (Deferred 8 per Cent ) 43