The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-24 00:00:00

rONE•Y ZAREET

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CO AMERCIAL INTBLLIGEtit)A

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The weekly meeting, to-day, in the Bank
parlour, has gone over without any alteration in
the rate of discount, although it was pretty gene-
rally expected something of the sort would take
place. Consols this morning were firm, and busi-
ness in the foreign shares was somewhat extensive,
more especially in Turkish, Spanish, and Italian.
The Railway Market was extremely dull, and for
Miscellanous Shares there was little or no inquiry.

Consols ars 921 for money; Three per Cent.
Reduced, 921 1; New Three per Cents, 921 1 ;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 242 40.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto, for Account, 210 ; ditto 5 per Cent., July,
1880, 1111 121 ; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888 ;
1021; ditto Enfaced Paper 51 per Cent., May,
1870, 1091 1 ; ditto Debentures, 5 per Cent., Aug.,
1873, 1041; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, par.
In the Foreign market Italian of 1861 are
higher, Turkish 5.16, Spanish New Three per
Cents. 1. Honduras Railway Bonds, 891 to 90 ;
Nicolai Bonds, 641 651 ; Orel Vitebsk Bonds,
78 to 781; Chilian Six per Cents. 1867, 96 to 961;
Egyptian Seven per Cents. 1864, 821 to 831 ;
ditto Seven per Centf. 1868, 721 734; Greek,
Bonds, 111 to 12 ; Italian Five per Cents., 56/
to 561 Mexican, 144 to 15 ; Pernvian Five per
Cents., 79 to 791 ; Spanish New Three per Cents.,
321 to 33 ; Turkish Five per Cents. of 1865, 381 to
391 ; ditto Six per Cents. of 1865, 611 to 62 ; Vice-
roy of Egypt Seven per Cents., 758 to 751 ; ditto
Nine per Cents., 88/ to 881.
In Railway Shares prices are quoted as follows :
—Brighton, 481 to 481 ; Caledonian, 731 to 741 ;
Great Eastern, 411 to 411; Great Western, 481 to
481 ; Great Northern A Stock, 1071 to 1071;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 127/ to 1281 ; London
and North Western, 1118 to 1121 ; London, Chat-
ham, and Dover, 16-1 to 17 ; Metropolitan, 103 to
1031; Midland, 1121 to 1121 ; North British, 321
to 32/ ; Sheffield, 471 to 471 ; and South Eastern,
784 to 78/.
American Five-Twenty Bolds are 74/ to 741 ;
Ditto 1865 Issue, 721 to 721 ; the Ten-Forty
Bonds 71 to 718 ; Erie Railway Shares, 26 to 261 ;
Illinois ' Central, 95 951 ; Atlantic and Great
Western Railway Debentures, 401 to 401 ; and
the Consolidated Mortgage Bond, 42 to 421.
Alliance Bank shares are 111 to 121 ; London
and County, 50 to 51 ; London and Westminster,
65 to 67 ; Union of London, 37 to 38 ; City, 12 to
121; and Oriental, 421 to 431.
Miscellaneous Shares are steady. Anglo-Ameri-
can Telegraph, 211 to 211; Atlantic Eight per
Cent. Preferential, 31 to 31 ; Hudson's Bay, 13
11-16 to 13 13-16 ; National Discount, 111 to 121 ;
Luxembourgs, 10 11-12 to 10 13-16.
At the Bank yesterday £3,000 in bar gold was
sent in making a total of £26,000 since the date of
the last return.

The George Thompson has arrived off Falmouth
from Port Philip, with £122,000 in gold. The
Benvenue, from Melbourne, for London, with
£94,000, reached Pernambuco on the 28th ult.
Saturday next, the 26th inst. is one of the fixed
holidays at the Stock Exchange. As far as pos-
sible there will be a total absence of business in
the City, and it is to be regretted that incon-
venience must be sustained by bankers and others
from the necessity of some formal attendance,
owing to the occasion not having been declared a
legal holiday.
Railway shareholders can now demand a list of
proprietors under the new Regulation of Railways
Act, section 34.
Mr. WiAliatn Brooks has been appointed assis-
tant general manager to the Progress Assurance
Company.
Advices from Athens say that the National Bank
of Greece has suspended all discount business,
without affording any explanation on the subject
to its customers.

A special general court of the governor and corn-
Pany of adventurers of England trading into Hud-
son's Bay will be held at their house in Fenchurch-
street, on Tuesday, the sth January, 1869.
At a general meeting of the Royal Exchange
Assurance Corporation, the usual dividand of 4 per
cent. for the half-year was declared, making, with
the distribution last Midsummer, 20 per cent. for
the year.
The voluntary liquidators of the English and
American Bank (Limited) have declared a further
division of the capital of £1 10s. per share, making,
with the former distributions, 90 per cent. of the
amount paid up on the shares.
Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. notify that the
Coupons, due on the lst of January next, of the
First Mortgage Sterling Bonds of the European and
North American Railway Company for extension
from St. John westward, will be paid on and after
that date.

The Erie Railway Company have commenced a
Suit against Cornelius Vanderbilt for the recovery
Of 4,500,000 dols., alleged to bave been paid him
to compromise the famous lawsuit of last summer,
and. for other purposes, by Daniel Drew, Frank
Work, and others, alleged in the complaint to have
been unauthorised. The complaint is signed by
Field and Shearman, plaintiff's attorneys, and sworn
to by James Fisk, jun.
_ _ .

With reference to the addenda of the Anglo-
Austrian Commercial Treaty, which raised a strong
opposition on the part of the Austrian manufac-
turers, the Committee of Finance in the Reichsrath
having referred the matter to a committee of ex-
perts, they have submitted modifications of the
duties on manufactured cotton and wool, which
VIII show 20 per cent. reduction for cotton and
10 per cent. for wool on the hitherto existing im-
port duties.

It is understood that the committee appointed at
the meeting of shareholders of the Grand Trunk
Railway of Canada, on the 21st of October last,
have induced Messrs. Robert Gillespie, Graham,
Menzies, and G. Hodgkinson, M.P., to join the
board of directors, and that vacancies will be made
forthwith by the retirement of a corresponding
Dumber of the present members of the board.
The provisional directors of the " Brighton and
Metropolitan Railway"—the new line projected
between that town and London—invited the in-
habitants of Brighton to a public meeting on Mon-
day evening last, and on that occasion resolutions
Were unanimously passed in favour of the scheme.
in order to guard against the possibility of the
line being abandoned by a compromise with
existing interests, the subscribers have stipulated
that they shall have a majority on the board.
All the speakers concurred in asserting that had it
not been for the conduct of the existing company
in raising the fares last summer the new scheme
Would never have been heard of.

The directors of the Credit Foncier of England
(Limited) have convened a meeting for the 6th of
January in consequence of a requisition to that
effect by a self-constituted committee, whose action
in the matter they nevertheless consider highly in-
expedient. This committee have issued a series of
Proposed resolutions which, in the opinion of the
board, would add greatly to existing difficulties,
Whereas it is affirmed if the company, were protected
from vexatious interference and the directors were
allowed the free exercise of their own judgment it
lali,,,ht within a reasonable time be placed in a com-
paratively successful condition.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
(i OVERNMENT FUNDS.
a Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
1 per Cent. Reduced 921 1
kew. 3 per Cent
New. 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 6 per Cent. dan. 1873
'"•llluities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
E Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Iclloquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct — Pm
Do,
.£5OO
Do £lOO & £2OO Pm
11441:of England Stock, 4per Cent
r, 00. our
','lttlada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
431ter-Colonial Uranium