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

RON' E MARE ET

AND

001113dERCIAL I TE I,LJGE NCB,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The prices of Government Securities have but
Blight), 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 per cent. The price for loan
Purposes is 1 per cent.
Consols are quoted 944 for money and the
account, the Three per Cents. Reduced, 94 to 93 ;
and the New Three per Cents., 93 924. Exchequer
Bills, 17s. prem. Bank Stock 2441 51.
In the Foreign Market we have to note a fall of
in Italian Fives of 1861, to 52i. 528, and an im-
provement of 4in Turkish Fives, to 418 4. Greek
Bouda remain at 124 13 ; Mexican at 16 :164 ;
New Spanish Three per Cents. at 3311 334 ; Peru-
vian Five per Cents. at 814 824 ; and New
Egyptian Scrip at 79/ 721.
Italian Loan unaltered, at 24 prem.
The Honduras Loan is firm, at 91 92.
Inditto
Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 216 ;
5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1144 15 ; ditto 4
per ri
Cent., October, 1888, 103 ; ditto Enfaced
Paper, 5 per Cent., January, 1872, 1064 ; ditto
Debenture 4 per Cent. Bonds, £l,OOO, 18 pm.
The quotations for railway stocks are :—Caledo-
blau, 724 to 1; London and North-Western, 112 to
; Great Western, 48 to 4 ; Midland, 1121 to 4 ;
London and South-Western, 871 to 881 ; Great
Eastern, 418 to 421 ; Brighton, 501 to 51; South
Eastern, 781 to 4 ; Metropolitan, 106 to 4- ; Great
Northern, A, 1054 to 1064 ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 1281 to 199 ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
164 to 17 ; and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
abire, 48 to 1.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway New Four per
Cent. Debenture Stock is 941 95g.
_United States Five-Twenties Bonds are / per
Cent• better, at 731 to 1 ; Atlantic and Great
IVestern Railway Debentures, 364 to 374 ; and the
Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 38i- to 394.
In Miscellaneous shares Hudson's Bay have ex-
perienced a decline of 2s. 6d., viz., to 14/ to a ;
Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference, 3i
t° 4 ; and Anglo-American, 218 to 22*.
, A. further sum of £150,000 in bar gold was
itaken out of the Bank. The total withdrawn since
last return amounts to £214,000, while £143,000
has been taken in.
p The Somersetshire, from Melbourne, has brought
188,824. The Kent is announced to have sailed
With £272,000 ; the Bombay, for Suez, will bring
£120,000 for England ; and the steamer Hippar-
ich", bringing the River Plate and Brazil mails,
4a3 arrived at Liverpool, with specie to the value of
414,754.

She ship Bruckley Castle sailed on the 31st of
August
from Sydney for London, with 31,120
°4°,ces of gold.
'l:he new Mexican dollars brought by the West
shclia packet have been disposed of at 59d. per oz.,
°Nving an advance of Id. The small quantity of
'the bar silver by the same arrival haz been sold for
India at 601 d.
The flail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £1,351 9s. 3d., at 90 days' sight, on ac-
count of the dividends on the debt of Ecuador.
oslt
E aPpears that the amount to be reimbursed of
gYptian Debt next year is £3so,ooo—namely,
1'50,000 on the 1862 loan, and £300,000 on the 1864
°an• The interest paid by Egypt on these next
tYenagr:iaiwiill be £1,966,000.
The French mail steamer Neimen passed the
squadron, Lord Warden, Caledonia, Are-
thlisai and another ironclad, at anchor in the Strait
°' Magdalena on Saturday, the 24th inst.
The adjourned meeting of the Caledonian Rail-
way Company was held yesterday in Glasgow.
The
chairman, without making any allusion to Mr.
Glen or his interdict, contented himself with mov-
ing that a dividend be declared on the ordinary
stock at the rate of 11 per cent. per annum, which
Was agreed to.
n meeting of the Royal Mail Steam Packet
".°lnpany took place to- day. The report was
unanimously adopted.
At the half-yearly meeting of the General Fi-
-I.4katlee, Mortgage, and Discount Company (Limited)
;" report, recommending 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-
e°t UN of 4 per cent. (Bs. per share), free of income
az, 011 the paid-up capital.
The directors of the Recife and San Francisco,
Pernambuco, Railway Company (Limit 23) intimate
that 7 the whole of the debentures bearing interest at
Per cent, have been subscribed.
fAt the meeting of the Bahia Gas Company divi-
ds were declared of 10 per cent. on the pre-
,nce, and 3 per cent. per annum on the ordi-
nary shares.
dirlhe Regent's Canal Company have declared a
Lidend of 108. per share.
k _With reference to the proposed settlement of the
Canal Cavour " difficulty the following is a sum-
Atha'_rY o
Ge f
ethe terms which have been transmitted to
: nral Agency (Limited) from the Italian
vernrnent for the consideration of this committee
or
the bondholders :
0,1812 he guaranteed interest and redemption fund
the io'ooo,ooof. of capital to commence to run from
Jat3t of July, 1868, and the coupon of the Ist of
,-"arY, 1869, to be paid at due date.
Bonds and obligations to be redeemed annually
at
44,*':20 per cent. premiuri, this premium including
,e,,ra of interest and a bonus of £5 per bond.
mte three drawings will be effected immediately
boorLr tile acceptance of the proposed terms, and the
dra,via will be paid off on the 31st of March
4
81,,, The next drawing will be effected on the
‘. of jr,.,
y.
debi.'ew securities to be created for the floating
• bearl •
ng 6 per cent. interest, and redeemable
111 like
es manner with bonds and obligations after the
the ail Year, Government formally acknowledges
tewitators award, which is to be the basis of the
cider of things.
Afte
quaee t r Payment of these first charges the ba-
of
ata 0 be divided among the shareholders by way
to °re tisement and dividend, and a new Board
I,erlaraaeppointed with the concurrence of the Go•
13R1TISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.

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.A.ceount,':Nov. 5
2i 3
Neer Cent Reduced
93 21
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onial Uranium
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216
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Do. 2 Per Cent. July, 1880
103
13-* I Pet" Cent., Oct. 1888
0. Certificates
Do;
tnfaced l'apet 4 per CAnt
00. per Cent., Jan. 1872
L.; 5,1 Per Cent, May 1879
106;
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r. . no. i• 53
Iper Cent. 1859
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3.
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per Cont.)
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C 4.ir per Cent.
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°., 1867
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