The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-16 00:00:00

0

I MARIIE

AND
CO IMERCIAL INT.ELLIGENCiI

CITY, Two o'CLocK

• The Government securities to-day maintained
the price of yesterday, but the news from abroad
respecting the state of affairs iu Turkey and Greece
sent down foreign stocks. Metropolitan Railway
Shares improved but in other stocks the business
was inactive. The rate of discount in the house is
2i to 3.

Consols are 924 + for money; ditto, for Ac-
ount, 924 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 924 1 ;
New Three per Cents, 924 4 ; Exchequer Bills
£lOO and £2OO, 24 per Cent., 5 prem.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, shut;
ditto Account, 211 x. d. ; ditto, 5 per Cent., July,
1880, 1124 111. ; ditto, 4 per 4 per Cent., Oct.,
1888,1021 4; ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent.,
91+ ; ditto Debentures, 5 per Cent., Aug., 1873,
1044 ; ditto Bonds, 4 per Cent. £l,OOO, 5 prem.

In the Foreign Market a decline has occured in
Turkish, Italian, and Peruvian Bonds. Prices
are now as follows :—Brazilian of 1865, 78 to
; Chilian of 1867, 96k to 97 ; Egyp-
tian of 1864, 834 to 4 ; ditto of
1868, 731 to 741 ; Italian of 1861, 56 to 56} ;
ditto Tobacco Loan, 3 to 3i premium ; Mexi-
can, 15 to 151; Peruvian of 1865, 814 to 81i ;
Russian of 1866, 891 to 4 ; ditto Nicolai, 651
to 654 ; ditto Orel, 79i to 791 ; ditto Moscow-
Jaroslaw, 78; to I ex div. ; ditto Charkof-Azof, 2
to 1 :dia. ; ditto Charcow-Krementschug, 1 dis. to
Pat ; Spanish of 1867, 324 to 4 ; Turkish of 1858,
611 to 62f ; ditto of 1862, 621 to 63i ; and ditto of
1864, 39 to 1.

In Railway shares prices are as follows :—Metro-
politans, 1021 to 103 ; London and North
Western, 112 to k ; Great Western, 48k to ;
Midland, 1111 to 112 k ; London and South
Western; 87 to 88 ; Great Eastern 41k to j ;
Brighton, 49 to f ; South Eastern, 79 to f ; Great
Northern, 105 k to 106} ; ditto A, 108 k to k ; Cale-
donian, 74 to k ; and London, Chatham, and
Dover, 16j to 17k.

American 5-20 Bonds are 741 to ; Erie Rail•
Way shares, 27 to ; Illinois Central, 96 to
Atlantic and Great Western Debentures, 401 to
and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 414 to 421

Lohdon Joint Stock Bank Shares are 351 to 364;
London and County, 501 toil; London and West-
Minster, 66k to 671 ; Union of London, 381 to 39 ;
AnglooAustrian, 71 to 81 prem. ; and Imperial
Ottoman 11 to 11 prem.
For Miscellaneous shares prices are as follows :
Telegraph Construction, 16 to 161 ; National Dis-
count, 111 to 121 ; General Credit, 2 to 18 dis. ;
International, 11 to 11 dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 134
to 13/; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Pref-
ference 31 to 31 ; and Anglo-American, 21i to
214.

No bullion operations of importance took place at
the Bank yesterday.
The Union, from New York, is announced with
£36,900.
It is authoritatively stated that the contemplated
new Australian Loan for £2,000,000 will not be
Placed upon the market at present.
The report of the London and River Plate Bank,
to be presented on the 21st instant, recommends a
dividend of 5 per cent. for the half year and a
bonus of 3i per cent.
On Change yesterday the rates for bills on Ham-
burg, and for three months draft on Holland, were
quoted slightly lower, but as regards Vienna and
Madrid the terms were somewhat more in favour of
this country.
The report of the Ceylon Company, to be pre-
sented on the 22d instant, shows an available
total of £13,278, and recommends an interim divi-
dend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, which
will leave £3,485 to be carried forward.
At the meeting to-day of the Upper Assam Tea
Company (Limited), the directors' report, which
did not recommend the payment of any dividend,
Was adopted.
Advices from Frankfort state that the applications
for the Alfolder Railway Bonds have been so large
that subscribers will only receive 3 per cent. of their
subscriptions.
At Berlin the subscriptions for the Roumania
Railway Loan have been very considerable, and
the scrip has been largely dealt in at a premium.
An instalment of 30 per cent. is due on the 17th
Instant on the Charkoff-Azof Railway Loan, and
another of like amount in January.
A statement that the expected Victorian Go-
/'erntnent Railway Loan will be introduced this
*Week is understood to be incorrect.
The numbers are published of 178 bonds, amount-
ing to £84,500, of the Turkish Six per Cent. Loan
~c)f 1858, which have been drawn by lot, and are to
Aeue paid off at par on the Ist of March. As com-
ared with the price now current in the market, the
bonus to the holders of the drawn bonds is equiva-
lent to upwards of 38 per cent.
The coupons of the Chilian Seven per Cent. Loan,
A 18661 £1,120,920; also the Chilian Six per Cent.
an) 1867, £2,000,000, due Ist January, 1869,
ll be paid on and after that date at the counting-
°llse of Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co.
The dividends due the 31st instant and the Ist
January
on the undermentioned securities are
advertised for payment, namely, on Italian Five
15er Cents. of 1862, Danish Five per Cents. of
J 764) and Zealand Railway shares, by Messrs. C.
Ilambro and Son ; and on the Monte Videan 6
nr Cent. European Loan of 1864, by Messrs. Maua
a'"ld Co. As regards the latter loan, Messrs. Maua
:14 Co. announce that they will be prepared on
at. e sth of January to purchase, on presentation,
tte" the then current market value, bonds to the ex-
ent Of £13,193, being the amount applicable under
" sinking fund.
jEt appears that Saturday, the 26th inst., the day
after Christmas Day, will, with very few exceptions,
" kept as a general holiday, and that many of the
Rteat city warehousing firms intend to remain closed
ou the Monday also. In various retail trades the
421Iday will likewise be kept as a holiday, although
13;4°11g these houses the Saturday will be the day
h t generally observed both in London and the
o'i minute of the Commissioners of Customs, just
fainulgated, makes certain alterations in the scale
ajannent of the clerks of that establishment, con-
ie'rent on the memorials addressed during the past
tow Years to the Government. No reply appears
trehave been attempted to the statements of unjust
bod4tnaent exceptionally experienced by the great
than of employes in this department, and the
a
it i ges announced are of a petty character, such,
a Said as rather to augment than diminish the
rey.
lous irritation.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
(40VERNMENT FUNDS.
J6l. Cent. Consols
8 ,ttO for
922 1 xd
, Account,
1,1154 `-'ent. Reduced 92i i
dew 3
Per Cent
1;,4 per Cont. Jan. 1894
4,11,,',4 per Cent, Jan. 1873
-.iti • ' • ,--
jj eS, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., Isou.
p 1... for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
tkj:_(Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Do
uclner Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per tit — Pin
Do' £5OO
Aikk XlllO & £2PmOO 5 P
b of England Stock, 4per Cent
0 0. --,•
1 Art, ace cut t .
d .4t
el'
At 4 ' per Cent. Bonds —
-Colonial Ommtun
Iha, bi ,„, ~
Nizt y '"A GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
1:70. (.(Dek., 10f per Cent., April 1879 Shut
ID°. Poniug, for Account 2ll
Do. ;) Per Cent. July, 1880
Do. Certificates
Cent., Oct.. 1888 - -1,,
bo.
~,;ertificates
Do. -s'4faced Pape' 4 per Cent 9ll
Do. ,Per Cert., Jan. 1872
IJ, 51 Per 0,721 t. May 1879 —
© Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 — De.
do. 1877 —
D 1)% do. 1882 —
007 1)°13., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ lO4l
pm
I\,. °lads, 4 per Cent., .£l,OOO
under .El,000
4r6'elltTittl-aGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
4 0., 8,„ epublic, 6 per Cent
41trizta t',l) 4.45 paid .. . .
Br Do 5 per cent
44ilia -u 1859 _
I) -11 0 Per
ri. li per Centlat —
100. "71852 _ do.
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