The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-15 00:00:00

ZONE Y MARIIET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLYCIENCX,

CITY, Two o'CLocs.
The Stock market was active, the favourable rise
in price having induced many investors to take ad-
vantage of the increased value to realise. The un-
favourable conditions of the Royal Mail Steam
Ship Company caused a fall in the shares of the
concern of no less than 21, 52 being the quotation.
Metropolitan Railway stock was offered freely at a
decline of 4/ to Great Westerns, Great Northerns,
„," South Easterns experienced the same reduction.
The charge for accommodation in the house is 1 per
ceuto With but little business doing.
The Bank directors have made no alteration in
their rate of dircount.
Consols are quoted 9-1 - to I for money, and
941 for the account (Nov. 5) ; and the Three
ver Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents.,
931 to
Foreign Stocks firm. Italian of 1861, Peruvian of
1865, Turkish of 1862 and 1865, and Orel Vitebsk
ti ibtailvuly Loan have advanced I per cent.,
t Mexican Bonds have receded k per cent. ;
Brazilian of 1865, 77/ to ! ; Milian of 1867,
to 95 ;
talian of 18G1pt of 1864, 82i to 8215 ex div. ;
Peruvian of 1865, 78/ to 794 ; Russian of 1866,
,
to 904 ; Nicolai Railway Loan, 67! to ! ; do.
,`",rell 84/ to 804 ; ditto Moscow-Jaroslaw, 82 to
'4; Spanish of 1867, 33} to 33f ; Turkish of
d5Bl 66 1 to 67 ; ditto of 1862, 681. to 69i ; and
itto of 1865, 401 to 411.
The scrip of the new Italian Loan is firm at
,
prem.

The Honduras Loan is firm, at 90 91.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway New Four
Per Cent. Debenture Stock is 941 951.
Indian Debentures, 1051 to 106 ; the Ten and
a Ralf per Cents. are at 214 to 217 ; the Five,
1141 to 115 ; the Four, 1031 to 101 ; and the
14
ZA°11(18, 20s. to 255. prem. Bank Stock, 242 to
I; and Exchequer Bills, 17s. to 225. Frem.
Miscellaneous shares are inactive. National
Demount,lnternational
111 to 1 ; General Credit, 21 to f dis. ;
Anternational Financial, 11 to 1.1 dis. ; Hudson's
Bays 141 to 151; Telegraph Construction, 151 to
'6; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference,
3i t 0 4 ; and Anglo-American, 21 to /.
U States Five-Twenty Bonds 72 to f, ex
95 ; Erie Railway Shares, 32 to I ; Illinois Central,
37,t° ; Atlantic and Great Western Debentures,
to 38; and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds,
'I 1
to 40.
Bank Shares are steady. Anglo-Austrian, 6to
Prem. ; London and Brazilian, 30 to 25 dis. ;
Ottoman, 11 to 11- prem. ; Consolidated, /
_t° I prem. ; London and Westminster, 651 to t ;
T...°len and County, 48/ to 491; and Union of
'hclon, 33/ to 341.
Railway quotations are considerably lower. Cale-
donians
1. od /, Great Eastern /, Metropolitan 1, Mid-
Brighton 1, South Eastern 4. Shethelds
have improved /, and North British 1. The
cittotationsare :—Caledonian, 71/ 2; Great Western,
xrlB4 t 0 49}; Great Eastern, 401 to 1- ; Great
.morthe„ 107 to 108 ; ditto A, 104} ; Lanca-
V'iire) ,
1281 1 ; Metropolitan, 1061 j ; Midland,
I; Sheffield, 48 1; Brighton, 521 1 ; North
Jasritish, 321 ; London and North-Western, 11211 ;
°I'M Eastern, 77; 1 ; Chatham and Dover,
17i 18.
The sum of £27,000 was taken from the Bank
yesterday in sovereigns for Egypt, and £26,000
W,a4 Sent in. 'rho gold operations of the week since
igear' date of the last return have consisted upon ba-
ee of a withdraw! of £lO,OOO.
z The Seine, from the West Indies, has brought
'484,000.
The ' Mexican dollars brought by the French
foealner Washington have been disposed of (chiefly
China) at 5811 per ounce, showing a decline of
In dfr OM the last price. The dollars by the West
withio
Packet just announced have not yet been dealt
Th
tio Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
ples Debt have given notice that there is no sur-
revenue applicable to the sinking fund for the
quarter
visions ending 31st Dec., 1868, under the
15. 39, of the Act 29th and 30th Vic., cap. sec.
B_,A letter has been received from the Chevalier de
rgate with regard to the temporary loan lately
pitantted the Portuguese Government by certain ca-
Ver ists
Paris and Frankfort, the terms for which
to be Stated in specific advices from the latter city
figure thugh as 18 per cent. It appears that the
one, mentioned is not absolutely the correct
iofo The Chevalier says :—"As it appears your
the „rlllaut persists in his assertions on the faith of
lidt'ePorts current at that place, I think it my duty
ate that such reports are incorrect in regard to
takiactqal terms of the transaction, even without
tst2.ollg into consideration the prospective advan-
-8 Seellred to the Government by the contract."
1107al "e
l‘lfollowing note has been received from the
ogst'e all Steam-packet Company, intimating the
llsion of the payment of dividend :
110y%1 Mail Steam-packet Company, No. 55, Moor-
Thes gate-street, London, E.C., Oct. 14, 1868.
Aroee6erets.ry of the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company.
forra his compliments to the Editor, and begs toin-
the that in consequence of the large falling off in
ettleaapc receipts of the company during the half-year
keeti Cith June last, the directors will be unable, at the
tecotig of the proprietors to be held on the 28th inst., to
7111. end the payment of a dividend.
bycircular in connection with the Grand Trunk
thwltY Company of Canada was issued yesterday
B.
Of colleagues of Sir Edward Watkin in the
tcZctten
the Grand Trunk Railway Company
kaveYing to the bond and stock holders their ern-
i)t,:c protest against the continued and violent
44,7°40.1 attacks (hitherto unnoticed), by circular
Ce%oi°,.'t,lierwise, made upon Sir Edward by Mr.
eel he, chairman of the Buffalo and Lake Huron
Rio hPanY• It further states that Sir Edward Wat-
-114 a' incurred the hostility of Mr. Hazeltine and
teo3artY (who are largely interested in the Buffalo
the i2'4113)1 by opposing, with the full concurrence
liorfa.l'o board, certain extravagant claims of the
Company against the Grand Trunk Com-
„ Tho
vzero Proposed extension line of the Lemberg-
oat, 2witz Railway to Jassy is likely to be carried
the
aLwith the approval of a very large majority of
IllietZl'eholders. At a meeting in Austria 22,000
tiO4 0.411,,av,,e been deposited in favour of the resolu-
Pitt " 40 against.
411,,e3r guineas premium have been paid on the
reee;„(a'B.) from Alexandria for Liverpool, but the
of Illn a telegramon, yesterday from Lisbon, con-
hp, 70 report of the Electo that she had picked
4 lifeb:r 80 miles to the north of Cape Finisterre,
tity
of"°Y of the Calpe steamer, and passed a quan-
fioth Wreck, renders it impossible to effect any
Ei
that er insurance on her, fears being entertained
/'ol.4abilb, must have foundered. Respecting the ship
bretoio", from Bassein, on which 60 and 80 guineas
4 bo:° were paid on Saturday, nothing further
•
Paid Fifty guineas hays also been paid
Nueva Pastora, from Havana.

titiTisri FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
pe„ 0 .10,1%1ENT FUNDS.
94-1 I
a itti,ellt• Consols
94
~per Cent Account, Noy. 5
!MI.
N, lat. Reduc d
93i i
4°l'r 2.1 Per C6nt e
-
Do. g Per Cent. Jan. 1894
Attuilit. Per Com. Jan. 1873
e. for, 80 Yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
tit) 30 re' expire sth April 1885 —
t kelaP" 80arieraph), Aug., 1908 —
l'n
bo. quer Bills, 416,000, 2 par at
19 77
t )3°
.£5OO
- 77
Atik 0f I, £lOO & £2OO
244
Ds, '-'ogl3,nd Stock, 4 par Cent
,Qapa.,biacP)ll4t .... . .
Aliter,p Per Cent. Bonds — 77
'°letkittl Orunium
Lock - s-40VERNMENT SECURITIES
bo. n, 10i per Cent., April 1874 ...
be,_
130 ';'Pening, for Account
115
I) 08r tient. July, 1880
be. 0 Per cent., Oct. 1888
b . _ ertificates
_1031.1
1:1°) t:nfaced Pape., 4 per Cent
bo. Per Cent., Jan. 1872
00 ,I' Per Cent., May 1879 lO9l
'Per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 _
O.
do. 1877 —