The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-18 00:00:00

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CITY, Two o'CLock.
The anticipated increase of the Bank rate to
morrow has led to a slight increase in the price o

Consols, to the extent of 1-16. The foreign secu

cities are heavy, and Spanish have declined -1, Ita-
lian 1, and Tnekish 1-16. There is no alteration in
the discount market, and in the House loans are to
be had at 11 per cent.
Consols are 941 31 for money; ditto, for ac-
count, 94 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 92 1 ;
New Three per Cents, 92 1 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, 2 per Cent., 20 prem. ; ditto, £lOO and
£2OO, 15 prem.
India Stock, 5 per Cent., Jaly, 1880, 1151;
ditto, Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent., 911.

In the Foreign Market the prices are as fol-
lows :—Brazilian of 1865, 774 to 781 ; Chilian
of 1867, 941 to 951 ; .Egyptian of 1864, 81 to
82 ; ditto of 1868, 74 to 1 ; Italian of 1861, 551
to 66 ; Mexican, 15i to 4 ; Peruvian of 1865,
811 to ; Russian, 901 to I ; ditto Nicolai Rail-
way Loan, 654 to 4 ; Orel, 811 to ; Moscow-
Jaroslavv, 82k- to 4 ; Spanish of 1867, 33/ to
; Turkish of 1850, 681 to to ; ditto of
1862, 681 to 1 ; and ditto of 1865, 411 to i.
The Tobacco Loan is 21 prem.

The railway market quotations aro as follows :
Great Northern A shares, 104/ to 1051; Lon-
don and North Western, 113 to 1; Great
Western, 501 to ; Midland, 1121 to 1 ; London
and South Western, 871 to 881 ; Great Eastern,
44i to j ; Brighton, 481 to ; South Eastern,
80 to 1 ; Metropolitan, 107 to 1; Caledonian,
751 to 1 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1281 to
1 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 17/ to 1;
and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 471
to 481.

Li Miscellaneous and Banking Shares the prices
are as last quoted.

The anticipated withdrawal of £1,000,000 (chiefly
in Russian linp,:rials) for transmission to St. Peters-
burg, took place yesterday at the bullioa office of
the Bank.

An active demand prevails in all discount quar-
ters. In the open market the brokers refuse bills
under 2i per cent., and in some instances advances
have been made on the understanding that the
rate is to be fixed on Thursday next, when it is
expected that the official minimum will be raised 1
per cent. The upward movement should be re-
garded with much favour, as it is a positive indica-
tion of stimulated enterprise ; if caused by legiti-
mate investment and expansion of a trade, a steady
rise to 5 per cent. will be satisfactory to the com-
munity at large.
At the half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of
the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London,
and China, held to-day, Mr. George G. Nicol in
the chair, the directors' report and statement of
accounts were adopted. The chairman said he
hoped the whole of the bad debts of 1865-66 would
be finally extinguished by the end of the present
Year.

In the matter of the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway Company, which has been before Vice-
Chancellor Gifford, all parties having consented to
withdraw the various pending suits, a decree was
granted sanctioning the carrying out of the pro-
Po3als of the new directors for a reorganisation of
the company's affairs, aud the receiver for the de-
benture trust in England was duly authorised to
take the necessary steps for the immediate removal
of the receiver at present in control of the property
in America.

The Department of Agriculture in the United
States has issued its report of the crops of the pre-
sent year up to the close of the past month. From
this it appears that the full promise of the early
summer has not been realized in the wheat bar.
vest. The increase of area over that of last year i❑
its effect upon aggregate production is nearly neu-
tralized by a small diminution in some of the prin-
cipal wheat-growing States in yield per acre, so that
the increase in total quantity is scarcely more than
3 per cent , and this has been obtained mainly
froin the Pacific coast, California, showing an in-
crease of 25 per cent. The amount of old wheat on
hand is rather less than usual throughout the coun-
try, with the exception of the cotton States, which,
with the exception of Texas, have a higher average
than last year.
The following prices were obtained at yesterdays
public sale at the Open Stock Exchange : —Alhatn-
bra Company (Limited) fully paid, £7 195., £8 ;
Anglo-Brazilian Gold Mining Company (Limited),
lOs. paid, I.ls. 9d. ; City Discount Company
(Limited), £5 paid, 19s. 6d.; City of Milan
Improvements (Limited), fully paid, 7 3-16 ;
Consolidated Land Company of France (Limited),
paid, 123. 6d. ; East London Bank
(Limited), £5 paid, 3 15-16 ; East Cam Brae
Mine, Cost Book, all calls paid, 6s. 6d ; Her-
cules Insurance Company (Limited), £2 paid, 12s.
61.; ditto fully paid, £4; Hodges's Distillery
Company (Limited), fully paid, £8 103. ; New
Qaebrada Company (Limited), £4 4s. paid, 3s. 6d.;
Poyaisian Land Awards (Mosquito), lls per 1,000
acres; Provident Clerks and General Guarantee
Association, £4 paid, 2 15-16 ; Tiffin and Fort
Wayne R tilroad Company, fully paid, 6d. ; the
General Irrigation and Water Supply Company of
France (Limited), £l2los. paid, 2 3-16 ; Worthing
Mining Company (Limited), fully paid, 7s.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
. UOVERNMENT FUNDS.
• Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, Dec.l
t Per Cent. Reduc.ld 921 ±
NCR 3 per Cent
alsyr 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 --.
Do. tor 3u yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1903 —
E xchcquer Bills, .£I,OOU, 2 per lit 2O Pra
Do, £5OO
Do. £lOO & £200
sank of England Stock, 4per Cent
~. Do. acceuit
uanada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
litter-Colonial Uranium

NDIAN UOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
ladial Stock 10f per Cont., April 1874
Do. Opening, for Account —
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. Issß
Do. Certificates
Do. Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cent 9l}
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. fif per Cent., May 1879
De 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872
Di. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882
Pt,. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO • Pal
Do. under .£l,000

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
rgentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Auitri
Do.
an Scri
Bonpds ii £45 paid
per cent
Do. 1859 —
iirazdlian 5 per Cent I
...
Oa. Ifper Cent., 1852 —
Do. do. 1858..... —
Do. do., 1860 _.
Do do., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 _
, Do Account ....
40 ,e nos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Cubs. per Cent. (Deferred 8 per Cont ).
r per Cent.
~.tllitti;,6 per Cent
_
D.i. 4i per Cent 73i
uo• 3 per Cent.,
Do. 6 per cent. 1867 95
Col 10f}
D 7 oar Cent., 1866
Ptra,,Can, 6 per" Cent.
rsao'sn, 3 plr Cent., 1825
•L'an.ibian Principalities, 7 per Cent — i
~,_D ' 8 per Cent., 1867
nuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
NYptian, 7 per Cent —
L'o 6ecoad issue
Do. XlOO Bonds Bl}
Do. 1864 -
' Do, Account
Do. £5OO Bonds
Do. I.IOC Bonds B3
tnglish Scrip, 1868 -.
Do do. ..il5 pd ...... • dis
k-t_ Gover
pernment Railway Debßnture.rem 5 Cent. 1824-5, ox Coups .
Do. Account
Do. nn
.•
G iatoe. 41oneica"oupter Cent
llt3
ioiniada o parurssvt...,.€Pt.at.
i1:1 1.44006 an., 10 p. C t., all pd
.-)o. Account .
Do Blxremrnana lta'lwa
11,3a“ca.r. 3 I.er Cent Y
Ditto for Account de .1
Do. 1864