The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-23 00:00:00

Discounts are unchanged.
The Funds are firm, but Consols are unchanged at
DA to 941 for delivery, and 941 to 941 for August ;
Nero and. Reduced Three per Cents. are 941 to 941 ;
Bank Stock, 244 to 247 ; India Five per Cents., 115
to 115 k ; Exchequer Bills, IGs. to 20s. prem.
Foreign Stocks are a little firmer, but business is
quiet. Mexican, 151 to 151 ; Greek, 131 to 14 ;
New Spanish, 35 to 351 ; Italian, 527; to 531; ;
Turkish, 4(1A• to 4(1g; Egyptian (1864), 83 to 84 ; ditto
Scrip, par to prem. ; Viceroy's Seven per Cents.,
711 to 721 ; the Nine per Cents., 88 to 89 ; Hon-
duras is 811 to 82 ; and the 5-20 Bonds, 721 to 721.
The important advance in railways which took place
yesterday afternoon at the close is supported, and
here and there a further fractional rally has taken
Place, The prices are : —Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1291 to 1301 ; Midland, 104 to 105 ; South
Eastern, 76/ to 77 ; London and North Western,
1151 to 116 ; Great Northern, 103 to 104 ; ditto
A, 971 to 98 ; Great Eastern, 49 to 49. ; Great
Western, 49 to 491; ; Brighton, 531 to 541 ;
Sheffield, 411 to 42 ; Metropolitan, 1121 to 113 ;
and Chatham, 191 to 20.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are firm, at 391 to 40, and the Consolidated Mortgage
Bonds at 39 to 401. Erie Shares are also firm, the
resent prices, viz., 42/ to 431, showing a rise of t.
Illinois are lower, at 95} to 96/.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway New Four per
Cent. Debenture Stock is 961 to 961 ; East Indian
are 1081 i to 109/ ; and Bombay and Baroda, 103 i. to
1041.
There is no average change in Colonial Government
securities. Canadian 6 per Cents. aro 102 to
104 ; and the 5 per Cents., 90 to 92 ; Mauritius 6 per
Cents. 103 to 105 ; New South Wales 5 per Cents.,
99 to 101 ; New Zealand 6 per Cents., 110 to 112 ;
Queensland 6 per Cents., 105 k to 106 i ; and Victoria
6per Cents., 112 to 114, and 113 to 1141.
In Bank shares Alliance and Imperial are 103
tower, but otherwise there is no change. Agra are
111 to 12 ; Alliance, 10 to 9 dis. ; Anglo-Austrian,
6 to 61 prem.; Chartered Mercantile, 28, to 291;
Consolidated, 41 to 5 ; Imperial, at 17 to 18 ,• Impe-
rial Ottoman, 1 to 14- prem. ; London and County,
52 to 53 ; London and Westminster, 70 to 71 ;
Oriental, 43, to 44k ; London Joint-Stock, 34 to 35 ;
and Union of London, 35k to 361.
In Discount and Finance shares National Discount
are 4 better at 7 prem. : Credit Foncier area better
at 2/ to 2k per £lO share. General Credit are quiet
at 2 dis. ; and International, 11 dis.
There is no change in cable shares. Anglo-Ameri-
can are 211 to 22, and Atlantic Telegraph, 41 to
Foreign Mining Shares are a shade firmer. Chon-
tales are 4 to 2k ; Rossa Grande, g to 1 prem. ;
St. John del Rey, 181- to 19i ; and Port Philip,
to it
West Wisconsin Bonds are quoted at 1 to lf prem.
Including a purchase yesterday of £lO,OOO, the
bullion operations at the Bank for the week now
Closed have been on balance £17,000 in favour of the
mount held.
Saturday next will be a holiday in the Stock Ex-
change, on account of the Volunteer Review.
On the Ist September next the minimum cable
tariff
will be reduced from £5 5s to £3, exclusive of
the charge for land service at America, making the
lainimum about £3 7s 61.
The Scottish Waggon Company have announced a
atvidend at the rate of 121 per cent. per annum for
the past half year.
A dividend and bonus equal to 10 per eent. is re-
eolumended by the directors of the Lancaster Ship
owners' Company.
The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
eslonday next a special settling day in the 5 per Cent.
..-,;edeetuable Debenture Stock (1867) of the Great
Eastern Railway—to be marked in the official list.
The receipts of the Midland Railway for the past
week show an increase of £8,116 ; the Great Northern,
£341 ; the Glasgow and South-Western, £358 ; and
the London and North-Western, £7,589.
The receipts for the Madras Railway for the week
!Ming 30th May amounted to £13,833 14s. lid.,
being an increase of £4,396 17s. SI. Those of the
Bahia and San Francisco line for the week ending the
13th ult. show an increase of £166 15s. 9d.
• For the month of June the receipts of the Atlantic
and Great Western were £70,434, or a decrease of
£6,245.
The Liverpool sales of East India wool have been
Axed for the 11th August, when about 12,000 bales
will be offered. For the next London Colonial sales
169,6.43 bales have arrived, and the total is expected
to be about 210,000 bales. Messrs. Schwartze's
circular reports. the market quiet but firm, and last
prices are expected to be maintained at the forth-
coming sales

BRITISU FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols ... 941 1
3 Ditto for Account, Aug 6
„per Cent. Reduced 941 1
.l.,6`'' 3 per Cent
N 9
24. per Cent. Jan. 1894
i 1)°. a per Cent. Jan. 1873
'4,luuitios, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
z Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
xelioquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct l6 1),11
Do.
.£5OO
Do. £lOO St £2OO l5 l3lok of England Stock. 41 per Cent — ~
Do. Account
INDIAN JOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
'44,4 stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 ... 215
",0. Opening, for Account —
,"0. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
"0. per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
O. Enfaced Pape, 4 per Cent 9l 1
Vic). 5 per Cont., Jan. 1872
-°.Cont., May 1879
DO' 0 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1879
Do. do. 1877 —
, Do. do. 1882 —
‘'. Deb, 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Flo. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,000
0. under £l.000
Arr . FORICIUN FUNDS—TWO CLOCK.
entitle Repultc, 6 per Cent ..
13_ Austrian.. Bond; 5 per Cent. 1859
ruilian 5 per Cent
p/.4/ per Cent., 1852
do. 1858 —
LO., do., Ho —
T,*"°. do 1863 —
~
*-6. 5 per Cent., 1865
II bo Account —
I:,!noskyres 6 per Cent —
Dub us) 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
09., 6per Cent.
4„dian 6 per Cent —
uo. 44 per Cent —
1,1)°(°): 6 perlBa6e7ut.' B —
4-',0., 7 per ,Cent., 1866
0 ."0., Scrip .£32 paid
D eabian, 6 per Cent
*".,, tuisti, 3 pr Cent., 1825........
",,s'eubian Principalities, / .er Cent 751
"° 8 per Cent., 1867...... ..........
Ognador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Yptian, 7 per Cent —
~..,1)0. Second Issue •..
_Us'. £5OO Bonds
"0. 410 C Bonds —
Du. 1864
320‘
4t.0
tonisAccount
-",..0. 4100 Bonds a ••••—
n ‘-toverninent Railway Debentures
- r:;0:.
itueopuounre
1) 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups —
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4 UO. Ace 3nnt
,jLt! riala 5 per Cent .. ••
7itcaraeGov.Rail.Loan., 10p. Ct., £25 p 82
;),3 ati 6 Per Cert., 1865 —
3)
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11.3 xi ca /141'enitnana Raiway —
b. 4 t • i , 3 r Cent —
1° for per
Account
Dr).
1864 —
Monte ,13er Cont. Anglo-French —
400 'v'deau C per Cent. .. — ~, rtst.
Aexi, Q'' inlperial 5 per Cent
Do rauada
141
D°•
3 per Oen
he. Defer...ed.
04.11a4 5 per Cent. 1865
DO - Account
.. 78 74
~
D° -./ per Cent. (Uribarren)
Pb° 44 Per Cent„ 1862 -, —
ort() Account. .. •
D:g°880 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3
D° do. 1867 39
1,, , : do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Do
eat K
A ' per Cent., 1822, ..£ bt
4 per Cont. 1850
DO ! 4 i per Cent., 1860
DO 8 per Cent., 1859 -
;, 5 per Cent., 1862
£B4 15s. do.
oo.' t°66, £lOO Bonds 92 I.
1). do £B4 15s. do
ar 0 Nicolas Railway 66
lipatillitisi.lal 3 per Cent —l
0.. ‘r.` ° Per Con . —
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