The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-27 00:00:00

11 0 INT-11-X ARKET

AND
COMB EUOIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, Two o'CLocic.
The gratifying news from Abyssinia has more than
eclipsed the effect produced upon the English Funds
by the attempt to assassinate the Duke of Edinburgh,
particularly as the later telegrams report that be is
Lining well. Long before the Stock Exchange was
opened, speculative business was done in Consols at
941, but there are large limits to all above 94,
and
consequently the present price is 94 to 94k.
Otherwise the markets are all firm, but not cinch
altered as regards prices. The fortnightly settlement
began this morning, and it will be concluded on
Wednesday. The supply of stock is rather large, and
the rates of continuation are unimportant.
The tendencies of the Discount Market are towards
easg, bat rates are still quoted at 2 per cent., though
exceptional transactions have taken place at 1i
per cent.
The English Funds are very firm. Consols are dealt
in at 94 to 94 for money and account, being an ad-
vance of k ; New and Reduced Three per Cents.,
hotter, at 92 to 921 ; India Five per Cents. are
higher, at l 1.5 i to 116 ; Exchequer Bills, 123 to 17s
prem.

Foreign Stocks are generally well supported, more
especially Ezptians, the 1864 Loan and the Viceroy's
heea per Cents. being each better. Greek are
hcr• Other descriptions are without particular
movement. The following are the quotations :
Mexican, 15. to 151 ; Greek, 121 to 121; New
Spanish Three per Cents., 341 to 351 ; Italian, 48a
to 484 ; Turkish, 34± to 341 ; Portuguese, 391 to 40±;
Orel-Vitebsk 784 to 79 ; Nicolai, 651 to 66 ;
g.Yptain (1864), 794 to 804 ; ditto Railway Loan,
88i to 891 ; Viceroy's Seven per Cents., 70 to 71 ;
ditto Nine per Cents. 884 to 89.
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The New Honduras Loan is par to 1 prem.
The Spanish Colonial 8 per Cent. Loan fully paid
up is 90 to 904, and the Scrip 34 to 24 dis.
American securities are generally firm. United
States Five-twenty Bonds aro quoted at 70/ to 704 ;
Erie Shares and Illinois aro each better, at 464 to
471, and 94 to 94)2 respectively.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
remain at 29 to 30 ; and the Consolidated Mortgage
I3olds at 331 to 34.
English hallways are firmer, at an average ad-
vance of per cent. Great Northern shares are alone
flat. The quotations current are :—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 128,4 to 1281 ; Midland, 1081 to losi ;
South Eastern, 74 to 744 ; London and North Wes-
tern, 116 to 1164 ; Great Northern 1024 to 1034 ;
ditto A, 984 to 994 ; Great Eastern, 34f to 344 ;
Great Western, 521 to 531-; Brighton,s24 to 55 ;
Sheffield, 43/ to 44 ; Caledonian, 754 to 764 ; and
Metropolitan; 1121 to 113.
Bank Shares are quiet at about previous prices.
The following are the quotations :—Agra (A. shares),
95 to 104 •• Alliance, 13 to 12 dis. ; Anglo-Austrian,
4t
_4an,; 'Chartered Mercantile, 28 to 29 • Conso-
Ottoni lidated, 2
4a to 4g-; Imperial 181 to 194 ; Imperial
to ; London and County, 51 to 52 ;
Loudon and Westminster, 674 to 684 ; Oriental,
424 f to 434 ; London Joint-Stock, 324 to 334 ; Union
o London 321, to 334.
In foreign mining shares St. John del Reys remain
at 20/ to 214. Fort Philip steady, at 1i to li.
Uhontales ; better, at 2/ to 3.
Miscellaneous are steady. Anglo-American Tele-
fraPh is inquired for, at 22 15-16 to 23 1-16. At-
„antic Telegraph Eight per Cent., it lower, at
1-16 to 5 3-IG. Hudson's Bay, , 14k to 141
-1) talon General Omnibus, 14 to 2*.;
American gold coin valued at £5,000 was taken
rola the Bank on Saturday for exportation.
The Saxouian has arrived with £23,200 in specie
g.;Hal New York ; and the Australasian, £69,000.
•ine Bangalore has £1,214 from Alexandria.
The report of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Com-
OPanY recommends a dividend of £1 per share, payable
_la the 29th inst. The report is very lengthy, and
details the various circumstances which made the
second half-year of 1867 almost as unprofitable as the
first.

Lllt, is reported that an Egyptian Loan of £7,000,000
di °een definitely arranged to be brought out imme-
I,Pely both here and in Paris. It is also said that a
-t:tery loan of £4,000,000 stock is to bo introduced
on behalf of the Suez Canal.
The directors of Reuter's Telegram Company have
announced to the shareholders the conclusion of an
arra
ngement with the Indu-European Telegraph Com-
pany, recently formed for the establishment of direct
.i.`elegraphic communication between this country and
endand which will commence operations before the
Z;nu of the year 1869. By this arrangement an addi-
tional income is secured to the Company, for
4 period of ten years, from the date of the
°Petting of the Indo-European line. The existing
advantageous agreement with the Electric and Inter-
national Telegraph Company is also extended to the
!Rune term. The directors take the opportunity to
acquaint the shareholders that the net revenue of the
n°nlPany from the cable alone (the profits front the
°rdinary buainess not included), during the first quar-
ter of the present year, was as follows, viz.:—
~,,anuary, .£2,227 Os 4d, only three wires in operation ;
ebruary, £2,558 16s 9,1 ; March, £2,690 3s 7d, all
/our
wires in operation : Total for the first quarter,
1868, £7,476 Os 8d net.
The particulars are published of 302 bonds of the
Sardinian Five per Cent. Loan of 1851, amounting to
£30,140, which have been cancelled.
The Indian Railway Companies Bill, recently in-
troduced by Lord Stanley, is intended to enable the
paranteed Indian railway companies to create deben-
ture stock in lieu of raising money on mortgage or
ond. It provides that such stock may be created
frothc titne to time with the sanction of the Indian
and of three-fifths of the votes of the issuing
coutpany. The stock may bear fixed and perpetual
preferential interest, and its proceeds are to be ap-
plied exclusively, either in paying oft mortgage or
_ond debts, or else for the purposes to which they
;w_ould be applicable if raised on mortgage or bond
stead of debenture stock. The holders of deben-
ture; stock are not to be entitled to be present or to
arte,at any meeting.
" Prospectus of the United Land Company
(Limited)co will be found in another column. The
4erillPanY has been formed as an adjunct to the Con-
in vative Land Society, for the purpose of extend-
g' with fixed capital, the operations in land and
en "Jug hitherto carried on so successfully by the
caintanY under the Friendly Societies Act. The
itlni
is put down at £250,000, and it is proposed
lue first icstance only to issue shares to the
amount of £lOO,OOO of £5 each.

, BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
a ,30VERNMENT FUNDS.
94 1
Per Cent. Consols
94 1
. bitto for Account .tPer Cent. Reduced 92 1 ii..
+lel! 3
921 1. I
New 2 per Cent
i)W 'I per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
A ..—°•.s. per Cent. J an. 1873
-",ionities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., li!T(i —
Doo. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —tz (Red Sea Telei„,raph), Aug., 1908 —l6
pm
ti.oiliaer Billsl£l,ooo, 2 per Ct .
Do.
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£lOO & £2OO
4,';ic of England Stock, 4; per Cent 245 3
-uo• Account
I INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
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O. Account
116 1G:1
°• 5 per Cent. July, 1880
be
101
b • 4 per Cent, Oct. 1888
Dll°' ObrtifiCateS —
o. Eufaced Paper 4 per Cent BBl
103 i
—°. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do k,
tc -t per Cent., May 1879 —
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12,`"' Doo, 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
28 in
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