The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-03 00:00:00

NO.NEY AIAREET

A ND
'OMMERCIAL (14 T LiAlo t•36'S,

CITY, Two o'CLocK

Business recommenced to-day at the Stock Ex-
change with an improved tone. Prices, in some in-
stances, increased, and although the transactions
that took place were mostly in Foreign Securiiies,
yet they imparted a firmness to the market.
Consols are about 1-16th lower than on Saturday,
but the Threes maintain the closing prices. There
has been an activity in the Railway Market, and
Great Northerns have improved.

The rate of discount for bills is 11 to /.
Consols are 94+ -a for money ; ditto, for account,
944 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 92k 3 ; and the
New Three per Cents, 98 28. Ezchcquer Bills
£l,OOO. 2 per Cent., 17 21 preen ; ditto £lOO and
£2OO, 21 prem. ; and Bank of England Stock, 4 per
Cent., 241.
In the foreign market there is a fall of if in
Mexican and Turkish Five per Cents. The quota-
tions are:—ltalian, 541, 54/ ; Greek, 12k, 13 ;
Mexican, 158, 16} ; New Spanish, 34k, 341 ;
Turkish, 411, 41/ ; Peruvian Five per Cent., 82k,
83 ; and New Egyptian Seven per Cent. of 1868,
738, 73f.

New Italian Scrip is at 11, 1 prem.
The Honduras Loan is firm at 90, 92.
The scrip of the Charko-Azof Railway Loan is
11 prem.
India Stock, 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 115 141 ;
diito, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 103 ; ditto, Enfaced
Paper 4 per Cent., 924 1i ; ditto 5 per Cent.. Jan.,
1872, 1064 ; ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1870, 110/
; ditto Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO, 16 prem. ;
ditto 4 per Cent., under £l,OOO, 17 prem•
In Railway shares Great Northern Original
Stock is in request. Great Eastern and Metropoli-
tan have improved ; Midland, South Eastern, and
Caledonian have declined, the quotations are
as follows : London and North Western,
111 i to 112 k; Great 'Western, 481 to / ;
Midland, 1114 to 1121 ; London and South-
Western, 871 to 881; Great Eastern, 434 to 43i ;
Brighton, 50 to 501 ; South Eastern, 784 to 781 ;
Metropolitan, 1061 to 1064 ; Great Northern, 105
to 1051 ; ditto A, 104 to 104 k; Caledonian, 72k
to 724, ex div. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 128 i to
; London, Chatham, and Dover, 164 to 17i ;
and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 47k-
to 48.

Great Indian Peninsular Railway New Four per
Cent. Debenture Stock is 94i 95k.

United States Five-Twenty Bonds are in request
and aper cent. better, at 74 to s ; Erie Rail-
way shares, 37k 4 ; Illinois Central, 971 to I ;
Atlantic and Great Western Debentures, 364 to
37+ ; and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 314
to 4.
Bank Shares remain unaltered. Imperial Otto-
man, 1i to prem. ; Consolidated to 1 prem. ;
London and Westminster, 634 to 641 ; London
and County, 481 to 494 ; and Union of London, 334
to 341.
Miscellaneous Shares are well supported. Na-
tional Discount are at 111 to 121 ; General Credit,
24 to 23 dis. ; International, 1* to Oi ; Tele-
graph Construction, 15i to 4. ; Atlantic Telegraph
Eight per Cent. Preference, 34 to 4 ; and Anglo-
American, 214. to 24.
The sum of £16,000 in gold has been withdrawn
from the Bank.

The Biafra, from the West Coast of Africa, has
arrived with £8,472 ; the Australian has left Syd-

ney with £12,300 ; and the steamers which left
New York at the end of last week will bring
£llO,OOO.
The Tasmania, for the West Indies, took out
Yesterday £990.
We learn from Australia that application for a
fresh railway loan of £4,000,000 sterling for the
colony of Victoria is under contemplation. Eng-
lish capitalists seem particularly anxious to invest,
and there is no reason why Australia should not
enter into competition with Rus3ia for a loan.
The Joint Committee of Management of the
Anglo-American and Atlantic Telegraph Compa-
nies have just completed their arrangements for
establishing an agency in Paris for affording greater
facilities to the public in the transmission of mes-
sages by their cables to America.

The directors of the Anglo-American Telegraph
Company yesterday resolved to declare a further
interim quarterly dividend of 10s. per share, free of
income tax, payable on the Ist of December.
The extraordinary general meeting was held yes-
terday of the Egyptian Commercial and Trading
Company. It was merely for obtaining the consent
of the shareholders to a distribution of the assets at
the annual meeting to be held shortly ; the exact
amount of the capital to ba returned to the pro-
prietors will be paid. The whole of the liabilities of
the company have been extinguished.

Mr. Church, the chief clerk of the Master of the
Rolls, yesterday made an application on behalf of
the liquidators of the Anglo-Danubian Steam Na-
vigation Company, to make a call of £3 10s. per
share upon the shareholders. With respect to the
late Birmingham Banking Company, upon an ap-
plication made, the chief clerk granted liberty to
the official liquidator to sue a debtor for a large
amount, no notice of trial to be given without
leave.
'We have received the following relative to the
Teneriffe quarantine and anchorage dues
___

" Teneriffe, October 21.

"Sir,—We have to communicate to you, for the
information of the subscribers to Lloyd's, that the
Revolutionary Committee of Government of these
islands has abolished the anchorage dues until
lately exacted of all vessels, and has removed all
quarantine from ships that arrive from the United
ICingdom.—We are, sir, your obedient servants,
" BRUCE, HAMILTON, and Co.,
" Agents for Lloyd'•s
" B. C. Stephenson, Esq., Secretary of
Lloyd's."

BRITISII F UND6—T WO O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,..Nov.s
2 per Cent. Reduced O2B 3
New 3 per Cent
mew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. tor 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct l7 21 pm
14. £5OO
Do. £lOO & £2OO 2l pm
Eaak of England Stock, 4 per Cent
Do. account . —
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
luter-Colonial Omnium
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Opening, for Account —
Do. 5 pot- Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 pee Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Pape, 4 per Cent 921 1f
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
120. 5i per Cent., May 1879 llO4 i
-1,3 5 per Cont., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
„ Do. do. 1882
4,.. Bob., 6 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ —
DO. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,000
o• under .£l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
Ar •
Oli ivne Republic, 6 per Cent ...
A Do., Scrip £3O paid
.Q.U. Arian Bonds 5 per Cent. 1859 —
_
Br, • Do. 1859
ialian 5 per Cent —
I)
~,3. 11 per Cent., 1852 —
;,0. do. 1858.... —
,‘"o• do., 180 —
DO.
do', 1863 6Bl
'''', °. 5 per Cent., 1865
uo Account 7Bf 91
Linos Ayres 6 per C.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferrtentd 3 per Cent ) —a
u ba,;'-; per Cent.
utliau 6 per Cent
Do. 4 f per Cent —
Un. 6 per Cent., B —
130-, 1867
o .1)°.) 7 per Cent., 1866
1 4' tubiau, 6 per Cent.
T,a,Xsh 3 p.3r Cent., 1825
-,' utian Principalities, 7 par Cent —
n1)0 8 per Cent., 1867 —
,n.uador New Consolidated, 1 par Cent —
4gYptian, 7 per Cent —
00 Second Issuo
, ,
Do. £501) Bonds
,
'Jo. £lO5 Bonds B2 1
Do. 1864 —
„ Do. Account Bll
,uo. £S,A, Bonds —
~Do. £lOO Bonds ~.. 84f
, tinglish Scrip, 1868 73i f
`-treeic 5 per Cent., 1824- 5, ex Coups —