The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-28 00:00:00

CITY, Two o'CLocie.
Pie prevailing feature in the Stock Markets to-day
"'witless. The business doing, whether speculative
or bond fide, has all the limitations peculiar to the
holiday season. The account beginning to-morrow
also has its effect by indisposing operators to corn-
Inoue° new business. The Funds are very quiet.
Rank of England Stock is however exceptionally firm.
Foreign Bonds are fiat. Railway shares keep firm, at
prices rather above those of yesterday's close.
London Financial Shares are flat on the meeting.
There is no change to report in the Discount
Market. Very little business is everywhere being
done, and the rate is upwards of 5 per cent. below the
Lank minimum.
The Funds aro quiet. Consols are 94/ to 941 for
deliver} and account. New and Reduced are 945 to
n
; Exchequer Bills, 15s to 19s prem. Bank Stock
ie in request at an advance of 14 per cent., the pre-
sent price being 245 to 247.
Foreign Stocks are without recovery from the de-
cline noticed yesterday. Mexican, 151 to 151 ; New
Spanish, 355 to 35g; Italian, 525 to 53k ; Turkish,
391 to 39; ; Egyptian 83 to 84 ; Viceroy's Seven per
Cents., 711 to 711 ; Ditto Nine per Cents., 881 to
881; Inter-Colonial, 1061 s to 107 i ; Peruvian, 77 to
77; ; and Venezuelan, 21 to 23.
The Honduras Loan continues in demand, and is
quoted 825 to 83.
American Securities are f per cent. lower. The
5-20 Bonds stand at 721 to 72/ ; Erie, 43 to 44 ;
end Illinois, 945 to 955.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have receded 5, to 38k to 381, but the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds remain at 39,t to 391.
English Railways are a little firmer. The higher
prices obtained towards the close yesterday upon
speculative repurchases are in all cases maintained.
The quotations now current are :—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1291 to 1291; Midland, 1041 to 1051 ;
South Eastern, 76 to 76i ; London and North
Western, 1155 to 116 ; Great Northern, 104 to
104 ; ditto A, 995 to 100 ; Great Eastern, 391 to
39/ ; Great Western, 501 to 501 ; Brighton, 535 to
54 ; Sheffield, 42 to 42 ; Metropolitan, 113 to
1135
5; Caledonian, 741 te. 741 ; and Chatham, 20
to 20.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway Stock is 1075 to
108; ; East Indian, 1085 to 1095 ; and Bombay and
13arode, IC3 to 104.
In Colonial Government Securities Canadian 6 per
(Ants. are 104 to 106 ; Mauritius 6 per Cents., 103 to
104 ; New South Wales 5 per Cents., 99 to 101 ;
Queensland G per Cents., 105 to 106 ; and Victoria
6 per Cents., 113; to 11.
The business in Joint-Stock Bank shares is unim-
portant. The prices current are—Agra (A), 115 to
12 ; Alliance, 10 to 9 dis. ; Anglo-Austrian, 6 to 65
prom. ; Chartered Mercantile 29 to 30 ; Consolidated,
'it to 5 ; Imperial Bank, 17 to 18 ; Imperial Otto-
?Pe /to 5 prem.; London and County, 52 to 53 ;
1-eondon and Westminster, 705 to 715 ; Oriental,
15 to 445 ; London Joint-Stock, 345 to 355 ; and
union of London, 355 to 365.
West Wisconsin Railway Bonds are 1 to 11 prem.
In the various miscellaneous shares there is no par-
ticular feature. Anglo-American Telegraph shares are
quoted 211 to 215 ; Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents.,
L; Credit Foncier, 21 to 3 ; Fore-street Warehouse,
on
to 1 prem. ; International Finance, 13 to 15 dis.;
Zi don Financial, 24 to 22 dis. ; London General
oincibuq, 15 to 25 ; National Discount, 115 to 12 ;
4eati Marine, 145 to 15; prem.; Thames and Mersey,
; Rossa Grande Mine, -1 to i, prem. ; St.
,°, n del Rey,
19 to 20 ; Port Philip, 11 to 11 ;and
aioontales, 2 to 21.
There
were no bullion operations at the Bank
Yesterday.
Mr. Erlanger, of Paris, has contracted with the
eltYent. of Lille for a loan of £320,000, sterling, at 41 per
C
d
new French loan is now expected to h" intro-
Licect between the Bth and the 15th August.
meeting of the bondholders of the Vene-
'Lela Loan of 1864 is convened for Thursday,
the 30th.
The directors of Le Bradford Old Bank (Limited)
have declared a dividend of £1 2s 6d per share.
the herreceipts of the Lucknow and Cawnpore line os
6 Oude and Rohilkund Railway for the week end-
icg the 14th June amounted to 1'302 Ils 104 d, being
Mn increase of £135 Bs.
t„The poll demanded at the meeting of the London
Prid
,Inaneial Association yesterday will take place on
ay.
An increase of £570 is shown in the receipts of the
.„e.ace Ayres Great Southern Railway for the week
-euing June 8.
Mont
to the official report of the works of the
`_l°l3 Cenis Tunnel, there has been, up to the 30th
"tine last, 8,498 metres of the whole distance exca-
vated, leaving 3,721 still to be excavated.
The traffic returns of the Great Western Railway of
Ganda for the week ending the 24th instant, ahows
-"crease of £3,623 compared with the corresponding
Period of 1867.
The South-Eastern traffic shows a decrease of
s,
)',269, which is explained by the fact that it corn-
-4 44,,,es with an exceptionally good week. The Brighton
atuc is £l9l more.
DThe first general meeting of the United Land Com-
art,l(Limited), will take place at the offices next
attal`!ft3r, the 31st inst., at, one o'clock precisely.
ch notified that the bonds, with interest coupons
ed, of the European and North American Rail-
way
are Company, for extension from St. John westward,
paid or? ready for delivery in exchange for the fully
scrip
'and o thur Cooper, of the firm of Cooper Brothers
fard has been appointed by Vice-Chancellor Gif-
A„ ctucial liquidator of the Guaranteed Securities
—scei t*
Lett,'" Limited.
mouth ers from Odessa now admit that the harvest L
are etae,a Russia will at least be an average. Rains
assure scat
to have fallen in sufficient quantities to re-
not
yeti pinion in this respect, though exporters had
Frida appeared to any extent. At Marseilles, on
ae cle, quotations were maintained, though there was
the drill. At Bordeaux sales were pressed, while
laced that was restricted. In Hungary it is calcu-
Per cent, the wheat crop will prove from 10 to 15
of ztir. greater than that of last year. The citizens
traffic of are agitating for a reduction in the grain
eof the Swiss railways, in order to make that
ecnial, Eta a corn market, to London or Chicago.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
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a ter Cent. Consols 941
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a uit for Account, Aug. 6
lieP_er,,Cent. Reduced 94liii
941 1 I
New
nn per Cent
139. 41 per Cent. Jan. 1894
A c). 5 Per Cent. .Jan. 1873
Ilnuities 80 Jan.,
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2o°t'lA_
(ReaU yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
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4500
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15 19 /7
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of England Stock, 41 per Cent
-1. Account
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1101 9i
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