The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-19 00:00:00

For Bank Shares prices are firm. London and
and County, 49; to 4 ; London Joint Stock, 33}
to Union of London, 34i to 35f ; Anglo-
Austrian, 7 to k prem.; and Imperial Ottoman, 1
to 1i prem.
lhe shipment of th 3 million in gold to Russia
Was made yesterday by the General Steam Navi-
gation Company's steamer Berlin, by which it will
be conveyed to Hamburg, to bo sent thence over-
land to St. Petersburg. It consists of 128 cas3s,
and has been insured at 3s. 4d. per cent.—namely,
25. 6d. for sea and 10d. for land risk. The same
vessel has taken out £1.5,000 in silver for Ham- I
burg.

At a meeting of the Rhymney Iron Company
Yesterday a dividend of 15s. per share on the £5O,
and of 4s. 6d. on the £l5 shares, was declared.
An extraordinary general meeting of the St.
Thomas Floating Dock Company was held yester-
day, when resolutions for a voluntary winding up
and for the formation of a now company, which
had been passed at a previous meeting, were con-
firmed.
The advices from Brazil by the present mail state
that the recent Government loan had advanced to
6to premium.
According to a telegram from New York the
Supreme Court of that State have granted an in-
junction to cheek the creation of new stock in the
Erie Railway Company, and the other gambling
operations by which the property of the shareholders
of that line is jeopardisd and rendered unproductive
year after year.
At the meeting of the G.2raaaa-Austrian tele-
graph authorities at Carlsruhe a uniform tariff has
been agreed upon. For a distance of 26 miles
(about 120 English miles) the charge is If. ; for
all greater distances 2f. This new tariff is to come
into operation on the Ist of July, 1870, whoa the
new lines for an increased traffic will have been
completed.
The Rassian Government have, according to re-
liable information, decided no further concessions
for the issue of guaranteed bonds shall be granted
for the present, with the single exception of those
of the Charko-Krementschuz line (part of the
Moscow-Odessa line), which, having been granted
some months ago, may be offered for subscription
at ho distant date.
4, Th. Anglo-Austrian Bank have invited subscrip-
tions for the Lemberg-Czernowitz-Jassy Railway
e yields,nd which, according to the price of issue, will
b ir per cent. interest per annum, guaranteed
,-„Y, the Austrian acd Roumanian Governments,
4.4 e list will be closed on the 24th inst.
The portion of the Hungarian Five per Cent.
'3411 which remained over at the time of the sub-
Leription has now been taken by the Austrian Credit
nk) Rothschild, Sina, and others. It is reported
that the amount is about 100 millions of francs,
and that it is intended to bring it exclusively into
foreign markets, as that of Vienna begins to be over-
stocked.
The biddings for 1200,000 in bills on Calcutta
d Madras were held yesterday at the Bank of
England. The amounts allotted were to Calcutta
48,000, and to Madras £117,000. The minimum
rnice was fixed, as before, at is. 100. on Calcutta
id Madras, and tenders on both Presidencies at ls.
11#d•os Will receive about 85 per cent. These results
_4„nr* a slight diminution in the demand for means
vt remittance to the east.
larcFrom Frankfort our latest advices state that the
•
h issues of railway and other stocks are begin -
ng to be seriously felt on the Bourse, where the
rate of discount has been advanced to 3} per cent,
While 5* per cent. has been paid for carrying for-
;all transactions in American securities to next
:count. Not one week is allowed to pass without
new subscription for bonds or lottery loans.
Thee week six millions florins of Rudolph Railway
bo4lcis were readily taken, and next week there will
e oee of 24,450,000 florins of lottery share 3, issued
the city of Naples, and another of 7,800,000
li3ritle preference bonds of the Lemberg-Czernowitz
ailwaY Company. A few months of respite are
ThisPonsable, or a crash will become imminent.
ail! Market is now fully satiated with Russian
a waY preference shares, and new issues will have
VecuPoo r chance, as large sums are held by weak
lators.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
g (40rERNNIENT FUNDS.Per Cent. Consols
8 bitto for Account, Dec 1
lirr Cent. Reduced 99}
1,4'9
''i' 2 3 per Cent
4 per Cent. Jan. 1894
tor 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — tx° ° (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908
bo.quer Bills, .£l,OOO, 2 per Ct 2O pm
20
b Do £5OO
20 pm
4,411: £lOO & £2OO
1454 6
b' of England Stock, 4 per Cent
ao. accouut 1 ola 4 per Cent. Bonds —
oter..c 1 .
e canal Otunnun
In •INIIIAX UoVERNMENT SECURITIES ,
Dtit°. Stock 104 per Cent., April 1874 2l/1
o r.
1.) • ,Jpeuing, for Account — N°. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
orpoo: t
epretrinCeeantet.i: Oct. 1888
1024 3
O. Eafaced Palm.. 4 per Cent 914
1;1% 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
-.JO 5 °• 5} per Cent. May 1879
Doer Cent• , Rup. Deb. 1872 lO5/
Do.
do. 1877 —
do. 1882
Dc• neb., 5 p©r Cent Au . 1873
Do
~ g, • Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,000
n Boner, under .£l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING :PRICES.
tentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Au,A!, ,Z 4 Scrip £45 paid .. ..... 5
an Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859