The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-31 00:00:00

HONEY MARIIET

A ND
IOMMERCIAL INT ELLIGENt,k,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The Stock Exchange to-day was quiet, and al-
though it will not be open before Tuesday next,
business was not by any means brisk. Prices in
most instances remain unchanged, with the excep-
tion of the Tobacco Loan, which has improved.
The rate of discount is 1i to and fcr loans 1.1 per
cent.

Consols are quoted 941 2 ; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 93 28 ; New Three per Cent., 93 28 ; Ex-
chequer Bills, £1,009, 21s. ; do., £5OO, 17s. ; do.,
£lOO and £2OO, 17s. prem.

In the Foreign Market business slightly im-
proved. Brazilian Stock went up -I, the price for
that of 1865 being 79 to ; Chilian of 1867, 941 to
i; Egyptian of 1864, 811 to 82i cx div. ; ditto of
1868, 738 to ; Italian of 1861, 54 to 1. ; Mexi-
can, 16 to I; Peruvian of 1865, 821 to 83 ; Russian
of 1866, 90i to 91 ; ditto Nicolai Railway Loan,
678 to ; ditto Orel, 811 to 1, ex. div. ; ditto Mos-
oow-Jaroslaw,B2i to 83 ; Spanish of 1867, 341 to
; Turkish of 1868, 68 to 1 ; ditto of 1862, 70 to I;
and ditto of 1865, 41i to 8.
The Italian Tobacco Loan has further improved
the price is now 21 to prem.

India Stock, 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 115 ;
ditto 4 per Cent., October, 1888, 1028 ; ditto
Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent., 91k ; ditto 5 per Cent.,
January. 1872, 105 i. 6 ; ditto 51 per Cent., May,
1879, 110 - ; ditto Debenture 5 per Cent., August,
1873, 1054 ; ditto Bonds, under £l,OOO, 17.
In the railway market stocks are quoted as fol-
lows :—London and North Western 111 k 112 k;
Great Western, 481 to 1 ; Midland, 112 to ; Lon-
don and South-Western, 871 to 881; Great
Eastern, 421 to k ; Brighton, 498 to 501 ; South
Eastern, 78 to 1 ; Metropolitan, 1054 to 106 ;
Great Northern, 104 to 105 ; ditto A, 1041 to 104 i;
Caledonian, 721 to ex div ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 1281 to 1 ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
17 to and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 47+ to f.

United States Five-Twenty Bonds have risen
per cent., 731 to 4.

In Bank Shares prices are stationary.
In Miscellaneous Shares there is little doing.
General Credit are 24- to 24 dis. ; International
Financial, 11 to 1 dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 141 to j ;
National Discount, 111 to 12; Telegraph Con-
struction, 15 to 4 ; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per
Cent. Preference, 38 to 4 ; and Anglo-American,
214 to 22.

The sum of £Bl,OOO in gold was taken from the
Bank to-day:

The price of gold at Paris, reckoning the short
exchange 25f. 13c., continues about 1-10th per cent.
dearer than in London.

At the general meeting of the Standard Bank of
British South Africa yesterday the report was
adopted, and dividends were declared of 10s.
per share on the £25 shares, and of 4s. on the £lO
shares.

The meeting of the Upper Assam Tea Company
Yesterday was only pro forma, for the purpose of
adjournment to the 15th of December.
Mr. Alfred Good has been appointed liquidator
of The Dorchester Antelope Hotel Company
(Limited).

Ihe Defence Committee of the Cavour Canal
Septennial Bondholders think the terms proposed
to them by the Italian Government inadequate and
Unacceptable.
The proposed loan has improved Spanish Secu-
rities, the belief being that the greater part of it
will be subscribed in Spain, especially if the state-
ment be correct that the receipt given by the Cafe
de Depositos for money deposited there will be
taken as cash for the loan. Confidence is placed
in the desire, not only of Senor Figuerola, the
Finance Minister, but of the Spanish people, to
see their finances placed on a clear and solid
foundation, and the country enabled to emerge
from the discredit in which it has been kept by the
corrupt course of the previous Government.
The Oneida is telegraphed at Lisbon from Brazil
and the River Plate with- £102,380. The telegra-
phic advices on this occasion show that at Rio
the tendency to financial confidence was maintained,
the rate of exchange being 19id. to 19,1 d. From
the seat of war the news is that the allies were
within three leagues of Lopez, who was fortifying
himself at Villeta.

The following vessels are now at sea from Aus-
tralia : —The Li berator, from, Sydncy,with £ 24,000 ;
Kent, from Melbourne, with £272,000 ; Buckley
Castle, from Melbourne, with £124,500—making a
total of £420,500.
On Monday next the United States Treasury will
have to disburse between £4,000,000 and £5,000,000
of specie in payment of dividends, including a con-
siderable amount due in Europe. This will be in
addition to £600,000 of gold sold by the Treasury
during the past fortnight.
Several exchanges have been made within the
last day or two by persons selling the Great Eastern
13 Debenture Stock, which is a second mortgage,
and buying the A Debenture Stock, which is a first
mortgage, the price of both being 106 f.
Messrs. Pixley, Abell, and Langley's bullion cir-
enlar states that the demand for gold for the Con-
tinent has been brisk during the week, and the
orders have been sufficient, not only to absorb the
arrivals, but also £255,000 withdrawn from the
bank, £72,000 was sent in in the early part of
the week, but the operation is not likely to be re-
Peated for the present.
Messrs. Mocatta and Goldsmid, in their bullion
circular of this date, state that withiri the last few
days the market for all descriptions of silver has
become decidedly firmer. The large amount of
Mexican dollars received at the beginning of the
month was principally taken for China, the greater
Part having been sent round the Cape in sailing.
vessels. Since then, very little silver of any de-
scription has come to hand, and the market for bars
is so bare that, in order to supply any fresh de-
Maud, we should be obliged to import from the
Ceutinent at Gel., or above.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

• GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
* per Cent. Consols
• Ditto for Account, Nov.:s
.A,* per Cent. Reduced 93 2i
New
3 per Cent
Maar 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
21
4'zehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct
1.3.. £5OO
De. £lOO dc £2OO l7
lAtik of England
usinada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
rater-Colonial Omnium
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
11dia Stock 104 per Cent., April 1874 —
DO. Opening, for Account —
Do. 5 per Cont. July, 1880
R.. 4 pec Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates -
Do.Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cent 9l/
5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
r,°. perer Cent., May 1879 llOl
''''' 5 Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Cent)Do. do. 1877 —
, Do. do. 1882
'';C,. Deb. 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 klosl
~-'O. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
'Jo. under £l,OOO
roREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Uotine Republic 6 per Cent
A , Scrip .£3O aid
''''llitrian Bonds 5 per Cent. 1859
/it Do. 1859 —
631
itihan 5 per Cent —
~3. 44 per Cent., 1852 —
',O. do. 1858....
uo. do., 1860 —
Do'°. O. 1863 6Bl
5 per 'Cent 1865
~
0 Account 7Bl
'enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
0 Di.)' per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
0 !*,
..Illau ° Per Cent.
6 per Cent —
De. 41 per Cent
Do. per Cent., B
1 "0
~0., 1867 ~
.
e ~ 7 per Cent., 1866
~.,Jl. nabian, 6 per Cent.
!.%tnish, 3 per Cent., 1825
D utthian Principalities, 7 i.,ar Cent 731
v. Do 8 per Cent., 1867 .. 841
Aquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
4aYptian, 7 per Cent DO Second Issue —
Do. £5OO Bonds
Do. 4100 Bonds B2