The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-26 00:00:00

()NEI MARTiET

AND
COMMERCIAL lIILELLITE'IN(A,

CITY, Two o'CLoci.
The market opened this morning with increased
firmness, especially in foreign securities. The
stock baying the call was Egyptian. Money was
plentiful, but in the discount market business was
dull. United States 5-20 Bonds have gone up
slightly, but in the Bank and Miscellaneous shares
there was little doing.
The demand for money in the open market keeps
steady at 1* 11 per cent.
Consols are at 941 I for money and the ac-
count ; the Three per Cents. Reduced, 93i ; and
the New Three per Cents., 93 1.
In the Foreign Market prices have advanced
in several cases. Brazilian of 1865, 781 to
791 ;;Chilian of 1867, 94} to 95 ; Egyptian of 1864,
814 to 821 ex div. ; ditto of I±6B, 73* to 1;
Italian of 1861, 531 to 1 ; Mexican, 151 to 16* ;
Peruvian of 1865, 82 to 1 ; Russian of 1866, 904
t° 011 ; ditto, Nicolai Railway Loan, 68* to 1 ;
ditto Orel, 824 to 83 ex div. ; ditto Moscow-Jaros-
law, 831 to * , Spanish of 1867, 331 to /; Turkish
of 1858, 67* to 68i ; ditto of 1862, 694 to 701;
and ditto of 1865, 414 to 1.
The Italian Loan Scrip is at 21 to 21 prem.,

showing a recovery of f per cent.
The Honduras Loan is firm, at 91 I.
Indian Ten-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 214
to 217 ; the Five, 1144 to 115 ; the Four, 1024
to 103 i ; the Bonds, 18s. to 235. prem. ; the
Debentures, 105 j to 106 ; and Exchequer Bills,
17s. to 21s. prem. Bank Stock is in demand, and
£1 better, at 243 to 245. Bank Shares remain un-
altered.

The alterations in the railway shares have been
been as follow :—Great Easter 4 betterjMetropoli-
tan 1, Midland 1, Sheffield 1 Brighton 4, North
Western, /, South-Eastern 1. Great Northern
are 1 lower. The quotations stand thus :
Caledonian, 711 714 ; Great Western, 484 to ;
Great Eastern, 414 to 2 ; Great Northern, 107 8 ;
ditto A, 1061 7 ; Lancashire, 1284 1284 ; Me.
tropolitan, 1061 1061 ; Midland, 1111 1111 ; Shef-
field, 48 1; Brighton, 511 ; North British, 32 1;
north Western, 112/ ; South Eastern, 784 4 ;
Chatham and Dover, 171 4.
Aletropolitan District Railway stock is firm at
73 74.

Great Indian Peninsular Railway New Four per
Cent• Debenture Stock is 94f 95k.
In American' railways a fall has taken place in
Eries, the price in New York having declined 4
Per cent. on Saturday, to 40f, on a rumour of
a further issue of stock being intended. The
quotation this morning is 281, 28i, being nearly
2 per cent. lower than the final price of Saturday.
Illinois Central Stock is unchanged at 97, 97k.
Anglo-American Telegraph shares have slightly
iraproved to 21f, 211, the Eight per Cent. Pre-
ference remain at 3i 41, and the Original Atlantic
Telegraph stock at 32f 83. The shares of the
New French Atlantic Cable Company have receded
to 4f 3f dis.
The market for miscellaneous shares is inani-
mate.

The sum of £5,000 in gold was withdrawn from
the Bank on Saturday for Alexandria.
The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer
Pacific, from the Brazils, has brought £2,400, the
Peninsular and Oriental steamship Poonab, from
Alexandria, £6,800, and the Hamburg and Ame-
rican Company's steamer Hammonia, from New
York, £16,932 in specie. The Panama and New
Zealand Mail Company's steamer Mataura arrived
at Panama on the Bth inst. with £41,000 in specie,
and the Galileo left Monte Video on September 28
with £15,000 in specie. The Ceylon, for Alexan-
dria, on Saturday took out £26,700 for Bombay,
Viz., £20,000 in gold and £6,700 in silver.
The debt of Ecuador is £1,824,000, and the half-
Yearly dividend of 10s. amounts to £9,120. The
amount in hand, after payment of dividend of 10s.
per £lOO bond in November, 1866, was £l,lOO.
Since that date the remittances received have
amounted to £7,556, which, added to the sum in
hand, will make £8,656, thus leaving a deficit of
Only about £464 from the total necessary to enable
payment of the dividend due in May, 1867. After
8401 payments there will still remain £1 103. owing
011 every £lOO bond, including dividend due next
month.

Looking at the steady course of the Provisional
ILaistry at Madri], and the pro3peets of the dove-
VD:I3IA of the resources of the nation so soon as a
settled Government shall have been established, sur -
Prise continues to b 3 expressei at the absence of
tnY material recovery in Spanish securities—the
New Three per Cents. which stood at about 38 a
Short time before the overthrow of the late dis-
honest Government being now at 33f. Tho appre-
hension of temporary disquietules in some of the
Principal cities from the dearness of bread conse-
quent on the disastrous harvest is probably ono
cause of the feeling of distrust ; but it is suggested,
frolll the heavy amounts of stock with which the
1.
raridon and Paris markets have been supplied, that
go and continuous realisations may have been
effected by the ex-Queen and her adherents, anxious
t° Withdraw their wealth from a country in which
it Can hardly be doubted they will henceforth use
"Very effort to stimulate internal discord.

The result of the poll at the Grand Trunk Rill..
174,4 Y meeting was largely in favour of the directors,
"le votes being for the opposition amendment
81,042, and against it 123,603. The report and
accounts were adopted, and a committee, composed
of Messrs. Creak, Prance, Molesworth, and Smith,
appointed to confer with the directors as to the in-
troduction to the board of three new members of
Position and experience.
The report of the Vancouver Coal Company re -
"Me:lends a dividend of 10 per cent. for the half
Year on the paid up capital of £82,019.
The report of the directors of the Royal West
India Mail Steam-packet Company has been issued.
The cause of the suspension of the dividend is the
decrease of the traffic through the Brazil and
"raraguayan war, the hurricane in the West Indies,
and the unfavourable state of trade. The past half
!ear having been free from any casualty to affect
the insurance account, the balance at its credit has
increased from £131,451 13s. Id. to £166,721 15s.
the directors state that the company sustained no
°33 by the fire which occurred at their factory at
oouthampton on the 4th September last.
. The traffic receipts of railways in tha United
p
'lllgdoin amounted, for the week ending Oct. 10,
" 13,355 miles, to £818,036 ; and for the corres-
° ,ading week of last year, on 13,039 miles, to
~(93163 showing an increase of 316 miles and of
.41,873. The gross receipts on the fourteen prin-
atPal railways amounted in the aggregate, on 9,677
to 683,517; and for the corresponding week
°f 1867, on 9,125 mile; to £662,923, showing au
increaser of 252 miles and of £20,619. The total
receipts of the week show a decrease of £15,331,
coMpared with those of the preceding week, end-
ing the 3d of October.
Dpetition for winding up the Lundy Granite
°l3lParly is to be heard before the Master of the
°ll3 on the first petition day.
Sip petition for winding up the New Trelawney
'3er Lead Mining Company is to be heard before
theilv, Vice-Warden of the Court of Stannaries, Corn
Wall, on Nov. 11.