The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-08 00:00:00

R ONEY ABEET

AND
CO lIIEROIAL INTSLLIG3NCR,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Business had a drooping tendency to-day, and
prices in many instances must be quoted lower.
Consols have given way on account, it is said,
of the serious aspect of affairs in the East, and the
Securities of Foreign Governments have also fallen.
In railways Metropolitan appear to be recovering.
The rate for loans in the house is 11 to 2 per cent ,
that for discount the same as last quoted.
Consols are 92 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 924 4 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 92 ;
New Three per Cents, 92 k : ditto, 2 per Cent.,
Jan., 1894, 744 ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per
.1 Cent 244 2.

India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, 2184 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1124 12 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., 1888, 1024 3 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per
Cent., 914 4 i; ditto 54 per Cent., May, 1879,
110 ; dittolßonds under £l,OOO, 5 prem.
In the Foreign 'Market Turkish Bonds of 1858,
1862, and 1865 have declined 4 to 2 per cent. ;
Italian (1861), the Charkof Loan, 4 ; Peruvian
of 1865 and Spanish of 1867, 4. The prices are as
follows :—Brszilian of 1865,774 78 ; Chilian of 1867,
96 to 97 ; Egyptian of 1864, E 3 to i; ditto of
rnlB6Bl 734 to 74 ; Italian of 1861, 56 to 4; ditto
xobacco Loan, 34 to 4 prem. ; Mexican, 154 to 2 ;
Peruvian of 1865, 814 to i; Russian of 1866,
89 to 90 ; ditto Nicolai, 654 to 66 ; ditto Orel,
794 to 80 ; ditto Mosdow-Jaroslaw, 784 to 79, ex
tliv• ; ditto Charkof-Azof, 14 to 04 dis. ; ditto
Charcow Krementschug, 4 dis. to 1 prem. ; Spanish
of 1867, 324 to 33 ; Turkish of 1858, 61 to 62 ;
ditto of 1862, 61 to 62 ; and ditto of 1865,
384 to 39.

la the railway market London and North
Westerns and Brightons have improved, and
are 112 to 4 and 47i to Great Westerns
are 48i to 49 ; Midland, 111; to 112; Lon-
don and South Western, 87k to 88 ; Great
Eastern, 418 to 42; South Eastern, 79f to 8 ;
Aletropoitan, 103 f to a ; Great Northern, 1068 to
107 i ditto A, 1071 to 108 ; Caledonian, 744 to
75 ; and London, Chatham, and Dover, 168 to
17i.

American Five-Twenty Bonds have gone down
41 to 74, 741. Rrie Railway shares, 251 to 4 ;
Central, 951 to 961 ; Atlantic and Great
.western Debentures, 364 to 371 ; and the Conso-
lidated Mortgage Bonds, 374 to 38.
In Back Shares there is a rise in London Joint-
Stock, the price of which is now 36/ ; Imperial
17i to 181 ; London and County, 51/ to ;
Loudon and Westminster, 674 to 681 ; Union of
London, 384 to 394 ; Anglo-Austrian, 74 to 8
14ere• ; and Imperial Ottoman, 1 to 11 prem.
Miscellaneous Shares has slightly declined
They now stand at—Atlantic Telegraph Eight
Per Cent. Preference, 3g to ;I; ex div. ;
Anglo-American Telegraph, 214 to ex div.;
ational Discount, 11i to 121 ; General Credit.
2 to 11 dis. ; International Financial, 1 y to 11
1118. Hudson's Bay Company, 124 to 1.
411 amount representing £140,000 in sovereigns
..„,was taken yesterday from the bullion office of the
k'aek for shipment to Brazil.
The Great Britain, from Melbourne, has arrived
NV. t 1.1 £250,000 ; the Golden &m, from Sydney, with
20,000 sovereigns ; the Tanjobe, from Alexandria,
with £26,500 ; the Hammonia, from New 1 ork,
With £34,000 for London, and £16,000 for Paris;
and the Hermann, also from New York, with
!'12200. A great portion of these supplies will be
transmitted to the Continent.
Messrs. S. Oppenheim and Sons announce to the
holders of Diara Bonds (private administration of
,
nighnes3 the Viceroy of Egypt), that they are
lustructed to discount any of the said bonds, up
t 0 the 12th instant inclusive, at 7 per cent. per
atrium.

A second memorial on the evasion of its engage-
ments by the Italian Government has been pre-
sented to the Committee of the Stock Exchange
by the Italian Irrigation Bondholders, and the
Committee again postponed the consideration of
the official quotation of the Tobacco Loan.
It appears that the Russian Government, after
the receipt of the million lately sent hence, have a
total of about £11,333,000 at their command with
foreign bankers, chiefly, it may be assumed, in Lon-
don, Paris, Amsterdam, and Frankfort. This is
exclusive of the various guaranteed loans lately
Contracted here and in Germany for railway com-
Panics. Probably the payments from Russia due
or falling due in London and elsewhere during the
text few months will absorb the greater portion of
the amount, otherwise it would seem of sufficient
magnitude to attract considerable attention.
Telegrams from Lisbon yesterday report great
uneasiness on the Exchange, and a sudden fall of 8
Per cent. in Portuguese securities.
The liquidators of the Bank of Queensland have
issued a statement showing the appropriation of the
funds already received, and making proposals for
despatching Mr. Hugh Muir to act out in the colony
With the view of facilitating proposed arrangements
ior the settlement of the debt due by the Brisbane
Corporation.
The usual monthly return, under the Cotton
Statistics Act, by the Board of Trade, was issued
testerday. It contains the particulars for Novem-
hn and shows that the total number of bales im-
ported was 281,913 bales, of which 47,518 were
American, 45,700 Brazilian, 157,839 East Indian,
23131'218 Egyptian, and 7,644 miscellaneous. During
the
same period, the total quantity exported repre-
sented 106,664 bales, and that forwarded inland for
ecsnsumption 215,861 bales.
I!'t a meeting of the Millwall Freehold Land
and Dock Company, held yesterday, it was re-
solved to accept the proposals of the contractors
for settling all accounts open and for relieving the
undertaking of its liabilities, subject to the prepa-
ration of a deed to be submitted for the approval
of the shareholders at a future meeting.
petition presented to the Court of Chancery
u3' the directors of the Cork and Kinsale Junction
Itailsvagy Company, praying the confirmation of a
scheme of arrangement between the company and
~‘ueir creditors, is to be heard before Vice-Chancellor
alins on the 22d inst.
With regard to the condition of Venezuela, ad-
'flees, from Caraccas represent that a few small
bands of malcontents were roaming in the moan-
t sine, but that the citizens everywhere desired
Peace and were disposed to obey the existing Go-
vernment. Congress was to meet and the new
'resident to be inaugurated on the Ist of January.
The San Francisco advises mention, in relation
to
the new American territory of Alaska, that the
venue steamer Wayanda has just returned from
a summer cruise to that country, having visited,
:111"13 other places, the islands of St. Paul and
01. George and the coasts of Behring's Sea. South
the Aleutian Islands good coal has been dis-
levered in numerous localities along the coast. The
Ildians were uniformly well disposed.

BRITISH 71111105—TWO O'CLOCK.
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8 Per Cent. Consols
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Do.
j'). Opening, for Account —
Do. o pur Cent. July, 1880 ll2l 12
~°. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
.-'O. Corti ticatea —
po. Eufacod Pape' 4 per Cent 9ll i 1
-",°. 5 per Cott., Jan. 1872
jr• 54, per ern. May 1879 llO
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Do, do. 1877 —
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rORBIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
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milne Republic, 6 per Cent