The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-25 00:00:00

Total ..:T .£53,845,000
aggregate is below that of the previous weeks
in which no settlements have taken place on the
stock Exchange ; and in this respect it confirms
the proofs, afforded by the Bank return, of
the unimportant character of the demand for money.
Consols are firm at yesterday's advance at 941
,to 94k for money and account. New and Reduced
,Three per Cents., 93 to 93,E ; India Five per Cents.,
1141 to 114 ; Exchequer Bills, 15s to 20s prem.
In Foreign Stocks Egyptian Bonds are in request,
and Danubian are heavy. There is an advance ofl in
the Viceroy's Seven per Cents. at 741 to 75 ; and
in Egyptian Government Bonds at 86f to 871.
!Danubian Eight per Cents. are k lower at 79i to 80k.
Other descriptions are steady. Mexican remains at
;142 to 15 ; Greek, 12k to 13 ; New Spanish, 32 to
azi Italian, 51 to 51f ; Turkish, 38k to 382 ;
Peruvian, 78k to 782 ; Viceroy's Nine per Cents.,
95 to 95k ; Orel-Vitebsk, 83k to 84; Nicolai, 661, to
67 ; and Honduras, 88 to 89.
The movements in English Railways are unimpor-
tant. Great Northern are f better, and Metropoh-
an, Great Western, and Midland, are h lower. The
prices current are :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 128
'to 128 k ; Midland, 111 k to 112 : South Eastern, 78
to 78k ; London and North Western, 112 k to 113 ;
Great Northern, 108 k to 1082 ; ditto (A), 109 k to
1092 ; Great Eastern, 39k to 401 ; Great Western,
491 to 50 ; Brighton, 51k to 52 ; Metropolitan, 107
*0 107,E ; and Caledonian, 69 to 691 x.
United States 5-20 Bonds are * better, at 73 ;
but Erie and Illinois Railroad Shares are k lower, at
33Jto 33k, and 92k to 93 respectively.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are 37f to 38 ; and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds,
382 to 39.
Foreign Railways are without movement. Great
lituxembourg is quoted at 10 toll ; Lombardo-Vene-
tian, 161 to 16k.
In Colonial Government Bonds there is not much
Going, and prices are steady. Canada Six
per Cent. is quoted at 104 to 106 ; ditto Five per
Cent. 91 to 93 ; Mauritius Six per Cent., 103 to 105 ;
New South Wales Five per Cent., 99 to 101 ; New
Zealand Six per Cent., 108 to 110 ; Queensland Six
per Cent., 106 to 107 ; Victoria Six per Cent., 113 to
114.

Bank Shares are quiet, and prices on the whole are
steady. Chartered Mercantile is better, at 29i to
30i ; Agra (A.), 111: to 12i ; Alliance, 12ip to 11
dia.; Anglo-Austrian, 6 to 7 prem. ; Consolidated,
41 to 4i ; Imperial 16fr to 17i ; Imperial Ottoman,
to prem.; London and County, 49 to 50 ; Lon-
don and Westminster 65. to 661 ; ditto New, 521
to 53f ; Oriental, 44. to 4511 ; London Joint Stock,
31 to 32 ; Union of London, 34i to 35k.
The transactions in Foreign Mining Shares are
Unimportant. St. John del Rey is inquired for at
19 to 19i ; Rossa Grande, to ± prem. ; Port Philip,
to 1 ; Choutales, 21 to 21.
Miscellaneous Securities, although without parti-
cular change, are well maintained. Hudson's Bay is
inquired for at 15 to 15i ; Anglo-American Telegraph
i 8 better, at 211 to 21i ex. div. ; Atlantic Tele-
graph Eight per Cent. steady, at 4 to 41 ; Fore-
street Warehouse, par to is- prem. ; London General
Omnibus, 11 to ; Ocean Marine Insurance, 14 to
15 prem. ; Thames and Mersey, 4k to 4i.
The stun of £5,000 in bar gold was sent into the
Bank yesterday.
The corn market is steady. The country corn
Markets of France were more active than for some
days previously on Tuesday and Wednesday, but at
Marseilles and Bordeaux prices were stationary and
business dull. Letters from Alexandria to the 15th
Bay that, though wheat was rising, transactions iu it
Were unimportant in relation to the stocks.
The foreign stock and share settlement commences
op Monday next.
The Credit Foncier of Mauritius announces a divi-
(lend at the rate of 7i per cent. per annum, " The
accounts for the half year ending 30th June, received
from Mauritius, show that the company continues to
Make steady and satisfactory progress. The fever was
gradually subsiding, and the coming crop wpuld yield,
it was estimated, a larger quantity of sugar than either
of the two previous ones."
The dividend of the Great Luxembourg Railway is
38 6d per share, the same as last half-year.
The directors of the Glasgow Jute Company
(Limited), have agreed to recommend, at the annual
general meeting to be held on 30th inst., a dividend
at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, free of in-
come tax, adding £4,000 to depreeiation fund, and
carrying the sum of £B4B 5s 10d to next year's
account,

Application was made yesterday to the committee
of the Stock Exchange for a settling day and quotation
of the shares of the Societe du Cable Transatlantique
rranqais (Limited), in the official list. The share
certificates are now ready for delivery in exchange for
the bankers' receipts.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire railway traffic shows
an increase of .£1,688 ; the North Eastern an increase
of £783 ; the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
Ala increase of .£2,038 ; the London, Chatham, and.
bover, including the" Metropolitan Extension and
branches, a decrease of £1,331 ; and the Metropolitan
Ettension separately, a decrees* of £35.
The receipts of the Buenos Ayres Railw for the
Week ending August 2, show an increase of £571, and
the Great Southern of India, for the week ending
June 20, an increase of £377.
The Anglo-Italian Bank has notified that the half-
Yearly interest on the Italian State Domain 5 per
Cent. Loan (1865), due Ist proximo, will be paid
at its offices on and after that date.

Mr. G. Smeed announces his first sale of hops by
auction at the Hop and Malt Exchange Rooms on
Tuesday next, the 29th inst., when upwards of 1,000
Poelpts of the choicest English hops will be offered
*about reserve.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
4 per Cent. Consols
1 }II
Ditto for Account, Oct. 6
8 per Cent. Reduced 93 3
New
.k,. 3 per Cent
New 2 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cent,. J an. 187 3
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequerxd Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct — pin
Do. £5OO
, Do. £lOO & £2OO — II
JoAnk of England Stock, 4 per Cent
Do. opening — xd
Canada 4 por Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Uranium

1 INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
14clia srock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 —
Du. Opening, for Account —
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
~DO. Enfaced Pape. 4 per Cent —
-",so. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
"0. 51 per Cent., May 1879 —
Do 5 per Cent., Rnp. Deb. 1872 lO3l
Do. do. 1877 —
,„ Do. do. 1882 —
".„,;. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 —
",0- Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,000
Do. ender £l.000
FOREIGN. FUNDS—CLOSINCI PRICES.
4r;entiue Republic, 6 per Cent
tr.tziliann)triau B 5
peronds
Cen 5 pt
er Cent. 1859 —
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23. 41 per Cent., 185? _
"". do. 1858....
0. do., 1860 —
°•-„, do, 1863 --
rs°- per 'Cent 1865 ~
, ,o Account 7Ci 6 1
"uhetios Ayres 6 per Cent.
CLo 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
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6 6per r
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I, ‘)0. 4,1 per Cent
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4-'O. 1867
DO ' -
~-,_•, , per Cent., 1866
00.'"., Scrip £32 paid
ba o.nabian, 6 per Cent.
liuLBb4fan3PPgrrinCceinpatlitliBe2s,s7 per Cent —
° 8 Per Cent., 1867 —