The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-17 00:00:00

The Strwb: Markets are flat. The English Funds
lac heavy upon the magnitude of the withdrawals
gokl front the Bank of England. The dis-
-!l,,..nres made from day to day as to the
ti•t cot barrassments of Governments already
I,l•.:_Hy in our debt naturally prejudice Foreign
Ci• ;..ternment, secnrities to a very material extent.
!lie loans rai,,ed by Egypt in six years six-
teen in; lions sterling are outstanding, and the Vice-
Government is proposing to increase this
t:te addition of ten millions more. The
;.)od,;y ' which renders such financing possible
IS So utterly opposed to a proper discharge of
itunieuso being accumulated for the
future tit creditors will probably hesitate
b.,fire they all to their risks. Nearly all foreign
'atks are lower, the public having ceased purchasing.
Railways are steady.
The Money Market is a little firmer with the de-
mand to meet the colonial bills falling due this week.
The rate is Tilted 1 to 1 for first-class commercial
timer having short periods to run.
The arrival is announce I of the Joshua, the Aus-
tralian, and the Lightning with together £167,500 in
gold from Australia. The Jerusalem has made a
"-ek halting been only 72 days at sea ; but
she brings no gold.
The Liverpool Cotton Market opened buoyant, and
dearer, with a large business.
EngUsh wheat is firm, and rates 6d dearer.
Consols are flat at a reduction of at 924 to 93
for money and account ; New and Reduced Three per
Cents,, 03i to 031 ; India Five per Cents., 1111 to
1121 ; Ruik Stock, 248 to 250 ; Exchequer Bills,
183 to 22s prem.
cks are very flat. There is a reduction
of 1 i.er cent. in P,ruvian (1862), at 912 to 923/4 ; of
in Brazilian (1805). at 742 to 75 ; of 4 in Italian
(iS6I), at 43 to 43 ;of ± in New Spanish, at 35i to
36!., ; and of in Mexican, at 15i to 16 ; and in
Turkish, at 32 Egyptian (1864) are 88k to
89 ; the R iilway Loan, 925 to 93k ; and the Seven
per Cent. Vicorov, 751 to 751. _ _

1E,,,,-yptian 9 per cent. 13.)iicis are 90} to 90g.
The New Honduras Loan is steady, at to
p TP

In American Securities United States 5-20 Bonds
are A lower, at 711 to 72 ; Erie Railroad better, at
49 to 50 ; Illinois steady, at 88i to 894.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have receded /, to 27k, 28 ; and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds 1, to 25, 25i.
English Railway Shares are on the whole steady.
Great Northern A are higher, at 1094 to 1101.
Brighton * better, at 46 to 46i ; Manchester,
ShPflield, and Lincolnshire firm, at 421 to
431 ; Great Western, 46i to 47 ; London
and North-Western is lower, at 119 to 1194 ; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 1271 to 127/ ; Midland, 1071
to 108 ; Metropolitan, 109/ to 1071 ex div. ; Cale-
donian, 771 to 78/- ; Great Eastern, 291 to 3ok ;
South Eastern, 73 to 73k.
The ordinary general meeting of the Company ox
African Merchants has been convened for the 21st
instant.

The annual meeting of the North American Colo-
nial Association of Ireland has been called for the 28th
-inst. to receive the directors' report and statement of
accounts.

The large sum of £212,000 in bar gold was with-
drawn from the Bank on Saturday for export.
The royal mail steamship La Plata has arrived from
the West Indies with £125,000 in specie, of which
£6,500 is in Mexican dollars.
The numbers are published of 1,403 bonds of the
Greek Loan guaranteed by England, France, and
Russia, which have been drawn for repayment at par
on the Ist of March.
The adjourned ordinary meeting of the Indian
Carrying Company, to be held on the 25th, will be
followed by an extraordinary meeting, " for the pur-
pose. of considering, and, if deemed expedient, of
passing, one or more special resolutions, for the
voluntary winding up of the company and the appoint-
ment of a liquidator.
The
i meeting of the London General Omnibus Com-
pany s announced to be held on the 3d of March.
The London agency of the Imperial Ottoman
Bank have notified that the coupons due Ist March,
1868, of the Danubian Principalities Loan, 1864,
also that the bonds of the same loan, drawn for re-
demption in January last, will be payable at their
offices, 4, Bank-buildings, Lothbury, on and after 1.
Proxiom,

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Ueut. Consols
Do. Account, March 5 92 3
3 per Cent. Reduced 93 .i. 1.
NOW 3 per Cent 931 1
New 2 1 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. tl an. 1873 —
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprelBBs -
Do (Red Sea Telehraph), Au,., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct.
Do £5OO l5 18 pm
Do. £lOO & £2OO pm
Bank of England Stock. 41 per Cent —
Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SEOURITIEA.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent.. Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. ft per Cent., May 1879 lOBl
Do o per Cent., Rup. Deb., 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 lO3l
Do- Deb., sper Cent., Aug. 1873
~ ., 104
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
Do. under £l.000

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent 74
Austrian Bonds, 5 par Cent. 1859
13r,zilian 5 per Cent ___
%. 4i per Cent., 1852 _
Do. do., 1858 —
~,De• do.
, 1841
lie. do. 1863 —
-Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account 75
Buenos Ayres 6 por Cent. B4f4i
Da 2 per Cent. (Deferred 8 per Cent.)
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Outten 6 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent —
Do. 6 per Cent, B .
De., 1867
Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 93
DO., Scrip £32 paid
pa
` bian, 6 per Cent.
C
Danish, gp,r Cent., 1825
'
nub :an Principaities, 7 per Cent 74 69i 70
al3° 8 Per Cent 1867 67 8
,Luador New Co ns olidated, 1 per Cent —
11gYlatiani 7 per Cent B9