New-York daily tribune., 1866-01-03
opFs BOARD OF BRoKERs-3l Pm.
TUESDAY, Jan. %. III.
Gold is weaker and closed al Ii4s.
: Is 1891 couDl VI & o. Ia lst nj Reading.

Gold Is weaker anu CiNN'N AZ '''a'
Government Stocks are steady. For the ''"'
there is a steady dc44and and the latest issue sold
at osz In State Bonds and Railway Mortgages a
small business Railway shares are higher upon the
greater part Of the list, but the extreme prices
were not maintained and there was general dispo-
siton to realize Public opinion steadily strength
ems toward the Government loans, and there IS q
growing disposition 10 exchange railway shares,
with their insecurity, for 1905, which pay squarey
more income than railroad managers viii be able to
borrow for dividends. After the bank statement
was made public stocks were higher, Erie and New
York Central both selling at 9s cash. Rock Island
sold al 1884, closing at lOg4 q 1929. The latest
quotations we're: Ohio Certificates . a -; Can
ton, 45l l046; Cumberland Coal, 45a1@s; Quick
silver, 449 IS; Mariposa, lil; Ncw-York Central,
973a97f: Erie, 973 a97l; Hudson River lc9s 0lO9l;
Reading, lO7} 0lO7l; Michigan Southern, 'J3 91js
Cleveland and Pittsburgh, s.. 4Sji; Cleveland and
Toledo. 49,; Rock Island, 100. 1895; North
Western, 362 a3G3; Northwestern Preferred, 6@i
oGci; Fort Wayne, lOl. aloi!i Schuylkll Coal,
li2Ql5.
Exhanee is low and quoted as follows; Bankers
Sterling, 60 days lO9alO9!; Bankers Sterling, 3
days, nOollOl; Commercial, lOSl lOss; Francs,
long date, 5.l7l lajIj; Francs, short date, 1.l3l
BIZ.
Freights are dull. The engagements TO Liver
pc! sre eco bales Cotton at sa7lCd., and per
steamer 200 bales Cotton At ID.
4 London letter Of Dec. 10 says:
Tie London money market remains 10 very dis
oenraeing position regards oil speculative affairs
Consols are per cent below tie price at the cor,
responding date Of last year. although at that peiod
great depression was plcFatht owing TO the reaction
from the imitation Of the preceding summer While near
y all foreign securities aIo al point lover than has
been touched for many yeilS.
extent TO which the bnDlc have embarked. during the
past two years in all knls OF schemes got Up By the
professional people WHO make such matters lDelr busi
ness and who, class, aye perhaps tic host lnipu
-dent and upscrupuous IN London. Aet even IA The
face of daily exposures fresh dupes are spA found
This week in the Court Of ChoaceIy the aliaiIs OF
HALLWAY Rolling Stock Company starred lev years
hack with nominal capital Oh &lJOO0O nave been ex'
bhjted The whole amOGnt paid mp by the Saarehod'
ers IS shown 10 have been a1iOV. vi tuiS sunl
ela go was paid 70 the promoters ior Their
,rouble The assets now remaining are &4,UO, ana
the debts Of the concern ore ts0C0 me com bany
being under limited liability the shareholders VIII cs'
cape by paving up the remainder OF thelf shares "meh
are OF $40 each and on which only OHeourih has at
present been paid and The ultimate dividend 10 the
claimants alter discharging legal expenses Is expected
10 be about three pence IN the pound sterIng chd
ioe ultramOntane Irish Member OF Parliament was
among the directors.
Analogous cases occur by tie dozen every week.
A prospectus has been issued ths week 81 company
10 be called the English aud American BANK with a
capitol Of 81 10000 II is formed in connection with
two Of the largest and most sound q the existing joint
stock banks IN this city Le Union Of London, and The
Oriental Bank). and the object seems 10 Dc
mat it should conduct the American business
of these establishments which las for years past been
yery considerable and has been c1ried on hitherto by
pyyafe firms al New York, New Orleans. &C. Tie
ank Il is believed viii also take over the business Of q
rocceyn started two wears ago eticfs at LyerpoO.,