... III VIC (city. THE LONDON DocK COMPANIES, The proprietors of the London and St. Katharine's and the East and WVest India Doci Companies met simultaneously yesterday, and without serious dissent approved of the new scheme for a working union, so that the bilt emptyocring the same can now go forward this session. The shipping element on the board of tile Lond-on is not satisfied wvithl the terms ...

... Tih7 LANDOWNERS' RELIEF BUDGET. BY A RADICAL FREE TRADER. A- old proverb says, Give a dog a bad name and hang him. In lstinns of finance the converse proportion seems to be the accepted doc rnle-give a financier a good name and to the end of time bow down Rji worship hir. In recent political developments nothing is more suikiog than the chorus of semi-reluctant approval with which Liberals ...

... KIT tile 0:1 itp. TilE LATEST CONVERSION FIGURES. As we anticipated yesterday, Mr. Goschen's estimate of the amount of assents to conversion ,vas well within the mark. The amount outstanding is mnow only eittg!y fivc millions, and trustees have still from a month to six wecks to send in their assents. New Consois have gone below par in the Stock Markets, and that circumstance will have some ...

... THIS DAY'S MONEV NIARPKJEt' fla!/.-5o.,l 0/1( HOME RAILWAYS AND FOREIGN STOCKS WEAK. -AMERICAN'S AND TRUNKS IRREGULAR. There is little feature of interest on the Stock Exchange. Businezs in all departments is quiet, and the movement of prices slight3L Consols are again but little dealt in, and prices in the Home Governmnent department are practically unaltered. In the Eng.lisli Railway market ...

... IKIT Me eitp. THE STOCK BROKER AND THE C.OMPANY PROMOTER, t is u-nusual, as Mr. Justice Kekewich remarked yesterday, to find an experienced stockbroker coming to the court for relief on the ground that he lsas been deceived by a company's prospectus ; but this only shows that the ,conipany promoter must be a very astute personage. The plaintiffs were James Capel and Co., and the Foreign, ...

... XtT ?? City). RESTRICTIONS ON THIE TRADE OF GIBRALTAR. In spite of the rising importance of Gibraltar as a centre of commerce and as a coaling station for our mercantile marine in the Mediterranean, the Government have, we are informed, under consideration the imposition of further restrictions on the trade and freedom of this port. When a similar attempt was made in 1877 the opposition both ...

... TillS DArs ?? .XT:.N'r M.\t K[l r. llOMI IU AILW.A NS DU-l,. -- I`0M'I;.llN ?? Ki \ AXI) A ?? FlItRN- THEl SPECULA~iltN IN 14:vM(i i A Tl f a is lcss dlets _t dl for act, ( otoatio'l !) ti opt fi i i' t tiiI, Il: ?? Pw'i 'ti:OLt ilols av'C oi)t.callale i.t ;!hol. I li ,ctC c(uit. , iii . iw t Ci% ;s ma ii;nvai Ietrl i e.: of fiI rm 1Itl-iIidlttliie )IC it i(l ,i If ' fi S, il \:cli ii 3 ...

... xKU Cht City. THE STOCK MAtRE[E1s FLAT. i The Paris Bourse was frightened yesterday by General Boulanger's triumphs, and there was a considerable fall in Rentes and a decline in prices generally. This toid upon the Stock Markets here, coincident as it was with n large vwithdrawal of gold from the Bank for export. Prices fell in some cases, certain stocks being sold by bear speculators for the ...

... Ilalf-frsz 01u. FOREIGN STOCKS DEPRESSED-OTHER DEPARTMENTS WEAK. There is a feeling of depression in most departments of the Stock Exchange. the firmness of Saturday having quite disappeared. Anxiety with regard to the effect of the election ?? Boulanger, and the unsatisfactoryreports respecting the health of the German Emperor, have had an adverse influence,more especially on Foreign ...

... Ely Mt City. ThIu PROPOSED CONVERSION OF THE EGYPTIAN PREFERENCE DEBT. The project of the Egyptian Government to convert its Five per Cent. Preference Debt has, it is understood, been abandoned for the present, the legal difficulties being considerable, if not insuperable. The proposal was to reduce the interest on this loan to 43A per cent., and no doubt the credit of Egypt is good enough to ...

... THIS DAY'S 'NOFV' MAIRKlET. HOME RATLWAYS AND FOREIGN sTrociKS STEA0V.-AMfERII'ANA f ?? WVEAK, There is again a more plentifoil supply of loanable canital in the open market this mormnin, and as the demand is not great the lending establjishments ale well able to meet aill the calls masde upon thtiiin, itll, (10. ation fur Short loans being no better than r to I I, pcr cent. Tihe dliscount ...

... One or/lork MARKETS ALL. FIRM.-QUOTATIONS HIGRELIF-NO SPECIAL FEATURE. There is a comparatively quiet demand for money in the open market this mornin~g, anid the price obtainable for short loans is no better than I to ! ...