The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-02 00:00:00

,i7:7EY MARKET

AND

(70MMERCE INTELLIGENOI3,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is very little inquiry for discount accommo-
dation at the Bank in Lombard street, and in
financial circles generally. The rates remain undis-
turbed, the supplies are daily becoming more exces-
sive, and the bills on offer continue of moderate
amount.

In the Stock Exchange daily loans on Govern-
ment Securities were negotiated at 23- per cent., with
few borrowers.

At the Bank of England yesterday there was an
influx of £70,000 in gold. The silver market is
very quiet, and the prices are steady.
The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £661 7s. 101 on account of the dividend
on the debt of Ecuador.

The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New
Zealand was held at Auckland on the 31st October,
when a very favourable report was presented to the
shareholders. The total profits for division to the
30th September amounted to £56,067, mil a dividend
of 10 per cent, and a bonus of 7s. per share, equal
to 17 per cent. per annum, were declared. This
amounted to £42,500 ; £7,000 was added to the re-
serve fund, and £6,567 was carried to profit and
loss new account. The report was unanimously
adopted, and the usual forms of electing directors,
&c., terminated the proceedings.
The Northern Assam Tea Company have an-
nounced the payment of the usual guaranteed divi-
dend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum for the
past half-year on the A shares.

Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have advanced 1, to 51 53, and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds are steady at 40 41.

Two. O'CLOCK.
The City to-day has presented an extraordinary
appearance. Snow has thinned the attendance at
the Stock Exchange and the other principal
departments of business. Even those who have
been present have had but few commissions to
execute, and the prices of stocks and shares are
,almost nominal. The streets are in a most dis-
graceful condition, different altogether from
anything of the kind that would be tolerated
in the principal cities of the Continent. It
is a perfect disgrace to the municipality of London, who should have taken steps to
have pro-
vided labour, and lessen the interruption of the
trade of the metropolis. Even recourse might have
been had to able-bodied paupers, and in addition to
those of the City of London Union, Shoreditch,
\Vhitechapel, and other outlying parishes would have supplied men enough to get the snow in heaps
and facilitate the ordinary traffic. Excessive mud
or excessive snow seem to be matters altogether be-
yond the consideration of the civic authorities. Con-
sols are / higher, viz., 901 for money and the pre-
sent account, and 91 for the February settle
ment. The New Threes were 891
and the
Reduced Annuities 89 f ; Bank of England Stock,
248 250 ; India 5 per Cents., 107 / ; ditto 4 per
Cents., 941.
There is very little animation exhibited in the
Foreign Stock Market, and the variations have been
unimportant. Turkish 5 per Cents. have declined
/, to 31i ; Mexican Stock, to 18 /
Passive, /to 21/ ; and the New 'Spanish
Russian Loan
Scrip, /to prem.
American &ecurities are steads-20
y. United States
's have advanced to 7i ; Shares have improved 2to 82
1. 2 73 and Illinois
A fair amount of business has been done in the
British Railway Share Market, and prices ,most
in m
instances, show increased firmness.
and London, Chatham Western
proved , and D Great
over have each im-
/ ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, / ; Great
Eastern, ; Great Northern A Stock, North Wes-
tern, Manchester , Sheffield, and Lincoln, and South
Eastern ;a/
.
n Caledonian 11 ; while
Mid-
land have declined d
Thq
rates. Foreign and
prt,v Colonial lines
generally sustain
12 ious Great Luxembourg are dealt in at
1 ; San Paulo, at 13/ Grand Trunk of Canada,
Indian Peninsuli 20 ; East ;
at 19 Indian, at 1041 105 ; and Great
Indian,
at 1041.
Bank Shares are very quiet, and
variation. East London are
marked 3 3 show li/
; Imperial
ttle
Ottoman, 811- ; Oriental Bank Corporation, 42.
In the Miscellaneous Market a firmer tone pre-
vails.
;Hudson's Anglo-American
16 telegraph have improved to
Peninsular and 16-1-Bay Company, to 161 ; and
Oriental Steam, to 65 ; Atlantic
Telegraph 8
per Cent. are • marked 75 ; and
Credit Fonder of England, 3e

MINING MARKET.
IVEDXESDAY, Two o'clock.
In the Mining Exchange to-day there has been
an active inquiry for Cooks' Uny, Seton Kitchen, West Frances,
North , Trelawny, Providence, Great Vor,
Crofty, Marko Volley, and Tiucroft, at fully
previous rates. Annexed are some of the current
quotations :
Clnyertou Moor, 41 51; ChonZales Gold, 21 3 ; Clifford
Amalgamate, 8 81 ; East Basset, 21 22 ; East Caradon,
51 6; East Lovell, 991 ; East Wheal Grenville, 21 ;
Groat Rotallack, 22s 0.1 24s Od ; Great Wheal Vor, 16 17;
Markel Valley, 41; North Crofty, 4 ;North Treskerby,
21 3•; Prilace of Wales, 26a Od 283 Od ; Prosper United,
31 1; Providence Mines, 27/ 30 ; South Coudurrovr, 9
14s ; South Grenville, 73 6d 103 Od; Tincroft, 13 14 14;
West Oaradon, 121 131; West Chivorton, 53 55 ; West
Frances, 141 16; West Seton, 120 5 ; Wheal 22
Wheal Chivertou, 64, 7 ; Wheal Cr3bor, --a —a ; Buller, 20
Wh/ ;
eal
Grenville, 26s Od 28s; Wheal Rose,
; Wheal 135 140 ; Wheal Trelawney, 10 12 ; nySetuu,
30a 353 ;
Kitchen 9 10 Wheal U,
earn Camborne, 11 11- ;• Central Minera, ——; Cooks'
, ; East
.Carn Brea, 21 3 ; Great Laxey, 17
18 ; Great South Tolgus, 10s 15s ; South Frances, 20 22 ;
St. Ives Consols, —; South Caradon, 300 320.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
UCVEItNICENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols ........................... 1
3 Do. Account, Jan. 10 ........
per Cent. Reduced .....N...................... 9490} 1 1
e w
3
.... per Cent ................................ 891 1 I
ow 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 ................. 891
An.............
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 ..................
nuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan.
1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April,' 1885...
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908...
Exchequer Bills, .£
£5OO .1,00,
... 4
.per Cent ...... 11 pm
Do .................. 0.... 8
Do .......... £lOO & £2OO
7 pra
Bank of England Stock 61 per 'l2ent 248 50
lisurks GovßroatENT SECURITIES.
Ultimo Stock 101 per Cent., .A.pril 1874...
Ditto for Account .........................
DDo. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 ...1 1
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
""""'•••••• 94 lO7 7
o. Certificates ....................... ..
Do. Do. Enfaced Paper 4
per Cent........'
5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 -
Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 . —
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug.
DDo. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO .... 25
o under £l,OOO — pm pm
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent...,...,,
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING P
—RIVES.
BAustrian Bonds 5 per Cent, 1859 —
razilian 5 per 'Cent.
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do.
count
Do Acco 1865
unt ...........
Do. £lOO 80nd5.....
Ayres 6 per Cent
Do. .4
c
Do 4100 Bonds
°DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Lillian 6 per Cent
Do. 3 per Cent.
DDo. 6 per Cent A.
o. B ........................ ... 6 per Cent. ......
Cuba, 6 per Cent. ....... . ....................
Danish 3 per Cent. 1820 ......
Do. 5 per Cent., I'B6l
Danubian Principalities
Do. Account
Equador Now Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Piovisional Land Warrant
Do Doteriod
p:gyptiau 7 per Cent B3i
Do., Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1864
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. Government Railway Debentures 79i 19
G:eek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
'o Account
10. Coupons
G latemala 5 per Cent.
It .;ian 5 per Cent 1865
Do. Account
Do. Alaremtnana Railway
13xicar. 3 per Cent
Do. Account
1864
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French
ontevidean 6 per Cent..........
Inloorial 5 per Cent
• ew
10 3 per C0n,.......