The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-23 00:00:00

The liquidators of the London and Colonial Com-
Ploy, Limited, have announced a second dividend
of 21. Gd. in the pound, payable at the offices of
I`,lessrs. Theo lore Jones and Co. on the 24th inst. ;
this, with the dividend paid on the 19th September
last, will make 7s. Gd. in the pound distributed
under this estate.

With regard to the foreign coal and iron trades
It is stated that there has been a delivery of
some English tenders in a competition for materiel
required by the Belgian State Railways. For
two lots, each each comprising 300 wheels for
carriages and trucks, MM. Nicaise and Delcuive,
of La Louviere, tendered at £1,733 each lot;
while Charles Cammell and Co. (Limited), of
Sheffield, tendered at £1,856 each lot ; several
other tenders were also delivered at intermediate
rates. John Brown and Co. (Limited), of Sheffield,
obtained a contract for 600 iron piston buffers for
ten tons goods' trucks at £515 103. Messrs. Taylor
Brothers, of Paris, tendered uusucessfully at
£648. It appears that the price at which the
Creasote Works are about to supply 80 loco-
taotives to the Orel and Witebsk Railway (Russia) is
£2,512 per locomotive delivered at Riga ; the Crea- '
tote Company undertakes to accept obligations
guaranteed by the Russian Government to the ag-
gregate sum represented by their contract, but at
the same time the eighty locomotives and ten-
ders to be delivered at Riga are to be paid for in
Cash. A contract for 25,000 tons of rails is ex-
pected to be given out shortly for the Poti and
idles Railway, another Russian line recently
conceded. The low terms at which the house
of the Dorlodof recently took a contract for rails
for the Belgian State Railways has been a good
deal discussed. The Decazeville mines and iron-
Works in the French department of the Aveyron
have been disposed of to the Orleans Railway Com-
pany for £115,200.

Two o'CLocic

In the market for the English Funds there has
bccen rather less firmness. Consols for money re-
Izain at 92i , while for the account they have re-
ceded *, to 92i.

The New Threes are 921 1 1; Reduced Annui-
ties, 921 1 ; New 21 per Cents., 75f ; Exchequer
Bills, 255. to 295, prem. ; Bank Stock, 240 ; India
per Cents., 1141 12 ; ditto 4 per Cents, 1001 ;
ditto 5i per Cents., 1081 ; and ditto Bonds, 535.
Prem.

No great variation has occurred in the Foreign
Stocks. Spanish Paosive have advanced to 26f ;
and Greek, 1 to 12f 13 ; while Italian show a de-
cline of 1 to 451 ; Mexican remain at 15} ; Tur-
kish Fives at 331 ; and Spanish New 3 per Cents.
at 361.

American Securities are firm. Erin have advanced
to 49 50, and United States 5-20 Bonds k, to
721 ; while Illinois continue at 89

Bank Shares are quiet. London and West-
Illinster, however, have improved to 671 684 ; Bank
of Egypt are steady, at 371 ; London and County,
4t 55 ; and London Joint Stock, at 35.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been to a fair extent, and in several instances prices
exhibit more buoyancy. Great Northern A Stock
has improved 4 ; Brighton, ; and Metropolitan
and Midland have each advanced 2 per cent.; while
North-Westerns are steady at about previous rates;
as also Caledonian and Great Western.

The Foreign and Colonial lines show little
Variation. San Paulo aro dealt in at 173, Dutch
Rhenish at 204, Great Western of Canada at
163- ;.1, East Indian at 1111 and Scinde at 104.
Miscellaneous and Finance Shares remain very
inactive, and without any material change as re-
gards prices. Credit Foncier of England are
111%rked 3 3 1-16, Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents.
are dealt in at 88i 911, Peninsula and Oriental
'team at 553 561, and Viceroy of Egypt's Mort-
gage Loan at 73.
Bank shares have been very inactive, and in most
Instances at reduced prices.