The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-02 00:00:00

ITO NEY MARKET

AND
°KMBROIAL I NTELLIGENCX,

TWSLYZ O'CLOCK.
14 the general Discount Market there continues
to be a fair inquiry for all accommodation, but no
demanded,
alteration can be reported in the rates
which range from about 11 to 1j per
cent.
The Mending°, from the West Coast of Africa,
has brought £ll,OOO in gold and £1,734 in specie.
The Shannon, from the Brazils, has arrived at
Li'shon, and has on board specie to the amount of
£6,460.

In the Corn Market this morning there was a very
limited attendance, and business continued exceed-
logly inactive, quotations for home-grown and
foreign wheat being nominally ls. to 2s. per quarter
lower.

The Crown Agents for the Colonies have dis-
Posed of £lOO,OOO Ceylon Government Six per
Cent. Debentures at their offices by public tender.
The applications were 97 in number, and amounted
altogether to £572,000 at rates, varying from £9O to
£lO9 3s• The minimum was fixed at 108, above
'which rate £319,500 were applied for. All tenders
at and above £lOB 13s 6d will receive in full, and
This °l2e,
at £lOB 13s to the extent of about one-third.
is the last instalment of the sum of £700,000
feqnired for the completion of the Ceylon Railway
Colombo to Kandy.
The directors of the Port Phillip and Colonial
Gold Mining Company have received the following
telegram,4_ from their resident director at Climet,
"ecl Ist December :—" Six Weeks' Return, Sep-
!ember.
43 Quartz crushed, 7,000 tons; yield per
n, 12 dwts. 12 grs. ; remittance, £5,000."
t Athknu,
and Great Western Railway Deben-
tures have risen j, to 21 22 ; and the Consolidated
'long age Bonds remain firm at 19 20.
1,7 e Naw Honduras Loan is firm at 11 1/ prem.
et —Leeers. J. H. Schroder and Co., of Leadenhall-
lreet, have announced the dividends due on the
ay of Savannah and Matanzas (Cuba) Railroad
10Per Cent. Loan of £400,000, 1865, due on Dec.
and payable on that day, and of £250,000, 1861,
A,.11° on the 15th, payable on the 16th ; also on the
eat.'atanzas and Sabanilla (Cuba) Railroad 7 per
Loans of £200,000,
,43, payable on Dec. 16. 1853, and £300,000,
of'ko extraordinary general meeting of the members
Da tile Mauritius Land Credit and Agency Com-
(Limited) will be held at their offices, 25,
rrine,hurch-street, on Tuesday, 17th December.
ne
23d half-yearly general meeting of the pro-
-113, tletors
of the Scinde Railway (Indus Steam Flotilla,
het Laub, and Delhi Railways) Company will he
celober
at the Loudon Tavern, on Monday, 23d De-
TheLa the
in the Tyne during the past week
book been very limited. According to the Customs'
Ica, they have only been 192, including 56 screws.
the Railings have been 108, of which 31 were screws.
long dyne has not been so bare of coasters for a
higi:A"le) and ready colliers have commanded
lonV4z; rates this week than have been offered for a
hapti The only arrivals of any importance
Zbe veen large timber ships from British America.
transactions for distant ports have been slight.
are regard to the general trade of the port things
Avery dull indeed.
grantha meeting held to-day of the Atlantic Tele-I
apb4j c'raPany a proposition was submitted for the I
asW`n‘tnent of a committee of the shareholders to
for t and advise the directors as to the best means
tee carrying out such measures as may be deemed
eiti:sll7 to improve the position of the company,
Tele-r 9' amalgamation with the Anglo-American
ealliPaph Company, or by raising the necessary
per :41 to redeem the existing charge of £125,000
Coro-ileum en the revenue of the Atlantic Telegraph
tioti Pta°Y, and to aid the board in the considera-
-I°l' other important matters.
for tril accounts from the manufacturing districts
kai e Past week state that business generally re-
bothtlebd very inactive. At Manchester buyers for
great and export demands have acted with
their caution, although holders have again reduced
tracif Priem In the western districts of Leeds,
been Ord
Prices and Huddersfield only limited sales have
e'ected on seasonable goods, and rather lower
and have been current. At Nottingham the lace
°,eicrY trade has continued exceedingly dull,
heft 1 the hardware districts of Birmingham,
be re °di and Wolverhampton no improvement can
Por a •
varatiohtepu in the general state of trade ; the pre-
Year for stock-taking, usual at this time of the
coarse
14, Some measure interferes with the usual
business.

Two o'CLocx.
Vol:he tendency in the Consol Market is still unfa-
'table
take a further
.decline of i per eent. having
to 4o,Plece to-day ; the latest quotations are there-
-93 7 It I for money, 931 for the sth instant, a.n
di: for the January account. To the general in.-
4413,:keitten of the public to invest or speculattehliss
,'unted the Prevailing depression not only
e-'ll4atketbilt in other departments of the Stockin Ex-
11,1ge
itit heciillew Threes are 931 3 ; Reduced Annuk-
ate% 11. 3 ; Exchequer Bills, 28s to 31s ; Ran
4,e47,444f 246 ; India ditto, 225 223 ; ditto 6 per
4 115 i 7 j
.
and ditto 4 per Cents., 1001 1.
quiet P loreign Stock Market has been extremely
Italian Mexican have advanced 1, to 161 f ; and
at 241 it to 46i t ; Spanish Passive are unchanged
Grf:j ; the New 3 per Cent. Stock, 351 ;
t-et) 14 Iql •k 5 per Cents., 33i f•
th -g ; and Turku'
Arole e American Securities thetone is rather
t0t,71 United States 6-20 Bonds have advanced
~
844 ; and Illinois 1, to 88 881 ; while Erie
It: have advanced I, to 47f 1.
414rit,,e4ed depression prevails in the Railway &
s
etledt:', °Wing to a continued pressure of sales.
lierthen have further receded 1 ; Great
o,Ceira A Stock, 11 ; Midland, 1 ; Lancashire and
North Western, and South Eastern each
Iviek7 Great Western and North Eastern (Ber-
,l,J each J.
Ile
r or --
601 and Colonial lines have been in
Auiltre.cillest, and generally at steady rates. South
11 • g-lau end Lombardo-Venetian are marked 131
bariod reat Luxembourg, 9 15-16th ; Bombay and
.44
iatib
1; Great
iI.
044 t undian Peninsula, 1101
-11 tik al
`dank
are in fair request.
1;4 hoe advanced to 521 541 ; London
nn
and
d
Alliaillinater to 70 ; Union of London to 35 ; an
M:ee,te 131 141,
tire -celleneoua and Finance shares remain inac-
tl4'.,,l.id withont
qell4,le Telegraph 8
any material change in values.
per Cents. are marked 821;
Naretal Credit and Discount, 51 5-16 tbs ; Penin"
'ld
Oriental Steam have receded to 581 59;
eroy of
Alzypt's Mortgage Loan to 721.