The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-05 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
CODIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Continued ease prevails in the discount market,
the supplies on offer being abundant. The directors
of the Bank of England at their meeting to-day
having made no alteration in the minimum, the
rates remain unaltered.

Bar gold to the amount of £28,000 was taken
to the Bank of England yesterday.

The Denmark has arrived from New York with
specie amounting to £17,000, and the Queen of
Nations, from Sydney, has brought gold to the
amount of £27,016. The Devana, from Port
Philip, brings £86,000 in gold.

The biddings for 2,700,000 rs., £270,000, in
bills on India, were held to-day at the Bank of Eng-
land. The minimum price was fixed at ls. 110.
on Calcutta and Madras, and ls. Hid. on Bombay.
No tenders at these prices were received.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1867. 1866.
Great Western ... 83,512 81,935
North Western ... ...133,886 131,746
South Western ... 30,292 28,211
Brighton ••• ... 29,536 86,831
Midland ***
• ... ... 62,109 57,468
gouth Eastern 33,459 30,852
Great Northern ... 42,062 38,852
Lancashire and Yorkshire... ... 51,350 48,815
Bristol and Exeter... ... ... 8,783 8,037
North Eastern
••• ••• ... 82745 77,551
Manchester Sheffield, and Lincoln ... 21,524 19,959
Great Eastern ... 37,001 36,209
London Chatham, and Doter ... 16,796 13,906
North British ... 30,319 30,199
Metropolitan ••••• . 4,118 3,712
Great Southern and Western of 10,060 9,475
Midland and Great Western of Ireland 6,088 5,900
Glasgow and South Western ... 12,553 11,552
These returns, when compared with those of the
corresponding period of last year, are of a very
favourable character. On the Great Western Shares
there is an increase of £1,577 ; on the North-
Western,
,of £2,140 ; on the South- Western, of
£2,081 ; on the Brighton, of £2,705 ; on the
Midland, of £4,641 ; on the South-Eastern,
of £2,607 ; on the Great Northern, of £3,210 ;
on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, of £2,535 ; on
the Bristol and Exeter, of £746 ; on the North-
Eastern, of £5,191 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, of £1,565 ; on the Great Eastern,
of £792 ; on the London, Chatham, and Doter,
of £2,880 ; on the North British, of £l2O ; and
on the Metropolitan, of £406.
At the meeting held to-day of the Merchant
Banking Company of London, a dividend of 5 per
cent. per annum was declared for the half-year end-
ing the 30th June last.
At the meeting of the Varna Railway Company
to-day, the report to the 30th June last stated that
the railway was permanently opened in March last,
after having been closed from November, when it
had been previously opened with the verbal consent
of the Government ; but even this latter date is
within the time stipulated by the terms of the
concession. The completeness of the railway,
SO far as its construction is concerned, is established
hY the return of the Sultan to Constantinople by
this route with a suite of 700 persons ; so much so
that his Imperial Majesty not only expressed his
approval of the railway in all its arrangements and
details, but,
as a special mark of his satisfaction,
commanded that the carpet provided for the impe-
lila' saloon should be sent to the palace at
Constantinople, to be retained as a souvenir
of his journey over this railway, which cir-
cumstance, the directors need not point out,
4, according to Eastern custom, a most complete
I?l.°°f of his Imperial Majesty's approbation. The
"rectors had also the satisfaction of informing the
abareholders that the traffic now offering leads them
to
assume with confidence, that the railway will
earn from this time a sum in excess of its working
~exPenses, thereby leaving the guarantee available
for division amongst the share and obligation
:holdersand there is every prospect that it will, in
the
of a few years, render itself independent of
guarantee.
te,From Buenos Ayres, by supplementary mail, in-
"'gene° has been received that a fire had again
broken out in the Government building on the
morning; of the 27th of July, the day of departure
the mails, and destroyed everything that the pre-
IT'
I°us fire had spared. It was evidently the work of
taincendiaries, and it is said to have begun in the Secre-
,..l7 of the Interior's office, the tapestry of which •
;as saturated with turpentine, and the bars of the
other
had been also painted with this or some
run
inflammable material, so that the fire should
„„ti up over the outside of the building. All the
'4.,°_l)ers were destroyed, even those inside the safes.
'2lB sews is corroborated by the Anglo-Brazilian
-clines of the 7th of August.

Two o'CLocK.
According to Reuter's telegram, the French 3 per
Cent. Rentes were 69f. 77c. this morning. Firm.
The directors of the Bank of England have held
their weekly court without making auy alteration in
their minimum rate of discount. A change, how-
ever, Was not expected.
Forei-n
6 Stocks are very firm. Italian have
advanced *, to 484 49 ; Mexican 1, to 151 1 ; and
Turkish 5 per Cents. 1, to 311 1 ; but Greek have
declined to 14 ; Spanish Passive and Certificates
exhibit no alteration.

A very limited amount of business has been tran-
sacted to-day in British Railway Shares, and except
in one or two instances, the variations have been
Unimportant. Brighton and North Westei'n have
each declined and Midland while Great Wes-
tern have improved k ; London, Chatham and
Dover, ; Great Northern A Stock, f ; and South
Western, 1.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive
at about former rates. Great Luxembourg are
niarked 10f 1 ; South Austrian and Lombardo-
\l'entian, 15i ; East Indian, 1101; Great Indian
Ileninsula 111 4 ; and Bombay and Baroda, 1031 k.
Bank Shares are dull. London Joint-Stock,
however, have improved to 37 ; Midland to 191 ;
and City Bank to 12k. Loudon and County are
narked 561 ; and Bank of Egypt 33.
In American Securities Erie Shares have advanced
to 45 46 ; while Illinois present no variation at
; but United States 5-20 Bonds are 1 lower,
at 731. t.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
remain at 24 26, and the Consolidated Mortgage
-`-'°h(lB at 22/ 23k.
Quotations at the Stock Exchange are still very
l'c.e.ll sustained, notwithstanding the absence of any-
atlng approaching activity. Satisfaction is expressed
wthe coatinued arrivals of gold in large quantities,
e prospect of the country not being compelled to
t° War with Abyssinia, and the favourable re-
ports which are daily received from the agricultural
1:111°8. Consols are 94;1 for money for the 10th
J 1
Zaht, and 94k 95 for October.
Threes and Reduced Annuities are 931,
6' 4 ; Bank Stock, 258 ; India ditto, 220 f ; ditto
dip Cents., 112} 13i ; Enfaced ditto, 1034 ; and
i°,..51 per cents 108 i.
aertiseellaneous and Finance Shares remain in-
iprilve) without any material alteration as regards
eli eB. Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents. have de-
tled to 70. Fore-street Warehouse are dealt in
Tl2i) Credit Foncier of England at 31 7-16,
elegam .„raPh Construction and Maintenance at 17/,
iceroy of Egypt's Mortgage Loan at 701 70/.