The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-27 00:00:00

ONE-7 MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL TNTELLIGENCS,

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

in the general discount market scarcely any bills
have been brought forward for negotiation, and the
supply of money is not quite so plentiful.

The Etna has arrived from New York with
specie to the amount of £61,500.

The mail from Guayquil has brought a remit-
tance of £1,617 6s. on account of the dividends
on the debt of Ecuador.

The return of the Bank of France for the week
ending yesterday shows the following changes as
compared with the previous accounts :—There has
been a decrease in the cash of £224,000, in the
notes £BO,OOO, in the Treasury balance £48,000,
and in the advances £13,320 ; while a decrease has
taken place in the bills discounted of £293,320,
and in the private accounts of £24,000.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the 25th of December gives the fol-
lowing results when compared with the previous
week :

Rest £3,050,226 Increase .£10,938
Public deposits 7,178,757 Increase ' 32,437
Other deposit■ ... 18,766,205 Doorease 234,280
On the other side of the account :
Clovernmentsesarities £13,019,203 No change
Other seenrities 17,518,502 ... Increase 299,747
Notes maemployed ... 12,474,335 ... Decrease 424,040
The amount of notes in circulation is £23,362,865,
being an increase of £474,245 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £21,941,047, show-
ing an increase of £338, when compared with
the preceding return.

At the Bank of England yesterday there was an
influx of £20,000 in gold, and a withdrawal of
£B,OOO. Annex.ed are the latest prices of bullion:—
Bar gold, 775. 9d. per oz., standard ; do., Parting.
78s. do. ; doubloons, Spanish, 765. 6d. to 775. per
oz. ; do., Mexican and South American, 735. 9d.
do. ; United States eagles, 765. 3d. ; bar silver,
ss. Oid. per oz., standard ; do., containing gold (5
grains and upwards), ss. ld. do. ; Mexican dollars,
4s. 100. per oz. ; cake silver, 655. Old. do.
At a meeting of the directors of the Midland
Railway, held on Monday, at Derby, it was resolved
to call a general meeting of the shareholders for the
15th of January, in order to allow of a full explana-
tion being given of the recent announcement con-
cerning the application to Parliament for powers
to raise £5,000,000 of additional capital.
Notice has been given that a fourth dividend of
3s. in the pound will be paid to the depositors in the
Leeds Banking Company on Wednesday, the Ist
of January. Fourteen shillings have already been
paid, so that when this 3s. is received there will be
3s. more due to the creditors of this unfortunate
company.

Atlantic and Great Western Railway Deben-
tured have declined to 20 22, and the Consoli-
dated Mortgage Bonds, k, to 18 19.

The New. Honduras Loan is firm at 2 prom.
A further dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound has
been declared in the matter of the European Bank
(Limited), payable at the offices of Messrs. Hard-
ing, Whinney, Gibbons, and Co., 8, Old Jewry, on
the 30th and 31st inst. The liquidators expect to
declare a further dividend in January.
The Bank of New Zealand are now receiving for
Payment the outstanding Eight. per Cent. Treasury
Bills of the New Zealand Government, due the
31st inst. ; the coupons for interest due on all un-
paid New Zealand Government Eight per Cents.
en the Auckland Harbour Seven per Cent. Loan
for £25,000 ; the Canterbury Six per Cent. Loan
for £500,000; the Canterbury Eight per Cent. Loan
for 6£30,000 ; the Otago Six per Cent. Loan for
X 500,000; and the Otago Eight per Cent. Loan of
1861-2 for £50,000.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :-
1857. 1866.
... 76,597 80,947
-.130,259 140,302
... 24,059 27,669
... 23,422 22,370
... 55,246 25,164
... 25,351 25,726
47,037 48,605

Great Western
North IVestern
South Western
trig h
t 011
Ilidland •
• •
South Eastern
Great Norther*

_--,aticashire and Yorkshire... :.: 47,509 48,120
Bristol and Exeter... 7,714 8,330
North Eastern
. . . 74,312 76,433
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 21174 23,103
Great Eastern ... ... 36,533 39,658
Caledonian 34461 35,819
Lon,,do
n, Chatham, and Dover ~. 9,,732 10,209
-North British . . 26,259 25,716
Glasgow and South.WesteTn 17. 10,235 10,096
These returns, when compared with those of the
corresponding period of last year, are in most in-
stances of an unsatisfactory character. On the
Great Western there iffan increase of £4,350; on the
North-Western, of £10,043 ; on South-Western, of
3,610 ; on the South-Eastern, of £375 ; on the Great
liorthern, of £1,568 ; on the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, of £5ll ; on the Bristol and Exeter, of
£616 ; on the North-Eastern, of £2,121; on the
Manchester, Sheffield, and London, of £1,929 ; on
the Great-Eastern, of £3,125; on the Caledonian,
of £1,358; and on the London, Chatham, and
Rover, of £477 ; while the Brighton shows an
increase of £1,052, the Midland of £B2, and the
North British of £533.
With regard to the progress of business in the
corn trade at Birmingham, Mr. W. B. Cave reports
tthat the wheat trade remains in an unsatisfac-
JrY state to merchants and millers, neither of
"In deriving the slightest profit from their busi-
tlecs ; thus all the country markets become
more unable to supply the merchants from week to
Week. Prices creeping up almost imperceptibly,
While millers, aware of the distress existing
around them, are naturally anxious to keep
the price down, but this will be an impossibility
finless better supplies of English wheat come
f
°i'vrard, which is very unlikely, considering
the reduced stocks throughout the country. This
market to-day was of quite a holiday character-
130Pply of good English wheat very small, and taken
readily at Is. per qr. over the prices of Thursday
last, red making from 70s. to 71s. ; and white 725.
t 0 762.—a1l per qr. of 4961 b.

Two O'CLOCK.
According to Reuter's Telegram this morning,
the French Rentes were 68f. 70c.
At the opening tkis morning the English Market
presented a very dull appearance, and Consols
4howed a decline of but on the account this de-
has been recovered, and they are now dealt in
at 921 f for money and account.
.1118 New Threes are 921 f ; Reduced Annui-
tiel, 94 k.; Exchequer Bills, 255. to 295. prem. ;
lola 5 per Cents., 111+ ; ditto 4 per Cents, 100 f ;
,
Ifaeed 5 per Cents., 103 ; ditto Debentures, 105 f ;
and ditto Bonds, 405. prem.
b rile Foreign Stock Market has been very languid,
O4t nevertheless prices are firm. Spanish Passive
7e advanced f, to 25f 26i ; the 3 per Cents.,
cliu36 ; Turkish 5 per Cents., however, have de-
-12 to 33 ; while Greek are unaltered at
1
•z ; and Italian are 44i 45k, being better.
r
p,
retn 'lle New Portuguese Loan Scrip is firm at f

The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit little
,s
,4_7llttion. San Paulo are marked 174 ; South
western
and Lombardo Venetian, 134 ; Great
of Canada, 164 ; East Indian, 1114 ; and
Great Indian Peninsula, 1094 4.
atlti Illinois Shares there is an improvement of 1,
488 i 894 ; but Erie Shares have fallen 1, to 474
ht%ahid. United States 5-20 Bonds are higher,
ben(l, the Railway Share Market the dealings have
pr,:ll to a moderate extent, but in some instances
poi?e4 exhibit less firmness. Great Eastern, Metro-
ilt;4ll, Midland, and South-Eastern hive each
Ca.‘l‘,,llcl ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 4, and
tau,4'(Thi; while Great Western have im-
roved
1)1144k shares continue iu very limited request, at
11.1:34t Previous quotations, London and West-
tltttlster being dealt in at 684, Union of Australia
51', and Consolidated at 44 3-16.
i„latvit :.liscellaneous and Finance Shares are in very
led request. Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents.
at
land
itnproved to 88i 90 ; Credit Foucier of Eng-
, are
go Loan at 3; 3-16 ; and Viceroy of Egypt's Mort-
" 721-
MINING MARKET.
liuk• FRIDAY, Two P.M.
—141383 in the mining market has opened with-