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

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMEROI kL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The new feature is apparent in the discount mar-
ket, but owing to the settlement in foreign bonds
and shares of all classes the demand for loans at the
Stock Exchange is rather more active.
The tenders for £300,000 of the Canterbury Go-
vernment Six per Cent. Loan offered by the Bank
of New Zealand will be received up to one o'cloCk
this day, when they will be officially opened. The
bonds are issued in sums of £lOO each. The in-
terest accrues from the 31st of December last.

At the Bullion-office of the Bank of England yes-
terday there were no gold operations of importance.
At a meeting held to-day of the London and
Blackwall Railway Company the report of the
directors was unanimously adopted, and the dividend
declared at the rate of 4i per cent.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
remain steady at 30 32, and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds have advanced 41, to 26i 27.
In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets
during the last few days there has not been much
activity. Operations in tea have been deferred
until to-day, when a large quantity of Indian pro-
duce will be offered. Sugars have been in very
moderate request, but at steady prices; while in rice,
fruit, and spices there has been little change of im-
portance as regards prices. For tallow there has
been a very limited demand, and quotations for
both Present and forward delivery have shown a
downward tendency.
The ninth half yearly meeting of the
proprietors of the Great Eastern Railway
Company was held to day, at which the accounts,
made up to the 31st December last, were submitted.
The net balance applicable to the payment of divi-
dends •
„£214,249, and is apportioned as follows—
zllB,Bll todividend on Preference Stocks ; £56,000
to Preference Stock next in priority; and £39,298
to pay a dividend on the stock next in priority.

Two o'CLocx.
According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
day, the French Rentes were 69f. 70c. Inanimate.
Attention from the English Stock Exchange hav-
ing
been very much diverted by the settlement in
foreign bonds and shares generally, the Consol de-
Partraent has been neglected and languid, and the
quotations have farther receded per cent., viz., to
904 for money,
and to 901 91 for the account.
The report of the Australian Agricultural Com-
pany to-day stated that the cash at the bankers in
London on the 31st December last, including bills
since matured, amounted to £9,934, from which the
directors remommended £7,500 to the payment of a
rthvidend of 7s. 6(1. per share, free of income-tax.
rile balance of £2,434 is retained to pay for rails
ordered, insurance of clip and wool bales, which are
altogether .estimated to cost £1,920, and to keep
the banker's account in credit.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 90}
New 2i per Cents., 72i ; Annuities, 1855, 12
15-1613 ; India 5 per Cents., 107 i : ditto Enfaced
4 Per Cents., 85 ; ditto 5 per Cent., 102/ ; and Ex-
chequer Bills, 15s. prem.
Foreign Stocks have shown little variation of
Importance. Greek Bonds have improved to
14 ; Spanish Certificates f, to 15f IT; Turkish 5
p,er cents. 4, to 304 31 ; and the Russian Loan
Neill) I, to 21 1 prem w
. Spanish Passive, hoever,
have ieclined 4, to 22i ; and the Chilian Loan
Scrip remained steady at 1 1 prem.
In the Railway Share Market business has been
very inactive, the dealers and speculators being
chiefly occupied with the half-monthly settlement,
and prices generally show increased depression.
Lancashire and Yorkshire and London, Chatham
and Dover have each declined 4- ; Great Eastern,
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and South-
Eastern, each I ; and Great Northern (A Stock),
and Great Western, each