The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE o'CLotK.
The discount market has opened with greater
firmness, and there is a good general demand for
commercial purposes. More activity has been pro-
duced by the arrival at maturity of a large Lumber
of bills connected with the Australian trade.
At the Bank of England no gold operations of
importance took place on Saturday.
The Douro has arrived from the West Indies with
specie to the amount of £176,000, and the Mississippi
from New York with £96,000.
At a meeting to-day of the Bank of Australia

the directors declared a dividend, payable on the
' 16th of April next, at the rate of 6 per cent. per
annum, and a bonus at the rate of 61 per cent. per
annum, both free of income-tax, being together at
the rate of 12} per cent. per annum, or £2 10s. per
share for the half-year.
The traffic returns on the Ottoman Railway for
the week ending 17th February last were £B3l 4s.
5d., and in the corresponding week of 1866, £154
4s. 10d. The mileage this year is 80i, while last
year it was only 48i.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
remain steady at 32} 33f ; and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds at 241 25k.
The Board of Trade returns for the month of
January were issued this morning, and show the
total declared value of the exports to have been
£12,786,842 against £14,354,748 in the like period
of 1866, and showing a decrease of £1,567,906.
The imports hare, in most instances, been rather
smaller as compared with those of the similar
period of the previous year, while the shipping
accounts are also of rather a less persuasive
character. _ _

The accounts from the manufacturing districts
during the pant wool- have generally been of A,t it._
satisfactory character. At Manchester only a mode-
rate business has been transacted in cloths and
yarns, at rather lower rates. In the woollen dis-
tricts of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield no
material change can be reported. The dealings
in all descriptions of spring and summer fabrics
have been on the most limited scale, while
in the hardware districts of Birmingham, Sheffield,
and Wolverhampton operations generally have only
been to supply immediate home requirements.

Two O'CLOCK.

Although there is very little business in progress
values at the Stock Exchange are very well sus-
tained. Commercial affairs are more promising,
confidence is expressed in the administration, and
Fenianism, after St. Patrick'sVay passed so
quietly, is believed to be dying out. The funds
are therefore very firm at 911 for money, and 911
for the account.

A call of .£1 per share has been made to-day by
the Natal Land and Colonisation Company, pay-
able at the London and County Bank or any of its
branches. Payment is to be made in two instal-
ments, viz., 10s. on the 15th April, and 10s. on the
15th May next.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are
891 ; ditto New 3f per Cents., 96f ; Exchequer
Bills, 158. 18s. prem. for March; and 183. prem.
for June. Bank Stock shut.

A slight improvement is perceptible in the Foreign
Stock department. Greek have advanced to 15i
16k; Italian *, to 53i *; Spanish Passive *, to
22 ; the Certificates to 14; ; Turkish 5 per
Cents., k, to 30* ; Russian Scrip *, 2* f prem. ;
Chilian Scrip f, to 2 k dis ; Danubian Scrip * 1*
1 dis.

In the Railway Share Market business has re-
mained very inactive, and the general tendency of
prices has been downwards. Brighton have receded
1' • Great Eastern, Great Western, and North-
Lastern (Berwick), each ; and Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincoln, Midland, and South-Eastern
each I.
The Foreign and Colonial lines are very inactive,
and in a few instances exhibit less firmness.
Bank Shares remain very dull. Anglo-Egyp-
tian have receded to 13, Land Mortgage Bank of
India to 2i, and Union of London to 441.

American Securities show little variation. United
States 5-20 Bonds have declined to 741 ; Erie
Shares if, to 39i 40 ; but Illinois have advanced
to 78 I.
In the Miscellaneous Market there has been very
little animation, and no material alteration can be
reported as regards values. Atlantic Telegraph 8
per Cents. are marked 62} G 5; Hudson's Bay Com-
pany, 15i; and National Discount Company,
12! 13.