The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-13 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK

In the general Money Market there continues to
be a very limited inquiry for accommodation, and
the rates demanded for the best description of short-
dated commercial paper remain at 2i 21 prem.
The City of Boston has arrived from New York
with specie to the amount of £8,600.
The sum of £9,000 in sovereigns was received at
the Bank of England yesterday from Lisbon.
The tenders for £300,000 of the New Zealand
Canterbury Government Six per Cent. Loan were
opened at the bank of New Z,2aland yesterday. The
nfinimum was fixed at £92. The total amount
applied for was £47,900, and of this sum £3,900
Was at or above the minimum. It was announced
that applications for the balance at £92 would be
received until the 15th inst.

Today a call of £2 became due on the shares of
the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway
Company, the aggregate amount being £75,000.
It is stated that the Great Indian Peninsula Rail-
Way Company have now issued the whole of their
debenture capital, the list being closed yesterday, the
amount required being readily subscribed.
Advicts from Sydney report the failure of Messrs
G. K. Lloyd and Co. and Messrs. Williamson
Brothers and Co., with liabilities to the amount
°f £370,000 ; Messrs. Youngheedland and Co., of
Adelaide, had also stopped payment, with liabili-
ties over £65,000.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are 30 32, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds
26i 27k.

Two o'CLocx.
The English Funds exhibit indications of in-
creased heaviness, a further decline of 1- per cent.
having taken place, Consols being 901. for money,
and 90f 90 for the account. The New Threes and
Reduced Annuities are 89k 901 ; ditto 3i per Cents.
721 ; ditto Annuities, 1855, 12/ ; Exchequer Bills,
14s. prem. ; Bank Stock, 252 253 ; India 5 per
Cents., 107 / ; ditto Enfaced 5 per Cents., 104 ;
ditto 54. per Cent., 1071 ; ditto Debentures, 1021 ;
and ditto Bonds, 275. to 325. prem.
Foreign Stocks in some instances have shown a
slight improvement. Italian 5 per Cents., 1861,
have advanced it, to 5.1; Greek Bonds 1, to 141
144 ; Turkish 5 per cents. 1, to 311 31i ; the
Russian Loan Scrip 1, to 21 prem. ; and the
Chihli Loan Scrip 1, to 1 1 prem.
American Securities have ruled a shade firmer.
United States 5-20 Bonds have advanced 1, to 73
73i ; and Erie shares 1, to 39 40 ; Illinois shares
remain steady at 81 82.
Bank Shares aro very quiet, and without ma-
terial alteration in values. Chartered of India,
Australia, and China have receded to 18 ; London
and Wesminster have improved to 941 4 ; Metro-
politan to 81 ; Land Loudon and County remain
steady at 67f.
In the Miscellaneous Market there has been very
little animation. Ebbe Vale, however, have im-
proved to 10f ; Credit Foncier of England are
steady at 31 3f; General Credit at 5)1 51; and
viceroy of Egypt's Mortgage Loan at 72k.
In the Railway Share Market a firmer tone has
Prevailed, but the dealings have only been to a limited
extent. London, Chatham, and Dover, North
I)Vestern) Midland, and South Eastern have each
nproved 1, and Metropolitan f, while Great
astern, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
have each declined f•
The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained
very inactive at about [previous rates. South
Austrian s. South
and Lombardo-Venetian are marked
; Grand Trunk of Canada, 211; East Indian,
051110Gf and Great Indian Peninsula, 105 1051.