The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-12 00:00:00

kARKET

AND
CORMEROIaL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK. '
The inquiry for discounts yesterday was very
limited, but there has been an increase of business
to-day, at, however, the same rates as before.
There were no bullion operations at the Bank of
England yesterday.
TLe Suffolk has arrived from Melbourne with
£73,000 in coin and gold dust.
The Crown agents for the colonies have invited
tenders for X 56,500 Natal Government 6 per Cent.
Debentures, being the final instalment of a loan of
£105,500, authorised by an Act of 1860, for the
improvement of Port Natal, upon a plan designed
by Captain Veitch, and on which £lOO,OOO
have already been expended. The applications will
be received until one p.m. of the 22d instant.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Deben-
tures continue in good demand, and have further
advanced 1 per cent., to 52 54, and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds remain steady at 401404.
The movements of the precious metals during
the past week have been on a very moderate scale.
The imports have only amounted to about £364,143,
including £24,800 from New York by the Arago,
£77,931 by the Cuba, and £39,000 by the Deutch-
land. The Wave of Life, from Australia, has
brought £64,000, and the Suffolk £73,000. The
Ceylon, from Alexandria, has arrived with £1,412,
and about £BO,OOO in silver has been received from
the Continent. The exports have been £8,700 to
the Brazils by the Rhone, and there have been re-
mittances to the Continent through private sources
estimated at £78,920, the total amounting to
£87,120.

It is announced that the Directors of the Union
Bank of Australia have decided on paying a divi-
dend, at the rate of 8i per cent. for the half year,
being £2 2s. 6d per share.
-we are requested to insert the following impor-
tant letter

National Discount Company (Limited),
33, Cornhill, E.C.
Sin I am instructed to call your attention to apara-
graph in the Economist of this date, in which "the creditors
of the National Discount Company (Limited) are required
to send in details of their claims to the official liquidator
by the 2d of February, as the Ist of February has
been fixed for adjudication thereon." With parties
well informed as to the position of the National
Discount Company, this extraordinary announcement will
be harmless, but as it may lead the timid and unwary
to a needless sacrifice of their property, we shall be ob-
liged if you will cause it to be notified on the Stock Ex-
change that the paragraph in question is scandalously
false as regards this cTmpany.
I am, sir, yours faithfully,
RICHARD PRICE, Secretary.
Slaughter, Esq., Secretary, Stock and Share
Department, Stock Exchange.
The traffic on the East Indian Railway, for the
Week ending Nov. 11, 1866, amounted to £42,963
18s. 2d., against£44,4l9 ss. Bd. in the correspond-
ing week of the previous year ; for the week ending
Nov. 18 they were £42,553 10s. 9d., against
£41,491 12s. 2d, in the corresponding week last
Year,
The traffic receipts on the Melbourne and Rob-
-B"'s Bay United Railway Company, for the week
ending Nov. 22,1 amounted t0:£:2,314, against £2,029
in the corresponding period of the previous year,
showing an increase of £285.
The following communication has been issued
for publication by the Consul for Venezuela :
TO THE EDITOR.
Blanco, dated from St. Nazairo on the day of his embarka-
tion at that port by the French mail steamer for Vene-
zuela, from which the following is au extract :"‘ I have not time to write to
Air. Macdonald, but I
desire that
you should fortify him, as also the bond-
olders of 1864, with th© assurance that the Government
of Alarshal Falcon will pay with all punctuality the diTi-
ends of the loan contracted by me in his name.
According to my last advices, the agents had already
begun to receive the part of the export duties which cor-
r,esPmid with the present harvest. The diminution of
uueties will never exceed the surplus, which up to this time
th,,eornpany had always returned.
do I know the probity of Marshal Falcon, and therefore
not hesitate to repeat these assurances.'
" Your obedient servant,
"consulate
. H. HEMMING, Consul.
of Venezuela, 25,
.IlPßEDKoorgate-street, Jan. 11."
er The directors of the Port Phillip and Colonial
advices IN
-fining Company have received the following
'Av'ees from their resident director, Mr. Bland,
datedie Clunes, 24th November last :---Four Weeks'
A tlit'rls, (October ).—Quantity of quartz crushed,
`*,312 tons, yielding 1,355 ozs. 10 dwts. of gold, or
an average of 6 dwts. grs. per ton. The receipts
Were
1)0£5,944 4s. ; payments, £4,300 13s. 7d. ;
~r,nt, £1,643 103. 51 Three Weeks' Returns
ovenaber).—Qua.ntit of
tons, yieldi quartz crushed, 3,206
ng 999 y
oz 3. 9 dwts. of gold, or an ave-
c,age o
8d f 6 dwts. 5 grs. per ton ; remittance, £955
os. .

According Two O'CLOCK.
Reuters telegram from Paris this
drl to Reut
Y, the Fre.'ell Routes were G9f. G7e.
A slight degree of heaviness is again perceptible
In the market for the British Funds, Consols leav-
ing off at 908 91 for money, and 94 for the account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 901 ;1,
Annuities, 1885, 13 ; India 5 per Cents, 107 I ;
do. Effaced 4 pr Cents., 85; ; do. 5 per Cents.,
102; do. 51 per Cents., 106; ; and do. Bonds 275.
to 30s.prcm.

In the Foreign Market there has been little
change of importance. Turkish 5 per Cents. have
advanced to 321 ; and Mexican Stock 1, to 181 ;
while Spanish Certificates have declined to 141
and the Russian Loan Scrip 1, to 114 prem.
The transactions in the Railway Share Market
have been limited, the preparations for the settle-
111°11t, occupying the attention of the dealers and
speculators. Prices, however, with a few excep-
tions, are well supported. Great Northern and
North Western have each advanced 4; Midland,
; and Brighton, 1 ; while Great Western and
Metropolitan have each declined I.
Miscellaneous and finance shares continue in fair
demand, at steady prices. Atlantic Telegraph 8
Per Cents. have improved to 70 721 ; Credit Fon-
eier of England to 91 1 ; Fore-street Warehouse
I°l3 ; National Discount Company are marked
1, and International Financial 21.
In Dock. Shares there have been bargains in East
and West India at 133 ; and in London and St.
Katharine, at 691.
American Securities show some improvement.
Erie shares have advanced 1 to 43 44 ; Illinois 4, to
Bf)i ; but United States 5-20 Bonds have declined
4, to 72 41.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continue in fair
demand at steady:rates. A moderate amount of
business has been transacted in Joint-Stock Banks,
and some of the quotations have advanced, while
others have declined. Alliance, Chartered of India,
Land Mortgage, London and County, and Union
of London have receded ; Anglo-Italian, and Im-
perial Ottoman remain steady.