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

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMEROIAL iNTILLIOEhuBs

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 tlke
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 ... ...
Public deposits
Other deposits

£3,050,226 ... Increase £10,938
7,178,757 ... Increase 32,437
18,766,205 ... Doarease 234,280

On the other side of the account :
Government securities £13,019,203 ... No change
Other securities 17,518,502 .., Increase 299,747
Notes unemployed 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. Annexed 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. 91
do. ; United States eagles, 765. 3d. ; bar silver,
58. Old. per oz., standard ; do., containing gold (5
Pains and upwards), ss. ld. do. ; Mexican dollars,
48. 101 d. per oz. ; cake silver, 655. 00. 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
38. in the pound will be paid to the depositors in the
Leeds Banking Company on Wednesday, the let
of January. Fourteen shillings have already been
Paid, so that when this 3s. is received there will be
38. more due to the creditors of this unfortunate
Company.

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

The New Honduras Loan is firm at 1i 2 prem.
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
sills of the New Zealand Government, due the
31st inst. ; the coupons for interest due on all un-
paid New Zealand Government Eight per Cents.
on 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 £30,000 ; the Otago Six per Cent. Loan for
£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 :