The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-26 00:00:00

MONTEY MARKET

AND

JOMMEROIAL [I,ITELLIDE NCR,

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

There is a very limited attendance in all depart-
ments of business in the City to-day, and the Stock
Exchange being closed there is uo information on
this head to report.
The Etna, from New York, on the 14th Dec.,
has arrived at Queenstown. She brings pOO,OOO,
and £1,500 in specie, value £61,500.
A petition has been presented to the Court of
Chancery by E. H. J. Craufurd, Esq., M.P., chair-
man of the Board of Directors, to wind up the
County and General Gas Consumers' Company
(Limited), a company of considerable importanc.:,
stai ted some 11 years since, and having numerous
gasworks in different parts of the country. Vice-
Chancellor Malins has appointed Mr. W. J. White,
of 33, King-street, Cheapside, public accountant,
provisional 'liquidator, associating with him Mr.
R. S. Parker, the secretary. Mr. Peckham, of
Great Knightrider-street, is the solicitor in the
matter.

An extraordinary general meeting of the United
Discount Corporation (Limited) will be held on
Friday, .10th proximo.
The Anglo-Austrian Bank will be prepared to
Pay on and after the Ist proximo Coupon No. 4,
due on that day, at the rate of 6s. per share, free of
income tax.

The payment of a second dividend of 2s. in the
pound to the creditors of the Patent Carriage Com-
pany (Limited) is announced for Saturday next, at
the offices of Messrs. Johnstone, Cooper, Winlet,
and Evans, No. 3, Coleman-street-buildings.

A further dividend is announced to the creditors
of the European Bank of 2s. 6d. in the pound, pay-
able at Messrs. Hardy, Whinner, Gibbons, and Co.'s
on the 30th and 31st inst. The liquidators antici-
pate being enabled to declare another distribution
in January next. The Master of the Rolls has de-
clared a further dividend of ss. in the pound, mak-
ing 205., payable on the 30th inst.
The traffic receipts on the Ottoman Railway for
the week ending the Bth December amounted to
801. roubles, £1,040 245., and for the correspond-
ing period of last year on the same number of miles
to £l,OOO ss. ld., showing a decrease of £39
17s. 3d.

Messrs. Alex. Collie and Co., of Manchester,
under date 24th Dec., state that the tone of this
market has continued almost unchanged since last
Tuesday ; and although transactions have not been
individually extensive they appear to have been
numerous, as the desire of manufacturers to effect
sales does not amount to any important concession
in prices, which are only nominally lower. There
is but little addition being made to stocks ; the
mills generally are running full time, and by latest
telegrams from the East covering rates seem to be
fairly maintained.
With regard to the tea trade, -Messrs. William,
James, and Henry Thomson report that business
during the past week has been extremely dull and
quiet, and many of the dealers have closed their
transactions for the year. By official returns the
duty payments last month, at the outports, were
very large, making the total deliveries for the United
Kingdom reach up to.that date to 135,000,0001b5.
The public sale, held on the 17th inst., was extremely
small, as advised in our last, and consisted only of
2,753 packages; prices generally remained unaltered.
The China mail is expected on the 27th inst. The
latest telegrams date from Hongkong to the 25th
November. The arrivals have been the Coral
Nymph, on the 17th ; the Star of China, on the
19th ; the Mary Whitridge, on the 21st, from
Shanghae ; the Atma, from Canton, and the Caldevr,
from Foe Chow, on the 20th inst., and the Chal-
gruve, from Canton, to-day.

BRITISH FUNDS.--CLOSING PRICES.
TUBsDAY.