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

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TWELVE O'CLOCK

Two o'CLocr.
There is a healthy but a quiet tone in the present
condition of business at the Stock Exchange. The
English Funds are firm, Consols being 90 3-16th
5-16th for money and the present account, and
90 for the account in February. Foreign
Stocks for the moment are attracting little atten-
tion, but more firmness is manifested in the market
for Railway and other shares. One of the features
of the day is the absence of business in Crystal
Palace Shares, which are nominal at the price to
which they descended yesterday.
Foreign Stocks are a shade flatter. Turkish 5
per Cents.. have declined if, to 31i 32 ; Spanish
Passive, I, to 21i 21.11 ; and the Russian Loan Scrip,
to prem., while Greek Bonds have advanced
to 14 15 ; Italian 5 per Cents., 1861, are quoted
52i

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
moderately active, and a further advance has taken
place in values. Great Eastern have improved 4;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, I ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, North Western, and South Eastern,
each 1 ; Great Western, i; Middlesex, 14 ; and
Metropolitan, 2.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in fair
demand. Dutch-Rhenish have improved to 204 ;
Northern of France are marked 474 ; Bouth Aus-
trian and Lombardo- Venetian, 154 Grand Trunk
of Canada, 194 ; East Indian, 1044 ; and Great
Indian Peninsula, 1034 1044.
Miscellaneous and Finance Shares are dull.
Crystal Palace Stock has receded to 304 31; Hud-
son's Bay Company, to 164 4 ; National Discount
Company have improved to 15 4, and Peninsular
Oriental Steam, to 644.
Bank Shares continue in limited demand.
Alliance, however, have risen to 194 ; Chartered
Mercantile of India, London, and China, to 334 4 ;
London and County are steady, at 644 ; and
Oriental Bank Corporation, at 424 4.
There is very little basin ess in American securities,
and the prices remain firm. United States 5-20
Bnds are 724 4; Erie Shares, 464 ; and Illinois,
4.

MINING MARKET.
TUESDAY, Two o'Clock.
There has been increased activity in the Mining
Exchange. Annexed are the current quotations :
Chiverton Moor, 41 5} ; Ohonzales Gold, 2} 3}; Clifford
Amalgamate 8 9 ; East Basset, 21 22 ; East Caradon,
6}; East Lovell, —; East Wheal Grenville, 2-}.
Great Retallack, 223 Od 24s Od ; Great Wheal Ver, 15 16;
Macke Valley, 4 ; North Crofty, 31 4 ; North Treskerby,
2; 3i ; Prince of Wales, 26s Od 28s Od ; Prosper United,
3 31,-; Providence Mines, 26 28; South Oondurrovr, 3
--8 ; South Grenville, 7s Od 9s Od ; Tincroft, 12 13 ;
West Oaradon, —; West Chiverton, 53 55 ; Wes t
Frances, 14 16; West Seton, 120 5 ; Wheal Buller, 20
22}
Wheal Chiverton, 6} 7 ; Wheal Cr3bor, 12s 142; Wheal
Grenville, 263 Gd 30s; Wheal Rose, —; Wheal Seton,
135 140 ; Wheal Trelawney, 9 11 ; Wheal Uny, 248 26s ;
Cara Camborne, 20s 255; Central Minera, —; Cooks'
Kitchen, ——; East Cam Brea, 2i 3 ; Great Laxey, 17
18 ; Great South Tolgus, 10s 15s ; South Frances, 20 22 ;
St. Ives Consols, —.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING FRIG
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols .............. 9O
3 Do. Account, Jan. 10 9Ol
Nper Cent. Reduced B9+ I I
ew 3 per Cent B9l
New 2f per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan. 1880 11 pm
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April,lBBs
Do (Red Sea Telegra
E .xche , ph), Aug, 1908
Doe Bills £l,OOO, 4 per Cent
................. £500......... —
Bank of En
Do ............ £lOO do £2OO
Bland Stock, 6} per 77 Cent —
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Inman Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874
Ditto for Account ..........
. ..
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
DDo. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 lO7 I
o. Certificates —
Do.
Do. 5 per Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent 84
Do. 5 Cent., Jan. 1872 lOOl
f per Cent, May 1879
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
25 pm
Do. Bonds,,: per Cent., .£l,OOO
Do under £l,OOO
................
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRIC Argentine Republic, 6 per CentCES.
ES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Do. 4f per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
ADo. 1865
ccount.
Do. £lOO 80nd5..,...........................
71 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
1)0..A ecount
Bonds'
Do .4:100 ..............................
2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
;,,,tan 6 per Cent ................
Do. 3 per Cent.
11.. 6 per Cent A
Do. „
C 6 per Cent.
;3,11,a, 6 per Cent.
U:inish 3 per Cent., 1825
Do. 5 per Cent., 1861 ,
Danubian Principalities
Do. Account
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do.' Ptovisional Laud Warrant
Do Defer' ed
Y':gyptian 7 per Cent
Do., Second Issue
Do £I(H Bonds
1861 B4
Do -flu() Bonds
Do. Government Railway Debentures 79/ - 80
Grr,elc 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
o 3
Account
tio. Coupons
G tater-unit,. 5 per Cent.
It ',jun 5 per Cent 1865
Po. Account
1,.. Marenimana Railway
klex 'car. 3 per Cent
Do. Account
Do,
1861
D 0 6 per Cent. Anglo-French

1001
971 8

The 31sti, of December—the making-up day of
bankers—having passed, the Money Market is
already easier, and the supplies are excessive. From
present appearance it is quite reasonable that many
should incline very strongly to the opiLion that the
minimum of the Bank of England will soon be
placed at a lower figure.
There was an influx at the Bank of England
yesterday to the amount of £lO,OOO in bars, and
also 3,000 sovereigns from Australia.

The Douro has arrived at Southampton with
£46,000 in specie, and the Heckla from New York
with £23,000.

Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received,
.on account of New Granada dividends,:a remittance
of £7,545 7s. Id. from the Custom-house of Santa
Marta.

. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have advanced 1, to 51 53, but the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds have declined to 394 401.
The London Bank of Mexico and South America
(Limited) have received the half-yearly 3 per cent.
dividend, and 3i per cent. Amortisation Fund, 31
amounting to the sum of £13,493 Bs. 7d., for
account of the holders in this country of their cer-
tificates for the English Convention Debt of
Mexico, 1861.

The General Credit and Finance Company of
London have just received the following from their
agents in La Guayra, Messrs. IL L. Boulton and
Co., relative to the Venezuela Loan of 1864 :--" On
the 30th ult. Government published a decree an-
nouncing the reduction of export duties to two-
thirds of the old rates. Another decree of the same
date states that 75 per cent. of the new duties will
be applied to the payment of the loan of 1864, and
the remaining 25 per cent. will be retained by Go-
vernment to pay off a domestic loan of $150,000.
This arrangement makes it equal to a reduction of just
50 per cent. on what the bondholders formerly re-
ceived. By this mail we send you two Caracas
newspapers, the Federalista and Porvenir, contain-
ing these decrees, and on this date we have received
a communication from Government, under date of
the sth inst., confirming the same. Acting upon
this communication we applied at the Custom-house '
for the proceeds of the duties, and we are pleased to
inform you that at the last moment we received the
sum of $2,141.189, being 75 per cent. of the total
export duties at this Custom-house for the week
ending the Bth inst. We shall remit this amount by
next mail ; it is too late to do so by this."
The Northern Assam Tea Company, limited,
annoupce the payment this day of the usual
guaranteed dividend, at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum for the past half-year, on the A Shares.