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

IVIO-R-1-il-111ARKET

AND

COMMEROIU 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.
The Suffolk has arrived from Melbourne with
£73,000 in coin and gold dust.
rile Crown agents for the colonies have invited
tenders for £56,500 Natal Government 6 per Cent.
DAentures, being the final instalment of a loan of
£165,500, authorised by an Act of 1860, for the
improvement of Port Natal, upon a plan designed
by Captain Veitch, 8.E., and on which £lOO,OOO
have already been eKpended. The applications will
be received until one p.m. of the 22d instant.
At!antic and Great Western Railway Deben-
tures continue in good demand, and have further
advanced 1 per oeut., to 52 54, and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds remain steady at 401 40. i.
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 81 per cent. for the half year,
being £2 2s. Gd per share.
We are requested to insert the following impor-
tant letter

National Discount Company (Limited),
33, Cornhill, E.C.
8111, —I am instructed to call your attention to a para-
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
f that the paragraph in question is scandalously
false as regards this mupany.
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
1017. 18 they were £42,553 103. 9d., against
£41,494 12s. 2d. in the corresponding week last
Year.

The traffic receipts on the Melbourne and Rob-
son's Bay United Railway Company, for the week
ending Nov. 22,:atuounted 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 TUE EDITOR..
"Sirl-I have received a letter from General Guzman
'lance, dated from St. Nazaire on the dayof his embarka-
tion at that port by the French mail steamer for Vene-
zuela, from which the followinc, is an extract :
" 'I have not time to write to Mr. Macdonald, but I
desire that you should fortify him,
holders of 1864, with the assurance that the Government
as also the bond-
of
Marshal Falcon will pay with all punctuality the divi-
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-
espond with the present harvest. The diminution of
ctliuties will never exceed the surplus, which up to this time
e company had always returned.
" ' I know the probity of Marshal Falcon, and therefore
do not hesitate to repeat these assurances.'
" Your obedient servant,
FREDK. 11. HEMMING, Consul.
The
" Consulate of Venezu4t, 25, Moorgate-street, Jan. 11."
directors of the Port Phillip and Colonial
Gold Alining. Company have received the following
advices from thoir resident director, Mr. Bland,
Returns
4'342 Clunes, 24th November last :--Four Weeks'
A'eturns, (October).—Quantity of quartz crushed,
'1,312 tons, yielding 1,355 ozs. 10 dwts. of gold, or
an average of 6 dwts. 51 grs. per ton. The receipts
were £5,944 4s. Profit, £1,G43 £4,300 13s. 7d. ;
~,,.ovember). r°at, £1,643 10s. sd. Three Weeks' Returns
tons,
OQuantity of quartz crushed, 3,206
yielding 999 OZ3. 9 dwts. of gold, or an ave-
rage of 6 dwts. 5 grs. per ton ; remittance, £955
Bs, gd.

According Two o'CLocs.
to Reuter's telegram from Paris this
day, the French Rentes were 69f. 67c.
A slight degree of heaviness is again perceptible
in the market for the British Funds, Consols leav-
ing off at 901 91 for money, and 91* for the account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 901 a,
Annuities, 1885, 13 ; India 5 per Conte, 107 1;
do. Enfaced 4 per Cents., 85; ; do. 5 per Cents.,
102; do. 5 per Cents., 1061; and do. Bonds 275.
to 30s.prem.

In the Foreign Market there has been little
Change of importance. Turkish 5 per Cents. have
advanced -a, to 391 ; and Mexican Stock*, to 184;
While Spanish Certificates have declined if, to 141 4;
and the Russian Loan Scrip a, to 114 prem.
The transactions in the Railway Share Market
have been limited, the preparations for the settle-
ment,, occupying the attention of the dealers and
speculators. Prices, however, with a few excep-
,tions, are well supported. Great Northern and
'lAOrtb Western have each advanced 4; Midland,
; and Brighton, 1 ; while Great Western and
Metropolitan have each declined 4.
Miscellaneous and finance shares continue in fair
demand, at steady prices. Atlantic Telegraph 8
Per Cents. have improved to 70 724 ; Credit Fon-
eier Of England to 24 1 ; Fore-street Warehouse
to
13 ; National Discount Company are marked
144, and International Financial 21.
and
In Duck Shares there have been bargains in East
West India at 133 ; and in London and St.
liatharine, at 694.
American Securities show some improvement.
-r-4rie shares have advanced 4 to 43 44 ; Illinois 4, to
80 ; but United States 5-20 Bonds have declined
4, to 72
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 remaia steady.