The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

tAiT.ELLIUBfi

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

There is nothing of importance to report in con-
nection with monetary and commercial affairs. The
demand for accommodation, as usual at the close of
the year, when preparations are made to meet en-
gagements falling due, have been rather more ani-
mated, and the rates current are in most instances
equal to the Bank minimum of 2 per cent., although.
in a few exceptional instances transactions have
taken place at 1 j per cent.
The New Honduras Loan has improved to 111 2
prem. _ _

AtlAntic and Great Western Railway Deben-
tures have declined to 214 221, and the Consoli-
dated Mortgage Bonds, / to 181 19+.
The Persia has arrived from New York with specie
amounting to £121,600.
There has been a very limited attendance at the
corn market to-day, and quotations remain nomi-
nally unaltered for home grown and foreign wheat.
Very little animation has been apparent in the
progress of business in the manufacturing districts
during the past week. At Manchester a farther
decline ' has been established in the values of
cloths and yarns consequent upon a similar
movement in cotton at Liverpool. The woollen
trades of Leeds, Bradford, and Hudders-
field have remained very inactive, usually the
ease at this period of the year, when stock-
taking operations are in progress. In the hosiery
and lace departments of Leicester and Nottingham
Operations in seasonable goods have been entered
into to a fair extent, while in the hardware districts
of Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton dul-
ness unprecedented has been the principal feature
In almost all departments of business.
The subscription list of the new Portuguese Loan
closed on Saturday ; the applications in London
and Amsterdam have been exceedingly large, and.
In Lisbon, where £1,000,000 stock was required,
nearly £8,000,000 had been written for ; besides
which many Portuguese resident in England have
sent in applications, fully showing the confidence
and faith of the Portuguese in the operation and in
the stability- of the Government. At the Stock Ex-
change the scrip has advanced lt premium.

Th; contractor of the Honduras Railwaj, Mr.
?I'Candlish, left England by the steamer of the 17th
inst. He is accompanied by Mr. Mercer and
Mr. Emerson, selected by and on behalf of Mr.
Brunlees, the well-known engineer. Mr. Mercer
Will take charge of the exploration of the forest and
domains, and superintend the shipping of the maho-
gany to England. Mr. Emerson will take the ma-
nagement of the silver and other mines with which
the country abounds, and forward the ores to the
agents in London. No time seems to have been lost
to make the resources of the country available for
the bondholders of the new loan.

Tha payment of the annual instalment of prin-
cipal due on the debenture bonds of the Russian
(Vyksoundky) Ironworks Company (Limited) is
announced for the 31st inst. The operations of
the company are stated to be progressing in a satis-
factory -,mauner. _ _ _

Notice has been given that the Belgian Public
Works Coupons, Limited, A Preference Shares,
No. 2, interest warrants at the rate of 8 per cent.
per annum, falling due let of January, 1868, will
be duly paid on presentation at Messrs. Smith,
Payne, and Smiths', bankers.

To-day a call of 10s. per share becomes due on
the shares of the Chontales Gold and Silver Alin-
ing Company, amounting in the aggregate to
£15,000.

The liquidators of the London and Colonial Com-
pany, Limited, have announced a second dividend
of 28. 6d. in the pound, payable at the offices of
Messrs. Theodore Jones and Co. on the 24th inst. ;
this, with the dividend paid on the 19th September
last, will make 7s. 6d. in the pound distributed
under this estate.

With regard to the foreign coal and iron trades
it is stated that there has been a delivery of
some English tenders in a competition for materiel
required by the Belgian State Railways. For
two lots, each each comprising 300 wheels for
carriages and trucks, MM. Nicaiso and Delcnive,
of La Louviere, tendered at £1,733 each lot ;
While Charles Cammell and Co. (Limited), of
Sheffield, tendered at £1,856 each lot ; several
other tenders were also delivered at intermediate
rates. John Brown and Co. (Limited), of Sheffield,
obtained a contract for 600 iron piston buffers for
ten tons goods' trucks at £515 10s. Messrs. Taylor
Brothers, of Paris, tendered unsucessfully at
£648. It appears that the price at which the
Creosote Works are about to supply 80 loco-
motives to the Orel and Witebsk Railway (Russia) is
£2,512 per locomotive delivered at Riga; the Crea-
lote Company undertakes to accept obligations
guaranteed by the Russian Government to the ag-
gregate sum represented by their contract, but at
the same time the eighty locomotives and ten-
ders to be delivered at Riga are to be paid for in
Cash. A contract for 25,000 tons of rails is ex-
pected to be given out shortly for the Poti and
'rifles Railway, another Russian line recently
Conceded. The low terms at which the house
of the Dorlodof recently took a contract for rails
for the Belgian Stato Railways has been a good
deal discussed. The Decazeville mines and iron-
works in the French department of the Aveyron
have been disposed of tothe Orleans Railway Com-
pany for £115,200.

Two O'CLOCK.
In the market for the English Funds there has
beeen rather less firmness. Consols for money re-
tnain at 924 4, while for the account they have re-
ceded 4, to 92g.
The New Threes are 924 J. ; Reduced Annui-
ties, 924 4 ; New 21 per Cents., 75; ; Exchequer
Bills, 255. to 295, prem. ; Bank Stock, 240 ; India
5 per Cents., 1114 1 12 ; ditto 4 per Cents, 1001 4 ;
ditto 54 per Cents., 1081 ; and ditto Bonds, 535.
Preen,

No great variation has occurred in the Foreign
Stocks. Spanish Passive have advanced to 26i ;
and Greek, to 12i 13 ; while Italian show a de-
Vine of I to 45i ; Mexican remain at 151 ; Tur-
-I(ish Fives at 331 I ; and Spanish New 3 per Cents.
at 361.

American Securities are firm. Eries have advanced
ito 49 50, and United States 5-20 Bonds to
724 ; while Illinois continue at 89 3.
Rank Shares are quiet. London and West-
toinster, however, have improved to 674 683 ; Bank
of Egypt are steady, at 37} ; London and County,
at 55; and London Joint Stock, at 35.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been to a fair extent, and in several instances prices
exhibit more buoyancy. Great Northern A Stock
has unprovedhAPTOTed 4 ; Brighton, 3 ; and Metropolitan
aild Midland have each advanced 2 per cent.; while
North-Westerns are steady at about previous rates;
as also Caledonian and Great Western.
Ile Foreign and Colonial lines show little
b
itrariation. San Paulo are dealt in at 173, Dutch
I,llenish at 201, Great Western of Canada at
I, East Indian at 1111 4, and Scinde at 104.
Miscellaneous and Finance Shares remain very
11/active, and without any material change as re-
gards prices. Credit Foncier of England are
-Larked 3 3 1-16, Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents.
are dealt in at 883 913, Peninsula and Oriental
Steam at 553 563, and Viceroy of Egypt's Mort-
gage Loan at 73.
.Bank shares have been very inactive, and in most
1n stances at reduced prices.

BfiNLIsIG MARKET.

MONDAY, Two
There has been more activity displayed in the
market to-day, and prices in several instances have
advanced. Annexed are some of the latest quota-

krold i•at earn Brea, --; Chiverton Moor, 5151; Chontales
12 s •°I; Clifford Amalgamated, 5/ 6; East Basset, 10
East Caradon, ; East Lovell, ——; East Russell,
. F .
rontmo and Bolivia Gold, 16s Od 18s; Great
17 18i ; Grdat Retallick, —— ; Great Wheal Vor,
2alit° ValleYl worth Crofty, 2i 2i; North