The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-09 00:00:00

UONEYMARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL ir TELL IGE N 08,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The discount market to-day is very firm, and the
outside quotations are merely a fraction below the
newly-arranged minimum of the Bank of England.
At the Bank of England yesterday there was an
influx of £13,000.
The Bank of England return, completed to the
7th inst., shows some very favourable changes. The
bullion has been increased by £168,010, while there
is an augmentation in the reserve of notes of
£423,485, and the other securities have been
diminished by £748,467. The subjoined table
shows the variations in the principal items :
Active Circulation
Bullion

£23,561,330

Decrease

... .249;125
... 16,891,606

Increase
Rest

... .168,010
... 3,239,312

...
Increase
Publio Deposits ...

12,901
... 4,375,714

Other De Increase
posits ...
D.-

... 454,561
... 17,150,191

Decrease 709,280
Seven Day and Other Bills •.• ••• ••• •••
642,262
Increaso •.• ••• •• 16,439
Government Securitieslncrease ... • ... ... 12,299,812
Oth ••
100,953
r- ..,,__

ter Securities 19,330,391
Decrease 748,467
Aotes Unemployed ..• 7,375,915
Increase ... 423,485
• The following telegram has been received from
the Secretary of the Varna Railway Company :
" Line accepted by Government, opened to-day to
the public. Dated 7th November, 1866."
The suspension of Messrs. James Russell and
Sons, of Wednesbury, has been announced. One
of the partners it is stated is a considerable share-
holder and director of the New Zealand Bank,
which has sustained considerable losses, and the
suspension is with a view to protect the general
body of the creditors. The liabilities are said to
amount to £40,000, and the assets to nearly
£50,000, and there is every reason to believe that
all the creditors will be paid in full.
Sergeant Moss, of the City detective police, yes-
terday evening apprehended on a warrant James
Freeling Wilkinson, late manager of the Joint-
Stock Discount Company, charged with embezzle-
ment of two sums of £4,000 and £B6O.
The Chief Clerk of the Master of the Rolls has
assented to the application for an order expunging
from the list of contributors to Barned's Banking
Company certain persons who complained of frau-
dulent representations.
The Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets dur-
ing the last few days have not shown much anima-
tion. The public sales of tea have prOceeded rather
slowly, and prices in some instances are a shade
lower. Sugar has been in moderate request, at
steady rates. Large quotations of coffee have been
brought forward, and inferior descriptions have been
sold at slightly reduced prices. In tallow the
tdealings have been moderately active, and quota-
tions have remained steady.
A list arranged in tabular form of all the London
and provincial newspapers, inclusive of Great
Britain, Ireland, and the British Isles, has just been
itsrsoupeocil i t abn by
Messrs. Vickers and Harrington, of
r'
'Am-pees-court Cornhill. Therein appear the me-
journals classified in alphabetical order,
showing dates of publication, their political views
denoted by initial letter, with year of establishment
and price. Under the heading of the several coun-
ties (also alphabetically arranged) are the names of
the various papers published in each, their political
tendencies, year of creation, day of publication, and
The population of each county according
to the latest returns is affixed.
It appears that the case on behalf of the Defence
-Association, in re 0 verend, Gurney, and Co., who
are endeavouring to remove the names of certain
shareholders from the list of contributories, has been
again postponed to-day, and it is not likely to be
brought on for hearing until the 15th inst.
The traffic receipts on the East Indian Railway
for the week ending the 16th September amounted
to
£37,419 lls. 4d. ; and in the corresponding
period of the previous year they were £28,346
ea. 7d., showing an increase of £9,073 ss. 9d.
A. meeting 'of shareholders in the London and
iMediterranean Bank was convened to-day ; only
two or three proprietors attended, and the affair
wrs a complete fiasco. The object was to appoint
..an °facial liquidator. But the matter is before the
faster of the Rolls, and no doubt accountants and
liquidators will, according to present fashion, derive
thel Principal benefit of a defunct concern.

Two O'CLOCK.
According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-day
the French Rentes were 69f.
Lord Mayor's day seems to have added to the
dulness that has recently prevailed in the Stock Ex-
change; the absence of commissions, and the limited
attendance of speculative dealers and of investors,
having afforded a considerable number of clerks, as
Well as principals, the opportunity of seeing a
genuine London crowd. Nevertheless, a good and
Steady business has been transacted in the
British Funds, because the public, after the
Severe losses sustained during the late crisis, look-
ing to Government securities instead of limited lia-
bOity schemes, especially as confidence is reposed in
the present Ministry, both as regards foreign poli-
tics and finance at home. While almost every other
security has manifested weakness, Consols have
risen per cent., namely, to 89k for transfer,
and (ex dividend) to 881 for the 6th proximo.
The New Three per Cents. and the Reduced An-
nuities each remain firm at 871 ; and a dealing has
been effected in the 30 years Annuities, due 1855,
at 12i ;
Bank Stock is steady at 246-7 ; Indian
Stock, at 211 ; the 5 per cent. Indian Loan at 1061.
Operations have also been reported in Indian 5 per
cent. Enfaced paper at 1001 41, and in the Bonds,
at 20 prem.
Only a small amount of business has been trans-
acted in foreign Government bonds, but Turkish
ez, Spanish Passives, Spanish Certificates, and
Italian are in request and at higher prices. Mexican
stock is steady, at 161 4 ; Greek Bonds at 131 141 ;
Turkish 5 per Cents. are at 31i e ; Spanish Passive
24.4 at ; the Certificates at 131 14 ; and the
Italian Loan of 1861 at 54/ 55.
AiA• firmer tone has prevailed in the Railway Share
13,101:tkaett::;nd a fair amount of business has been
°lle. Great Northern A Stock, North Western,
4134 South-Eastern have each improved ; Metro-
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln ;
caatiliT°rth British 1 ; while Great-Western, Lan-
cii;dre and Yorkshire, and Midland have each de-
The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit little
a2rziatinn. Bahia and San Francisco are marked
13 ; San Paulo, 13/ ; South Austrian and
enbardo-Venetian, 16 ; East Indian, 1031 ;
eat Indian Peninsula, 1061 ; and Madras 5 Per
Cents., 1001 i.
American Securities are generally a shade firmer.
Erie
States 5-20 Bonds have advanced to 68,1 69 ;
Shares
Shares have risen 4, to 51i 52f ; and Illinois
aAreis .1, to 77 I.
are-,tiant: _
in and Great West4rn Railway Debentures
Bo
astna 3
urt 64i 65i, and the Consolidated Mortgage
at 91
cline d to 22f , •
.40 ex coupon.
Bank Sharesde
remain rather dull. Imperial have
periOttoman
Alliance are dealt in at 19 ; Im-
al at 91 ; London Joint-Stock have
glireved to 42 ; and Union of London to 44k.
re:lis;ellaneous and Finance Shares are in moderate
2,l`te t• Credit Foncier of England have improved
810 ; While London Financial have declined to
LIN-ational Discount Co., to 14 i; Peninsular
,b 7 Oriental Steam, to 61f. Anglo-American
egraph are marked 14/ I, and Atlantic Tele-
gram,
4-- 8 Per ents., Bed 84