The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

A NI)

0 NI :ITE

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

There is a full demand for discount accommoda-
tion, and the rates are very firm at about 4 per cent.,
With a few transactions fractionally lower.
Gold to the amount of £4,000 was received at
the Bank of England, on Saturday.
The "Aleppo" has arrived from New York with
£26,700 in specie, and the " Africa," from Boston
and Halifax, with about £l,OOO.
The London Agency of the Imperial Ottoman
Bank has received telegraphic advice from Con-
stantinople that the official announcement by the
Turkish Government of the payment of the divi-
dend, due 13th January next, on the general debt
(Five per Cent. Stock), is on its way to London.
Messrs. J. Thomson, T. Bonar, and Co., have
notified the payment of the half-yearly dividend,
due on the Ist January', on the Peruvian 41 per
Cent. Loan, 1862 ; also on the Consolidated 5 per
Cent. Loan, 1865. The fourth half yearly redemp-
tion at par of bonds, amounting to £269,200, will
be drawn on the Ist January, making a total of
£1,038,100 redeemed.

Advices from Manchester announce the failure of
Messrs. James Schofield and Son, cotton spinners,
of Oldham. The liabilities are stated to be about
4,30,000 to £40,000.
The letters of allotment of the shares in the
Liquid Metre Company were posted on Saturday
evening.
The general business of the port of London last
Week continued dull. At the Custom House 221
vessels were reported as having arrived from foreign
Ports, but there were no arrivals from Ireland. The
entries outwards comprised 90 vessels, and those
Cleared were 122, of which 23 were despatched in
ballast The departures for the Australian colonies
have been 4 vessels, viz., 1 to Sydney, Ito Port
and 2 to New Zealand, with an aggregate
tonnage of 2,277.
From the manufacturing districts the accounts
for the past week have been of a varied character.
At Manchester a firmer tone has prevailed, and a
fair amount of business has been done in both cloths
and yarns, at fully late rates. In the woollen trade
of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield there has not
been much animation, the operations entered into
having been merely to supply immediate home re-
quirements, and prices have not varied to any great
extent. The hosiery and lace trades of Leicester
and Nottingham hare been seasonably active, and
late rates have been fully maintained for useful
goods. In the hardware districts of Birmingham,
Sheffield, and Wolverhampton there has been very
little improvement, and continued activity has pre-
vailed in most departments, the orders received being
c4lely confined to immediate home demands.

Two o'CLocK.

According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
day, the French Rentes were 68f. 95c. ex coupon.
Last week there was an advance of no less than
per cent. in the marketable value of Consols—i
being added on Saturday to the improvement—but
this morning there have been a few sales to realise
profits, and a fractional relapse has ensued. The
latest quotations are 88i 89 for money, and 89 for
the account.

In the Corn Market, to-day, there was a very good
attendance, and a fair amount of business has been
done in home-grown wheat, at an advance of ls.
Per quarter. Foreign wheat was also held for a
similar advance in price.
In the Foreign department of the Stock Ex-
change business is still limited, though prices have
slightly improved. Turkish 5 per Cents. have ad-
vanced 1, to 321 33f ; Greek, 1, to 134 14; ;
Italian, 1, to 55; 56 ; Spanish Passive, f, to 201 8 ;
and the Certificates, it, to 13; 14. Mexican Bonds
remain firm at 188 :I.
The New Russian Loan is firm at 1 f prem.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are steady at 55 to 57, and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds at 42 to 421.
Business in the Railway Share Market has con-
tinued very quiet, although in some instances prices
area shade firmer. Great 'Western and North-
Western have improved each 1 ; London, Chatham,
and Dover, and South Eastern eachf ; and Great
Eastern and Metropolitan each £1 ; while Great
Northern have declined 1.
The Foreign and Colonial lines show little change
cif importance. South Austrian and Lombardo-
Venetian are marked 158 ; Great Indian Peninsula,
1061 ; East Indian, 1051 1061 ; and Bombay and
bia.roda, 1021 1024.
Bank Shares are very dull. Alliance are dealt in
at 17, London Chartered of Australia at 211, Me-
tropolitan and Provincial at 101, and Union of
London at 431 431.
In Finance and Miscellaneous Shares there has
been no material change. National Discount Com-
pany are marked 141 141, General Credit 31
Credit Foncier of England 21 1, City Offices
Anglo-American Telegraph 154 8, and the Viceroy
of Egypt's Loan has improved to 744.
American Securities are unchanged in value.
Erie Shares are 473-, Illinois 778 78, and United
States 5-20 Bonds 71 1.

MINING MARKET.
MONDAY, TWO o'clock.

Business in the Mining Exchange has been ani-
mated, and,with a few exceptions, prices are a shade
*tiler. Annexed are the current quotations :
Chiverton Moor, 4i 5 ; Chon:alos Gold, 2/ 3 ; Clifford
4111algainate, 51 6/ ; Carnarvon Consolidated, 41 51.;
ti.st Basset, 20/ 21/ ; East Lovell, 9 9/; East Wheal
Grenville, 11 2}; Great Wheal Vor, 14/ 15/ ; Marko
!alley, 31 4 ; North Crofty, 2i 3; North Treskerby, 2/ ;
Prince of Wales, 24s 26s ; Prosper United, 2 2+; South
I'ondurrovr, lie 13s; South Grenville, 7s 9s; Tincroft, 9/
10 ; West Caradon, 12/ 13 ; West Chiverton, 54 55 ;
heal Chiverton, 6/ 7/ ; Wheal Grenville, 11- ; Wheal
oaten, 127 i 132/ ; Wheal Agar, 27s 6d 32s 6d

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
0 per Cent. Consols
DO. Account, Jan. 10 BB* 9}
'iiPer Cent. Reduced B7i 1
New 3 per Cent B7i i 8}
""ew 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
Annuities,Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873
30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprillBBs —
t Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Doquer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent —pm
Do ~. . £5OO .,, pm
la £lO . ........ IT
°llk of England Stock, 6} per Cent ... pin
Ditto for Account —

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
tachau otock, 10} per Cent., April 1874
130. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
1)0. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
. 5i per Cent.,_ May 1879...„ —
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO 2O 25 pm
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent —
4
„ ustrian Bond;Cent 3 per Cent, 1859 —
qazilian 5 per
DO. 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 1865
Do Account 69
t 0. £lOO Bonds 69
'lenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Po. A ccount
,1-'0 4:100 Bonds
0 u.-) 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Lillian 6 per Cent
.20. 3 per Cent.
.huo. 6 per Cent A lOO
t, o. B
Cub nibian, 6 per Coot
02') 6 per Cent.
13,81! 3 per Cent., 1825 —
b 0. 0 per
anubian Principalities
t uo- Account
U°•,Vdor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Pi ovisioual Land Warrant —
lc
).o Deferred
,Yptiau 7 per Cent —
I;°., Second Issue —
lio £lOO Bonds
D. 1864 —
uo £lOO Bends —
Q 0.
rl3, Covernn out Railway Debentures -
pc 5 per
ntents.. 1824-5. ex Coupon, --
D Acc
n 'Jo. Coupons
I.l:t.ternsia 5 per Cent.
DO'
5 per Cent 1865
0, Account
D 0 . AC
amareramana Railway