The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-22 00:00:00

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COMMERCILL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There has been the usual Saturday diminution in
the demand for discounts, and the rates are without
the slightest alteration.
At the Bullion-office of the Bank of England,
yesterday, there was an influx of £261,000 in bars,
and 35,000 sovereigns from Australia.
The Scotia has arrived from New York with
specie amounting to about £54,000.
It may be of importance to those connected with
the late Birmingham Banking Company to know
that Mr. Foster, solicitor, acting for a trade credi-
tor of Mr. W. H. Beaumont, the late manager of
the Birmingham Banking Company, to whom Mr.
Beaumont owes some £4,000, filed a petition in the
Bankruptcy Court, and obtained an adjudication
of bankruptcy. The' act of bankruptcy upon
which the adjudication was obtained was the
alleged " absconding " of Mr. Beaumont, who
left the country immediately after the stoppage of
the bank. Mr. Foster placed the adjudication in
the hands of Mr. E. W. Genever, accountant, with
instructions to proceed to Brussels, to which city
Mr. Beaumont was said to have gone, and serve
notice of the adjudication upon the bankrupt. This
has been done, and the case will come on for hear-
ing in due course.

The dividend of 4s. in the pound of Overend
Gurney, and Co. (Limited) will be paid on the 27th
28th, and 29th inst.

With reference to the Nicaragua Railway Com-
pany, Limited, we are requested to state that some
of the engineering staff proceeded to Central
America by the mail steamer of the 17th inst. from
Southampton, while others will be sent out on the
17th January, and that Captain Bedford Pim,
8.1\T., has left for New York for the purpose of
making arrangements there, which it is believed
Will prove highly advantageous to the undertaking.
The specie movements during the past week have
again been of an extensive character. The imports,
Which have amounted to about £753,560, have been
chiefly from Australia and America, including
£516,700 overland by the Massilia, from Alex-
andria; £54,000 from New York, by the Scotia;
£4,000 by the Africa, £27,000 by the Aleppo, £3,000
by the City of Baltimore, and £53,000 by the Ger-
Mania. The Fire Queen, from New Orleans, has
also brought £20,000 ; the Woolloomooloo, from
Sydney, £25,000. £3,656 in gold has been re-
etived from Portugal, and £67,204 in silver from
the Continent. The exports have comprised £2,450
to the East Indies and China, by the Nyanza ;
and there have been remittances to the Continent;
through private sources, estimated at £209,392 ;
the total amounting to £211,842.
The annual drawing of 4 per cent. of the gross
amount of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway
(Pennsylvania Section) First Mortgage Bonds is
announced to take place on the 18th proximo.
The Coupons on the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway (New York Division) First Mortgage
Bonds, and on the Pennsylvania and Ohio Division
Second Mortgage Bonds, are announced as payable
on the Ist January at the rate of 4s. to the dollar.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are firm at 54 56, and the Consolidated Mortgage
Bonds at 41i 42.
The traffic receipts on the East Indian Railway
for the week ending the 21st October amounted,
on 1,1291 miles, to £35,868 13s. 3d., against £35,836
43. ld. on the corresponding period of last year,
Showing an increase of £32 9s. 2d.

Two o'CLoca.
According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
day, the French Reutes were 69f. 22g.
There has been a decline of *per cent. in Consols
to-day, owing to a few speculative sales. The
Prices are 89! for money, and 89i 90 for the ac-
count. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities
are 89i ; Exchequer, 6s, to 10s. prem. ; India 5
Per Cents., 107! ; and ditto 4 per cent. Bonds,
255. prem.
Foreign Stocks show little variation of import-
ance. Turkish 5 per Cents. are steady at 32! to 33.
Mexican Stock at 18! Greek Bonds have de-
clined to 134 14 ; while the Spanish Pas-
sive have improved to 204 ; the Certificates
to 1.3 i 14i ; and the Russian Loan Scrip to 114

In American securities there has been no further
variation. Erie shares, however, have declined 1 to
47f 48, while Illinois shares improved k to 784 791.
A fair amount of business has been done in the
Itaaway Share Market, and with one or two ex-
ceptions prices show increased firmness. Midland
have improved 4 ; Great Northern, ditto A Stock,
London, Chatham, and Dover, and North-Western,
each ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, ; and Great
Western, 1 ; while Great Eastern have declined
and Brighton and South-Western, each 1.
The Foreign and Colonial lines are dull, and
show no material change in values. Reciffe and
San Francisco are marked 10f ; San Paulo, 141 ;
grand Trunk of Canada, 184 ; East Indian,
106 i 4 ; and Punjaub, 99i.
Miscellaneous and Finance Shares are without
"Y material alteration. Atlantic Telegraph 8 per
Cents., however, have declined to 734 ; Credit
/ioncier of England are marked 34i ; Electric
Telegraph, 136 - ; and Telegraph Construction and
~Alaintenance, 134. The shares of the Belgian
Public Works Company are steady at 1k pm.
Bank shares remain at steady rates. Consoli-
dated are dealt in at 4} f ; Imperial Ottoman at
9i
4 ; London Chartered of Australia at 20 ; and
Alliance at 184.