The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-07 00:00:00

Rest Increase

Public, Deposits Increase
Increase
Other DTogits

Aiecrease ... so. ••• ••• 511928
Seven Day and Other Bills ...
... 505,,236
Decrease 11,223
Government Securities ... 12,956,269
Other Selcunrierteiaesse 119,906
•.• ..• ••• •••
19 395 744
Increase 209,736
Notes Unemployed ... ... 9,513,183
Decrease ••• •.• •.• ••• 142,340
A prospectus has been issued of the Mediter-
ranean Commercial Company with a capital of
£300,000, in 30,000 shares of £lO each, of which
one-half only is now required. The payments will
be £1 per share on application, £1 on allotment,
£2 on the Ist March, 1867, and £2 on the
let June, 1867, leaving the balance to be
Provided for as the business of the company
Progresses. This company is established on account
of the desire of a large number of the shareholders
of the late Oriental Commercial Bank, and the
business of this enterprise will be confined exclu-
sively to mercantile agency and commission. There
will be no preliminary expenses, and no payment is
t.O be made for goodwill.
Boore has requested us to state that he is no
longer the manager of the London office of the Con-
solidated Bank.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are steady, at 56 to 58, and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds at 41i to 42.
At a meeting held to-day of the London
Char-
tered Bank of Australia, the accounts presented to
the 30th June, 1866, showed that the balance, in-
elading the amount brought forward from the last
account, amounted to £56,223, and a dividend is
~
'eeiThamended at the rate of 4 per cent. on the
r°id-op capital, free of income tax, leaving a balance
be carried to the next half-year, of £13,223, after
Providing £3,000 for the colonial building fund.
The Mexican dollars by the West India packet,
11 Well as several parcels frol the United States,
have been sold at 591 d., showing a decline of an
eighth from the previous rate. The latest prices
are as follows :—Bar gold, 775. 9d. per oz. ; do.
Partin
,g, 775. 11d. ; doubloons, Spanish 755. ; do.
exican and South American, 745. to 745. 3d. ;
iUnited States eagles, 765. 21d. ; bar silver, ss. id. ;
°°• containing gold (five grains and upwards)
68. lid. ; dollars, Mexican, 4s. 110.
Louring the last few days there has not been much
animation in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
markets. Sugar, however, has maintained previous
rat". For superior qualities of coffee there has
been
an active inquiry, and late prices are well
flatained. Rice has been in moderate request, but
in tallow the dealings have been on a limited scale,
at barely previous rates.
At the Bank yesterday there was an influx of
24,000 in bar gold.
b The Sir John Lawrence has arrived from Mel-
11171e with gold to the amount of £38,000, and
the New York from New York with £43,400.
R. P. Harding, official liquidator to the
°Lot-Stock Discount Company, in a circular ad-
dressed to the shareholders, states :—A first dividend
Of
68. Bd. in the pound will be forthwith paid, out
Of
s. the cash and proceeds of Exchequer-bills, to the
creditors of the company whose debts have been
13r•ved and allowed, and if the call be properly re-
filQuded to I expect to be in a position to pay a
tirther considerable dividend early next year.
The following telegram has been received from
0 °LiabaY, dated 28th November, 1866 :—Exchange
(light London for a first-class bank bill, six months'
, 2s. 9-16 d. per rupee ; the Calcutta rate for
(l
2s. 7-16 d. per rupee. Exchange on Calcutta
at sight, 101 to 1011. Government 4 per Cent.
,aPer, 89 rs. ; do. 5 do., 1051 rs ; do. 5i do., 110
Bank of Bombay rate of discount, 8. Bar
1147 99} touch, 16 rs. per tola ; bar silver, 17 to
b` Betterness, 1071 rs. per 100 tolas. 20,000
,als es cotton sailed from Bombay during the fort-
Vglit• Shirtings dropped heavily. Comparing
ablve rates with those current on the 13th
.r4ovenaber (the previous mail day), we find the
kwing changes : Bombay exchange on London,
of of 3-16 per cent. ; Calcutta do. do., a rise
°' 3-16 per cent. ; Bombay do. Calcutta, a rise of
Per cent. ; do. Government 4 per Cont. Paper,
O Change ; do. do. 5 do., a decline of I per cent. ;
d 0
do• 5i do., a decline of per cent. ;do Bank
ate of discount, no change ; do. price of bar gold.
1O Change ; do. do. silver, no change.

MINING MARKET.
FRIDAY, Two o'Clock.
S (34 the Stock 'Exchange the dealings in Mining
4ares have been on the most limited scale. Great
leY) however, are firm at 17i 18 ; Yadanama-
;.4l,l are marked 18. Subjoined are some of the
`l'rent quotations
heal Agar, 30s 355.; Clifford Amalgamate, 4151; Cooks
t °ion, 6 7 ; East Basset, 19 21; East Caradon, 41 51;
Tasoit Lovell, 9 9i; Great Wheal Vor, 14/ 151 ; Great South
-, e
113' I • North Treskerby, 21 1; North Crofty, 31 ;
45w Tani.,-, 411. • 7 Prosper United, 11 21; South Basset,
...
0 ; South Grenville, 11; West Frances, si ; Lovell
4801 s I; 3
ioroWheal Buller, 19 20; West Caradon, 121 13} ;
4 hiverton, 61 71.
• ':13.0 following reports have been received this morn-

" New Tamar Silver Lead Mines, Dec. 6, 1866.
ti:.he lode in the present end driving south has improved
lio„ll the past week both in character and value; it is
e" Worth full 9 cut of rich silver lead ore per fm., with
aPpearance of its further improving as we progress
ttn `e course. IV have to-day put two men to rise and
in the back of this level, and I am happy to say that
be r the produce of this point and the end we shall soon
rlite-11
ore a Position to return a very nice little parcel of first-
" JAMES PHILLIPS."
" Camborne Vean Mine, Dec. 5, 1866.
11"jhe 170 fm. level east of Grylls shaft continues worth
pro:ttB cf copper ore per fin. The 150 fin. level has im-
pel, fm since tho meeting, but is now come back to 1 ton
the The 135 fin. level is still worth 5 tons per fm. ;
114whize below this level is worth 2 tons per fm. We
"re holed the winze from the 120 to this level.
" NICHOLAS CLYMO."

Two o'CLocK.
qztAccording to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
the French Rentes were 69f. 57c. Offered.
ih et the slightest change has taken place in the
°l.
'et for the English Funds, Consols being 881 ;}
trll2°ne3r, and 881 for the 10th January. The
Dre`:3es_a?tions have been very restricted, and the
th, 11 disposition of the public seems adverse to
or f°,l3ening of new engagements either for the rise
4,4:4* The New Threes and Reduced Annuities
dittoand 871 respectively; Indian Stock 216,
1.:4-f° 3 Per Cents. 1031 and ditto 5 per Cent.
I aced Paper 101.
t4keti.,the Foreign Stock Market a slight decline has
Ate .4 place in most descriptions of securities.
551ati has receded Ito 18!,1, 19, Italian to 541
P4a. Turkish 5 per Cents. to 31i 32, Spanish
Qt.e'lve to 20k a, and the Certificates to 13i 4.
tonds remain firm, at 13,-I 14.