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

gONEY MARKET

AND
COHMERCIU 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
Jr. Beaumont was said to have gone, and serve
notice of the adjudication upon the bankrupt. This
nas 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,
11. X., has lefc for New York for the purpose of
Ulaking 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
chieflyr. from Australia and America, including
416,700 overland by the Massilia, from Alex-
andria; £54,000 from New York, by the Scotia;
£4lOOO by the Africa, £27,000 by the Aleppo, £3,000
°Y 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-
ceived 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
fonds at 41i- 42.
The traffic receipts on the East Indian Railway
for the week ending the 21st October amounted,
°n 1,1291 miles, to £35,868 13s. 3d., against £35,836
4s. ld. on the corresponding period of last year,
allowing an increase of £32 9s. 2d.

Two o'CLocK.
According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
day, the French Rentes were 69f. 220.
There has been a decline of per cent. in Consols
to-day, owing to a few speculative sales. The
Prices are 89i for money, and 89/ 90 for the ac-
count. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities
are 89i ; Exchequer, Gs, to 10s. prem. ; India 5
Per Cents., 1071 1 ; and ditto 4 per Cent. Bonds,
255. prem.
Foreign Stocks show little variation of import-
ance.,, Turkish 5 per Cents. are steady at 32,1 to 33.
Mexican Stock at 181 1. Greek Bonds have de-
clined k, to 134 14 ; while the Spanish Pas-
sive have improved to 201 1 ; the Certificates 1
to 131 141 ; and the Russian Loan Scrip I to 1 11
prem.
In American securities there has been no further
variation. Erie shares, however, have declined 1 to
47i 48, while Illinois shares improved 1 to 781 791.

A fair amount of business has been done in the
railway Share Market, and with one or two ex-
ceptions prices show increased firmness. Midland
bave improved ; Great Northern, ditto A Stock,
London, Chatham, and Dover, and North-Western,
each i; 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
above no material change in values. Reciffe and
San Francisco are marked 10i ; San Paulo, 141 ;
Grand Trunk of Canada, 1811 ; East Indian,
106} ; and Punjaub, 994.
Miscellaneous and Finance Shares are without
any material alteration. Atlantic Telegraph 8 p2r
Cents., however, have declined to 734 ; Credit
Poncier of England are. marked 341; Electric
'telegraph, 1361 ; and Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance, 13k. The shares of the Belgian
Public Works Company are steady at 14- pm.

Bank shares remain at steady rates. Consoli-
dated are dealt in at 4 ; Imperial Ottoman at
; London Chartered of Australia at 20 and
Alliance at 18*.

MINING MARKET.

SATURDAY, Two o'Clock.

The Milling Share Market has again been very
active. Subjoined are the current quotations of
some of the principal adventures :

Chiverton Moor, 1 ; Chonzales Gold, 211 a ; Clifford
Amalgamate, 64 7 ; East Basset, 204 214 ; East Caraden,
34; East Wheal Grenville, 24 4; Retallack, 17s 6.1 22s 6d ;
Great Wheal Vor, 14 144; Marks Valley, 31 4 ; North
2}ofty, 21 3; North Treskerby, 24 ; Prince of Wales,
8 268 ; Prosper United, 21 fr; South Condurrow, lls
13s ; South Grenville, 7s 6d lOs ; West Caradon, 124 134 ;
`Vest Chiverton, 51 53 ; West Frances, 94 10 ; West
Seton, 110)115 ; Wheal Buller, 17 18 ; Wheal Chiverton,
64 7 ; Wheal Cr3bor, 108 12s 6d ; Wheal Grenville, 14 4 ;
Wheal Seton, 130 135; East Lovell, 9 94; Great Limey,
17 18.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GCTERNMENT FUNDS.
3 Per Cent. Consols
, Do. Account, Jan. 10 B9l
°„.,,Per Cent. Reduced BBl 9 1
New
3 per Cent B9 81 91
'Jew 21 per Cont. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 130 yrs, expire sth AprillBBs —
1., Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
rehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 6 10 pin
Do £5OO .17 6 10 pm
Do £lOO & £2OO „ 6 10 pm
Sauk of England Stock, 61 per Cent ...

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
laitirla OtOck, 10 per Cent., April 1874
Ditto fol. Account —
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent —
be. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51- per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO 25 pm
Do. under £1,600
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
4rgentine Republic, 6 per Cent 72
AUstrian Bonds, 5 er Cent, 1859
trazilian 5 per Cent
Do. 4,} per Cent., 1852-58-60
Lo. 1863
'-1a
Do. 1865 —
Do Account 7Ol i 1
Do. £lOO Bonds —
.1)lenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do. Account.
Do .clOO Bonds —
D 3 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
o4ilian 6 per Gent —
Do. 3 per Cent.
Do. 6 per Cent A lOOl
1)0, B 97
031 b. "'
~ oin lan, 6 per Cent.
'1,413a 6 per Cent.
'-'anish 3 per Cent., 1825 —
a
o. 5 per Cent., 1861 ..
annbian Principalities
'Jo. Account
'quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Provisional Land Warrant —
Do Dame(' t minims tttt itt sin tttttt f""