The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-23 00:00:00

ifTIF 11M

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

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TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Recent events in connection with the bank failure
at Liverpool have induced a large amount of re-
lerve on the part of capitalists, and the rates in the
°Pea money market remain very firm, although the
money afloat is abundant. The demand, however,
continues moderate, and the lowest quotations of
b
_ r„4.ers are 587 and 6 per cent. for the negotiation
of the best short-dated paper.
There were no gold operations of importance at
the Bank of England on Saturday.
Th
~„„ e repot of the Royal Mail Steam Company
re
a dividend of £4 lOs. per share, and a
bonus‘-'
of £2 10s. from the insurance fund, free of
ilewne tax, payable on and after the 28th snst.
The directors of the Australian Mortgage Land
and Finance Company have have issued their report
previous to the meeting of the 24th instant. They
estimate that their operation have fally realised the
anticipations expressed at the meeting in January,
a 114,recounended a dividend at the rate of 121 per
0,
pa'. per annum, that £9,500 be placed to the reserve
arr aX479 to preliminary expenses, and £ll2 to be
carried forward.
The accounts from the most of the manufacturing
districts for the past week state that dullness has
),t,re_v,ailed in most departments. Cloths and yarns
alanchester have further given way, while at
Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield there has been
0
a limited business entered into. In the hard-
ware districts of Birmingham, Sheffield, and Kol-
b ranch
erhampton less activity has been apparent in most
es of business.

Ace° Two O'CLOCK.
the ,I:
rg to Reuter's telegram, this morning,
T 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 75c. Firm.
he English Stock Market has been animated,
and
quotations generally show a recovery. The
.d.epression
noticed on Saturday has entirely disap-
peared and buoyancy again privails. The Funds
;"?.e been dealt in for investment, and Consols,
are were at one time to-dayl per cent. higher,
,„:,3 now at an improvement of per cent. ; the
quotations for money are 8711, and 87i- I for the
account.
barll.h?Tevr Threes and Reduced Annuities are
foaii ; Exchequer Bills for March, Bs. dis.,
p
0 48. dis. ; Bank Stock, 243,244 ; India
102 e Per Cents., 106 ; do. Enfaced Five per Cents,
; and do. Bonds, 18s. prem.
Foreign Stocks have also participated in the
general
improvement. Turkish 5 per Cents.,
are 341 ; -Mexican, 20,1'21 ; ditto New, 151 ;
l
reek, 124 131; Spanish Passive, 251 ; the Cer-
Ificates, 15i ; Italian, 54 ; Chilian Loan,
dis ; Brazilian Scrip, 21 2 dis. ; Egyptian
4-tailwa„, 3 2 dis. ; and the New Egyptian Loan,
12 , prem..; United States Government 5-20
Bends, 70 1; Erie Shares, 52 1 ; and Illinois,
79.80.

131181.11ess in the Railway Share Market has been
a
t-
her inactive, but prices generally have exhibited
amore(3 firmness. Metropolitan have improved 1 ;
i.r.eat Northern, ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
4uldland, and South Eastern each I, and Great
Western, k.
The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit little
change of importance. East Indian are marked
1031 ; and Grand Trunk of Canada, 2122 k.
Bank and Miscellaneous shares in some instances

are a shade firmer, Alliance being dealt in at 231 ;
Imperial Ottoman at 114 12 ; Bank of London at
241; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England at
64 7 ; Imperial Mercantile Credit at 2/1 ; London
Financial at 151 161 ; and Overend, Gurney, and
Co., at 14 141 ; London, Chatham, and Dover
Itailway Scrip is quoted dis. to par ; and the
Pasha of Egypt's Loan Loan Scrip, 11 to 11 prem.