The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-20 00:00:00

to assure you that, should you obtain any clue, the com-
mittee will readily afford every assistance in bringing to
punishment the originator of tho scandalous falsehood.—l
am, Sir, your obedient servant,

(Signed) MATTHEW FLOWER,
Chairman of the Committee for General Purposes
of the Stock Exchange.
E. W. Watkin, Esq., M.P.
P.S.—A copy of this letter will be sent to the news-
papers.
At a meeting held to-day of the London and
River Plate Bank, Limited, the following report of
the directors was adopted :
" Notwithstanding the severe monetary crisis of the pre-
sent year, the directors, in presenting their Fourth Annual
Report, are happy to be able to congratulate the share-
holders on the continued success of the bank. The an-
nexed statement of accounts, made up at the head office
and branches to the 30th September, 1566, shows that after
payment of expenses and making ample provision for all
contingencies, the directors are enabled to add £30,000 to
the reserve fund (raising that fund to £130,000), and to
recommend a dividend for the half-year of 5 per cent. and
bonus of 2i :per cent., making, with the interim dividend
and bonus paid in June last, 15 per cent. for the year.
There will then remain an undivided balance of £lO,lll
2s. 8,1., to be carried forward to Profit and Loss New
Account.

Two O'CLOCK.
According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
day, the French Rentes were 69f. 30c.

A further advance of per cent. has taken place
in the value of the English Funds, Consols being
89i 4 for money and 894 for the account. The
upward movement has been very much stimulated
by the reduction of the other markets, there has also
been a certain degree of buoyancy. The New
Threes and Reduced Annuities are 88/ 4 ; An-
nuities, 1885, 13 ; Exchequer Bills, Gs to lOs prem. ;
Bank of England Stock, 2491 250 ; India 5 per
Cents., 1074 ; ditto Enfaced 4 per Cents., 841 ;
ditto 5 per Cents., 1001 ; and ditto Bonds, 20s.
prem.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are steady at 54 SG, and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds at 411 42.

Bank Shares are in moderate request, and with-
out any material change in prices, Consolidated
being at 41 ; London and County at 63f 61 ;
London Joint Stock 42i ; and Union of London at
43k 44.

In Miscellaneous and Finance Shares there has
been a moderate amount of business transacted.
Anglo-American Telegraph have declined to 16k ;
City of Moscow Gas to 14i- ; while Ebbw Vale
have improved to 12i ; and the General Credit
to 4i

Foreign Stocks generally have sympathised with
the buoyancy iu the Consol market. Turkish 5 per
Cents. have advanced f to 32; 33k, Mexican Stock ;
to 18f ; Spanish Certificates, fto 13f I ; and the
New Russian Loan Scrip 1 to 1 11 prem.
A firmer tone is apparent in the Railway Share
Market, consequent upon the reduction in the Bank
rate of discount. Midland have improved ; South
Eastern, Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire,
and Manchester, Sheffield, and London, each f ;
Great Eastern , and Brighton and South Western
each 1; while Great Northern have declined k.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without
change of importance. South Austrian and Lom-
bardo-Venetian are marked 151 ; Antwerp and
Rotterdam 81 ; East Indian 106 106; ; and Great
Indian Peninsula 105 k.

MINING MARKET.
THURSDAY, Two o'Clock.

Business in the Mining Share Market has been
moderately active, but there is little change of im-
portance to report in prices. Subjoined are the
current quotations of some of the principal adven-

ures

Chiverton Moor, 4+ ; Chon:ales Gold, 2+ 3 ; Clifford
Amalgamate, 5+ 61 ; East Basset, 20 21 ; East Camden,
4+ s+; East Wheal Grenville, 2 2+; Great Retallack, 10s, 12s
6d; Great Wheal Vor, 14 15; Marks Valley, 3+ 4 ; North
Crofty, 2+ 3 ; North Treskerby, 2f t ; Prince of Wales,
24s 26s ; Prosper United, 211; South Condurrow, lls
13s ; South Grenville, 8s Od 108 Od ; West Caradon, 12 13 ;
West Chiverton, 51 53 ; West Frances; —; West
Seton, 110 115 ; Wheelßuller, 17 18 ; Wheal Chiverton,
61 7 ; Wheal Grenville, 21s 26s ; Wheal Seton, 127+ 132+;
East Lovell, 11 12; Province Mines, 20 22.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GCVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Do. Account, Jan. 10 B9l 1 i
3 per Cent. Reduced BBl 1 1
New 3 per Cent BBl 1 1 i
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 .—
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
tnnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l3
Do (Rod Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
d;xeLtequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 6 10 pm
Do £5OO lf 6 10 pm
Do., £lOO & £2OO „ 6 10 pm
Bank of England Stock, 61 per Cent ... 250 48} 50
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Ludlam otock, 101 per Cant., AprillB74.„
Ditto for Account —
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —

Do. Enfaced Paper 4 por Cent Bll
Do. 5 por Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. Deb., 5 per Cont., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO — pm
Do. under £1,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
%rgentine Republic, 6 per Cent
iustrian Bonds, 5 por Cent, 1859
3razilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 4] per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 1865 —
Do Account 7O
Do. £lOO Bonds 7Ol
'Juba, 6 per Cent.
)anislt 3 per Cent., 1825 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 861 .•
)anubian Principalities
00. Account
tlquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Provisional Land Warrant —
Do Deferred
:cgyptian 7 per Cent —
Do., Second Issue B3]
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do. 1864 B3l 4
Do £lOO Bonds B4
Do. Government Railway Debentures B5l 1
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
)o Account
Jo. Coupons
Guatemala 5 per Cent.
Itliian 5 per Cent 1865
Do, Account
Do. Maremmana Railway 5B
U.exicar. 3 per Cent
Do. Account
Do. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
llontevidean 6 per Cent. .. —
11.00rish Imperial 5 per Cent
‘lew Granada l3l
Do 3 per Can —
Do. Deferrad
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
'eruvian 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account 7oi

Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 4, per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
Do. Account
Russian 5 per Cont., 1822, X St —
Do 4i per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent. 1859
Do 5 per Cent. 1862 B5l 1
Do 5 per Cent. 1864 —
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid —
Do. do. £lO paid lO-1 1 11
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Do. Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Account
Do Passive
Do Account 2Ol 1
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Do Account l3l i
Swedish 4 per Cent.
Do. 41 per Cent. 1864
__. ~.

Do. Scrip, £6O paid
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 79
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do. Account
Do £lOO Bonds
--
Do 6 per Cont. 1862
Do Account 59 8f 91
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1863 —
Do 5 per Cont., 1865
Do. Account T2I 3
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed —
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —

Do Account —
Do 6 per Cent., 186',
Do Account
Do.. 6 per Cent, 1864 27}
Ditto 1} per Cont.
'' • -

Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins —
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2-A- per Cont. Ex. 12 Guil
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
French Renter, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
'titian 3 per Cont. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. 5 per Cent. Account 55; 6}
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money B9;
Do. Account, Jan. m 891 I

eKEFERENCE St
south Eastern (Reading Atlas., £l.O,
Ditto, Fixed 4, per cent., OJ

IAtt.ES.
.6), -

PREFERENCE 82A RES AND STOCKS.
London, Chatham, &c., 6 per cent. 2d pf., 27k

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Chester and Holyhead,
Ditto, 5 per cent.. 110}
London and Blackwall, 79

FOREIGN RAIL WAYS.
Antwerp and Rotterdam. Si
Imperial Mexican, lim., 5/ i
South Austrian aed Lombardo Venetian 2151
West Flanders, 71
Western and North-Western of France, 221

FOREIGN MINES.
Cape Copper, Ilm., 7/
Capuli Silver, 21
$l. .John del Key, lira., 47i t
Yudananiutana of South Australia, Ilm.. :1

DOCKS.
I ondon and St. Katharine, 675
Surrey Commercial, 107

HANgS.

Alliance, lim.. 181 1 17
Anglo-Italian, lira., 11 k
Australasia, 64
Consolidated Bank, lira., 41 1
Imperial Bank, Urn.. 231 4
Imperial Ottoman, lira., 91
Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 21 1
Do. 5 per cent. Debentures. 1861, for 30 years, 841
London Chartered Balla of Australia, 201
London and County, 64'3 k 4
London Joint Stock, 421 3
London and VI estminster, 951
New South Wales, 411 1
Oriental Ban it Corporation. 42E1
Provincial Banking Corporation,
Union of London, 43 4

MISCELLANEOUS;
Anglo-American Telegraph, 161 1:1 1
Atlantic Telegraph,
Dit o, 8 per cant., 771 C4'
City of Moscow Gas, lira., 15i 14i 151
City Offices, Um., 1/ 2
Cotomereial Union, Insurance. 41
Credit Voncler of Englana, lira . 3 21_3
Credit Fonder of Mauritius, lima 51
Ebbw Vale, ,2.}
E..glish and Australian Copper
Gen. Credit and Finance oi.L9ndxt, lim., 41 1
Hudson's Bay, 111 1
International Financial Society, lim.,' 2/ 3
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 61 1
Madras Irrigation and Canal (4 per cent. guaranteed by In::
dian Government),
Ditto all), 19
National Discount Company,
Ditto, new, issued at 5 prem.,of which 21 is to pay, 9
National Provincial Marine, lira , 1 /
New Consolidated Discount, lim , I f
New Zealand Loan and Mer. Agency, Um., 21
Peninsula and Oriental steam, 62
Quebrada Land, &AI, and Mning, lim., 1
Royal ALAI Steam. 5
Telegraph Conatructten and Maintenance, lira.,
Ditto (£l;), 13
Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, lira., 51:4
Universal Marine, insuranee. lim., 1 2/
Ylcevy of 'gypt, Ltortgage, Loan„74j