The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-06-20 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL ARTICLE,

Alowbet.
The Bank rate hat bet redtMed to 3 pr cent.
Friday's Funds exhibited continued improvement,
tending, however, to cause inactivity in the market;
somata for delivery being quoted at 90f to 4, and at
the dose 904 to I ler delivery, and 4 for the account,
(Gth or July.) Reduced and new 3 per oente..left of!

,
aL 894 to ; Bank Stock 243 to 24d; India
per cents. 104 i to ; Rdpee paper 101 to 102, and
10S to 100. India Bonds 17a. to 21s. pm., and ex-
chequer Bonds 2s. to ss. pm. Thia,with a steady aver-
age demand for discounts, is taken to be a healthy
tone of the money market. In foreign exchanges
there was some decline. A good deal of gold found '
it way to the Bank on Friday; £9,000 direct;
£105,000 per China from New York, and MON Per
litclinburgh, with £193,000 per Atrato fiord the West
Indies, whereof c5t,000 ill gold ana the remainder
silver. The ereeks return of the Bank of France,
however, Shows a decline of £521,000 in bullion.

The corn market was steady: Liverpool cotton
active, at an advance of fid. per lb. The biddings at
the oilonial wool sales were very spirited,
The colonial produce markets during the Week
have remained without atinnetibn, but quotations
are firm, with sales upon a moderate scale to meet
correct requirements. Sugar is steady, with a little
better demand at the close. Coffee is still strongly
upheld, and the plantation Ceylon brought to auc-
tion has obtained extreme rates, while native has
advanced 6d. to la per cwt. A feir partials of
Coats Rica, of the no* ereti, be been taken at
relatively MI qiiolations. The Dutch sale on the
*lst inst. will contain a good assortment of the
better qualities. Assam teas, of the company's
growth, have realised an advance, varying from 2d.
to bd. per pound, owing to the fact that these de-
scriptions are getting more than ever into favour
with the trade, and that Chili* teas d the liner
grades rare becoMing sitartle. the private contract
Market is Unaltered. Good to fine Baisow congon
has been in demand, sales, however, being restricted
by the limited stocks. A better supply of country
green teas has led to transactions of fair extent.
Rum is in moderate request. East India saltpetre '1
has been almost neglected. Rise Is still qttibt, and
to-day a floating tirgo of soft grain was disposed of
at a decline, The stook of Bengal now amounts to
only 1,1/00 tons, against an average of 16,660 tom
at the same date in the three preceding years. Cobria
has been firm.

New Prospectuses abound, WS react of the Grange
Town Iron Oninpany, capital £lOO,OOO, in £lO
shares. The object of which is to purchase Mr. H.
R. York's Grange Town Iron Works, at Cardiff; of
"Samuel Bastow and Co., Limited," capital
£150,000, in £2O shares, to purchase Mr. 13astow's
Cliff Iron Work, at West Hartlepool, slid Carlton
Iron Works, near StocktowAin-Tees. Then that it
Gowhatty Tea Company, capital 52100,606 in
AO shares, to purchase Arise hal properties—two in
Assam andobe In Northern Bengal, near Darjeeling:
the Albatt-bridge Company, capital £90,000, in
tlO shares, with power to borrow £30,000 for a pro-
pad bridge from Cheyap Walk, Chelsea, to Prince
Albert Road, Battersea Park—the Company beSides
Smiting Battersea Bride. for £OOO pt
Moreover, there is the Albert 'Veterinary College,
OaPital £6,800, B-2.5" AM.' ea, to establish a first-class
West End Veterinary College, and transfer to it
the new Veterinary College of Edinburgh under
Professor Garage°. Finally, we have the Breech.
loading Armoury Company, capital £150,0001 in
£55 shares, to purchase the Birmingham Works of
Meseta Calesher and Tetrk,
Great as the share mania may be in England it is
nothing to that which has just subsided in Bombay
in Benksand 'Cotton speoulationl. htt Agra Bank}
which was in November at lie preliiihrii, Is now
(20th May) at 0 pth. ; the Alliance Bank of
Bombay, 86 pm. in November is now at 26
discount; Asiatic Banking Corporation 180 pm.,
10 discount; Bank of Bombay 256 premium, 15
pax; Bank of India 56 pm., 25 dis. ; Bombay
City Bank 35 pin. ö ats Central
Bank of Western India 75 pm., 20 dis. ; Com-
merdial tank 140 pm., now at par.; East India
Bank, 32 pm., 60 dis. ; India Peninsular Bank, 36
pm., 20 dia. ; Mercantile Bank, 206 pm., now 90
pm. ; Oriental Bank, 175 pm., now 120 pm., and
Bank,l7 pm., now at 20 &mount% &MI
have test irebiething by these ruinous
tragic

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fluctuations.
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receipte of railways in the *United
Ited kir the week ending the 10th of
miles, to £733,742, and for the
week of last year, on 11,605 miles, to
an increase of 356 mile. and of
,eoss receipt, on the following 14
cod, in the aggregate, on 8,422 miles,
, and for the oorrespouding week of
8,167 miles, to £527,406, showing an
of 255 miles and an increase of £72,580.
mass on the Caledonian amounted to £955;
Great, Es4tern to £4,642; on the Great
sad rnehrn to £661; on the faro&

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amounted, ii