The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-01 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL ARTICLE.

Th. return from the Bank of England for the week
ending the 25th of April gives the following runlet
when compared with the previous week

Public deposits ... 4,417.147...Taere55e . 371,688
Other deposits 13,294,611...Deere55e.. 677,149
Oa the other side of the accoant :
Govern merit emeriti« 910 649.261 . burgess .. £50.000
Other eseuritim... .. 18 507.854.. Demean .. 468,863
Notes unemployed ... 5,8411,306 . Decree.* . 106,186

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The amount of notes in siroolation is £22,161,115,
being dooms* of £142,620, and the stook of bullion
in both departnisnits is £13,655,776, showing a de-
cree.. of 03.336 when compared with the pi.-
eding return.

The fonds have again been heavy, and at one limo
the appearance of the market was •strenssie wed'
,eing to the continuous fall in Italian securitie,.
opened at Friday's prior, 86j to 87, receded
to AGI, and cloned at SR to for delivery, and Mg to
87 for the account.

In the share-market a merely nominal amount of
business wto transacted, and Foreign Railways, and
British Mines again dosed with • weaker tendency, but
the other deenriptioes showed no material Mange of
tom, the Mateo.. of lower quotations being generally
occasioned by their being ez.dividend. In English
railways no movement to recorded in the closing pricm
In colonial Bombay and Central India and Font Indh.lll
advanced each ; Buffalo and Luke Huron (preferenoe)
sod Grand Tiank of Canada (4th preference) declined
each, and ditto (lit, Stad, Sed, and 4th preference) and
Melbourne and Honeesa's Bay (shares) are now quoted
ez-dir., Le In foreign tlreat Lczembourg improved I:
Northern of France and Western sad North-Wectern
of Ersnoe receded 4 meth. Southern of Frame I. and
Lomeudoltreetian • farther ; and Pereembeee are
~oc quoted ex-div. In American United &atm (5-20)
declined and Erie shame (paid up) ; and atlantic
and Crest Western (debentures) are steady at 754
to 76). smell, 764, to 774. ID British mine.
Devon Great Consols declined 10, North Rostov, 2. sad
East Cuadra and Greet Wheal Vor a further 4 each.
In fore4n mines Chontales recovered 4. Of the maks
Clurtcred Mereantile of India advanced 1, Union of
Lpsdon I, Australian Chartered and Chartered of
nostralis 4 each, end Agra • further 1; Hindustan
• iic•) receded 1, English Joint Stock sad Tondo's and
roilltso each, and Comolidated and °Menial, (new)
4 mei', and British C,olumhie, Colgoggi., Lind
Mortgage of India, and Oriental Corporation are sow
coot. d es•dir. In miscellaneous Viceroy of Egypt to..
proved Quelmcd• Land relapsed ; Impede
Mercantile Credit further declined ; and Credi
Fonder, Fairhairrt, Engineering, Miliwell Freehold,
Ottoman Company, and Royal Mail Steam are now
looted ex-iliv.

Toe trsdic receipts of railways in lb. United King-
dom amminted forth. week ending the 21s1 of April,
on 12.343 miles, to 06416,636, and for the eorrespooding
week of last year, on 12,075 miles, to £668,244, showing
an increase of 268 miles, and of 6'28,391. The gross
receipts on the following 14 railways amountod, In the
suregate, on 8,873 miles, to £570,793, and tor this
corresponding week of 1863, on 3,616 miles, to £448,464,
showrog an Mermen of 227 miles, and an lemma* of
£11,321. The increase on ths Goledonlan amounted
1., L-2,210; on the Great Eastern to cum on the
(treat Northern to £2,604 ; on the Great Soothers
and Western to £668; on lb. LsnmAire and York-
shire to £4,630 ; on the Loudon and North•Weetern to
O. III; on the Manchester, bheMeld, and Lincolnshire
t.i £2,817; on the Mialand to £4,980 ; on the North

itritish to £1,144 ; and on the North-lisatern to
14.527—t0ta1, £29,141. Bet from this must be
deducted £715 the demeans on the Great Western
£4,921; on the London and Brighton, £1,231 ; on
the London and Bonth-Western £923; on the South.
Ltstern together £7,812, leaving the increase as above,
1:21.329. The goods and mineral trans, on dime lines
amounted to £127927, and for the corresponding week
of I ritis to 090,787, showing an increased 1:37,1411 The
receiett for pasesegers, parcels, ho., amounted to
5.42 .oki, against £258,677, showing an increase of
137,1 pi Th traffic reompts on 62 other linen ansotuited,
.1,570 eiks. to £115,842, and for the corresponding
week .4 Met year, on 3,429 Mike, to £108,790, showing
Ali toe-e.te f4l miles and of £7,062 in the receipts.
total receipts of the past week show an increase of
£11,374 as eompared with those of the preceding week
'tiding the 14th inst.

The markets for colonial produee during the week
have been quiet, and with little improvement in the
demand. Moderate 'applies have, however, prevented
vny luttber deelinv. Wmt India •Itear has been taken
freely by the refiners, at a slight 'dia.*" for ilaurit,4l
at to cloy'. Sake. but no spveulativ, inquiry mein..
Coffee continues Arm, with large export elemsnem. Riov
Is dull sad unsettled. The tea market rinistins &premed
and the week's business has been small. The spice
market is without animation. • few parcels of Beata
avltpetm have been purchased at the recant deoline.
Wrote Fedi& imam has found ready buyers.