The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

grain anti Commerce.

LONDON Smart Illsacrr.—The demand for rent is
still somewhat active, at full quotations. Proof Deme-
rara has changed lauds at 24. 51 to 2s. 7.1. • Ltewards,
24. ; Mauritius. 2s. to 2.5. ; and middling to good
J.ansica, 4s. 3d. to 56 per gallon. liriunly and ,in
stunts are unite as dear as last week.
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TEA.—The public sales held since our list report 'vivo
gone off steadily, at full prices. Privately, the ileniai.d
is steady; and common sound Conguu i., quoted at
is. 3d. per lb.
SUGAII. Most raw qualities have changed hands
steadily, at very full prices. All other kind. have -iild
at ettreme rates. Refined good, have moved off some-
what briskly, on higher tenus. Crushed auirs Ir 3
quite as dear as last week.
An instalment of 5 per cent. leaving fid per ecnt.
still to be paid, has fallen due on the Indian Loan.
The monthly return of the Rank of France hhowii an
increase of £2.128,000 in the stock of coin and holvt,n
(the amount now held being £22,861.0001. huts decrease
in the circulation of £2.702,000. The Treasury depumits
amount to £13,155,000, and private deposits to
.Itl 3,524,000. The great increase in theferwer (f 4,371,000
is the result of the new loan.

The influx of the precious metal.; continues liberal.
Only a small portion has been odd to the &ik of
England; but the demand for the Continent has become
less active. Within the last three weeks over E. 31,0,000
in gold has arrived from Russia.

There has been an improved demand for money fur
commercial purposes; nevertheless. the rates of discount
rule low. The minimum Bank rate is 110 W 3 per cent.,
and in Lombard Street the best short psper bas bccn
done at 21 to 29 per cent. Moist of the private and
joint-stocks banks hold very large supplies of surplus
cash, and the rate now allowed for deposits is only 2
per cent. For sums below E5OO the London and West-
minster give only l per cent.
, The Bank of Manchester has transmitted the requisite
notice to its customers of its intention to register %mace
the Limited Liability Act. In taking this step the
directors point out that they sre gising the stronge4
assurance in their power of "the pru.lwrouA and in-
dependent state of the establishment, and of their (le-
termination of only doing business of a safe and legiti-
mate nature." The working capital of the hank is
£144.906, with £117,362 remaining to be called up, and
the Board are not afraid to let its position for the future
depend solely on the character of its management. If
this plan had been generally pursued, instead oh being
confined to those banks which were fortunate enough to
get the monopoly of a charter, the public would never
have been seandalised with such histories as those of
the Western Bank of Scotland, the Liverpool Borough,
the Northumberland and Durham District, and the
Royal British.
Messrs. Unwin and Arber, the auditors of the
Western Bank of London, the business of which has
recently been transferred to the London and County
Bank, have issued a statement to the shareholders
demanding that at the meeting to be held on the 21st
inst., to consider a vote of Cl,OOO to the directors of the
Western Bank for their past of services, the circum-
stances which led to the cloning of the concern shall be
fully brought out. It was through the action of the
auditors that the suspension and dismissal of the mana-
ger, and the subsequent determination to wind up the
establishment took place. At the last meeting an
attempt was made to impugn their conduct as having
been harsh and inconsiderate, and these gentlemen now
feel themselves fairly entitled to insist that the share-
holders shall not, as on that occasion, avoid discussing
the merits of the question, but be called upon to pro-
nounce clearly if they are disposed formally to signify
their approval of the course of management by which
the Bank was distinguished, and at the same time to inti-
mate that the auditors were wrong in their mode of
making discoveries, representations, or protests in con-
nexion with it. In the latter point of view the •ffair
has a public interest, since the decision adopted will, of
course, more or less influence the course of auditors of
other institutions.

The treaaure ex her Majesty's ship Alert has at length
reached Southampton, the steamer i.e Plata having
brought in all tbe enormous sum of 1:530.5110, of which
£410.50fl is silver, and £120.000 gold. This supply can•
ot be delivered until the middle of next week.

TRAFFIC REC7:ll.lll.—The traffle returns of niilwaya
in the United Kingdom for the week ending June 11
amounted to £489,120, and for the corresponding week
of ltlsB to £435,260, showing an increase of 233.860.
Th.. gross receipte of the eight railway I,,,ving their
termini in the metropolis amounted to 2208,117 and ior
the corresponding iseriorl of lad year to £189,377,
allowing an increase of £111,14.30. The iron•ease on the
Eastern Counties Railway amounted to £1,265 ; on the
Great Northern to £1,691 n the Great ‘Vesterii to
£5,751; on the London and No tii•Western to 2.5,i54 ;
on the London, Brighton, and South Coast to C 1.594 ;
on the London and South-Western to £1,215; end
on the South-Eastern to £1,3,615 ; total, £18,858. But
from thin mad be deducted £33, the demesne on the
London and Blackwell, leaving the increase an ahoy°
1:18,K10. The receipts on tlo• other line.; in the Unit.,l
Kingdom amounted to £250,913, and for the corre,poni-
ing week of lest year to £245.8.43, allowing an incr, use
of 4.35,030, which, added to the increase on the met ro-
politan lines, wakes the total increase ii.sto, as coin.
pared with the correeponding week of 1858.