The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-12 00:00:00

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14 days, when the assets of the Company will be
rateably divided.
A special general meeting of the Dagenham
(Thames) Dock Company is called fee the Nth ,
UM., to approve a bill now pending in parliament
The half-yearly interest on London, Tilbury,
and Southend Railway consolidated mock is an- f
nounced as payable on the 2nd July.
The 30th annual meeting of the Northern Asawe- '
ance Company was held at Aberdeen on Friday last, :
when the directors' report was unanimously
adopted. With regard to the fire department, the i
directors stated that " whilst the experience of the
great majority of offices engaged in the business of
this department continued during the past year to
be in a high degree unfavourable, them,
transactions of this company again exhibit
a profit. The receipts from fire premiums,
less re-assurances, were 163,9311., and the
surplus (carried to profit and loss account) was
9,3641. In the life assurance branch the number ,
of new policies was 554, assuring 2941691 and
yielding in annual premiums 9,2281. The balance
at milt of the profit and loss account at the 31st i
December last was 29,4731. A dividend of 6* per •
cent., making, with the half year's dividend pad'
in December last, a total of 12i per cent, for the'
year, was declared, leaving an unappropriated Me-
plus of 21,249/. And it was also resolved:
That a reversionary bonus at the rate of U. 7s. Gd. per
cent. per annum be declared upon the original amounts
assured by all policies of the participating class current
on 31st December 1865, fot the five years ending that alas :
with a further prospective bonus at the same rate upon an
policies which shall become claims before 31st December. f
1870, such immediate and prospective bonus only to rosins i
or become payable when the policy, has been five years is
existence.
A petition for the winding up of the London
Gas Meter Company (Limited) is to be heard
before the Master of the Rolls on the 23rd inst. ,
Travers' circular gives the following comparison
of the present position of the Bank of England •
(according to the last published return)andthe price
of Consols with the corresponding date of last
year :
At present. Same date um ymn
Bank coin and Lullion . £13,278,961 ... 4615,880,615
Bank reserve of notes 1,751,995 ... 8,376,620
Notes in circulation 25,452,920 ... 21164,095
Rate of discount
Price of Uonsols „. eel .. 904
The following are the returns of the Irish bank.
of issue for the four weeks ending the 26th ult. :

iit. \ Average circulation during
2 tt 1 four weeks ending as above.
'd
3.V
AL and , Under Total
I pwards.i IA '.
C L , C B •
The Bank of Ireland .. 13,738,428 1,629,175; 1,046,' 2,575,474
The Provincial Bank ell I '
Ireland ... . ... . .. 937,007 370,v:91 457,940 835.839
The Belfast llonlinn COW- .
PRIV . . .. 281,611 129,831 297,658 423,00 ,
Theompan Northern Banking
The l'istery Banking Com- 243, son', talk _ 377,808
I
PaGY
The National Bank..
AVERAGE AmoUNT or COIN HELD DURING TOUR WEng
ENDING AR ABOVE.
1 001 d. 1 Sher. 1 T.dal.

The Rank of Ireland
The Provincial Rank of Ireland
The Belfast flanking Company
The Northern Banking Company.
The Ulster Banking Company
The National Ilank

410,748
2u7.626
*241,00
236.676
217,6917
40 NS
'

63:i54
To; 7:12
17,706
40.739
61,790

41:7:48
221.4
t56,7u5
266,774
637,127

MONDAY Bynum?.

Consols, which closed on Saturday at 84 ex div.,
for the 10th of July, opened this morning at 87,
and, after touching 87A to 1, dosed at 87 to 4.
For money the last price was 86 to I. The offi-
cial business report is as follows : —Three per:
Cent. Consols, for money, 86i, ; ditto, foe
account, 87, 6/, 71 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 86,
,6 ; New Three per Cents., 86/, 6, ; Bank
Stock, 249, 8 ; India Five per Cent. Stock,
1031, 4.
The India Five per Cent. Stock remains steady.
The March Exchequer Bills were quoted Ifis. to 3a.
die., and the June, se. dis. to ss. prem.
The amount of business in the foreign stock
market was limited, and the tendency centime-is
unfavourable. Turkish Bonds of 1863 fell 3 per
cent. ; those of 1854, 11, and those of 1858 and
1862, 1. Veneuzelan of 1862 also declined 3 per
cent. ; Egyptian and Danubian, 1 to 111 ; Greek
Coupons, = ; and Mexican of 1864, On the other
Russian of 1859 improved 1 ; Italian of 1861, ;
and Mexican (old), A.
The transactions in bank shares were lees
numerous than of late, and prices in most vases
were quoted the same as on Saturday. Alliance,
City, Imperial, and London and River Plate rose
11., and Consolidated 10e., but Bank of Queensland
declined 2/. ; London Bank of Mexico, Union of
Ireland, and Union of London, 11., and Imperial
Ottoman N. Alliance closed at 7to 5 dis.; Anglo-
Austrian, at 2 to 1 dis. ; and Imperial Ottoman,
at2tol die.
The shar: of the financial companies were
inquired for, and better. London Financial im-
proved 11. ; Imperial Mercantile, 10s. ; and Inter-
national Financial, General Credit, and Credit
Foncier and Mobilier, 2s. fid. Prices were last
quoted as follows :—lnternational Financial, 2 to
It dia. ; General Credit, 2} to 2+ dis. ; London
Financial, 10 to 14 die. ; Imperial Mercantile
Credit, 94 to 81, die. ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier,
3g to dia.
National Discount shares were last quoted 6to
6} prcm., showing a rise of be. ; Overend, Gurney,
and Co., 18 to 16 die. ; and Hudson's Bay, 16*
to 3, being 108. better. Peninsular and Oriental
Steam and Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance
improved, while Colonial, international Land
Credit, Royal Mail Steam, and Upper Assam Tea
gave way.
American securities were dull. 5.20 Bonds de-
clined / per cent. ; Erie Railway shares. ; and
Illinois Central, J. Atlantic and Great %eaten'
Debentures, however, improved per cent. Prices
closed as follows :-5.20 Bonds, 65 to ; Erie
Railway shares, 40i to 41; Illinois Central, 75 to
4 ; Atlantic and Great Western Debentures, 50
to 51 ; ditto Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 48
to 50.