The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-17 00:00:00

£8,391,77110 9

PROFIT AND LOSS.
Dr.

To total expenditure of the six establish-
ments, including rent, taxes, salaries,
stationery, &c., with a gratuity of ten
per cent. on their salaries to the officers
of the establishment
To amount set apart towards the new build-
ings in Lothbury and 'Bloomsbury
To payment of the dividend now declared,
at the rate of six per cent. per annum, for
the last half-year on the paid up capital
of 1;000,000/.
To bonus of five per cent. on the capital
To rest or surplus fund :
Amount on Jan. 15t,18541.125,307 1 6
Interest on do. at 5 per

_
Cent
Balance of profit and loss

account -

6,265 7 0

2,954 2 5

£25,026 4 2

2,000 0 0

---- 134,526 10 11

2241,552 15 1

By rest or surplus fund £125,307 1 6
By balance of profit and loss account on tho
30th June, 1854
By gross profits of the last half-year, after
paying the income tax, and making pro-
vision for all bad and doubtful debts 102,344 14 2

13,900 19 5

£241,552 15 1

The report was adopted, and a vote of thanks
was passed to the directors, and to Mr. Gilbart and
the officers of the establishment.

20
20
10
10

Yesterday firm rates were current for bills of
exchange, "and after the recent heavy remittances
to Paris, it is probable the quotation for paper
upon that city will improve. Drafts at 90 days
were negotiated at 25 27i to 30 ; Hamburg was
done at 13 51. to 5 ; Amsterdam at 11 17i to I ;
and Trieste at 12 28 to 36.

St.
10
St.
25

The English Funds are remarkably firm, and there
is a rise of A per cent., although the business doing
is extremely limited. Consols have been 92 to 921
for transfer, and 921 g for account. The high
prices of the French loan are the principal cause.
The New 3 per Cents. have. been 92i to 92k, and
the Reduced 92 to 1. Exchequer Bills are 4s. to
75., and India Bonds its, premium.
There is scarcely any business to record in
Foreign Stocks, and the quotations, therefore, are
for the most part nominal. Russian 4i per Cents.
are firm at 901 to 91. Brazilian Small Bonds are
marked 99, and Turkish Bonds are at fuller rates,
viz., 77 to 77/. The last instalment, 15 per cent,
upon the second series of the loan, was paid yes-
terday. _ _ .

The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6; Mexi-
can, 21i to 21; ; Peruvian, 70 to 72 ; Ditto 3 per
Cents., 50 to 52 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 41 to
43 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 100 to 102 ; Ditto 41 per
Cents., 89 to 91; Spanish New Deferred, 181 to
181; Ditto 3 per Cents., 3714 to 38 ; Ditto Certifi-
cates, 5 to 54 ; Ditto Passive, 41 to 41.
The dealings in English Railway Shares are of a

limited character, but there is more firmness in the
prices. The improvement is most apparent in
Great Northern, North-Western, Midland and
South-Eastern. In the Foreign lines there is no
material alteration.

20
20
50
20

—Mining Shares are neglected, the Banks are firm,
and the miscellaneous undertakings inactive.
Crystal Palace are flatter.

100
20
25
25
25

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOC.K
(Front the Official List.)
Business done
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... ... 928 4 2
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 924 2
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 .., 4i 7-16
India Bonds, £lOOO • ll
Consols for Account, BtVebruary
Exchequer Bills, lid.
21000
Small 4 7
£5OO 4 7
Exchequer Bonds 1858, 34 per Cont. 99a
Ditto 1859,
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT 0/sTE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Small
Russian Bonds, 44 per Cent 9Ol 1
rerkish Bonds 77
invidenus on the above payable in London.
HALF-PAST TWO.
consols.
Ditto, February Account 924

ST. KATHARINE DOCK COMPANY.—The dividend de-
clared yesterday at the meeting of the St. Katherine Dock
Company was 2 per cent. for the half-year, free from
income tax, and the report was received as satisfactory.
THE ROYAL WEST INDIA. MAIL STEAMER AVON
arrived at Southampton yesterday, from Portsmouth,
where she has lauded invalids from the Crimea. Capt.
Ellison, the commander, has brought home the highest
testimonials from the Admiralty authorities in the Black.
Sea and Mediterranean as to the services which the
Avon has rendered to the Government, by the speed
and punctuality with which she has done whatever she
was engaged to perform.
THE VACANCY ON THE SCOTTISH BENCH.—We have
heard it asserted that the Peel policy of taking die best
man, whether Whig or Tory—certainly not followed in
the later appointments—is actually about to be tried for
once, but whether from necessity er choice we cannot
say. At the same time, the rumour in the Parliament
House strongly points to the elevation of Mr. Thomas
Mackenzie, so lately appointed Solicitor• General—
. Post.
NINETY RUSSIANS CAUGHT IN A TRAP.--The Russians
made a sortie against the French advanced works on the
night of the 28th, with the intention of spiking the
guns in the battery. They advanced stealthily, and
managed to get into a portion of the covered way,
but not without being observed by the French troops
who were guarding the works, and who acted very
coolly and deliberately on the occasion. The Russian
force consisted of about eighty men and nine or ten
officers. They had not been long within the entrench-
ments when it become bewildered as to the proper
line of direction which was to conduct them to the
battery in question. In the meantime, while they were
seeking to extricate themselves from the difficulty in
which they had entangled themselves, the French
covering force had divided itself into two parties, each
of which was quietly extending itself in such a man-
ner as to surround them. This the latter succeeded in
doing completely, so that the Russians at last,• caught
in a net as it were, had no alternative but to deliver
themselves as prisoners without offering the least re-
sistance. Not a shot was fired on the occasion.

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Ambg. Nottng. Bost.
and Eastn.
Belfast & Eallymena.
Birming. Wolverh. &
Stour Valley
Birkenhd. Lanesh. :St
Cheshire Juliet

Do. Chesh. dr Birk.,
£5O and £25 Cons.
Do., .......
Blyth kTyn,oriona'
£25 (issd. at £45;
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Carmarthen an& Car
digan
Chester dr Holyhead
Cork and Bandon
Cork, Black, ex Pass
Cornwall
Crieff Junction
Dublin drßelfastJunc
Dundee Perth &Aber
dean Junction
Do. New
East Anglian ..
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union, A
Stock
De., B. Stock

bo., New A
East Lancashiro

Edinburgh& Glasgow
Edinb. and Peebles
Edin. Pr LI tic Dundee
Forth it Clyde June.
Glasgow & S. Westernl
Groat Northern
Do., A. Stock
Do., B. Stock
Gt. Sth. SLWest.(lre.)
Great Western

Do. Stour Val. Rail,
Gun. Stk..
Irish South-Eastern
Lancaster & Carlisle
Do., Thirds
Do. New Thirds
Lancash. andYorksh
Do., Fifths
Do., Wst. Riding Un
Liv.Crsby.&Soutlipt
London & Blackwal
Load. Bright & S.Cst.
Lond. and N. Westn.
Do. Fifths

D o .10i. Sh. , Ti1&8...
Do. Eighths
London and S. Westn
Do., £5O
Do., £4O
Ludrry& Coleraine
Lnelndrry. & Ennisk.
ilanch.Shef.& Lbaelp
Do., Man. & Lin. Un
Ifidland
)o. Birnmg. &Derby
Ifidld. G. West. (Ire,)
Do. Half Shares
Ntmeastle &
Newinkt.Bm7 Exton.
Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd
Newry &Enniskillen
Newry Warrenpoint
and Rostrevor
Norfolk
Northn.Counties Un
North British
North Devon, No. 1
Do., No. 2
Do., s A Deferred
Do., A B Guarantee'
N. Eastern—Berwick
Do. do. Extension
Do.do. G.N.E. Purch.
Do. Leeds
Do. York
North London
Do. New £lO
N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp-
stead, and City Jn
North Staffordshir
North Western
N. & S. Westrn. June
Nuneaton, Hinckley
and Leicester
Oxford, Worcester, 8:
Wolverhampton
Portsmouth
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Sarewsby. & Berea
Shropshire Union
Do. A, B, C,& D,full:
paid up at per cell
South Devon
South Eastern
South Wales
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West Cornwall. ...... .
West End of London
and Crystal Palace
West London
Wimblecln & Croydon

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Belgian Eastn. June
Bcziers to Graissessac
Bombay, Baroda, and
Central India,Serip
Central of Italy
Demerara
Dijon and Besancon
Dutch Rhenish

Eastern of France
Do. New
East Indian
Do. Extension
Do. 4} p. c. Bds., pay,
'57, convertible

Do. do. do., '59, do
Gd. Juliet. of France
Gd. Tk of CanadaA. is.
Do. do

Do. St. Lawrence &
Atlantic do.

Do. Cert. of Debeu.,l
con. into SW. till '63
Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do.
Gt. Central of France
Gt. Indian Peninsula
Do. New 5 per cent.
Gt. Western of Canad
Shares
Do. Bds., payal?lo's7,
with option till '55
Do. do., '62, p.'56
Do. do., '76, p. '6O
Do. do., '73, without

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option
Hamilton & Toronto
1)o. 6 per cfnt.
Lake Const. & Basle
Lucca dl Pistoja 5 p.c.

prof
Groat Luxembourg
Constituted Shares
Do. Obligations
Lyons and Geneva
Lyons & Mediterran
Madras
Do. New
Melia Antonia
Do. do. New
Melbourne Dk. di Ry
Namur & Liege (with

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interest)
Do. (ex interest)
Northern of France
D o .20/. Shs.late Char-
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guar. 3i p. c. & red.
at 2261. dnr. 88 yrs.
from 1 Jan. 1854

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Paris and Lyons
Ditto Bonds
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen—
ParisCaen & Cherbrg
Ronan and Havre
Royal Danish
Royal Swedish
Sambre and Meuse
Do. 54 p. cent. Prof
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St. Andrew's and
Quebec (A),
West Flanders

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West. of Switzerland
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British Colonial Bank

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British N. American
Chartd. Bank of Asia
Chrtd. Bnk. of India,
Australia, & Chiva
Colonial
Commercial of Lond
English Scottish and
Australian
Lond. Chart. Bk. of
Australia
London and County
London Joint Stock
Lond. & Wostminste
National Provincia,
of England
Do. New
National of Ireland
New South Wales
Oriental Bank of
Corporation
Provincial of Ireland
Do. New
Royal Australn.Bkg
& Gold Imp Co
south Australia
Union of Australia...
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