The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-20 00:00:00

MOSEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, TWELVE o'CLocK:
There Ss still an upward tendency in the rates of
discount, and an increased business is reported. The
present lowest quotations in the open market are
5 6 per cent.

In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoos
there was no material alteration.

There was a withdrawal of £31,000 in gold from
the Bank yesterday.

The Ceylon, which left to-day with the Calcutta
and China mails, conveyed £92,873 in specie.
The 16th half-yearly meeting of the National
Discount Company was held to-day, and the report,
'recommending a dividend at the rate of 16 per cent.
per annum, free of income tax, was unanimously
adopted.

At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders
of the Bank of London, to_day, the directors de•
elated a dividend at the usual rate of 10 per cent.
per annum, and a bonus of L 2 10s per share,
amounting together to £2O per cent. per annum,
both free of income tax.

The London Financial Association held its half-
yearly meeting to-day. The report, which was
adopted, stated that after providing for the current
expenses of the past half-year, writing off the whole
of the costs for the new offices, and carrying for-
ward a rebate of interest at the rate of 6 per cent.
per annum, the directors are enabled to recommend
the payment of a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent.
with a bonus at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, _
free of income tax; there will then remain a balance
of undivided profits of £21,408 18s 9cl to be carried
forward to the next half-year.

Two o'CLocK.
At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 62f. 25c.
The English Stock Market continues quiet, but
quotations are steadily maintained. The fineness
of the weather, so favourable to harvest prospects,
assists to give buoyancy to values. Consols remain
at 901 it for money, and at 90t for the account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 ;
the 2i per Cent. Annuities, 1894, 721 ; Exche-
quer Bills, March, Bs. to 3s. die.; and June do., ss.
to par; India 5 per Cents., 104! 105; and Deben-
tures, 99.

There is an absence of animation and fluctuation
in the Foreign Stock Market. Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1862, are 69; 701; do. Consolides, 50; 61 ;
Mexican, ex all, 291 1; do. New, 261 27 ; Greek,
241 ; ; Spanish Passive, 281 1 ; Portuguese, 481 1 ;
Italian, 67 ; ; Russian, 1862, 88; a ; and the Con-
federate Loan, 76 77.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
moderately active, and a firmer tone has prevailed.
Great Eastern and Great Western have each im-
proved 155, Lancashire and Yorkshire ss, Midland
108. Brighton, however, have declined la ; Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, 15s; and Metropolitan
6s.

The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without
any material change in prices.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in fair re-
quest, and at enhanced rates. London and West.
minster realise 101 1; Imperial Ottoman, 171 18;
Discount Corporation, 161 17 ; and London Finan•
cial, 281. Anglo-Egyptian Bank shares are quoted
31 4 prem. ; Ottoman Financial, 3} a prem. ;
and Chamounix Hotelit to 1 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Do Account, Aug. 9
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent
New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1891....
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire nth Jan., 1880 —
Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
Mtirch. June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 Sc 31 per Cent. 8
Do £SOO
Do £lOO and £2OO
Bank England Stk, 54 per Ct.
Do Account..
INDI&N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 214 12
Do Account —
Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870
l)0 Account
Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888
Do Certificates
Do Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Do- 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ..
Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 —
Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866
Do Bonds Zl,OOO —
Do under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 6 per Cent —
Do 1859
Brazilian. 6 per Cent
Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do 1863 B7t 7
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Do Account ..
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) —
Milan 6 per Cent.
Do 3 pet Cent. ......
Colombian 6 per Ce
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Do 5 per Cent, 1864 —
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian 7 per:Cent lO2
Do, Second Issue-
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Do Account
Do Coupons
Do Account -
Guatemala 5 per Cent. —
Do 1839 and 1859
Italian b per Cent. (Maremmana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent, 1864
Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c.. — dis
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
Ditto Scrip, £23 paid....
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada —
Do 2 per Cent.

Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Peruvian 41 per Cent —
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) —
Do 4} per Cent., 1862 ..
Do Account Bll
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account —
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62;3 4B
Do Account 4Bl
Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 4i per Cent., 1850 ..
Do 3 per Cent 1859
Do 5 per Cent, 1862 BB/ f
Do Anglo-Dutch
Do Scrip, £3O paid
Sardinian 6 per Cent
Do Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account '
_ _

Do Now Deferred
Do Account
Do Fassive
Do Account —
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Do Account lO
Swedish, 4 per Cent
' Do Scrip, £6O paid .. Pm
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Do Account —
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account
• Do £lOO Bonds 7O }
Do 1863
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.....
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do Account —
Do 6 per Cent., 2
Do Account lB6
59 8i
Do Scrip £3O paid 7/ dis
Do 1/ per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London

Austrian, 5 per Cent,. Ex. 10 Florins. --
Belgian 4i per Cent.,
Ex. 25f
1)0 Account
Dutch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gull
Frenc
Do 4 per Cent. Cent,,
991 h Itentea, 2 per Cent.....
It dian, 5 per Cent., 1851, Ex. 25 francs Do lecount
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s.
Pielnonteso, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
THREE O'CLOCK,
Consols Money
Do Account. .... ...................... 90k
................... 90;i
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Liverpool

Cotton Market—This

Market opens very strong
bably 10,000 hales. and firm. Sales pros

An
THE UNION ASSESSMENT AcT.—
liament has just been printed to amend the -U aot of Parma
nion Assess
ment Act of 1862. The recent Act was an important one
in reference to the valuation of property for th® relief of the
e
Poor ; and the object of the amended act is to secure correct
and uniform valuation, and to give the right of appeal, with
other amendments.