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

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK:
There is still an upward tendency in the rates of
discount, and an increased business is reported. The
present lowest quotations in the open market are
5i 6 per cent.
In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
there was no material alteration.
There wc s a withdrawal of £31,000 in gold from
ilia 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, today, the directors de•
clared a dividend at the usual rate of 10 per cent.
per annum, and a bonus of £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 £21,408 185 9 d to be carried
forward to the next half-year.

Two O'CLOCK.
At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 62f. 25e.
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 -a for money, and at 901 for the account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 894 ;
the 2i per Cent. Annuities, 1894, 72; ; Exche-
quer Bills, March, Bs. to 3s. die.; and June do., ss.
to par; India 5 per Cents., 1041 105; and Deben•
tures, 99.

There is an absence of animation and fluctuation
in the Foreign Stock Market. Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1862, ere 691 701 ; do. Consolides, 60! M ;
Mexican, ex all, 291 ; do. New, 261- 27 ; Greek,
21* ; Spanish Passive, 28 ; Portuguese, 48i 1;
Italian, 67 ; Russian, 1862, 88; ;. 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 aid Great Western have each im-
proved 15s, Lancashire and Yorkshire ss, Midland
10s. Brighton, however, have declined £1; Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, 15s; and Metropolitan
ss.

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, 16 17; and London Finan.
cial, 281. Anglo-Egyptian Bank shares are quoted
31 4 prem. ; Ottoman Financial, 3-1- I prom.;
and Chamounix Hotelll to 1 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK,
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Console • 9oi i
Do Account, Aug. 9
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent. B9
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891... .
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
March, June,
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 & 31 per Cent, 8
Do £SOO
Do £lOO and £2OO .. 8
Bank England Stk, 5i per Ct.
Do Account..
'NOUN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1871 214
Do Account
Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870
1)o Account —
Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 —
Do Certificates
Do Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 —
Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 ..
Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1865
Do BundeLl,OUo ^
Do under £1,000..

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK..
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Do 1859..
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do 1863 87.17
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do Account
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) —
Chilian 6 per Cent.
Do 3 pet Cent.
Colombian 6 per Cent —
Cuba, 6 per Cent. ..
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Do 5 per Cent, 1564
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Egyptian 7 per:Cent lO2
Lo, Second Issue -
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons
Do Account
Do Coupons —
Do Accotut
Guatemala 5 per Cent
Do 1839 and 1859
Italian 5 per Cent.(slaremmana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent ....
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent, 1864
Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20e.. — dis
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French ....
Ditto Scrip, £23 paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Do 2 per Cent.
Do Deterred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Peruvian 41 per Cent ..
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) ..
Do 41 per Cent., 1862 .
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 18:53
Do Account
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 4B
Do Account 4BB i
Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 41 per Cent., 1850 .
D .
o 3 per Cent 1859 ..
Do 5 per Cent, 1862 BB4 I
Do Anglo-Dutch
1)o Scrip, £3O paid pm
Sar,linian 6 per Cent
Do Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Account —
Do Passive
Do Account —
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Do Account
Swedish, 4 per Cent —
Do Scrip, £6O paid
ina
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Do Account —
Do 6 per Cent. 1838 .
Do Account 72e
Do £lOO Bonds
1)o 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account .. 701 69!
:Do £lOO Bonds 7O }
Do 1863 .. ----
-
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.....
Vemezuela 3 per Cent.
DoDo Account
6 per Cent., 1862
Account 59 81
1)0 Scrip £3O paid
Do 11 per Cent
Div'
ideuds on the above payable in London ,
Austri 6
Belgian , _ per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins.
4c petr Cent., Ex. 25f. .. —.
Duptch-4-2i
per
ce .......... .. —
Dc Per c „tat', Ex- 12 Guil —
r.s Certificates
French Relates
~ 1861, Ex. 25 trance —
Italian, 5 por 6:jer Cent—
Do Account..
pi) (i!ordumvioannteDseo,llsa
i)ei: ....... ..... p.e.; ........ 4s.
r ,04.,_• . ,
ent., Ex,

Consols Money TWO O'CLOCK,
.............
Do Account..., .................. 90....... 9(3

Liverpool Cotton Xarket—This Day.
llrarket opens very strong and firm Sales prox
bably 10,000 bales.

UNION_
ACT.--An act of Pars
THE ASSESSMENT
liaincnt has just been printed to amend the 'Union. Assess_
Meut Act of 1862. The recent Act Was an important one
in reference to the valuation of property for the relief of the
P ;or ; and the object of the amended act is to
correct
mi Uniform Valuation, and to give the rig seem.°
ht of app 1
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with
other a.meladmenta, ea.