The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-30 00:00:00

Bank of England Return,•--Last Evening.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32. for the week ending on Wednesday, the 28th day
of Sept. 1864

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued ......X27,0i3,G3)

Government Debt £11,615,1C0
Other Securities 3.634,900
G old Coin & Bullion 12,393,690
Silver Bullion ....

£27,043,690

X 27,043,650

BANKING D
Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

EPARTDIENT.

Government Seed-
rities iincluding
Dead Ni eightAn-

nuity) £10,7e7,095
Other Securities 20,1 4,489
Notes
Gold and Silver 727,433
Coin

counts) 7,0803,5S
Other Deposits 12,:88,9u2
Seven Day and
other Bills 511,716

£38,732,652

£38,732,6E2
r. MILLER, Chief Cashitr.

Sept. 29, 1864.

The Treaty between France and England.

To-morrow, October 1, the treaty of commerce between
France and England will come into lull effect, as the last
reductions of the duties on imports from England will then
be made :—Cast-iron, which has hitherto paid 2f 50c per
100 kilogs., will then pay only 2f ; raw iron, 6f instead of
7f. Raw lead will enter duty free. Other duties are—on
sheet-tin and bar-steel from 16f to 12f; copper, from 15f to
101; shoot lead, from 5f to 3f; zinc, from 6f to 41; oxalic
acid, from 15f to 10f; bicarbonate of soda, from 5194 c to 4f
20c ; carbonate of lead, from 5f to 21; chlorate of potass, from
45f 20c to 35f 35c; alcohols of all sorts, in wood or bottle,
from 20f to 15f; pottery, porcelain, etc., from twenty
per cent ad valorem, to 15 per cent ; cloths, blankets,
hosiery, trimmings, ribbons, lace, from 15 per cent to 10
per cent ; dyed silks, which now pay 300 f per 100 kilogs.,
will enter free ; as will also English point-lace, which now
pays22,00 f. On paper of all sorts, the duty will be reduced
from 1O to 8f; felts from 16i to 10f; ditto, new type, from
10f per 100 kilogs. to 8f ; ditto, old type, from 5f to 31. The
duties on wrought metals will be reduced in the same pro-
portion as those on raw metals, Cutlery will pay 14 per
cent, ad valorem, instead of 20f. The duty on wooden
ships will be reduced from 25f per ton to 201; iron ships
from 70t to 60f; steamboats for river navigation, from 50f
to 40f ; wooden boats, from 15f to 101; anchors, cables,
chains, from 101. per 100 kilos. to Bf.

At a general meeting to-day of the shareholders
of the EgyWian Commercial and Trading Company,
the report stated that fur the past twelve months the ir,fits
amounted to £17,459 is Gil, of which £29,6`12 Gs was made
up to the preceding 30th April. Of this £17,459 is 6d, an
interim dividend of Se 39 per share, declared at the meeting
of the 11th July, has already absorbed the sum of £26,250,
whicn nov
which,
to h
with
£2,9e
3Oplaced to the reserve fund, leaves the
baladealt with, £IS,3 9 is 6d. The directors,
therefore, after placing aside the additional sum of £1,845
198 for the reserve fund, recomtnended a further dividend of
Gi per share, free of income tax (including 5 per cent.
on the paid-up capital), c trryinz forward the sum of ..-.9,C63
2s 6d to the next acount, from which sum the income tax
will have to be deducted.

By advie: S from Hamburg the price of gold is 123 per mark
and the short excliaive on London is 13.42 per .C 1 surli .
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, theret•: re, nearly
4 -.1...the per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.