The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-08 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The money market still presents a quiet and easy
appearance, the best bills being readily negotiated
at 36 per cent.

The Foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon ex-
hibited no material change.
A call of £5 per share has been made by the
directors of the Anglo-Portuguese Bank, payable
on or before the 25th inst.

The ninth annual meeting of the proprietors of
the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China,
was held to-day--Mr. Mitchell presiding. The
report stated that the general balance sheet for the
year ending the 31st December last, exhibited a
profit of £70,792 51. 4d. The shareholders had been
informed by circular, on 29th Aug. last, of the los
which this bank,in common with others,had sustained
by the extensive opium frauds perpetrated at Hong
Kong, and which precluded the directors from re-
commending a half-yearly interim dividend in
October last. They regretted to stare that not-
withstanding every effort, the hopes which were at
first held out to them of recovering a portion of the
loss thus incurred had net been realised; and the
deficiency, amounting to £50,323 133. 10d., must
now be regarded as a total loss. Under
these circumstances the directors had de-
cided to write off that amount from the profits
of the year ; and out of the remaining balance of
£20,468 lls. 6d., they now recommended that a
dividend for the half-year ended 31st December
last be declared, at the rate of five per cent. per
annum, free of income tax, leaving £4,368 lls. 6d.
of undivided profits to be carried to new account.
Apart from the loss above noticed, the Directors
were able to report that the general business of the
bank throughout the year had been very satisfactory.
Tne Chairman, in moving the adoption of the re-
port, reviewed the principal featares of the report,
and stated that the past year's oi,erations exhibited
both an increase of profit and business, and that the
directors contemplated opening new branches in
India at places which they believed were destined
to become extensive seats of trade. The Board
also trusted at a future meeting to be able to re-
commend that a considerable addition be made to
the Reserve Fund. In reply to several questions,
the Chairman stated that the manager and Guaran-
tee Society were held liable for part of the losses
sustained through the frauds perpetrated at Hong
Kong. The report, after a short debate, was unani-
mously adopted.

Two O'CLOCK.
At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr.
Renter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were
69f. 75c.—Quiet.

The transactions in the English Stock Market con-
tinue limited, the settlement having occupied prin-
cipal attention. A few purchases, however, during
the morning resulted in an edvance of per cent.,
and Consols are now quoted 928 a for money, and
923 for the May account. The New Three per
Cents. are firm at 911, the Reduced at 911 ; Exche-
quer Bills remain at ss. to 2s. dis. ; India 5 per Cent.
Loan is 1086, 1091.
There has been less buoyancy in the Foreign
Market to-day, and the transactions have not been
so extensive. Greek Bonds have receded to 271;
the Coupons are 123 131; Mexican Stock is 331 ;
Peruvian New Loan, 88 ; Portuguese, 48 ; Russian,
961 ; Spanish Passive have improved to 29 the
corrifie..es, 10 a ; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, 90;
do., 1858, 68k; do., 1862, 69 ; and the Consolides
481 49 ; Italian, 711 ; and Venezuelan New Loan
60 1. The Confederate Loan is 1 1 die. ,
In the Railway Share Market business has been
very dull, but in one or two instances prices have
shown rather more firmness. Great Easterns
and Midlands have improved ss. ; Caledonians,
108. ; and Metropolitans, 155.; South-Easterns,
however, have declined ss.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings con-
tinue in limited favour at about previous quota-
tions.

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares main-
tain about former prices. London and Brazilian
realize 411 42 ; Chartered of India, Australia, and
China, 25 to 251 ; Bank of Egypt, 314 314 ; and
Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 77a.
The shares of the Westminster and Southwark
Bank hate been dealt in at I to 14 prem.
The shares of the New Theatre Company have
been dealt in at 1 to 11- prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
iinuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908, 21 7-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent .... 1084 91
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent......
Ditto 5f per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 100 /
Consols for Account, May 7 .... 92/
Exchequer Bills, £l.OOO 2f, per Cent.... 5 2
Ditto
Ditto Small
2 5
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ...... 931
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent ..............
Ditto Account
93
'hid= 6 per Cent
Ditto 4i per Cent
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons ---
Ditto A ecount .. 271 7 6/ 71
Ditto Coupons
124 131 12/
Mexican 3 per Cent . ...
Ditto Account
..
1533/
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent ... 33
P;;ruvian 4f •per Cent.
Ditto 1862
Ditto Account. BB
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto 1862
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 97
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859.
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 ............ 96-5/ 6/
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account ................
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 .......... ....
Ditto Account 6Bl
Ditto 6 per Cent. 18&2
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 241
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
11itto Account .. 7la
Consols, Money TWO O'CLOCK.
928 Ditto Account
92/

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

AML(REUTER'S TELEG RAM)
&ilea about 5,000 bales. Imports net previously,
7,900. Steady.

SHOEBURYNESS.—The reader has probably ob-
served, that ut the point where a narrow but popu
bus thoroughfare joins some larger and still more frequented
roadway, the angle of the kerbstone is sometimes quite
rounded off by the continually rushing traffic, and
is t
an
angle no longer. Now, there is a certain water thorough-
fare in this country called the Thames ; and those who
pursue it to the particular place where it rushes into the
sea, will observe that th continually alternating traffic of
the fresh water downward, and of the salt water upward,
has entirely rounded off the corners of that portion of Great
Britain which lies at that point of junction, where our fine
old river runs into the Gelman Ocean, At one of these
turning-points or corners there is situated a town which is,
perhaps, the most detestably hideous place upon the surface
of the globe—l say this, knowing Woolwich and Chatham,
and folly conscious how briskly they compete fur the proud
4131 inction. 'I he name of this victorious place is Sheerness.
Sheerness is the most odious place that man—making the
meet of the .natural aids at his command—has ever sue-
cLeded in constructing. No other town can enter into COM-
peti ion with it. There is but one Sheerness—though it
must be owned, in common justice, that Woolwich is its
Prophet. At the other and opposite corner to that occupied
by this debsted settlement stands Shoeburyness. Shoe-
buryness is a place to which I would recommend any gen•
*lrian who is fond of a north-east wind to devote his exclu-
sive attention for a month or two in early spring. If it
should happen that the same individual who possesses this
taste is also partial to prospects characterised by a certain
b treness of look, if he be fond of stunted trees, for instance,
i. he would like a chance twice in every twenty-four hours
or spending six hours in the contemplation of several miles
of wet mud—then would he find himself in his element at
Shoeburyness,—.Dickenes "del the Year igtonct."

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