The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-03 00:00:00

NONE Y MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A moderate amount of business is reported in the
discount market, but the demand is quieter than
it was early in the week, and the supply of money
is a little larger. The rates, however, continue
firm.

Important alterations are shown in the Bank of
England return, completed to Wednesday last, but
the principal is a considerable increase in the loan
and discount operations of the establishment, con-
sequent upon the usual advances made at this period
of the quarter. The following table shows the
Principal variations;—

Active Circulation .. £21,140,156
Increase .. .. 1,153,166
Bullion .. .. • • .. 15,080,277
Increase .. • • • • 54,159
• • Rest 3 200 918
Increase .. 33,055
Public Deposits 10,356,373
Increase •• •• •• •• 77,320
Other Deposits.. .. .• 16,274,739
Increase .. .. 2,469,743
Seven Day and other Bills .. .. 598 606
Increase .. • • • • • • 59,931
Government Securities • . .. 11,050, 279
Decrease . • .. .. 201,116
Other Securities • • .. .. 25,343,236
Increase .. • • .. 3,935,172
Notes Unemployed .. • . 7,734,210
Decrease .. • • .. .. 1,055,290
A further BUM of £40,000 in gold was taken into
the Bank yesterday.

The Aboukir has arrived from New Zealand with
£122,024.

The prospectus has appeared of the Hudson's Bay
Company, brought forward under the auspices of the
International Financial Society. This old company,
which possesses a royal charter granted by Charles
ll.,holds the exclusive right over a territory,in North
America, comprising as many as 1,400,000 square
miles. This right it has hitherto used for the
purpose of trading with the natives for furs, and
under its new reorganisation it proposes to extend
its former operations, and to open up its southern
districts to European colonisation under a liberal
system of land settlement. The home, as
well as the Governments of Canada, Van-
couver's Island, and British Columbia, are
desirous of providing means for telegraphic com-
munication across the company's territory, so as to
connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and in
furtherance of this object they offer a guaranteed
interest and grants of Crown property. It will
thus be seen that the new company's prospects of
success will be far greater than could ever have been
contemplated years ago by its predecessors. The
capital offered to the public is £1,930,000, which is
to be raised by shares of £2O each, and a preference
in the allotment is to be given to the holders of stock
in the two companies, viz., the Old Hudson's Bay and
the International Financial. Subscribers will be en-
titled to an interest corresponding to the amount of
their subscription in the assets of the Hudson Bay
Company valued at £1,023,569 in the landed terri-
tory, and in a cash balance of £370,000. As an
illustration of the manner in which the scheme has
been received by the public, it may be remembered
that the Duke of Newcastle referred to the project
last evening in favourable terms, when introducing
the British Columbia Boundaries Bill, and it was
also favourably alluded to by several other mem-
bers. At the Stock Exchange this morning the
shares are quoted 21 prem.
At the yearly meeting to-day of the London Dock
Company, Mr. C. J. Manning in the chair, the re-
port stated that the profit and loss account showed
a balance of £204,375, out of which it was recom-
mended to pay a dividend of L 1 7s. 6d. per cent.,
amounting to £52,482 for the six months. It was
stated by the chairman that negotiations were in
progress for the amalgamation of the company with
the St. Katherine's Dock Company, on a basis of
perfect equality.

The amount of specie to be taken out by the
Pera, which 'caves to-morrow with the India and
China mails is 1100,743.
At Paris this morning, 'according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were
heavy at 68f. 55c. Inanimate.
The English Stock Market continues quiet, and
the few transactions for transfer and on speculation
produce very little effect upon prices, Consols re-
maining at 92 k for transfer, and at 928 d for ac-
count. The New Threes and Reduced are 91i 92;
India 5 per Cents., 1088 e ; ditto 5 per Cent. En
faced, 107 1; Ditto 51 per Cent., 1161; and Ex-
chequer Bills 4s. dis. to par.
The Foreign Market to-day presents a dull and
tolerably steady appearance. Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1862, are 671 68 ; do. Consolides, 50! ; Mexican,
36/ 37; Greek, 34i 358; do. Coupons, 168
Spanish Passive, 33t 34 ; do. Certificates, 12! 13 ;
Russian, 924 931 ;.Venezuelan New Loan, 2 to 1
dis.; and the Confederate Loan, 14 tot= dis.
In the Railway Share Market the operations have
been very limited, and prices have shown little
change of importance. North Eastern (Berwick)
have improved 55., while Lancashire and Yorkshire
and London and South Western have declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have been
inactive, at about previous quotations.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
flat. London and Westminster have declined to
79! ; Crvmtal Palace Stock to 371 ; and Royal Mail
Steam to 6'71 ; International Financial Snares are
quoted 5;1, ! prem.; London Financial, 11 4 prem.;
Egyptian Trading Company, 1-} prem.; General
Credit Company, 1; ! prem. ; and Hudson Bay
Company, 18 8 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stoez 236 4i 5
3 per Cert. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cant. Consols Annuities 92 1
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 2i per Cent. Annuities —
..I,y_rynuties, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire 6th April, 1885 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908.
1330,ia Stock —
Ditto 5 per Cent lOBl i k
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent
(itto 5i per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 1001
Ditto ditto April, 1864 100 k
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100±
Ditto Bonds £l.OOO —
Ditto under £1,000..
ladia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
Consols for Account, July 9 92k
March I

Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 per Cent
Ditto £5OO 2 dis
Ditto Small — I
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bvazilian 5 Der Cent

June

Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent -
Ditto Account
flbilian 6 oer Cent. —
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Ditto, £ioo Bonds B9
Egyptian 7 pei Cent.. lOll
_ Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Duto Account
Coupons Ditto to ..
161 i
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 78
'Lel-lean 3 per Cent
Ditto Aceovnt
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent.
v.,ll9itttiO°EaentedrrWedarrants (Hectares)
Corcee Cent,t
-1
ts
:"Dil: li
0:i
Sardinian
01:eie ritPt: C
et,nit
81-6822 21 81
61
S t .---
"-milatt 6
941
93k 2i
89
gi?Danititoll.A.3,P,7l:l%;at
Ditto New De,' •-• • . ........, s4k
i)itto tveoluit
..... d•.. . ........ Ditto Passive ............
Ditto A neount
Spanish Cert. of Cou.p
....... .f.
Ditto Account..... %Jaded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 ... 3123:
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
P
itt° Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account.
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. ......... iI 8
Venezuela, 3 per Cent ................
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto AccDividendsount on the above payable in L.
TWO x
Consols, Money
.ilitto Account 921 i

The firm of Messrs. Saunders, Otley, and Co., we
are glad to observe, is not defunct, as was very lately re-
ported, but will be carried on by new members under the
old name.

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Eastern, E. C. 6 per cent. pref., 132}
PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
London, Chatham, ac., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 1071

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidtn), 111
Sambre and Meuse, 54 per cent. pf.,loi
San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 9
West Flanders, 74 i

FOREIGN MINES.
St. John del Rey (lira.), 531
Yudanaututana of S. Australia (lira.), 31 1
JOINT-STOCK RANKS.
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (lira.), 351
Australasia,
Ditto, new, 314 11
Bank of Egypt, 271
Eng*ash, Sco,ch, and Australian Chartered, 231
Imperial Ottoman, 181
London Chartered Bank of Australia, 271
London and Westminster, 79)
National of Liverpool. limited, 9i
Union of London, 351
MISCELLANEOUS,
Anglo-Mexican Mint, 191
Crystal Palace, 37i 7 4
Great Ship, lim., 171 per cent. pref., 1 1
International Financial Society, Um., 8}
London Financial Association, lira., 6f
Royal Mail Steam, 67/

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS KITCHEN AND RE-
FRESHMENT Rooms.—A third report, consisting of
the following resolutions, has been agreed b by the select
committee appointed to control the arrangements of the
kitchen and refreshment rooms of the Sergeant-at-Arms
attending the House of Commons :—" That it is the
opinion of this committee-1. That the committee, having
received a letter dated the 19th of Juno last from the
Sergeant-at-Arms, in which a doubt is raised as to the
right of the keeper of the refreshment-rooms to the
subsidy of £3OO a year, at present received by him, re-
commend that, in lieu of the said subsidy, a grant of not
less than £5OO per annum be placed at the disposal of
the kitchen and refreshment-room committee for the
time being, to provide for the necessary servants, &co
requisite tor the efficient working of the department.
2. That the keeper of the refreshment-rooms be appointed
wine butler, and be paid by means of a corkage on the
wines consumed, and that the rate of corkage be dependog
on the value of the wine."
Messrs. Longman and Co. having recently re-
meved from No. 14, Ludgate-hill, to their new premises in
Paternoster-row—or rather to their old premises magni-
ficently rebuilt from the foundation—gave a dinner to
about one hundred of their clerks and assistants, at the
Albion Tavern, on Friday, the 19th of June, in celebration
of the opening of their new house in Paternoster-row. Mr.
Lon,groan, as senior partner, preside', and after dinner Mr.
Green presented every guest, who had been in their em-
ployment for ten years, with a cheque for £2O.