The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-15 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CI

There is a slightly easier feeling in the general
Money Market, and discourttrs evince more dis-
position to negotiate three months' bills at 31- per
cent.

In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
there was no alteration.
The steamer La Plata has arrived from the West
Indies with £240,000.
The third ordinary general meeting of the share-
holders of the Metropolitan and Provincial Bank
took place to-day. A dividend of 5 per cent. per
annum (free of income tax) on the original capital
was declared, as also the payment of interest at the
current rate on the deposits and calls of the reserved
shares. £1,507 12s. 8d was carried forward.
At the half-yearly meeting to-day of the Standard
Bank of British South Africa—Mr. Stenbouse in
the chair—it was agreed to increase the capital
from £1,500,000 to £2,000,000. The chairman
stated that the directors had successfully negotiated
for the transfer of the business of the Commercial
Bank, the Colesburg Bank, and the British
liaffarian Bank. Letters had also been received
from shareholders of various other colonial banks,
expressive of their desire to be amalgamated with
the Standard Bank.
The half-yearly meeting of the London and
Westminster Bank was also held to-day, Mr.
Alderman Salomons, M.P., in the chair. The re-
port, 9,
which wa, agreed to nem. con., stated that after t
making provision for all bad and doubtful debts—
paying on Income Tax—and setting apart £2,000
towards the buildings of the bank,—the net profits
for the last half year amounted to £129,921
19s. 6d. This sum, added to £4,403 14s. 4d.,
the unappropriated balance of the preceding
half-year, would amount to £134,325 13s. 10d. Out
of this amount interest on the rest or surplus fund
at the rate of five per cent. per annum (£6,566
Bs. ld.) had been added to that fund, which now
amounted to £269,222 13s. ld. The directors now
declared a dividend to the shareholders at the rate
of six per cent. per annum, and, by way of further
dividend out of the profits, a bonus of seven per
cent. on the paid-up capital. After these pay-
ments were made there would remain a bal-
ance of £27,759 ss. 9d. to be carried to the
profit and loss account for the Current half-year.
The chairman stated that the deposits now exceeded
by £200,000 those of the corresponding period of
last year, and by £650,000 those of the previous 'bChristmas. These figures fully demonstrated the „1
material progress of the London and Westminster
Bank, notwithstanding the many new institutions
lately established,

Two O'CLOCK.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were
firm, at 68f. 67c. to 68f. 60e.

The market for the English Funds continues to
exhibit buoyancy. Purchasers on speculative ac-
count, and also for investment, were effected early
this morning, and another rise of 1 per cent. ensu-
ing, Consols then being 038 for money, and 931
for the 6th proximo ; but sales on realisation of
profits have since caused a reaction to 93 8, and e
938 1 respectively.
The Reduced Annuities are buoyant at 921 ;93 ; a
and the New Threes at 921 I. India Stock is
marked 226 228; the 5 per Cent. Loan, 108 1 ; the
5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 107; and the 58 per
Cent, ditto, 116. The Bonds are quoted 15s. 19a. s
prem., and Exchequer Bills are par to ls. prem.,
being a little lower.
Foreign Stocks have been dull and depressed.
Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 671 1 ; do. Consolides,
50: ;; Mexican, 37H ; Greek, 351 ; ; do. Coupons,
161 6 ; Spanish Passive, 331 j; do. Certificates, s
12i d ; Portuguese, 48 I, ; Egyptian, 1031 1044 ; and
the Confederate Loan, 1 die. to a prem.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been .1
moderately active, and a slight advance has taken
place. Caledonian have improved 55., Great Eastern,
Great Western, North Western, and South Eastern -
10s.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have re-
mained very inactive, and few changes of import-
ance can be reported in values.
Bank and Miscellaneous Snares, in most instances,
remain at about former quotations. City Bank
realise 1101 to 111; Imperial Ottoman, 1911-; Lon-
don and South African 254; and Peninsular and
Oriental Steam 79; International Financial shares
are quoted 4i to 61- prem. ; London Financial 11 t•
11 prem. ; General Credit 1 to 11 prem. ; Hudson's
Bay Company, Bto -7-, prem. ; and Egyptian Trading
Company, to lk prem.

BRITISH FUNDS--ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93 2i 3i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
92i 3 3
i
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6thiJan., 1880 Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
India
Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.. 226 8
..... .... .
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent ................... . . 107
Ditto 5} per Cent .................. 116
D iti. bonds 1,900
Ditto under £l,OOO l5 19 pm
Consols for Account, Aug, 6
Marcu
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2i per Cent.. 1 pm
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small
_ _

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK,
Egyptian 7 pet Cent lO4l
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 351 I
Ditto Account,
Ditto Coupons l6l i
Mexican 3 per Cent 37a f
Ditto Account 3B
New Granada l5l
Ditto 2 per Cent....
Ditto Deterred
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 4} per Cent. . —
Ditto 1862 -

June

Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62.. 481 8
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, St
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850
Ditto 1860
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account 93
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds 7ll
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account 67/ 8
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £l9 16s 8d pd.
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lO3l
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Ceilt., 1862
Ditto Accounts 7 61
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 641
Italian, Apo Cent , 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. 711
Ditto unt
TWO O'CLOCK,
Consols, Money
Ditto August Account ............... 93
03i I
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'verpool Cotton Market—This Day.

No change. m (Rzn TER.' 'S TELEGRAM.)
Imports, 1,012. arkperte,ull. Sales about 4,000 bales.
.............619 237.
DEATH FROM TllEiii7;"."..r?
FURNIVAL'S INN.
—Yesterday the occur bee ATf
Hotel, Furnival'e Inn, was reported . . a fire at Wood's
that the gentleman in whose room the wfi as also mention( d
tamed some injuries. The goule originated sus
German named George Rutcher Wiechelrn question was a
and has siace died from the effects of
lisi,B4, years of age,
Lankester, coroner for Central Middlesex, heli°ditiries• Dr.
on the body at the hotel yesterday. From the an. inquest
appeared that the deceased retired to his roam evidence it
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night and went to sleep, leaving his candle on on
S ehuudarl y
the bedside. Early in the morning deceased found that
the room was on fire, and after vainly trying to extinguish
the flames, he got cut of the window, and held on for some
time to the sill, At length he fell, severely cutting his
wrist by the skylight of the closet. This and other injuries
occasioned dtoth, and a verdict of accidental death Nese t,_
turned. _ _

It is officially stated that the rumour of NI.
Hubert Delisle having been entrusted with a mission to
Mexico is unfounded,