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

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CONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

There is a slightly easier feeling in the general
Money Market, and discounters 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 c+-I.lt. per
annum (free of income tax) on the original capital
Was declared, as also the payment of interest at the
current rata on the deposits ana calls of the reserved
shares. £1,507 12s. 8d Was carried forward.

At the half-yearly sleeting to-day of the Standard
Bank of British. South Africa—Mr. Stenhonse in
the chair—it was agreed to increase the capital
from £1,500,00 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
Raffarian Bank. Letters had also beer 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, which was agreed to nem. con., stated that after
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 £134,325 135.10 d. Out
of this amount interest on the rest or surplus fund
at the rate of five per cent, per annum (i 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
Christmas. These figures fully demonstrated the
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. 60c.
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 for money, and 931
for the 6th proximo ; but sales on realisation of
profits have since caused a reaction to 93 8, and
938 1 respectively.
The Reduced Annuities are buoyant at 921 i 93 ;
and the New Threes at 921 j. India Stock is
marked 226 228; the 5 per Cent. Loan, 108 1 ; the
5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 107; and the 51 per
Cent, ditto, 116. The Bonds are quoted 15s. 19s.
prem., and Exchequer Bills are par to ls. prem.,
being a little lower.

Foreign Stocks have been dull and depressed.
Turkish 6 per Centa., 1862, are 676 ; do. Consolides,
502 ; Mexican, 3741, ; Greek, 352 ; do. Coupons,
161 ; Spanish Passive, 331 ; do. Certificates,
121 4 ; Portuguese, 48 ; Egyptian, 1036 1046 ; and
the Confederate Loan, 4 dis. to 4 prem.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
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 Shares, in most instances,
remain at about former quotations. City Bank
realise 1101 to 111; Imperial Ottoman, 191;*; Lon-
don and South African 254; and Peninsular and
Oriental Steam 79 ; International Financial shares
are quoted 41 to 5} prem. ; London Financial 11 to
Ft prem. ; General Credit to 11 prem. ; Hudson's
Bay Company, k toe prem. ; and Egyptian Trading
Company, I to 11 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
92 2i 3 6 3
New 3 per Cent. Annuities . ..
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire .sthiJan., 1880.
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.' India Stock.. ,
Dittos per Cent ..... . .... .
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per dent'

Ditto

T Cent

pei
Ditto 5i per Cent .................. 116
D'tt,, Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO ..
5
Consols for Account, Aug. 6 93i
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent lOBl #
ar
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 per Cent.. 1 M
pm June
par
Ditto £5OO — Ditto Small
. —
FOREIGN FUNDS . par
—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent . 921
EgYptian 7 per Cent.. lO4l 31
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 3sa 1
Ditto Account.. -
a Mexican 3 per Cent 161
...
1i Ditto Account
38 7
New Granada
Ditto 2 er Cent ... 32a Ditto Deterred
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Peruvian 41 per Cent. _—
Ditto 1862
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 3
Ditto per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 4Bl 8
Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St --
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 ..
Ditto 1860
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent
SPanieh 3 per Cent:
Ditto Account —

Ditto Passive
Ditto Account.. 33
Al/tartish 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
671 i i
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
67k 8
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 pet Cent. 1863, £l9 16a 8d pd.
Pen Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent 103!
ezuela, 3 per Cpnt
.
Ditto 6 per Cent , 1862
Ditto Account .. . .
6/
Dividends on ......... ....... in Londoni .7
?tn. •!Italtn2.per Cent., EL 12 Guil 64 t
ai3itts, 6APeztZent., 1861, EL 25 francs.. 71H
t ......................
Consols, Money .
Ditto ATHREE O'CLOCK.
ugust Account. ............... 934 1
.... 93i a
..........
Liverpool Cotton market---This Day.
-----------4.—__
GRAM.)
(RErTER'S TELE
No change. Market dull. Sales about 4,000 bales.
Previously 237.
Imports, 1,012.

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DEATH FROM THE FIRE AT RIVAL's INN.
"--Yesterday the occurrence of a fire
Rotel, Furnival'e inn, was reported ; it was als
at
nnt i o n c a
Wood's
that the gentleman in whose room the fire originated
tamed some injuries. The gentleman in question :us.
German named George Butcher Wiechers 44 years otaaBße
and has since died from the effects of his injuries. b;
Lankester, coroner for Central Middlesex, held an inquest
on the body at the hotel y esterday. From the evidence it
appeared that the deceased retired to his room on Sunday
night and went to sleep, leaving his candle on a chair by
the bedside. Early in the morning deceased found that
the room was on fire, ancl after vainly trying to extinguish
the flames, he got cut of the window, end held on for Eome
Vole to the sill, At length be fell, severely cutting his
Wrist by the skylight of the closet. This and o her injuries
c'neasioned thoth, and a verdict of accidental death was rz-
tttrued,