The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-08 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COYIII2RCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
AS was generally expected, the demand for money
is very active owing to the large number of Indian
engagements which fall due to-day, but the supply
of capital is rather abundant. The rate for the best
billy is 3 per cent., but exceptional operations hay
been recorded in fine short-dated paper at 21 per
Cent.

There was a slight advance in the foreign ex-
changes yesterday afternoon.
About 130,000 sovereigns for the Brazils, and
z
,5,a 000 for Alexandria, were withdrawn from the
ck Yesterday.
, 1311 ring toe week the imports of specie have
-111°Iloted A £84,935, and the exports to £216,833.
the dividend of 5 per cent. has been declared by
PaYable London and Southwark Insurance Corporation,
°ll Augus
resolve t Ist.
have The directors of the Union Bank of Australia
11- upon a dividend of £2 ss. per share,
being at the rate of 9 per cent for the half-year.
vr.The share list of the Austin Consolidated Silver
17bies Company closes on Monday, July 17, for
°1!d°11, and Wednesday, July 19, for the country.
_ The Rov,
vand Malt Exchange and Warehouse
uftipany's share list closes on Wednesday next, the
12th inst.
, The directors of the Dalbeattie and Kirkconnell
.Ista. nite Company (Thames Embankment Works),
which Company
been very favourably received by the
111. /resting public, announce that the list of applica-
for shares will be closed on Saturday next, the
~,-15th inst., and for the country on the following
Illesday, the 18th inst.
The report of the directors of the Imperial Mer-
cantile Credit Association has just been issued, from
which it appears that, after discharging all expenses
of the establishment, and providing for rebate of in-
tererest on loans and bills not off, yet matured, writing
all losses and making ample provision for every
contingency, there remains for disposal the sum of
£103,975 Is. Bd. This amount the directors recom-
mend to be appropriated as follows :--To dividend
of 10s. per share or 20 per cent.
Income. tax, £50,000 ;to Income-tax, £833 6s.
to balance of profits unappropriated, £53,141555.
The operations of the amalgamated company have
now extended over a period of thirteen months.
The amount of profits distributed in January last,
added to that now exhibited, shows a total of
1.53,975 is. Bd. The directors consider they are
justified in
result congratulating the proprietors upon a
which, bearing in mind the difficulties which
almost invariably attend new undertakings, and the
tart'
unfavourable condition of all mone-
Z''_ rlir affairs during a considerable portion of the time,
not be regarded as otherwise than satisfactory
v not past and encouraging for the future.

A Two O'CLOCK.
Reutt til
er,: Paris Bourse this morning, according to
66f. 97c. teleraill
the
3
tett ' per Cent. Itentes were
A little businer.
irnarket for the-'l: has been apparent to-day in the
En has
Funds, arising principally
rcma paucity of business. The attendance has been
13111 all, and a pected till revival of speculative operations is not
1' 111°11e
"ex afttr the General Election. Console
9c',.,)- have closed at 94; and for the account,
I -I. Transactions have taken place in some of
the other securities, as follows :—Nevr Threes and
Reduced Annuities, 891 i ; India 5 per Cents.,
104 i ill ; ditto Enfaced 51-i- Per Cents., 109* ; Bank
of England Stock, 249 ; and Exchequer Bills, 4s.
Pretn.
TurkishPe'reign stocks have been very quiet and heavy.
6 per Cents., 1862, are 74 72 ; do. Con-
solidds, 49i / ; Mexican 231 i ; do. New, 221 23i ;
(''Teek, 20i 21; Spanish Passive `29iCer-
tio t
Loan
14i / ; Italian, 63/ 64 ; and Confederate
8 9.
b ill the
he Railway
ten Share Market the deans have
, and prices, with one or two excep- _