The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-01 00:00:00

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The sum of £168,719 has been paid up to this
/34te to the credit of the Secretary of State for India
in Council on account of capital of the Delhi
Railway.

Proposals have been issued for a first mortgage
loan of £60,000 at. 7 per cent. on the Havannah and
Marianao Railway in Cuba, which is expected to
be opened in about two months, and on which an
outlay of £140,000 has been incurred, the estimates
of net receipts from traffic being 17 per cent. The
bonds are .to be issued at 9S, and application is to
be made to Messrs. Cavan, Lubbock, and Co., or
Messrs. Ricardo. The coupons will be payable half-
yearly at Messrs. Roberts, Lubbock, and Co.'s.
Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets during the last few days continued mode-
rately active. Tea, at public sale, however, went
at rather lower prices. Sugars fully sustained for-
mer quotations, while for coffee the demand con-
tinued active at full rates. Rice was in fair re-
quest without any material variation in values.
Tallow continued dull, P.Y.C., on the spot, being
quoted 495. 6d. ; and last three months' delivery,
50s. to Ns. 6d. per cwt.
The Venezuelan Loan is decidedly popular, and
numerous applications for allotments have been re-
ceived to-day. It is presumed that the contractors
will speedily announce the closing of the subscrip.-
tion list. The loan is quoted 3to 31 prem.
It is generally imagined that the Peruvian Loan
operation will prove successful, the terms being con-
sidered sufficiently attractive. The quotation is 34
to 3f prem.

CITY, Two o'CLooK.
The half-yearly meeting of the Scottish Austra-
lian Investment Company took place to-day, Mr.
W. H. Dickson in the chair. The report presented
embraced the operations of the company for the half
year ending the 31st December last in the colony,
and the 30th June last in London. It stated that
the profit realised was larger than that of the pre-
vious half-year, although trade had continued dull,
and thore had been no great demand for real pro-
perty. The gross profits for the six months
amounted to £12,8z6 Os. 7d., which compared with
the preceding accounts, showed an increase of
£1,031 1 ls. The report was unanimously adopted,
and the dividend recommended—viz,, at the rate of
10 per cent, per annum, less income tax, was or-
dered to be paid on the 14th inst.
The Bank of England return completed to the
90th July is again of a satisfactory character.
There is a considerable addition to the stock of
bullion, and also to the reserve of notes, The other
securities show a slight diminution, and there is a
reduction in the amount of notes in circulation.
Subje,ined are the various items and the changes
they present.

Active Circulation .. £22,192,1'5
Pecrease 10,920
Bullion . 18,448,443
Increase .. •• „. .. :87,826
Rest 3 258 549
•• •• •• •• 3,258,549
Increase .. 3,070
Public Deposits •• •• •• 5,895,840
Increase .. .. • . 604,627
Other Deposits.. .. 16,903,068
Decrease .. • • •• " 299'855
Seven Day and other Bills .. 740,901
Increase .. • • • . • • 1,453
Government Securities •• •• 11 002, 679
Increase .. • • • • 50,000
Other Securities .. 19,442,371
Decrease .. • • 139,451
-.Notes Unemployed .. .. 10,022,995
Increase • • • • 370'835
Rather more demand for money is reported to-
day. In the discount market business has been
Promoted by the preparations for the 4th of the
month, and the rates being a little firmer, a larger
enquiry is experienced at the Bank of England,
and, at the Stock Exchange loans, are still in
greater request, chiefly in consequence of the pro-
vision made for the new loans.
The report of the directors of the Westminster
Palace Hotel Company, to be presented at the half-
yearly meeting on Monday next, congratulates the
shareholders on the steadily increasing business of
the hotel. The directors have determined to de-
clare a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 8
per centum per annum and to carry over to next
half-year the sum of £779 ss. sd.

The Madras Railway Company have paid into
the Bank of England since the 22d inst. to the credit
of the Secretary of State for India in Council the
further sum of £92 380 on account of the fifth exten-
sion capital of the company.
A further retrograde movement has taken place
in the market for Public Securities to-day, owing
to numerous sales partly on speculative accouut
and partly for delivery for parties desirous of sub-
seriblng for the new loans and other descriptions
of associated enterprise. The decline has repre-
sented I per cent. compared with the latest prices
of yesterday—Consols being 931 91 for transfer
and the 7th inst., and 94 94 for the 4th proximo,
The New Threes and the Reduced have receded to
93; 94; Exchequer Bills are steady at 255. to 28s.
Preen.; Bank Stock is 238 and 240; and India
Five per Cent. Loin,loBl 1.
A fair amount of business has been negotiated
in the Foreign Stock Market, but prices in several
instances have shown a decline. Turkish 6 per
Cents. are 881 87; ditto, New Loan Scrip, 34
I)reirl• ; Egyptian Scrip, 13,34 141 prem.; Italian
Itailvvay Loan, 741 ; Mexican, 28t, d ; Russian
Scrip, t prem. ; Spanish, 55-1 ; ditto Certificates,
; Venezuelan, at 271 281, ; ditto, 14 per Cents.
14.

The New Portuguese Loan is 31 'prem.; the
riruvian, 231 3 prem.; and the Venezuelan, 3 t
pram.

In thA Railway Share Market dealings have been
extremely limited, and prices have shown a further
Blight depression. Eastern Counties have receded
68. ; Bristol and Exeter, and Great Westerns,
108. ; and Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North
Western 15s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained
Without material variation.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
are fiat. Alliance of London and Liverpool realise
12; 131 ; London Chartered of Australia, 25i;
Union of Australia 46 ; Crystal Palace Stock, 341.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
239 k 8 40
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 94e 1 4 34-
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities. .........
India Stock 94e i 4 31 4
..............
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent...... 91381
Ditto 5 per Cent ._
........... 1041 1 /
Ditto 51 per Cent llO/ 11
D Ito Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,000
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 101
Consols for Account, Aug. 7 94i 31.
Exchequer Bills £I,OOO, 3 per Cent 258 7
Ditto VOO
Ditto Small _ 25 8 7 9
14'(.51t1 FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES ---
Chilian 6 per Cent.
Ditto 4/ per Cent.
14 i 131 14115
IgTptian, 7 per Cent Scrip ........... •
.
6 7
r 9 65 6 1 Ditto Paid-up 5crip.............. ...
renada Active
Italian.„,, 5 per Cent. Narenimana Railway) 74i
", xican, 3 per ent ....
p Ditto Account,lnivlgn 41 per Cent ............. . .....
14 bitto 3 per Ceni
..ortuguel•e 3 per Cent" 1853.
47}
iinsmian per Cent 1822 £St .
nitt 0 Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
c., Ditto 1862 (Scrip) i
'Phrlisti 3 ner Cent
Ditto ACcount 55i
tl3B.,iish Cert. of Coup. not funded
, Urkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account ..........
1 Vent.!itte 6 per Vent. 1858 ......
Ditto Account
'''bittett • £100,80n,d5...
T,, 0 6 per Cent.. i 862. Scrip...". ni3 1
V n'''t°, Paid up scrip •
........ 0, 4
: Illesuela, 3 per Cent .............. 71i a i 1
................
13itto Account
Ditto 1} per Cent........................... 28 71 i
... 14 131
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian 5 per Cent
Latch 2' per Cent., Exchange 12 Gull.
76281
lit
1; 2
~,„t 8 . ,_r 'en • ...... 10 Ital)liati, 514 Pert Cent..,' 118616, EC. 2tsf. ...... ...
THREE
co"a"ls, °'LOCK,
Money ..
Ditto Account

i In several localities in Belgium hands are Want
tng for the harvest, a large number of reapers having loft
151' the French provinces, where from their
firstsativity they
a.r,,e able to command high wages, The samples of
11,°_Wheat have just been shown in the Brussels corn
4.,„1."t• They were grown in the neighbourhood of that
1144 are described U being of exceedingky fine quality.