The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-06 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Activity still prevails in discount circles, and for
the time the ra is firm at the Bank minimum of
3 per cent. Meptional transactions are, how-
ever, spoken of at 2* per cent., but they are only in
bankers' short-dated acceptances. After the usual
repayment of advances have been made to the
authorities, and the dividends have been distributed,
money will no doubt tend to a lower value.
There was an influx of £16,000 in bar gold at the
Bank yesterday.
The English and Foreign Credit Company's
report states that there is a realised balance to the
Credit of profit and loss of £11,562, which the
directors recommend should be treated as follows,
viz., £4,876 in payment of a dividend of 7s. Id.
per share, free of income tax, being at the rate of
10 per cent• per annum ; £5,000 to a reserved fund,
which it is proposed to invest and not to employ in
the business of the company ; and the balance,
£1,686, to be carried forward. A sum of £2,258
is paised to the new interest account,
on transactions now current. being rebate
The report of the Trinidad Petroleum Company
states that the money to be paid for the estates has
been reduced from £50,000 to £16,000. After
mature consideration, inquiry, and experiments on
the spot, the directors have come to the conclusion
that it will be more advantageous to distil the
asphaltum in this country, and have therefore leased
land at Silvertown, on which they are erecting
works. The board express a hope that at the next
meeting they will be enabled to declare a dividend.
At a meeting of the shareholders of the Delhi
Bank Corporation it was unanimously resolved that
the bank should be designated " The Delhi and
London Bank (Limited)."
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day are in round figures as under :

Great 'Western
North Western

1865. 1864
...£72,836 £72,766

South-Weste
Brighton rri
Midland ***
South Eastern
Great Norther

... 119;148 115,657
... 30,044 28,268
... 23,302 21,435
... 48,325 46,914
... 26,234 25,190

35,823 32,869
let • jrn ••• "'
neashire and Yorkshire ... 41,470
Bristol d EaterEx 6,937 6,780
44,554
•••
North
Idancheater, Sheffield, a i Lin(;oinshire. 19,712 18,319
69,009 65,866
Great Eastern 4•
.. 33,735 33,668
The returns, when compared with the correspond-
ing period of last year, are generally of a favourable
character. On the Great Western there is an in-
cre
en the ase
on the North Western,
of £7O ;
of £3,491;
of South-Western, of £1,776 ;on the Brighton,
£1,869 ; on the Midland, of £1,411; on the
South-Eastern, of £1,044 ;on the Great Northern,
ef £2,954 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, of
£3,084 ; on the
the North Bristol and Exeter, of £157 ; on,
Sheffield of £3,143 ; on the Manchester,
Great
, and Lincoln, of £1,393 ; and on the
Eastern, of £67.
The biddings for 25
bills 0 ,00,000 rupees (1250,000) in
4 India took place yesterday at the Bank of
England. The proportions allotted were—to Cal-
cutta 17,41,000 rs., to Madras 35,000 rs., and to
Bombay 6,60,000 rs. The minimum price was, as
before, ls. 100. on Calcutta and Madras, and ls.
100. on Bombay. Tenders on Calcutta and Mad-
ras at and above Is. 111 d., and on Bombay at and
above 25., will receive in full.
The directors of the Dagenhamames) Dock
Company state that interest up tone 30 last,
at the rate of 6 per cent., as in the terms of the
prospectus, will be paid, on and after the 13th July.
An ad interim dividend of £6 per cent. has been
declared
)by the Upper Assam Tea Company
(Limited.

Two O'CLOCK.
At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to
Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were
67f. 30c. Firmer.

The market for the English Funds has been dull,
but securities have neverthelessto, been firmly main-
tained. Consols remain at
New Threes and 1i for money, and
90. Th for the account.
Re-
duced are 89i i ; Annuities, 1885, 141 1; and
India 5 per Cents., 104 i.
Very little fluctuation has occurred in the Foreign
Stock Market. Turkish Consohde's have improved
to 49/ 50 ; Mexican, Old, to 238 2418 ;
Certificates,
being flat ; Spanish Passive, zu 7
.-sni 30 • ueruneu
141 1 ; Italian, 638 641; and the Confederate Loan
is steady at 7 9 ; Russian 4/ per. Cents., 1850, are
881 do. 5 per Cents., 1862, 918 ; Turkish
Cents., 1862, 74 / ; do. 5 per Cents., 1865, 46/ ;
18566 per
Portuguese 3 per Cents., 1853, 471 ; ditto
63, 471.
American securities are without any important
alteration.
Erie United States 5-20 Bonds are 714 r 2 ;
Shares, 531 i ; and Illinois, 851 1.
33.3tu'iri%a in the Railway Share Market has been
rnouerately active,
depress'ion. but prices have shown a further
Lancaster and Yorkshire, Manchester,
Sheffield, and
Wick) have Lincoln, and North Eastern (Ber-
Great Western £1 il., North western and
Eastern i. 4-, Great Northern i, and Great
The Foreign and Colonial lines show little change
of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain very
inactive, and prices are without material variation.
Chartered Mercantile of India, London, and China
have improved to 441 ; New South Wales to 401;
and Nationai. Discount Company to 161.
Subjoined are the current quotations of some of
the principal new undertakings--New Issue of
50,000 Preference Shares of £5 each of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company
Tea, par pial, par 1 pm. ; Northern Assam
I . ;
4Chubwa Tea, i pm' ; RusT
Pm
sian Iron, 8 10
pm. ; London Bridge Land, 14
Imo . ; Albert Bridge / 11 pin. ; Grange Town
n, 1 2 pm. ; Dns Dock, 1 1 pm. ; London,
Windsor, and ow,
Greenwich Hotels, 1/ 21 Pm. ;
London
Quays and warehouses, par i Pm. ;
British India
and Trust Agency, 11 2 pm• ; Bel-