The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-10 00:00:00

disappointment expressed by the shareholders at
the small dividend proposed to be paid in spite of
the favourable business transactions of the bank
during the past year. This circumstance had arisen
from the directors having to provide for bad debts
which had accrued during the distress of the year
1857. It was stated that the amount pinced to the
debit of the reserve fund for bad and doubtful debts
was £20,000; the sum taken from the profits of
last year to the credit of that fund, £24,000; the
amount considered requisite to cover the contin-
gencies of last year's business, £7,000. The report
was adopted, and the retiring directors re-elected.
Extreme quietude has pervaded the Stock-Ex-
change Market to-day, the settlement of the account
in Consols having occupied exclusive attention. The
Funds are 91-'1 for money, and 92 1 for the 10th
proximo. The New Threes and the Reduced are
flat at 911 ; Exchequer Bills have receded to 4s.
prem, ; Bank Stock is 2341 and 236; India ditto,
231'; and ditto 5 per Cent., 107 Z 2.
In the Foreign Market business is dull, and
prices show very little change. Turkish 6 per
Cents. are 821 ; ditto 1858, 701; ditto New Scrip
remain at 3 prem.; Egyptian, at lat. prem. ;
Mexican, at 312; Russian 5 per Cents. are flat, at
97; ditto New Scrip i@ nominally s 1 prem.; and
Spanish Certificates are heavy, at 81 to 91 ; Italian
have improved to 721 t.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have
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?pointed the following sitting days, viz. :—The
12th inst. for Brazilian Bank, Westminste r Brewery,
Northern Counties Bank, and in the Don Pedro
North Del Rey Gold Mining, and Monday, the 16th
in the Bombay Gus Company.
In the Railway Share Market business has con-

tinned exceedingly dull, and the variations have
barely exceeded 4 per cent. North Eastern (Ber-
wick), Midlands, and Lancashire and Yorkshire
have improved 55., and South Easterns 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines also remained very is
inactive. South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian,
however, have improved to 221 I, Cape Town and
Dock to 107, and Great Indian Peninsula are steady
at 1041- 105.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares gene-
rally support former prices. London and County,
however, have receded to 373, and National Pro-
vincial of England have improved to 13U.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
Bank Stock
3 per Cent- Reduced Annuities 9ll i
i per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9ll ft
annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April; 1885 l5 5-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto dtito April, 1864 991
Ditt. Bonds £l,000
7onsols for Account, July 10
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent .. 4
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES,
Brazilian, 5 per Cent. —
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Egyptian, 7 per Cent
Ditto Paid-up Scrip
.renada Active
Ditto Deterred
.lexican, 3 per Cent
lissilxn 5 per Cent 1822 £ St ..
Ditto Account
Ditto 41 pet Cent 92/
4phnish 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Passive..
panish Cert. of Coup. not funded
urkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto 6 per Lent. 1858 ..
Ditto Account
Ditto 1862 (Scrip)
Ditto, Paid up Scrip
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, ex 25f 72 ft 2i
THREE O'CLOCK.
3onsols, Money
Ditto Account