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
date to the credit of the Secreta,ry 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 6140,000 has been incurred, the estimates
of net zeceipts from traffic being 17 per cent. The
bonds are to be issued at 98, and application is to
be made to Messrs. Cavan, Lubbock, and Co., or
Messrs. Ricardo. The coupons will be payable half-
yearly at Messrs.. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co.'s.

A call of £5 per share has been made by the
directors of the Bank of British Columbia payable
on or before the I.lth inst.

Business in th e Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets during t;l2e last few days continued mode-
rately active. T ea, 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. lice was in fair re-
quest without any material variation in values.
Tallow continuud dull, P.Y.C., on the spot, being
quoted 495. 6d. ; and last three months' delivery,
50s. to Ns. 6d. per cwt.
The Venezuelsin Loan is decidedly popular, and.
numerous applicE ttions for allotments have been re-
ceived to-day. Et is presumed that the contractors
will speedily ant tounce the closing of the subscrip-
tion list. The to is quoted 3to 31 prem.
It is generall3r imagined that the Peruvian Loan
operation will prove successful, the terms being con-
sidered sufficiently attractive. The quotation is 3;
to 3i prem.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
The half-yearly meeting of the Scottish Austra-
lian Investor ent 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-ye ar, although trade had continued dull,
and thore had been no great demand for real pro-
Petty. The gross profits for the six months
amounted to £12,826 Os. 7d., which compared with
the preceding accounts, showed an increase of
£1,031 lls. The report was unanimously adopted,
and the dividen 3 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
.oth 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.
subjoined are the various items and the changes
they present.

Active Circulation .. £22,192,1'5
Decrease * • • i 0,920
Bullion • • • *
.. 18,448,443
Increase • •
•• •• 387,826
Best •• • • • • .. 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 60,000
Other Securities • 19,442,371
Decrease .- 139,451
Notes Unemployed. .: •.•. •., 10,022,995
Increase 370,835
Rather more demand for money is reported to-
tlaY. In the discount market business has been
Promoted by the preparations for the 4th of the
nlonth, 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
gmater 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
halt-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
°f the Secretary of State for India in Council the
farther 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 en speculative account
any. partly for delivery for parties desirous of sub-
scribing for the new loans and other descriptions
of associated enterprise. The decline has repre-
aeofed I per cent. compared with the latest prices
of yesterday—Consols being 931 94 for transfer
and the 7th inst., and 94 941 for the 4th proximo.
The 93 New flarees and the Reduced have receded to
94; Exchequer Bills are steady at 255. to 28s.
Floe.; Bank Stock is 238 and 240; and India
per Cent. Loan,loBl
A fair amount of business has been negotiated
Iln the Foreign Stock Market, but prices in several
18tancee have shown a decline. Turkish 6 per
c im.-ente• are 86; 87; ditto, New Loan Scrip, 317
gyptian Scrip, 13! 141 prem.; Italian
ailwaY Loan, 741; Mexican, 28! ; Russian
S9lcrip, prem. ; Spanish, 551 ; ditto Certificates,
4 , Venezuelan, at 27-2 281 ; ditto, 11 per Cents.,
The New. Portuguese Loan is 3i 7.- :prem.; the
Peruvian, 21 3 prem.; and the Venezuelan, 3
Prem.

In thrt Railway Share Market dealings have been
extremely limited, and prices have shown a further
alight depression. Eastern Counties have receded
; Bristol and Exeter, and Great Westerns,
; 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 flat. Alliance of London and Liverpool realise
121 131 ; London Chartered of Australia, 25i ;
Union of Australia 46; Crystal Palace Stock, 341-.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
b per Cent. Reduced Annuities 944 i 4 34
~_3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
Ziew 3 per Cent. Annuities 941 t i
i 4 34
India Stock -
Ditto 0 per Cent. 1034 1 i
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent 1044
Ditto 5i per Cent llOl 11
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 101
'' 944 34
.„`,onsols for Account, Aug. 7
2587
xchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent ..
5 8
Ditto £6OO ..........
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
14 4 131 4
3%7Ptian, 7 per Cent., Scrip
74
ci Ditto Paid-up Scrip .............. :
Tfteneda Active ............... • ......
-..Etuan o
k. per Cent.
. (Maremmana Railway) 741
"'lca'''. 3 per Cent ..:
p 'Attu Account ..
elliriln 4} per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent —
90
I:t`ittl}guese 3
4116 per C peentr Cent
182., 2
18Z
St 53.
1.1
. .
itto 3 pet Cant., 1859
t I?itto 1862 (Scrip).
4
P4ni6ti 3 per Cent --
t 1)44) Account
I.l',,ETiell Cert. of Coup. not funded
'l.4ish 6 per Cant. 1854
bitto , - 4.
Liter 2.-CCOUD . ............ 861 1
1.31. to 6 per Cent. 1853 •...........
Ipto Account
titt.tttoo,epl;OCßenont.d,sl.B.6, Wc.r.iii
,77-5 r it I i
ye, . 01 Paid up Scrip
uezuela, 3 per Cent
1 ~Uitto Account it ....
...... 28 a 74
''tto it per Cent ............... 14
D'.vidends on the above payable in London.
1)41-1striar, 5
h per Cent ........... . i
.-. ... 58
'tett"; 2..k,Per Cent., Exchange 12 Gull. .•
Italian
5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. • 7.4 it ali
TWO o.cLuoi,.
e°lli46lB) Money
Ditto
.A_
~ ecount ..
- zeptemper ..
D,l
94i4

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several localities in Belgium bands are want-
for tiZ,r the harvest, a large number of reapers having left
are ab-, reach provinces, where from their activity they
te to command high wages. The first samples of
I,a:rk:ra,,t have just been shown in the Brussels corn
tity ' hey were grown in the neighbourhood of that
ttncl axe described as being of exceediAgly fino quuty,