The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-18 00:00:00

THE Two SENIOR ALDERMEN:

Mr. Alderman Copeland.
Mr. Alderman Wilson.
The members of the Council will then retire.
His Majesty the Sultan will then proceed to his private
apartments, conducted by the deputation.

After a short interval, the deputation, having proviouslY
assembled in the lobby of the Exchequer Chamber, will
conduct his Imperial Majesty to his throne.
The concert will then commence.
When the Sultan retires to supper he will be preceded
by the deputation to the Council Chamber.
After supper the deputation will coudact the Royal rartY
to the hall.

FURTHER INERESTING PARTICULARS.
Entering from King-street into Guildhall-yard,
an arcade of double columns, with statues on
pedestals at intervals between, to form a porch
for the setting down of the guests from their re-
spective carriages, is provided in front of the re-
ception hall, as well as in front of the public
drinking fountain, forming a façade of upwards of
120 feet in length. The guests alighting here will
reach the cloak-rooms to the right and left. The
portions above the portico are finished with a pedi-
ment, and panels filled with figures, &c. From
the cloak rooms the guests will pass under the
southern staircase and give up their tickets in the
entrance lobby to the reception hall, then passing
under the orchestra, which is about 12ft. high, and
supported by two handsome caryatides, the nevi
reception hall is entered. This room, 54ft. Wide
in the clear, is supported by a row of six ionic
columns on each side, it is 22 feet to the highest
point of the ceiling, and about 90 feet long, and
forms with the entrance lobbies and porch a build-
ing 105 feet long. The decoration of this hall 11
kept in a uniform style, the prevailing colour being
cream or white, relieved with gold. The walls are
hung with a richly-diapered decoration, each bat.
having an architectural frontispieee of imitation
wedge-wood ware, with a mirror 10 feet high
and 4 feet wide, and an oval light with the arms et
the City and of the Sultan, alternately, above.
It is lighted by 10 chandeliers of 12 lights
each. Four staircases, one at each corner of the
hall, give access to the upper or supper-room,
the two northernmost (adjoining the porch to the
Guildhall) have in their well-holes fountains
dressed round with flowers, &c. From the centre of
this hall, on the right hand side, a fifth staircase of
a very large and handsome character leads to the
supper rooms over the courts of law, and also to the
supper room over the reception hall ; this supper
room, 95 feet long by 54 feet wide, and about 18
feet high, will afford accommodation for 500 guests
at one, in addition to 300 guests in the law courts/
all seated.

The decorations of the supper rooms are of course
of a somewhat lighter and less imposing character
than in the room below, although considerable at-
tention has been paid to their artistic character.
The upper supper room will be decorated with
pilasters and cornices, and will have in each bay 11
painting by Absolon representing the arts and
sciences, and will be lighted by 3 sun burners, and
provision has been made by means of louvres, dor-
mers, &c., for thorough ventilation, and not only
of this floor, but also of the ground floor by mean?
of the five staircases, as well as by external
openings.
The porch to the Guildhall has been cleaned, and
left with only its natural architectural proportions/
though some decorations with flowers and shrubs,
about breast high, will be added on each side.
The Guildhall itself has had merely the mond:
meats cleaned and a double range of seats placed
along the walls where possible, the general character
of this hall not requiring any special decoration,
except the necessary erection of ilarge dais at the
two easternmost bays of the hall, 5 feet by 36 feet,
.
with a canopied seat in the centre of the easternmost
bay. Round this bay will be hung an arras 16 feet
high, of crimson velvet, powdered with crescents
kith
handsome stars, and the two balconied windows filled 'l_
handsome flowers, and lighted, in addition to
present gaseliers, by two very handsome crystal
candelabra. The windows containing stained glass
will be illuminated from the exterior.

THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—The :sixth party Ot
excursionists of the Paris Exhibition Excursion Committee
left London yesterday in two divisions, numbering about
110, by the Brighton and Chatham and Dover RailweYs'
A. large proportion of the excursionists were from the Pr°,-
moos, and several were from Science Schools in Irelan°'
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MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Gold to the amount of £51,000 was received at
.the Bank of England yesterday; and there was also
a Withdrawal of £13,000.

Tho. Consolidated Bank will hold their half-yearly
'fleeting on the 24th inst. at Manchester.
A first dividend of Gs. Bd. in the pound has been
declared in the matter of the Steam Biscuit Flour
Company (Limited), payable an the 25th inst. at the
offices of the official liquidator.
It will be proposed at the ensuing general meet-

ing of shareholders of the Anglo-American Tele-
graph Company to pay a dividend of £1 ss. on
each £lO share, as on the last occasion, making the
total distribution for the year £2 53. per share,
Which is equal to about 23 per cent. for the past 12
months.

The biddings for bills on India took place yester-
day at the Bank of England. The amounts
allotted were, to Calcutta 4,13,000 rs. (£41,300),
to Madras 100,000 rs. (£10,000), and to Bombay
10,00,000 rs. (£100,000). The minimum price
Was fixed, as before, at Is. 11d. per rupee on all
the presidencies. Tenders at the minimum on Cal-
cutta and Madras will receive in full, and on Born-
-134Y about 63 per cent. All tenders above the
minimum will receive in full.

At a meeting to-day the sixtieth report of the
London Joint-Stock Bank was submitted to the
shareholders. The accounts which the directors
presented informed the shareholders that during
the six months ending the 30th ultimo the bank
has made a net profit of £92,175 18s. 4d., of which
the sum of £90,000 is appropriated to the payment
of the usual dividend, at the rate of 12i per ceuturn
per annum, with a bonus of 6s. 3d. per share, together
£1 ss. per share, leaving an unappropriated balance
of £2,175 18s. 4d., to be carried forward to profit
and loss new account. The guaranteed fund, with
its accrued interest, now amounts to £337,839 4s. Bd.
The board resolved (subject to confirmation at a
special general meeting of shareholders) to complete
the addition made to the capital of the bank in
1864, by the 'issue of 8,000 shares, the remain-
ing portion of the 20,000 shares authorised to be
issued, and of which 12,000 were allotted in August
1864. These shares it is intended shall be offered
in the first instance to the shareholders, in the
proportion of one new share to every nine shares
of which on the 25th day of July they may be the
registered holders, at £25 per share, being £l5 per
Share the amount paid up on the existing shares of
the company, £lO per share premium ; the sum
t° be received as premium to be added to the gua-
rantee fund. On the completion of this issue,
the capital of the bank will be increased to 80,000
shares of £5O each, paid up to the extent of
per share, thus raising the paid up capital to
£1,200000. A special general meeting has been
Convened for Thursday, the 25th of July, when a
resolution will be proposed to authorise the issue of
8,000 new shares ; and the directors will avail
themselves of the occasion of this meeting to pro-
pose to the shareholders certain alterations in clause
9, and 52, of the deed of settlement of the
Company, which the board deem for the
interest of the bank should be sanctioned. The
directors, recognising the propriety of granting
pensions for long and faithful services
rendered by the officers of the bank, have established
rules and regulations for granting a retiring allow-
ance to the staff of the bank, and from the uniform
interest taken by the shareholders in the welfare of
those devoting themselves faithfully to promote the
Prosperity of the bank, the directors feel confident
that the course they have adopted will meet with
the hearty concurrence of all shareholders. The
dividend and bonus, free from income tax, will be
Payable on and after Friday, the 2Gth inst.

lteuter's Telegram Company (Limited) have
notified that permanent, direct telegraphic com-
Munication is now established between London
and Hamburg and London and Bremen by the
coMpletion of the company's land lines in connec-
tion with their cable to Norderney. Hitherto the
communication with these places has been carried
bl
; lo
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the
aGovernment wires, which are also used
for t
but the new land lines of this
e°llll3any aro exclusively for through traffic, and the
c„,ftinunication will be constant and instantaneous.
11e lines will be worked by the Electric and Inter-
national-1.,,, Telegraph Company. The construction of
R'euter's direct line to Berlin will be completed in
about two months.
toTile last week's railway receipts; ascertained up
ibis day, are in round figures as under :-
1867. 1866.
81,891 83,154
_128,391 127,228
... 31,691 30,515

Noeat Western
g° Western
)111}IgthiltoWrestorn

26,219 24.,112
r,1844 • ... 55,639 52,360
11t4 Eastern'
30,153 28,109
Pelt Norther' ... 38,561 36,022
Vl;4.4eashire and Yorkshire... ... 52,301 49,786
olstol and Exeter... 7,7.9 ,-7'463
karntitEastern ... 73,865 71, 680
Great Sheffield, and Lincoln 20,061 22,32,1_
at Eastern
... 88,498 3r,9aa forth
British 37,713 29,3 i 4
kero, Chatham, and Dover 15,135 14,324
015 r°Politan 4,529 4,112
Cire4tW and South-Western ... 12,485 12?99
1,/m4 it Southern and Western of Ireland... 10,338 10,563
ei,"'aalci and Great Western of Ireland 6,112 4,885
,hese returns, when compared with those of the
ii7esponding period of last year, are mostly of a
tha'isfactory character. On the North-Western
Were is an increase of £1,163; on the South-
oheB„tern, of £1,176 ; on the Brighton, of £2,107 ;
(if- "le Midland, of £3,279 ; on the South-Eastern,
',,2,044; on the Great Northern of £2,559 ; on the
"ncashire and Yorkshire of £2,518 ; on the Bristol
,112(1 Exeter, of -c326 ; on the North Eastern, of
fB5 on the Great Eastern of £543 ; on the
orth British of £8,339 ; and on the London, Chat-
and Dover of £Bll ; while the Great Western
i_clvB a decrease of £1,263 ; and the Manchester,
'4efrteld, and Lincoln of £260.

Two o'CLocK.
The directors of the Bank of England at their
meetingtheir mini
to-day did not consider it desirable to alter 2
per rainiraum. rate of discount. A reduction to
e.,ee'lt• would not have excited surprise, but its
--'l'tenance at 24 per cent. afforded no disappoint-
bleat.
L.A further decline of 4 per cent. has been ex.hi-
elteid the English Stock Market, Consols being
°437,t,_irl at 944 for money, and for the account,
()4- l'ue Bth proximo, they are quoted 94 10-16
5A- '3-16- The New Threes are 94 3 4 ; Reduced
cetuities, 93 434 ; Exchequer Bills, 245. prem.
dc'r Juno ; India 5 per Cents., 1111 4 I;.
it,itto Enlaced 4 per Cents., 87 ; ditto 5 per Cents.,
'3 ; ditto £l,OOO Bonds, 655. prem.
In the Foreign Market there has also been lessi
4.,11,1°Yanc7- Mexican Stock has declined 4, to 154 8,
the Russian Loan Scrip 4, to 1 14 prem. ; while
and
Certificates have improved 1, to 161
.4 ;
0(1 Greek Bonds 4, to 131 4. Italian and Turkish
e;rities remain without change.
40,,,° American Securities there has been a very
45-11tAer d inquiry. Erie Shares have declined 4, to
'6i ; and United States 5-20 Bonds improved
to
76 77 .917 j Illinois Shares closed steadily at
in its
Sh,ereaged depression has prevailed in the Railway
to "re Market, the decline amounting to about 4
Solt ,Per cent- Great Eastern, North Western, and
44,"1 Western have each declined 1 ; Brighton
,1-L Midland each 1, and Metropolitan 4.
material
Foreign and Colonial lines remain without
marked
alteration. Bahia and San Francisco are
Inqi,,ed 13 ; Bombay and Baroda, 1001 ; East
107.-11, 107; 1084 ; and Great Indian Peninsula,
ot.
140 4aank shares there has been a very moderate
to T,i,rY• London and Westminster have receded
84
_v't 1044 ; imperial Ottoman have improved to
i'„
.eci Union of London to 381.
aciwitrellaneous and Finance Shares are very in-
port v ). and there is no change of importance to re-
Lorkeicia values. Anglo-American Telegraph are
Id() ,184 ; Fore-street Warehouse, 131 ;
Ste4olllnancial, 81 ; Peninsular and Oriental
Lo au at 68i
Atiatiti
and Great Western Railway Debentures