The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-12 00:00:00

lIIONIIi fIARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENGS,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The available supplies of money for discount pur-
poses, the negotiation of loans, home and foreign,
and the development of industrial enterprise are
larger than ever, and the payment of the April divi-
dends have imported to the market an appearande of
greater ease than that lately witnessed:
The sum of £3,000 was withdrawn from the
Bank yesterday in American coin.
The Bank of France return for the past week
shows the following alterations when compared
with the former return. There is a decrease of
£356,000 in cash in hand, £488,000 in the bills
discounted, £B,OOO in the advances, £133,320 in
the notes, £176,000 in the Treasury balance, and of
£552,000 in the private accounts.
The Bank of England return, completed to the
10th instant, exhibits the changes usual at the com-
mencetneut of the financial year. The payment of
the dividends having caused a temporary exflux of
both notes and specie, the bullion has been decreased
by £219,619, and the reserve of notes by £307,740.
The private securities, owing to the maturity of
loans and bills, have been decreased by £1,719,186,
While the Government securities show a falling off
of £284,517. The following are the particularsl ;73
Public Deposits... ... X 5,710,748 Decrease £12,9304,
Other Deposits ... ... 19045560 Increase ... , 7 460
Rest•
... 3,116,852 Decrease... 755,436
On the other side of the account :
Government Securities £12,826,158 Decrease... 2;284,517
• .
Other Securities .. 18,960,410 Decrease...l,7J_l,lB6
Notes unemployed ••• 9,949,145 Decrease ... 307,740
The amount of notes in circulation is £23,229,605,
being an increase of £12,225 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £19,299,319, show-
ing a decrease 0ft209,619 when compared with the
former return.
At the meeting to he held on the 16th instant
the report of the directors of the Agra Bank to be
presented enters fully into all the details of the
arrangements made since the resuscitation in
January last. It states that it will be satisfactory
to the'shareholders to learn that the resuscitation
of the bank has throughout India met with the
most friendly assurances of kind feeling and good-
willon the part of the general community, both Euro-
pean and native ; the following extract from a letter
from the Calcutta manager, dated Ist March, affords
the most encouraging and substantial evidence that
the Bank will meet with that support from its old
constituents, which above all will tend to renew
confidence and to insure it a future of success and
Prosperity. I have much pleasure in advising that
the branch of the Bank was opened for business to-
day, and that a large proportion of the dividend
Payable was transferred to account with the Agra
hek (Limited). At all the Indian branches, with
exception of Bombay, the old managers have
been reappointed, so that the Bank will have the
benefit of the local knowledge and experience
Which a residence and business intercourse of
sorae years have enabled them to acquire.
With respect to the prospects of the ultimate
out-turn of the assets of the liquidation, it is of
course too early to speak positively. The most
earnest and watchful attention is being given to the
working out of these assets in the manner best cal-
c..lated to promote all interests, and while the
alrectors are gratified to state that they see their
Way to making due provision for their engagements
athey mature, without having recourse to inju-
tcious sales or sacrifice of property, they are able
to add that so far as the progress hitherto made
affords a criterion of the future, they see no reason
t,o apprehend that the result will fall short of what
naS been anticipated.
In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Mark eta
nurine the last few days there has been very little
animation,e Only moderate transactions have been •
v ported in sugar, without any moderate change in
alue.s.
qauialtties Coffee has been inactive, but superior
f
maintain former rates. Rice has been in
zer demand, but only a moderate amount of busi-
_ 's has been done, owing to the high rates de•
7nanded by holders, while in tallow no business of
boportance
th has been entered into, quotations for
present and forward delivery being steady.
The traffic returns on the East Indian Railway
to
the week ending the 24th February amounted
£53,450, against £44,466 in the corresponding
Week last year.
The following communication has been forwarded
for Publication :
LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY
COMPANY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,--With reference to the paragraph which ap-
pearedit, in your paper to-day as to the chief clerk hay-
togra made an order, on the application of the company,
lieve debenture holders and others from making
_e, we beg to inform was made by the chief you
clerk. that no order what-
t. The chief clerk
hisaoli(ld lie advertisements would enable all debenture
theers and other claimants to make such claims as
y might be advised, but that to save trouble
nd expense au affidavit of the registrar, with a
schedule of the deb .nture holders, would' be ad-
'flitted as prima facie evidence of the existence of
such debentures. The order for this purpose was
made before the advertisements referred to by you
were issued.
The effect of debenture holders not sending in
their claims will be that they must rely upon the
property comprised in their secnrity, and will not be
entitled to any charge upon the rolling stock or
other property of the company.—We are, Sir, your
obedient servants, WALKER and MARTINEAU.
13, King's-road, Gray's-inn, April 11.
We are requested by the secretary of the Great
Eastern Railway to insert the subjoined letter :
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Having received numerous inquiries as to
Whether the committee of preference holders, whose
repappeared in your impression of Tuesday, is
acting in unison with the board of directors, and
_whether the proposal made by that committee
To" with the approval of time board, I am desired
and k„ Your permission to inform the proprietors
en_ ".ne Public, through your columns, that the
Complete at and the board are co-operating with
iprove the
ecord in the efforts now being made to
company's condition, and that the
report referred to was issued with the full concur-
rence of the directors.—Yours obediently,
Secretary' s Office, J. B. OWEN, Secretary.
Bishopsgate Terminus,
April 11.

Two O'CLOCK.
day,
yAccourle ding to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
agitated. French Rentes were 66.50. Firm—
ad an o
An .
er
eo
liscls e, r,
W recordedhich, yesterday cent. has been added to the
-2- per cent.
in the market for
therefore, are now 90-i for money,
fat,a 07, 94 .1 for the account. A more confident
ng evidentl
has y prevails, and it is understood there
88 been a further closing of " bear" accounts.
New Threes were 884 881 ; Reduced Annuities,
Stock 89 ; Bank of England Stock, 253 ; India
,2171 ; ditto 5 per Cents., 1091 1 ; ditto
aufi dc.eu 5 per Cents. 7 ; 103 ditto Debentures, 1031 ;
feelitto Bonds, 48s. prem.
ing e Foreign Stock Market there is still a better
kprevailin
the
.;erti flea tes, Greek have advanced 1, to 13 t
„„ican, bto 151 ; Spanish Passive, 1, to 19} 4 ;
Cent to 12* ; and Turkish 5 per
+ 8"
I) to 261 27 ; but Italian have declined ,0 4,2
ti 481. Chilian and Danubian Scrip quota-
coils are merely nominal.
°. 41Y a moderate amount of business has been
transacted in the Railway Share Market, but, withd
1,7 or two
exceptions, prices show increased
°YancY• North Western have improved 4 ;
~,rat Northern A Stock, Midland, and South
,1-11 stern, each ,
1- and Metropolitan, ; while South
1‘ eaters have declined 1, and Brighton, 3.
variation, The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit little
Bahia and San Francisco are marked
3•-t- ; South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian, 15 ;
Grand Trunk"a
of Canada, 181 ; East Indian, 107} ;
Great Indian Peninsula, 107 i.
Atoerican Securities are steady. Illinois show an
4clv,a,,nce of to 76 ; United States 5-20 Bonds
; but Erie Shares remain at 36 1.
, Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
timaovretgart eB
do.vancoedndls,;,o 1311; and the Consolidated
to 21-} 991.
Bankb shares are quiet about former values.
4113eri4 Ottoman being dealt in at n East