The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-15 00:00:00

ONE/ MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENOX,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

At the meeting held to-day of the Egyptian,
Commercial, and Trading Company, the report
stated that since the meeting on the 31st December
last the directors have had the satisfaction of ful-
filling the promise given by them in May, 1866, by
repaying the call of £3 per share which was then
male, besi les largely reducing the company's
The Bank of New South Wales, the oldest of our
colonial banks, celebrated on the Bth of April its
fiftieth anniversary by a holiday at all its branches
throughout Australia. The fifty years that have
Passed since the Bank of New South Wales first
°pened its doors have proved' fifty years of great
success, but not unmixed with care and anxiety.
This bank has set an example that many of our
home institutions would do well to copy.
There is no alteration of importance in the general
discount market to-day, the rates being easy and
the demands moderate.
At the Bullion Office of the Bank of England
Yesterday there was an influx of £20,000 in gold.
The Tasmania has arrived from the West Indies
With specie to the amount of £178,000 ; the Bremen
from New York has brought about £l2OO, and the
Cambria about £4OO.
The Narva, screw steamer, of 1,282 tons register,
wnas just been chartered through Messrs. W. Rutty,
" ightnlan, and Co. for the purpose of laying the
telegraph cable between Florida and Cuba. Thus
a direct line of telegraphic communication will be
Opened from London to Havana..
Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, has just
issued a new edition of " Ferne's Compendium of
Lucas
English and Foreign Funds," edited by Robert
'ilea.% Nash. The new edition is virtually a new
book, for Mr. Nash has greatly enlarged the origi-
nal work, and brought down to the present time the
intelligence under every department of which the
book treats. The work is historical, statistical, and
exPlanatory, having for its subjects British and
foreiol,
6 finance. The Stock Exchange, all the Funds
dealt in there, the modes of transacting business iu
eying,
selling, settling days, &c., &c., are de-
scri d, or stated, or explained, as the nature of the
subject required. The exposition and utatistical
account of the Bank of England is as interesting
and important as that of the Exchange. The Bank
of England is a very large subject, and probably
the best treatise concerning it, its various offices and
°fficers, the modes of transacting business, and the
nature
of the business transacted ever given to the
public Was in a work also recently issued by Effing-
Fm. Wilson, entitled " Hankey on Banking."
erne), Compendium is also very full on the sub-
ject, and presents the matter of which it treats with
excellent order. Perhaps there are few subjects of
Which the public know less than Foreign Govern-
ment debts, stock, taxation, and primary resources;
Yet considering the largo sums possessed by the
English people in foreign securities, it is very im-
portant that investors should possess accurate and
comprehensive information. Mr. Nash supplies
t
nis• There is one statement contained in the
work which seems incredible, yet the Editor has
lit° doubt about it—that during the last six years
'1 8)d00,000,000 have been invested throughout the
Worl. This work is really what it professes to be
"A Compendium of the English and Foreign

This morning the following Bombay telegram,
dated
13th May, 4.20 p.m., has been received by
,Messrs. W. C. Sillar and Co.:—Exchange on Lon-
'lon for a firs;-class bank bill, six months' sight, per
rupee, is. 11d. 13-16 ; the Calcutta rate for do.,
Per rupee,
Is. 11d. 1-16 or Is. 11d. 11-16 (doubt-
Ia) ; Exchange on Calcutta at sight, 991 c ;
Government 4 per cent. paper, rs. 87 ; do. 5 per
Cent, paper, rs. 105 ; do. 51 per cent., rs. 109 i ;
Bank of Bombay rate of discount, 9 per cent. ; bar
gold, 991 touch, rs. per tola, 16 10 ; bar silver, 17
to 172 betterness, rs. per 100 tola, 1061.. 93,000
bales cotton sailed from Bombay during the fort-
night. Comparing the above rates with those cur-
rent on the 27th April (the previous mail day), we
find the following changes :—ln Bombay exchange
on London, rise of 1-16 per rupee ; Bombay ex-
change on Calcutt, no change ; Bombay Govern-
llent 4 per cent. paper, do. ; Bombay Government
5
Per cent. paper, do ; Bombay Government 51 per
cent. Paper, rise of 4per cent ; Bombay Bank rate
discount, no change ; Bombay price of bar gold,
a
; Bombay price of silver, do.

Two O'CLOCK.
_, According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
day the French Rentes were 69f. 60c. Firm.
At the close of business in the Stock Exchange
Yesterdayp„,. - Consols were at au advance of per
s; to-day there is another advance of 1 per
scut.
The market, therefore, is very buoyant ;
abundance of money, improved political appearances
ath°rne and on the continent have led to the clos-
ingof " Bear" accounts, and to the opening of
rner°lls speculative engagements for a rise.
°reover, several important investments have been
aade' and these have strengthened the market.
nnsols are now 924 e, with dividend for transfer,
~,cli?Oi, exactly less the div., for the account.
Doime New Threes and Reduced Annuities are
2;"8- ; Exchequer Bills, 265. prem. ; India Stock,
; ditto 5 per Cents, 1111 ; ditto Enfaced 4
rr Cents., 81 ; ditto 5 per Cents, 1024 103 ; ditto
i
Per Cents 107/ ; and ditto Bonds, 495. to 52s
ihPereign Stocks show still further improvement
Inost instances. Greek have advanced to 114 ;
Spanishj‘, Passive, Ito 22/ ; Certificates, 4to 141
317,1`can, to 164 ; Turkish 5 per Cents., to
c.s:
ili ; Russian Scrip, 4, to dis. to prem ;
Scrip, 4, to 3 2 dis. ; and Danubian Scrip,
si?
4 3 dis. ; but Italian have declined 4 to
524.
lit le
the Railway Share Market there has been very
„ animation, although, in a few instances, a
has
tone has prevailed. Great Northern A Stock
as advanced 2 ; Great Western, 1 ; and Metro-
-laiitan and South Eastern, each 4 ; while Midland
s declined 1-
The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without
cella). variation. Great Luxembourg are dealt
in
9i 104; South Austrian and Lombardo-
de,ll:tian improved to 151 ; and East Indian have
decline to 1084 109.
shares remain inactive, but at steady rates.
spriYe:tank are marked 13 ; Imperial Ottoman, 8a 4;
Loacial Bank Corporation, 424 ; and Union of
w 3, 39
14 Alter.
variation. tau Securities there has been very little
Illinois 'tie Shares have declined 4, to 42 4 ;
Bonds have
at 754 761 ; and United States 5-20
a.vanced 721 4.
reinAat.lantic
and
Great Western Railway Debentures
steady at 32 34 ; and the Consolidated
....gage Bonds at 21 22.
in:tlai:oellaneous and Finance shares are in a few
nes a shade
graph have firmer. Anglo-American Tele-
tiot, andv° Improved to 181 i; Telegraph Construe-
Maintenance to 164 4 ; Credit Fonsier of
6atid are
Corn marked 21 5-16ths ; National Discount
Lo, Pall., 124 ; and Viceroy of Egypt's Mortgage
an have risen to 714 72.