The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-07 00:00:00

Among credit shares, National Discount are 11
to 14 ; International Finance, 2to 11 dis. ; Gen e-
ral Credit, 21 to 21 dis. ; and Credit Foncier, 31
to 31.
. _

The annual general meeting of the Grosvenor
and West-end Railway Terminus Hotel Company
has been called for the 26th inst., to receive the
directors' report and to declare a dividend.
The ordinary annual meeting of the East Lin-
colnshire Railway Company will be held on the
21st inst., when the directors' report will be pre-
sented.

The ordinary general meeting of the Anglo-lonian
Steam Navigation Company has been convened for
the 19th inst., to receive the directors' report, and
to declare a dividend.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK•

The Bank return shows some important changes.
Among them is a reduction of upwards of £172,000
in the private securities, and a decrease of more than
a million and a-half sterling in the amount of private
deposit,. The inference from these conditions is, that
the Bank is practically out of the Discount Market,
and that it is wholly in the hands of its
eorapetitors. This is the result of maintaining
the. minimum at 2 per cent., when the market
sdoing business i per cent. lower. There is a
large reduction in the Reserve, owing to the use
,made
iof the private deposits, and it is satisfactory to
fins some sinsg of relief from stagnation. There is
also a reduction in•the bullion, but the stock remains
not much short of twenty-two millions. The following
are the principal changes :
Increase in circulation '' - £245, 415
Increase in Public Deposits ... 565,113
Decrease in other Deposits ... 1,564,102
No change in amount of Government Securities
Decrease in other Securities . 172,623
Decrease in Bullion
Increase in Rest
Decrease in Reserve
Bullion in both Departments .21,755,234
Reserve of Notes and Coin 13,075,854
Circulation, including Bank Post Bills 24, 327, 678

The return of paid clearing for the week ending
W.ednesday, Feb. 5, certified by Mr. George Derby-
shire, chief inspector, is as follows :--

Jan. 30, Thursday £10,193,000
Jan. 31, Friday
Feb. 1, Saturday 13,012,004
Feb. 3, Monday 9,755,000
Feb. 4, Tuesday
Feb. 5, Wednesday

Total £76,195,000
This is the largest clearing in any week since the
publication of the returns first commenced. The
aggregate is affected by a heavy settlement on ths
Stock Exchange and by the engagements of the 4th,
bbut independent of these conditions there is reason to
elieve that a moderate improvement is taking place
the clearings from the ordinary internal trade.
The Continental demand for gold continues, and in
the absence of arrivals a further sum of £77,000 was
taken from the Bank yesterday.
„ The steamers which left New York yesterday for
turope took £lOO,OOO in specie.
The prospectus has appeared of the Anglo-Hun-
Rarian Bank, a new enterprize having for its object
the extension of banking facilities to Hungary, in
Precisely the same manner as the Anglo-Austrian
45, link, has established itself. It was at first thought
II) form Hungarian branches to the Anglo-Austrian
a `lnk) but it was ultimately decided to form
new company altogether. The capital is
:400,000 in £2O shares, of which forty per
cent is to be paid up before the company is entitled
e commence business. Power is also given to in-
crease the capital. The new Bank will have its chief
establishment at Pesth, and a Hungarian direction
.
be assisted by a Committee in London. It is to
0 a deposit and discount house, but it will also make
advances on everything marketable, and has the power
redealing in bullion and coin. Subscriptions will be
received in London, Pesth, and Vienna, on Monday
da Tuesday next.
The dividend of the Clydesdale Bank (Glasgow) is
announced at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
At the meeting yesterday of the South Condurrow
'line a call of 2s per share was made.
aThe dividend of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
°M pany for the past half-year is announced, at the
rate of 4i per cent. per annum, carrying forward
4,165. For the corresponding period of 1866 the
dividend was 0-, and the amount brought into this
account was £550.
The Great Northern Railway Company announce
that the dividend for the past half-year is at the rate
of 7i per cent. per annum, comparing with 8 per
.cent. This will allow £3 15s to be paid on the
original stock, £3 on the B stock, and £4 lOs on the
./k stock. The distribution for the year is 6 per cent.
In each case.
The accounts of the London and North Western
4,ailway Company permit of a dividend at the rate of
Per cent. per annum, being the same as for the
corresponding period of 1866. -
},1.1-, conspiracy to create a fictitious rise in Midland
rh
a„waY stock has been defeated through the vigi-
ee of the London Stock Exchange. By the post a
latm
terwas received by the secretary, written on
th etal paper, and stating among other things that
wi?. auditors have nearly completed our accounts,
all len indicate a dividend at the rate of £6 10s per
c 641.111,11, for the past half-year. The letter was signed
to '• Browne, Secretary." The conspirators omitted
::o;lichthise letter in the way in which letters to the
04112" n Stock Exchange are usually sealed. This
0111ssion excited suspicion, and the letter, the object
perfectly clear, was not posted up as it was
poigned to be. The directors of the Midland Com-
t.,Y have offered a reward of £5O for the discovery
the offenders.
ales
n„ srs. Napier and Sons, of the Clyde, are build-
.), for the Dutch Government a steam ram of about
0,000 t
sse ; ens, and a turret ship of 2,000 tons. They
1)4411'14e/1(1yd to be fitted with Skinner's steering ap-
shit) 18,, similar to that successfully tested by H.M.'s
alot4 industry and Supply, by which one man
ease" can steer in the most boisterous weather with
it, and free from danger.
of raPPears by the gold mining records of the colony
eaniiiitcria, that 12 mines, with an aggregate paid-up
fro of £145,382, have given, at periods ranging
di • seven months to five years, no less a turn in
hieto 'it-is out of their raistogs of £1,878,907. The
ry 0-1
(Nit nining has never before shown such extra-
arY results.

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