The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-31 00:00:00

MONII-1--MARTiET

A ND

COMMERCIAL iNTZLLIGRNOB,

CITY, Two o'CLOorc.
The Bank return shows no very important change
310 principal one is in the private deposits, which are
)Wer from sums being withdrawn to meet the re-
filirements of the harvest ; but this has been effected
vithout producing any effect upon the reserve. The
;old also shows a reduction owing to harvest opera-
ions. The .following are the principal changes since
tio preceding return :
Decrease in Circulation --- £189,282
Increase in Public Deposits
Decrease in other Deposits
No change in amount of Government Securities.
Increase in other Securities .. 830,109
Decrease in Bullion —... 112,633
Increase in Rest
Decrease in Reserve
Bullion in both Departments 92,964.651
Reserve of Notes and Coin
Circulation, including. Bank Post Bills 24,827,273
The following is the official return of the cheques
,4 bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house for
the week ending Wednesday, July 29 :
July 23, Thursday "' ... £9.640,000
July 24, Friday ... .. .. 9,579 000
July 25, Saturday.... .... 8,906,000
July 27, Monday 8,296,000
... ...
July 28, Tuesday
9,494,000
..
...
J.nky 29, Wednesday ... ... 7. 870, 000

Total. •••; £53,785,000
Joint C. Pocock, Deputy-Inspector.
Bankers' Clearing-house, July 30.
/after allowing for the circumstance that Saturday was
t holiday on the Stock Exchange, the week's total is
unusually amall. At this time last year, when busi-
ness was likewise slack, the amount for the week was
£60,685,000, which, however, included a Stock Ex-
shange settlement.
Tile Funds are a little firmer. Consols are 941 to
)4i for money and account ; New and Reduced,
341 to 94- ; India Five per Cents., 1142 to 1151
Ex-liequer Bills, 153 to 193 prem.; Bank Stock, 246
to 248.
There is also a rather better tone in Foreign Stocks
a the subjoined prices :—Mexican, 15k to 152 ; Greek,
13 to 13i ; New Spanish, 34g to 311 ; Italian, 522 to
Vs24;rol'usrkish' 39A to 392 ; Peruvian, 77i to 772; 711 to 712 ; Egyptian (1864), 83i to
-4k ; y ' ,
Honduras, 821 to 83,1;and United. States, 72
to 721.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
%re firm, at 412 to 421 ; and the Consolidated Mort-
Rage Bonds, at 411 to 42±. Otherwise there is no
chancre in American Railways. Erie Shares are 43
to 44, kind Illinois 94/ to 942.
• English Railways are still firm, but in one or two
instances prices are a • shade -lower. Great
estern, Brighton, London and North Western,
South Eastern, and Midland are to
lower. Great Northerns have declined 1 per
eent. " Prices are •:—Chatham, 20*. to 20i ; Cale-
donin)742 to 751 ; Metropolitan, 1151- to 1152 ;
ti.l:l)reTteldi 43f toßrighton 532 to 54i ; Great
.-:estern, 51 to 51/1 ; Great &stern, 40 to 40i
Northern, 105 to 106 ; ditto A, 102/ to
iki°N• ; London and North Western, 116} to 1162 ;
idland, 105 k to 106 ; South Eastern, 762 to 77i ;
and Lancashire and Yorkshire 130 to 1301.
AWest Wisconsin Railway Bonds are 2 to 11 prem.
. quiet business is doing in Bank Shares. The
Prices
prem.
:—Alliance, 10 to 9 dis. ; Anglo-Austrian,
(2_ttonaan, P2nt ;
J to 71.
Chartered Mercantile, 28.4- to 29k;
Consolidated, 4/ to 5 ; Imperial 17 to 18 .; Imperial
to 1 prem.; London and County, 52 to
44 ; London and Westminster, 68 to 69 ; Oriental,
to 45 ; the London Joint-Stock, 32i to 33i ;
and Union of London, 34 to 35k.
loin Mines Shares, Rossa Grande are quoted
Prem. •
4-to •
St• John del Rey, 19 to 20; Port Phillip,
-„ 12 ; and Chontales, 2to 2i.
A .tne market for miscellaneous shares is steady..
inißle-A.merican Telegraph, 212 to 212 ; Atlantic
Western 'MAm M 8 per Cent., 41- to 4± ; Atlantic and Great
2 eortgage Bonds, 412 to 42i ; Credit Foncier,
13-16ths to 2 15-16ths ; Fore-street 'Warehouse, 1
row. ; General Credit, 2± to 2 dis. : Hudson's
(1137., 152 to 15g- ; International Finance, 12 to 1i
•,:a• ; London Finance, 25 to 23 dis. ; Lombard-
enetian Railway, 16 to 16*; London General
L' us~l2 to 2 ; Luxembourg, 122 to 12i ; National
IScount, 111 to 12i • Ocean Marine, 14i to 15it prem. ; and Thames and Mersey, 4} to 5.
0_
imicrs
he following is Messrs. Mocatta and G ld
bull
ion circular :—" The demand for Mexican dollars
China has now subsided, and no transactions
aVe taken place for the last week or ten days. Thus
w
-though it is not expected that many dollars will be
received for the present, in all probability the price
will relapse to the rate at which they can be used for
refining Bar silver is flat, at Wild, with but little
cluing. All descriptions of gold are in good demand,
and were not the market well supplied, no doubt
there would be withdrawals from the Bank to some
tent. The rm)unts shortly expected from Austra-
:la exceed a million sterling, and large sums continue
) be received from the United States."
The following has been issue.' this morning by the
of Enctland :—" Notice is hereby given, that
la order to prepare the dividends due on the 10th
ta'''l
)Pr, 1868, the balances of the several accounts in
ues Foods will be struck on the night of
the Ist September, 1868, viz.:—New £3
le' Cent. Annuities, Reduced ..£3 per Cent. Annuities,
Annuities for Thirty Years, Annuities for Terms cf
(Lear% and India £4 per Cent. Stock% On Wednes-
-1,!, the 2nd September, the above-named Funds will
transferable without the dividend duo on the 10th
ulepber next. Bank stock : Shut, Wednesday,
September ; open, Monday, 12th October."
•
£l6
°nue of the recent considerable arrivals of specie,
the 'll°°, in bar gold was yesterday withdrawn from
TJatr for export.
report Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company's
I,le recommends a dividend of 8s per share on the
Aerde.nea and as per share on the ordinary capital.
cent .I,vidend for the past year, at the rate of. 20 per
, • ver nonL,l„kiun, is announced by the Birmingham
ng Com • •
The
(Litnit "lvial liquidator of the Merahant Company
plyab,e), announces a dividend of 6s in the pound,
deria
__Le„ on the. sth August. On the same day a divi-
In;,"ll(l:ll:„.ill23lliostePlacy,oaibulpeltnoy.the creditors of the Rich-
tQbeei(,,,,.4tuido.uspiclivnesr omfintliiiewbonds of the Great Republic
eitnintg Company of Virginia, due on
8 not having been met, it is proposed fo
to consider the course to be taken.
1.1:1011110,tiher mission is about to be dispatched to the
re!iil,ll `e of Venezuela, with a view of obtaining the
„tv Ption of dividends on the Ilan of 1864.
Rtmc'eppension is announced of a jobber in the
Metro xchange who bad been speculating for a fall
err politan.
11;11811i.‘ t, lents have been cranpleted for the entire
4ge"g f the-New Lisbon Railroad, which, though
qtl_r_itte organisation from the Atlantic and Great
tinat ‘`'sril, still, when finished, will form a very impor-
Ismituir,raneb, and afford a large traffic to the main road,
yett'cis it does into ono of the finest beds of coal
laetory eovered, and easily wined It is very satis-
lue 40 to know that so able a mamas Mr. Jones (who
13,14 Pears has
Do 7 la the been connected with Mr. Crawshay
Ist ti)g out t
prosecution of his large coal enterprise)
coal Lis superintend the construction of this
tra, on Railroad, and generally to promote the
The 7'9 of the Atlantic and Great Western.
Atigust.44ondon colonial sales are fixed for the 13th
offered About About 210,000 bales are expected to be
4rnee.ariY all of which have arrived. The quan-
ietia ~—Sy
duey and Queensland, 54,714 bales ;
' i'0,920 bales ; Adelaide, 9,628 bales 4
Santa
, 8 47
ai)e, 18' 7 bales ; New Zealand, 39,058 bales
a It ia 11319 bales.
4anotilleeT/ expected that the French Loan will be
0111 e `l._ on the 4th of August. though there are
,3.1,e,..;'? believe all the preliminaries cannot be
`Leeifee.l.DOforo the Bth. It does not appear to be
if 4i yet Whether it shall consist of 3 per
nobcent
'l.4lll9p'"' cent. stock. At all events it has i

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p • . leer Ueut..luly, 1830 .............. 115 141
nno •: ell .. c •
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„?.• -ertl eat es
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`l.• 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do 5i per Cent., May 1879 ..... .
per Cent, Rule Deb. 187/ —
Dodo.- 1877
1., Do
~.,, •
do. 1882 —
1031
• ~ 5 per Cent., Aug. 1878
pla
no.
tonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
pm
°' and 41.000 ........................
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isr kziii nide o per Cont. 1809
_631
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urto /1 P?::: Cent., 1852
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