The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-10
COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS.
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We have variation Of Importance to report in quo
taons for stocks Erie and Reading continue the most
prominent fances the list but the supply Of stock
fully equals the demand prices much affected
They both heavy to- day, far quotations
concerned and at the close the tendency downward
stonipgton has become quite active again Very little
Of this stock has been offered lately but prices have
well maintained. Harlem is still dropping notwith-
standing the limited sales and the favorable prospects
Of the company. 1t appears impossible to sustain
Norwich and Worcester. The last report Of earn
iBgs is not calculated to advance the market
value Of the stock much The receipts for January 1852
$l36s4 against SIS GA for the month in 1851
showing falling of of 5000 portion of this falling
of was produced doubtless the partial suspension OF
traffic on the road from the obstruction to navigation in
the Sound but that does alter the fact we have
no guaranty that the deficiency will be made up in the
future earnings Of the company. Soningon has been
similarly affected ia its traffic operations but do not
know how much its earnings have been reduced Long
Island is making down again to old points. Very few
have realized at the advance judging from the transac
lions at the board. Hudson River Railroad has decned
in fact nearly every security in the markets. lower now
than it last week at this time Delaware and Hud-
son ID an exception; quotations for that stock
Oily advancing. Only few shares sold daily which
exhibits frmness among holders Of most decided cha
than that current; but it never can be carried
up points 1t has touched within the past three years
All the small stocks very much neglected. and it
difficult to rustan prices in the absence any demand
At the first board day. Reading Railroad declined u
per cent; Erie Railroad, u; Harlem, al Norwich and
Worcester q; Hudson River Railroads.&c. Long Island
Il; Canton Co., Ia; Zinc Co., al Stonington, H. Della
ware and Hudson advanced 4 per cent.
The receipts at the Office OF the Assistant Treasurer
of this port, to-day, amounted to $3.50 12O payments
S2ll OIL 20-balance So 033 1884 o..
The depostes in the u 8. Mint, Philadelphia for the
week ending the 7th inst amounted to s13S3 500 of
which s1,5se was silver, and s1,3s2ooo gold Coinage
in the sane time sIol2o72 Total coinage since Jan.
uery lst, s. 6S7 Total deposits, s5,56l,74O.
The Petersburg Railroad Company have declared a
semi-annual dividend OF per cent The Southwark
aud Moyamensing Gas Company have declared semi.
annual dividend Of per cent
The following bin to increase the range Of securities in
which savings banks allowed to invest their fund,
before the Legislature
Sec. l. 1t ehall be lawful for any saylngs Bank orga
nztd under Incorporated by the laws OF this State
addition to the powers heretofore granted invest any
money they have received hereafter shall receive as
deposits in the stock bonds of any city in the State of
New iork, which may be itsutd under the authority Of
the Legislature OF this State loan said money the
tecures OF any stock or bonds ia which said corpora
ion is authorized TO invest the provided that
he amount loaned thereon shall exceed ninety Der
cent OF the market value thereof
stc.2 This act shall take effect iume iiately.
The pittfburg Copper Company pay It's semi-annual
dividend Of SIS per share the 18th inst During the
past year amount exceeding the. whole dividend
Of the year has been expended machinery workshops
SO This has been expended out Of the current earn
ings Of the line without reducing the dividends.
The income Of the Portsmouth and Concord, N. H.
Railroad Company for the rs eight months OF 1851
sloSsl 5e for the period Of 1862 1887 49, For
the as four months Of 1851 $3.50 81 the time
In 1850, S40l4 e. The Let income above all the ex.
penscs for the year $24oo As the last four months Of
bothyears the to Raymond, they present
the only fair criterion for comparing the operations It
appears that the increase Of the business for the last four
months Of 1851 compared with the time 1850 is
within a fraction of fifty per cent.
According to report made to the Legislature of New
Jersey by the banks doing business under the new free
banking law OF that State the circulation Of each with
the aggregate amount Of securities deposited with the
State Treasurer, annexed