The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-03
COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS.


m " = "A a ~ n n
FsIpAY, July 2-8P.M.
With one or two exceptions the advance in quotations
to-day was general pretty active market at the ad
vance The leading railroad stocks-Ere Reading and
Hariem--weie operated in to extent but prices
were not sustained and they closed at decline At the
first board North American Trust advanced per cent
with large sales; Edgeworth. e Dauphin, Florence
and Keyport. Il; Nicaragua, Il Northern Indiana 4.
r. x; Madison and indianapolis, Y Illinois State
Bank n We have noticed within the past day or two
large Gales of this stock and the advance has been very
great II is stated that the real estate belonging to the
institution has recently rapidly increased in value On
the Of Dec 1851 the real estate Of the bank at cost
amounted $443SC6. and learn that the construc
ton of the railroads in Illinois has added
largely to the market value Of this property In few
years Illinois will have extent of railroads equal to
any State Of New York. and lands which have here
tofore been too remote from market for cultivation will
now find immediate purchasers at greatly enhanced
prices This is doubtless the Of the recent rise in
Illinois State stock Elie Railroad declined per
cent and Reading Railroad r. At the second board the
market active without any material alteration in
prces-New jersey Zinc advanced y per cent Northern
Indiana R. r., 4 North American Trust / Michigan
Central r. r.. 2. At the close holders firm and
the tendency was upward.
The receipts the Office Of the Assistant Treasurer of
this port to-day, amounted to $1O2.5S7; payments,
s6seoo 60; balance $34ell 46 70; amount Of interest
paid to day, 100000.
The Erie Railroad Company earned $312367 os in
June, 1852 against 1924 A for june 1851 Increase
$s7,644 Ga.
The amount Of specie imported into Boston during the
month of June So 567; EXPORTS $45399O imports,
six months ending june 80, 1852 $566,sSS exports in
same time. 81, 255,O60 49,
The New York Dry Dock Company have declared
dividend of four per cent the Mercantile Bank five pc
cent? the Empire Insurance Company, four per cent
Morris and Essex Railroad three and half per cent
Newark Banking and insurance Company four per cent
New Jersey Insurance Company, five per cent Man.
chester and Lawrence Railroad three and half per cent
The amount to the credit of the Treasurer of the
United states in the different repositories the 21st
of june 1852 592 S. of which 0s6923 70
in Boston, So 1874 99 rs in New York. $13S 42l 70
in the hands of the Assistant Treasurer Philadelphia;
and S5,631, $50 in the Mint, Philadelphia.
The demand for foreign exchange for remittance by the
steamship Franklin to morrow-Saturday-for Hayre,
has thus far been only to limited extent Drawers
firm at our quotations. Bills on London quote at
1919 10h per cent premium Paris, ST 17k ST. Is;
Amsterdam, 40A a Al; Bremen 7s1s 70; Hamburg,
364 36h. The steamer will take out about half
million in specie about equal amounts of gold and silver
COmmlttee OF house Representatives,
appointed to investigate the in which tho
$20000 required to be paid into the State treasury by
the Illinois Central Railroad Company had been disposed
Of have found out the fact that the money instead Of
being deposited in the treasury the State was loaned
to, or deposited with Ketchum Co., Of this city, and
they required that the State Treasurer shall furnish
additional security in the sum Of $500 900 by the first
Monday Of August next.
At q meeting of the committee appointed to collect
subscriptions to the stock of the Sunbury and Erie Rail-
read held in Philadelphia the 30th of june the Pres
dent stated that distinct proposition had been made
by responsible contractors to build hundred miles
of railroad ready for the locomo
tive (the company to furnish the ron and to receive
in payment one-ha cash, quarter in stock at par
and quarter county bonds at par-the prices con.
sderably less than those recently paid by New York
railroad companies where the payments have all been
made in cash Upon adding up the subscriptions, in
Guiding all reports from committees thus far received
1t found that the aggregate from individual subscrp
tons amounted to $95s7OO; from municipal corpora
tons 1895 Co0 together 81 1858 7oO These subscription
being nearly all conditional binding only when the
aggregate subscriptions shall reach two millions, it
proposed that the gentlemen present should subscribe
pledge the requisite sum- and thus enable the managers
to call in instalment and place engineers the line
to survey and locate the ready for work from Erie
eastward and from Wiliamsport westward The sugges
ton promptly responded to- and subscriptions and
pledges the of fifty thousand two hundred dol
lars made the spot making aggregate of two
millions three thousand nine hundred dollars.
The annexed statement exhibits the quantity and va
ue of foreign dry goods entered this port consump
ton for warehouse the Withdrawals from warehouse
for the week ending June 80 1852
MOVEMENTS IN FonErcS DRY Goops