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1018 THE LE ADER. fNo. 493. Sept. 3, 185...
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PRICES OF THE PRINCIPAL STOCKS AND SHARE...
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GENEBAL TRADE REPORT-
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Friday Evening. Sxbadijnesb, rathor than...
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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
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$^ The meeting of the Norfolk Railway Co...
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JOINT STO0K _ 0OMPANIES. At tho half-yea...
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FROM TUB LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, August...
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Friday Evening. Is Consequence Of The Ap...
will find customers , making at the rate of 2 per cent , for a month on the transaction . The Russian Xoan is at £ to | premium , orders from abroad having come over to purchase . At the close of the market the scrip was flat . The news about the Romagna in the Daily News excited a little apprehension ; arid helped to increase the dulness which from the absence of the most conspicuous operators at this season hangs over the market . We subjoin the Bank returns , which will show that the Bank has experienced a slight demand for money . BASKOP ENGLAND . ™ ¦ An Account , pursuant to the Act 7 th and Sth Victoria catx . 32 , for the week ending on Wednesday , the 31 st day Of August , 1850 : — & issue Department . _ , . „„ . „ , ' Notes issued £ 30 , 401 , 150 % ™» £ «™ f >* Gold Coin & Bullion 15 , 926 , 150 Silver Bullion .... ¦ £ 30 , 401 , 150 £ 30 , 401 , 150 BANKING DEPARTMENT . Proprietors' Capi- ^^ ^ e- ^ Secu ^ ^ bkiSepiis ^ n- 3 ' ' An ^ ity ))!^! £ ll , 220 , 018 cludiS She- Other Securities .. 18 , 991 , 88 ? mier Savin gs' Notes ..... , S , SG 2 , 54 o Banks , Comm 7 S S - Gold and Silver , sioners of Na- Com C 14 . 304 tional Debt , and Dividend Accounts ) .. 7 , 816 , 480 Other Deposits .... 12 , 740 , 833 Seven Day and „_ ..,. other Bills 8 S 9 , 41 o , . £ 39 , 088 , 749 ) £ 39 . 688 , 749 M . MARSHALL , Chief Cashier . Dated September 1 , 1859 .
1018 The Le Ader. Fno. 493. Sept. 3, 185...
1018 THE LE ADER . fNo . 493 . Sept . 3 , 185 9
Prices Of The Principal Stocks And Share...
PRICES OF THE PRINCIPAL STOCKS AND SHARES AT THE CLOSE OF THE MARKET . Last This Week Week STOCKS . 3 per cent . Consols—Money • 9 . W 95 $ Ditto Reduced 96 * 90 J Ditto' -3 * ew 96 J 96 Bank Stock .-.---. ¦• 22 * 225 India * 19 Exchequer Bills .. - ¦ , . - ° - Canada Government 6 per cent . .......... 113 1124 New Brunswick Government 0 per cent . .. .. . 1 . New South Wales Government 0 per cent . 01 > 4 9 S $ South Australia Government G per cent .. lpJi 110 Victoria Government 6 per cent ....- 110 } 109 Austrian Bonds , 5 per cent .. 774 Brazilian Bonds , 5 per cent ... 104 1034 French Rentes , 3 per cent , 09 . 70 ( 58 . 90 Mexican Bonds , 3 per cent ,.. 18 & 20 jf Peruvian Bonds , 44 per ceot 81 £ Spanish Bonds , 3 per cent ... 4 & J Turkish Scrip , ( 5 percent ; 83 $ 83 i RAILWAYS . Bristol and Exeter 00 J 97 * Caledonian .... &> f 80 Eastern Counties 578 G" *' East Lancashire .. 95 Great Northern ..,, 103 J 102 * „ Western 00 * OOfl Lancashire and Yorkshire 90 , 99 . London and Blackwall ( WJ 05 * London , Brighton , and South Coast 109 i - 1094 * London and North-Western 0 < H 94 ; London and South-Western 9 l £ 92 ; Midland 100 104 i * North British 00 ft 01 ; North Staffordshire 18 } 4 , d Oxford , Worcester , and Wolvorhamptou .. 32 32 . South-Eastorn ..... , 70 J 77 South Wales 03 03 Bombay , Baroda nnd Central India 17 17 Calcutta and South Eastern , An 4 p Eastern Bengal , 3 $ . 3 d East Indian 101 100 ft Groat Indian Voninaulu 084 08 $ Madras « 0 00 Soindo m » 0 , Buffalo and Luke Huron CJ 5 Grand Truuk of Canada 30 35 Great WeBtern of Canada , 10 J 1-1 J Antwerp and Kottordam ' . ' ... -ift 4 ft Dutch Ithonlsh Oid Q » d Eastern of Franco »<> 25 * Groat Luxomburp , 0 ft Off * Lombardo- Vonotlnn 10 } ^ 2 gp Northern of Franco 37 JJ 37 rarla , Lyons , and Mediterranean ' M 35 Paris and OrloanB ,.. Bfi SO Southoru of France , > , * 0 J ^ 04 Weatorn and JNorth-Woatorn of ' TTranco .. « 3 H 3 * ox . < Uv .
Genebal Trade Report-
GENEBAL TRADE REPORT-
Friday Evening. Sxbadijnesb, Rathor Than...
Friday Evening . Sxbadijnesb , rathor than dulnesb , continues to characterise all our markets . Tho Corn market has a tqndonoy downwards j though tho supplies to-day woro short , sftloa could not bo oifectod without consenting to a small reduction in price . . The gonor ' al reports of tho harvest continue to bo very dlverso , but , on tho whole , favourable , and tho supply of food till next harvest will , it is supposed , bo
ample . So with all other goods ; there is a steady demand , but the supplies are ample , and trade generally is dull .
Railway Intelligence.
RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE .
$^ The Meeting Of The Norfolk Railway Co...
$ ^ The meeting of the Norfolk Railway Compaxy took place on Wednesday . The accounts showed a balance of . £ 12 , 085 to the credit of the company , from which the directors now proposed a dividend of £ 1 4 s . per cent , for the half yea-. A remarkable feature in the report was the charge made by the Eastern Counties Railway Company against t'le associated companies for the past half year , as compensation for injury sustained by passengers , to the extent of . £ 12 , 946 19 s . Id ., whilst in the corresponding period of the previous year the claim only amounted to . £ 826 187 . The effect of this was a reduction of the . balance available for distribution on this occasion of nearly 3 s . 6 d . per cent , upon the capital entitled to dividend . The . report was adopted . .
_ _ _ The special meeting of the I . oni > oit and North Western Railway Company , fixed for the 10 th September , will be required to decide upon the pror posed lease to this company of the Lancaster and Carlisle , Lancaster and Preston Junction , and Kendal and Wlidermere railways , upon the terms mentioned in t-xe Daily News of this morning . At the meeiihg of the Newport , Abergavexny , and Hereford Railway Coup any a satisfactory report was presented , from which it appeared that the net revenue during the last six months had improved to the extent of 2 , 621 Z . After the usual deductions a sum of 19 , 146 i . 5 s . Id . remained applicable to interest on Deber tores , and 5 and 6 per cent . Preference Shares lecving a surplus of 177 Z . 13 s ; lid . to be carried forwa-d .
At the Mid-Kent Railivay meeting a report was read , stating that a surplus of 804 Z . 8 s . 7 d . remained on the half year , from which the directors now recommended a dividend at the rate of 2 J per cent , per annum . The report was adopted . Tralee and Killarney Railway . —The line was opened on Wednesday for goods traffic , and the waggons , extending over , a very large space , have been well-filled since . The morning train from Killarney to Tralee , and" the evening from Tralee to Killarney , are to be continued , for which the inhabitants of both towns have much . reason to thank the directors . The goods trains leaving and entering Tralee will have an ample number of carriages attached to them to meet the passenger traffic between the two towns , which is being every day more rapidly developed . —Tralee Chronicle
Indian Railways . —The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company have let their contract for 263 miles to Nagpore to Messrs . A . II . Lee and Co . This firm haye engaged to complete the line from Bhosawul to Oomrawuttee by September , 1862 , and in six months frpm that date to Nagpore . Thus the greatest cotton districts in India will be opened up early in 1863 , and Kamptee become more of a Bombay than a Madras Station . The practice of overcrowding third-class railway carriages appears to prevail on the Bombay Railway to a frightful extent . According to the Bombay Gazette , a dead body was recently found in a thircVclass carriage , the person having evidently died xVom suffocation . Mr . Bottington has addressed Government on the subject . Ho recommends that only 50 be allowed
in each carriage , instead of from 150 to 200 , as at present . A still lower rate of fare for the thirdclass , ard double the number of trains on the Indian Railways , wo aid prevent overcrowding , and double the profits of the companies . Low speed fourth-class trains will yet have to bo run from Calcutta to Hooghly every hour . French Railways , — The Minister -of Public Works-has announced to tho Profect of the Haute Garonne that a sum of 3 , 000 , 000 f . has been allocated for the works of the railway from Toulouse to the Pyrenees . Tho works of the railway 'from Soissons to Paris , particularly in tho department of the Soino , are being carried forward with the greatest aotlvity . One thousaud additional operatives arc now employed in tho works of tho railway from Mont-do-Marsan to Tarbos , making altogether 3 , 000 men .
Joint Sto0k _ 0ompanies. At Tho Half-Yea...
JOINT STO 0 K _ 0 OMPANIES . At tho half-yearly mooting of the Ouikntal Inland STiaAat Company the report presented was not passed , and it was agreed to wait tlio arrival of additional advices from tho Indus . Tho first experiment with tho vessels doos not appear to havo boon satisfactory , and honco , after < v partial trial ,, now arrangomonts for another trip wore contemplated . Tho ultimate success of tho undertaking is still rcllod on , and tho next ascent of tho rivor it is believed will bo accomplished .
The dividend proposed and agreed to at the meeting of the Submarine Telegraph Company was at the rate of 7 per . cent , per annum . It appeared from the report that the increase of messages had not made a corresponding addition to the revenue , owing to the late reduction of the tariff After some discussion the report was passed * unanimously . A t the 69 th half-yearly meeting of the General Steam Navigation Company the report of V e directors and a statement of the accounts for the half-year ending 30 th June last were read to the meeting , and were unanimously received and adopted . The usual dividend at the rate of 10 per cent , per annum was declared .
Joint Duianj. Dauujkuuittrajmxjiib
Progress of Engineering in Greenock , —It is interesting to trace the development of a branch of business which has become one of the most essential and important in this country , —that of founding-, engine-making , or engineering . In some instances ] in the immediate neighbourhood of Glasgow , it sprang from the simple smithy or shoeing forge . In other cases the premises of the brassfounder or hammerman enlarged rapidly into works , winch embraced the new demands for machinery and castings . The first foundry * if it might be so called , in Greenock , was in the north-west corner of what is now called Cathcart-square , and was necessarily on a very small scale . It was carried on under the firm
of Brownlee and Campbell . The ordinary work executed there was such , generally , as was required for ships , including , also the casting of grate fronts , bars , & c . The only furnace employed was the oldfashioned bellows , or air furnace . The next was on a larger scale , established by an English Company , about the year 1790 . They set down their works in the east end of the to . vn , adjoining the- Cartsburn Water , for the sake of a cupola furnace , which they first erected . This work , had all the improvements then known ; but not proving successful , it was abandoned in 1 / 9 . 3 or 1794 , and purchased for , £ -1 , 300 by Brownlee and Campbell . It was carried oa by these parties till 1808 , and by Mr , Brownlee
alone till 1825 , when the whole was transferred to Messrs . John Scott and Sons for . £ 5 , 000 , who erected the new , and now very extensive , works of Messrs . Scott , Sinclair , and Co . In 1808 Mr . Campbell joined Mr . Anderson in the new works in Cra \ vfordsdyke , which occupied to a limited extent , under the firm of Anderson and Caird , the site of what are now the wide-spread engineering premises of Messrs . Caird and Co . The greater part of the engine work of the first steamboat—the Cometwas made in Greenock , in 1812 , by the firm ot Anderson , Campbell , and Co ., who were smiths or hammermen in that town and Port Glasgow . —Steam Shipping Chronicle .
Decimal Coinage . —The International Association for obtaining a uniform decimal system ot weights , weasures , and coins , will hold their fourth general meeting in St . George ' s Hall , Bradford , on the 10 th of October , when delegates from Hussia , Belgium , and other countries not represented in tho association , arc to be received , branch associations to be added , proposals discussed , and a variety oi other business transacted . Meetings will ulso beheld at the annual meeting , of the British Association at Aberdeen next month , and the annual meeting of the Social Science Association at Bradford in October .
From Tub London Gazette. Tuesday, August...
FROM TUB LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , August 30 . BANKRUPTS . Antonio Demetrio Di Demetrio , 08 , NowBrpnJ « trool , City , merchant . ,,, , , , Paul Eniile Ghappuie , 00 , Fleot-stvoet , City , nnd . el « owhere , reflector and stereoscope mnnulucturor ,. huh |»' oto 5 Sn h £ hraKl Bullor , Enfiohl , and Oil , Lincoln ' s Itm flolda , Middlosox , scrivener nnd . attorney ( it In" ' , tuui owner , and brick maker . . Thomns Hawkins , lata of 0 , Clmrles-utroot «»'> Westbourne-terrnco , Hydo park , brush mnkcr , John Hlgnell , Klrby-le-Sokcn , Essex , grocer wi'i ' uCYnns and Thomas Edward DavitM , M ' uiliitdiluW . Staffordshire , coal and iron mnstora . Willlaui Booth , HalHhx , Yorkshire , inwbij . Jolm Joshua liarwootl . 31 , Grant JJuclu-stiut , Strangoways , Manchester , hosier . lllcTiavu Morrison , Carlwlo , guano doulor . Friday , September 2 . BANKRUPTS . Thomas IT arris Bristol , timber merchant . Clmrlos Edwards , Cnwllff , builder . JolmOxloy , Rotharlmm , Yorkshire oiuvlui * . . „ John SlmWalt Hamilton , Klntf « tou-up « " - ' ' nuetionoei 1 , , , , Edward Ilughos , Holywell , Flintshire , ilrapci . Henry Bugulen , Liverpool , coke inurolmiit .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1859, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03091859/page/22/
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