The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-29 00:00:00

MARKET

X 11 N E Y

AND

r,O7IIIIIE3L'IAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

CITY, Two o'CLoCK.
At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's
Telegram, the 3 per cent. French Rentes were
65f. 70e., 65f. 65c. Less firm.
The English Stock morket has been rather uno
favourably influenced to•day by a few sales and the
Paucity of dealings for investment. Quotations
show a little depression, the Funds having lost the
improvement reported yesterday. Consols for
money are 89a k, and for the account 891 The
New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 881 f,- ;
Exchequer Bills, 3s. prem. ; India 6 per Cents.,
102 i 103 ; and Enfaced 5,1 per Cents., 110.

The fall of 4 per cent. which took place in the
Confederate Loan yesterday has been followed by
another drop of 2 per cent. to=day, the present quo-
tations being 55 57. This adverse movement has
been produced by the news just received. The
other principal Foreign Securities, after being flat,
have recovered to about yesterday's quotations.
Turkish 6 per Cents, 1862, are 721- ; do. Cons
eolides 481 a ; Mexican, 291 ; do. New, 271
Greek, 231 24 ; Spanish Passive, 321 6 ; do. Cer-
tificates, 141 ill; the Egyptian Loan, 1i prem. ; the
Montevideo], 2 prem., and the Danubian 4 die.
Par,

In the R%il way Share Market the operations
have been on a limited scale, and in one or two
instances have slightly declined. Brighton, Metro-
politan, and South Eastern, have each receded 108.,
and Lancashire and Yorkshire,
The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no change
of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are flat. Imperial
Alliance have receded to 161 ; Union of London
to 68; Alliance to 30!; and National Discount
Company to

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3;per Cent. Consols
Do Account, Jan. 10
per Cent. Reduced .. BBi a
New 3 per Cent •
881 1 1 1
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891.... —
Do sper Cent., Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 —
Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
42E'thequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4lper Cent .3 pm
Do £500

d „: Do £lOO and £200
• oank England Stk, 5t per,Ct.
DJ Account..
1 INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
a India Stock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 shut
i Do Account
Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870
a D 3 Account —
f DJ 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 —
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
'44 Do 5} per Cent., May, 1879
.4 Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866
,f Do Bondsll,oo..
Do under £l,OOO
p FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
J A.,,ctstrian Bonds, 5 per Cent
e Brazilian 5 per Cent
f Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 .. 831
Do 1863 —
ouenos Ayres 6 per Cent
0 (hilian 6 per Cent.
tolombian 6 per Cent —
t Cuba, 6 per Cent. -
0 ~ Do 5 per Cent, 1864
Uani.Sh 3 per Cent. 1825
al Do 5 per Cent, 1864
,r. Do 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid pm
d Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent..
Do Provisonal Land Warrant..
O Egyptian 7 per Cent —
O Do, Second Issue
i Do £lOO Bonds
Do 1864 95
d Do Scrip, £l5 paid A Pm
a Do Account ~i . li Pm
creek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons..
,6 Do Account
pr Do Coupons —
DO Account lO/
0, uuatemala 5 per Cent -.
d Do 1839 and 1860 ~. ...
g ttalian 5 per Cent.(naremmana Railway)
441,A • 3
-mean per Cent
J, Do Account
34 Do 1864 271
..
_

Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —die
Do Scrip, £53 paid.... — die
....lio French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — die a d
~,uloorish. Imperial 5 per Cent
"ow Granada
Do 2 per Cont.
Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Dv Debentures, 4 per Ct. April 1564 —
Do do Aug., 1866 —
eruvian 41 per Cent ..
Co 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) .. —
Do 41 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account

Do 3Per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3
Do Account
41.ssian 5 per Cent 1822, £ St. .--.
Do 4/ per Cont., 1850 ..
Do 1860
Do 3 per Cent 1859 53/
Do 6 per Cent, 1862
Do 1864....
Do Scrip, £65 paid
'4liinian 5 per Cent
b Do Account
'Vanish 3 per Cent
Do Account —
Do New Deferred
Do Account
Do Passive
Do Account
Danish Cert. of Coup not funded —
~, Do Account l4a i
,
-,,,-Wedish, 4 per Cent. —
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
bo Account
bo 6 per Cent. 1858 ~, .......... ... 701

Account
110 £lOO Bonds

-,1,/se 6 per Cent. 1862
10 Account ** 72f tt
.1)0 £lOO Bonds..
110 6 per Cent. 1863
Vlio Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
enezuela 3 per Cent.
~..0 Account -
o 6 per Cent., 1862
no Account ... 52
1)0 6 p Cent,, 1861 ..
"01} per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.

tuptrian, 5 per Cent.. E. 10 Florins
egian 41 per Cent., E. 25f...
1:1,t? 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Cinil —
~.1-_' 4 per Cent. Certificates
ItTich. Rentes, 3 per Cent
7,l;an, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
p Ai() Account
I,9ruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s.
tatuontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
THREE O'CLOCK.
D ''llsols, Mona
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The Money Market still continues to show
symptoms of activity and of firmness in the rates.
The diminution in the supplies out of doors by the
Withdrawal of large sums on the part of the Joint
Stock Banks, and the preparations for the fort-
tightly settlements in the foreign and share de-
partments at the Stock Exchange have assisted to
keep the quotations up to the official minimum of
6 per cent. for the best short-dated paper. Nu.
inerous applications have therefore been made to
the Bank of England, and in the Stock Exchange
loans for short periods have been in request.
The bullion operations at the Bank yesterday
comprised an influx of £20,000 in bar gold.

Recent commercial failures are stated to have
obliged the stoppage of three firms engaged in the
Sugar trade at Glasgow. The houses now alluded
to are Messrs. John Reid, jun., and Co., sugar mer-
chants, Messrs. Baird, Paterson, and Baird, and
Messrs. Wilson and Co., sugar refiners. The
amount of the liabilities in each case are repre-
sented at about £BO,OOO.

The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under

1864. 1863.
Great Western
North-Western 118,693 97,424
South-Western
Brighton
Midland
South Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire... 37,306 37,970
Bristol and Exeter
'lVorth•Eastern 61,626 55,827
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln '8,491 17,776
Great Eastern

These returns are in most instances of an ex-
ceedingly favourable character. On the Great
Western there is an increase of £7,420 ; on the
Great Eastern of £5,460 ; on the Great Northern
of £8,214 ; on the Brighton of £533; on the
north Western of £21,269 ; on the South Western
of £1,071 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
coln of £715 ; on the Midland of £5,115 ; on the
North Eastern of £5,799; and on the South
astern of £298; while the Lancashire and York-
alire shows a decrease of £664.

PREFERENCE SHARES.
London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 91

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Buckinghamshire, 93

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Great Luxembourg, 12Eit
Imperial Mexican, lim. af
Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidtn), lob
Turin and Savona, 21
Ditto (all), 9/

FOREIGN MINES,
Cape Copper, Um., 11_i
Cobre Copper, 271
Mariquita,
St. John del Rey (Urn.), 341
BANKS.

Alliance (Mm.), 36 6/
Anglo Austrian, 5/
Bank of British Columbia, 171
Bank of Queensland (11m), 17
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 34; 52 41 5
Consolidated Bank, lim., 112
East London, Um., 62
European Bank, lira., 131 1
Hindustan, China, and Japan (11m.), 301
Ditto, new, issued atl2 pm., 22J
Imperial Ottoman, 171
Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 5
London 13,nk of Mexico and S. America, lim.,
London and Brazilian (lim.), 461
London Chartered Bank of Australia, 24
London and County, 83
London Joint Stock, 511
Ditto, new, 39
Merchant Bank, lira , 291
Mercantile and Exchange, Urn., 101
Oriental liana Corporation. 57$
Provincial Banking Corporation, lint , 31
Scinde, I'unjaub, and• Delhi, lim., 111 1 i
South E i stern, lim., 112
Union of London, 58 6
MISCELLANEOUS.
Australian Agricultural, 212
City Offices, lim., 5
Continental Union Gas, lim., 102
Crystal Palace, 322
Ebbw Vale, 42
Egyptian Corn and Trading, lira., ti
English and Foreign Credit, 2$
English and Scottish Marine, Um., 4f ;
Financial Corporation, 1
Fore-street Warehouse, lint., 92
Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lint., 76
Humber Iron Wo:ks, 3
International Financial Society, lim., 71 6
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour),
Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 86$
Joint Stock Discount,'lnn., 92
London Financial Association, lim., 24$
London General Omnibus Company, 3$
ational Discount Company, lim., 161
Ocean arine Insurance), 26
Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 771
Ditto, new, 48$
Societe Finn, ciere d'Eg,ypte, lim., 4;
Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lim., 7$
Universal Marine, Insurance, lira., 5f

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE HEARTS OF OAR BENEFIT SOCIETY.—A deputa•
tion of the members of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society
this morning waited upon Mr Knox, and the spokesman
asked permission to be allowed to make a statement, and to
ask advice as to what course the members were to take for
their relief.

Mr Knox having consented to hear the statement, the
spokesman said--In the early part of this year it was found
by the members of this society that great irregularities
were being carried on in the society by the secretary and
his friends in office, namely—issuing false copies of the
rules, spending £4,800 without consent of the -nembers,
and throwing every obs.facle in the way of an investigation
of the accounts. The result was that a committee was
formed by the members and called the Reform Committee,
for the purpose of removing the secretary from office ; the
secretary was sumoned to this court for issuing false rules,
and was committed to take his trial, but acquitted. The
reformers fading then that by removing the s,cretary's
friends in the general or managing committee they
would bo in a position to get relief, during the
quarterly nights in October and November elected 20
vice-presidents (in 'accordance with rule 2P), which gave
them 32 out of 40. The quarterly meeting of the general
committee was called by the secretary on Nov. 26, and
Mr Court was elected president, and he (the spokesman)
vice-president of the society. The secretary then brought
forward his accounts, which, after some discussion, were
not passed. It was then proposed that a general meeting
should be held within one month, of all the members of
the society,to take into consideration whether the secretary
any longer deserved their patronage, and diemiss him from
office. A sub-committee was then appointed to make
arrangements for the meeting. The sub-committee made
arrangements to have Exeter Hall. In the meantime
the general committee adjourned the meeting from time
to time till December 17, expecting to have the general
meeting on January 7, 1865. A requisition was then
sent to the secretary, signed by five presidents and vice-
presidents to call a special-committee to confirm the minutes
of a meeting held oa November 26, but the secretary re-
fused to call the committee, and also declined to call the
general meeting, thereby treating the subcommittee and
general committee with contempt. He had also lost
all confidence of the members, and most assuredly
would not retain their patronage were there a
general meeting of the members called. The depu-
tation (the sub-committee) would therefore thank his
Worship for his advice as to what steps they should
take to compel the secretary to do his duty to his commit-
tee. They also begged to state that a resolution was passed
by the committee ordering the secretary to summon the
trustees to the general committee meeting. Five came
before the committee on the 17th Dec,, and said they would
not allow any of the society's money to be spent; and that
if the secretary called the general meeting they would hold
him (the secretary) responsible, seeing the secretary could
fall back on a few friends, and that they (with him) could
do as they liked with 10,000 members.
Mr Knox said the members of the society appeared to
have got themselves in a terrible dilemma. As for giving
the deputation advice, that course would hardly be fair to
Mr Evans, the secretary, as the matter would hereafter
come before him (Mr Knox) to be adjudicated upon. Ho
would advise the deputation to see Mr Tidd Pratt, and to
place themselves in the hands of a solicitor.
The spokesman handed Mr Knox a copy of the rules
and after the magistrate had looked at them he said the
deputation must apply for an arbitration, and if it was re-
fused they could apply to him again.
The deputation thanked the magistrate, and retired.