The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-21 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMXIMILL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, TWELVE o'CLocit.
An active demand is still reported in the general
discount market, and few if any bills of three months
date are negotiable under 6 per cent., which con-
tinues to be the minimum of the Bank of England.
It was imagined in some quarters that the directors
--influenced by the recent withdrawals of bullion,
and the increase in the inquiry for accommodation
—might have found it necessary to alter their regu-
lations at the weekly court to-day, but they sepa-
rated without announcing any new movement, and
the result was in accordance with general expecta-
tions.

About £30,000 in 133 r gold was taken nut of the
Bank yesterday for the Continent, and 25,000
sovereigns were also withdrawn for the Brazils.

The following important resolution has been
passed by the committee of the Stock Exchange :
'"fhat no company shall be admitted to quotation
in the official list unless a member of the Stock
Exchange be authorised by such company to give
the committee fall information RS to the formation
and the bona fides of the undertaking, the appli-
cations fcr and distribution or allotment of shares,
and every other particular that the committee may
require."

The biddings for 30,00,000 rupees on bills on
India took place yesterday at the Bank of England.
The proportions allotted were—Calcuti, 17,10,000
rupees; to Bombay, 12,00,000 rupees; and to
Madras, 90,000 rupees, The minimum price was,
as before, is lid per rupee on Calcutta and Madras,
and is 111 d on Bombay. The applications within
the limits amounted to 180 lees. Tenders on Cal-
nutta and Madras at is 111 d will receive about 16
per cent., on Bombay at 2s about 65 per cent,, and
all above those prices in fall.

f,The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are, in round figures, as under
1864. 1863.
Great Western
North-Western ........ 167,532 £65,311
South-Western
28,781 27,192
Brighton
23,083 21,240
Midland
.......... 48,373 42,459
Lancashire and Yorkshire. ............ 46,730 39,660
Great Northern
.. 36,075 29,023
South Eastern....
Great Eastern
3
North Eastern 1,528 31,819
Bristol and Exeter 61,998 55,3237 6,737
Manchester, Sheffield, and Linc01n...... 18,322,046 15,842
These returns, when compared with those of the
same period of last year, are of a very satisfactory
character. Oa the Great Western there is an in-
crease of £2,021; on the North Western, of
£10,790 ; on the South Western of £1,559 ; on the
Brighton,,of £1,843 ; on the Midland, of £5,914 ;
on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, of £7,070 ; on
the Great Northern, of £7,052 ; on the South
Eastern, of £1,291; on the Great Eastern, of £2,709;
on the North Eastern, of £6,675; on the Bristol
and Exeter, of £309 ; and on the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, of £2,480.
At the 54th half-yearly meeting to-day of the
Landon Joint-stock Bank, Mr J. T. Oxley in the
chair, the report, which was adopted, stated that
during the six months, ending the 30th ult., the
bank had made a net profit of £124,476 7s. 10d.,
out of which the shareholders would receive the
Usual dividend at the rate of 121- per cent, per
annum, with a bonus of £1 per share, leaving a
balance of £26,976 7s. 10d., to be carried to profit
and loss pew account, for appropriation at the end
of the year. The guarantee fund had been credited
with the accruing interest and debited with the
depreciation ascertained on the revaluation of Go-
Ment securities held by the bank, and now amounted
to £276,301 78. Bd.

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of
the Imperial Bank was held today—Mr Alderman
Lusk in the chair. The report, which was unani-
tously adopted, recommended a dividend at the
rate of .8 per cent. per annum, free of income tax,
for the six months ending 30th June, 1864, on paid-
tlP capital of 12,000 shares Ist issue ; and a vay-
toent at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum on paid-
,lll3 capital of 10,500 shares of 2d and 3d issues in
lieu of dividend.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have apt
Pointed Monday, the 25th July, a special settling
day in the shares of the undermentioned securities :
—London Bank of Scotland, New Shares; Conti-
nenta
c,l Bank
and oouth Corporation New Shares; London
Western Bank, •Shareef not to be
marked for the present. Also in the Provincial
Banking Corporation,
and y after the 17th Ma
on bargains entered into on
ilank, on bargain, in the Eastern Exchange
after the 21st May; and in the
Albion Bank, to be marked on the official lists.
Also in the Italian Land Company,
entered into and after the 17 th June and on the
7 on bargains
•
Ruses Grande Gold Mining Company; to be marked
on the twice a week lists.
ordered The
committee have also
the shares of the Indian Tea Company of
Cachar to be quoted in the twine a week list.

Two CLOCK. At Paris, this day, according to -Mro'. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 68f. 30c.
Owing to a few speculative sales the market for
the p, nglis b. Fund A has given way about per cent.,
Zhiefty ia conseq aenco of the extreme dullness of
uttsiness. Cons ols for money are 90?-, and for the
"count 90fi t, The New Threes and Reduced
181`uouities are 893 ; Exchequer Bills, for March,
to 32. clic; Az"viez Juno OA, dis. fio par; lutiih

15 per Cents., 1041 105 ; Enfaced 4 per Cents. 94;
ditto 5 per Cents. 104/ ; and ditto 5} per Cents.
1141 1154.
A slight downward movement has also been
apparent in the Foreign Stock Market. Turkish 6
per Cents., 1862, are 701; Mexican, 29} s ; do.
New, 262 1; Greek, 24-1, y ; Spanish Passive, 28}1 ;
Portuguese, 481; and the Confederate Loan, 76 77.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
moderately active, and prices generally remain
without material change.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally main-
tain former rates. Anglo-Egyptian Bank shares
are quoted 3.1 1 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Do Account, Aug.
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent
Stew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891... .. 73
Do s.per Cent., Jan. 1873
Annuities 30 yrs, expire i:,-,t1.1J an., 180 —
Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885
Do (Red bea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —

March. June.
Exchequer Bills, £I,OOO, 3& 31 per Cent. 8 par
Do 1:500
Do £lOO and £2OO ..
,?ank England SLIE, öi per Ct.
Do Account —

5 die

-_JNDI&N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874....
Do Account
Do 5 per Cent. July, 1670
Do Account
Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 —
Do Certificates
Do Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent . . 94}
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 1041
Do 5} per Cent., May, 1879 .. 1141 151
Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1b66 -.-
Do Bonds £l,OOO ---•
Do under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Do 1859..
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do 4f per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do 1863 .. 871
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Egyptian 7 per. Cent —
Do, Second Issue- lO3
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-6, ex-Coupons —
Do Account
Do Coupons —
Do Account..... --
Guatemala 5 per Cent.
Do 1839 and 1859 ..
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maretnmana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent, 1864
Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis
Do 6 per Cen'. Anglo-French
Ditto Scrip, £23 paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Do 2 per Cent.
Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares) .. —
Peruvian 41 per Cent ..
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) ..
Do 41 per Cent., 1862 —
Do Account —
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'2.. 48
Do Account 4Bl
Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 44 per Cent., 1850 ..
Do 3 per Cent 1859 ..
Do 5 per Cent, 1862
Do Anglo-Dutch
Do Scrip, £3O paid pm
Sardinian. 5 per Cent
Do Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Account
Do Passive
Do Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Do Account lO
Swedish, 4 per Cent
Do Scrip, £6O paid — pm
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
;Do Account 92 11
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
1)o Account
Do £l.OO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds..
Do 1863
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. —
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do Account —
Do 6 per Cent., 1852
Do Account
Do Scrip £3O paid
Do lf per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London
Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. ---
Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f.....
Do Account —
Dutch 2} per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Do 4 per Cent. Certificates ... .
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols Money .4 .. 901
Do Account ..

Agricultural Prospects,

<From the Mark _Lane Express.)

A sudden and favourable change took place the first day
of the week; a bright sun commenced to shine ; wind N.B.
Monday was breezy and fine ; an excellent day for the
pushing forward of haymaking, and much progress made.
In Essex, the cutting of peas and oats commenced : a sample
of the former article was shown, but the yield not promis-
ing. Tuesday morning opened thick and hazy; but again
the day became bright and fine. The accounts from Lan-
cashire on that day state—" For the past ten days there has
been an absence of rain ; the temperature hot and forcing,
but the nights still sharp and cold, The dry weather has
admitted of the hay crop being well gathered up, so faras it
has been saved. The produce, however, with feel exceptions,
proves, as was expected, very light, and this description of
forage will be scarce,and proportionately dear. The late high
winds and wet do not appear to have done much injury to
the wheat plant ; but the general conviction is that the
yield will be under an average, and greatly deficient in
quantity and quality from the crop of last year." The
same day, from the West Riding of Yorkshire, it was re-
marked : " With a continuance of cool, dry weather, our
growing crops are progressing steadily, and although
much of the wheat is thin as expected, and spring corn
short in the straw, they assume healthy appearance gene-
rally. Hay making is proceeding steadily, and there will
be small stacks to look at in this neighbourhood when got
up." From Suffolk, on that day, the reports were more
unfavourable than any yet received, running thus :
"Since our last we have had five days of dull, cold No-
vember weather, and two bright scorching days of July
weather. The farmers are general in their complaints of
the damage done to the wheat during blooming. In all
the fields which were in bloom during the late frosts and
subsequent stormy weather, the mischief done is now
making itself apparent : the ears are all more or less de-
fective, many with half the chaff filled with pain, and
our promise from these districts is very discouraging; many
speak of only four sacks per acre. The late wheats on the
cold heavy lands were not in bloom during the ungenial wea
ther, and from these wo hope we may get an average crop ;
but red gum is doing considerable mischief in these districts.
Under these circumstances we cannot now expect an ave-
rage crop." On Wednesday the accounts from Boston
stated " The weather during the week has continued
cold, with an absence of sun, and the crops make slow
progress to maturity. With anything like favourable
weather, we may expect harvest to be general in about
another month ; and in this district we have a fair average
crop of wheat." From Suffolk, on Thursday, it was re-
marked :—" Since Sunday last inclusive we have had bright
warm summer weather. With easterly winds and cold
nights, complaints of our growing wheats do not decrease,
yet we are not inclined to think that on the whole we may
gather a fair crop. Barley reports are favourable, but rain
is wanted for our light gravelly soils to mature the kernels
and prevent coarseness and premature ripeness." From
Devonshire our advices state : " Wheat crop in this county is
rather variously reported on, the amphis has been attacking
the ears, but we are informed from reliable sources that
little or no mischief is to be seen, and that they are rapidly
disappearing from the ears ; some few early pieces of wheat
may be cut by the end of this month, but harvest is not
likely to be general until the second week in August.
The crop is thought to be nearly an average." On Friday.
from the same county (neighbourhood of Exeter), it was
remarked :—" Wheat cutting has commenced in a very
early district of our south coast. Reports of the crop aro
very various ; on the thin soils they are giving up for want
of rain, but in the deep rich soils this dry hot weather is
very favourable. Altogether we are likely to have a mid-
dling crop of wheat, but not equal to last year. The above
remarks will apply to barley and oats. Beans and pease are
said to have failed, being blighted." This is the first cutting
of wheat we have heard of, but the rye harvest has com-
menced in early districts. On Friday, from the East
Riding of Yorkshire, advices say--" The weather has been
dry and rather cold for the season of the year, with an ab-
sence of sun, and the growing crops make small progress
towards maturity. Rain is wanted for spring corn and root
crops." On the same clay, from Bury St. Edmunds, our
advices say—" There are very conflicting aceounte about
the wheat crop, but we think more is made of it than it re-
quires. The Talavera, being a very tender wheat, was
caught by the frost, and no doubt received injury; but we
will not not believe but that we have good crop of red wheat.
Barley marvellously fine—in fact, this applies to all sorts of
grain, excepting wheat." The weather remained hot and
forcing up to Saturday inclusive, and will have pushed for-
ward the crops favourably, except where premature ripen-
ing is the effect of a sudden change. Harvest may be said
to have partially commenced in this week ; and should such
weather continue, it will go on steadily, but from first to
lot is likely to be a long and procrastinated one, Hay may
be considered as well nigh finished.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Closing ,
share Eallway 9
100 Itlantio4 St LaWrenix all 59 61
Sk Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind
t Gu. 5 per cent.
20 Do. New
20 Do. E. Shares......—. 7k par k p
20k Bulialo and Laze Huron all ok 51
10 Do. Preference . all 8 9
100
100 Do. do. JLZ.IY
p. ot. bas, Aug. 1, 1872
3uffalo.Brant,&Godria 100 77 82
100 Do. do. Jude 1874 100 77 82
1871; 100 77 81
st Clcutta.&S. Eastn. 7LI). 100 99 100
at Cape Town & Dock Sorli. 00 " 104 1 9076 1031
stock Elwin. Bengal gu. sp. 100
steak East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1.j.2 103 102 k
20 Do. do. G Ext..... 15 P
20 Do. do. H do. .. 15 I Ipr
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 19 29 fo,
100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 72 74
100 Do. do. deferred...... all 61 63
100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. all 66 68
100 Do. do. deferred...... all 55 67
100 Do. 3d I'i of. stock ... all 48 54
100 Do. do. deferred— all 43 45
100 Do. 4th Pref. stock... all 29 81
100 Do. do. deferred...... all 27 20
stook GtlndiaPenln.gua.sp.o 100 103 104
20 Do. New gua. sp. a... 12 k
Do. January, 1862 ..
stock Gt. South.of India (Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 101 102
110} Gt. W. ot Canada Sharef. all 9/ 10
20kDo. New ..... . . ... 18 11 1046
100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 witli't opt. all 89 01
100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.... all 82 81
10 Indian Branch Limited 2 k d fp
stook Madras. guar., 5p.0. .. 100 100 101 1001
stock Do. 4k p. C. Extension 100 93 95
stock 1)0.4* d 0........ 100 1,0 92
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 --
stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. finds. 100
50 Melb. & ilobson's Bay. all 58 50
100 Do. 7p. c. 51ortg. Bds. all
Nuwßrunswiok Candy
Class A and B ... all 3 5
N.ll.l.C'daB pc Ist pf bds 100 82 81
stool, Scinde (100 101 k 10 101 k
sleek Do. Delhi.. lp• ! 100 lOO 101 1001
20 Do. do 2l pr p
et Do. Punjaub all ; 100 101 100
D 9. Do, .......: ,
sock Do. Indue.St. no.) 'kW) J9l 95 ,
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
,SLJ ul)
1877-S4 ro 99 101 90
Do. Cp. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 100 103
Do. 6p. 0.51ar.& Sept. 100 100 103
Do. Ip. o. Jan.&July. 10C 88 00
Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 88 10
Cape G.Hope, 6p 0,1873 100 104 106
Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 107 109
Do. 1891 100 It 9 111
Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 107 109
Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 111 113
Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 1(5 107
Natal Gov. 6 per cont.. 100 106 ICB
N./3.Gov.op.o.da.&July 100 9? 101
Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oot. 100
Gov. 5 p u.,1880 100 97 go
—Du. SIL c.,18i1 to 1,-)7( 100 97 98
Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 97k 98k 974
—. New Zealand 6 p cent 100
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
sterling, 1875. lOO 100 102
Queensland Gcv. 6p. o. 100 103 100
S. Aus G6p.0.1878.& up.. 100 105 108
,Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100
- ,Do. lo 6 p.a A.D.&Oct. 100 110 111 110 k

LAW INTELLIGENCE--(This Day.)

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde, and a Special Jury.)
HILL V. HILL.

The Queen's Advocate and Dr Wamby appeared for the
petitioner, and Mr Kerslake, Q,C , and Dr Spinks for the
respondent.

This was a suit instituted by the wife for judicial separa-
tion, on the ground of her husband's desertion for two
years without lawful cause; to which he pleaded denial,
that the desertion was not without reasonable cause, and he
charged the petitioner with adultery.
The Queen's Advocate stated the case. The petitioner
was the daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Hautrey, who
had been an officer in the Royal Bengal Artillery, and the
respondent had held the situation of head assistant to the
Military Board of the Accountant• General's-office at Cal-
cutta. The parties were married at Calcutta on the 16th of
January, 1847, and they cohabited until 1857, when the
alleged desertion took place. There were two children, a
boy and girl, issue of the marriage, who were living. The
father of the petitioner died, leaving a widow, a son, who
was in the Indian army, the petitioner, who was then
only eight years old, and another daughter. When only
16 years of age she became- acquainted with a Colonel
Lyster, to whom she was married, and by whom she had
one child; but it turned out that he had a wifa living at
the time. He died, and she and her mother returned to
Y formed an intimacy with the respon-
dent,marriage to her. She thought it right
deliberationtail ncuf oNt
vrtamh ,whpihrmohe rpee:e n
thode
of what had occurred, and after a day's
consented to marry her notwithstanding.
The uLion was not a happy one, for it appeared that the
respondent was of a jealous and suspicious disposition, and
altercations took place between theta which led to much
domestic misery. Some time after the marriage they left
India for England, but differences arising between them on
the voyage she refused to accompany her husband beyond
the Mauritius, and one of the acts of adultery charged was
alleged to have been committed with a Lieutenant Hickey
at this period. She ultimately went to England, and at the
solicitation of the respondent resumed cohabitation with him,
but in 1857 he left her at Folkestone, and went to Germany.
Since then he refused to live with her, and although he
promised to allow her £lOO a yeas, he did not pay that
amoru,a t punctually; atod, since the commencement of these
proceedings, the Court had ordered him to pay her £l6O a
year,
pendente lite, as alimony. Some letters from the re-
spondent to his wife were read, in
y
which he repeated his
charge of adultery with Lieutenant Hickey, and also ac-
cused here desertionof
o f hermisconductwith
husband, a gentleman named Jermer,
who, it appeared, had rendered her pecuniary assistance
after
and when he was irregu-
lar in his remittances.
t h

Evidence of the marriage in Bengal having been given,
Mrs Anna Maria Hill, the petitioner, was called. She
said that after the death of her father she returned with her
mother to England, and they resided at Stoke Newington.
She became acquainted with Colonel Lyster, and she mar-
ried him under the impression that he was a single man.
When he died, she went back with her mother, whose
means were very limited to Calcutta. She never lived
of her second child
ohnaptphielyvowyiathgehtimo 'EnSghllenwd aisneLiteciOn her returning to
Calcutta witfht India. On her her husband. In
1854
ho d
shee
iv lived
his s for
p esnisa weeks with
le re-
turn to England she went to live with her friends, but by
r cce
appointment she met her husband in Greenwich-park, and
they agreed to live together again. In the middle of
August, 1857, they went to Folkestone, and her husband
desired her to go to Sandgate with the children, while he
went to Germany for a fortnight. Ile said he had origi-
nally agreed to take her with him, but he had altered his
mind. From that period they never lived together. The
letters read by counsel were then put in and identified by
the petitioner as being in the handwriting of her husband.
The learned judge suggested that, as there was no pro-
bability of the parties living together again, the scandal of
further
proceedings might be prevented by a private ar-
rangement.. _

The learned counsel then retired, and, after an hour's
absence, an arrangement was made which terminated the
proceedings.

DIARKETS7This Day

MARK-LANE.

IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 42s 6d ;
barley, 27s 10d ; oats, 21s 7d; rye, 318 5d ; beans, 368 lld ;
and peas, 34s 3d.
THE Six WEEKS' AVERAGES. -- Wheat, 40s 9d ;
barley, 27s 8d; oats, 208 10d; rye, 31s 7d; beans, 358 10d;
peas, 33s 7d.
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Whes.t, 79,473 ;
barley, 2,148; oats, 4,371; rye, 30; beans, 3,212; peas,
241 quarters.