The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-06 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were
Zatiker firm at 69f 45c.

The Stock Exchange was shut to-day, in order to
commemorate the Queen's birthday, by a resolution
of the Committee.

In the general money market there is a good
demand for discount accommodation, and the lowest
rate at which even first class three months bills can
be negotiated is 4 per cent. This sustained inqairy
is no doubt produced by the active revenue collec-
tions which are now in progress, and the disposition
evinced by manufacturers to extend their operations.
The bullion operations at the Bank yesterday
comprised the influx of £lO,OOO in bar gold.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
amounted to 1;949,600, and the exports to L 464,200.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

YESTERDAY.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 2} per Cent. Annuities .......
New 35 per Cent. Annuities ..........
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.'
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 211 1
India Stock ..........................
Ditto 5 per Cent .................... 108
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent...... 96
Ditto 5 per Cent .................... 1061;
Ditto 5} per Cent ................ .. 1151 15
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 100
Ditto ditto April, 1864 100 1
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100] 1
Drtio Bonds El,OOO
Ditto under £1,000.,
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account. June 9 92
I dis Stock for Account, 5 per Cent lO7l
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 per Cent 4 dis
Ditto £5OO ' 4 1 dis
Ditto Small 4 dis .
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
100 f
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-68-60
Chilian 6 per Cent. —
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l7l 1 1
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant —
Egyptian 7 pei Cent 991 100 k
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup,ins —
Ditto Account 331 i i 4i
Ditto Coupons l5l
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 811 1
Mexican 3 per Cent ....
......
Ditto Account. ..................... 34 1
New Granada ........................ 16/ 151
Ditto 2 per Cent. .................. 32f
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
Ditto
4i per Cent. 1862 ........
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 NI
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 —
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 491
94
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859..
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862' 921 1
Sardinian 5 per Cent ..........
Ditto Account B5l
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred ..
Ditto Account .. 481 9
Ditto Passive , —
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account .. 901 1 2
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. lO2l 1
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account. .. 251 1
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 651
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs -
Ditto Account
Ditto Scrip, 1861, £l4 4s. paid .2/3/ pm
THREE O'CLOCK..
Consols, Money
.Ditto Account 92 192 /

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
Quiet. No change. Sales about 4,000 balm
Import, 12,928.

SUICIDE BY A BUTLER.—Yesterday Dr. Lan-
kester held an inquest on the body of William
Richards, aged 30, butler to Valentine Knight. Esq., a
Middlesex magistrate, who hung himself in his pantry, 3,
Cornwall. terrace, Regent's-park. The deceased had only
been a few months in Mr. Knight's service, and on that
gentleman coming home on Monday night he sent him to
bed. On the following morning, on the cook coming down,
a piece of paper was hanging on the pantry door, with the
following words, badly spelt : "You better get a policeman
to cut me down as you will find me dead inside." A. police
man was sent for. The door was locked, and the deceased
was found hanging, and in one of his hands a 141 b weight.
Several letters were found. In one he thanked Mr. Knight
for his kindness, and enclosed £lO, part of which he wished
to be given to the Christian Young Men's Society, and
part to the poor at Brighton. It appears that some time
ago he had committed a robbery at Brighton, and had three
months' imprisonment, which circumstance had prayed on
his mind. lie got into the service of a lady named Bigg,
and afterwards went to Mr. Knight. In one of his letters
he said smoking had been his ruin, but latterly he had not
indulged in it. His brother said he was always eccentric.
and committed the robbery to see how cleverly he could do
it. He was of weak intellect. The coroner said he never
recollected a person holding a heavy weight in his hand
when he committed suicide. Verdict, " Temp rary in-
sanity."
THE ARAB CAVALRY AT PARia.--Llat Thursday
the Emperor reviewed, in the Bois de Boulogne,
a detachment of Turcos, and tbe small troop of the Spahis
or Arab cavalry lately arrived in Paris. The latter were
to have performed a fantasia after the manner of their
of
two horsemen, one a Spahi and the other simply a looker-on,
and in which both horse and man were wounded,created such
confusion around the spot where the Emperor and Empress
were standing that the review was cut short, and con, listed of
little more than a simple defile. The rapidity and ease with
which these Arab horsemen launch their fiery horses into full
gallop, turn them suddenly round, and to a dead ,
was the astonishment and admiration of allcome ton.
They looked on.
They are a fine, swarthy, but fierce-looking body of men,
whom one could easy fancy swooping down on their re in
their own wild country paase„, but who looked thoroughlypy
out of place and in strange contrast to everything around
them in the trim and artificial avenues of the Champs
Elysees, On Sunday they seemed greatly to enjoy the
scene on the race course, and between the races amused
themselves and the spectators by performing several evolu•
tions, galloping up and down in a sort of amateur fantasia
style ; their gaudy-coloured garments, flowing cloaks, and
turbaned head being a striking contrast to the tight figures
and jockey caps of the real actors in that day's sports-2 he
Queen.

ATTEMPTED MURDER IN MANCHESTER.—Yes terday morning a painful case came before the
magistrates at the City police-court, Manchester. Harriet
Fawcett, the wife of Robert Fawcett, a saddler, living in
Ashton Old-road, was charged with having attempted to
warder her husband. Prosecutor stated that at 11 o'clock
on the previous night he and his wife went to bed. She rose
about half-past five, and he heard her making a noise in the
kitchen. She came np afterwards into the room, and asked
him if he was going to get up. He said " No." He dozed
again, and he was awakened by a sensation of pricking in
his neck. He saw his wife standing at the bedside with
a knife in her hand, which she was thrusting into his
throat. He seized her hand, and strugged to get posses-
sion of the knife. She got into the street during the
Bt"ggle,
away. She was but ho eventually took the knife from her, and
overtaken by a police officer,
81"
'lmi ran
witness gave her into custody. Witness's hands were
much out in his endeavours to secure the knife. There
was a slight
bled a littie. He cut about an inch long on his throat, and it
al half years,
~.._-",e, had been married to the prisoner five and
took drink, az,":
t She
then4e.y had three children. At times she
began drinking her behaviour was very vio:en .
on M
Thursday eveni onday ; but when she went to bed on
was committed for a. 1.
wee
' atrial he apparently sober, The prisoner
. g
of the depositions, and, on She fainted during the reading
allowed to see her husband er recovery, begged to be
t
The request was grad,n
e
DESTRUCTION OF VESSELS
ayThe
BY THE FLORIDA.—
Liverpool, Thursd
barque Inca, which
arrived here this evening f3ro6m:Te alicahuraa, reoorta that on
the 18th of March, in lat. m
mailet:.42 W., she spoke the
barque Regatta, bound fro
The captain of the Regatta stated that
Video for Liverpool.
anbar he had on board
part of the crew of the
Henrietta, of
Baltimore, which vessel Waseca ptured 'lard destroyed
h. by
the Confederate steamer Florida. The Regatta
of water, the captain of the Inca agreed to receive the short
of the Henrietta on board his vessel. The crewileofmen
Henrietta state that the large American ship Oneida, oat Potter, bound from Shanghai to New York, had been .
tared by the Florida and destroyed about 24 hours after
cap-
they went on board the Florida. The Oneida left
Shanghai on the 22d of January, and had a valuable cargo
of silks, tea, &c., on board.