The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The general discount market is now well stocked
with money, and its position is becoming easier, and
of course more satisfactory to the commercial
classes. Capital is not so extensively required as
it was a short time since, either for trade or other
purposes, and while it is increasing, the demand is
falling off, and the best short dated paper is hardly
negotiated at 31 per cent.
About £5,00u in gold was taken into the Bank
yesterday.

The America, from New York, has brought
£184,231.

re The weekly return issued by the authorities of
the Bank of England comprises alterations which
ip
ig-
are highly satisfactory. The bullion, which bad
a
been gradually reduced for many weeks, now shows
kid an increase of £74,658. The reserve of notes has also
er been slightly augmented, and the amount of the
Other Securities diminished through the repay-
nt meats of advances. Subjoined is our usual analy-
he
•
het

Active Circulation .. £22,077,365
Decrease, 59,185
Bullion .. 14,645,269
Increase .. 74,658
Rest .. • . .. 3,140,525
Increase .. 16,971
Public Deposits .. • • .. 4,437,835
Decrease .. .. • • .. 178,217
Other Deposits.. .. .. .. 15,271,262
Decrease .. .. 1,081,556
Seven Day and other Bills .. • . 747,101
Increase .. 22,956
Government Securities 10,915,363
No alteration.
Other Securities .. .. 19,986,456
Decrease 1,353,689
Notes Unemployed 6,499,880
Increase .. • . .. • . 98,505

The annual meeting of the Queen Insurance
Company was held at the head-office in Liverpool,
on Wednesday. The directors' report, which was
adopted unanimously, was most satisfactory, bath
as regarded the life and fire branches. It appeared
that in the life department proposals to the large
amount of £55,000 had been declined during the
year, showing the great care taken in the selection
of lives; whilst the new policies issued were larger
by £53,000 than those of the preceding year. The
,hp,remium income of the year was £16,352 ss. id.
e first quiequennial period having arrived, Mr.
Moncrieff Wilson, the actuary of the company,
has made the necessary investigation into the com-
pany's affairs, and the result, as shown in the re-
port, is exceedingly gratifying. The valuation
was made on the basis of the 3 per cent. Carlisle
tables, and after a laborious
assessment of every
individual
policy, the actuary, in his report,
states
that the bonus to be added to all policies entitled to
partieipate, "will exceed on the average of ordinary
assurers 46 per cent. per annum of the total pre-
miums paid, and will rise in some instances accord.
ing to age, as high as 65, 70, and even 75 per cent.
of the total premiums which have been received."
The high position which Mr. Wilson occupies in the
insurance profession is ample guarantee that the
large bonus thus apportioned is warranted by the
position of the company's affairs. In the fire branch
the premium income of the year was£7o,3oo 26.11 d.,
being an increase of nearly £23,000 over that of the
previous year, and this amount has been carried to
the credit of the reserve fund. A dividend at the
rate of 8 per cent, per annum was declared. Mr.
John E. Leyland, the sub-manager in Liverpool,
has been appointed secretary to the company, to be
resident in London, where he will devote his
beesirles to strengthen the position of the company's
Ba, and pay special attention to some of the
haveT_branches, which, in the case of the "Queen,"
n very remunerative.
tiring the
more uctivit .1 last few days there has been rather
markets. ein the Foreign and Colonial Produce
to a specula agar has been largely dealt in, owing
:
have materiall
a demand for exportation, and prices
however, havey advanced. Tea, coffee, and rice,
The public sates sotn_ained at about previous rates.
grass with consider indigo have continued to pro-
able animation at the enhanced
values established
except
for the commencement of the
auctions,
superior descriptions. In the
tallow market there bas not been much activity, but
quotations, for both present and forward delivery,
are well supported.
The committee of the
Stock Exchange have re-
solved that the 27th inst. shall be a settling day on
the following companies' shares. The first named
are to be officially marked, but the others are only
to be inserted in the hi-weekly lists •,Ile scrip of
the Royal Sardinian Rsilway, the Public Works
Credit Company of London and Paris, and the Oil
Seed Crushing Company.
The first ordinary general meeting of share-

Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 ... 1001
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent —
Oitto 5} per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto :April, 1864 991.
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001
Ditto Bonds El,OOO —
Ditto under £1,000..
Bank Stock for Account
ionsols for Account, Oct. 8.. 931
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Cent 2 pm 1 dis
Ditto £5OO ..
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 1859
Brazilian 5 oer Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 . . —.

Ditto, 4f per Cent., 1852-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
,;hilian 6 per Cent. —
Ditto 3 per Cent. ..
Colombian 6 Scrip, £l5 pd —
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Dutch, 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant —
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l4i:
Egyptian 7 per Cent looa 1
Ditto, Second Issue -
Guatemala 5 per Cent. -
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons —
Ditto Account 144 t
Italian 5 per Cent.(lllaremmana Railway) 84
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Peruvian 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account • •
Ditto 4} per Cent., 1862 ..
Ditto Account.. 4 B7f
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto:3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 —
Ditto Account 491 9
Russian 5 per Cent.,jlB22, £ St 94
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 •
Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 93 1
Sardinian 5 per Cent -

Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred ..
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account 36 54
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account
Swedish, 4 per Cent.
rurkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account..
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account ..
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account 714
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £59 10s Od pd. 2i dis
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent —
Ditto Account....
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account 254
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account .. 61!
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins.
Belgian 44 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2} per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil

Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 25f 9sf.
Italian, 6 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 26 francs —
Ditto Account 721
. TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

AGREEABLE ANTICIPATIONS OF AN EARTHQUAKE
IN LONDON.—Let us suppose what might he the
result in London of an earthquake similar to that of Lisbon,
and happening in the night. The single-storied dwellings
of the poor might probably remain erect, though damaged;
but what of the four and five storied dwellings of the
middle
classes--what of the huge palaces, piled floor on
floor in the heart of London, and let out in offices? What
of those ranges of houses in the main streets serving for
to
laosrenl
alrd
thefb buildings-
shop!, the whole fronts of which stand on slender stilts of
°1
x
cast-iron, which would crack like potsherds did they once
street, Regent-street,
tha s vt
re ar nhg hr basest
da and
thorough-
fares, whose front walls stand upon plate-glass, would fall
prostrate at a blow, and choke their thoroughfares with
heterogeneous ruins and the mashed frames of
humanity,
The huge Cathedral of St. Paul's would busy its
own
'
churchyard in its fragments—the Bank and the Exchange
would mingle their crumbled materials together—churches
and their many spires would fall down—the warehouses
and stone bridges on the river would block its channel, and
the breached and riven banks would again convert the
whole low lying lands into the marsh that they were in
the days of Julius Ca3sar ; but all putrid with dead bodies,
Water and gas supply would cease, and the great sewers
would be underground reservoirs of pestilence. A plague
would supervene, and many hundreds of thousands would
perish. The dockyards would be destroyed, and speculat-
ing despots on the Continent would gloat over the downfall
of English supremacy, and talk of invading us with the
pretext of help. The cast-iron bridge at Queen-street
would not be left for the New Zealander, and though the
forged upper structure at Charing-cross would be inde-
structible save by time and rust, the masonry of the piers
would burst through the cast-iron casings, and leave the
bridge a wreck. And meanwhile throughout England
similar ruin might prevail, and commerce be stopped, and
famine add its presence to other evils. The transit of food
and fuel by water would cease, and the toppling down of
brick vied uots would stop for a time all railway transit.—
Once a Week

BANNS OF MARRIAGE FORBIDDEN.—The rare
occurrence of forbidden banns of marriage occurred at
St. Andrew's Church, Stratton, Cornwall, on Sunday
last, the 18th. The banns had been published for "the
third time of asking," when a tall, middle-aged woman
rose from her seat, and in an audible voice said, " I
forbid these banns, sir." The clergyman, the Rev. W. B.
Marsh, then requested that the woman would come to him
in the vestry after service. This she did; and it was dis-
covered that the poor woman had only too good cause for
forbidding the banns, as she was the bona fide wife of the
man whose banns had been called for the third time that
morning

St. Katharine, 67;8
Southampton, 68 7

Closing
Shan Railways Plod Price. Business dont
100 :Viand° &St Lawremx all 63 65
I
stk Bom.,Barodadz.Cent Ind 100 106 107 M
Gu. 5 per cent.
20 Do. New .. 8 1 11 1)
20 Do. E. Shares. 74 115 P
204 Buffalo and Laice Huron all 64 68 61
10 Do. Preference ...... all 81 94
too 100
Buflalo,Brant&G odrich
p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100
tio. do. June 1, 1874 100
st elcutta.&S.Eastn.(Lnr, 100 115 107
at Cape Town & Dock Scrii 100 11.4 106
stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. r 100 108 109
stock East Indian. gu. 5 p. c. 1074 1181 108 5
20 Do. do. G Ext..... 10 15 14p
20 Do. do. H do. .. 10 1* 141
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 22 23
100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 76 18
100 Do. co. deferred...... all 62 64
100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. all 70 72 701
100 Do. do. deferred...... all 54 57
r
l
100 Do. do. deferred...... all 26 28
00
100°° DDD 000 d34dtoh.Pdl erf efe.fr. sr
steotdo7-1c... : • allaall 314512 543433
stock Gt. IndiaPemn.gua.sp.o 100 1084 1093 1(94
20 Do. New gua. Sp. c... 12 15 11;
20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 11 141
stook Gt. South.of India (Lim)
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 106 107
201 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 101 101 104
204 Do. New 18 11 10f;
100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 96 98
100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.. .. all 87 89 88 7
10 Indian Branch Limited 2 4 5 p
stock Madras. guar., sp.c. .. 100 106 +O7
stock Do. 45 p. o. Extension 100 101 102
stock Dc.44 d 0........ 100 18 100
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 --
'stook Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnda. 100
50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 58 59
100 Do. 7p. o. 51ortg. Bds. all
Newßrunswick a Candu
Class A and B all 3 6
N.ll.l.C'da6 pc Ist pt bds 100 82 84
stock Soinde .......... (100 1064 1074
at Do. Delhi
• s ' 100 106 107
Do. do 2 4 ip
20 Do. Punjaub all —P
at Do. Do. , , lliu 106 107
ock Do. [ndus.St Flo. J k,loo 102 104 1034
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIEs.
k.,ab.tivv. es p.c.J a *kJ no
1877-S4 . 100 104 105 104 5
Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 1(2 104
D 0.6 p. c.Mar.& Sept. 100 102 104
Do. Ep. c. Jan.&July. 100 92 84 934 25 35
Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 92 94
Cape G. Hope, 6 p o,187:, 100 108 110
Do.Ap & Oct 1886 100 109 111
Do. 1891 100 110 112
- Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 113 115
,Ceylon, N0v.1878, 8p c 100 113 11
Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 107 108 1075
Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 Ik7 109
-- N.B.Gov. p.c. a.&Jul) 100 tot 105
Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oot. 100
N. S. W. Gov. 5 p z., Mu 100 1015 1024
Du. sp. c.,lB'tl to 1871 100 102 103
Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 1024 103 1025
,New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 109 111
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
sterling, 1875. . . ..... 100 104 106
Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 1:1 113
IS. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up.. 100 112 114
Vio.GOV. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 108 110
Do. to 6 0.0. A.1).&00t.. 100 1104 lll 1105
BRITISH MINES.
2 Cambrian Consol. Gold( 1 d
uhilord Amalgamated..l 39
Devon G. Con.. (Tavist., 1 545 655
East Bassett (Illoganl— 90 70 73
1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 52. 5d par
East Caradon ...... t 14.6 264 274 275
East Cara Brea... 3.4.0 65 71
Greatel
b
GN mLET'
oe tey dmt
ty
d.
d.
s DS:
Margaret
°lt to ruut
Berthats (
on hs
Jul 1), t ( 0 I'l
g( a Gvu wal Bet nk 8 `:B7.
.61
4213:
63l
.1
G. Wheal Vor (Helston, 40 9t 104
h
Grenville
8.12 84 26
liingston Downs 4. 8.0 15 25
snO Yr
o (11 2.&0 1
4
1118: 2201 4
Marke Valley..
New Seton l9l 95 105
N.Wh'l Basset (Mogan 2.17.0 25 34
North Wheal Crotty 2.6.9 41 5
Par Consols (St. Blaze 14
20 Providence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 13 45
, South Caradon(StCleer, 14 I 415 425
iS. Cam Brea (Illogan) 5.15.61 1 14
i.Wheai Fran. (Mogan; 18.1,.9 60 65
(Stray Park .. ... . .
5 rainarSilvA Lead
fin Croft .... ..... 19 20
West Basset (Illvan) l4 91 105
w C radon (Liskeard; 5 20 22
West Seton
Wheal Basset (Mogan) 55 724 774
Wheal 13uller(Redruth) 5 20 30
Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant), 2.0.6
VirhealLuthott ........
;2.10.8 2 25
Wheal MaryAnni,Llen.) 8 gi 95
Wheal 3eton 584 180 190
Wheal Treiawney (Lis )1 7 21 23
Wheal Union ' 3.17 21 35

PItEI4'ERENCE SHARES.
South Eastern fixed 41 per cent., 102

PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
London, Brighton, &c., 41 per cent., 1858. 102/
London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. ext., B, 6 per cent.,
Ditto, 6 per cent., C, 86
North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., 811
LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS.
London, Tilbury, and Southend, 100/ 100
Preston and Pyre, 451
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bahia and San Francisco (lira.) gua. 7 per cent., lc; 1
Dutch Rhenish, 1S
Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 12
San Paulo (lira.), gua. 7 per cent.,
Ditto (ail), 221
Southern of France, 271

FOREIGN MINES•
Yudanamutana of S. Australia (111 n.), 2Z- 3

JOINT-STOCK RANKS.
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Um.), 45
Australasia, 76
Bank of Egypt, 27/ 8
Bank of Otago, lim., 11/
Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 81
British and American Exchange (lim.), 151
Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 121 I
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 38
Consolidated Bank, lira., 101:
Continental, Bin.,
English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 231
Imperial Ottoman, 18} 18
London Chartered Bank of Australia, 20.1
London and County, 64
London Joint Stock 365
London and South American, Inn, 4} /
London and 'Westminster. 79
National of Liverpool. limited, 19 181
Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (lim.), 61
Union of London, asi

DOCKS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
zricultural, 201
plrf. 71 per cent., 22
ABeursthitralwiaanteAr
work.,
9
CGoepnp. ecrr
dit Minersan do
iEngland,na
nce of London, lint., 5
Crystal Palace, 38}
General Steam Navigation, 281
Hudson's Bay, 81
Joint •stock Discount, 61
London Financial Association, lint., 151
London General Omnibus Company (um), 2
Peninsula and 0, iental Steam, 84i
Ditto, new,lsll
Rhymney Iron, 25
Ditto, new. 74
Royal Mail Steam, 79

The Price of Gold.—

The quotation of gold at Paris ie about per mile pm., and
the short exchange on London. is 25.25 per £1 sterling, on
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
i 7s. ibid. per ounce fbr standard gold, it appear that gold is
about 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in purls.
By advices from Hamburg the price of! gold is 425 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.61 per £1 sterling,
tandard gold at the English ➢tint price is, therefore, about
6-10 tbs per cent. dearer in London than in UaMbnrg,

EXTENSIVE PLUNDERING OF COFFEEHOUSE-REEFERS.
—A man between 30 and 40 years of age of sallow com-
plexion, who calls himself John Walker, was placed at the
bar charged with the wholesale plunder of coffeehouses.
Peter Smith, a detective officer, by whom the prisoner had
been brought in custody, called—
Mr. Charles Wingfield, coffeehouse-keeper, 10, Park-side,
Knightsbridge, who said that on the night of the 7th inst.
the prisoner slept at his house; he came in with another
man and asked for a bed for the night, with which they
were accommodated. Prisoner and the other man came
down together at eight o'clock on the following morning.
Prosecutor's wife hastening up stairs found that the rob-
bery had been committed, and immediately called out to
her husband that the room had been stripped, and he fol-
lowed prisoner and the other man, who had not at the time
got many yards from the house. Finding themselves fol-
lowed, they took to their heels, and crossed Hyde-park in
different directions. The prisoner here escaped, but
.the
other man was taken.

Mr. Selfe—What did they take away from your house?
Prosecutor—A pair of sheets, blankets, counterpanes,
and other things.
Mr. Selfe—Have any of them been found ?

Prosecutor—The counterpane, a blanket, and a pillow
Me were found upon the other man, and identified as my
property. They were concealed round his person.

Mr. Selfe—What has become of the other man who was
taken at the moment ?

Peter Smith—He was committed from here, and tried
last Mcnday at sessions, where he received 12 months' im-
prisonment. There were three indictments against him.
Mr. Selfe—Are there any other charges against the
prisoner !
Smith—Several, and I want a remand in order to pro-
duce them. There were 25 different persons who identified
the other man with robberies, and the prisoner was his
companion. I have no doubt that a great many cases will
be produced against him.
Mr Selfe (to prisoner)—Have you anything to say ?
Prisoner—Nothing.
Remanded till Tuesday next.