The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-23 00:00:00

MARKET

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
time directors of the Bank of England have held
usual weekly court to-day, and have not made
llens
?Ilauge in their official charge for discount. An
o°II prevailed in some quarters last evening that,
10g to the good position of the Bank, and the
pr
e!aleuce of cheaper money out of doors, the
Ithorities would have lowered their rate about
eent., but taking into account the expected with-
lbawals of gold for Spain, it is most likely that they
t"lre refrained from making any alteration at pre-
-44„t.: 111 the open market money is still very abun-
ah'u) and there is but a moderate inquiry for assist-
tie'. The rates to-day have ranged from 44 for
la best bills, and 4 per cent. has been accepted
c'ecasional instances.

About £97,000 in gold was taken out of the Bank
Yesterday for Spain.
„The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
rted Thursday, 2d March, a special settling day
the shares of the City of Milan Improvements
jobil°lindaiiPcianalyte(ruited)
for transactions entered into
a (Limited) n 0
26th January, to be marked with £5
(ii• paid up ; also of Cramer and Co.
quotation asked for. The committee
have further ordered the shares of the Washoe
sited Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Com-
13arlY th., (Limited) to be quoted in the daily lists ; and
(It:. shares of the Merchant Shipping Company
I.„llited) in the twice a week list.
ti The official returns relating to trade and naviga-
1811for the twelve months ending 31st December,
121, have just been published. From these it
that the total declared value of the exports
i°,l/1A the United Kingdom during that period was
18;",436,302, against £146,602,342 in the year
ia;,3, showing an increase of £13,833,960. The
ail r'see is most perceptible in beer and ale, coals
earth,,e_llllu7r cotton manufactures, cotton yarn,
factor awae, hardwares and cutlery, linen mann-
and woollen and worsted manufactures,
itOa there is a falling off in unwrought
z_ apparel and slops, butter and horses.
lar ger"Portations of the principal articles were
(No, as respects raw cotton, flax, provisions,
am'saver, rice, sheep and lambs' wool, brandy,
Ziled sugar, tobacco, and in ; but there was
ta,,,—"trintion in raw silk, tallow, coffee, corn,
1,11.7., uit, rum, and tea.
theg accounts exhibit a slight increase in
4,140unt of tonnage employed in the Foreign
(1
eofor the like period for the entries inwards, as
boa the ease for the clearings outwards. In the
IN 'tilling trade the tonnage employed was rather
for en the like period of the previous year
took'te entries inwards ; while a slight increase
Thl/lace in the clearings outwards.
Year Gse following railway dividends for the half
to•C the 31st January last have been announced
iii'—Great Western (original stock) 31, against
ll 1864 ; South Wales 31, against 3 ; West
aalld and Oxford 2, against 11;" ditto Newport
The 11 ; and ditto Hereford, 5 against 5.
Pry Great Western (original stock) dividend has
tilace(l considerable disappointment on the Stock
ilttedlle, where 4 per cent. was confidently ex-
~etaud has even been spoken of for some time
tllO amount of interest.
41troci oaperial Mercantile Credit Association has
Ilailltlleed to the notice of the public the Varna
t 900,4! Company, with a proposed capital of
litto'v,°°, in 45,000 shares, to bearer of £2O each,
,114 e ue issued at the price of £l2, and bearing
.uotk:Lt at the rate of 5 per cent. guaranteed by the
,Ilotte,it Government. The number of shares to be
littre 14 England is 30,000, and, reckoning the
to 14, with the price of emission, it is brought up
qil4ex. cent. The line, which is to run from Rust-
wVarna, a distance of 138 miles, was cora-
d 1., eete
414 -",St June, and great progress has been made
't "ranches of the works.
tothjglast week's railway receipts, ascertained up
'lay, are in round figures as under :--
eat w 1865. 1864
'511111,,,.f3tern £57,828 X 54,842
Uth W
eatern •
„ ••. ... 95,229 92,650
estent
•.• ... 17,590 16,952
"' "'
ta,44 14,182 13,897
nth b 44,035 41140
Treat ,%4Eitern 15,553 15,489
L'`,Nh'nern
•31,160 30,291
444,3ittire and Yorkshire 35,235 34,920
°rtht.,ll(l Exeter , 4,962 5,219
qkelle 7Tern• •• 52,210 50,914
1,,41 pl 7, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 17,711 16,923
t. 'll ... 28,150 26,894
olok
Ofallway traffic returns, when compared with
a. the same period of last year, are generally
eateerY favourable character. On the Great-
; esttt there is an increase of £2,986 ; North-
-6%285 Q 2,579 ; South-Western, £638 ; Brighton,
47e44il‘lidland, £2,895 ; South-Eastern, £64 ;
5
°tthern, £869 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
t`teCel, Xerth-Eastern, £1,296 ; Manchester,
'TheIGD" • and Lincoln, £7BB ; Great-Eastern,
s'eNa, Bristol and Exeter, however, exhibits
of £275.

Two O'CLOCK.
Ole ZPart this day, according to Mr. Reuter's
e French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f.
y.
Nteav
e Illarket for English Stocks has
.been very
to
quotations nevertheless maintained their
o'alues. No alteration has taken place in
N 4, and Consols are quoted 89k 1 for money,an
,154:i21, for the account. The New Threesc Cents.,
~`` Annuities are 88* 89 ; the 31 per
5e .
:et144'13 ; India 5 per Cents., 104 ; Enfaced perlo
298;id0. 5i per Cents., 1091 1
bl 8
reign ifarket to-day there has been
arclittle
uiiation or fluctuation. Turkish Con-
di a 5ll 52 ; Mexican, 261 27 ; do. New,3.
; Greek, 22* g ; Spanish Passive, 32i 7
Qrtificates, 151 ; Italian, 631 64 ; do. New,
VlOtadhig.; Confederate Loan, 55 56 ; and Monte
/11t 31 41 preen.
)41,;4`e. Railway Share Market the dealings have
;411.0 eq extensive, and prices, in several instances,
Niibited less firmness. Great Western have
j\''
11,1tie,ularlY flat, and have declined £2 55.,
etro the unfavourable dividend just declared.
bed t'" utati have also receded £l, Manchester,
(I.orke.)d'
s au
Lincoln, 10s. ; and North Eastern
e
11
I'2
';
•
'l,%atFo elgu and Colonial undertakings remain'
t,-,*`/44. and ge of importance.
lest
Miscellaneous Shares are in moderate
at Steady rates. Alliance realise 37i 371

London and County, 731 74/ ; London and South
African, 21; Union of London, 52/ ; London
Financial, 214 ; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam,
82/ ; London and Provincial Mortgage Bank
of England shares are quoted / 1 premium. The
General Irrigation and Water_ Supply Com-
pany of France shares are / dis. to par ; West Lon-
don Docks and Warehouses Company, 1/ to 2
prem. ; Rio de Janeiro Gas Company, 1 to 1/ prem.;
China Steam-ship and Labuan Coal Company,
/ prem. ; Registered Land Company, par to I
prem. ; City of Milan Improvements Company,
4/ to 4i prem. ; Metropolitan District Railways,
3/ to 4 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS. ,
3 per Cent. Consols
Do. Account, Mar. 9 B9l
b per Cent. Reduced BBl 9
New 3 per Cent B9 8f
New 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894 93
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April,lBBs —
_. Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
. ... ..„.. .

Exehe-quer Bills, .£l,OOO, 4"per -Lient —
Do. £5OO —
Do. £lOO and £2OO
Bank of England Stock, 51 per Cent 248

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, loi- per Cent., April 1874
Do Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do. Account
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 5i- per Cent., May 1879 lO9l 10
Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 984
Do. Bonds, £l,OOO —
Do. under £l,OOO — pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do I per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 90
Chilian 6 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent. —
Colombian 6 per Cent. —
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Do 5-per Cent., 1864 —
Do. Scrip, £55 paid
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid —
Danubian Principalities
Do £25 paid dis pa r
Egyptian 7 per Cent 951
Do., Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do. 1864 —
Do Scrip, £56 paid
Do Account - i pin
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Provisional Land Warrant —
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Greek 5, per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do. Coupons - 221
Guatemala 5 per Cent.

Do. 1839 and 1850
Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway)

Do 1865
Do Scrip, £lO paid
Mexican 3 per Cent. —
Do. Account
Dc 1864 251
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French
Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis
Montevidean s:per Cent., £3O paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada —
Do Account - 8
Do 2 per Cent —
Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 4j per Cent.
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) —
Do 4i. per Cent., 1862
Do. Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account --
Do 3 per Cent, 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
Do Account 47-I
Russian 5 per Cent, 1822, £ St.,
Do 4i, per Cent., 1850
Do 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859 .
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 .
IDo 1864 .
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Do. Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Account 4ll
Do Passive
Do Account 321 i
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Do Account l5l
Swedish 4 per Cent. —
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 921-

881 9i

Do Account —
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account 73 2i
Do 6 per Cent. 1862 —
Do Account 7ll 1
Do £lOO Bonds 6Ba
Do 6 per Cent. 1863 —
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent —
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cent, 1862, —
Do. Account

Do. 6 per C0nt.,t1864
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
French Rentes, 3 per Cent.

Do. Account
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil
Do. 4 per Cent. Certifi..Ates
Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money B9 1
Do. Account

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,
Market opens firmer. Sales probably about
6,000 bales.

DEATH OF LORD WILLOUGHBY D'ERESBY.—We
have to announce the death of Lord Willoughby
D'Eresby, who, after a protracted illness, expired between
9 and 10 o'clock last night at the family residence on the
Terrace, Piccadilly. Lady Carington and other members
of his family were present at his death-bed. Lady Wil-
loughby, to whom he was most tenderly attached, had only
pre-deceased him by a few weeks. The late Peter Robert
Drummond-Willoughby was the eldest son of Peter Burrell,
the first Lord Gwydyr, by Priscilla, 19th Baroness Wil-
loughby D'Eresby. He was born the 19th of March, 1782,
and succeeded his father as Baron Gwydyr the 9th of Juno,
1820, and his mother as Baron Willoughby the 29th of
December, 1828. The deceased lord married, on the 20th
of October, 1807, the Hon. Clementina, Sarah Drummond,
the only surviving child and heir of James, Lord Perth,
whese death we had occasion to mention only a few weeks
back. He leaves as surviving issue Clementina Elizabeth,
married to Lord Aveland, Charlotte Augusta, married to
Lord Carington, and the Hon. Alberic (his only son), born
the 23d of December, 1821, who succeeds to the family
honours. The late Baron Willoughby D'Eresby, and
Gwydyr of Gwydyr, county Carnarvon, in the Peerage of
England, was joint Hereditary Great Chamberlain of Eng-
land with the present Marquis Cholmondeley, who will
now assume that hereditary appointment. He has a sur-
viving sister, the Dowager Countess of Clare. The mother
of the late lord was the sister and co-heir of the last Duke
of Ancaster, who died in 1779. Lord and Lady Willoughby
were almost the last survivors of that great society which
had adorned the early years of the present century. They
had both been distinguished as leaders of fashion, and were
renowned not only for a splendid hospitality, which in-
cluded almost every personage of distinction in Europe,
but for a certain genial courtliness of manner, combined
with the most unaffected kindliness of which there are few
examples. Of all the many deaths which this inclement
season has caused none will leave a wider gap than those
of Lord and Lady Willoughby.

- -
THE LATE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.—The
body of the late Duke of Northumberland was brought to
Northumberland-house about 9 o'clock last evening, from
Alnwick Castle. The lying in state will take place to-
mon ow, from 10 to 4, and admission is confined to the per-
sonal friends of the deceased, his tenants, and tradespeople.
The body of the deceased, on reaching Northumberland-
house, was placed in the dining room, which had been pre-
pared as a mortuary chamber, being hung throughout with
black draperies.

We are informed that Lord Enfield, M.P. for
Middlesex, and eldest son of Lord Strafford, has con-
sented to accept the office of Secretary of the Poor Law
Board, just vacated by the resignation of Mr. Gilpin,
M.P. for Nottingham.

THE YORKSHIRE COAST.—Up to Tuesday night
there was no intelligence of three missing Yorkshire
fishing vessels, the True Love, the Rose of England, and
the Blue Jacket, belonging to Staithes, and it is greatly to
be feared that they and their crews, in all 27 persons, are
lost. One fishing vessel was seen to be in distress off
Redcar on Sunday night, and after a fall of snow it was
noticed she had disappeared. Some wreck has come ashore
at Saltburn. The snow squalls of Sunday were the se-
verest that have been observed this winter upon the north
east coast, and the sea rose with great rapidity when the
wind got round to the northward.

POOR RATES AND PAUPERISM.—Mr. Purdy's
quarterly return, completing the series for 1864, was issued
yesterday. It shows that there has been a continuous in-
crease in the number of paupers from the beginning to the
end of the quarter, there being 63,674 more paupers at the
latter time than at the former. Nevertheless the paupers
in the whole year (1864), as compared with those of 1863,
have decreased 32,174, or 3.35 per cent. ; but compared
with 1862, the decrease was 178,142, or 16.12 per cent. The
actual numbers for the three years are as follows ;-1863,
1,105,234; 1863, 959,266; and 1864, 927,092,