The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-08 00:00:00

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.
The supply of English wheat on sale at Mark-lane to-
u
asy was moderate. The trade was dull for all qualities,
and to have pressed sales lower prices than on Monday
must have been 'accepted by factors. The quotations
must be considered the turn in favour of buyers.
With foreign wheat the market was well supplied, and
the import this week being tolerably large, all descriptions
Bola heavily on rather easier terms.
Floating cargoes of wheat were dull at drooping prices
Spring corn, afloat, was tolerably firm.
Barley was in very moderate supply and late prices were
stlPPorted, although the demaud ruled far from active.
The malt trade was firm at full currencies.
Oats were in good supply. Most qualities were in
steady request at Monday's quotations.
Beans and peas fully supported late rates. The sup-
Plies on offer were very moderate.
The flour trade was quiet, and prices had a drooping
tendency.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
,I:nglish and Scotch. 1410 120 1,150 130 360
-
Foreign 20,540 5,920

- 21,850

sks.
brls,

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supply of meat on sale is moderate. Good and
I),lime qualities command high prices, but sales progress

sd s d
Inferior mutton 4 4 4 10
Middling mutton 5 0 5 6
Prime do 5 8 6 0
Veal 4 0 5 0
Small pork. 4 10 5 4
d to Os Od.

Per 81b by the =sage.
ads d
Inferior beef 2 8 3 4
bilddlino• do. 3 6 4 0
PM b
v)tae lare do 4 2 4 6
;nine small do 4 8 41)
Large pork 3 8 4 8
Lamb, Os 0,

BOROUGH HOP.
Our market is fairly supplied with new hops. Most
qualities are in steady demand, at the annexed quotations:
New Mid and East Rents llss to 160 s per cwt.
New Weald of Kents
New Sussex
For Yearlings the demand rules quiet, at 95s to 140 s per
cWt.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—Thepublic sales have been brought to a close,
-114 Prices have shown no materiul change.
,s.StioAR.—A large amount of business has been done in
west India, at an advance of 6d to is per cwt. on previous
rates. Refined descriptions also maintain full rates.
CoPPEE.—There has been a large quantity offered at
tilblic sale, chiefly of plantation and native Ceylon, which
48 been fully taken by the trade at full rates.
RICE.--The market has remained very quiet, owing to
the fine weather; prices, however, are firm.
TALLOW.—Business has been less animated, and in some
41stances prices are rather flatter. P.Y.C., October to
December, 45s 6d ; December, 46s 3d ; and spring delivery,
468 6(I per cwt.

lEONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
fi The Money Market presents a rather active and
r 1 appearance. The usual quarterly payments
are being provided for, and brokers are asking
',.lgher terms than they enforced a few days ago.
41e rates for the negotiation of the best bills are
again 34 and 3i per cent.
, The Bank of England return is of an unfavour.
aule character, the reserves of the establishmen
having, as will be seen by the following particulars
been diminished :
kaive Circulation

Increase

Decrease•

,£21,701,735

Rest

••• •.•
Decrease
Public Deposits ...

V
Other Depositsecrease
Decrease
Seven Day and Other Bills
Decrease ...
Government Securities ...

... 103,675
... 14,322,275
... 167,337
... 3,739,107

... 231,070
... 5,985,710

... '109,075
... 14,207,995
... 284,039
~. 534,273

348
10,384,209
Other Securities No alteration.
21,365,336
Increase 108,620
Notes Unemployed ... 6,370,405
Decrease •.• •.• •O• ••• 247,400
The weekly return from the Bank of France is
Pert satisfactory. The bullion has been increased
1,90,000 and the notes in circulation reduced
14,672;000. The commercial bills discounted have
44° fallen off £2,080,000, and the advances on
a°ek £13,340. The current accounts have been
,7gnlented £1,000,000, but the Treasury balance
4443 been decreased £70,000.
4, adjourned meeting of the creditors of Messrs.
°un T. Bell and Co. East India merchants, who
failed on the 6th of July has been held, and printed
statements of the affairs of the Bombay firm and
4
tn° of their native broker, which had been sub-
ibitted to the Indian creditors, laid before the meet-
g, With certain amendments, as prepared by
w essre• Coleman, Turquand, Youngs, and Co. It
resolved that the statements thus amended
should 4, be forwarded to the inspectors at Bombay,
rcommunicated to the creditors there, together
B.til the draught of a deed of inspection prepared in
ankountry, according to the principles of the
the frilptcy Act, which the meeting here invited
~,nchan creditors to execute.
e London, Italian, and Adriatic Steam Navi-
-4.'141 Company's steamer Clotilda, Captain Way,
eu arrived from Greece with the first cargo of
tents of the present season.
100 During the last few days there has been rather
44(11'e animation exhibited in the markets for foreign
cleal,e°loflial produce. Sugars have been largely
cwt." in, and prices have advanced 6d. to Is. per
eo For coffee there has been a good demand, and
DliblictiBicierable quantity has been disposed of at
irt gale at full rates. Rice has been dull, and
a'l°W operations have been rather restricted at
.1 Previous rates.

Two o'CLocK.
R 4,t the Paris Bourse this morning, according to
69f oes e telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were
flartrhe English Stock market has presented a rather
IN appearance. The unfavourable Bank return
Las 4° doubt exercised a slight influence, and there
eensequen.,y
been less firmness in prices.
,01118°1e are 8n for money, and 90 * for the ac-
aret The New Threes and Reduced Annuities
Each e ex div. ; Annuities (1885), 13k, ex div.;
105~equer Bills
, par to 2s. dis.; India 5 per Cents.,
5.,22s ; Enfaced 5 per Cents., 1024 ; and Bonds,
p_rei Prern• Bank
u Stock is 250.
14 Stocks were generally at improved prices
:Lieeearlier part of the day, but subsequently havei
zt! y
4u receded. Turkish Consolides are 49, ;
ex all Bonds, 24 ; the New Loan, 232-
' `"reek 2p448
21 ; Spanish Passive, 304 ; Certifi-
14i °an, 6 7
15 ; Italian, 65i ; and the Confederate
.
the
RaihraY Share Market the dealhaza have

been on a moderate scale, and prices generally have
shown a slight downward movement. Great
Eastern have declined k ; Great Northern A Stock,
; and Great Western, Metropolitan, and Midland,
each I ; 'Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, however,
have improved 1 ; and South Eastern,
American Securities continue steady. United
States 5-20 Bonds are 681 k ; Erie Shares, 54-
55 ; Illinois, 78k 79 ; and Atlantic and Great
Western Certificate of Debenture, 86k 87.

The Foreign and Colonial lines show little varia-
tion of importance. Bahia and San Francisco have
improved 1, and East Indian 1,.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain in most
instances at steady rates. European have improved
to 122 4 ; and Chartered of India, Australia and
China to 274 s ; Hudson Bay Company are dealt
in at 168 ; and Telegraph Construction and Main-
tenance at 102.

The following are the current quotations of some
of the principal new undertakings :—The New Issue
of 50,000 Preference Shares of £5 each of the
Atlantic Telegraph, 2f 28 per share ; Transatlantic
Steam Ship Company's Shares, 14 21- prem. ; Over-
end, Gurney, and Company, 3f 311 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
8 per Cont. Consols
Do. Account, Oct. 10
o per Cent. Reduced BBl I x d
New 3 per Cent BBtlii44
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l3l x d
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 & 31 per Cent 2 dis
Do. £5OO —
Do :.£lOO and £2OO
Bank of England Stock, 51 per Cent 250
Do Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
i Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 —
Do Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do. Account
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
D.- Enlaced Parr A per °out
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879
Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866
Do. Bonds, £l,OOO 22 pm
Do. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Chilian 6 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent
Colombian 6 per Cent. —
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 —
Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid —
Danubian Principalities
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Provisional Land Warrant —
Egyptian 7 per Cent 96 51
Do., Second Issue —
Do £lOO Bonds —

--
Do. 1864 961 4 4
Do £lOO Bonds
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons —4
Do Account 204
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) 701
Do 1865
Do Scrip, .£67} paid —
Do 5 per Cent., 1864
Do. Scrip, £55 paid
Mexican 3 per Cent
Do. Account
Portuguese 3 per Cont., 1853
Do Account —
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
Do. Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 44 per Cent. 1850
Do 3 per Cent. 1859 —
Do 4i- per Cent., 1860
Do 5 per Cent. 1862 93 4 4
Do 5 per Cent. 1864 964
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Do Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Account

471
39f

Do Passive —
Do Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded 144
Do Account —
Swedish 4 per Cent. —
Do Account —
Do. 43 per Cent. 1864
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 - -
Do Account —
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account 72/ }
Do. 11 per Cent —
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do;Account 741 1
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1863 7l
Do 5 per Cent. 1865
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do Scrip, £35 paid
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lOO4
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. 6 per Cent, 1861 —
Do. Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates —
French Rentes, 41 per Cent. —
Do, Account
Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. —
Do Account 651 5
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols - 891
Do. Account 9O

Great Fire at Constantinople.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Wednesday.

A great fire broke out last evening in Stamboul,
which has already destroyed 2,500 houses, mosques,
and public buildings, and is still raging.
[LATEST PARTICULARS BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
This terrible fire, we regret to state, has been
attended with a far more serious loss of property
than was expected when the first telegram was sent
to London ; and it now turns out that no fewer
than 2,800 houses, public buildings, and places
dedicated for Divine service, have been for the
most part levelled with the ground. There are cer-
tainly a few exceptions, where the walls are stand-
ing, but the principal mosques are now nowhere
to be seen. The accounts forwarded this (Friday)
morning to the different insurance companies in the
City are of a harrowing nature. Some idea may be
formed of the sufferings of over 22,500 persons who
had to rush out of their habitations almost naked
to escape from the ravages of the flames.
It would appear that the conflagration commenced
in a building two storeys high. From that part the
flames spread with rapidity, igniting in succession
whole rows of houses and stores on the north-west
side. The scene amongst the people was pitiable in
the extreme. The meagre means of contending with
such a fire were found perfectly inadequate, and
added to that the water supply was equally ineffi-
cient. Explosions of a fearful character followed in
rapid succession, and it was feared that as the build-
ings came toppling down several men who were assist-
ing had been crushed to death. It was not, however,
clearly stated whether any lives had been sacrificed,
the excitement and confusion being so great that the
agents of the different insurance offices were unable
to ascertain, but there was strong ground for sup-
posing that a great loss of life had taken place.
It was found perfectly impracticable to find
shelter for the whole of the burnt-out people and
their children, and they had to content themselves
by sleeping in fields and gardens near.

When the last telegram was received, prayers
were being offered up to the Almighty to stop the
ravages of the fire.
The principal portions of the houses were com-
posed in a great measure of timber, which, of
course, will account for the extraordinary spread of
the flames. No conflagration ci such magnitude
has taken place since the burning of the City of
Hamburgh, and it is stated that more persons have
lost their homes and all they possessed than there
was even at that conflagration.
Mr. Ilodsall, assessor of losses, and several other
gentlemen belonging to the different fire offices, have
sent specially down to ascertain how the insurance
companies of the city and provincial towns are
interested ; and also to inquire into the cause of the
terrible calamity, and how many persons are left
unprovided for.

The fire is now considered to have been fairly
stopped at each point, and unless the wind should
spring up, there was no danger of any further ex-
tension of mischief. Whole streets, squares, mosques
and Government buildings were blazing away at
the same time.

Measures have at once been taken to get up a
subscription for the housing of the poor burnt-out
creatures, which it is to be hoped will be liberally
responded to by the more fortunate inhabitants.