The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-27 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The City presents an appearance of general
mourning, the Stock, Royal, and Mining Exchanges,
and the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets, are
all closed, and in all monetary institutions, where
it was impossible to suspend business, the blinds
have been drawn, and the attendance in every de-
Partment is very limited.
The discount demand to-day has been very quiet,
and the rates show a slightly easier tendency.
The position of the Bank of England has been
ninch strengthened during the past week. The
bullion has been largely increased, while the reserve
of notes also show a considerable addition. The
following
are the particulars :
Active Circulation
13ullion

Decrease

... ... ....£21,819,900
... ... 11" 498,340
... ... ... ... ... 13,219,213

Best Increase

429,255

3 ••• •.• ••• •.• •.• ••• 7184,009
10,411
Ime ...
...
.•. ...
Public Deposits . • ••• ••• ••• •
increase
Other Deposits • ...
•••
13 279 932
.•
3'72943:363803
.. ••• 4.4. 4144. ••• ,0.....,
I.)'--

_,ecrease •.• ••• ••• ••• 733682
Seven Day and Other Bills ... ... ... 550,,345
Decrease 15,568
Government Securities ::: ::: ::: ::: 9,308,018
Decrease ••• ••• ••• ••• 18,459
Other Securities ... 20,003,638
Decrease :" ::: ::: ... 1,443,645
Notes Unemployed ..: ... ... ... 5,241,250
Increase ••• ••• ••• ••• 904,650
In the Bank of France return for the past week
the bullion is shown to have been reduced by
£13,332. The commercial bills discounted have
been lessened £752,000 ; the advances on stock,
£36,000 ; the notes in circulation, £272,000 ; the
Treasury accounts, £88,000; and the current ac-
counts, £544,000.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
YESTERDAY.
GOVER.NMENT FUNDS.
8 per Cent. Consols
Do. Account, Nov. 8 B9l
O per Cent. Reduced B7l
New 3 per Cent B7
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 7Ol
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 3U yrs, expire sth April,lBBs l3i
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
M
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 &3} per Cent. 2 arch
dis
Do. £5OO
Do £lOO and £2OO
Bank of England Stock, ii per Cent 248
Do Account '
INDIAN GOVERNper Cent. MENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 101 , AprillB74 —
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. 5k per Cent, May 1879 _
Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 18G6 9B/
Do. Bonds, £l,OOO _
Do. under £l,000

June

6 dis

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do. Loper Cent., 1852-58-60
O. 1863
„.., Do. 1865
Do. Scrip, £l5 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
vo. Account
oh
, no•
1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
lian 6 er Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent. —
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
I)a4iisia 3 per Cent., 1825
D ''-'O. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid —
alluhian Principalities
L, Do Account —
•E'q uad o r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
„, Do., Provisional Land Warrant —
~gyptian 7 per Cent 941
Do., Second Issue 94
Do £lOO Bonds 941
DO. 1864 9lO
G r 1,
Do £lOO Bonds
DO -rsee- 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
° Account
Do. Coupons
Bo Account —
Civaternala 5 per Cent. —
D°£B6 paid _
, Do 1839 and 1850 —
4talian 5 per Cent (Alareinniana Railway)
Do 1865
Do Scrip, £671 paid —
~.Do 5 per Cent, 1864 —41. e ic a a 3 per Cent
Do. Account
-)Do 1864 —
-1° 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
vo French Scrip, Ex. 25f 200
Moutevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
lie Ar Granada
Do 2 per Cent —
K
Do Deferred
, Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
es)
41 per Cent
Do. Account
Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds —
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) —
per 3
p rent C Cont., 1862
Kortuguese ent., 1853
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
Do. Account
Russian 5 per Cent, 1822, £ St
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent. 1859 —
Do 5 per Cent. 1862 9ll 1
Do 5 per Cent. 1864 —
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 l4l
Swedish 4 per Cent.
Do. 4:'t per Cent. 1864 -.
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account 720
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 11 per Cent —
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account 751
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1863
Do 5 per Cent. 1865
D 0 £llo Bands 44
Do Scrip, £35 paid
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent—
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. 6 per Cent, 1862
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 —
Austriapn,
Belgian, Dividends on the above payable in London.
5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
Dutch4l per cent., Ex. 25f.
.7:ol).D:ooseo.44l4setpfeeocorrnittCrlanetesno ti:Cp,eerit.ificceae.s 6l
Arahart 5 per Cent. .1861, Ex. 25f.
641
TWO O'CLOCK.
Dtto account"- BBf 88f
9

Loss OF Two LIVES ON THE RlVER.—Yesterday
trorbnoindgy an inquest was held in High-street, Bromley, on
°f a Norwegian, named Ness, aged 35 years. De-
"aBed was carpenter on board the ship Princess of Wales,
a" on. Saturday he fell from a stage he had himself con-
istructed over the vessel's side, and was drowned. Another
ninquest was held on the body of a sailor named William
riv ard, aged 21 years, who on Wednesday last fell into the
er from a small boat, and was drowned. In each case a
verdict of accidental death was returned.
AUSTRALIAN SNAKE.—The Riverine Herald is re-
mlsPonsible for the following :—" It is said that two
aen, belonging to Mr. Camerm; of Ullima Station, were
Passing by one of the tanks uP on the Sandhill Station, whent
a
ois their horror and
surprisean immense snake, or serpent,
l'r°lllled its huge length to the height of ten feet from the
d, and ' flung at once its venom and its strength.'
Po •
shltunately, however, the reptile's aim was faulty, so that.
akoo men escaped with a fright. The men aver that the
down
was at least 20 foot long, with a mane for six feet
"wn the neck like that of a horse, and that its mouth
Ilvv!len open looked large enough to swallow a fat wether,
nhout oven crushing its bones. This reptile is what is
call A '
ti, °-' the ' mindi' by the aboriginals, the breath of which
that :icc nlay come within reach thereof ; therefore, upon all
asions they give the creature a wide berth."
CAISTOR, NoitFOLK
he (aistor , Oct. 25.—The launchiniOf
the
new lifeboat of the National Lifeboat
us tit uti ' •
on, to-day, at Great Yarmouth (reports the Rev.
Sing
Steward), was in every way a most pleasing event.
n
1, gular enough, as the beachmen were taking their new
!inmoat home a vessel was seen on the Scroby Sands, and they
ediately went off to her rescue. Particulars we shall
loifl v._ in due time. This circumstance seems a happy augury
the new boat's good service, and was announced to the
on-i
V'"id, pant at the conclusion of the very handsome luncheon
ed by the Mayor of -Yarmouth, the information occa-
-100bag much pleasure. It will be remembered that the
eb°st of this magnificent lifeboat was presented to the Life-
,oat Society by the working people of Birmingham. A
their from that town were very much gratified by
the r reception at Yarmouth, the success of the launch, and
services of this lifeboat.