The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-31 00:00:00

LION EY MARKET,

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

There is a steady demand for discount accommo-
dation to-day, but the rates exhibited greater easi-
ness, a favourable effect having been produced by
the appearance of the Bank of England return,
showing a reduction of only £166,125 in the bullion,
although £400,000 in gold coin was withdrawn
during the week for transmission to Constantinople,
on account of the recent Turkish Loan.

At the Bank yesterday the bullion operations
were not of public interest.

The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon ex-
hibited a slight advance in the rates on Amsterdam
and Hamburg.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £57,000, and the exports £820,000.

At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. T.
Svsvarder and Co., brewers, of Luton, it was ulti-
mately agreed to accept a guaranteed composition
of ss. in the pound, payable in two instalments.

The traffic receipts of the South Austrian, Lom-
bardo-Venetian, and Central of Italy Railway, for
the week ending the 20th inst., amounted to
£54,560, against £49,117 at the corresponding
period of last year.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday was again
Tathor active, and prices exhibited increased firm-
ness. The sales were about 10,000 bales.
The traffic manager of the Cape Town Railway
and Dock Company, under date of April 21, reports
that the receipts from February 13 to April 20
amounted to £3,293 19s. 101 d. on twenty miles of
live. Sixteen thousand passengers had been con-
veyed during that period. Formal application had
been made to the Government to open a farther por-
tion of the• line to Stellenbosch on the Ist of this
month.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

Two O'CLocK.

Only a small amount of business has been trans-
acted in the Eno:sh Stock Market to-day, and it
has produced very in'ttle effect upon prices. Consols
close at 938 / for mon eY, and at 92-}, less the divi-
dend, for the account. The New Threes are firmer,
at 918 I ; the Reduced, aVt 91a ; Exchequer Bills
are 10s. prem. ; ditto, adve.Ttised, 93. to 12s. prem. ;
Bank Stock is 234; India etto, 229; and ditto 5
per Cent., 1091 1.
No important variation has to ken place in the
Foreign Market, and the dealings have been of a
moderate character. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 808
81; ditto, 1858, 70 ; ditto New Serif.", 2)-1 prem. ;
Italian 5 per Cents. are steady at 708; t'3tto Rail-
way Scrip is fiat at 1/ 8 dis. ; Egyptian 7 la)r Cent.
Scrip remains at 1-1- t prem.; Russian is firmer at
/ prem. ; Spanish Certificates are flat at 9 I.
The dealings in the it ailwyty Share Market have
beau very limited, and prices have remained with-
out material variation. Great Northern A Stook,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, and South Easterns'.
however, have improved about 55., while Midlands
have receded 10s.

The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained
inactive, and prices show no change of importance.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
reniain at about previous quotations.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
tank stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93 1
New 3 i_.er Cent. Annuities 914 i
.Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 3.16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent. lO9l i
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto b' per Cent
Ditto De bentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto dtito April, 1864 100
Ditto Bout, 'a £l,000
Consols for AL 'count, June 10 .
Exchequer Bills • £l,OOO, 3 per Cent lO .
Ditto £500
Ditto Small ....
Ditto Advertised • •
FOREIGN iItINDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Egyptian, 7 per Cent
ltanan 5 per Cent. (Ms‘remmana Railway)
Ditto Scrip ,. •la
T.lii,sian 5 per Cent 182';' £ St .. 97i
Ditto, 5 per Cent., 1862, .Scrip
Spanish 3 per Cent .
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not lauded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 ..... -
Ditto Account
Ditto 1862 (Scrip)
Ditto, Paid up Scrip ..
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above pctyable in London.
Italia n 5 per Cent., 1861, ex 25f.... 7Ol
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Vitt° Account
--.—....

SUSPICIOUSDEATHIN TVHITEHART-

STREET.

John Lemon was this afternoon placed before Mr. Corrie,
at the B ow-street Police-court, on remand, charged with
causing t. "te (loath of Anne Gedling, of No. 11, Whitehart-
street, Dru'rPlane.
It will be recollected that, on Saturday last, Mr.
Corrie rena tided the prisoner, in order that Mr.
lovatt, :he k iurgeon, might be enabled to make a pest
mortern .;xamin ation of the body of the deceased, as it was
at thattime very' uncertain how death was occasioned.
Mr. Lovett, surgeon, of No. 23, Clare-street, said be had
,made a post mortion .examination of the body of Anne Ged-
linc, and the result was that he had no doubt but that death
NVES occasioned by the drinking a solution of cyanide of
ptassium, and nitrate of silver. He found the remains
gin in some bottles that stood in a cupboard near to
where the cyanide of pol`assium was kept, and he thought it
highly probable that the deceased had taken the poison in
mistake for gin.
Inspector Brimbscombe .aaid he had made the most search-
ing inquiries, and he had no further evidence to offer.
The prisoner was then disc barged.

,AS;SESSMENT TO THE .SUPPORT OF THE

POOR.

DEPUTATION.-THIS DAY.

rrhis morning a numerous deputation waited on the
Rig,4l-. Hon. C. P. Villiers at the offices of the Poor Law
Boar;, Whitehall, to urge objections against the Poor
Assns anent Amendment Bill, now before Parliament.
yari, "us speakers addressed the right hon. gentleman,
each of whom dwelt particularly on the power -which
the bill cc mfei red, viz., the appointment of an assessment
committee of which three were to be considered a quorum.
This provh,ioxi was considered highly objectionable.
Mr. VlLL'ailus informed the deputation that various
alterations ha,i been, or were iu progress of being made to
the measure, w hich he anticipated would meet the views of
the gentleman w.h.,,u had addressed him.
The deputation then retired.

SHIPPicNG—THIS DAY.

LONDON, May 31. -Wind this- day at noon—South-
Westerly ; light breeze, and fine Weather, but rather
cloudy.
CAUDIFF, May 30.—Wind N.w.—Sailed--Lizae, for
Rio Janeiro.
FALIIOUTH, 1a37 30.--Arrived—Peerless, from Moui.
mein.
QUEENSTOWN, I\lay 29 _Find w s.w. . .
nit; doo, from P Paraiba. Sailed—Glengarry, forlirralir—
PLYILAITR, -May 30.—Wind W.N.W.—Arriv:L
Angueta, from Monte Video. Sailed—Yorkshire, for Mel-
__ . _

S.W.--Arrived—
OFF CATEENsTowN, May 31 Wind m
New York.
Australa..gian, screw steamer, fro
S.E.—Arrived—SilverlstßwponT, May 29 .—Wind S.E.
Cloud, from Plymouth for Rio Janeiro. Sailed—Europa,
for Rio Janeiro.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRArIi.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday M0rnit.1,1...0,
Arrived, May 30—Minerva, from Groningen; a
"from Gotteaburg; Dariene, from Memel ; Hermoder, frota
-Viele ; Hour, from Brussels ; Alliance, from Dunkirk ;
Alma, from Stramstadt.
Arrived, May 31—Cosmope, from Hamburg.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed, in tow—Venus, barque, from the west, for
London.

Passed—Lord Haddo, barque from the west, for Lon-
; Harmonic, of Aberdeen, from London, for Falkland
.-I.4iands ; Mary Fry, from London for Port Philip;
„_ taw steamer, from London for Bilboa. Bilboa,
Afle.itored—Letitia, from London, for Cuba ; Prince
Alfreo,• from Liverpool, for Shanghai • Maid oi the Mist,
..from for on, for St. John's; He'roes'of Alma, from ion-
,,don,
for b"'banghai.

•A- GOOD JOKE.—Among the most important
Lo•% 'er Canadian measures introduced this session is a bill
by Ole Hon. X. De La Terriere, which, as it is very short
—Cos' taitthlg oily one clause—l shall give you entire
All 1 uoblic exhibitiCns of monsters, idiots, or other imbecile
or defo. ion-e A
- persons, tei;fl to endanger morality, and may
accordincly be. prohibited by local councils in Lower
Canada." Yon will scarcely credii but the above 1.5 a
joke at the t.:xpenne of the legislature. 3i. De La Terrier
is an eccentric.' old man, and this bill
Probably did not mean
to icpp to the n2ernbers of the two houses ; but read it, anCi
deny it who can,. that if it cornea into force the Parliament
tesimot be bec next session. 'All good Upper
Canadiar. therefore should support the bill.—Toronto
oheld in Que )
:evader.