The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-28 00:00:00

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BETTING ON THE COURSE.
DERBY.

1000 to 90 agst Albert Victor (taken three times)
LIVERPOOL CUP.
20 to 1 agst Flibustier (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mount Pleasant (taken)
25 to 1 agst Blandford (taken)
25 to 1 agst Rosicrucian (offered)
33 to 1 each agst Exciseman, Green Riband, and
Islam

CITY BETTING.—THunsDAY.
LIVERPOOL CUP.
100 to 7 agst Rosicrucian (offered-100 to 6 taken)
100 to 6 agst Alaric (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Cardinal York (taken)
20 to 1 agst Syrian (taken)
25 to 1 agst Barford (taken)
25 to 1 agst Bonny Swell (taken)
33 to 1 agst Green Riband (taken)
33 to 1 agst Shilling-a-Dozen (taken)
Very little doing.

OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning

THE CAPITULATION -OF METZ.
The Times, in commenting on the important event,
says : We hardly venture yet to hope that the fall of Metz

may sober the over-excited imagination of the French
people. All we see distinctly is that France is perish
ing by a delusion - a wilful, suicidal deception. While
here in England we are all looking forward with
anxiety to the results of pacific negotiation at Versailles,
the people at Tours seem inclined to resent our
interference as gratuitous and officious, and warn us,
almost in a tone of menace, that " France cannot admit

;hat foreign Powers should contemplate exacting from her
;he smallest cession of territory," and declares that
' war to the knife is the only thing to give France a
signal revenge, a glorious peace, and an immortal Re-
yublic." Neutrals will not take offence at these natural

though lamentable outbursts of despair. Our only cou-

cern is for the grievous harm the French are doing to
themselves. The Neutral Powers are moved in this

matter by a sincere sympathy for a nation over-
whelmed by an intolerable and, in some re-

spects, an undeserved calamity ; but they must
act, after all, mainly in the interests of peace
and humanity, and they feel that their tender
of friendly offices would be unavailing were they to pledge

themselves beforehand to admit the claims of either

party. We may Lope now that the surrender at
Metz will aid the work of the peacemakers by
forcing upon France the wholesome, however bitter,

conviction that the fortune of wax has irrevocably

pronounced against her. We are all interested in
obtaining the best possible terms in her favour. We are

all anxious that she should fall on her feet on this as she
has done on so many other calamitous occasions. But
she must understand that she cannot have war and peace
at the same time. A few Freeshooter bands will not
, obtain for her those terms which MacMahon and Bazaine's
2 armies failed to secure.

The 'Standard doubts whether the capitulation of Metz

will dispose the Government of the National Defence to

the cession of Alsace and Lorraine.

The ppace Prussia,

iusists.upou is one which no Frenchman with hope of

playing a part in the government of his country could
sign, and which France will never forgive any French-
man who may sign. M. Jules Favre, and his col-
leagues, in subscribing to such a peace, would sign
their own death warrant. So, says the Standard, the war

will probably go on, and assume every day a crueller
character—will become the struggle of a people reduced

to desperation again 4 invaders who, whatever their justi-
fication for the invasion, have desolated France, and in
their devastating course struck even harder the peaceful
iuhabitants, with whom the war was at first unpopular,

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY.

Much quietness has prevailed in all departments of the
Stock Exchange to-day. In all classes of securities the
demand has been to a very moderate extent, and no change
of importance has taken place in prices. The new French loan
has not commanded much attention, and the quotation has
receded to kto 1 premium. The consol market has been
very quiet, the quotation being 94 92k for delivery and
the November account. Reduced and New Three per Cents.
91, 91k. Bank stock, 232, 234 ; Exchequer bills, Bs. to 12s.
prem; India Five per Cents, 111,111 k; and India bonds, 18s.,
235., prem. Colonial Government securities have been
quiet, but prices have been unchanged.
The English Railway Market has been in a very quiet
state. Very few transactions have taken place, and there
has been a tendency to lower rates. Metropolitan has
been k lower, at 64 to 64k ; Brighton at 421 to 422 ;
Great Northern A}, at 1342 to 135} ; Great Eastern it,
at 383 to 39k. Caledonian, 752 to 761 ; South Eastern.
742 to 751; Midland, 126 k to 127 ; North Western, 1284 to
129 ; Great Western, 70i to 711; and North Eastern,
1432 to 1441.

Indian railway stocks have been in limited request.
East Indian, 1091, f ; and Scinde, 1032, 1041. For Cana-
dian shares the market has been inactive. In foreign
shares only a moderate business has been concluded.
Bahia and San Francisco, 181; Lemberg Czernovitz,
162 ; Lombards, 141, 11.
In foreign bonds the inquiry has been to a very mode-
rate extent, and the fluctuations have been,trifling. Ita-
lian (1861), at 55, 551, and Egyptian (1868), at 772, 77i,
are each I and per cent, lower respeo-
tively. Peruvian (1865), 892, 901; Spanish
(1867), 29}, 30; ditto (1869), 292, 292; Turkish Five-per-
Cents., 431, 44 ; ditto (1869), 511, 512; Mexican, 142, 15,
There has been very little demand for American securities.
The Five-twenty (1882) Bonds have fallen 1, being quoted
at 88k, 89k. The 1885 are quoted at 881, 888; Erie
shares, 18k, 19; and Illinois Central, 1091, 110

For Bank shares there has been only a moderate in-
quiry. Imperial Ottoman, In, i ; London and County
48} ; London and Westminster, 61i ; and Union of Lon-
don, 37k.

Telegraph shares have been quiet. British Indian Sub-
marine, 7i, 71; Falmouths, 14, 10a ; Great Northern,
11}, llf ; French Cables, 14 ; Telegraph Construction
shares have been firm at 2i, ; and Hooper's Telegraph
Works, at 51.
The demand for miscellaneous securities has been
inactive. Cr&lit Fonder of England, 2}; National
Discount 111.

The Clearing House return for the week ending October.
26, shews a total of £61,656,000, against £58,484,000 for
the corresponding period last year.
The sum of £40,000 in bar gold has been sent into the
Bank to-day, and £72,000, sovereigns withdrawn, for
transmission to Alexandria.

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada was held in London.
It was stated that there had been a loss of £30.000 of net
profit during the half-year by the competition which had
existed between the great American lines, the low prices
of produce, and the interruption of business by the
Fenian invasion of Canada.

The Huasquina, from New Zealand, has brought
£19,000.