The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-04 00:00:00

SERIOUS FIRES.

This (Monday) morning three destructive fires
took place in the metropolitan district, which were
attended with great loss of property. One happened
about half-past 3 o'clock in the Nelson Tavern, No.
3, Coleman-street, Woolwich, the property of Mr. J.
Morris. Another in the premises of Mr. F. J. Dyte
(priv,ite), No. 65, Albion-road, Dalston, which was
caused by the upletting of a naptha lamp ; and the
third in the house of Mr. Raudell, a furniture dealer,
1, Dean's-buildings, North-street, IValworth.

The Home Secretary bas commuted the sentence
of death passed on Patrick Jennings, who was found guilty
of the murder of his wife at the last assizes at Stafford, into
ono of penal servitude for life.

Wer hear that colonel Henry Ponsonby, who, is
about to retire from the Grenadier Guards, is likely to re-
ceive the appointment of Private Secretary to her Ma-
jesty, rendered vacant by the death of General the Hon
Charles Grey. •

LITERATURE.

Mr. Dickens's New Serill Story.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood. By Charles Dickens.
No. I. Chapinan and Hall.

Approp:iately enough, with Al ril weather come

le new Green Leaves ! Dun% we all of us remember

—it is at the first turning in " Our Village"—Mary
Mitford's celebra'ion of the First Primrose? Ilave
we any of us forgotten Lord Lytton's exquisite
lyrical reference to the " rathe violet," or Words-
worth's song of exultation over the woodland sea of
daffodils dancing in the breezy sunshine ?.
" And still my heart with pleasure thrills,
And dances with the daffodils."
In many an English home, in many a home of Englisi,
speaking people on either side of the Atlantic, there
will be, or has alr'eady -been by this time, a precisely
similar sensation: With Atril showers and sunbeams,
with already a plentiful promise in them of tears and
laughter, the good green leaves of Charles Dickens.
are' out again, to :gladden the eyes and
hearts of us all, of all those many hundreds
of thousands at least who are blest with a
capacity for their appreciation. A capacity to ap-
preciate the most exquisite humour, and a capacity
to appreciate the most tender and delicate sensibi-
lity. Those who fail to appreciate these, those who
are simply blind to the recognition, are very pro-
bably dis.posed to regard all those who do, all those
who have the appearance at least of recognising them,
as either affecting an admiration they don't feel, or
labouring under some very bewildering infatuation. A,
student of human nature lio less cynical than Junius,
or, in other words, Sir Philip Francis, has given, ex-
pression, in one of his famous'Letters, to this Wise
dictum—" The People are selthm wrong in their
opinions, in their sentiments 'never." There is a sen-
timent,
.if ever there was one in the history
of all Literature—there is a sentiment cleariy
enough recognisable now during the lifetime
of a whole' generation, here and yonder, in the Old
World and in the New, in -regard to Charles
Dickens, a sentiment amounting to nothing less than
a feeling of personal affection among his wide world
of readers, old,and young, rich and pe)r, learned
and uneducated.' And it is this feeling4f personal
affection for our great novelist that renders so dearly
welcome to his rather considerable proportion of the
vast reading public, the incident, of 'the commence-
ment yet once more in the old familiar form, in the
shape of the old green monthly numbers, of a new
serial story, filled with another woad, rful throng of
the life-like creatures of his imagination.
Admirable as many of the commencements of
Charles Dickens's works have been—as in Mr. Pick-
wick's, putting himself into his clothes and his clothes

into, portmanteau, as in the flight of the dead
leaves in„Martin Clruzzltwit, as in that first scene
of all; "I am born," in David Coppertield, or as
in that memorable 'churchyard interview between
Pip and the Convict in Great. Expectations—we
cannot recall to mind any better first number among
themrall than the first number cf " the Mystery of
Edwin . Drood." Its opening chapter strikes at
once the melancholy minor chotd of the mystery
that will run through the whole ',narrative.. The
reader's interest is awakened, at thd very :outset, by
the dreamings. of an opium eater—Edwin Dreod's
uncle, as it turns out immediately afterwards—one
John Jasper, Lay Precentor in the choir of CloiS:e-
ham cathedral. He is first revealed to us when,
soddened with opium, he confusedly comes back
to consciousness, to find himself lying across a large
unseemly bed—side by side with a Chiadman, a
LaScar; and a haggard woman—in the meanest and
closest of small rooms; up a miserable court.- True
to the life, as one among the hidden ills of London,
is the whole of this frightful picture. That it has a
ghastly -significance in regard to the general diift of
the lictltious narrative it preludes, is indicated to
the right hand and to the left at the lower portion of
he iogenious design pencilled on the outer covering—

here i,t the haggard woman preparing the opium pile
there in the smoking meditative Chinaman. One has
sense of satisfaction iii emerging from the suffocat ng
den and the squalid courtyard of the opium-eaters—
more especially seeing that we follow Jasper forth-
with to breezy autumnal precincts of the old
cathedral town of Cloisterham. Entering those pre-
cincts we OA at once at the marvellous word-painting
of 'Mr. Dickens in the delineation by the merest
touch or two, but each touch in turn a very master-
stroke, of the scene, the locality, the circumstances,
the most fleeting atmospheric effects he is imagining.
As where he says at the opening of this Chapter Two,
" there has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry

shudder goes' among the little pools on the cracked uneven
flagstones, and through the giant elm frets as they shed
a Ast of tears." As peopling this old town of
Uloisterham, conspicuous among the inhabitants of
the plaCe are here already introduced to us, not as
mere nanies, but as living and breathing fellow-

creatures, a dean, a verger, a minor canon, and the

lay clerk cr precentor already mentioned, besides such
other members of the local laity a 3 the tomb-
moon, Durdles, as the young -ladies school
mistress, Alisi Twinkleton, and to cap the chmax
of 1 them all, that stupendous Jackass (own
l.roth2r. in the . spirit to the immoral donkey
Pumblechook) Mr, Thomas Sal sea (0 Thou !), the
Valuer and Auctioneer of CloiAerhatn. At the heart
of all this, there is the charming young couple, there

are the hero and heroine of the tale—the freshes

fancy of the least jaded, nay, of the sprightliest and
tenderest imagination—Edwin Brood, himself still
The merest stripling, and his young girlish, almost
babyish, betrothed, Rosa Bud, otherwise Rosebud,

otherwise Pusky, whose earliest repression of his
ardour, when we see them first together, is, " No, 1
can't liss you, because I've got an acidulated drop
in nay mouth." The love scene between these two, if
love scene it can very well be called, made up as it is
of the prettiest girlish, boyish tiffs and coquetries, all
through, both indoors and out of doors, is surely as
charming a scene as. Charles Dickens has ever ima-
gined and desCribed. The momentary interruptions
or interpolations by Miss Twinkleton, of The IS un's
Houses§pninary, or by her companion, Mrs. Tisher,
when they each, in turn, lay an offertng on the shrine
of Propriety by affecting to look for some de siderat ed
article—" Pray, excuse me. Tweezers. Thank
you." " I trust I disturb no one ; but there Was a
paper knife—Oh, thank you, I am sure !" and so,
too, with the incident of the mother-of-pearl
button holder—all this, who but the veriest
curmudgeon can read of without laugh-
ing? Each Character is brought visibly and, as
alit were, in the flesh before our recognition. Mr.
Dean, " as nearly cozlis his hat as a Dean in good
spirits may, and directs his comely gaiters towards
the ruddy dining-room of the snug old red brick
house,where he is at present in residence,' with Mrs:
Dean and Miss Dean." Mr. Crisparkle, the Minor
Canon, we just as vividly realise, " fair and rosy,
and perpetually pitching himself head-foremost into
all the deep running water in the surrounding coun-
try." Mr. Tope, the Verger, we elually well know
already, with his lasses of grammar and his trium-
phant emphasis at any accidental lingual success.
Mrs. Tisher is hit off in a casual sentence as " a de-
ferential widow with a weak back, a chronic sigh,
and a suppressed voice." Miss Twinkleton, too, are
we not intimately acquainted with her already? with
her two distinct and separate phases of being, in the
unscho'astic and altogether gentler phase of which
Tunbi idge Wells is airily called " The Wells," a
certain finished gentleman being compassionately
spoken of there as " Foolish Mr. Porters." As for
Sapsea, here is his silhouette—

Mr. Sapsea " dresses at" the Dean, has Leon bowed to for the
Dean, in mistake ; has even been spoken to in the street as
My Lord, under the impression that he was the Bishop
came down unexpectedly, without his chaplain. Mr. Sepses
is very proud of this, and of his voice, and of his.style. He

has even (in selling.%nded property) tried the experiment
of slightly intoning in big pulpit, to 'make himself more
like what ho ,t4kef to be the genuine ecclesiastical article.
So,.in ending a:E'ale- by Public Auction, Mr. Sapsea finishes
off with an pair of liLstowi,ug a benedie inn ou the assembled
brokers, which leaves, the rural Dean—a modest and worthy
gentleman—far behind.

As for DuOles,-Were is Lis presentment :
In a suit of cpar§e flannel with horn buttons, a yellow
neckerchief with draggled ends as old hat more russet-
coloiu•td than Week; and laccd b‘Rop of the hue of his stony
calling, Duffles leads a hazey, gipky sort of life, carrying his
dinner about with: hint in a small bundle, and sitting on all
manner of tombstones to dine. This dinner of Durdles's bas
become quite a eloisterham institution : not only because
of his never appearing in' public without it, but because of

its having been, cn certain renowned occasions, taken iuto
custody along with Durdles (as drunk and incapable), and
exhibited before the Bench of Justices at the Town Hall
These occasions, however, haVe been few and far apart
Durdles being as seldom 'drunk as sober., For the rest, he
is an old batchelor, and he lives in a little antiquated hole of
A house that was neter fidished ; supposed tcl be built, so far,
of stones stolen froin the eitVwall. To this abode there is
an epproach, ankle-deelk in stone. chips, resembling a petri-
fied giove of tombitonesi urns, draperies, and broken
columns in all stages of sculpture. •

Durdles' very complaint, the Tombatism, is all of a-
piece—his• non-acceptance of Sapsea's correction,
" You;meati Rheumatisin." . " Na I don't, I mean,
Mr. Sapsea, the Tombatism.:lt's another sort from
Rheumatistn"-:--being as much in keeping as Mr.
Tope's declining, with silent loftiness, to perceive
any correction of his slip in grainmar. Incident
after incident, in. these five bilapt ers making up
the opening number of this new story by the
author of "Pickwick," and: ".Copperfield," and
" Nickleby," and " Chuz'zlewit," and of how

many other famous fictions, one lealizes as vividly as
any other of the notable scenes be has described,
and, in describing; has made part and parct4 of our
national literature. The conversation of the uncle
and nephew, meaning Jack and Ned, over the
walnuts—" Crack Crack.". The young ladies at
Miss Twinkleton's in• .64 the French class be-
coming so demoralised (through the disturbing influ-
ence of Edwin Drood's ring at the bell to see
Pussy), that the Mark goes round as briskly as the
bottle at a convivial party in the last century." The
hideous small boy who earns an honest halfpenny
from Durdles by stoning the latter home after night-
fall, thereby attaining an object in life—said object
being chiefly good for a cockshy. In all this we have
our great humorist at 'his best, at his very freshest,
worthy of his unfailing popularity and of his peren-
nial reputation.

The Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the
Jersey packet Nprmandy will, it is expected, take place
at Greenwich the latter end of next week. In order to
assist the inquiry, photographs have been taken of the
damage done to the Mary, .with which the Normandy was
in collision. The Mary is now in the graving-dock at
Southampton.. .
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•
THE DUKE OF MONiPiNSIER.—The Duke of
Montpensier is still in Madrik_ and intends to remain
there during the legal process arising out of his duel with
Henry of Bourbon. He has full permission to remain,
and the report that he had been connielled to change his
residence is denied:

A. MONSTER AItItOLITE.—It letter from Barbary
reports the fall of a monster aerolife in the neighbourhood
of Mourzouk, weighing 'nearly 5,0001h5. This is merely a
rough calculation, but the mass is believed to be one of
the largest meteoric bbdies -on record. The Turkish
linister of Public Instruction has ordered it to be sent
to the capital.
THE POLISH DEPUTIES IN THE .REICHSRATH.--•
The North-East Correspondence of March 30 states that
the Polish deputies, who see their moderate demands
rejected by the Committee of the Chamber, had resolved,
in a conference held that day in Vienna, to leave the
Reichsrath. This tlecisicm. .was unanimous, and it is
believed the Slovenes and -.Bukovians will follow the
example. •••
PRUSSIA AND SOUTH Gt EltitANY.—The North-
East Correspondence coptains a despatch which refers to
the state of public feeling in Stutgard. It declares that
Prussian policy ligs not received •so decisive a check as
had been supposed in Wurtemburg. In proof of this it
mentions the fact of General Tuckan being in the War
Ministry, as he is well knoNvn to be on good terms with
the 'Court, of Berlin. Two parties—the.popular party and
the:Germanspa,rty--aier;-however, vehemently opposed to
the new-Cabinet on; account_ of its supposed friendliness
to Prussia. , • , • • •

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.— A. strange tragedy
occurred. on Wednesday night on the banks of the Rye,
near Ilyton, a few -miles north of Malton. So far as
is at preSeut known, a: poficeman met two men on the river-
sido, who, on his approach; threw. some things (thought to
be skeleton keys) into the river. The men refused to say
what they had thus disposed of, and the policeman at-.
'tempted to make both men prisoners. A conflict ensued,
the policeman being badly hurt: A farmer was making to
the place to assist *the policeiban, but on seeing him ap-
proach the two men ran away: ' An old tree overhung the
river, and by means of this they, tried•to get across to the
Malton side. ,The tree gave way, and both men fell into
the river .and were aownea. The bodies of the two un-
known men have been found in the river. There is no
clue to their identity.
PROTESTANT CONFERENCE. —A great Protestant
Conference will be held at Nev York in the ensuingi
autumn, and a meeting will shdrtly be held in London for
the purßose of making the arrangements for the Confer-
ence more widely known. An Riaglish committee has
been organised, of which Lord Alfred Churchill is the
chairman, and General Alexander, the vice chair-
man. Several members of the House of Commons
have accepted invitation§ to , attend the Confer-.
ence, and the list of clergymen and ministers who
are also likely to cross the Atlantic includes
Dr. Lindsay Alexander, Professor Blaikie, Professor
Douglas, Canon Freemantle, 'Dean Wescett, the
Rev. Samuel Martin, Dr. Jobson, President of the
Wesleyan Conference' • the Rev. R. W. Dale,.
She Rev. E. Hoare, 'Vicar •of Tunbridge Wells ;
Ind Dr. Cairns.. The Deans of Canterbury and
Chester will contribute p'apers ,to be read at the meeting&
ENGLISH IN INDIA'.--The following specimens of
Madrassee English are given in a Madras paper :—" An
ex-schoolmaster, petitioning for a clerkship, promises that
I and my family mill ever 'cease to pray to the humble
Almighty to shower his blessings on. you for ever and
ever.' Another, begging, for an increase of salary on
account of the rise in prices,. says My pain and suffer-
ings are impeachable, and lie only in the compre-
hension of gentlemen of your honourable - disposition,
ready to open yonr bowels of compassion to sympathy
with the afflicted,.
_and; by 'extending your gracious hand
to shoulder them from the civil starts of this dear city.'
A third makes thelbilowing excuse for absence :--` Please
excuse attending office to-day, as .my grandmother
despatched her life and want to go to firing place to see
body fired and ashes put in the hole.' A clerk, Complain-
hag of `fever and grapes,' requests a day's leave, as he 11
unfortunately ill by blessing of God,"
RED RIVER•AFFAIRS.—The St. Paul Press states
that Major Boulton, a member of Colonel Dennis's sur-
veying party, with a hundred Canadians, united with Dr.
Scheely's band of 1,060 -Awanap Indians,..in ()icier to
attack Fort Garry.' They expected to be reinforced with
a general rising of the English speaking. inhabitants, but
were as disappointed as Colonel Dennis on a similar occa-
sion. Major Boulton became disheartened and fled Ivith
some portion of his followers. • They were intercepted by
a body of Rfel's horsemen and .surrendered. Biel sent
out a force to capture Schultz, who disappeared.
He was afterwards reported to be in the neighbourhood
of Pembina: The second . Canadian attempt at a
counter-revolution was completely crushed by the vigour
of President Riel, aided by the population, and his autho-
rity is more firmly fixed than before. General Riel hai
determined to make an example of the. leaders and abettors
of the outbreak, and a spy,'a cousin of Schultz has been
executed according to the sentence of a court-martial.
Major Boulton, at the date of the latest advices had also
been condemned by a court-martial, and was about to be
shot, and six or seven others were threatened with the
same fate.
•
SOLDIERS' WilrES.—St. Pauli Magazine contains
an article fiom " APrivate Dragoon," who says :—" 'When
I first became a unit in the muster-roll of Britain's de-
fendere, the women of the regiment who were married
with leave—technically, " on the strength "—lived; with-
out exception, in the barraclproom among the men. There
Was commonly a, married couple in each room. To them,
through long -consuetude, was consigned the corner farthest
from the door. No Matter what their number in family
might be, they were allowed but two single bedsteads, and
two men's. room. privacy of any kind was afforded
them, save what they could ,contrive for themselves ; and
the married soldier was wont to rig up around his matri-
monial bower an environment of canvas , screening, some-
thing over six feet high; .arid enclosing a very little domain
of floor space in addition to that occupied by the twobeds,
placed together. In most regiments the ' woman of the
room ',cooked for the loom at the 'fireplace therein, in re-
turn for which office it Was customary for a ' mess ' to be
cut for her out of the men's •rations : for. in the days of
which I am speaking married couples were entitled to no
rations—this arrangement is one of the beneficent out.
comes of the commissariat system. The married man was
put out of mess, anil- he had wherewithal nothing save hit
bare pay, in addition to anything that his wife might
earn. The very idea of a 'parried couple living and sleep
ing in. a common room with a dozen or more of single ment
partitioned off but by a flimsy curtain, is outrageously iv;
Pulsive to our sense of decency."
•
FULLEUTON TRIAL.—The trial of ex. Judge
Fullerton for alleged' revenue frauds has just been com-
pleted in New York. It terminated in the acquittal of
the accused. The Judge did not send the case to the jury,
deciding that the evidence would' not warraii'& such sb
course. The jury, however, willingly returned a verdict
of not guilty. judge Fullerton received many hearty
congratulations, and on the retirement of tfie justices
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THE MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK

The business to-day on 'Change was very dull, and
although Consols maintained their closing quotations
of Saturday, the Continental securities were nearly
all tending downward. The last project of the
Viceroy had very much dt pressed the price of Egyp
tan bonds. •

The demand for discount is easy, and 3 per cent.
is still charged for first class
Consols are now at 931 to 931 for money ; ditto,
account, 931 4 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 92 11;
New Three per Cents., 914 2 ; Bank of England
Stock, 41 per cent.,
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 24 per cent., March, 5
Prem. ; ditto £lOO, £3OO, and £5OO, June, prem.
India Stock, 10} per cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5
per cent., July, 1880, 1131 13 ; ditto 4 per
Cent.) Oct., 1888, 1001 1 ; ditto Enfaced Paper
5 per cent., 104.
In the Foreign Market business is dull ; Egyptiin
(1868), Bonds, are 4 lower, viz., 801 to 801. New
Granada Bonds have fallen to 244 to 251 ; Deferred,
11 to 111 ; Italian, 541 to 55; Turkish, 461 to 471 ;
SPanish, 28 to 28} ; Mexican, 14 to 141 ; Russian
(1868) Loan, 861 to 87.
IC the Railway Market prices are improving, and
are now as follows :—London and South Western,
88 to 89 ; South Eastern, 75 to 751 ; Caledonian,
781 to 784 ; Manchester and Sheffield, 52i to 53 ;
London and North Western, 1244 to 1254; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 128! to 1291 ; Great Eastern,
39i to 39i ; London and Brighton, 441 to 451 ;
Great Northern, 116 to 117 ; ditto (A), 1201 to 121 ;
Midland, 1254 to 1261 ; Great Western, 69 to 694 ;
and Metropolitan, 78 to 784.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 901 to 91};
the Ten-Forties, 87 to 871; and Eries, 201 to 211.
Anglo-American Telegraph Shares are 17! to 181;
British Indian, 91 to 91 ex new ; China Submarine,
11 to 11 dis. ; Falmouth, 91 to 91 ; French Cable,
16} to 161 ; and Construction and Maintenance, 381
to 384..
In Bank Shares Agra are marked 10 to 101; ditto
par to 4. prem. ; Alliance, 124 toll3l ; Anglo-
Austrian, 18 to 19 prem. ; Chartered Mercantile of
India, 311 to 321 ; City Bank, 114 to 12 ; Consoli-
dated, 4. to 4 prem.: Imperial Ottoman, 34 to 4
Prem. ; London and County, 474 to 48i ; London
and Westminster, 59 to 60 ; and Union of London,
361 to 374.
The sum of £15,000 in sovereigns was withdrawn
from the Bank on Saturday for Brazil.
It is stated from Paris that the Spanish financial
operation has been settled there. The establishment
engaged take the balance of the old loan and the
£10,000,000 of Treasury bonds, but the general con-
ditions have not yet transpired.
The financial advices from Alexandria state that
great dissatisfaction has been created by the report
of the intention of the Viceroy to raise a new loan
on the security of his personal estates. It is main-
tained
by these writers that the money is really to
be used for Government purposes, and that th€
negotiation has been introduced in its present shape
merely to evade the pledge that no fresh Govern-
Inent borrowings should be attempted for five years
fre'nl the year 1868. Until the conditions of the
contemplated transaction shall have been made
no positive opinion can be given as to the
justice of these reclamations.
From Paraguay the last accounts state that Lopez
had fallen back further in the country, completely
exhausted, and with scarcely any followers, no artil-
lerY, and no provisions. One of his sons had arrived
In Buenos Ayres, and had been put to an English
Boarding school.
The Nene Freie l'resse of Vienna staf.es that the
subscriptions to the Turkish Railway Loan amount
4.
300,083 scrip out of the 750,000 offers d to the
public, or about 40 per cent. of the total, lea.ving
149,917 not taken up. This, however, wi'l neither
!fleet nor curtail the construction of the works, as
the promoters (the Societe Imperiale des Chemins de
k:er de la Turquie d'Europe) had a'rea ly allotted
the whole 750,000 scrip to a committee at the pricJ of
155 f. ; they have therefore secured their capital of
116,250,000 f., and are thus covered for the build-
ing expenses for some very considerable length of
time.

The steamer Tanjore took on Saturday £136,930
IA specie for the East. The particulars are as fol-
loWB:—Galle, gold, £590 ; Bombay, gold, £40,500;
ditto, silver, £30,000 ; Madras, gold, £1,160 ; Cal-
cutta silver, £6OO ; Penang, silver, £lO,OlO ; Sin-
gapore silver, £14,959 ; and Shanghae, silver,
£39,120.

Liverpool Journal of Commerce says :
vkdvices from New York report the failure of
Howard, Barnes, and Co., distllers, near
'l-aunt Stirling, Kentucky, with liabilities of about
11:))000.

, In Miscellaneous Shares Credit Fencier are 2
43-16 to 2 16-16 ; General Credit, 1-16 dis. to 1-16
13renl• ; International Financial, lj to 1i dis. ;
Bay Company, 12 to 124 ; Italian Irrigation
17 per CeAs., 63i to 61i ; London General Omni-
-1113 Company, 2j to 2i ; National Discount, 11 to
,41 ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 42 to 43 ; and
"-loyal Mail Steam, 50 to 51.
1, alio corn market is quiet, and firm rates required
for both wheat and spring corn.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT YIJNDS.
3 Per Cent. Consols
a nitto for Account 93 4
Now
Cent. Iteluced
3 per Cent
yr 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894
AD°. S per Cen Jan. 1873
lnuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 11580 —
D°. for a 0 yre, expire sth April 188 f, —
t " (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 190, —
tehequa,r Hills, £l,OOO, 23 p. Ut. — pm
Do. 23 do. June —
II) £lOO, £2OO & £5OO — pm
8% 1_
o.ofpeEnnignlgand Stock, 44 per Cent
0:5:0'
aea 4 per Cent. Bonds
14
ter-Colonial Omni= —
14,,.itinteN GOVERNMENT SECURITISS.
'l4 Rtock ~ 104 per Cent April 1874
D1)44 OPeniug, for Account
°' D Per Cent. July, 1t 80
DO. 4 pea Cent. Oct. 1888
D 3. Enfaced Pape. 4 per Cent.. ......
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l• 5i per Cent '• 5 por Cent., .
Jan
May 1879 . 1872 ........... ...
Do R
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Per Cent., Rup. /MD. 1872 —
Da do 18"-...., —
Do. do. 188" —
.D .. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 .....
-0. Bonds. 4 per Cent., 41,000 .......
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0. under 41.000 — Fm

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
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Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
130 A.cnt,
AuArianm Bonds 5 per cent ... Do. —
Brazilian 5 per Cent 1859
O. 4i per Cent. 1852 —
Do, do 1858....
1)0, (it,
1860
Do. do 1863 —
Do. Account
Do. 5 per "
out., 1865
.13 nenos Ayres 6 per Cent.
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Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 8 per Cent....
Cuba,
6 per Cent.
C 4ilian 6 per Cent.,
..............
Do. 4 per Cent..,
Do. 3 per Cent., ~ „.
............. ' —
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
Do. 6 per cent. 1867
0 lombian 6 per Cent. _—
Danish, 3 per Cent. 1825........
Danubian Principalities, 7 ler Cent .....
DoAccount ............... . ............. .
8 per Cent., 1867 .............
E:uador New Oon.iolidatod,. 1 per Cent
E;yvtian, 7 por Cent
• Ilea ••• ..... 84
De Second issue ..
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Do. /506 Bonds
Do. 1864 —
Do. Account

D0..t.i00 Bonds
Dc. AlOO rsonds •••••
Do. 7 per Cent., 1868 ....
Do. Acecuut
Do. £lOO Bontss... . 801
Government RM i NV:IV Debentures ...
areett 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups

Con rcL .
Guatemala rer Cent ..
liondurasGov Rail. Loan., 10 p. Ct., all pd... 84

Do. Acchuut
ltadan 5 per rent., 1865
Do. Account .
Do Ahrerriniana
4esicas 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864
G Der Cont. Anglo-French
M •nt.!Nidvan E per Cent.
dcrriali imperia/ 5 1),SI Cent
Vow Granada
Do 3 per Con
Do. Deferred
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Do Land Warrants( Recta nos) .. . —
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account.
Do 41 per Cent. (th:')arren) .....
Do 41 per Cent.. 1862
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7, 9,'60,'2.'
Do.. do. 1867
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid

Russian 5 ear Cent., 182.4 £ St
Do 4} per Cent 1850
Do 4} per Cent., 1860
D 3 3 per Cent., 1859
D: 5 per Cent., 1862
D.: .1:1glo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds 9li
Do. do. £B4 15s. do.
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds —
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 691 i
-ardinian b per Cent
p Lnish 3 per Oen
Do. Acet,unt
Do. 1867
Do. Account

28f 1

Do. New Deferred —
Do. Passive —
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Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded —
Do. Account
S wedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Turkish 6 per Cent BB
Do Account

Do 6PerOent. 1858 671
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cont., 1862
Do. Account
Do £lOO Bonds 761
Do. 5 per cent. 1865 461

Do. Ajcount
Do 6 per Cent., 1860 ... 70}
Do Account
D) 1 por Cent., Guaranteed
Do do, Scrip
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
. Do 6 per 0ent.,1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian o par Cent Ex 10 Florins
Belgian 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Clout. Ex. 12 Gail.,
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .....
French Rentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 25f.
Mimi 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 25f . 54i 5
Do Account
CLOSING PRICES.
0 insole, Money
Do. Account, April 7 93-1