The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-27 00:00:00

THE MONEY MARKET

AND
COMM ERCIAL INTELLI ENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The business on 'Change to-day was very inactive, and
the prices of Government securities were the turn lower.
Railways are dull, but without important change. As
regards foreign bonds, Mexican are better, at 161-. Other-
v>ise the market is flat.
Consols are now 92i to 921; ditto New, 921 ; ditto
Reduced, 92i to 921 ; India Four per Cents., 1021 to 1024;
Exchequer Bills, 4s prem.
In the Foreign Market Italian Bonds of 1861 are 58
to 59 ; Spanish of 1867, 31f to 311 ; ditto of 1869,
31} ; ditto Quicksilver, 81f ; Peruvian, 91-/ ; Turkish Five
per Cents., 521 to 52f ; ditto of 1869, 631 to 631 ; and
Egyptian, 821 to 82f.
The Railway Market—Metropolitan are 70i to 701;
Great Eastern is 40 to 391 ; London and Brighton, 431 ;
Caledonian, 77f ; South-Eastern 761, Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 521 to 521 ; Great Northern,
1221 ; ditto (A), 1321 to 132; North Eastern,l46 to 145*,
London and North-Western, 1291 to 1291 ; Midland, 1311
to .1311 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1331 to 1331 ; Great
Western, 721 to 721.
Telegraph Shares—Falmouth are now 9 7-16 to 91 ;
Anglo-American, 791 ; French Cable, 15 ; British Indian,
81 to 8 1-16 ; China, 21 to 21 die. ; and Construction and
Maintenance, 261 to 27.
In Bank shares Alliance are quoted 141 to 151 ; Au lo=
are quoted 16 to 18 prem. ; Chartered Mercan-
tile, 30 to 31; Consolidated, 41 to 41 ; Imperial Ottoman,
41 to 44 prem. ; London and County, 50 to 51 ; London
and Westminster, 61 to 62 ; London Joint Stock, 341
to 354 ; and Union of London, 391 to 401.
In Miscellaneous shares Royal Mail Steam, 50 ; Thames
and Mersey Marine, 3 to 31 prem ; Telegraph Construc-
tion and Maintenance, 266 to 26-4.
. It is announced by the directors of the New . Zealand
Loan and Mercantile Agency Company that they will pay,
on and after July 1, the interest then due on their deben-
turees and guaranteed mortgages.
The advices from New York announced the failure of
Messrs. Werner Brothers, in the woollen trade, with
liabilities estimated at £44,000, and assets at £34,500.
Messrs. Jones, jun., and Co. had also stopped. Their
liabilities, it was thought, ranged from £60,000 to
8100,000, including a considerable sum due to firms in
Philadelphia. The Lawrence Worsted Company of Mas-
sachusetts had also suspended.
The report of the Mexican Railway Company (Limited)
has been issued. It states that the results of the working
of the opened sections for the year show a profit on the
line from Mexico to Puebla of £35,885 19s. ld., and a loss
on that from Vera Cruz to Paso del Macho of £7,033
18s. 2d. The gross sums received from the Government
during 1869 were—from the 15 per cent. duties, £122,801
Bs. 9d. ; and from the 12 per cent. duties, £68,915 7s. ld.
For the first three months of the present year the amounts
were respectively £37,443 6s. Bd. and £25,183 3s. 11d.
The report of the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Rail-
way, to be presented on the Ist of July, recommends an
immediate extension to Azul, and eventually to Tandil, a
distance of about 17 miles. The work can be exofecuthe
ted
for about £40,000 per mile,and the prosperity
existing line, which cost £ll,OOO per mile is considered to
afford conclusive proof of the desirableness of the
rneasur©. The creation of 2700,000 of capital is therefore
proposed for the purpose, of which £160,000 will

issued.
Vice-Chancellor James has appointed Sir Henry Drum-
mond Wolff, Mr. Cape, and Mr. Turquand, official
liquidators of the International Land Credit Company
(Limited).
The London and Provincial Law Assurance Society
announce a dividend at the rate of 4s. 6d. per share.
At the meeting of the London and St. Katherine Docks
Cmpany, to be held on the 26th July, a dividend, it is
stated, will be recommended at the increased rate of 14
per cent. for the half-year.
The half-yearly meeting 9f the Victoria Station and
Pimlico Railway Company is called for the 12th of July.
With regard to the Lancashire trade it is understood
that some of the principal Manchester manufacturers have
declined to accept orders requiring to be executed in less
two months.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
filE BRISTOL ELECTION.—DECLARATION 01?
THE POLL.
• The official declaration of the poll was made at Bristol
th m
is orning by the High Sheriff, who declared the slum-
bers as follow :
50n............................ 7,815
Hare.• • ......................................
Majority .................. ....... 578
Both Mr. Hodgson and Mr. Hare addressed
orter the me
Itetis
-
ing, but no word was heard beyond the reps.
said there will he no petition, although the Conservatives
;,ay they have evidence,

THE NEWARK RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
A telegram from. Newark, relating to the recent acci-
,ent, says:—The engine was removed and all broken
,rucks yesterday without accident. The foreman of the
jury, backed by six of the jurymen, bas made application
for the foreman engineer of the Great Northern Railway,
to attend and *ire evidence at the adjourned inquest to-
morrow with regard to axles.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
The dead body of a man named James Stewart, 24
unmarried, was found in Dunbla,ne on
years of age,
Saturday night. The deceased, it appears, was agent fox
the North British Railway Company at one of their sta-
tions, and was walking home, when he was caught up by
a passenger train, and had both legs andhis right arm cut
off, and his body nearly severed in the middle.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
The due of a boiler at Fix-wood Mills, Middletcn, near
Manchester, collapsed this morning at half-past eight
o'clock. Thrze men were in the boiler-house at the
time. One escaped almost uninjured, but the others
were dreadfully scalded. They were removed to the
Manchester Infirmary, where one died soon afterwards.
A defect in the seams of the boiler caused the explosion.
The boiler NVUS inspected only two months since, and WAS
then in good order.

THIS MORNING'S NEWS.

A. DEMONSTRATION
ARE. IN TRAFALGAR
SQU

On Saturday Trafalgar Square was visited with a new
class of demonstration in a gathering of teetotallers from
all parts of London and the suburbs to agitate in favour of
Mr. Rylands' proposed restrictive legislation respecting the
sale of alcoholic drinks on Sunday. The place occupied
by the demonstrators was thst which was formerly the
scene of the Reform meeting,s, at the foot of the Nelson
column and facing the National Gallery, and the people
who made up the gathering were nearly all " Sons of
Plicenix," "
Sons of Temperance,'' and members of other
temperance societies. The various societies marched into
the square with bands and banners, and many present
wore tinsel ornaments, cross-belts, and sashes.
The . position of chairman was taken on the base
of 'the column by Mr. Hillman, and the following con-
clusions were sought to be enforced :—" That ex-
ter ded restrictions on the Sunday sale of intoxi-
eating liquors would result in sensible public benefits,
including a diminution in drunkenness and crime,
and an improved condition of- the homes of the people
more directly affected by them ; that to realise these
benefits no corresponding drawbacks would be incurred,
and no serious inconvenience occasioned to the sober and
respectable of all classes ' • that the restrictions requited
to obtain these results would be in accordance
with public sentiment ; and, therefore, that nothing.
in the way of popular reaction may reasonably be
feared." The chairman urged that where the public-
- houses were closed on Sunday, vice, crime, and pauperism
were diminished, as in Scotland, and he urged the working
classes not to hug their chains even if the upper did keep
their club-house rights of drinking and so of dissipation.
The motion of Mr. Corrigan was to support a petition to
Parliament in favour of Mr. Rylands' Bill, and arguments
in favour of the enforced total abstinence were urged
with some weight, and many homely illustrations
were used. Mr. Clutterbuck, a working man, seconded
the motion, and it was supported by. Mr. Lester, who
described the publicans as a class who kept the work-
ing classes of this country in a state of degraded poverty,
and he told his hearers that the money the working
classes spent in unnecessary drink, if put to legitimate
use, would lessen the need for charitable institutions, for
workhouses, and prisons. The motion was carried,
though not unanimouslyi as was another thanking Mr.
Rylands for the Bill. The meeting then broke up into a
number of different gatherings, and the display of teetotal
eloquence was kept up in several parts of the square for
some time.

The Philadelphia Ledger says that during the last
-year the States expenditure for artificial limbs for
wounded soldiers amounted to 416,000 dole.`•
The successor of Mr. Alderman Besley in the
office of Chief Magistrate of the City will, in all proba-
bility, be Mr. Alderman Dakin, who stood next in
rotation for the office last year ; but, in consequence of
the state of his health, he requested that he might be
passed over for a year.