The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-03 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS—Yesterday.

The Stock Exchange markets to-day have been charac-
terised by an increased amount of animation. Railway
stocks have been dealt in to a fair extent, whilst for foreign
bonds there has been a healthy inquiry, and an almost
general advance has ensued. In the market for telegraph
shares, however, there has been a continuance of depres-
sion, Consols have been firm at 92, 92i for money, and
the 9th i natant, and 92, 921 for the April account.
Reduced and New Three per Cents 910, 91} ex. Bank
stock has marked 241, 243. India Five per Cents have
been done at 1111, 112, and India bonds at 205., 255. prem.
Exchequer Bills, (March and June) 2s. dis., 3s, prem.
Indian railway stocks have changed hands quietly, but
prices have been maintained. In Canadian shares the
business doing has been on a moderate scale. Grand
Trunk have been firm, and Great Western have risen
Foreign shares have commanded a fair amount of atten-
tion. South-Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have been
dealt in at 191.
The money market to-day has been without feature of
importance. The demand for accommodation has 11(4
been active; but as the supply of capital has been
limited, the rates have been firm at 3 per cent. for three
months' paper. As the tendency on the Continent is to
lower rates, a return of ease on this side may b°
e-zpected. _ _

There have been no bullion operations at the Bank t°-
d ty. The transactions since last return comprise the
p.irchase of £7,000 in bar gold. _

The Excelsior, from Auckland, has brought £15,000.
Conslderable firmness has prevailed in the market for
foreign bonds. The absence of any complications in the
East, assisted by the prospect of cheaper money, has f°B-
- speculation in Egyptian and Turkish securities, and
an advance has ensued. Italian and Spanish also have
participated in the improvement, and have risen in syln'
pathy. The alterations have comprised an advance of 1
in Brazilian, of in Egyptian, New Grenada, and Turkish'
of tin Peruvian (1865), and of in Honduras.
The Russian scrip is quoted at 3i, 3 prem.
• American securities have been flat. The Five-'Twenty
and Ten-Forty Bonds have fallen t, Atlantic and lllluni4
Bonds and Erie shares t.
A full average business has been transacted in English
Railway Stocks. Great Western opened firm, at 66 to
661, or at a further improvement of t, but realisations
of profits producing a reaction, relapsed to 6513 to 65k, but
subsequently recovered it. Midland has been firm, and
better, and Metropolitan has risen to the extent of 5,
whilst Caledonian, London and Brighton, and North'
Western each present an enhancement of
As regards Bank shares Imperial Ottoman have been
firm, at an advance of the quotation being 3i, 4 pron.
London and Westminster have been steady.

Mining shares have been without movement of inaPal"
tance, and the demand for them has not been active.
For Telegraph shares the demand has been restricted.
Anglo-Americans have fallen but British Indian Sub-
marine have risen *.
Hooper's Telegraph Works shares have been flat, 3t
about par. Telegraph Construction have fallen 4i and
India Rubber shares 4.
In miscellaneous securities the business doing has been
moderate, at about previous quotations. _

Biddings for £387,500 in bills on India have taken place
at the Bank to-day. The amounts allotted have been
Calcutta, £352,700 ; and to Madras, £34,800. The
minimum price was fixed at is. 11d. Tenders at is. 111'
will receive 63 per cent. The result shews a falling
off in the demand for means of remittance to the East.
The Dorian, from New York, has brought £36,820.
Fifty and sixty guineas prem. have been paid to-daY °ll
the City of Boston, from Halifax.
The Elbe, for the West Indies, has taken out £17,69
in specie.
The Geelong has arrived at Galle with £352,000 ill
Australian gold for England.

The Board of Trade returns just published bear favour'
able evidence of the development of trade during the
month of January. In that month the export of British
and Irish produce and manufactures amounted to
£13,923,185, against £13,621,114 in 1869, and £12,252,638
in the previous year. The shipments of cotton goods sheNv*
falling-off ; but whilst a slight increase is noticeable in thee°
of woollen manufactures, the export of iron and unwrough‘
steel has been about 20 per cent greater than at the O
°r;
responding period in 1869. The computed real value
the articles imported in the month of December 086
£33,546,89G, against £38,881,332 in 1869, and 225,836,17 a
in the previous year. In the whole year they amowiteA
to £250,617,820, against £249,142,583 in 1868, aid
£234,453,717 in 1867.
The directors •of the Rock Life Assurance Conlll3ll
announce a dividend of 2s. 6d., and a bonus of is. 6d., Pe',
share for the half-year ending the 28th ult.
The directors of the Van Diemen's Land Company, out
of an available balance of £1,333 recommend a dividend °
2s. 6d. per share.
At Mark-lane to-day the supply of wheat has bees
limited. The demand has not been active, but prices 115116
ruled firm. Spring corn has been dull.
The traffic returns of the Midland Railway for the l'i'ees
ending February 27 present a total of £69,137, being

increase of £7,587 on the corresponding period of 1869.

MARKETS'—Yesterday.
LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, WEDNESDAY.—From ESSe
Kant only moderate supplies of grain have been received. Therebeen
been a fair attendance of millers, but the business doing has beat
limited, at the rates current on Monday. With foreign "ova
the market has beea moderately supplied. Sales ,o;e1
progressed slowly, at the late quotations. With "ow-
the market has been moderately supplied. In all "erjecg•
tions the transactions have been restricted, at late ,_Feb. a
Malt has been dull, on former terms. Oats, of ww,bont
m xlerate supply has beep on sale, have moved off quietly, at test.
previous currencies.. Beans and peas have been in limited re 1X16•
Flour has command d but little attention, on former ;',lOO/
Arrivals.—English and Scotch : wheat, 680 ; barley, 3:/ ; malt
beans, 170; and peas, 70 qrs. Foreign: barley, 4,jto ; oats, 1,4 g
and flour, 241 sacks.
Dog°
METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, WEDNESDAY,: bee'
supplies have been on sale. For all descriptions the trade. has O.
dull, and there has been a tendency to lower rates. Beef, from 25
to 4s. 6d.; mutton, Is. Bd. to 4s. 10d.• veal, 4s. Bd. to ss. 4(1. ;
e.
4s. 2d to ss. Bd. ; and lamb, 7s. 6d. 'to Bs. per 81b. by the Garen' bop
BOROUGH HOP MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—In the 00
market the transactions have been to a very moderate extent" that
sam;#les have maintained late quotations, but the value of
qualities has had a drooping tendency. Mid and East Kents,lOs
£l3 ; Wealds, £6 to £3 ss, ; Sussex, X.. 5 15s. to £7 ; Bavarians,
to £lolos. ; French, £5 ss. to £7 ; Americans, Xi 105. to £6,
yearlings, 41155. to £3 10s. per cwt.
LONDON TRADE REPORT, WEDNESDAY.— The ma 'so
has been firm, at 465, to 465. 3d. spot ; Marcia, buyers ;
435. 9d . last three months.
LONDON PRODUCE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—Sugar h btu
quiet, but unaltered, Coffee has been firm, owing to the
supplies. Middling to good middling Rio, 635. to 70s. The ?
,0011
Sales of tea have passed off quietly, at unaltered prices. o°i
sound congo, ls. id. to ls. beel
LONDON METAL MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—Iron has
quiet. Tin has been firm. ma'rm. Straits £ll9 cash. Copper has co '
_ _

more attention at £66 15s. for Chili bars, per
LONDON OIL MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—Linseed oil bassnaof
quiet, at 31s. 9d. spot. English brown rape, on spot, 41s. 91 -
oils inactive. yel
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The -
has been quiet. Sales, about B,uoo or 10,00,0 bales,

AM3TLRDAM, MARCH I.—Bancl tin firm. Buyers, 70k. •
Hit..7RE COTTON MARKET, MARCII 2.—Cotton 4WeN
0r1t..0. 136, easy. Good ordinary, 131, sellers.

2 08
A rArExr CASP.—A patent case has been heard Jl3.
4.her
court of Vice-Chancellor Stuart, in which some fea'4o
manufacturers of Pans sought to restrain „,/0
artificial florist, of Criprlegate, named Fisher,
infringing a patent for improvements in we'tlie
hing feathers. The patent was for discharging ice
natural colours of feathers so as to fit them to rece44
artificial colours. There had been proceedings at Pisign •
in which the plaintiffs had succeeded. They failed, P-tis-
ever, in this appeal, as the Vice-Chancellor was not saify
fled with the validity of the patent, which did not ePee
the salts employed.
A DISPUTED WILL CASE.—In the Probate Court on -„o
nesday morning, a case which is expected to occupY, l'uto
three or four days commenced. The property in dislgo
is stated to be worth £120,000. The executors of the nt,
John Hutley, a cheese factor and provision ageol
propound the will, which is opposed on the gr° i 4
of undue influence and incapacity, andtthere,„e, of
also a plea that the deceased did not know or appr°'‘,ol,
its contents. The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-(Glens e,
Dr. Deane, Q.C., Dr. Spinks, Q.C., Sejeant Ballan," go
Dr. Tristram, and a large number of junior couneel.mo
engaged in the case.' In opening it, Sir John Colei:lt"bo
stated that the testator was a man who began life wl„ ie-
very small sum of money, and by hie shrewdness an,,L', 0
dustry he amassed the large fortune named above. 1:11110
will of 1861 his sister (one of the parties who dispute' bet
will now set up) was residuary legatee ; but in Nove°ols
1865, Mr. Hutley married, and in a will made a ION&
afterthe event his wife was appointed residuary leg?
There were a large number of witnesses to be exaZellree"
A GERMAN BARON AND A DIVORCEE.—In the Diviio
Court, the case of " Rawlings v. Rawlings and 101 l
Voght " came on for trial. The petitioner, an Begloo
doctor, married the respondent, a German lady, „fits
had been divorced from her husband. Soon afterorgt
they visited various cities on the Continent, and ho
Cologne made the acquaintance of Baron von Voght,,s,et
was an officer in the Russian army, the co-resposu,o
in the suit. Mr. Rawlings, for the sake of his health, ;nct
obliged to go to Jersey, and his wife returned to SPl''•von
he had not seen her since. Abundant evidence was gl4O
of the adultery, and Lord Penzance made a decree "
for a dissolution of marriage.

BIRTHS.
GoLnsMrrU -On the Ist inst., at Croydon, the wife Of 13.
Ralph Goldsmith, of a son.
;fa of
OSWALD—On the Ist inst., at Redhill, Surrey, the
Herbert Oswald, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
Tole°
EDWARDS CLOW—At Trinity Church, Ifarylebone,. -
L. Edwards, of Esq., of 83, Great Tower-street,
tharine Mary, second daughter of Leonard Clow,
of 9, Fitzroy-street, W.
Ti tit."
NEWDIGATE LE/GR—At St. John's, Paddington, to
,is
Colonel Francis Newd gate, late ,
oldstteatn Guar-, 014
the Hon. L. Georgina Leigh, daughter of the late
Leigh.

DEATHS. NBA
MHSTErfiI—On the 27th ult., at Mansfield House,
Cumnock, Sir James Monteith, Bart., of Closebur%ort.
LIGHT -On the 2d inst., at Upper George-street, ."0.8
man-square, Charlotte, wife of Sir Henry Light, -I°.•

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Thureda,y, March 3, 1870.;