The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-04 00:00:00

MONEY NIARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

crry, Two o'CLocK.
There has been almost a general advance in the
price of British and Foreign Securities to-day in
consequence of the favourable opinion formed of
the new French Ministry. The Rentes have gone
up over 1 per cent., and such a circumstance could
not but produce a corresponding improvement on
the English Stock Exchange, and on all sides a feel-
ing of satisfaction prevails. Consols have improved
on the closing prices of yesterday, and the same
favourable result has extended to the Foreign mar-
ket. In Railway shares the business is rapidly im-
proving ; and for Telegraph, Bank, and miscellane-
ous shares quotations are in most instances better.
The rate of discount demanded in open market
to-day was a shade below 24 per cent. for first-class
bills at three months.
Consols are now at 924 to 924 for money;
ditto, for Account, 921 1 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 924 ; New Three per Cents, 924 1 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, par ; June,
dis 1 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
prem. ; June, prem ; Bank of England Stock,
44 per Cent., 237.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 4 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 4 1 ; ditto Enfaced Paper,
4 per Cent., 92.
In the Foreign Market prices have advanced.
Turkish Five per Cents. are 4 higher, at 47 to 471,
and Italian 1, to 554 ex div. Spanish (1867) are 4
better at 264 ex div., and 1869 Bonds have also
risen that much to 55 to 254 ex div. The Egyp-
tian market is a little stronger; the 1868 Bonds,
at 811 ; and the Viceroy's Loan, at 85. Argentine
are 871 to 88 ex div. ; Peruvian, 82 to 824 ex all ;
Brazilian, 884 to 894; Mexican, 134 to 131 ; and li
Portuguese, 331 to 331 ex div.
American Five-Twenties are 874 to 874, being
4 higher ; the Ten-Forties are 831 to 841 ; Erie
174 to 181 ; and Illinois 1024 to 1034.
In the Railway Market there is an advance.
Great Western, 59 to 594 ; London and North
Western, Midland, and South Eastern 4 each
higher, viz., at 124 to 1244, 1234 124, and 784 to
781 ; Great Northern are lower, 1094 to 1101 ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 4, 1274 to 128 ; Metro-
politan, 814 to 811 ; and Caledonian, 76 to 761 ;
Great Eastern, 384 to 38+; Great Northern (A), 111
to 1114 ; and London, Chatham, and Dover, 154
to 154.
Lombardo-Venetian have improved to 214. Great
Luxemburg is 134 to 134.
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance are
4 higher, 334 to 34; Anglo-American, 194 to
19/ ; French Cable, 161 to 161 ; and Atlantic Eight
per Cents., 21 to 24.
In Bank Shares Imperial Ottoman are .1 higher,
24 to 21 prem. ; Agra (A) is quoted at 11 to 114 ;
Alliance, 14 to 131 ; Anglo- Austrian, 14 to 16
prem. ; London Joint Stock, 31 to 32 ; Union of
London, 374 to 381; and London and County, 49
to 50.

In Miscellaneous Securities Hudson's Bay are 12
to 121 ex div. ; National Discount, 111 to 11i ;
General Credit, II to I dis. ; and International
Finance, 2i to 1j dis.
The sum of £24,000 in gold was taken from the
Bank yesterday.
The Deutschland, from New York, has brought
£61,400. The Avoca has left Melbourne for Galle
with £28,000.
The Neva, for the West Indies, has taken £25,000
in gold.
A limited amount of Mexican dollars has been
disposed of at 59d. per ounce, showing no altera-
tion.

Tenders have been invited by the six associated
Australian Banks for £1,518,400 Five per Cent.
Debentures of the colony of Victoria, being the re-
mainder of the loan for £2,107,000, authorised by
the Victorian Parliament in 1868, for the exten-
sion of railways, and secured upon the consolidated
revenues of the colony, redeemable on the Ist of
January, 1894. The interest is to date from the lst
inst., and to be payable half-yearly at the London
and Westminster Bank and the London and Joint-
Stock Bank. The tenders, with a deposit of 5 per
cent., are to be sent in to the London and West-
minster Bank on Tuesday next, and the debentures
will be allotted to the highest bid lens ; but no ten-
der will be accepted at less than £lOO 10s. for every
£lOO of debentures. The entire amount must be
paid up on the 31st inst., when the debentures will
be delivered. The whole of this loan was paid up
for the tender on the 9th of March last, but only
£588,600 was then taken at the minimum price,
which on that occasion was £lOO, or I per cent.
lower than at present, and the remainder waswith-
drawn to await the receipt of fresh instructions
from the Victorian Government.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have re-
solved that the shares of the Erie Railway stamped
by the Erie Shareholders' Protection Committee are
to be quoted and marked on the official lists. It
may be assumed that the practical effect of this will
be that all dealings will take place exclusively in
shares so stamped, and all holders of Erie shares
should therefore at once send their certificates in
to the committee at their offices, 60, Threadneedle-
street.

Do. 6 per cent. 1867
lornbian, 6 per Cent.
'—
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825
Datmian Principalities, 7 per Cent B9

Do. Account - .. —
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 92}
Ecuador Now Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
Egyptian, 7 per Cent.... B4}
Do Second Issue
Do. £5Ol. Bonds B6
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. £6OO Bonds
De. AlO6 Bends 92
Do. 7 per Cent., 1368 ..,...
Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 82
Government Railway Debentures ..... 98i 9 8
reek 5 per Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups —
Do. Coupons , .
Guatemala:s per Cent ..
PiondurasGov Rail.Loan.,lop..Ct.,all pd
Do. Acchant
Its dan 5 per Cent., 1865 —
.10. Account . .
Do Maremmana Railway —
A ezicat. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Dn. 1864 —
Do 8 per Cont. Anglo-French —
ioutevidcan G per Cent. . —
No cristi imperial 5 per Cent
;'ew Granada l7i 18}
Do 3 per Con —
Do. Deferred

Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Porwriau 5 per Cont. 1E65
Do Account .. 82: i 3

Do 41 per Cent. (Ul2)arren)
Do 4} per Cent., 1862 -. —

Do Account —
Do 6 per Cent.,1862 —
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2.':, 34i
Do. do. 1867 —
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid 3
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, X St
Do 44 per Cent 1850 -
Do 4} par Cent., 1860

Do 3Per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ..•86 51 6
Do do, Scrip —
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds 9l}
Do. do. £B4 15s. do. .•-
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 9l
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
De Nioolas Railway 6i
Sardinian bpr Cent —
Spanitt 3 per lima
Do. Account
Do. 1867
Do. Account

Do. New Deferred —
Do. Passive _ . _ —

Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded —
Do. Account
tzwedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Turkish 6 per Cent
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account
Do .ClOO Bonds

Dividends on the above payable in Loadoi.
Austrian a per Cent. Ex 10 Florins —
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Lieut. Ex. 12 Guil„
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
French 'Lentos, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
!Wink sper Cent. 1861, Ex. 25f
Do Account s6i
CLOSING PRICES.

Jonsole, Money
Do. Account, Jan. 6 92f i xd

POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE.-7his Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERT.—William Clayton, a young
man, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with steal-
ing a Brussels carpet and a quantity of oilcloth, the
property of Mr. James Dingley, picture-dealer,
Wardour-strect, Soho.

It appears that during the past two years Mr.
Dingley has been most extensively robbed, he hav-
ing missed property of various descriptions, to the
amount of £5OO or £6OO, and a short time ago he
charged a young man in his employ, named Roberts,
and a man named Burgess, previously in the police,
with robbing him, and Burgess was convicted, but
Roberts was allowed to turn witness for the prose-
cution. From information subsequently obtained
by Mr. Dingley, he communicated with Inspector
Pay, of the detective police, who discovered that
the prisoner Clayton, whom Mr. Dingley had
warned some time previously off his premises, had
been dealing with a Brussels carpet and oilcloth,
part of the stolen property, and he was then taken
into custody.

Inspector Pay asked for a remand, which was
granted.

THAMES.

AN UNNATURAL MOTHER.—Sarah Belchambers,
a widow, was brought before Mr. Lushington,
charged with running away and leaving six children
chargeable to the Poplar Union.
Mr. W. B. Foster, relieving officer, said the pri-
soner was in the workhouse with her children and
left on the 6th of October, since which time he had
not seen her until she was in custody yesterday.

The prisoner, in her defence, denied that she had
deserted her children. She had made repeated in-
quiries after them. She had been to Napping
‘Vorkhouse and to Forest-gate School to see the
children, and meant to take them out of the house
and relieve the union of them when she obtained a
situation. _ _

Mr. Lushington said the prisoner should have
remained iu the workhouse with the children until
she had the means of supporting them. _ _

The prisoner said that she was left a widow four
years ago with six children, the eldest then twelve
years of age.
Mr. Foster said the prisoner was living in a state
of adultery with a man, and was quite indifferent
as to the state of her children. _

Mr. Lushington was afraid the prisoner was de-
ficient in affection for her children. He sentenced
her to 14 days' imprisonment and hard labour.
SAVAGE ASSAULT.—BREAIUNG A MAN'S LEG,—

John Shaughnessy, an engineer, aged 26 years, of
101, Lucas-street, St. George-in-the-East, was
charged with violently assaulting William Lead-
better, a young man, in Rateliff-highway. In the
course of a quarrel between the two men the pri-
soner was guilty of great brutality, and kicked
Leadbetter with so much force as to break hie leg.
The injured man could not appear, and it was
stated that he was in the London Hospital, and it
would be at least three weeks before he could be
permitted to leave and give evidence.
Mr. Lushington said he could not remand a pri-
soner for three weeks, and must remand him for
one week. He would take good bail for the prisoner
to attend this day three weeks.

WESTMINSTER.
SWISS NOTIONS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES.—
Louis Gustave Drez, a Swiss, was placed at the bar
charged with unlawfully obtaining a pair of boots
under false pretences.
Mr. James Valler, bootmaker, Wallow-street,
Pimlico, said that a few days ago the prisoner came
to his shop, and representing that he bad been sent
by a Mr. Forster obtained a pair of boots in his
name. Then the next morning prosecutor met Mr.
Forster, who told him that the boots had been
fraudulently obtained, and he subsequently obtained
a warrant against the accused, but had ro desire
now to press the charge, as Mr. Forster bad ex-
pressed his willingness to pay for the boots which
prisoner had obtained.
In reply to Mr. W. D. Smyth, prosecutor said he
had some time ago taken prisoner to Mr. Forster's
and paid for a pair of boots for him.
Mr. Forster said he had not given the prisoner
any authority to obtain the boots, which were the
subject of the present prosecution.
Mr. Smyth, on behalf of the prisoner, urged that
having been once taken to the shop by Mr. Forster
his client, finding his boots worn out, thought
there would be no impropriety on his going there
for a second pair.
Mr. Selfe thought it a very odd notion. He had
othersfals falsely represented
he that he had been sent by Mr.
Forster. According to the view urged, if the prisoner
had one pairlikoefd.boots given him he was to obtain
Mr. Forster having again stated that he would
pay for the boots, and Mr. Valler having expressed
a wish to withdraw, prisoner was discharged.

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