The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-14 00:00:00

TRE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1870.

Lord Elcho, and Mr. W. H. Gregory took part, a division
was taken, and the motion was lost by a majority of 42.
The discussion lasted more than five hours.

The Tramways", Bill, as amended, was considered.

Mr. PLimsoLL:obtained leave to bring in a bill to provide
for the greater security of life at sea.
The following Select Committee was nominated on
Valuation of Lands and Assessments (Scotland) Bill
The Lord Advocate, Mr. Dalglish, Mr. M`Lagan, Sir
Edward Colebrooke, Mr. Charles Dalrymple, Mr. Orr
Ewing, Mr. Matheson, Sir Graham Montgomery, Mr.
Mackintosh, Lord Garlies, Mr. Finnie, Mr. John Hamil-
ton, and the Marquis of Bowmont.
The House adjourned at ten minutes to two o'clock.

S ORTING IN TEL LIGENCr,

CHESTER RACES-YESTERDAY.

Handicap Plato of N soya. Half a mile. _ Ten sobs.

Mr W. G. B nnett's Sunflower, by Kettledrum—May-
flower, 3 yrs, ist 21b (Gradwell) f 1
Mr B. Bower's Benevolence, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b t 2
Mr R. Peck's Blanche
..
Maurice also started. Dead heat with the first two.

Comberniere Plate of 50 soya; winners extra; entrance 3
sovs. Five furlongs. Twenty subs.

Mr Dawson's Moiphia, by Macaroni—Wensleydale, 3 yrs,
Gst 131 b (Hunt) 1
Mr W. G. Bennett's Brother to Vex, 3 yrs, Bst 81b

(Gradwell) 2
Mr Lawrence's Ismael, 4 yrs. 7st rlb (Kenyon) 3
Rea.ite also started.

Badminnton Stakes of 10 sous each, h ft, with 200 added ;
for two yr olds; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies and geldi gs, Bst
61b; winners extra, with allowances. Half a mile. Fifty
subs.

Mr Graham's Lady Atholstone, by Blair Athole—Silk-
stone, Bst 131 b (in 71b ex)
Captain Maclean's ns Jack-in-the-Box, 9st (in 51b ex)
(Jeffery) 2
Mr Kay's Hesperia, Bst llb (Gradweli) 3
The following also ran : Balqnhiddar, Alexandra,
Honeydew, Paesano, Caradoc, Grandee, and Calot.
Stewards' Cup of 200 soya. Grosvenor Course.
_ _

MONETARY REPORT S--YESTERDAY.

qua uctj lament or the account has been the principal

object of attention in the House to-day, and business
generally has been quiet. Foreign bands have oontinued firm,
but railway stocks have been rather easier. Consols have
been film, and better at 94 to 94i for delivery, and 94i
to 9411 for June. Reduced and New Three per Cents, 924,
92g. Exchequer Bills par, ss. prem. Bank stock has
marked 233, 234. Indian Five per Cents, 113 k, 114, and
Indian Bonds, 20s. to 255. prem.
The market for English railway stocks has been de-
pressed, and the quotations have ruled easier. The princi-

pal fall has been in Metropolitan, which has receded
Caledonian, London and Brighton, South-Easterai, Great
Northern A, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
have fallen whilst Great Eastern and Midland have
been it lower.
Indian stocks have been firm in value, and with a
moderate demand. Canadian shares have been steady.
There has been a continuance of the purchases of Grand
Trunk Ist Preference Bonds, and a further advance of 1
has taken place. Foreign shares have been quiet.
Foreign bonds have been purchased rather freely, and
a further advance has taken place. Brazilian 1865 have
risen ; Mexican, ; ditto (1864), ; Russian (1862), i;
ditto Anglo-Dutch, ; ditto Nicolas Railway,,i ; Spanish
(1867), ; ditto Deferred, ; Turkish (1858), / ;
ditto (1862), ; ditto (1869), 4 ; and Italian (1861), /.
On the other hand, Argentine (1868) have fallen 1;
and Peruvian (1865),
The Japanese Loan is still quoted at 4 to 3 dis.
American securities have been firm. The Five-twenty
Bonds have risen ; Ten-forties, ; and Erie Shares, k.

The tone of the market for Bank Shares has been
healthy, but business has been limited.
Telegraph shares have been steadier. Anglo-American
have advanced Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Mahal, and
French cable shares Telegraph construction shares
have been flat at 33k, 34. In Miscellaneous
securities the transactions have been limited, and prices
have been without movement.
No bullion operations have been reported at the Bank
to-day.

The La Plata has arrived at Lisbon with £17,390 in
specie, and the Cimbria from New York with £2,400.
As regards the exchanges, there has been more demand
for bullion. Italy and the rates have been lower, but
the Paris quotations continue firm.

At Mark-lane to-day next to nothing was doing in
wheat and the quotations have been without alteration
from Monday.
In the money market there has been a continuance of
firmness. The supply of capital has been short, and the
demand has been steady, Three Months' Paper not being
negotiable under 3 per cent.
With reference to the state of the bullion market,
Messrs. Pixley, Abell, Langley and Blake, remark the
arrivals of gold since our last circular comprise a total of
£70,400. The Poonahhas taken £20,000 to Bombay, and
the Oneida £8,950 to the Brazils. A shipment of £87,000
has been made from Calcutta for England, and is due
about the 6th of June ; this will probably be fol-
lowed by further amounts ; and as the Indian
Exchanges are declining, it is very likely that the Penin-
sular and Oriental steamer from Australia will bring
the whole of her gold, £421,500, to this country. Silver
continues firm, and is in demand for Holland, The Neva
has brought about £165,000 from the West In-dies, but we
do not think this large amount will lower the price in the
slightest degree. Mexican Dollars.— The Hanover has
brought £6,500 from New Orleans, and the America
£15,000 from New York. These sums, together with
others previously on the market, have been sold at 59fid.
per oz. for China, for which country the demand is good.
The report of the English Bank of Rio de Janeiro
(Limited) to be presented on the 25th instant; recommends
a dividend of Bs. per share, making, with the interim
dividend of like amounts paid in December last, B'per
cent. for the year, and leaving £4,534 to be carried
forward.

A prospectus has appeared of the Grand Hotel et
Etablissement de Rains Dunkerque (Limited) =with a capi-
tal of £40,000 in £4 shares.
The shares of the Favarone Mining Company are
quoted at 4 to a prem.

The report of the Law Fire Insurance Society, to be
presented on the 31st inst., shews that the sum insured in
the year 1869 was £40,877,850, being an increase of
£3,691,322 over 1868. The amount of premiums received
was £47,849, being an increase of £4,037. The loises by
fire have been £18,259, against £17,645. The amount of
duty received on account of Government in the half-year
ending June 24th, 1869, was £13,238. All insurances
effected or renewed after that date are free from duty.
The excess of receipt over expenditure during the year
has been £21,046.
In reference to the public sales of colonial wool just
brought to a conclusion, Messrs. Sothey, Balme, and GO.,
remark :

The second series of colonial wool sales of the year
opened on the 7th ultimo, and closed yesterday. The
arrivals included the following proportions : Sydney and
Queensland, 28,002 bales ; Port Phillip, 83,930; Adelaide
30,349. Swan River, 1,150 ; Van Dieman's Land, 1,636 ;
New Zealand, 1,209; Cape, 16,254; total 162,530 bales.
The quantities catalogued were—Sydney, 29,394 bales;
Port Phillip, 81,365 bales ; Adelaide, 31,238 bales ; Van
Diemen's Land, 1,661 bales ; Swan River, 1,155 bales . New
Zealand, 1,477 bales; Cape, 16,855 bales. Total, 163,145 bales,
A fair trade in the manufacturing districts—both home
and foreign—during the first quarter of the year, and the
small extent to which, owing to comparatively limited ar-
rivals, consumers had been able, during the previous
series, to supply themselves, insured a full attendance
from all quarters at the opening sales ; and prices, having
for the first few days ruled firm at the March rates,
afterwards very rapidly improved, under the influence of
a strong foreign demand, to the extent of id. lid. per lb.
With comparatively little support, however, from the
home trade, the diminishment in the continental compe-
tition, which set in towards the close of the third week of
the sales, caused a perceptible reaction in the market,
and though the quotations for Sydney and Cape wools, in
consequence of their limited supply, shewed little
or no variation, the advance in Port Philip and
some other descriptions was to some extent lost.
The heavy arrivals anticipated for the June auctions
have no doubt inspired very considerable caution on all
sides, but especially on the part of the home trade, and
we are inclined to think that the extreme circumspection
observed, in view of possible fluctuations late in the yeari
will in the event be found to have discounted, to a great
degree, the effectof the pressure of a large supply. Con-
sumption, both abroad and at home, is slowly, but cer-
tainly on the mend, and if the total production of wool for
the year do not exceed the entire importations of 1869, the
arrivals for the two last series must be comparatively
light.

LONDON STUCK EXCIIANGE-FRIDAY.

LATEST PRICES -AFT:

ER OFFICIAL HOURS.

GOVERNMENT

SECURITIES.

Three per Cent Consols 941 941
Do. for Account
Three per Cent ltdcd ozg
New s per Ceut
Exchequer Bills, March, par 5 pin
Do., J une
Bank Stock
India 5 per Cents
Can.6pcJan.atJulylB77-84 1074 1U8i;
Do. 5 per cent do. 984 39i
Doruin. of Can. 5 pc 1903 975 081
New B. NV. 5 p c 1871-76 102 103
New Zealand 6 pc 1891 llO 112
Do. 5 per cent 97 98
Do. 5 p c Consolidated
Queensland 5 p c 1882
Victoria 6 p c J alt.& July 115 Ili
Do. 5 v c do. 103111041

Brazilian, 1865, 8p a 90 91
Egyptian, 1888, 7 p c 81 811
'Do. Deheu., 7Pc. • 99 100
Italian, 186/. 5 per cent 571 571
Peruvian, 1865, 5 per cent 861 871
Portuguese, 1819, 3p c 34 341
ltussien, 1866, 5p c 93 94
Do. Nicolas, 4 per teat 6B 681
Spanish, 1867, 3percent 3OO .soj
Do., 1886, S. per ceut 291 30
Turkish, 1858, 6 per cent 86 88
Do., 1815, 5 per cent
Do., 1815, 6 per cent' 73 731
U. S. 540 Bonds, 6pc 1882 89k 591
Do., 1865 Bl 881
Do., 10-4 J Bouds, spa 1904 85 861
Erie She., 100 dole. all pd. 18 18

RAILI
Bristol and Exeter BO 82
Caledonian, 74/ 741
Great Eastern
great Northern
Dc. A
Great Western
Lancashire Si. Youshire l3O 131
L. IL and South Coast
Lqu. Chat., and Dover 1 16
Lou. and IN orth-Westeru 128 128/
Lon. and South-Western 90 92
Man., Sher., and Lincoln 511 511
Metropolitan 721 72/
Midland
Nortli 13ritIsh 361 361
North-Eastern—Berwick 13/ 137/
Do. Leeds BB 90
Do. York 134 135

Se ntl4f.astern
130w.,14r., &Cl.Xwl.g.spo 16711031
cast India guax. tip . 114 115
Grand Trunk-of Canada 15 151
I Do. kat Preference Bonds 68 69
Great Indian Pen. g. 5p o 110 111
Great Western of Canada 161-16 t
Madras g. spa • lO9 NU
Sciude, I.lellll, do.
50n4,0, l'npjaub, do lO7 108
Dalton Itlicursii 251 26
Eastern .of.i.,`Yrt.iice
Great'.Laxembourg l3t lit
Northern of France „., 47 48
0 ttoiu. (Smyrna to Aidln) 7/ 71
an,il Saai Francisco 15/ 16}
San Paulo (1..) gwix. 7 p 20 20
S. Axis. & Low. Veneta. 15j 151

BANKING COMPANIES.
a,
Agra Bank (L) A.,.. I 191 11 101 Imperial Ottoman 41 41 Plia
Alliance (Limited) 13 14 201Lou.(bar. of Austra 241 241
Anglo-Austrian .... 14 16 pm 20;London and Couuty 49 50
A nglo-Egyptii (Lim) 241 2.51 151Londoi4 Jojnj-Stock 34( 351
British North•Anircii 53 -55 20114ndn & Wstminstr 62 64
Ch.of India,Australia 17) 18) 101 Mt tropolitan Bl 91
Char. Mere. of India 30) 31) 20AIniland (Limited) 1 did, Par
City
Colonial
Consolidated (Limtd) 11 pm 25' Union of Australia.. 46 47
Eng., Scot., & Aust. C 171181 15jula1011 of London .. 38 39
Imperial (Limited) lB 181