The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-23 00:00:00

The list for the new Spanish Loan will be closed
by Alesirs. J. S. Morgan and Co. this afternoon.
The subscriptions at Paris are stated to have been
large.
According to arrangements just completed, the
United States' mails for Great Britain, conveyed
on Tuesdays by the Hamburg-Americin Steamship
Company, will in future Le landed at Plymouth
instead of Southampton, thus effecting a saving of
several hours. The steamers will proceed from
Plymouth to Cherbourg to land the French mails
and passengers. The Hammonia, from New York
on the 13th inst., is the first vessel under the new

system.
The colonial wool sales are fixed to commence
on Thursday, the 61 May. The fresh importa-
tions up to the present date, since the b.giuniug
of last sales, comprise 181,476 bales, viz. :—New
South Wales and Queensland, 24,966 ; Victoria,
94,406; Tasmania, 4,053; South;Auvralia, 15,481 ;
West Australia, 1,870 New Zeal tud, 13,015 ;
Total Australasian, 153,841 ; Cape, 27,635. Total
Colonial, 185,476 bales. Further arrivals are daisy
expected.
The Lords of the Admiralty have accepted the
ten icr of the Australian Meat Company (Limited),
for whom Messrs. John M'Call and Co. are the
London agents, fur the supply of 200,0001b5. of
Australian preserved beef.
When it was mentioned a few days back that
the foreign loans, actual an prospective, of
the present season might be estimated at 50 mil-
lions sterling, the tctal was irrespective of any ad-
ditions that had not thus far been suggested.
Yesterday a Roumanian railway loan of £1,500,000
WAS announced by the Anglo-Austrian Bank, being
part of an authorized issue of £6,000,000 for the
construction of a line from Galatz to Buchare.t.
The Bonds are to bear a guaranteed interest of 7f
per cent., and are to be issued at the price of 71i.
A deposit of 10 per cent. is to be made on applica-
tion, and the whole of the balance is to be paid by
the 15th of next month. The lists are to be open
in London on the 28th and 29th inst., and simulta-
neously in the principal towns of Prussia, Austria,
Hungary, and the Danubian Principalities.
The ship Ida Ziegler, homeward bound from New
Zealand to London, has been reported at Lloyd's,
by telegram via Point de Galle, totally lost in
Hawkes Bay. She is stated to be heavily insured
in the room and among the offices.
The Bankers' Protection Association have insti-
tuted a prosecution against one of the clerks in the
house of Messrs. Baring Brothers, named Alexander
Dyce, on the charge of forging a cheque purporting
to be signed by Mr. Moss Wynan, and endorsed by
Messrs. Baring, on Messrs. Martins, bankers, in
Lombard-street. The extent of his defalcations
are represented to be under £1,500.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ended the 21st of April gives the following
results when compared with the previous week
Rest
PuLlia deposits -3,1:30,241 Increase ... £10,983
4,935,44;3 Increase 649,214
Other deposits 17,655,278 ... Decrease ... 452286
On the other side of the account :
Comment securi-
ties X 15,020,798 ... No change.
Other securities 37,370,006 luorsase 112
Notes unemployed 7,256,175 Increase ... 154,155
The amount of notes in circulation is £23,637,950,
being a decrease of £150,035 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £17,030,151, showing
an increase of £61,429 when compared with the
preceding return.
Subjoined is a comparison of the present position
of the Bank of England and the prices of Console
and French Rentes with the corresponding week of
last year
same Week
At Present. last Year.
Bullion
Reserve
8,392,201 11,587,080
Notes in circulation 23,637,950 ... .£20,527,100
23,940,020
Rate of discount
Consols
French Routes

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSIN PRICES.

(iOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Liao for Account,
3 per Coot. Reduced 9ll .1
NOW :3 per Cent
Ni•iv 21 per Cont. Jan. 1894 . , —
Dk.,. 4 per Con J au. 1673
Annuities. So yre, expire sth Jun., 18itte —
Do. for 3u yrs, expire sth April 18P5 —
Do (14, 4 See Teleijaph). Aug., 1908 —
Ell J 3 ju'r Bill 4, £ll 0001 21 per Ct.
-
Da £SOO
Do. £lOO & £2OO •
Bank of England Stock. 4j. per Cent
1),. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Omnitun
INDIAN UOVY.RNMENT ECTiItITLIKP-.
India Vtock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 2lO 12
O. Opening, for Account
Do. 5 per Cent..inly, 1880
Do. 4 pet. Cont., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Papet 4 per Cent.. ...,
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ....,...
'Do. 51 per Cent. May 1879 —
D.) Dar Cont., Rup. Dob. 1572 —
- do - 1877 . —
Do, do. 1882 —