The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

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CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Ccsols advanced to-day, at 92/ 3 for money ;
ditto, for Ac iz)unt, 93 / ; Three per Cent. Re-
dueedn/ 3 2i ; New Dime per Cents, 92/ 3 2i 3 ;
Excheqer Bills £l,OOO, 2 preru. par; ditto £lOO,
£2OO, tid £5OO, 3 dis. par ; Bank of England
Stock, 4ner Cent., 242- 1.
India itock, 10k per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 ier Cent., July, 1880, 114 12 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Cct., 1888, 100/ ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 5
per per Cent., 1051 k; ditto Debentures, 113-i ;
ditto Bents £l,OOO, 10 prem...
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The Foreign Market is dill still, owing to the
quietness of thß Paris Bov'se. Egyptian, Argen-
tine, Italian, and SpaniFa are quoted a point
stronger. Turkish are cull. Argentine Bonds are
quoted 804 to 811; Egyptian (1864), 88 to 88f ;
ditto (1868), 781 to ; Italian, 58i to 56k.

United States Fi•a-Twenty Bonds are k lower,
at 80k. The Tenjorties are unchanged at 71k to
72. Erie are 191
There are a fev sales going forward in railways,
and prices are barely so firm in consequence.
Great Norther'. and Caleonian are -1 lower, and
South-Eastern, Metropolitan, and Brighton, have
fallen k.
In Miscellaneous Securities there is little busi-
ness doing, and tEe only feature is an improvement
of it in Anglo-Anerican Telegraph, the price being
20i to 20k.
Bank spar-3 are scarcely so firm, and the deal-
ings are vPY limited. London and Westminster
and Crinktal are each 10s. lower, the former being
quote?at 61 to 62, at the latter at 40} to 41k.
ip the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
bilti generally were in demand, and the rates a
Blade lower than those by last post.
The sum of £28,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.

It is understood that the National Bank have
signed an arrangement for the settlement of the
affairs of Charles Laffitte and Co. (Limited), and
that all the parties thoroughly conversant with the
case are satisfied that Mr. Harvey Lewis and Mr.
Henshaw will be found in every stage of it to have
acted with perfect good faith, and to have been
among the chief sufferers by the deceptions con-
nected with it.

Advices from Lima, via New York, confirm the
fact of Peru having granted belligerent rights to
the Cuban insurgents.

Advices from Honduras, also via New York,
state that Mr. Robert Fitz Roy has completed his
survey of the Honduras Interoceanic Railroad, and
that from his report it appears the total cost of
constructing the line, 240 miles in length, will be
$1,885,413.

The steamer Peruvian has arrived from Quebec
with a small parcel of specie, value £260, and
the Ville de Paris, of the Transatlantic line,
has reached Brest from New York, with £40,000
in specie. _

At the meeting of the Atlantic and Great
Western bond and debenture holders, after
lengthened explanations by the chairman as to the
state of the company and the position in which it
has been placed by the Erie Directors, a committee
was appointed representing all classes of the holders
of its s.!curities to take such steps as might be
thought advisable for the protection and settlement
of their claims. A plan was proposed and agreel
to in substitution of that initiated by Mr. Lucas.
The report of the Imperial Ottoman Bank re-
commends a dividend of 15s. per share, making with
the previous distribution 12} per cent. for the year
1868, and leaving £7,952 to ba carried forward.
Mexican advices to the 26th of May state that
telegraphic communication across Mexico, via the
capital, was complete from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. A conducta with £600,000 in gold was
said to be on the way from the capital to Vera Cruz.
The traffic of the Metropolitan Railway shows an
increase of £2,769. In the case of the Metropolitan
and St. John's Wood Railway the increase is £Bl.
The traffic receipts of the Metropolitan District
Railway represent £BB6. The return of the Lon-
don, Brighton, and south Cuust Railway shows a
decrcaao of £1,680. The traffic of the Great
Luxemburg Railway exhibits an increase of £2,411.
The Telegraph Construction M ct UL luiuLcivam...,
Company are informed by their agent in Tasmania,
per telegram, via Galle, dated the 14th inst., that
their submarine telegraph cable between Tasmania
and Victoria was successfully laid from their ship
Investigator on the Ist ult., and that the electrical
tests and working conditions are highly satis-
factory.

BRITISH I'UNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
3 per Cent. Reduced 921 3 21
New 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. b per Con Jan. 1873
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequz.r Bills, £l,OOO, 2f & 3 per Ct 2 pin
Do £lOO, £2ou £5OO 3 d
Balk of England Stock, 41 per Cent
De. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds
Inter-Colonial Omnnun

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURI'IItB.
India itock, 101 per Gent., April 1879 Shut
Do. Opening, for Account
Do. 51per Lent. July, 1880
Do. 4 por Cent., Oct. 1888

Do. Certificates

Do. Enfaced Pap. 4 per Cant..;... —
Do. 5 per Cott., Jan. 1872 ........ los}i
Do. 5} per Cent. May 1879 —
Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. lBB2 ll3}

IL,. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 —
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES._:
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ..
Au Arian Bonds b per cent
Do. 1869
Brazilian 5 per Cent
00. 4} per Cent. 1852
Do. do. 1858.,,,. —
Do. do. 186)
Do. do., 1863

Do. 5 per dent., 1865
Do Account
BlEnos Ayres 6 per Cent.
D+ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 8 per Cent )
Cuba, 6 peLCent.
Catlian 6 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent —
Do. 8 per Cent.;
Do. 6 per cent. 1867
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
0 10-nbian, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 8 per Cent., 1825........, —
Dawbian Principalities, 7 per Cent 79
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 92
Equador Now Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
Egyptian, 7 per Cent —
Da Ptecoad Issue •• •• 000000
Do. .£SOC Bonds
Do. 41.01.1 Bonds ••••• 86
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. #5OO Bonds
Do. 4100 Bonds 9O 891
Do. 7 per Cent., 1868
Government Railway Debentures lOO
Greek 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups.
Ds. Account .
Ds. Coupons
Pc Account
i.temftla 5 per Cent . —
HClnduras Gov Rail. Los n., 10p. Ct., all pd 86
Ittslian 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do. Account ... —
Do Maremmana Railway
Mexican 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account

Dn. 1864 —
Do 6 por Cont. Anglo-French
noutevidgau 6 per Cent.
Mccrish imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Do 3 per Con
Do. Deferred
Pe :avian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account BO/
Do 4 per Cent. (th :tarron)
Do 1 per Cent.. 1862 -
Do Account
Po-ttiguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'6U,'2.': 354.
Do. do. 1867

Do. do. Scrip, .£2O paid
Russian 5 ~er C0nt,,1822, S

Do 44 per Cent 1850
Do 4, per Cont., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do do, Scrip —
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1801, £lOO 80nd6., 90
Do. du. £B4 15s. do -
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 9Ol
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 65 i
Sardinian 5 pbr Cent —
Bpanish 3 per Con . —

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, June 221

The Queen, accompanied by his Royal High.
ness Prince Leopold and the Princesses, went out
in the grounds this morning.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—IIiS
Imperial Highness the Viceroy of Egypt, accompanied
by Nubar Pasha, Mustapha Bey, Abdul Kader Bey, Ratip
Bey, Lord Alfred Paget, Sir John Cowell, Colonel Staun-
ton, and Colonel Cavendish, honoured the Royal Italian
Opera with his presence last evening.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-71tis Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BETTING HOUSES AND THE POLlCE.—Thomas Haw-
kins, tobacconist, of No. 268 A, Oxford-street, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with keeping and using his house as
a betting-house, contrary to the 16th and 17th Viet. cap.
119, and Robert Scott, shirt-maker, of No. 15, North
Audley-street, was charged with being in the house.
Mr. Thomas Beard appeared for the defence.
Superintendent Dunlop, of the C division, having pro-
duced the warrant of the Commissioner.; of Police to enter
the house of Hawkins, said that on approaching the house
last night he saw Hawkins and Scott leaving. He told
them that he was a superintendent of police, and that they
must return to the house with him, and they did so, Haw-
kins handing Scott a letter from Newmarket, relating to
horses which had left there, and which Hawkins said he
had received from a friend. Ho then t.)14.1 Hawkins and
cott that they must consider themselves is custody,
and directed the officers within to search the place ; and
they did so, and the prisoners were taken to the station,
Inspector Morgan said that in a small box behind the
door in the shop parlour he found a subscription card of
the Beaufort Club, in the house of Thomas Hawkins up-
stairs a card of the same club, in the house of Wilson
some telegraphic message receipts, a memorandum book
with "Newmarket Craven" in it, and one memoranda re-
lating to telegraphic messages from Newmarket.
Police-sergeant Todman, C Division, proved finding a
card relating to the Marylebono Club, but there appeared
to be nothing in it relating to betting.
Police-constable Butcher, 137 0, proved going to Haw-
kins's shop with another man and asking the price of Bri-
gantine for the gold Cup at Ascot, and on being told that
it was 6s. to 45., backing it, and paying the money—two
sums of ss. each—in a public-house next door; the bets
being made in the name of Brown. Brigantine won, and
the next day they west and backed Romping Girl for the
Alexandra Plate after settling the previous bet, and Haw-
kins entered the bets in a book similar to tho..e used by
betting men.
Wm. Boyle, 77 X, proved going to Hawkins's shop and
asking the price of Brigantine, and afterwards stepping
out of the shop on to the pavement and backing it, and
Edward Stillmin, a young man, also proved backing
Brigantine with Hawkins.
Mr. Beard contended that there was no case against the
prisoner, the case being one of the weakest description.
It was not sufficient because a tradesman indulged in a
little betting that he was to be proceeded against under a
stringent act of Parliament and charged with keeping it
betting-hous-. He considered that the preselat was unlike
some of the cases which had lately been brought forward,
the n onl ;an nes for betting, and
that before the police took these proceoumg.
to have satisfied themselves there was sufficient evi-
dence to suppom t the charge.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said ho would take time to consider the
evidence before giving his decision as far as Hawkins was
concerned, but Scott would be discharged.