The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Consols are higher to-day, at 92i I for money ;
ditto, for Ac:ount, —; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 92} ; New Three per Cents, 921 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 2-pm. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO,
and £(00, 2 dis. ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per
Cent., —.

India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 2114 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1004 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4
per Cint., 914.
The Foreign Market is in no maL.ri.ll particular
altered since last night. The following prices are
now current :—Argentine, 811 to 814 ; Egyptian
(1861), 87i to 881; ditto (1868), 78 to 74; Ita-
lian, 561 to 56; ; Mexican, 121 to 121; Orel, 80
080 ; Charkof, 78 to 781.
In railways, the charges of to-day comprise a
rise of 1 in Great Northern and London and South
Western ; 4 in Caledonian, and -4, in Metropolitan
and Great 'Western ; a fall of in South E istern,
Midland, London and North %Vcstern, and Great
Eastern.

American Securities are in moderate demand, and

prices generally are firmer.

Unitied States Five.

Twenty Bonds and ditto Ten-Forty Bonds are each
higher, the former being dealt in at 801 to 808,
and the latter at 711 to 72. Illinois are I better, at
94 to 95; and Erie Shares at I, at 19- to 20.
Bank shares have been without feature, business
being very quiet.
Among Miscellaneous Securities the dealings are
very trifling, and no material alteration is marked
in prices.

The sum of £47,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.
The Shannon, from the West Indies, has brought
£92,000 in gold and £139,537 in silver, and the
Allernania, from New York, £51,280.
The Liverpool Journal of commerce states that
Cork advices received on Saturday mentioned the
failure of a large milling establishment in that
county. The liabilities are thought to be LlO,OO 0
From Peru it is stated that the loading of the
guano at the Guanape Islands is going on, and that
the Commissioners recently sent thither to report
upon its quality and other points have returned
with the announcement that the greater part of the
deposits will compare favourably with those from
the Chincha Islands.

According to the Panama Star, the news of the
loan for £500,000 (nominal) having been nego-
tiated in London had been received with general
satisfaction in Guatemala, " as the Government can
now undertake and complete several contemplated
public works of importance." The agricultural
prospects of the State were good, the cochineal crop
especially being abundant.

The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of £2,040 over last year, and
the Brighton a decrease of £560.
The traffic return of the Great 'Western Railway
of Canada for the week ending the 11th instant
shows an increase of £2,483 over the corresponding
week of last year.
The following are the traffic returns of the Mel-
bourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway for the
four weeks ending the 22d April :—For week ending
April 1, 1869, £3,523 ; corresponding week, 1868,
£3,419 ;, for week ending April 8, 1869, £2,375 ;
corresponding week, 1868, £2,113 ; for week ending
April 15, 1869, £2,247; corresponding week, 1868,
£2,245, for week ending April 22, 1869, £1,787 ;
corresponding week, 1868, £1,851.

The mail from South Australia brings advices to
the 26th of April. The Northern Territory question
still engages attention, and Port Dawson is now, it is
said, represented to be au El Dorado. The surveys
are rapidly advancing, and the pioneers will soon be
expected back. But the question who is to colonize
this tropical territory still apparently remains un-
answered. With regard to the legal contention, the
discontented land-order holders are denounced as
" obstructive, vexatious, and unreasontble in the
extreme," and a course of colonial litigation, ulti-
mate), to be carried to the Pi ivy Council, where the
Government have " conti knee that they wi!l be
able to wake out a good case against the present
cl&inants," seems to be fol%s!iadowed. The South
Australian Mining Association (Burnt Barra) has
been reccmstiiutcd. The proposal is to regard the
present capital of £12,323 in 2,46-1 shares of 1:5 each
as equiv,tlent to £61,6000 ; or, in other words, that
every holds of one share is to hav,c five .hares in
the new concern, and that further shares be issued
to bring up the capital to £lOO,OOO. There is to
be a regist.er of shares in Loudon, and an English
Board of advice. The colonial revenue for the
first quarter of 1869 had amounted to £184,387,
and the expenditure to £206,382. The expendi-
ture during 1868 on public works was £244,052,
of which £201,110 was borrowed. Wheat is quoted
4s. 11d. per bushel ; flour, £l3 per son. The
banks sold their draughts on London at 60 days
sight at 1i per cent. pin., and bought at 1 per cent.
discount.

At the meeting yesterday of the Anglo-American
Telegraph Company (limited) the directors' report
was adopted, and a dividend of 17a. per share de-
clared, making, with the interim dividends already
announced, a total payment of 475. for the year
ending April last. The chairman stated that the
average receipts have gone on increasing satisfac-
torily, and he expressed a belief that the company
has nothing to fear from the competition of the
ench undertaking. He added that with the re-
duced tariff there will be a large increase in the
number of messages, and that a very satisfactory
arrangement had been come to with the Postmaster
General with regard to the transmission of roes-
sages.

BRITISH FUNDS-TWO O'ULOOK.

GOVERNMENT FUND!.
° poi Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
8 per Cont.. Reduced 921 }
New 3 per Cent
New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Ceti J an. 187 3
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. bar 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 -
Do (lied Sea Televaphl, Aug., 1908 —
Exc.:lmp:lr Bills' £l,OOO, 24 & 3 per Ct
Do £lOO, £2OO & £5OO 4 d
Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent
~,. p opening openinr, —
va'aada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Intor-Colonial Uranium
, INDIAN dOVEItNMENT SECURITIL6
India (rock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 Shut
Do. Opening, for Account —
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 pec Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Pape, 4 per Cent..,... 9ll
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ....,,, —
Do. 51 per Cent. May 1879
Di 5 per Cont., Rup. Deb. 1872
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882

D.,. Deb., 5 por Cent., Aug. 1873 .„
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cont., £l,OOO
Do. under £l,OOO
FOREIGIN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
A.rgentiue Republic, t por Cent
1.0 Arian Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859 67
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. If per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do. 1858
_. _ , ••••

Lto. do. 186 )
Do. . do., 1863 —
Do. 5 Per Cent., 1865
bo Account
-Ls co;os Ayres 6 per Cont.
DJ 2 por Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) --
~.,C),t, 6 pep. Cent.
v..itian 6 per Cent
00. 4i per Cent...,... -.
Do. 3 per. Cent.,
l'e. 6 per coat. 1867
l'o. 7 per Cent., 186 G
0 10 nbian, 6 per Cent.
Danisn 3 per Cent., 1825
Danni inn Principalities, 7 ler Cent BOl
Do 8 per Cent., 1867
1'
,qua for New (Jon ielidated, 1 per Cent
'E'y viiaD, 7 per Cent.... •••
°'c Second Issue - —
Jo. £so(. Bonds —
De, 4.100 Bonds • ••••

Du. 1,464
Do. Account
Do. .C,OO 'Bonds
Do. I,IOC Ponds --
no. 7 yer Cent., 1868
Government Railway Debentures. 991
wreck 5 per eclat., 1824 5, ex Coups —
Lie. Account . •--
uo. Coupons
~, Do. Account
vr.uttetziale. 5 per Cent e, " -

Do Account
Do 41 per Cent. (Ur:'-)arron)
Do 4-1 per Cent.. 1862 .............
Do Account
eort 3 per Ct.,183:, '6, 7,
Do. do. 1'67 • -
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Russian 5 er Cent., 1822, £St
Do 4} per Cent 1850
Do 4} per Cent.., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do do, Scrip
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bondh.,
Do. do. £B4 15s. d 0...,
Do., Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds
Do. do £B4 13s. do —
DJ Nicolas Railway 65 -1:
Sardinian per Cent
Spanish 3 per hen .
Do. Account
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred ,
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded ...
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Turkish 6 pQr Cent..
Do Account
Do 6 prr Cent. 1858
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 7O
Do 6 per Cent., 186'2
Do Account
Do £IOC Bonds 69 -;41
Do 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1860
DJ I per Cent., Guaranteed
Warrants (hectares) ......
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent.' 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1861
Dividends on the above payable iu London
tiustrtan o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins -
Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2} per (`Put,. Ex. 12 Gni!
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
.
Do. Account
French lientes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 23f.
ItAlian 5 per Cent. 1831, 2sf.
Do Account

29i 9
291

TWO O'CLOCK.
OJnsols, Money 921 xd
Do. Account, July 7

THE LATE RIOTS IN FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.

Yesterday Paris had entirely resumed its accustomed

appearance. The crowd which always throngs the capital
on Sunday circulated on the boulevards and in the other
frequented parts of the city, hut nowhere was there to
be found the slightest trace of the agitation of the pre-
ceding days. At Belleville and Menilmontant there
was not even a crowd, except at the entrance of one street,
and this was composed chiefly of women. The autho-
rities, however, have not relaxed their vigour. The
Ili:veil continues to be seized, accusations of circulating
false news or exciting to hatred and contempt are preferred
against numerous writers, several of the provincial papers
are in trouble, and a very fair proportion of the Paris
populace is in gaol.
The Monde assures us that we shall speedily know all
about the riots ; the authorities have got possession of
important papers containing some exceedingly curious
revelations, and the thread of this complicated affair
will soon be unwound. The Monde says it is already
proven that these disturbances were not the work
of chance, that they were not got up by roughs for the

mere 'sake of mischief, they were organised on a well
studied plan, persistently recommenced every evening,
and carried out by paid agents. The Patrie supports this
statement. It, too, asserts that there has been a large
seizure of papers, but that the inquiries of the authorities
are not yet complete. Both journals ridicule the notion
that the disturbances were got up by the Government.
What had Imperialism to gain by creating a row of this
kind? they ask ; but the difficulty is to divine who
possilly could profit by the riots, unless it were the
roughs who received payment for their agreeable
services. It is possible that the adherents of
Rochefort may have been guilty of these miserable
enzeutes ; but Rochefort must have known that by
countenancing such outbreaks he would destroy for ever
his hope of sitting in the Corps L6gislatif, of which he has
still, barring insurrection, a very good chance, lle has
already been chosen the Red candidate for the reddest of
the Paris circumscriptions—the first, vacant by Gambetta's
election for Marseilles. Moreover, the journal identified
with him has discountenanced the riots, if that be worth
anything.

Awaiting the result of these promising investigations,
we may safely assume that the Parisians, as a people,
have had nothing to do with these disturbances. The
earlier tumults on Monday and Tuesday were rather
agreeable than otherwise. They were a novelty. After so
many years of complete tranquillity, the Parisians were
pleased to have a little rioting, and they accordingly
flocked in crowds to the Boulevard Montmartre and
other standpoints. People may, however, have too much
of a good thing. One or two nights' rioting was all very
well ; but four nights of this dangerous sport, culminating
as it did in the wan ton mischief of Thursday, was decidedly
too much. "On Thursday night," says the Ditat6 " the
pi' lie began to he tired of the same spectacle renewed for
three successive days, and then disquietude beset many
people. It was rumoured that energetic measures were
about to be adopted to repress the disturbances. The fact was
known that during the day the police had emptied the
gunmakers' shops, even in the quarters most distant from
the tumult. A regiment of cuirassiers had arrived from
Versailles. The whole day masses of people had succeeded
each other on the boulevards, where the traces of the
violence committed on the preceding night caused a
painful impression. Seen in the broad day and in cool
blood, these damages, at which the people laughed the
previous evening, no longer amused anybody. In short,
half from weariness, Paris had enough of disturbance.
Thus the arrival of the cavalry on the Boulevard was very
well received, and the pavement was cleared without
resistance. The crowd would very willingly have aided
the soldiers if the few agitators scattered amongst the
groups had shewn any disposition to resist."

This is a very fair history of the week's proceedings
To many of the inhabitants these riots were no joke from
the beginning. They were far from being fun in the eyes
of the poor people whose kiosks were overturned, or of the
cafti proprietors who were obliged to close at a time when
their most remunerative business commences. And they
are certainly no sport to the multitudes of miserable
mortals who are now in prison, many of them
having committed no offence beyond that of
looking on. Evidence that the respectable classes
rapidly grew disgusted with the whole affair
is abundant. It is a fact that there is now lying at the
Bourse Police Commissary's a petition, signed by 800
persons, prayine to be enrolled as special constables after
the English fashion. A letter is published in one of the
Liberal papers from twenty-eight householders of Belle-
ville and Menihnontant, declaring that the people of their
quarter were actuated by no seditious spirit, that the
A Ithurities made no real effort to put a stop to the distur-
bances, which, these householders do not hesitate to say,
were got up to throw discredit upon the Socialists. I may
further remark that, on Sunday night, when a mob of
men in blouses came up in the nue du Faubourg Mont-
martre, the inhabitants at once came out and ordered them
off, calling up some sergents-de-ville. Some arrests effected
just then shewed the motive of, at least, some of the
rioters. Many of them, poorly clad, had large sums of
money on their persons. The damages caused to the
kiosks, the markets, and the shops during the late riots
is estimated at £2,400. But to this must be added
the losses incurred at the cafes and other establishments
on the boulevards, closed about eight o'clock, and thus
deprived of the sale necessary to meet their enormous
expenses. These people, you may be sure, are very little
disposed to revolution.
Worst of all has been the fate of the miserable wretches
who have been hurried off to different places of
confinement. The estimates differ considerably; but the
Patrie, a semi-otficial paper, puts the total number of
arrests in round numbers at 1,100 ! This captive
army is confined in the Fort of Bicetre, situated
to the south of Paris. It is not easy to get admission -
to the stronghold, but some gentlemen cf the press have
been there, and bring bank the general impression that the
prisoners are very uncomfortable, and that many who
have paid thus dearly for no offence worse than curiosity
are very miserable. The fort is overcrowded with
such a number, and those who have been con-
fined several days are in a state of great prostration.
Domiciliary visits and arrests continue to be made. A
member of Gambetta's electoral council, 111. May, presi-
dent of the electoral meetings at the Salle Molkre, and
numerous writers and students, have been carried off from
their homes.

A disturbance which took place at St. Etienne was
somewhat serious. In this neighbourhood a band of miners,
about 200 in number, went about from place to place in
the basin of the Loire on Friday, and speedily got up a
great strike. Men left work in all directions, instigated,
apparently, by the rumour that a great- rebellion had
taken place in the large towns. They made no demand for
increased salary, or other requests of the kind. They
committed grave excesses Gn Friday and the following day,
but troops were sent for, and the news of order in Paris
soon put an end to this singular riot.

The Due de Persigny's letter "To a Statesman" is the
subject of comment in almost all the, journals, and almost
all express the same opinion upon it. The Duke rightly
says that reforms are wanting, but he does not indicate in
any way the precise change which he thinks best; nor
does he mention a single statesman who might enter into
Ulm 99mPositi94 9f tbeTnew Cabinet,

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