The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-31 00:00:00

CONEY `MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Consols are dull to-clay, at 941 for money;
ditto, for Acc)unt, 93! ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 921; New Thee per Cents, 921 ; Exchequer
Bills £l,OOO, par; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO,
par; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.
India Stock, 10i per Cent., April, 1874, 2121 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 100 i ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4
per Cent., 92 ; ditto 5 per Cent., 105 ; ditto
Bonds under £l,OOO,
AR was to be expected from the continued un-
settled weather, both English and foreig❑ wheat is
1)-day is to 2s dearer than this day week.
Fortign stock are considerably firmer, prices in
most instances showing an improvement. Danu-
bian is higher, at 76 to 77, and the Eight per
Cent. is quoted at 89 to 90. Egyptian 1864, and
do. Railway Debentures, are also better ; the for-
mer Ling marked at 86 to 87, and the latter at
99 to 100.
In American Secutitie7, Unitei States Five-
Twenties are I hetttr, at 791 to 79i. Erie Shares
are also a higher, at 181 to 19. Illinois are with-
out change, at 95 to 96.
Beyond a slight improvement in Caledonian, the
changes in railways are rather adverse as compared
With the unofficial close on Saturday.

No change whatever has occurred in the prices of
Bank Shares. Agra are 101 10; ; Alliance, 13 14 ;
Anglo-Austrian, 18 19 prem. ; Chartered Mercan-
tile, 31 32 ; Consolidated, 41 4k ; Imperial Bank,
15i 16+ ; Imperial Ottoman, 21 21 prem. ; Lon-
don and County, 50 to 51 ; London and Westmin-
ster, 62f to 63/ ; Oriental, 41 to 42 ; London Joint
Stock, 31 to 32 ; and Union of London, 341 to 35i.
Lombardo-Venetian Railway Shares aru uual-
tered, at 19 to 191, and Great Luxemburg are 94
to 10.
Credit Shares are quiet. The prices are :—Na-
tional Discount 11- to International Finance,
2to 1 dis. ; and General Gredit, 2 to 1{ dis.
Anglo-American Telegraph Shares are quoted
24 to 21/, and Hudsons Bay, 121 to 12g.
The sum of £55,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank on Saturday, including 25,000 sovereigns
front Egypt.
The Douro, at Lisbon, from Brazil, brings
14,500.

It is to be hoped, from the currency discussion of
Thursday evening, that the Government intend in
future to act upon the principle laid down by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, that it is no part of
their business to provide, either during panics or at
any other time, for means of " accommodating the
mercantile community," or to assist the Bank in
getting up " storm signals." Mr. Lowe stated that
Government do not interfere with the conduct of
any business other than banking, and he rightly
points out that there is no ground for an exception
bung made in that case, although perhaps the
anticipation that might thus be raised as to the
Prospects of a wiser course for the future may be
clamped by their persistence in constituting them-
selves bankers for the humbler classes, and their
recent attempt to extend their operations in this
!lull up to the level of persons having £3OO of float-
ing cash on hand. But, as a new panic may cer-
tainly be expected in 1876, it is important, before
the memory of the last one has died out, that the
nation should come to an understanding as to
whether they will sanction the views thus laid down,
or whether we are to go on upon the plan that
whenever the consequences of wild speculation fall
upon us the commercial community, instead of re-
lying upon the exercise of their own intelligence for
the best method of dealing with it, are to depend
Upon aid from Downing-street.

The tone of affairs in the Produce Markets is not
very satisfactory. The late tendency to animation
has quite disappeared, and there is now a gradual
process of reaction. Large losses are being made
on a variety of imported articles, and the sales
effected coutinu3 to show increased depreciation.
The late failures in the tallow and oil trades indi •
eat.; the consequences of the late movements in
price. At the same time the fall in grain, with the
depression in hops, likewise mark the unsatisfactory
state of things in those depactments. If the rates
of money should however only continue moderate
we may yet experience a recovery.
A general meeting of shareholders in the Suez
Canal Company is called for the 21 of August at

The liquidators of the. West London Wharves
and Warehouses Company (Limited) have an-
nounced a second dividend at the rate of ss. in the
Pound on the amount of the claims which have been
admitted.

The City Officeis Company (Limited) have given
notie,e that the debentures which are not to be ex-
changed for bonds of the new issue of £200,000
will be paid off, with the coupon due the Ist of
July.

The Manchester Courier states that at a meet-
ing of the creditors of Messrs. Carter and Garth-
Waite, Manchester warehousemen, of London, held
at the Clarence Hotel, in Manchester, on Saturday
afternoon, a composition of 83. in the pound was
accepted, payable in ono sum. The liabilities do
net exceed £B,OOO.
It is understood that Mr. Baxter has returned
to his official duties at the Admiralty from an in-
spection of the dockyards at Pembroke and Devon-
Port, and that an entirely new system in the manner
Of Obtaining and selling stores is expected shortly
to be inaugurated.
The following, with regard to the Anglo-Austrian
fonds, is from the Cauncil of Foreign Bondholders:
"Lord Clarendon has informed the Council of
Foreign Bondholders that the Austrian Government
have declared their inability to depart, in favour of
foreign bondholders, from the law imposing the com-
pulsory conversion of the Austrian debt, and that
it is imperative on them to utilize every source Gf
revenue to bring the country through its pecuniary
embarrassment, and they argue that if the foreign
bondholders were desirous of disposing of their
Austrian paper they have had more than one oppor-
tunity of doing so to great advantage. The Coun-
cil of Foreign Bondholders has therefore called a
meeting of Anglo-Austrian bondholders, to be held
at the London Tavern on Thursday nest at 12
O'clock precisely, for the purpose of appointing a
committee of Anglo-Austrian bondholders, to be
charged with authority to take the nccessary mea-
sures for the protection of the bondholders' late-
-1'04."

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
▪ GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
. Ditto
Cent. Consols
I.)itto for Account, - I
31,1 Per Cent. Reduced 9i
."7 3 per Cent
•al evr 2i per Cant. Jau. 1894
D° per Con .1 sn. 1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880,
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 --
FD o (Rod Sea Televaphl. A ug., 1908 --
4hequ-_,r Bills, £l,OOO, 2/ k 3 per Ct —
Do £l6O, X 201,, & .£5OO —
Bank of England Stock, 44 per Cent
0,-• opening
'-'alada 4 por Cent. Bonds —
14ter-Colonial Onannun
India GOVERNMENT
Apr 11
stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874... 2124
110. Opening, for Account
;Jo. 5 par Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 pee Cent., Oct. 1888
o. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Papa, 4 per Cent...„ 92
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ....,.r. lO5
!"3. 54 per (1-'nt. May 18-N
DJ 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872
Do do 1877
Do, do. 1882 —
I!:-• Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ —
uo. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
1)0. ur:der £l.OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSINC :PRICES.
Ar, •
,eutine Republic, t per Cent .....
luitrian Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859 —
rizilian 5 per Cent —
,--11. 44 per Cent. 1852 —
"„0- do. 1858....
'Jo. do. 1861
Do. do 1863
ko. 5 per *bent., 1865
B 140 Amin o-
81
Tenet; Ayres 6 per Cent.
,„t D,4 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont )
idea, per Cent.
"Wan 6 Cent —
/)0. 44 per Cent.,tt 1044

Russian, 5 par Cent., 1822, .£ St
Do 4} per Omit . 1850
Sar.linian 5 per Cent -
Spanish 3 per Con .
Do. Account
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferrou
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
!-, Do Government, 1864
liDo do, 1868
Turkish 6 per Cent..
Do Account
(.'o 6 ptr Cent. 185 ti
Do Account.
Do-£lOO
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Do .£10( Pow'.
Do 5 per °cut. 1865
DJ Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1860 66i }
Do # per Cent., Guaranteed.
)0 I.6r.kt Warrsutb (I lectures)
Venezuela 3 per Cent.....
Do. Ace. nut
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in Loadou
Austrian o per (lent. Ex 10 Florins ...
Belgien, 4-i per cent., Ex. 2 if.
Dutch i*rer 12 Gull,
Do. 4 per Cent. Certillcatob
Do. Account
wrench Routes, 3 uer Cent., Ex •:6f.
!Winn b per Cent. 1831, Ea..
Do Account s6i }
TWO O'CLOCK.

67f
691

Jonsols, Money 9Bl f
Do. Account, June 1 931

'POLICE INTELLIGEIVCE.-7his Day.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—Salvador Russo, an Italian
bootmaker, was charged before Mr. Tyrwbitt with at-
tempting to set firo to the dwelling-house of Mr. George
Cronange, professor of languages, No. 38, Gerrard street,
Soho.

Mr. Cronange said that on Wednesday last he put the
broker into Om priconor'ra room, tlao priconor u-rrias
five mouths' rent ; but afterwards, on the prisoner promis-
ing to go away he withdrew the broker, and told him that
he would not touch his things, and would give him 2s.
Subsequently tho prisoner asked him to let him stay a
little longer, and he allowed him to do so, and for a day
or two the prisoner kept up a constant annoyance by
throwing his lasts about the room.

Mr. Cronange said the prisoner threatened to cut his
throat, and then set to hammering the door with a last.
On Saturday night he (Mr. Cronange) went out for a short
time, and on returning home found the street in an uproar,
persons saying the house Ras on fire. He got a constable
and wont to the prisoner's room, and got the door partly
open, and then received a volley of lasts and kottles, and
on getting into the room found a heap of paper burning in
the middle of the floor, and a number of matches lying
about the room. At the station the prisoner again threat-
ened to have his life, and said that why Le made the fire
was because he was cold.
The prisoner, who behaved in a very excited manner,
said he had a charge 10 make against the complainant.
Mr. Ty rwhitt told him that he would first have to
answer the charge preferred against himself.

Some other evidence having been given, the prisoner,
whose mind is evidently affected, was remanded.

WESTMINSTER.

John Cutler, a man of most repulsive appearance, was
charged with the following outrageous conduct :
William Coombos, porter at Chelsea Workhouse, said
that defendant was admitted into the tramp ward on Sa-
turday night and maintained until this morning. At half-
past 7 witness found him in bed, and told him he must get
up. Defendant refused, and said he was ill. Witness
told him that he must got up and go to the next ward,
where he would sae the doctor, and in older to
iudu:e h:m to get up pulled the rug off the bed. Defen-
dant immediately said he would go before a magistrate,
and jumping out of bed rushed through a passage where
ho seized a shovel, and having raced round and knocked
complainant down with it, he then 'struck him in the
face, discoloured his eye, and made his mouth and nose
bleed.

Mr. SeHe committed defendant for two months' to the
House of Correction.

T lIAMES.

THE VICISSITUDES OF A WIFE.—Mr. Turner, solicitor, of
Leadenhall-street, came before before Mr. Paget with a
married woman, named Susannah Clarke, who wanted a
protection order to preserve her goods, chattels, and money
from her husband, who had abandoned her. She was the
daughter of Mr. John James llarris, watchmaker and rate
collector, of Upper East Smith:l:ld. Ile was a somewhat
eccentric individual, or as Mrs. Turner described him, the
exkraordinary Mr. Harris. On a former day Mrs. Clarke
gave a somewhat confused and rambling account of the
property left by her father, and that she had becJrno a
seamstress, afterwards living in a good house, with comforts
about her, was dreadfully ill-usel by her husb.►ad when
he could not get possession of her property, ab•tndoued by
'aim and driven with her children lute the Mile-ead Wc,rk-
house. The guar liaus compelled him to take her out of
the workhouse, and the estate was about to be wouni up.

Me. Fart said it appeared the woman gut her living and
maintained hur family by her own exertions, and as she
was likely to coma into possession of property after the
29th of September next he would grant Ler an order of
protection to commence at once.

QUEENS THEATRE.

On Saturday a drama from the pen of Mr. Bur

nand, in four acts and eight tableaux, founded on
Mrs. Edwards's novel, " The Morals of Mayfair,"
entitled " The Turn of the Tide," was produced at
this theatre, and, we should have been pleased to
have added, with great success ; but the extreme
length of the play, and the dullness of the writing,
induced the audience to received the piece with
but very questionable approval. It must not be
inferred there was not an abundance of applause ;
quite the contrary, the friends of the parties inte-
rested in the success of the piece kept their
hands in almost continual motion, and shouted
loudly enough at the end of the acts for
the " author," but notwithstanding theca exer-
tions of the .lacquers the piece cannot be said to
be a success. We regret the circumstance, because
the management had spared neither expense nor

trouble in mounting the play, and, if we must
speak the plain truth, the scenery was about the
best thing in the;piece. The ladies' dresses were par-
ticularly dashing and numerous, but, making every
allowance for the absurdity of fashion, they
were rather in advance of May Fair, and
it is rather questionable whether they will serve
the purpose of the advertising West-end milliner
who produced them. The plot of the play turns
upon the unfortunate marriage of Phillip Earns-
cliffe, the adopted son of an Indian millionaire, with
the daughter of a ruined nobleman. The marriage
is in the first instance brought about by the mother
of the girl, who does not mind sacrificing the
happiness of her child, provided she, the mother,
does not suffer Liao inc.)nrenierie4 of runniwz short
of cash. After the ceremony Phillip Earnscliffe
and his wife reside with Lord and Lady Temple-
more, and thus the aristocratic lady gets com-
mand of the " ways and means." Of course the
union results in wretchedness to both, a separation
takes place, Phillip goer to Brittany, where he
meets with Margaret Ashton, and they become
lovers. Phillip tells Margaret, when it is too late,
the exact position of his affairs; a parting takes
place, and after a lapse of time Margaret accepts
the offer of an elderly gentleman who has been
her guardian after the death of her father. The

acceptance of the offer brings on an Hines; and.
Margaret's marriage is thus delayed. Phillip has
gone to Switzerland, and whilst there ho witnesses
an accident to an English traveller. The carriage
falls over a precipice, and the unfortunate inmate '
who is killed is Phillip's wife. This circumstance
sets Phillip free, the guardian of Margaret forgoes his
claim on her hand, and after un!eard-of difficulties
and suffering Phillip and Margaret are married. The
artistes engaged in the performance of the play did
all that was possible for their respective parts, but
none had a character to represent that male the
slightest call on their talents. Mr. Vezin was Phil-
lip and Miss H. Hodson Margaret. Two bet-
ter actors there does not exist on the stage,
but the words put into their mouths were
twaddle from h,ginning to end. Mr. Clayton,
another good actor, had a slight part, a friend of
Phillips', and Mr. Ryder played the guardian of
Margaret. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews and
Miss Larkin helped to strengthen the caste, but the
only result arrived at was a very questionable
success.
The scenery was exceedingly beautiful. We sin-
cerely hope that the tide of non, success will soon
turn at the Queen's, and that we shall in a short
time have plays worthy the acknowledged talents of
the excellent company which the management has
now banded together.