The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Consols are 93 2i 3i for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, —; Three per Cent. Reduced, 931 s ;
New 'Three per Cents, 931 a ; ditto 5 per Cent.,
Jan., 1873, 1031 ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per
Cent., —.

India Stock, 10 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1858, 1024 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 23
prem. ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 18 23 prem.
In the Foreign Market there has been a decline
of; to per cent. in Peruvian, Russian, Moscow-
Ihroslaw, Spanish, Turkish, and Charcow-Kce-
mentschug. The quotations are as follows :
Brazilian of 1865, 831 to 84 ; Chilian of 1867,
941 to 940 ; Egyptian of 1864, 87 to 88 ;
ditto:of 1868, 744 to 75 ; Italian of 1861, 571
to 56/ ; ditto Tobacco Loan, 51 to 6 prem. ;
Mexican, 151 to 15.1 ; Peruvian of 1865, 771
to 1; Russian of 1866, 921 to 931 ; ditto Nicolai,
67 to ; ditto Orel, 824 to 83 ; ditto Moscow, 801
to 804 ; ditto Charkof-Azof, 811 to / ; Charcow-
Krementschug, 81 to 1 ; Spanish of 1867, 311 to
; Turkish of ;1858, 671 to 68 ; ditto of 1862, 661
to 67 ;and ditto of 1865, 411 to 1.
In the railway market prices are firm, and are
quoted as follows :—London and North Western,
1201 tol ; Great Western, 531 to 1; Midland,
1241 to 1 ; London mid South Western, 91 to 93 ;
Great Eastern, 711 to 421 ; Brighton, 52 to 1,
ex div. ; South Eastern, 821 to 831 ; Metro-
politan, 1121 to 113.
In Miscellaneous Shares there has been a trifling
rise in General Credit, and in Bank Shares Orien-
ta: and Union of London have been dealt in at 431
and 361 respectively.
American 5-20 Bonds are 78 to 1, and Erie Rail-
way shares 25 to 1, showing a rise of 1.
The Holsatia, from New York, has brought
£107,000, and the Kangaroo, from Halifax, £1,060.
The Nyanza has taken £57,600 in specie for
B ornbay.
Messrs. Fruhliug and Goschen notify that the
Coupons due Ist March of the Egyptian Govern-
ment Loan of 1862, Ist and 2d issue, and the
Bonds drawn for same, will be paid on and after
that date.
Messrs. J. llenry Schroder and Co. announce
that the half-yearly dividend on the Charkow-
Krementschug Five per Cent. Loan will be paid on
and after the Ist March next.
The assignees of Messrs. Pedder, proprietors of
the Old Bank, Preston, who failed in April, 1861,
have announced another and final dividend of 7d.
In the pound, making a total payment to the cre-
ditors of 17s. 7d. in the pound. The liabilities of
the bank at the time of suspension amounted to
£638,287.
The half-yearly meeting of the Waterloo and
Whitehall Railway Company is called for the
26th inst. ; that of the Danube and Black Sea
Railway and Kustendjie Harbour Company
(Limited) for the same day ; that of the Metropo-
litan District Railway Company for the Ist of
March ; and that of the Furness Railway Com-
pany for the 26th inst.

An extraordinary general meeting of the Buenos
Ayres Great Southern Railway Company (Limited)
Is called for the 19th inst.

The first general meeting of the Brazilian Street
Railway Company will be held on the 22d inst.
The ordinary general meeting of the shareholders
and of the mortgagees of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway Company are called respectively
for the 25th and 2Gth inst.
At a meeting of the Alhambra Company (Li-
raited) a dividend was declared for the half-year at
the rate of 25 per cent. per annum.
A project has now been matured which promises
ultimately to bring to a successful issue the long-
continued and hitherto abortive efforts to establish.
a system of steam conveyance for goods and pas-
sengers on common roads. The fact that Mr
Thomas Page, the acting engineer to the names
Tunnel, under Mr. Brunel, and the constructor of
Westminster-bridge, is engineer to the company,
which has now been completely formed for
e.trrying out the enterprise, is sonic guarantee that
its details have been carefully considered. The
system adopted will be free from the objections
Which have hitherto obstructed the general exten-
sion of tramways, as tributaries of existing railways;
it will admit of the steepest gradients ever met with
being easily overcome by the engines to bo em-
ployed, and it will at once bring new traffic to these
railways, and develope industry and production,
Ilow stagnating for want of ready access to markets.
The journals by the last mail from the Pacific
Publish a long list of guano deposits on the islands
and coast of Peru, many of which were made
known to the Government some years back by a
?..?nor Landreau, and state that the Minister of
Finance has notified the appointment of a Commis-
sion, of which Senor Landreau is to be a member,
'43 examine and report upon them.
On the Ist instant the quotation of Eric Rail-
Way Shares was struck from the official lists of the
New York Board of Brokers, that company
Ting failed to comply with a rule adopted by the
Board of Brokers several weeks since, requiring
all railway companies to establish an open and
regular register of their shareholders—a rule to
Which the other leading lines are understood to
aave conformed.
Ia the Lancashire markets during the past week
some small failures among manufacturers, and un-
tleaaant rumours and anticipations of others, ha ye
"'according to the Manchester Guardian, rather
a depressing influence, which has been partially
counteracted by the steady character of the cotton
Market, where the slow way in which last year's
crops are coming forward creates anxiety about the
supply It is still asserted, however, by many per-
-Buns that the receipts are fallacious, as 'supplies are
stopped by bad roads, and by the capability of
Planters and speculators to hold back their cotton,
1.11 Consequence of the large profits made on that
they have already disposed of.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
. UOVERNMENT FUNDS.
' Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
NPer Cent. Reduced 931 I
I).evir 3 per Cent
".).,A' 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
A 'O. 5 per Con J an. 1873
-•4lluities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
1)0. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
D? (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
equor Bills, £l,OOO, 2i per Ct.
£5OO
£lOO & £2OO
liftrsti Dk
of England Stock, 4 per Cent
0 "0. account
1 Ig"lda 4 per Cent. Bonds —
or-Colonial °minium
1 "la UOVERNMENT SECURITIES
"la hock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
,0. Opening, for Account -
IT). 5 per
Oct
1880
-I,°. 4 pec Cent., Oct. 1888
'"0. Certificates
Ro• Enlaced Pape,. 4 per Cent
O. 6 per Cent., Jan. 1872
D°' Si per Cent. May 1879 —
ODo Pe; Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do, 1877 —
D • do. 1832 —
R'• Deb 5 per Cent., Au.. 1873 ~ —.,
oO- Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,000
.Under £l,000
rOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Aro.
elatlue Republic, 6 per Cent
....0 , .
Ultrian Bonds 5
A .t Scrip ..1:45 paid ..
_
per cent ..
63
at . Do. 1859
iyiliari per Cent _
12,°' 4} per Cent., 1852 —
U°°. do. 1858....
1)° d
1860 —
D0d0.,0.,
- U63 721
U° per Cent., 1865
k
__o Account B3II
'‘oB Ayres 6 per Cent.
e.:,,,,,.) 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
C,,, ,4', 6 Per Cent,
5,46 per Cent
Do,
4/ per Cent....
Jo% 8 per Cent.,
1-., • 6 per cent. 1867 941
C 1:* 7, Pcr Cent., 1866 -
Dal, :,,"4-1, 6 per Cent.
--
Dap. ,',. °P ,r Cent., 1825.., . • —
D
~. • • ~
) ~ -11 Principalities, 7 i,er Cent..., 7B
ily,ayl?r N evv-
-L,__ ' * per Cent., 1867 B3l
Uon.:•oliut ted, 1 per Cent
Bi.)!l4t!''-') 7 Per Cent
V
~,c.• 45ut 1 Sewed
%n Is6ue
, ds..
+Jo. 4100 Bonds B4l

Do. ; 1864
• Do. Account
Do. -4:500 Bonds

1)0. 4100 Bonds 591 90
English Scrip, 1868 75 41
Do do. £45 pd — dis
G oval-lime a l Rail way De ben ture.b —
Grce lc 5 per Cut., 1824 5, ex. Coups —
Do. Auccunr
t).,. ~,)uporlf7 -
Do. Account
3.1,1010a1s 5 per Cent .. —
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd
It +iiittn 5 per (..7'ert., 1863 ...
~)o. Account —
Do -MAremmana Railway 5Bl
••, can it per Cent —
Ditto for AcCount
iu., 1861 —
Do 1; per Cent. Anglo-French —
uontovidvan t; per Cent. • • —
go orish imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada lsi i
Do 3 per Cen —
Do. .Deferrad
Peruvian 5 per Ceni. 1805
Do Account
.• i ii
Do 41 per Cont. (Uribarren)
Du 4i per Cent.. 1862 -
Do Account
P ,rt • guess 3 per Ct., 1853,'6, 7,'9,'6u,'2.':
Do. do. 1567 361
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
ILissian 5 per Cent., 182 Z, .f.: St --
Do 41 per Cent . 18.50
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
D. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bondf.e, "
Do. do. £B4 los. do ,
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 93 k
Do. do £Bl 1.5 s do —
Do Nicolas Railway 671
Sarlinian 5 per Cent 72i
Spanish 3 per Cen .' .—
Do. Account —
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred —
Do. Account
Do. Passive —
Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868 ...
Do do, Scrip — p*.
Turkish 6 per Cent] .,... . —
~ . _ .

Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account
Do .£lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1E62 —
Do Account
Do .£lOO Bonds 674 8
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 —
DJ Account
Do 6 per Cont., 1860 64 5
Do 1 per Cent., Guaranteed
Do Lana Warrants (Hectares)
Venezuela 3 per Cant. —
Do. Ace. ant
Do 6 per Cent. 1804
i IDo 6 per Cent., 1862 -

- - -
Dividends on the above payanie iu
Austrmn o par Cent. Ex 10 Florins 52
Belgian, 44- per cent., Ex. 2sf.
Dutch 2 per (`Ant. Ex. 12 Gail„
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
Do. Account
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251.
jtqjjey, 5 per Cont. 1851, E. zsf.
Do Account s7i
CLOSING PRICES.
Janso's, Money
Do. Account, March 4 .. 93

BANK OF FRANCE.

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PARIS, Feb. 11.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.

Feb 11. Feb. 4.
fr. c. fr. c.
Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 0'
Reservo of the Bank

and its branches
Reserve of landed pro-
party 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
Banknotes to orderand
receipts payable at
sight
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor 134,047,963 43 133,185,966 58
Current accounts, Paris 2 )5,142,962 17 248,961,696 08
Do. branch banks 46,960,195 46,622,869
Dividends payable 1,825,089 2,074,792
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not

22,105,750 11 22,103,750 14

distributed
Sundries

35,395,122 40 34,949,794 47

933,790 85 933,790 85

7,523,021 23 9,346,817 76

Total

CREDITOR.
Feb. 11. Feb. 4.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr.
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis-

counted, not yet due 287,568,296 65 304,041,610 70
Do. branch banks 272,844,510 285,214,973
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks 6,937,180 3,608,500
Do. on French Public

Securities 13,603,700 13,640 600
Do. by branch banks 6,937,180 6,951,000
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Fencier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Government Stock re-
serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
lientea Lnmobalisees
(Law, Juno 2, 1857) 1C0,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Btoik and landed
propezty branches 8,970,665 8,965,864
Expenses of manage-
ment 263,207 54 256,778 84
Sundries

167 42

Total
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank
of France.

(Signed)

Ro ULAND.

TVESTMINSTER ELEC7 JON PETITION.

THIS DAY.

The hearing of the petition against Mr. W. 11. Smith
was resumed this morning before Mr. Baron Martin, in
the Court of Exchequer.
Mr. Bennett, being examined by Mr. Fitzjames Stephen,
said ho was the principal secretary of the London
and Westminster Working Men's Constitutional Associa-
tion. When Dayman returned the canvass-book to him
he made tables showing the results of them. The tables
so made were returned to Mr. Smith's central committee.
Ho knew Mr. Smith personally, but he had bad no
private conversation with him respecting the election.
Mr. Smith did not subscribe to the association during the
past twelve months. He subscribed £5O in March, 1868,
and £lO some time before. The association had £2O in
hand at present, but as more than that sum was due to
him as secretary, they had practically no available
funds.

By Baron Martin—Part of the committee rooms wore
closed after the election.

Examination continued—Mr. Ford, Mr. Smith's solici-
tor, subscribed £3O. Captain Armstrong, who was an
agent for Mr. Smith, gave £25, and Mr. Malcolm, who
acted as agent, subscribed XI There were also subscrip-
tions of £5 each from Mr. J. S. Pakington, Mr. Stephen
Lewis, and blr. Charles Freeman, all of whom were
on the committee. Mr. Cubitt, the vice-chairman of
Mr. Smith's committee, subscribed £lO ; Mr. Watney,
£lO ; Mr. Lethbridge (Mr. Smith's partner), £lO ; Sir
William Farquhar, £5 ; Mr. J. L. Elliott, a guinea ; and
the Duke of Manchester two guineas. With the exception
of the Duke of Manchester they were all members of the
committee, and the amount subscribed by them and others
in January and February was £43 Bs., of which only 2s.
came from working men.

Baron Martin (addressing Mr. Stephen)—How long do
you think this case will last ?
Mr. Stephen—My lord, I am quite in the dark about it.
Baron Martin—Yes, I know that, and that is why I ask

you.
Mr. Stephen —This gentleman in the box will probably
finish to-day. That is all I can say abaut it.
The court adjouttaed at the usual hour. •