The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1.69.

JOINT-STOCK 11 ANKS.

Closing Business
Share _ NAME. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 10-.1 111
19 Dj B lO 31 4/
50 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, dim all 201 211 21k
t
20 Anglo-Uungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 5 4
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columhia all 101 11
20 Do issued at 2 pin ~.. 5 b 4
•
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, dim.
25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39
10 Bank of :\ ew Zealand all Ii 17 ' 6
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, nd China all 13 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India.

London, and China all 32 33
20 City lO 11. 12
100 Colonial 25 36 4)
10 Consolidated, lint.
50 Delhi and London, lint „, 25 ... ...
50 East London, lint 5 2j 11
20 English and American, liin 10 ... ...
20 English Baia: of lila do .1 a-
m:3lr°, lint
20 English, . coltish, and Aus-

traliau Chartered
28; Hung Kong aril Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 36 33
281 Do new 5l 21 21
100 Imperial, lim 2O 15 16 161
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 21 21 134 I
‘5 lonian
25 Do new 5 6 3
Lnd Mortgage of India, Ihu 4 31 31
100 Do 5 p. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 76 SO
100 London Banki of Mexico
and South America, lira. 20 7 6
100 Londonand Brazilian, lim. 45 30 27
20 Do new 71 5 41
100 London & River Plate, lira. 40 6 8
25 Do new 10 11 2 p 12
20 London Chart. of Australia all 233 211 221
20 London and County 2O 491 501
50 Do new. iss at 20 p.m,16 pd ll ... ..
London Joint Stock 1 3l! 321
London and South African al 13: 9
100 London & S.-Western, line, 20 13 11
50 London & Venezuela, kin l2l . ...
100 London and Westminster 2O 61 62 531 71
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O
100 Merchant, km 25 6j 5
10 Metropolitan, lim all 71 71
00 Midland, 1am...... 2O 11 i
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lien l5 30 1p
00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ...
10 Do
50 National. 3O ... ..
20 New South Wales all 41 43
20 North-Western 7l
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42
50 Provinc.l3ank.Corpo., km lO 61 51
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 9a 92
10 Do new.. all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, Jim 25 11 11
100 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 6.. 6
25 Union of Australia all - 46
100 Union of Ireland, Um
50 Union of London

all GI 17

15 24- :15

TELEG NAP II COMPANIES.

10 :Anglo-American Tel:, lun all ill '2-1 21.1
10 Anglo Mediter Te1.,1ita.... i 0 151 16 51 I
st Atlantic Telegraph lO 20 25
st Do. 8 per cent.
st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., Rm lOO 172 177
st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 262 2 7
10 Do. Now 8 12 14p
25 Indo-European Tel., lim lO
5 Loud. Provincial Tel. lint all 31 4
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all A 1p
10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., lint all 6 7 51
25 Reuter's Telegram all 72 71. 74 31
20 Societe Transatlant, lira all 24 2sl 211 '2
st Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all 11 1f
20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,hut all 26 •-1 251, 6
5 U. Kingdom Tel. Co., hm all 64 7
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 4 p

MISCELLANEOUS,

u-3
Agriculturallexiu-lli
201 191 171
221055 AAug
Australiantisti
Finance, lint.
10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lint 3 5.1
10 Berlin Water Works, lint all 141 11}
ralian Mort. Laud and
10 Do. New all 1:11 141
100 Bolchow Vaughan, lint.
5 Bombay Gas, lim.
5 Do. New ' 4 11 Id
5 t British American Laud 4l 15 17
20 British Indian Tea, lint all 21 31
20 British Ship Owners 7'
29 Canada Company , all 66 70
10 Canadian Loan and Invest-
ment, lim 2l .. ...
20 Ceylon Compaq, has lO :1 24d
20 Do. A shares
10 City Discount, has 6
25 City of London Real Pro-
-9 51 41,1
25 City of Moscow Gas, lint all
30 Cite-rotry'Mlii'llian Improv. Ihn all 6 6
50 City Offices, Um 25 21 23 si 121
50 Colonial, lint.
Do.
50 Commercial `inion (Assai) 5 pr i p
10 Company of African Mer-
chants, lint.
20 Continental Union Gas, lim all 23 24
25 Copper Miners*of England,
prof 71 per cent.
100 Corporation of London
Bonds, 1877, 4) per cent. all 1031 1041
100 Do. 1579, 4 i per cent. all 104; 1051
100 Do. 1882, 4; per cent. all 103 104
10 Credit Fou. of England, Rm. all 21 21 2 9-11
50 Credit Fon.of Mauritius lint. 10 31 24 t
at Crystal Palace lOO '22 94
at Do. Preference lOO 92 97
at Do. 6p. c Petpetual Deb. 109 IoS 110
20 Darjeeling, lint.
I 0 Eastern Assam, hut. 64
...
...,1
50 East Indian Laud Credit
and Finance, lint. ......
2U East India Irriga. & Cams' all .. ..
32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and
Coal, lim.
100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy.
Gua. by Egypt. Gov all 97 98
20 Egyptian Coin. & Trad. lint. 9 .. ..
3 Eug. & Aust rat. Copper, Lim 23 4 t
15 English and Foreign Credit 73 4,1 3,1
100 Eng. and Seat. .t. arine, lint. 8 ... ...d
10 I"airhairu Engineering 5 3 2.1
20 Fore-street WAroliouse,lim l2 1 2 p
lOU For. a:, Col. Gov. Trust and
Loan Scrip, issued at I:85 all SS 8,
50 Gellivara, lint 2O
10 General Credit & Dis., lint 7l 11 1 4
15 General Steam Navigation 14 27 20
50 Horns &Col Marine In. Btu. 5 21 24
10 Hong Kong and China Gas all ... ...
20 Hudson's Bay all 121 121
20 Imperial Land Co. of Mar-
seilles, li:n.
20 Interna.FinaucialSoe. lim 5 2 14
20 Interns,. Land Credit, lint 6 6 44
50 Italian Land 5 11 p
20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 31
100 Do. 6p. c. Bds., redeem
1870, issued 90 all 65 117
50 Land Securities, lint 5 '2l 114
25 London African Trading lO 7 51
25 Lon. & Caled. Marine, lint. 6 ... ...d
10 London County Land and
Building, lint.
50 Lond. Financial Asso., lira 30 22 21 81
4 Lond.Gen.Omnibus.Co.lim. all 2 21
60 Lond. and Glasg. Engineer
and Iron Ship, lint 25 21 16,1
20 Loud. & Provincial Marine 2 11 pr
at Madras Irriga. &Canl.Gua.
sp.c. by India Gov. lOO 103 104
10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and
Agency,lim .... ll 11 11
50 Merchant Shipping, lim.
60 Millwall Iron Works, lint l2l ... ...
10 Natal Laud and Colonisa-
tion Co., lint
25 National Discount Co., lint 5 11 111
25 National Prov. Marin, lint. 4 ... ..
10 National Steam Ship, lim. all 91 101
20 Nerbudda Coal& Iron, lira. 6 31 3d
10 New Consolidated Dis. lint 3 11 lad
5 New Quebrada, lint 4.8.0 41 41
25 New Zealand Loan & Her.
cantile Agency,lim 2l
25 New Zealand Trust and I IP
Loan, lint 5 11 11
10 Northern Assam Tea, lint. 5 7- 5
10 Do. Ball 9 8
at North Brit. Austral., lim lOO 48 53
60 North Brit. & Mercan. In 64 9 191
25 Ocean Marine (Insurance) 5 13 14
50 Oriental Financial, lint ll
5 Oriental Gas, lint, all 7 8
5 Do. New 1 I 113
10 Otago and Southland In
vestment, lint tld ip
5 Ottoman Gas, Bin l4 23
10 Panama, New Zealand, and
Australian R. Mall um
5 Do. do.
at Peel R. Land & Minerl, lint 100 31 34
50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steam all 46 48
50 Do. New 1867 lO 3 24 74
50 Rhymney Iron
1 Do. New.
2 Rio de Janeiro City Im.,lim. all 18 19
Do. Gas, lint all 24 '25
100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 42 14
Scottish Aust. Invest., lint lOO ;8 81
Do. 6p. c. Guar. I'ref lOO ... ...
Societe Fin. d'Egypte, lint lO 7 64
Societe Gen.de l'Empire Ot 8 2: at
50 S. African Mort. & Inv., lim 6 ...
...
25 South Australian Land
20 Thames and Mersey Marine
(Insurance), lira 2 24 3
20 Trinidad Petroleum, Ihn Bl .
...
10 Trust & Agency of Aus.,lim 1 1 1p
10 Do do. do. all
20 Trust & Loan Co., IL Canada ~ k 0
50 Union Marino L'pool, lint 5 41 5 p
20 Union Steam Ship, lira all 22 21
15 United Discount Corp., lim 6 , , .
,_l
20 Universal Marineau.), lim 5 1? p
all 11 '2
3010 Ir
281 0 7
100 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per
cent. (Mortgage) Loan all 211 821 61i
50 Warrant Finance, lim.
50 West India and Pacific
Steam, lim 2O 5 3
Uapupepri Assam Tea,
00 11m
20 WestLond on -Whams and
Warehouses lO ... ...

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- Natal 6 p et, API & Oct... 00 -- .
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- Do June ,Sz Dec , 11/1 .. - 100 109 .il
- IDo l'rs.w., !AL.:3k ld.
.... .... 1• 0
- ( ktrie •1& 2, 1e,95 ..
- Nova Scotia 6 0 C.Jatl
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- Lo 18c6.. .. .
- Qty.enalnd. fp. e.'824,•. 100 107 1(3 104
- Do 1881 .
- Tasmanian 6 per c. 1895 .. 106 107
- Do ,r 9 , '97 .. •..
- Victoria 61 er cent 1&41 l.O 115 116
Do. April and Oct ..... . ~,),1 111 112 113

TO THE EDITOR OF "7IIE SUN."

Sin,—Relying upon the oft repeated advertise-
ments that the Christy Minstrels. of St. James's
Hall never perform elsewhere, I was induced on
Monday last, with some fri:nds from the country
at great expense to pay them a visit, when we were
exceedingly disappointed at finding the principal
attraction, Mr. Moore (alias Bones), absent, to-
gether with the gentleman who so ably touches the
tambourine, others being substituted, no announed-
went or apology thing wale for the same.
Again, I. cannot but complain that the pro-
gr.amine and books differ ; three ballads in the
former for that evening could not be found in the
latter. On asking for an explanation of one of the
attendants, the only redrcss I could obtain was his
supposition that 1 could read. Now, Sir, I think
this, coupled with tl:e information that Mr. Moore
was at Brighton, perhaps Goodwood, or elsewhere,
is not quite in accordance with their profession.—
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

FAIR PLAT.

July 28, 1869.

REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER•GENERAL

The annual report of the Postmaster-General,
published yesterday morning, shows that the num-
ber of letters delivered in the United Kingdom
in 1868 was in round numbers 808,118,000,
an increase of 4.29 per cent. over the number in

1867. This gives an average of 26 letters to each
person, 149 to each house ; in England 30 letters
to each person, in Scotland 24, in Ireland 10.
The number of book packets, newspapers, and
and pattern packets delivered by post in the
United Kingdom in 1868 advanced to 105,845,000,
an increase of 3.49 per cent. over the number
in the previous year. The depositors in Post-office
savings banks at the end of the year 1868 were
935,154, an increase of 12.$ per cent. over the pre-
ceding year, 13.3 per cent. in England, 3.6 percent.
iu Scotland, 8.7 percent. in Ireland. The balance
due to depositors, £11,666,655. showed an in-
crease of 19.6 per cent., 19.2 percent. in England,
19.2 per cent. in Scotland, 33 per cent. in Ireland.
The total number of depositors in Post-office sav-
ings banks and the old savings banks 2,336,654,
or one to every thirteen person?, showed
an increase of £97,307. The number of policies
effected with the Government through the Post-
office increased from 1,485 at the close of 1867 to
1.789 at the close of 1868; the amount insured
from £111,437 to £134,824. The number of imme-
diate annuities from 551 to 874 ; the amount from
£12,393 a year to £18,789. The number of de-
ferred annuities from 137 to 160 ; and the
amount from £2,574 to £2,971. Oa the other
hand, the amount for which money orders
were issued fell from £19,282,103 in 1867 to
£19,079,162 in 1868, a therease of abort one per
due to the distribution of the Parliament:iry
grant for education by the Privy Council office
being no longer made by means of money orders.
Only .£11.5,527 of this grant was thus distributed
in 1868, as against £502,060 in 1867. In 1865
letters coming from France by the night mails were
for the first time delivered in London at half-past
seven instead of at nine. During the four busiest
hours of the day half-hourly collections began to
be ma le from sixty adlitioual receiving-houses
and pillar-boxes in the City. Paddington was
placed on the same footing as other parts
of the metropolis in regard to the frequency
of its collections and deliveries. Direct communi-
cation was established between some of the district
post-offices and others, instead of the letters being
massed at one central point and thence distributed ;
thus stilt further extending the advantages of the
district postal system. No fewer than 13,833 letters
were posted during theyear without any a ldress, and
of these letters 281 were found to contain money to
the amount of £6,375. In the last annual report it
was stated that the Post-office, which had already un-
dertaken the distribution forms of applications for
long licenses, was about to undertake the distribu-
tion of the licenses themse:ves. This it has cow
done for some months, and the arrangement has
worked admirably. During the first quarter of
the pre ent year 381,476 liccnscs were issued by the
Post-office; 310,613 in England and Wales, and
40,863 in Scotland. As regards a redaction of
postage upon newspapers and other printe I matter,
"It will he my duty (the Marquis of ll.trtington
says) carefully to consider tho question before the
next meeting of ParliantenF."

DECIZEASE 1N 711 E NUMBER OP FIRES.

___,B,

During the 24 hours ending at six o'clock this
(Wednesday) morning only four fires occurred
throughout the Metropolitan district, and out of
that number only one was of sufficient importance
to be publicly announced ; that fire took place in
the premises occupied conjointly by Mr. J. Free-
man, a cabinetmaker, and Messrs. Steel and Hem-
mings, stone merchants, situated 30, Forfield-road,
Hackney. The fire originated from some unknown
cause in the cabinet factory, a building two
floors high, and 30 feet long. Owing to the
inflammable nature of the stock in trade the flames
spread with great fury, and they rushed through the
roof and every window in the place. The engines
of the Metropolitan Brigade and the London Sal-
vage Corps quickly attended, and two of the land
steamers by Shand, Mason, and Co. were set to
work, but before the fire could be mastered the pre-
mises of Mr. Freeman were burned out and the roof
off. That part of the building in the tenure of
Messrs. Steel and Co. were also seriously damaged.
Unfortunately the contents were uninsured, but the
building was insured in the Phoenix Office.

POLICE INTELLWENCE.-71d8 Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

RO➢BERY OF JEWELLERY, &C., BY A BOY—James White,

an errand boy, was charged before Mr. Tyrvv hitt with
being concerned with another boy not in custody in steal-
ing two watches and other articles of the value of £lO, the
property of Mr. Alfred Fowler, barman to Mr Gill, of the
White Rose, Castle-street, Leicester-square.

The prosecutor said that on the 12th of July he missed
from his room some wearing apparel and other articles,
and a few days after found that a box in his room had been
opened and a watch, pin, and other jewellery taken away.
He communicated with the police, and the prisoner, who
lived with his father in the same house, was taken into
custody.

Sergeant Gould (divisional detective) said that on taking
the prisoner into custody he at first said ha knew nothing
of the robbery, but afterwards said that Tom Hunter,
his cousin, and himself, got a key and opened Fowler's
box and took tho things, and afterwards sold the watch
and chain and coins—the coins for 2s. at a pawnbrokers
in the Westminster-road, and a pin and gold ring for 7s.
in the Borough-road. He wished for a remand, as he
believed he should bo able to find the other lad.

'I ho prosecutor said that he set considerable store on
some of the articles of jewellery, the watch having been
his father's, and the pin containing some of his mother's
hair.

Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.

THAMES.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY IN A UNION HOUgE.—Benjamin
Stroud, a pauper, was charged with stealing four pairs of
trousers, three shirts, two cloth jackets, and two pairs of
shoes, and other property from a store-room in the City of
London Union, Bow-road. On the 7th of May last tho
prisoner and another man applied for admission to the
union, with an order, and were put into the receiving
ward. They slept in the ward that night. In the morn-
ing they were missing, and the clothes and shoes, worth
in all £3, were missing too. The thieves could not be
traced until yesterday, when the prisoner was met with,
and taken into custody.

He said, iu his defence, that the witnesses were all
mistaken.

Four men swore to his identity most positiv..ly. " I
slept between the two thieves," said one man ; " this fel-
low was on my right hand, and the other on my left
hand. I should kncw both from a thousand. I cannot be
mistaken."

The prisoner was convicted under the Vagrant Act,
and sentenced to two months' imprisonmeut cud bald
labour.

HEAVY DAMAGES IN A DIVORCE CASE.—TIIIB
morning, in the Divoi ce Court, the case of Moore v. Moore
v. Lees was heard. The petitioner, Charles Alfred Moore,
was en officer in the 2d Bombay Irregular Cavalry, the
respondent, Harriet Ellen Constance Howard, being the
daughter of a solicitor living at 3, Westbourne-crescent.
The jury gave .£1.,500 dimagos. The Judge-Ordinary
granted a decree nisi with costs.