The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-24 00:00:00

DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST.

Five per cent. bands prior to March 3,
1864 527,022,000
Five per cent. ten-forty bonds March 3,
1861 194,567,300
Six per cent. bonds of 1881
Six per cent. five-twenty bonds 1,602,612,000
Amount outstanding 52,107,878.700
Interest
DEBT BEARING CURRENCY INTEREST.

Three per cent. certificates 553,240,000
Navy pension fund

Amount outstanding .. 567,240,000
Interest
DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.

Demand and legal tender notes 5256,063,845
Postal and fractional currency .. 35,350,323
Certificates of gold deposited 16,307,200

Amount outstanding
Debt on which interest has ceased since

maturity
Interest
Total outstanding debt
Interest

5,701,313
353,620
2,588,541,382
46,491,50

Total debt, principal and interest 52,635,032,88

AMOUNT IN TIIE TREASURY.

Coin
Coin for which certificates of &posit aro
outEtauding
Currency

$92 031,73

16 307,20
7,896,664

Total, ~„ ,„
Amount of debt less cash in the Treasury,
May 1
Amount or debt less cash iu the Treastry,
April 1
Decrease of debt during April
The gold market, in the face of the Government sales
of coin and the heavy disbursementS of the May interest,
has gone steadily upward, and on Thursday reached 1361,
the highest figure since January 30. Speculation, as in
the money marker, is probably at the bottom of this ad-
vance, and the timorous prophets predict an ascent to 150
before another three mouths has expired. Speculation
may do it, but there is no natural carts?, likely to produce
that effect. 'The news from England, Spain, and Cuba
does not altogether furnish stimulus for even one day's
I market, and any advance which may be gained on the
strength of warlike rumours is almost sure to be lost
before the day is over. The Government sales of gold
began on Thursday week, and will be continued weekly
until further notice—a million being disposed of at
each sale. On the first day of sale, Henry Clews and
Co. took $234,000, Trever and Colgate 8169,000, and
Underhill and Haven $47,000, at $134.01, while Messrs.
Clews and Co. obtained the remaining $250,000, at
I 134.02. Messrs. Fisk and Hatch put in their bid for
the whole million at 134, which was the highest price
of the day in open market. The buyers correctly
judged the course of the market, and the next day the pre-
mium touched 135. Mr. Boutwell was present in person
at the sale, and subsequently made a speech in the Stock
Exchange, which was received with applause, in which be
promised to faithfully, honestly, and economically adminis-
ter the affairs of the Treasury Department. His May
statement of the public debt is the best possible pledge of
his ability and intention to perform that which he pro
mises. The gold value of the foreign imports at New York,
I exclusive of specie, from July 1, 1868, to May 1, 1869, is
$238,595,644, an increase over the corresponding months
of the previous fiscal year of $37,539,808, while the ex-
ports, exclusive of specie, for the same time (from July 1
1868, to May 1, 1869), had dimitished $20,323,510, or
from $153,199,138 to $132,875,648. The specie exports
have also fallen off largely, but since March 1 large amounts
of specie have been received by the European steamers.
The speculation in the stock market is in a state of
suspense, pending the action of the New York Legis-
I lature on the issue of Central 80 per Cent. Stock Carti-
! ficates last fall. The report, Wednesday, that the
bill would fail, sent Central stock down 3 or 4 per
cent, and with it, of course, went the other " Van-
derbilt" reads. The Western roads felt the depressing
influence, and the majority of the quotations ruled lower
, than for several days. The indications portend a grand
"boar" campaign on the market, and the course of the
money market sustains the theory. Erie gets but very
little attention in the market nowadays, and is selling at
very low figures—down to 24. Troubles have arisen
'among the officials of the road, and Superintendent Riddle
has resigned, to be succeeded by Superintendent Rucker
of the Atlantic and Great Western division of the road.
Other resignations and dismissals before long are rumoured.
Anc,ther suit' for the unpaid dividends on the preferred
stock has been instituted by R. G. Howard of Providence,
R. 1., and he will push his case none the less earnestly be-
cause he is a shareholder in the Union Pacific Railroad and
Credit Mobilier, with both of which corporations the Erie
owners have not the most pleasant relations. Railroad busi-
ness is generally good throughout the West, the t, tal
earnings of the Chicago and North-Western Railroad for
the past eleven months having 13.:?en $12,653,086, an in-
crease of $1,249,390 over the amount for the corresponding
time in the previous fiscal year. The New York Stock
EXchange has admitted to full membership the members of
the Government Stock Board, and undoubtedly the conso-
lidation of the Stock Exchange and open Loa- d of brokers
is not far distant. The business of both boneJs can be
satisfactorily transacted with the expense of only one.
There is but little change in the express and miscellaneous
stocks, the United States express being one of the firmest.
l_
Ott the fl dull
and The market for dry goods continues
and Inactive, and neither buyers nor sellers appeare
l
s
disputed to facilitate business. Some impetus seems
neeial to start business, and once begun, it would
doubtless increase and strengthen, la raw cotton
and the coarser manufactured fabrics trade is dull and
prices declining, white jp calicoes and dress goods morn
doing, ettpccially in prints anti, stiles suitable for the fall
business. Bre:Rioted have been mere_aytivtie,: west,durili and
the
*OA, On stcoUnt of a shorter supply from
till ittliirtifetilent in the home demand. The stock of winter
wheat now on hand to the
with.
nrr. pth-lvest is small, and the
iev the sowing of
cr
b:lckwardness of the seasdil iv 11
sprfsent
-Wheat, A larger
the usual breadth of laud
w;11 also End a market
through the.f ago or ihn • 11/tcltaatn,., and the indications look to a
01011;1 supply in the m.11,t,. until the Low crop is a; 3'l-
able. 'flint all reports and c 5
predictions agree will be ono
of the best and most abundant,

(From the Wall-street Journal.)
Friday Evening, May 7, 1869.

Wall-street has been excited all day, the sudden ad-
vanCe in the London Money Market, creating much un-
easiness among the holders of Government Bonds and
certain railroad stocks. Cable reports quote Five-twenties
variously at from •78 to 78i, which is a decline of, to
from the closing figures of yesterday, and lg to 2i as
compred with those of yesterday morning. guropean

capitalists continue to invest largely in United states
Railroad Bonds, and among those recently introduced on
the Frankfort-on-Maine Exchange, we notice those of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad, California Pacific Railroad, and
Bockford, Rock Island, and St. Louis Railroad Companies'
Miscellaneous stocks are generally quiet and neglected.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS FOR RAILROAD MORTGAGES.
N. Y.[Central 6s, 1883... 89 Chi. &N. W. Ist M 93
N. Y. Central 6s, 1887... 93 Tol. & Wab. 2d MEx 83
N. Y. Central 6s, R Est 85 Gt. Western 2d M '93 771
N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n.. 85 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M
N. Y. Central 7s, 1876.. Gal. & Chic. Ext
N. Y. Cen. 75, con. 76 Gal. & Chic. 2d M 9fla
N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 Chi. &R. I. Ist
Erie Ist Mort, Ex 100 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7'5... 96,1
Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879.. 93i Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund... 9.2
Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 89 N. J. Central Ist M......
Erie 78, 4th Mort, 1880 80 N. J. Central 2d M...... 9°,
Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 83 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist 3001
Long Dock Bonds
Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M,'77 B9 Pitts. Ft. W.. & Ch. 3,1 31. 91',
Hud. R. 7s, Ist 3T, '69 100 Cleve. & Pitts. 3d 31 9;1
11t.d. R. 7s, 3d 31, '75 - Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. 9"
Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 9B Chic. & Alton, S.F. lstM.lo2
Mich. C. Ist 31, 69'72 Mil. & St. Rini Ist M...
Well. new Ist M Bq' V 118 Mil. & St. Paul 241 M...
Mich. So., 7p.c2d M 92 Marietta & Ist 31...
N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Morris & Essex Ist 31... 96
31ich.S.&N.I.S.F'd7p.c. 96 Morris & Essex 2d 31... 9"
111. Cen. 7p. e, '7O 120 Joilet & Chic. Ist 31...
Alton &T. H. lrt bI
Alton &T.H. 2d pfd
Alton &T.H.2d M. Inc BO Dubuque & S.City,lst 31. 9'll
Han.&St..l. LandGrantslo3 Peninsula Ist M......... 91,
Ban. & St. J. Con 112 Ohio & Miss. Ist M .... .
Chi. B. & Q.,lst 31 — Ohio & Miss. Con.- .95
Chi. &N. est, S. F 95 Tol. P. W. Ist M.
Chi. &N. W. Con Cony 96j Atlantic & G. W. 2d M.
('hi. & N. W. Ex'n B —

RAILROAD AND MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS.
4
N. Y. Central 1791 Fort Wayne
1 i
9
Erie
iludson .. 156/ Atlantic Mail
19
Reading
Mich. South. &N. 1.... 104 %V. U. Telegraph
Illinois Central
Cleveland & Pittsbrg 921 Ohio and Mississippi... 33
North-West
North-West Preferred 971 Cumberland
Canton 6l Bankers and Brokers... 11
71
Rock Island
Jleveland and Toledo 1041 M & St. Paul Preferred 8.
PUBLIC FUNDS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Sixes, 1861, registered llB to 110,
Sixes, 1881, coupon llBl to 118/
Sixes, 1868, coupon
U.S. 6s. Pacific Raihoad lO6 to 1011
Five-twenties, 1862, coupon
Five-twenties, 1864, coupon
Five-twenties, 1865, coupon
Five-twenties, 1835, coupon, new
Five-twenties, 1867, coupon
U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll5/ to 116
Ten-forties, coupon lO7l to 108
Seven-thirties, 2d series — to
Seven-thirties, 3d series — to --
Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to ---
QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIE.
463
Amer. silver... 951 to 95/ I Eng. sous 486 to
Mex. d011ar5...103 „ 101 j2O francs ... 383 , °,701
Eng. silver 475 , 480 I Thalers
Five francs .... 95 „ 96 I
Foreign Exchange is firm, but the demand is limited
at the advance :

DA Sixty Days. Three Dilo
Lonecn Bankers
Lw::n, Prime Commercial lOBl-1081 ••••'' 181
Paris, Bankers i—o'
Bremen, Bankers
Hamburgh, Bankers 351--35i ......
Frankfort, O.M. 4O
.1. —4O f ......
Berlin and Cologne
Antwerp 5.20-5.16f ......
Amsterdam, Bankers
Swiss
In Express Stocks the business has been small : 60,
Adams ... ... ... .., ... ... 591 to 40,
American Merchants' Union ... ... ... 40i .„t° Of
w Do. Old Stock ... ... ... ... 15 ' 63
United States ... ... .., ... ... 62! !,o, 5,51

Wells, Fargo, ancioo. :::

351 tO
2 ,55,00

The Now York Stock Exchange, in executive sea
s 1
yesterday, resolved to discontinue, on and after Ttos'fet
next, the calling of the speculative stocks, and to trays
all business in them to the Long Room. In future tbe;
will be a call at 10.30 a.m. for Government Bonds. 1331,94,
Shares, State and Railroad Bonds and Investment Ste4"'t
concluding with a second call of Government Bonds. t,
2.30 Government and State Bonds will again be nollieto
Dealings in Government Bonds in a separate room Wi.say
discontinued. This new arrangement marks an jOr
tant change in the business of the Stock Exchange' co
Messrs. Drexel and Co., Philadelphia, report thoOsj
Thursday, May 7, closing prices for Pennsylvania It
were 551 551 ; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 991 ;
Mortgage, 94f.

°
LITERARY.—We have just been having so gf t o
a journalistic scandal in this city-a scandal withee.co
parallel, so far as we know, in the history of the Areeritho
press-that, in comparison with it, almost any event
world of journalism seems like a ripple beside a wave*,
is, however, a noteworthy fact that tLe London I?erie' ed
just dead. We may say that it is dead ; it has been inegd,
in the Examiner—the journal which Leigh Hunt foil° to
and which, though less known over here thel',.tiet
London Review, was always a better paper both in po'loo
and in literature. It was not so much better, however' t-0,
its consent to the merging need have been difficult to elath'io
But what was worse in the unregretted London Review t"
,r,l
its insufficiency was its self-sufficiency -though
not wide enough eitLer ;it was apt to seem t° 0
cheaper sort of Saturday Review, and the tone which
ie
E 0
nearly intolerable in the latter paper was often quite
the former. The Saturday's vulgar suparcilioustieleo
prejudices and wilful misunderstandings, its seta' t,O
which often suggests the brilliant satirical youngste/
that o'l-0
fresh from the university, and which get it the aPPao'l
of its worst readers, can be borne with a cousider'dir
of the ability, courage, and real learning which it rase
plays about as constantly as it displays its dist`s,
able traits-that is to say, the cases are {e.°lo
which it does not approve II itself learned, ivio
and nobody's servant. But, in comparison
.t of
its. exemplar, the London Review was like that 01/
second-rate Englishmen which a good authority defatter? •
to be wholly unendurable by gods or men, and the 1-01
with considerable unanimity, will acquiesce contellsioe4
in its decrease. It was as disagreeable as pretentittte
must be. Jt sounds as if it might be true enough tjlirets;
paper had the assistance of some of the Saturday Rev'ee the
but they wore not the best, we may be sure; and of the,
contributions may very likely have been such as theflierg,
day had declined to receive, or such as even the :led!,
would not have asked it to accept. One symptom of ,0 t`-ho
of the London Review found its way into the papers e°":
or three months ago. The firm of T. T. Clark and ~,cirj
publish a good many valuable works, as most of °1.4
rical readers know, discovered that books which the. 1000;
sent to editors for notice might pretty regularly hBdelert;
shortly after on the stalls of the second-hand d efe,o
Thereupon they marked their " editors' copies," en,tt
not long in finding which paper was the offender' .1 j.do
addressed to the editor called forth no more 6'l, sodi
than that their books were worthless, and Weriorb'e
without being reviewed because they were 014 the
reviewing-a reply which, doubtless, was 0"6
truth of the matter. So far as now appee..regsrj
English weekly press is all the stronger, as 'dge,,4
both honesty and ability, for the demise of the Log ~ePo
also for that of the Reader, which perished some tw°,,;',s
ago. And, as the weekly press is furnishing perb.sray
most influential portion of English literature, we '',oel),'
glad to see it weeded of its weaker and less worth) of li
hers. There is still the Athenaeum, with its fund
nary information ; and the Saturday Review, to corr,el3-0 smj
Athenaeum's continual blundering in criticism ; and °'
solutely honest and candid, if somewhat too ethereasatlic
somewhat whimsical, Spectator, to supplement the ;Duos
day Review by doing justice and showing merePo'firl
eating the higher morality, and setting an examP,lB,oo
refinement as distinguished from supertineuess.-" 10
New York Nation.
valD
(ADVERTISEMENT.]—Henceforth no one will doubt tlio itrol4o
properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revaleniablested
Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of 'ON
it has already received from Invalids whose position tuelv,ol
deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness, ,earfje
whose health has' been perfectly restored by it after thilayetlfolf
unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the , the Poe'
Midi," July 25th:—" Rome, July 21, 1866. The health (la
Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all o'iptioive,i
dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's very 'l9e,
Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at ebeefi,P'
It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his, , 0,
his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too LI jg-5.3,P0ur
extract a few out ofmore than 68,000 cures:—Cure .04°*corartioii'
the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver
wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervotis.,l;ooo_, de
all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and Tr sot",
tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771: LorLf aysPee
Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years „sped,
No.
nervousness, 832: "Fifty
asthma ears
cough ' indes
constipationcribable agony froin
fiatelefiqg7o4o,
, ,
sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure N°•
James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' doe.iiiess• ott:
spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial dot"; oolevir
portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury Isl
sloppy imitations to which, without authority, 138'"'"
name is most audaciously attached. 12 lbOV'
In tins, at Is lid; 1 lb 2s 9d; 21bs 4s 6d; 5 lbs lls;„„oe
24 lbs 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABIC), Vr 291
POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at opo_,,se!,
at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at Cs, for 288 cups at 30s, for 57,0
—being about one penny per cup. The 308 and 55s 07 of
free of carriage in England on receipt of post-OLlic;dol:"
BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street,
11 Grocers and Chemists.

BIRTILY. fityll
~., use, f
HENNEssr—On the 7th March, at Government Imo o
peas
f,
buan, the wife of Governor J. Pope ilea „g.
SOD.
. -
YORKE —On the 21st inst , at 15, Cheshara-sit ree
Reginald Yorke, of a son.

MARRIAGES.
BOYS—STRONG —On ho 20th inst., Henry Sc°ttoti 130f051
Bengal Civil Service, to Ethel Renaud Stronviosierif
daughter of Major Strong,' The Elms, 'filen
the ILE.I.C.S.
olfslrlPj
STEPIIENB--MARRIOTT—On the 20th inst ,a. nder 13:otr,
Paddington, Prescot Wm. Stephens, CcranU,
to Alice Lattice, third daughter of Frederic
Es+

11 F:A TES fit
ITAST;:os—On the 21st first at *Di bourne 110.,,nset';e
Woreestton Vice-Admiral dmira.l"Francisr Deeiraus PaS- li
aged 74. < 1 .V6'l4
O'NEAL— On the 21st file., at Bath, T. W. CY-oeg ''
( ce f barbadoes, aged 56. ,- p,„, ili.
WARREN—OR the 21st inst., at his residen, Chels
- '
Francis NVarren, aged 60.

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Monday, kttlY 24, 1869.