The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Consols are 921 1 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 921 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911;
New Tkree per Cents, 901 1 ; ditto Annuities,
April, 1885, 11 15-16; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, —;
ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 10 dis. ; Bank of Eng-
land Stock, 4 per Cent., 2421.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 f ; ditto Enlaced Paper,
5 per Cent., 104 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 3 dis par ;
ditto under £l,OOO, 3 dis par.
In the Foreign Market prices are as follows :
Brazilian, 781 to 791 ; Italian, 56 to 561 ; Tobacco
Loan, 841 to 851 ; Pruvian, 761 to 77 : Portuguese,
331 to 341 ; Russian (1862), 831 to 841 ; Oriel
Vitebsk, 77 to 78.
In Railway Shares business is dull. Lancashire
and Yorkshire are 1911 to 1221 ; South Eastern,
7.11 to 75 ; Great Northern A, 106 to 1061 ; Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, 161 to 161; Midland,
1101 to 110! ; Metropolitan, 981 to 991.
Atlantic and Great Western Bonds are 251 ;
Erie, 21 ; Illinois, 96 ; American Five-Twenties,
781.
Bank and Mi6cellaneous Shares are quoted as fol-
lows : —lmperial Ottoman, 21 to 21 'rem. ; Lon-
don and County, 501 to 511 ; Iluthon's Bay, 12}
to 121.

The sum of £21,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.

The Seine, from the West Indies has brough
£121,000, of which £48,000 is gold and the re
mainder silver.

The Pera, for Alexandria, took out £46,647.
On Whit Monday the Stock Exchange will be
closed.

The Parliamentary return of the duty paid upon
fire insurances during the year 1868 has appeared,
and has a special interest as showing the exact
amount proposed to be surrendered by the Govern-i
ment in the abolition of this impost. The gross
amount received for the years 1867 and 1868
amounted to £1,024,013 and £1,072,632.
The Colonial Produce Markets this week have
not experienced any improvement. Business will
not be fully resumed until next Wednesday, on ac-
count of Whitsuntide.

WESTMINSTER.
George Meredith, 19, was charged with being drunk
and disorderly and assaulting Police-constable, 83 T, in
the execution of his duty, and William Hill, 17, and Chas.
Hill, 24, were charged with assaulting 83 'l', attempting
to rescue Meredith from his custody ; • also assaulting
Police-constable, 77 T• public carriage attendant, 28, John
Kirk and Frederick Chandler, who came to the assistance
of the police.
Richard Neenan, 83 T, said last evening at four o'clock
he was in Fulham-road, and saw the prisoner Meredith
and two others behaving in a disorderly manner at the
Radcliffe Arms. The landlord asked me 0 remove him,
and he threatened t. split my head with a quart pot. At
last they left the house and used bad language in the
street, and finding their conduct was very bad witness
took Meredith into custody for being drunk and
disorderly. William Hill flew at me and hit me in the
jaw, and Meredith kicked me. I called to the carriage
attendant, and gave Rill into custody. Ile escaped from
tho'attendant, and Charles Hill came up and gave me a
blow in the nose and drew blood. The attendant came
up again and they assaulted him and a gentleman who
assisted me. They assaulted every one that came near
them.
Mr. Hen ordered Meredith to pay a fine of 405., or be
sent to prison for a month. The case of the other two,
who were sober, was as bad as could be conceived, and
sentenced them to throe months' hard labour each.