The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-28 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Business is firm to-day, and the usual meeting
of the directors in the Bank parlour has not led to
any alteraticn in the rate of discount.

Consols are 931 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, —; Three per Cent. Reduced, 938 ;
New Three per Cents, 938 i; ditto 2i per Cent.,
Jan., 1894, 75 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 21- per
Cent., 14 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 10
prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent.
2421 4.
India Stock, 108 per Cent., April, 1874, 2111 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 1-; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct , 1888, 1021 i; ditto Bonds 4 per Cent.
£l,OOO, 24 prem. ; ditto under 11,000, 24 prom.

In the Foreign Market, Italian Five per Cents..
Mexican Bonds, and Turkish Five per Cents. rose
; and New Spanish Three per Cents. 1-16 ;
Italian is 51; 4 ; Mexican, 151 16 ; Greek, 111
12; New Spanish, 31 311 ; and Turkish, 381; 384.
Egyptian 7 per Cent. Loan of 1868 has gone up
to 721 73 ex div., and the Honduras Loan is 86
88 ex coupon.
The Italian Tobacco Loan is now 24 3 prem. ;
and the last Russian Railway Loan is 4 dis., par.
Great Indian Peninsula Railway New Four per
Cent. Debenture Stock is 90 91 ex div.
American Five-Twenties show a fractional de-
cline, at 751 751 ; the Bonds of 1885 are 4 lower,
at 734 74 ; and the Ten-Forty Bonds remain at
724 721.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Deben-
tures are firm at 414 424, and Eries have improved
4, to 26 264.
In the railway market Great Westerns have im-
proved 4 ; Great Northern, 4 ; Metropolitan, 4 ;
North British, 4 ; and South Eastern, 4 ;
Metropolitan Extension, 4 lower. The prices are as
follows :—Caledonian, 79 4 ; Great Western,
52 4 ; Great Eastern, 42/ 4 ; Great Northern,
108 9 ; ditto A, 1094 104 ; Lancashire, 1304
; Metropolitan, 1094 4 ; ditto Extension, 1041 5 ;
Midla4l, 1164 4 ; Sheffield, 48 4 ; Brighton, 524 4;
North British, 354 4 ; North Western, 1174 4 ;
North Eastern (Berwick), 1034 41 ; South Eastern,
824 34 ; Chatham and Dover, 174 1.
In banking and miscellaneous share prices are as
last quoted.

The sum of 35,000 sovereigns was withdrawn

yesterday for Brazil, and £45,000 in bar gold for
the Continent—the latter to pay for recent pur-
chases of silver. " The operations of the week since
the date of the last return have resulted on balance
in a withdrawal of £57,000.

The Ballarat left Auckland on the 6th of Novem-
ber for London, with £BO,OOO in gold.

Additional shipments of gold from New York
for Europe are announced to the extent of
£llO,OOO.
The Post-office authorities notify that no mails
will be made up on the Ist of February for Sydney
and New Zealand, via Panama, in consequence of
the Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Royal
Mail Company not being able to furnish a steamer.
It is understood that the service of the company
has ceased, owing to various difficulties, chiefly in
the colonies.

It appears that several of the Greek firms are
again taking up ships for the consignment of goods
to Constantinople, a circumstance tending to con-
firm the impression that all danger from the Eastern
complication is at an end.
The second instalment of £lO per cent. upon the
New South Wales Government loan for £1,000,000
(negotiated last October by Messrs. Rothschild and
the Bank of New South Wales) becomes payable on
Monday next.

It is stated in the Levant Times that the Porte
has recently abolished a number of taxes which
pressed heavily upon the population in the pro-
vinces, without bringing any profit to the Im-
perial Treasury. Among them were the tax upon
slaughtering cattle for food, on travellers for
the guards employed on the passes, on dealers at
fairs, on calendering, on coffee-crushing, and on
hawkers. •

According to the last letters from Rio de Janeiro,
the fire at the Custom-house in that city had oc-
curred in the quarter where the German and French
goods were :principally stored, and the loss was
estimated to be less than £50,0)0. it is under-
stood that in the quarter where the English goods
are stored there had been no damage except by
water. Strong suspicions were entertained that the
fire was the act of an incendiary, to prevent expo-
sures in connection with the recent Customs' frauds.

The following letter from Mr. J. 0. Levor, late
M.P. for Galway, refers to the affairs of the At-
lantic Royal Mail Company, and the evidence re-
cently given by Mr. Edwards.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
(Overend, Gurney, and Co.)

SIR—My name having been mentioned in the late
inquiry in connection with the affairs of the Atlantic
Royal Mail Company (Galway Line), of which I
was the founder, may I ask the favour of the inser-
tion of these few lines ?

When I and my friends left this concern in June,
1860, it was perfectly solvent ; its management
then remained in the hands of Mr. D. W. Chapman
and Mr. E. W. Edwards.

During the first two years while I was connected
with the management about the same number of
voyages were made by the company's vessels as
during the subsequent management. In the former
period a profit was made, without subsidy, which
Was not then due, and a sum of £220,000 was
offered for the contract and goodwill of the line by
another company. In the latter period, notwith-
standing a subsidy of £91,000 per annum, which
bad then become avail Lble, the loss incurred
appears to have been £840,000.-1 am, sir, yours,
faithfully,
J. ORnELL LEVER.
Brighton, Jan 27. _ _

At the meeting of the New Zealand Trust and
Loan Company a dividend at the rate of 10 per
cent. per annum was declared.
At the meeting of the Lancaster Banking Com-
pany; a dividend and bonus, together equal to 5 per
cent. for the year, were declared.
A dividend of £5 per share has been declared by
the directors of the Birmingham and Midland Bank
for the past half-year.

The directors of the Birmingham Joint Stock
Bank (Limited) recommend a dividend at the rate
of 20 per cent. per annum.
The report of the Lion Brewery Company
(Limited) recommends a dividend for the six months
at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
The report of the Birmingham Financial Com-
pany, Limited, recommends a dividend at the rate
of 5 per cent.

The London and North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of £7,735 over
last year; the Midland an increase of £9,873 ; and
the Great Eastern an increase of £1,145.
At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. A. Winter-
bottom, in the stuff trade, held at Manchester yes-
terday, the liabilities were stated at £49,337, and
the assets at £28,061. It was decided to accept a
eempositEon of 10s. in the pound, payable in instal-
ments extending over 15 months.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
a Per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
3 per Cent. Reduced 931 i
New 3 per Cent
New. 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cen .1 an. 187 3
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1881' —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 188 f, --
Do (Red Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21!per Gt.
Do. £5OO
Do. £lOO & £2OO —
Bank of England Stock, 4por Cent
Do. account .. —
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Omnium —
" btolAeri jOVERNMENT 6ECURITihe.
India :rock 104 per Cent., April 11874 2lli
Do. Opening, for Account -
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 pet. Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Pep,. 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872
Do. 54 per Cent. May 1879
DO 5 pet Cent., sap. Deb. 1872,,.......

Do, do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
D.,. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ —
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,000
)o. under £l,OOO
20
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Do., Scrip £45 paid
Au-Arian Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859 63k
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent., 1852 —
Do. do. 1858.... .............
Do. do., 1860 —
Do. do., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 ' —
Do Account —
B .ei.os Ayres 6 por Cent. "
D., 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cu')3., 6 per Cent.
o..ii,an 6 per Cent —
Jo. 4A per Cent..„.... —
..-. ~-. ...

Do. 3'per Cent.,
Lo. 6 per co t. 1867 —
o. 7 per Cent., 1866
C lo abian, 6 par Cent. - -
Dan sn. 3 p,r Cent., 1823.... —
Dan it,ian Principalities, 7 for Cent 76 51
D i 8 par Cent., 1867 ..
Equador New Conzolitutted, I pca- Cent
'.:,6yptian, 7 per Cent ...
tit) Se.•ood Dine
90. .45 il. Ecuds ,B,
."4
Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 84 5
De. 1864
Do. Account
D.N. £s:iu Bonds
Do. 4106 Bonds 9U
English Scrip,:lB63 720
Do do. £l5 pd
. _. die

Government Railway Dcidt7ntures: 96 51
Greet 5 per Coat., 18'21 5, ex Coups
Do. Account
Do. CouronE

Do. Acciunt
Gl:item:lla 5 per Cent
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., lop. Ct., all pd
10iian 5 per Cent., 1665
Do Account

Do Mnreininana. Railway
‘lexicar, 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account

Dn. 1864 Bl
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French —
,touteN idean 6 per Cent. . —
‘lc orish imperial 5 per Cent
Ne w Granada l5
Do 3 per Cen
Do. Doforred
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account ..
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarreu)
Do 41 per Cent., 1862 -, —
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853;6, 7,'9,'60,'2.%, 361-
Do. do. 1867 36}
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
1-tassian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Do 41 per Cent, 1850
Do 41 per Cont., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Auglo-Duteb, 1861, £lOO Bonds.,,
Do. do. £B4 15s. do..`,
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 914
Do. do £B4 los. do
Do Nicolas Railway
Sar innau a per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cen . -
Do. Acc,Junt
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred -
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. Coin. Cert. of Coup. not funded

Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Do do, Scrip
Turkish 6 per Cent.
U., Account
Do 6 per Cont. 1858
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Do £IOC Bonds
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 3'l
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1860 6l
Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed
Do Lhod Warrants (Hectares)
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. Acc.unt
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London
Austrisu e per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian. 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch '2.3. per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil,
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .....

Do. Account
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
'Winn 5 per tient. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do Account 541.
CLOSING PRICES.
Consols, Money 93}
Do. Account, Feb. 4 93f

POLICE IiNTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

POLICE EVIDENCE.—A CASE FOR THE COMMISSIONERS OF
POLICE.—Mr. Richard Lord, journalist, of No. 10, Notting-
ham place, St. Marylebone, was charged before Mr. Knox
with bAriving in a disorderly manner in Rogeut-street.

Police-constable Squire, 34 C 11, said—This m~ruing,
just before two o'clock, 1 saw the defendant standing at
the top of the Haymarket with conic prostitutes. 1 re-
quested him to go away, and ho did so. The prostitutes
took him by the arms and walked along with him down
Piccadilly, the prostitutes laughing and making a great
noise. The females wanted to go away, but he would
not let them. I told him that if he did not
go away I would take him into custody, and
ho then said that ho know more about police
duties than I did, and knocked off my helmet with his
umbrella. I picked up my helmet, and then took the de-
fendant into custody. The defendant had been drinking.
The Defendant said—l had been to the Raleigh Club
to see a friend, and while waiting for a moment, consider-
ing whether I should take a cab or walk home, I was first
annoyed by one prostitute and then by another, and as
soon as I had got rid of them the constable came up and
said in an offensive manner, "Walk off." I told him to be
steady, and he then pushed me. I said I would take his
number, and he then pushed me again, but I never at-
tempted to strike him at all. I have a gentleman present
whom I had been with, and he will state that I was per-
fectly sober, and at the station the inspector said that I
was not intoxicated, as the constable wanted to make
out. The constable has been guilty of gross perjury
and of a downright lie. Ile pushed and dragged
me because he said that 1 had my pocket-book in my
hand and that I was taking his number, which 1 have here
written down, the straps of my pocket-book being broken,
and because he said that I meant to report him—which I
certainly intended to do this morning—he thought he
would take the bull by the horns and charge me. I again
say that he has been guilty of perjury.
Mr. Horace Mayhew, of Lancaster-gardens, West, said
—I left Mr. Lord a few minutes More the time spoken of,
and he was perfectly sober, and not in the least degree
under the influence of drink. lie was quite collected in
his manner, and I can speak with the greatest confidence
of knowing him to be perfectly conscious of the danger of
interfering with the police.
Mr. Knox—The defendant is discharged, and let the
case be reported to the Commissioners of Police. Mr. Lord,
you have two remedies. You may either take out a sum-
mons at this court or apply to Scotland-yard.
The Defendant—l should like to charge the constable
with perjury, and I certainly intend to proceed in the
matter.