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

Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
.i.:,.y putty, 7 per Cent —
)o Second Issue
90.450 t, Bonds ••
Do. £IOJ Bonds
Do. 1864
Do. Account
D''. J:son 11-olds
CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Do. £lO6 Bonds B5l
The Stock Exchange is closed to-day, and it is Englishi, Scrip,:lol 731
.868
£45
pd
_
the Continental
likewise a close holiday on the Paris and most of
Gov-rno.ent tt.Al way Denentur...s
Bourses.
Grew 3 per Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups —
o. Ac,,cant
There is rather less demand for money to-day, but p°: coupon,
rates continue very firm, and only the very finest Do. Account
.••
9 1 .
paper can be done under the Bank rate.
l+ =.i„ 5 per Cent
ail. oan., 10p. Ct., all pd
L
The joint traffic return of the Caledonian and Honduras
pGov. Ret cf"t , 1*(35
North British Railway Companies shows an in-
fl. Account
crease of £2,354.
Do MAremmana Railway
Do
3 per Cent
The corn market is firm at Monday's prices. Ditto for Account
1
The directors of the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and . Do. 186
Do f-, per Cent. Anglo-Prouch —
Coal Company (Limited) have declared an interim •;ont.vidonu 6 per Cent
\loorish Imperial 5 per Cent
dividend of 7s. 6d. per share. The transfer books
1,-
will be closed from 4th to Bth inst. inclusive. New Granada
Do 3 per Gen... l4l
.
To-morrow (Saturday) will be a holiday on the Do Deferr3.l
Stock Exchange.
m
Do Lenq Warrants (Hectare-9 } _
The sure
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 of £llO,OOO in gold was taken to the p
, gues& Do Account
~
t., i .
? ~
~6, 7, '9,'60,'2, -
,!,'.,
Bank yesterday, and £6,000 was withdrawn for
.perc i,;7.,
Alexandria.• Do. d. 3o
Do. do. Scrip, £2O pail
lad Telegraphic advices report the shipment for Eng- ' li—
Toll
).31!.ticroCnet Cent., 152 z,
ture of the last mail. 5)22, £s'
la of £259,500 from Melbourne since the depar- ! Do 4} per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
The Bavaria, from New York Do 5 per Cent., 1862
£5,529 for London, £3OO for France, and £384 Do. do. 1864, £lOO
£B4 15s. d Bondse -.-
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds.
for Hamburg.
o. do
The steamer Laplace, from Liverpool, took
D D R
Do Nicolasßailway £B4 158. do —64l
£25,000 in gold for Rio Janeiro. The steamer Sai:,t,in4iittri a per Cent .
Cent. (Uribarren)
S dadin has arrived at Liverpool, with two days' Do Li perper Cent.. 1862 - later dates from Pernambuco, when the rate of ex- Do Account .
Spanish 3 per Con •
change at that port was 18d.
Do. Acc,..unt
-
The Bank of France return this week shows a Do. 1867
further reduction of £1,260,000 in the stock of Do.p. Account • 39 }
w Def erre('
bullion, and an increase of £5,920,000 in the bills . Do. :,-count
under discount.
Do. Passive _
The directors of the Ebbw Vale Company have Do. Cum. Cert. of Celli- not funded --
Do. count
declared an interim dividend of 7s. 6d. per share.
Swedish` Provincial Mortgage Loan _
The St. James's Hotel Company have paid the Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
usual interim dividend of 5 per cent.
Do do, Scrip — Pit
The directors of the National Steamship Com- Tur.i-1-1, 6 per Cent..
_
pany, Limited (Liverpool), have declared a dividend I°,o' 6'1`,2'...,°1.t1C"etnt.16,.,,5
___
of 10s. per share on the original shares, and 6d. per r,a; ae' count ..
62
share on the preferential shares. Do £lOO Bouds .
Do 6 per Cent., 1862. -
The Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company Do Account
654
paid £1,070,136 into the Bank, to the credit of the Do £lOl Bonds
per °
Secretary of State for India on account of the Do 5
Do Accounteat. 1865
39 i
£2,000,000 stock just issued upon tender.
Do 6 per Cent., 1860 621 1
The directors of the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, an. 0.) 1 por Cent., Guaranteed
_
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
dividend Company (Limited) have declared an interim Do. Accxunt
dividend of 7s. 6d. per share.
Dividends on the above payable in L0a.1,,
At the meeting of the Canada Company the di- Austrian 0 per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
rectors' report was adopted, and a dividend declared ou---nligei.na 1...2, 440 pr 7.,ciaern t. ,1
, Ex.x1225j., —
of £1 per share, free of income tax, for the half Do. 4el; Cent. Certificate:, ... ....
French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
year ending the 10th of January next.
O. Account
_
The directors of the Fourth City Mutual Building ltanae 5 per Cent. 1831, E_. zsf.
and Investment Society have announced their in- j Do. ACCOIIII. 56 1 1
CLOSING PRICES
tention to issue an additional 500 shares, bearing 5 .
u2l. I xd
per cent. per annum, until the 30th of September, i CJDnosulciltoounner Jan. 5 921 1 xd
1870, afterwards at 6 per cent., until the 30th of '
September, 1871, and then at the same rate as the
original investing shares. Entrance fee, 10s. per I
share. At the last annual meeting interest was do-
Glared
ared on the original investing shares at the rate of
MARLBORO UGH- S MEET.
.
I
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received a
8 per cent. per annum. A DISORDERLY GENTLEMAN. —Mr. Joseph David.
son Ty-sack, of No. 66, Richmond rea,-1, Blyswater,
was charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk
telegram from New York, notifying that the funds
and behaving in a disorderly manner in Piccadilly.
for the dividend on Virginia bonds were forwarded
on the 23d ult. Robert Beales, 134 C, said that about 20 minutes
The instalment of £lO per cent. upon the New past one o'clock that morning he saw the prisoner,
South Wales Government Loan for one million falls ,: who had a female on his arm, in Piccadilly, push_
due and is payable at the Dank- of New South Wales . ing persons about, and on going up to remon-
strate with the prisoner, who was very drunk,
on Monday, the 4th inst.
Mr. Thomas Southey has retired from the firm of pushed him off the pavement, and in an authorita •
Thomas Southey and Son, wool brokers, the busi- tive tone told him to " Move on." He persuaded
ness of which will henceforth be conducted by his the prisoner to go away and not make a die-
son-in-law, Mr. Ernest Alers Hankey, in conjunc- turbance, and as he refused to do so he took him
tion with Messrs. Charles Balme and Co., under the into custody.
style of Southey, %line, and Co. The prisoner said he considered he had been
Mr. J. Figgins, M.P., has retired from the busi- harshly treated in being locked up.
ness of the extensive type foundry which has been The constable said the prisoner had once before
carrried on by his family for 75 years, and which been charged with disorderly conduct at the
will henceforth be conducted by his sun, Alr. James Alhambra.
Figgins, jun.
M.
The business of Trueman and Rouse, colonial days.r Knox fined the prisoner 20s. or fourteen
brokers, will henceforth be carried on under th e
style of R. J. Rouse and Co., owing to the retire-
ment of Mr. Joseph Truernau.
The North China Insurance Company (Marine)
whose head office is in China, and for which Messrs
Ashton and Co. have been acting as agents, will to-
day open a branch office in London, under the care
of Mr. John S. Mackintosh, who has hitherto had
the management of the company iu China.
The Board of Trade returns for the month and
eleven months ending 30th November, issued yes-
terday, scarcely confirm the favourable anticipa-
tion suggested by the previous returns. There i 8
a decrease in the exports for last month, the total
being £14,143,493 against £14,879,739 in Nov.,
1867, and £15,080,430 in November, 1866. The
total exports for the eleven months have been
£173,913,222, £167,931,378, and £164,824,654 in
1866, 1867, and 1868 respectively.
The total number of passengers using the Metro-
politan, Metropolitan District, St. John's-wood,
and Hammersmith and City lines on the 26th
December, 1868, on Bixing-day, was 153,281.
Tlaa return from. the Bank of England for the
week ended the 30th December gives the following
results when compared with the previous week :--
Rest
PuL ................ £3,090,956 ... Increase
... £12,905
Other d lic dep
o siosit ts ... ........ 7,301,894 ... Increase ••• 402,189
eps
... ...... 19, ...
On the other side of the4BB accou96l ntlncrease 1,638199
government securi-
ties.,.,. - ...... £14,124,874 ... No change.
Other securities ...... 20,780,849 ... Increase 2 441 4"
Notes unemployed... 8,734,905... Increase ::.• '496,81
The amount of notes in circulation is £23,514,570, ' MANCHESTER RACES.
being an increase of £574,385 ; and the stock of MANCHESTER Friday.
bullion in both departments is £18,445,858, showing . The races fixed for to-day are postponed' unti,
an increase of £154,237, when compared with the Monday, with the exception of the flat races, which
preceding return.
will be run off to-morrow with the other Saturday
Subjoined is a comparison of the present position
fixtures.
of the Bank of England and the prices of Consols .............,...........1.1.•
and French Routes with the corresponding week of I MILITARY AND NAVAL INTELLIGENCE
last year :--

AND

CO iMERCIAL

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-- This Day,

THAMES.,
FIRING IN TILE NEW YEAR.--A well-dressed,
portly young man, named Joh❑ Salter, was brought
before Mr. Paget, charged with firing a loaded gun
in a public street, and lined Ms.

APPEAL ON BEHALF OF DESTITUTE
ORIWA NS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stn,—Will you kindly allow the a small space in
your valuable paper to plead the cause of the poor
orphan children in the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum,
Bagshot

It may not be generally, indeed I fear it is not
sufficiently, known that the children admitted to
the benefits of this asylum are not those who have
already sunk into vagrancy, but orphans ; whose
parents—poor, yet of comparative respectability—
; have left them destitute and unprotected, and who
would, but for such an agency, inevitably sink
into the channel of idleness and crime, and thus
swell the ranks of those waifs and strays, who,
unhappily, beset our crowded thoroughfares.
To maintain the 170 orphan children now in
the asylum, and to extend its benefits, funds are
very urgently needed.—l have the honour to be,
sir, your most obedient servant,

WM. MORLEY, Chairman
98, Cheapside, Dec. 80, 1868.

'ORTING INTELLIU.sIIOII—rhis Dab,

At Present. Same Week
last Year.
RBullion ............... ....£18,445,858 .£22,061,728
eserve .................. 9,931,288 ... 12,819,673
Notes in circulation... 23,514,570 24,242,055
C•Rate of discount ...... 3 per cent. 2 per cent.
asols ......... ...... 92i
921.
Fretieh Relates ......... 70f. 10c. 68f. 27 -
B.

Letters received at Chatham by the Pacific mail
report the arrival of her Majesty's screw steamer
Nassau, 5, 150 horse power, Captain R. C. Mayne,
C. 8., at Sota, on the sth ultimo, whence she pro-
. ceeded, on the 7th ultimo, after fitting up with
coals, for the Straits of Magellan, to resume her sur-
veying duties. Her Majesty's screw ship Reindeer,
7, 200 horse power, Commander E. Nares, left Val-
I paraiso for Sota Bay on the 31st of October, arriving
there on the sth ultimo, and proceeding, on the
7th of November, to Talcahuano, which place she
was ordered to leave ou the 17th ult. for Valparaiso.
No intelligence had been received of the departure
of the mail from the other vessels attached to the
South Pacific Squadron.
The Admiralty have cancelled the charges framed
some ten days ago for the trial of Capt. A. Minas-
burst, R.N., recently commanding her Majesty's
ship Flora, and Governor of the Island of Ascen-
sion, appointed to commence on Monday next on
board her Majesty's ship Victory in Portsmouth
Harbour, and have substituted others which have
been drawn up in a somewhat milder form in the
first charge. Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley will be
president of the court, and Rear-Admiral Superin-
tendent G. G. Wellesley, C. 8., vice-president. The
other members of the court will be composed of
captains commanding her Majesty's ships in com-
mission at the port, and senior to Captain Wilms-
hurst. Captain George F. Blake, Royal Marine
Light Infantry, will officiate as judge-advocate on
e occasion, and Mr. George P. Martin, Paymas-
ter cf her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, has
been appointed by the Admiralty to act as the pro-
secutor. Mr. Vernon Harcourt will appear in the
court as Capt. WiMishurst's "friend," and conduct
his defence, assisted by Mr. H. Ford, solicitor, of
Portsmouth.
A party of invalids and time-expired men—
about 50—have arrived at Colchester from the ser-
vice companies of the 49th Regiment. 'The party
is under the charge of Captain Taylor and Lieu-
tenant Bogue. Lieutenant Fenn and Lieutenant -
Pope, and 25 rank and file of the 49th Regiment,
are held in readiness to proceed on the 4th of -
January to Portsmouth, where they will embark on
board one of her Majesty's troopships for convey-
ance to India, to join the service companies of the
regiment.

iRITISLI FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Y
(.40VERNMENT FUNDSESTERDAY..
i per Cent. Consols
Ditto for ....................... .... 921 / id
3 Account,
Nper Cent. Reduced .
92 ........................ 921 xd
ew si per Cent . 1
I i
........................... ... 921 * 1
Now 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894 ............... -
Do. I per Cent. Jan. 1873 ........... 1044
A..inuities, 30 'yrs, expire sth Jan., 188 e.
Do. for 30 yrs expire sth April 1885...
Do (Bed Sealele6raph), Aug., 1908...
Ex,thcquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct ..........
Pa
Da,
£5OO .................... ...
De.
£lOO do .£2OO — Pal
Bank of England Stock, 4por Cent 242
CanadDo acciount •
... ................................
a 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Indiaial ()annum ---
LNDIAZI IiOTEANUENT BECUILITILb.
DoStock, 10* per Cent., April 1874 Shut
. Opening, for Account —
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 —
DoDo. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 lO2l i i
. Certificates —
Do. Enfacod Pape, 4 per Cent„
DDo. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
.....
. 5i per C.nt. May 1879,:•............... lO9l 4
DJ 5 per Cent., Rup. Bob. 1872 --
Do. do. 1877 __
Dq. do. 1882 ........ —1),. Dcb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bolide', 4 per Cent., £l,OOO - pa
Do. under .41.000
FOREIGN FUN DS—CLOSIN(4 PMCES.
At ontine Republic, 8 per Cent ... 76k
Do., Scrip 4 ...... 45 paid . ... Au ;trial' Bonds 5 Per cent -
Bra
Do. 1t59
Izilian 5 per Cent..,.,.,,
3. 44 per Cent., 1851'
DDo. do. 1858....
u. do., 1860
Dl )0. do., 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
o Account
B enos Avree 6 per (lent. ................
CDo 2 per C.lit.(Deferrtd 3 per Cont..;
ouba, 6 per Cent.
.-Atutu 6 per Cent ................ ~..
Do',‘, 4l; per Cent...-. .......... , - ............ 71/
. 3 .0
,r •Cent., ........................
.•
1 0. 6 per co t. 1867 .......................
o. ‘ per Cent., 1866
...........
DaC lo nbi +ii, G pei Cent.
n:stt 3 p.,r Cent., 1825
Danubian Principalities, 7 ler Cent
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 ......................«