The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-24 00:00:00

NONE .17 MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

During the last few days there has been a mode-
rate amount of activity in the Foreign and Colonial
Produce Markets. Tea, however, has been dull, as
dealers are waiting further orders from China by
the Overland Mail. Sugars have been dealt in to
a fair extent at full prices ; and in rice, cocoa.
spices, and saltpetre, an average amount of business
has been transacted at slightly reduced quotations.
Tallow has shown more activity, and prices have
tended upwards for both present and forward deli-
veries.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday busi-
ness was moderately active, prices remained firm.
The sales were 8,000 bales. _

There were no bullion operations of importance
at the Bank of England yesterday.
The Illinois has arrived from New York with
£184,000 in specie.
At the meeting of the English and Australian
Copper Company yesterday a dividend of 2s. 6d.
per share was declared.
There is still• an active business in discount
circles, but the bankers and brokers seem more
disposed to limit their operations, because it is not
improbable that the influx of new demands for loans,
&c., will accelerate an advance in the current rates.
Four per cent. is the minimum charge, and in some
cases even higher terms have been submitted to for
the negotiation of really good bills. Although
there is an upward tendency, however, an imme-
diate movement in the terms of the Bank of Eng-
land is scarcely anticipated.
There was a meeting yesterday afternoon of the
creditors of Mr. E. M. Abbott of the Bow Brewery,
when the liabilities were stated at £88,689, and the
assets at £33,092, showing about 7s. 6d. in the
pound ; but if the beer which was shipped to India
is ultimately accepted by the East India Company,
there will be an addition of £19,600, or about 12s.
in the pound. An offer of 7s. in the pound, with a
farther dividend of ss. in the event of the realisa-
tion of the above sum, was made, and will be taken
into consideration by a committee of the principal

creditors.
A moderate amount of business has been trans-
acted
to-day in the market for public securities,
but sales having again preponderated, the quota-
tions have remained depressed. The state of the
weather and the effect it may have upon the money
market, through the necessity that may arise for
extensive purchases of foreign grain, are the prin-
cipal causes of the downward tendency. Consols
are 921 s for transfer, and 923 for the account.
The New 3 per Cents. and the Reduced are flat, at
933 3 ; Long Annuities at 161 3 ; India Loan is
1031 ; the Debentures are 963 ; and Exchequer
Bills, 3s. prem.
A moderate amount of business is recorded in
Foreign Securities, and prices are tolerably steady.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 731 to 741 ; ditto New,
60 to 601 ; Mexican are firm at 203; Sardinian, at
821 3 ; and Russian 5 per Cents. at 108 ; ditto 43
per Cents. are flat at 931 ; Portuguese, at 431 1 ;
and Dutch 23 per Cents. at 641.
The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21
prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, prem. ; and
the Universal, 1 3 prem.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been on a limited scale, and increased heaviness has
been apparent. Lancashire and Yorkshire have
declined 55.; Great Northern (A Stock), North-
Western, and Midland, 10s. ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, and South-Eastern, 15s. ; and North
British, £1; Brighton and Scottish North-Eastern
improved ss.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings are a
shade firmer. South Australia and Lombardo-
Venetian have advanced 55., Grand Trunk of
Canada 10s., and Great Western of Canada ss.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con-
tinue inactive. London and County have receded
55., and Red Sea Telegraph ss.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 931
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 2▪ • i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire ith Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l6l it
India Stock . .
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 1858 96/
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 8 d
oitto under £l.OOO
4 d
Owes°ls for Account, 6th Sept.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
D tto £5OO 3 4 pm
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Mexican 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St lOB
Ditto Account
Ditto 41 per Cent 931 f
1 i
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent...
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred —
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent • •
Ditto Account 731
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account . 601 60
able in London.
Dividends on the above pay
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent... 641
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money
Ditte Account, September .. 924ii

POLIcE INTELLIGENCE—(THIS Di11.)1.,
8.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
EX.TRAORDINARY CHARGE OF OBTAINING PIANO- St
FORTES BY FRAUD.—Don Oscar de la. China, pianist to the Batt
Queen of Spain, was charged on a warrant before Mr. at
Tyrwhitt for being the bailee of certain property, to wit, a
astt
pianoforte, belonging to one Charles Holdernesse, of the
value of £5O, and feloniously converting the same to his
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own use. si
The prisoner was brought from Manchester by Shilling•• s
ford, one of the warrant officers of the Court, having been
taken into custody by him at the Merchants' Hotel, Old-
ham-street, Manchester. It was there ascertained that he
had three separate lodgings, and at. each of them a piano-

forte.
Mr. Charles Holdernesse, 444, Oxford-street, pianoforte ate
manufacturer, said that on the 18th July last the prisoner stc
came and said he was about to give a concert at Kensington stl
Palace, and required avery good pianoforte, at the same time
handing him a programme, which stated that he was about 1.
to give a matinee musicale at Kensington Palace, under Rt,
the patronage of her Giace the Duchess of Inverness, on st
Saturday, July 23. He said he wanted it at once, so that he :t:
could practise on it, and, having read the programme, he st,
was induced to let him have one of the value of £5O, and
to send it to his lodgings at 66, Margaret-street, the terms
fixed on for the hiring being 25e. a week. He (Mr. Hol- at
dernesse) then had an intimation from Mr. Rolt, pianoforte st
maker, of the Tottenham-court-road, that he had lent the
prisoner a piano, and that he had been endeavouring to sell
it in Nassau-street. This was about four or five days
after the piano was sent to the prisoner's lodgings, and at
once fearing for the safety of the piano he went there,
and found the prisoner had left, and that his
piano had been pledged at Mr. Attenborough's, in
Greek-street for £35. He then made inquiries, and as-
certained that the prisoner and a Mr. Meyer had been there
to pledge another, and also that the prisoner had offered to
sell a Mrs. Frazer the duplicate of a piano at the place
where he was then lodging in Grosvenor-park, and also
received a telegraphic message from Manchester, stating
that the prisoner had been endeavouring to obtain pianos ,
of Mr. Molineux and others at that place.
Mr. Charles Cotten, manager at Mr. Attenborough's,
11, Greek-street, pawnbroker, said that on the 20th of July
y
a gentleman came and asked if they took in pledge piano
He said they did, but required to see the receipts for them
first. The gentleman came the next day and took him to
66, Margaret-street, where the prisoner at the time was
playing the piano. He asked if he had bought the piano of
a maker, and he said he had not, but of a friend. Ihe next
day one of the persons he saw in the room brought what
purported to be a receipt for £3O, and signed " A. Adams."
This satisfied him, and the next day he sent for the piano
and paid the money (£35) to a person who was with the
prisoner.
Shillingford said the bill was framed in Mr. Holdernesse's
name, but was receipted in the name of Adams. He found
the prisoner had two or three lodgings, and at each of them
he had a piano.
Mr. Gastave, 60, Great Russell-street, pianoforte maker,
said prisoner came to him and hired the most valuable piano
he had, and entered the name of E. A. Meyer in his cash-
book, and the writing was the same as that on the supposed
bill of Mr. Holdernesse. The prisoner had endeavoured to
sell it, but he had fortunately made the landlady of the
house sign a paper that it should not be taken away.
The prisoner was remanded, the officer stating that there
would be other cases. •

The Madrid journals of the 19th contain no
political news. The Queen had recovered from a slight
indisposition. Several governors of provinces had been
removed, and others appointed.