The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-10 00:00:00

MARKET

MONEY

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLoclc.

Consols are quiet to-day at 92} for money
ditto, for Ac ()tint, 9241 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 92f 3-; New rflrce per Cents, 92i
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 4 dis. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO,
and £5OO, ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per
•, .
Cent., 243 4f

India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 2111 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 100 f.
Foreign stocks are very quiet, in sympathy with
the relapse in Paris prices. The changes, however,
are of little importance.

A dull tone prevails in American Securities. The
Bonds have declined if, the Five-Twenties to 80},
and the Ten-Forties to 711.

Railways firm, with a good business.
The only feature in Banking shares is an im-
provement of 108. in London and County, the price
being 50 to 51.
In Miscellaneous Securities prices are without
movement. Anglo-American Telegraph is quoted
at 21! to 22 ; Atlantic Eight per Cents., 31 to 3i ;
National Discount, 11 to 11i ; General Credit,
to 14 dis.; and International and Hudson's Bay,
124 to 12!.
The sum of £55,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday (including 35,000 sovereigns from
Alexandria). The total sent in during the week
since the last return has been, upon balance,
£473,000.

The Lansdowne, from Port Phillip, has brought
£66,000, and the Hansa, from New York, £23,091.
The Lansdowne has brought 2,000 cises of Aus-
tralian beef and mutton of about 70 tons' weight,
being the tenth cargo that has arrived since the
beginning of March. The consignees, Messrs.
ikl'Call and Co., state that the demand for these
provisions from the manufacturing districts is such
as to engage each shipment long before its arrival.
Mr. J. F. Lovering, the official liquidator of the
Metropolitan Ice Company (Limited), has, after
paying all the creditors in full, been able to make
a return of 3s. 10d. per share to the shareholders.
There has been a very limited number of bills
brought forward in the discount market, and the
rate is easy at 4 k for the best three months'
paper.

The bonds of the Guatemala Six per Cent. Go-
vernment Loan of 1869 are announced by Messrs.
Thomson, Bonar, and Co. as now ready to be issued
in exchange for fully paid-up scrip.
With reference to the prosecution of the direc-
tors of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited), it is
understood that Dr. Thom, the prosecutor, and
Mr. 11. G. Gordon, one of the defendants, are
anxious to get the trial disposed of at the earliest
Possible moment, but that the other defendants do
not appear to concur in this view. In the event of
Such concurrence being obtained from all parties,
a decision from a special jury as to the guilt or
innocmce of the accused may be given during next
month. The Chancery suit, " Dandas v. the
Directors and the Trustees of the late Mr. Gibb's
Estate," has been ripe for hearing for some time
Past, but the cum nittee, it is stated, have been un-
able to push the matter to a conclusion.
Messrs. Watson and Sherbarn, spinners and
Manufacturers, of Padiham, have called a meeting
of their creditors. The liabilities are understood
to be moderate, and a favourable liquidation is an-
ticipated.

The London and North Western Railway traffic
returns show this week an increase of £646 com-
pared with the corresponding period of last year ;
the Midland, an increase of £392 ; the Great
Northern, an increase of £2,293 ; the Great Eastern
a decrease of £4,905 ; the Great Western, a de-
crease of £1,859 ; and thA London and South
Western, an increase of £2,565.
The mails from Calcutta, China, and Australia,
via Marseilles, are expected to be distributed in
London on Monday morning.
The Government of Victoria invite tenders for
the conveyance, monthly, of mails and emigrants
between Great Britain and Melbourne, via the Cape
of Good Hope, by steamships of not less than
2,500 tons register, and each possessing accommo-
dation for 500 steerage passengers.

The Solicitors' Journal gives particulars of a re-
cent decision of the Court of Cassation with respect
to the rights of the English in France as to trade
names ani marks. From tali it appears that Eng-
lish manufacturers and traders may henceforth con-
fidently sue in France all usurpers of their trade
llama, provided tney prove that they have been the
first to make use of that name. "As to the male
mark," it is added—" There could be no doubE,
Upon th. 2 subject since the treaty, but the Englist►
commercial public should be made to understand
that no action can be brought on such a matter,
either by a French subject or an alien, unless the
trade mark has been previously registered and de-
Posited in the proper form. Foreign trade marks
are to be deposited at the Tribunal of the Seine, the
seat of which is Paris.

The Peruvian advices to the effect that it was
/said at Lima that the revenue deficiencies for the
Year " are to be covered with the produce of the
bonds of 1865, reserved in the London market,"
appear to be another addition to the false state-
41euts pertinaciously circulated regarding financial
affairs in that country. There are no such bonds
reserved in the London market, the whole of those
belonging to the Government having long ago been
sold.

At the meeting of the African Steamship Com-
Pany a dividend and bonus at the rate of 10s. per
Share were declared for the half-year, being at
the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
The directors of the National Provincial Bank of
England notify that a half-yearly dividend at the
rate of 8 per cent. per annum, and a half-yearly
Walls of 7 per cent., will be payable on the com-
pany's stock on the 12th of July.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
n UOVERNMENT FUNDS.
° Ditto
Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
8 per Cent. Reduced 92f 1 I
New 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. b per Oen .1 mi. 1873
A.nnuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 --
Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908_ 20
Exchoquzr Bills, £l,OOO, 2f k 3 i or Ct,
Do £lOO, £2OO & .C5OO 4 d
Bank of England Stock, 4} per Cent
De. opening —
Canada.i. 4 per Cont. Bonds —
'4ter-Colonial Uranium

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India 8 cock 10} per Cent., April 1874
Do. Opening, for Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cent...... —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ....... —
Do. 5} per Cent. May 1879 --
DJ 5 per Cent., Rep. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —

IL Tab., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 --
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l.OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
4. rgentine Republic, 6 per Cent ...
kuitrien Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859 _...
lir azilian 5 per Cent —
10. q per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do. 18'43....
Do. do. 186 1 —
Do. do., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
y, Do Account Bli
13 ands Ayres 6 per Cent.
De 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent 0
,11 )4, 6 po* Cent.
..Illan 6 per Cent —
no. 41 per Cent —
Do. 8 per Cent.,
Do. 6 per cent 1867 —
r, vo. 7 per Cent., 1866
`-' lornbian 6 per Cent.
n
D • ,
,-.sn, 3 per Cent., 1825 —,
DLL Lien Principalities, 7 ler Cent 7fl*
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 9ll
LgUkdor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
4Yrtian, 7 per Cent..., . ... 83
Do Fleeced Issue -
/)▪
0..£51)1. Bonds —
110. 4100 Bonds ..... 851
Do. 1864
Ts Do. Account
.u„,0..£500 Bonds
Vo. £lO6 Bonds B9; et
i,..0. 7 per Cent., 1868
=movernment Railway Debentures —

Pe -IC int 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account
Do 4i por Cent. (111:',arren)
Do 4t per Cent., 1862 •• .
Do Account -
P,ritzguese 3 per Ct., 1853,'6, 7,'9,'60,'2.'; 35
Do. do. 1P•67 ....
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Russian 5 ear Cent., 1822, X Sc
Do .1i- u Ceut • 1850 .. 881
Do 4 per Ce-nt., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1882
... 85 41
DO do, Scrip _
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds,. 893.
Do. do. £Bl 15s. d0..,_
Do.. 1866, £lOO Bonds —
Co. do XBl 1.55. do —
Do Nicolas Railway Bl4
Sardinian 5 per Cent 72i
Spanish 3 per Con . _
Do. Acc,iunt ..,
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferreu —
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. nut funded
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Turkish 6 por Cent. . — _

. ..
Do AccountB4 f
Do 6 per Cont. 1858 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds —

Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account

Do Xloe Bonds 69f70
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1860 661 I
Do 4 per Cont., Guaranteed
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Venozuela 3 per Cent. —
Do. Aces nut
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in lioudoT,
Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 4i per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2* per °Aut. Ex. 12 Guil, —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ...., --
Do. Account —
French Relates, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
I t‘lial, 5 per Cont. 1861, Ea. 45f.
D. Account s6i i
CLOSING PRICES.

J)nsole, Money 9214 id
Do. Account, July 7 o'2l xd

T.HE COMIC PAPERS.

(From the Owl.)
DIPLOMATIC HINTS.

Dear Sir,—l send you your official instructions, which,
as they instruct you in nothing, may keep you from error.
It is as well to add a few private hints to regulate your
conduct in the Old Country :-
1. The less you talk the better for us, and the less bad
sherry you drink at public dinners the better for yourself.
2. Your historical knowledge may be of some assistance
to you in a country where everything is historical, from a
statesman's conscience to orange marmalade ; but you
know, from experience, that history is not made by after-
dinner speeches stimulated by sentiments which have in
them more of the Dutch than the Republican.
3. You may safely take a cocktail with Clarendon
before dinner, and liquor-up occasionally with Otway.
Both are safe ; but beware how you indulge in the fragrant
Havana with the wily Hammond. He begins by nibbling,
and ends in smoke. _ . .

4. In your intercourse with the British aristocracy you
will conform to the usages of what they are pleased to call
polite society by exchanging your Panama for a chimney-
pot, and endeavouring to wean yourself from the use of
the spittoon.
5. If you find, as I guess you will, that the whole aris-
tocracy are ready to prostrate themselves before the repre-
sentative of the Star-spangled Banner, you will receive
their advances with the dignity and reserve which becomes
the envoy of a free people. On the other hand, if any
effete scion of hereditary tyranny gives you the cold
shoulder, you may rely upon your President if you
unhesitatingly toss him up against the sun and scorch his
back.—Yours respectfully, ULYSSES GRANT.

To Mr. Motley.
P.S.— You had better go to church re.gularly on Sunday,
as Britishers like it.

(From Punch.)

THE NOBILITY AND THE NOBLE ANDlAL.—Another
nobleman, and a duke, is done up by the Turf. His
Grace has failed for upwards of £95,000. A man in the
way of being ruined used to be said to be going to the
dogs. In the same way, when a peer or any other person
of property goes on the Turf, it had better become cus-
tomary to say that he is going to the horses.
KEEP THE MONEY AT HOME.—" Oriental Bazaar, at
the Queen's Rooms, Hanover-square, on behalf of the
Palestine Christian T_Tnion Mission to the Arabs." Has
not a word dropped out here ? Ought it not to be "to
the Street Arabs?" Too many of them may be found in
London, looking as though they sorely needed attention
from some mission or other. Cannot Arabia wait until
heathen London spews a little more improvement?
SEAMANSHIP AND SPORTING.—A masterly letter on
" The Turf" appeared the other day in the Times, occupy-
ing about a column and a third of the leading journal.
It was signed "H. J. Rous, Admiral." " I have been on
the Turf upwards of fifty years," says Admiral Rous
therein. Truly the gallant Admiral may be regarded as
the Patriarch of the Turf. There are Admirals of the
Red, the White, and the Blue. Should not Admiral Rous
be constituted Admiral of the Grey, or the Bay, or the
Brown, or the Chesnut? There are even those who dare
to whisper that the distinguished naval officer who pre-
sides over the Jockey Club deserves to be appointed, not
without a proper increase of pay, Commander of the
Horse Marines

(From Fun.)

WALL-EYED WISDOM.—To judge from the good pictures
they rejected, and the bad ones they hung, the R.A.'s
would seem to have been guided by the old saying, "Let
the weakest go to the wall ! "
A REALLY-ABLE TEACHER.—" A Schoolmaster," writing
to the Public Schools Chronicle about the escape of the
captive balloon, is quite as much abroad as the balloon.
He says no " reliable " tidings have been received of the
missing machine. Suaviter in modo we beg to tell him
there's no such word in the English language, and if he
uses it again he ought to be to the fortiter in, re-liable.

DE LUNATICO.—" The Man in the Moon," we are
informed in an ancient rhyme, " came down too soon to
ask his way to Norwich." That must have been a very
long time ago, for the recent disclosures before the com-
mittee for trying the Norwich election petition would
seem to indicate that his services have been fully appre-
ciated there for many years. But this time he did not
burn his mouth, but his fingers.

(From Judy.)

.YOR NAPOLEON'S REFLECTION—Rouge est Noir
Too TRUE.—The blue ribbon of the Turf too often
becomes the blue ruin of thousands !

MOTTO FOR THE AMERICAN EMBASSY—MotIey is, and
Johnson were I

THAT'S IT.—Brother Jonathan "cottons" to themiddle
and lower orders in England. He only detests the aris-
tocracy—that is, the Lairds!

A dreadful boiler explosion occurred on Wednesday
at Bingley, near Bradford. Many persons were killed and
much cottage property destroyed.

The case of Saurin v. Starr, Kennedy, and others,
the great convent case, came before the Chief Clerk and Vice-
Chancellor Malins on Wednesday on an application cn the part
of the plaintiff for the production and inspection of docu-
ments. The chief clerk said he supposed the convent was
the place where the documents were deposited. As the
Papers were in London he would make an order for their
production in court, and if Mr. Blake objected he would go
before the vice chancellor.

A case was on Tuesday decided by the Richmond
borough magistrates showing that a toll cannot be demanded
for velocipedes. A young man named Harker was passing
along the highway on a velocipede, and on coming to a toll-
gate near the town he was asked to pay a toll of 6d. He
paid the money, and afterwards asked for it to be returned,
but was refused, and he brought the case before the magis-
trates. The bench fined the tollgate-keeper 6d., and Bs.
6d. costs.

On Tuesday a woman named Emily Parker, alias
Bimmer, was brought before the Liverpool magistrates,
charged with stealing two watches and £8 from a house in
that town at which she had taken lodgings. On the magis-
trates inquiring if she was known to the police, Mr. Walter, the
prosecuting solicitor, informed their worships that she had
been several times tried for felony. Some years ago she
charged her mother and aunt Ns ith atteenpting to poison her.
They were tried before the late Lord Campbell, convicted,
and sentenced to death ; but it subsequently being
ascer•
tained that the young woman's story rasa fabrication, they
were reprieved. She was now remanded.
At the Sheffield Town Hall on Tuesday two fruit
dealers were charged with having in their possession a quan-
tity of figs wholly unfit for human food. In one of the cases
the figs were in a state of decomposition in consequence
of being eaten away IT a kind of parasite. When
the fruit is consumed in such a state it causes the
" intestinal itch," and also produces upon the skin a dis-
agreeable eruption. The bench inflicted a fine of 7s 6d.
each for 113 boxes of this noxious fruit, making a total sum
of £42 7s. 6d., costs also to be paid by the offender, and the
figs, of course, to be destroyed. A retail dealer, who had
bought some of the fruit from the first defendant, was fined
fire guineas and oar..