The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-03 00:00:00

MARKET

XONEY

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Prices to-day were at the opening with some dif-
ficulty supported, but towards the .middle of the
claY Consols receded about 1. There was a steady
basiness doing in railway shares.
Consols are 93 2; for money ; ditto, for Ac-
"int, 921 ; 'Three iper Cent. Reduced, 911 4 ;
New Three per Cents, 91; 1 i•
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 1 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 a x.d. ; ditto Eufaced Paper
5 por Cent., Jan., 1872, 106 ; ditto Bonds under
£l,OOO, 18 prem.
Foreign securi.ies were dull. American Five-
Twenties have given way. Egyptian of 1808 and
Peruvian of 1865 have improved / per cent. The
Prices for Egyptian of 1864, 89 to 90 ; ditto of
1868, 76; to 77 ; Italian of 1861, 56; to 57 ;
Aleviean, 161 to 1 ; Peruvian, 801 to j ; Russian
of 1866, 931 to 941 ; Nicolsi, 66; to 671 ;
Orel, 821 to 1 ; Moscow, 801 to ; ; ditto Charkof-
Azof, 781 to ex div. ; ditto Charkow-Krement-
sehug, 781 to ; ; Spanish of 1867, 321 to 1;
Turkish of 1858, 64 to 65, ex div. ; ditto of 1862,
66i to 67 ; and ditto of 1865, 411 to 411.
The Honduras Loan is steady, at 85 87 ex coupon.
The Railway market shows a rise of f in Metro-
politan Extension, but the Original stock is 1
lower; Great Northern A and Brighton improved
I, and South Eastern, Great Western, Sheffield,
and North Western are better ; Caledonian,
Chatham, and Dover, and Midland receded /,
and North Eastern (Berwick) Stock is k lower.
The quotations are as follows :—Caledo-
nian, 761 7 ; Great Western, 481 1 ; Great
Eastern 371 1 ; Great Northern, 107 8 ; ditto
A, 1041 ; Lancashire, 124 1 ; Metropolitan,
1061 1; ditto Extension, 105 6 ; Midland, 116 ;
Sheffield, 53 1 ; Brighton, 501 ; North British,
351 1; North Western, 1141 1 ; North Eastern
(Berwick), 1021 3 ; South Eastern, 76 71 ;
Chatham and Dover, 161 4.
A sum of £36,000 in bar gold has been taken
from the Bank for shipment to the Continent.
The Marpesia, from Melbourne, has brought
£20,996.
The Royal Mail steamer Shannon is announced
vith West Indian mails, bringing also specie to the
value of £249,765.
From the Board of Trade returns it appears that
the total revenue from Customs duties last year,
after deducting drawbacks and allowances,
amounted to £22,411,783, against £22,434,755 in
1867, and £21,741,538 in 1866. The principal
receipts in 1866 were—From corn, £864,097 ;
Spirits, £4,333,371 ; sugar, unrefined, £5,185,072 ;
tea, £2,672,980 ; tobacco, £6,578,749 ; and wine,
£1 591 199 2 , .

The Master of the Rolls has sanctioned the I ay-
cf a third dividend of 12s. in the pound to the
creditors of the Breech-loading Armoury Company
(Limited) —making with previous distributions
15s. 4d.

The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of £2,710 over last year.

At the meeting of the London General Omnibus
Company (Limited) a dividend was declared at the
rate of 5 per cent per annum, free of income tax.
At the meeting of the Telegraph Construction
and Maintenance Company (Limited) the directors'
report, which announced. a total payment for the
rear of 10 per cent., was adopted.
The annual general meeting of the North British
and Mercantile Insurance Company was held at
Edinburgh. A dividend and bonus, together 20s.
Per share, or 16 per cent. on the paid up capital
stock, was declared.
The state of trade at Manchester is thus described
by Messrs. Ward, Armitage, and Co., by telegram :
We have a very flat market with receding
prices, but few offers making, except to low to re-
sult in business."

The arrangements for the introduction of the
Turkish loan of the SJciete Generals has been com-
pleted with lessdelayithan. had been anticipated ;
the prospectus is therefore expected to be published
on Thursday. The amount will be £2,480,000
sterling in 6 per cent. bonds, at 83 (or, reckoning
allowances, about 80), redeemable at par in certain
Proportions in 1872 and 1873, annual revenues of
large amount being specially assigned as security.
At the proposed price, taking into account the
periods for repayment, the bonds will give a return
of 121 per cent. per annum. The subscription will
be effected in London, Paris, Constantinople, and
Amsterdam.
The advices from Frankfort state that the resolu-
tion of the American Congress with regard to the
redemption of the 5-20 bonds in gold has created
great excitement, and been followed by a rise of
nearly 4 per cent. in the course of a few days,
although large amounts were thrown on the market
from London and New York. Heavy buying orders
poured in by telegraph from Southern Germany and
Vienna, so that the aggregate transactions reached
an immense amount. Indeed, all kinds of Ameri-
can stock, 1865, and 10-40 bonds, and even Pacific
Central Railway mortgage bonds, were taken at
rising prices to any amount offered.
The rage for speculation on the Vienna Bourse
becomes more serious every week. The new banks
start with the most extravagant projects—such as
an Austrian-Indian trading company, steamers on
the Danube, tenders for army equipments, enlarg-
ing the Vienna streets, and a number of other things
quite foreign to regular banking business ; still all
new issues command a premium, and so long as
this is the case every class of society will be drawn
Into the vortex.

It Ilion 5 per Cert., 1865 —
Tio. Accountij ...„ Bs}
Do 11;treinmana Railway —
•• -• x war,. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
)n. 1864 —

Do A per Cont. Anglo-French —
outevidpan 6 per Cent. .. —
flc 9rish imperial 5 per Cent
New Gr ranA d a l6i
Do 3yer Cen —

Do. Deforrod
Nrurian b per Cent. lti6s
Do Account .. 801 i
Leo 44 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 4i- per Cent.. 1862
Do Account
P,)rt'iguese 3 per Ct., 1853,'6, 7, '9,'.i0,'2.'
Do. do. 18,67 —

Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
14 ssian 5 per Cent., 1622, £ St
Do 41 per Cent . 1850
L'' I', per Cci1t.,.18611
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 por Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, .£loo,Bouth. 94
Do. do. £B4 15s. d 0....
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds —
Do. do £Bl 15s. do —
I o Nicolas Railway —
Sar tiniau b per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Con . —
Do. Acc., tint -
D. 4 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferrea —
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. Com. Cert. of Con'. not funded
Do. Account,
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Do do, Scrip — Pr-
Turkish 6 per Cent.l
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds ...-
Do 6 per Cent., 1662 —
Do Account
Do £IOC. Bonds 671
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 —
Dj Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1860
Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed .. ......
Do Laud Warrants (fieJares)
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —
Do. Acc.ant
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Divideuas on the above payable iu Lou''
Austrian o per Cont. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil„ —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... —
Do. Account —
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, E 1:. Zof.
Do Account 561
CLOSING PRICES.
Joneols, Money 921 .i.
Do. Account, March 4 ... 921 -

LATEST INTELL LGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

CROATIA.
PESTH, March 2.
The Emperor and Empress are expected to
arrive here to-nuorrow afternoon.

AGIZAM, March 2.

The Croatian Diet was opened this afternoon.
The President, in addressing the House, charac-
terised the approaching visit of their Majesties as
an acknowledgment of the loyal attituie of the
Diet.

FATAL SHIPWRECK.

WICK, Wednesday.

The ship Sisters, from Granton, for Montevideo,
has Leen wrecked near Cape Wrath. The vessel is
a total wreck. The crew all drowned.

FRANCE.
Ho URSE, March 2.—Three._o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
4i per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Gent ..... 71 37
End of mouth 7l 42}
Crodit Mobilier

Bank Shares 2965
Its.Eau Fives 57 50
Eud of month —
Mexican Loan 24
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes 34
Home Debt —
Deferred —
s. Cash
Orleans
INI orthern 7lBO
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.... 6211
Western
Eastern
Sardinian

End of month... 293 75
Credit Fonder ...1620 -
of month...

RAILWAY:

Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

656 i
483 f

CENTRAL C.RIMINAL COURT—(This Day.)

THE CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A LADY.
Louisa Blanch, the wife of a person in a respectable
position at the East-end of the town, who ha been
admitted to bail, and Amelia Prosser, were charged
with the manslaughter of Jane Glover. It will be
remembered that the prisonors, the latter of whom
was servant to the other, were walking together at Mile
End, when the deceased passed them and made some
observations which gave offence to the prisoner Blanche,
and after some altercation an attack was made
upon the deceased by both the prisoners, and she
was knocked down and received injuries upon the
head from which she died shortly afterwards. The pri-
soner Blanch was admitted to bail, but she did not sur-
render in discharge of her recognisances. The recogni-
sauces of the prisoner Blanch were then ordered to be
estreated, and a warrant was issued for her apprehension.
THE CODERICH DIVORCE CASE. —TRIAL FOR PERJURY.
Caroline Cottee, a middle-aged woman, surrendered to
take her trial on an indictment charging her with having
committed wilful and corrupt perjury in the Divorce
Court. The present proceedings were now brought with
the view of showing by the evidence of Mr. Goderich and
Mrs. Taylor that the statements of Cottee in the Divorce
Court were an entire fabrication.
The case is still proceeding.

POLICE IIVTELLIGENCE-77as Day.

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THAMES.
DRUNKEN CAB DRIVERS.—WiIIiam Elderfield, aged 32
years, was brought before Mr. Benson charged with being
drunk during his employment as a cab driver.
Thomas Geater, police-constable No. 31 11, said the pri-
soner was driving a horse and cab, or rather the horse was
proceeding along the Figh-street, Whitechapel, by In-
stinct, and was not driven at all, for the prisoner, who
wore the badge No. 11,322, was lying on the box dead
drunk, and quite unconscious of what he was doing and
whether he was running over any one or not. He took the
prisoner into custody and the horse and cab to the green-
yard.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had some drink
given him in the City, and that his horse was sober, and
took care of him and his cab.

Mr. Benson ou might have run over some one.
Nothing is more dangerous than for cabmen to get
drunk while driving. It has been the cause of many of
those deplorable occurrences in the public streets. You
are fined 20s„ and in default of payment 11 days' im-
prisonment.

Edward Ward, another cab driver, was charged with
a similar offence, and ho pleaded that he had been
afflicted with a fever, and that a little drink soon got
over him.

Mr. Benson —You had a good deal of drink, and was
quite unable to manage your horse and cab, and it ap-
pears that you were committed to prison by Mr. Vaughan
at the Bow-street Polic3-court for 14 days. That was
only a month ago, and here you are again for a similar
offence. You will again go to prison for 14 days.

The prisoner—lt was the fever did it—pray don't send
me to prison.
Mr. Benson— I should be paying no respect to Mr.
Vaughan's decision, if I did not send you to 14 days' im-
prisonment and hard labour.