The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-05 00:00:00

XONEir-MARKET CE T

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocic.
The Stock Market has been very inanimate to-
day, but prices have been maintained. The monthly
settlement, which commences on Thursday next,
no doubt contributes to the firmness of the Go-
vernment securities. There has been some activity
in the Foreign Market, and prices in some instances
have improved. In the Discount market money is
plentiful, and good three months' bills are taken
below the official rate. In the house the rate for
loans is 3i.

Consols; are 924 3 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 93 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 91; 4 ;
New Tkree per Cents, 91i a ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, par ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, par;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., shut.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, —;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1124 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1004 4.
In the foreign market Egyptian of 1868, Turkish
of 1862 have risen 4, Egyptian of 1888, 4 ; Italian
of 1861 and Turkish of 1865, 4. The prices aro as
follows :—Bra-zilian of 1865, 80 to ; Chilian
of 1867, 944 to 954 ; Egyptian of 1864, 86 to
87 ex div. ; ditto of 1868, 764 to 77 ; Italian
of 1864, 55 to 554 ; ditto of 1868, 84 to
85 ; Mexican, 15 to 4 ; Peruvian of 1865, 784 to
; Russian of 1866, 91 to 4, ex div. ; Nicolai,
66f to 674 ; Orel, 814 to 814; Moscow, 794 to 4 ;
ditto Uharkof, 774 to 4 ; ditto Charcow, 77 to 4 ;
Spanish of 1867, 31 to 4 ; Turkish of 1858, 63 to
64 ; ditto of 1862, 674 to 4 ; and ditto of 1865,
41} to 4.

In the Railway Market prices are now quoted
as follows : London and North Westan,
115 f to 1154 ; Great Western, 494 to 494, ex
div. ; Midland, 1161} to 116 f ; London and South
Western, 87 to 89 ; Great Eastern, 374 to 38 ;
Brighton, 484 to I ; South Eastern, 754 to 4 ;
Metropolitan, 1014 to 4; Great Northern, 107 to
108 ; ditto A, 109 to 1094 ; Caledonian, 794 to 4 ;
London, Chatham, and Dover, 164 to 4 ; and
Sheffield, 574 to f.
American Five-Twenty Bonds have risen to
834 to 4; Erie Railway Shares, 24 to ; Illinois
Central, 964 to 97 ; Atlantic and Great Western
Debentures, 32 to 334 ; and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds, 324 to 334.
In miscellaneous shares, National discount are at
114 to 4 ; General Credit, 14 to 14 dis. ; Interna-
tional, 14 to 4 dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 124 to 4 ;
Telegraph Construction, 164 to 174 ; Atlantic
Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference, 54 to 4 ;
and Anglo-American, 224 to 4.
Bank shares are firm. City, 12 4 ; Imperial,
164 174 ; London and County, 514 524 ; London
Joint Stock, 324 334; London and Westminster,
644 4; Union of London, 364 4 ; Anglo-Aus-
trian, 154 164 prem. ; and Imperial Ottoman,
2 4 prem.

The Mortgage Debentures of the Trouville
Association are quoted to 1 prem.
The scrip of the Guatemala loan is quoted 1 k to
2 prem.

The Red Jacket has arrived from Melbourne
with £41,000 in gold.

At the Bank bullion office on Saturday no trans-
actions were reported.
The steamer Poonah, on Saturday, took out
£120,822 in specie, for the East. Annexed are the
particulars, viz :—For Galle, gold £515 ; Madras,
gold, £6,500 ; Calcutta, silver, £30,000 ; Shang-
hae, silver £15,515 ; Hong Kong, silver, £24,792 ;
Bombay, gold, £13,500, and silver £30,000.
In accordance with the resolutions passed at the
extraordinary general meeting of the Great Nor-
thern Railway Company on the 20th of February,
notice is given that the £450,000 of new ordinary
stock then authorised to be created will be allotted
rateably at par to the proprietors of the Original
and "A" and "B" stocks on or before the 9th
instant. The new stock is to rank in all respects as
regards dividend upon the amount paid up with
the Consolidated Original stock, and it is to "be
incorporated with the Original stock of the com-
pany on the re-opening of the books after the
half-yearly general meeting in February, 1871."
The half -yearly meeting of the Lake Huron Rail-
way Company, convened for the 29th inst., will be
made special, for the purpose of considering and
confirming an agreement with the Grand Trunk
Railway Company.
The half-yearly meeting of the Demerara Rail-
way Company is convened for the 21st inst.

With reference to the Russian Three per Cent.
Loan of 1859, Messrs. Thomson, Boner, and Co.,
have notified that the new sheets of .coupons for the
ensuing ten years will be ready for issue on the Ist
of May.

Messrs. C. J. Hambro and Son have given notice
that the excess dividend on Zealand Railway shares
for the year 1868, of 2 per cent., or Bs. per share,
over and above the interest of 4 per cent. guaran-
teed by the Danish Government, will be paid by
them on the 9th inst.
The numbers are published of 100 preference
shares of the Tourney to Jurbise and Landen to
Hassell; Railway Company, which were drawn for
redemption on the 27th ult., and are now payable
at par.

It is stated that a new concession will be granted
for the Sebastopol Harkow Railway, one section
of which will be constructed by the State, on
political grounds. A new issue of railway obliga-
tions is also likely to take place for the Grand
Russian Railway Company for six. millions sterling,
in 5 per cent, bonds, repayable by drawings.
Proposals have been issued by Messrs. Thomson,
Bonar, and Co., for a 6 per cent. Guatemala loan
of £500,000, at the price of 69i, reckoning allow-
ances, repayable at par within 19 years, from an
annual accumulative sinking fund of 3 per cent.,
and specially secured by a lien on the Customs'
dues. The objects are to pay off a home debt of
about £200,000., and also to construct a road from
the capital of the Republic to a port on the Atlantic
to increase the development of the various resources
of the country.

A prospectus has been issued of the New Zealand
Quartz Crushing and Gold Mining Company, with
a capital of £50,000 in shares of £2, half to be first
issued.

A shareholder in the old Atlantic Telegraph
Company writes as follows :—" My attention has
just been directed to the speech of the chairman of
the Atlantic Telegraph Company at its meet-
ing on the 18th instant., in which he says that
the average receipts earned by the Atlantic
cables have been £7OO per day, but that, owing
to some special expenses for buildings, &c., there
will be merely enough profit to Pay about 4 per
cent., or 6 per cent. to the 8 per cent. preference
holders, leaving nothing for the original stock. It
is, however, clear that the chairman was onl
wising the result, as y stir-
,he had not received the ac-
counts from the Anglo-American Company, and
the financial year will not close till April 30th.
Seven hundred pounds per day net receipts
gives £255,500 per annum, and if from this be
deducted the expenses, about £30,000, and the
Anglo-American Company's first charge upon
the profits of £125,000, together £155,000,
it follows that a balance of £100,500 is
left for the Atlantic Company's shareholders.
This £100,500, apportioned, would give the 8 per
cent. preference stock about 10 per cent., and the
original stock about 6 per cent. The chairman,
however, says that the preference stock will only
get about 6 per cent., or £36,000 ; therefore the
expense of the buildings must be about £64,000,
which is simply preposterous. Surely the cost of
buildings should be capitalised. The unissued
stock of the Atlantic Company would be more than
ample to cover the expense. The shareholders
Should protest against their fair revenue earnings
being applied to capital purposes. Let them do so,
and doubtless both the preference and the original
stock will receive a full dividend."

BRITISII FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

UOVERNMEXT leuNDs.
3 or Cent. Consols 92i 3
Ditto for Account .........
8 per Cent. Reduced, 9ll
New 3 per Cent
New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
per Cen J an. 1873
A.unuities, 80 yrs, txpire sth Jan., 1880 —

Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1886
Do (Red Sea 7 ele6raph), Aug., IsooB
Eachcquor Bills. £l,OOO, 24 per Ct.
Do £500
Do. £lOO k £2OO p:tr
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent Shut
Dcloponing
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Celonial Uranium
INDIAN dovEitrimENT SECURITIEb.
India 5 rock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Opening, for Account -
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ...
Do., Scrip £45 paid ..
Au Arian Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
On. 44 per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do. 1858....

Do. do. 186 ,
Do. do. 1863 6B}
Do. 5 per Cont., 1865 —
Do Account BO i
B Amos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent —
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Oailian 6 per Cent
De. 41 per Ceut 721
Do. 8 per Cont.,
Du. 6 per ca-t. 1867'
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
0 lo übian, 6 per Cent
Dan'sn, 3 per Cont., 1825
Dan. bian Principalities, 7 her Cent 76
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 —
rquador New Consolidated, 1 per Gem
Egyptian, 7 per Cent —
1)e Second Issue Bl}
••
Do. £5Ol, Bonds —
Do. £10) Bonds • • •••
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. £5OO Bonds
Do. .£IOC Bonds B7
English Scrip, 1868 761 7
Do do. £45 pd — die
Government Railway Debenture,
Greet( 5 per Cont., 1824- 5, ex Coups —
~.to. Acecunt
1/r). Coupons
Do. Aceount
Guatemala 5 per Cent . 6B
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd
'Wien 5 per rent., 1865 —
Do. Account
Do Aleremniana Railway 57
lex'ca,: 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do ( per Cont. Anglo-French —
A outevideau 6 per Cent. •• ..... .•••
licorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Do 3 per Cen —
Do. Deferred
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account .. 78i 91-
Do 41 per Cent. (Ut:harren) ...... ......
Do 4; per Cent.. 1862
Do Account ......... .. —"
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7, '9,'Hil.'2.* 351
Do. do. 1867 36±

Do. do. Sc
Russian 5 ~sr Cent., 1822, £.4.!0 paid —
St —
Do 44 per Cent 1850
Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds —
Do. du. £B4 158. do —
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 9l 4
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 67
Sar Julian a per Cent 744
Spanish 3 per Con
Do. Ac,,,unt ...
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Doferreu
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. Coin. Cert. of Coup. not funded...

Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Do d., Scrip — Pn-
Turkish 6 per Cent.; ... ,
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 —
Do Account
Do .fIOC Bonds 694 70
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1863 654 I
Dividends on the above payable in Lua,i..
Austrian o par Cent. Ex 10 Florins ,
Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gui!
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
Do. Account —
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 2M. —
Italian 5 per Cent. 1851, 1.1.. 25f.
Do Account ss} }
CLOSING PRICES.
Jonsols, Money
Do. Account, April 8

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, April 1.

the following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.

March '25.

April 1.

fr. c. fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 o'2
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches 22,105,750 11 22,105,750 14
Reserve of lauded pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
Baak notes to order and
receipts payable at
sight 34,299,593 26 35,753,504 87
Treasury account cur-
rent creditJr 164,796,291 03 160,053,058 31
Current accounts, Paris 261,692,7,6 68 252,975,469 36
Do. branch backs 48,339,138 45,976,114
Dividends payable 1,090,4a3 1,190,559
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months 933,790 25 933,790 85
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

Total
CREDITOR.
March 25. April 1.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. e.

Branch banks
Commercial bills over-

due
Commercial bills die-

193,138 73

counted, not yet due 239,926,067 93 219,043,137 51
Do. branch banks 210,299,791 238,665,084
Advances on deposit of
bull;on
Do. branch banks 3,383,900 4,293,400
Do. on French Public
. .

Securities 13,665,700 13,601,600
Do. by branch banks 6,509,380 6,548,480
Do. on railway shares
aud debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Fancier

Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Government Stock re-

serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Hentes Immobalisees

(Law, June 2, 1857) 100,900,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches... 8,995,312 8,994,501
Expenses of manage-

nient 1,115,786 OG 739,134 77
Sundries

Total
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank
of France.

(Signed) ROULAND.

CEN7RAL CRIMINAL COURT—(7his Day).

Owingo p,re nheedtaot
Recorder,tthiiee Old t Baileyn
his
chargethi s mtonr
thenin
The April Session of the Central Criminal Court was
serious character. girand jury, said that
long period that had elapsed since the
adjournment, a good many cases would be brought
charge of wilful murder, but
slaughter,laundou
and some of those cases were of a very
before them
c a ltehnedraer
was
sd
onenot contain
oase efmaanny.
char
severalof of wounding with inept to commit
char_e , these cases, a woman, named Ellen
murder.
Cook, was
intent to commigt clin_wi,th wounding her husband with
one of an uer, and the case was certainly
that the parties had extraordinary character. It appeared
terms, and on the da not
lived on very good
dsteadotooe, the
and bthede,
prsio-
allowed himself to be?'
tiin question the husband
and fur a consider
that he could not offer anyd °u
lvastulzbipierthanend
soner then seemed to have woruesuai
serious and dangerous manner,
and callediign ttoitnse tah emr °tit
able time his life was in danger.
referred to the case of the Admi►alld clerk
Rumble, who were charged with conspiring
a contract
obtain money by false pretences,
atten-
tion of the grand jury to the facts. He said there
doubt that one of the defendants, Rumble,
hheadvraosbllnnedo
a sum of £3O by the pretence that
position to obtain the acceptance of
for the supply of elm timber by the Admiralty.
The other defendant, Gambier, was a person holding a
high position in the Admiralty, and ho was charged with
being concerned with Rumblein obtaining the money, and
he thought that if the same facts should be laid before
them tnat appeared in the depositions, they would feel
that it was their duty to return a true bill.
The grand jury then zetired, and the Court proceeded
to dieposo of the business of the session.