The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-05 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK•

There is no appreciable alteration in the general
state of the Money Market ; the supplies and circu-
lation have increased instead of showing the
diminution usual at this period, owing to the
millions sterling locked up in provision for the half-
yearly dividend.

A further sum of £16,000 in gold was taken to
the Bank of Englaad yesterday.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the 3d of July gives the following re-
sults when compared with the previous week :
Reit
••• .£3 180 866 ... Increase .. £7,840
Public deposits 9'356,727 ... Decrease 1,748,686
Other deposits ... Increase 1,014,104

On the other side of the account:—
Government securities £12,830,773 ... Decrease ...X.45,541
Other securities ... 20,456,251 .., Increase ...358,175
Notes unemployed 12,088,710 ... Decrease... 808,630
The amount of notes in circulation is £24,353,860,
being an increase of £1,148,950 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £22,495,855, showing
an increase of £209,171 when compared with the
preceding return. Usually the first return after
the end of the half year shows a decline of about a
quarter of a million in the bullion, owing to with-
drawals of sovereigns for Government and other
payments. . .

Subjoined is a comparison of the present position
of tho Bank of England and the price of Consols
with the corresponding week of last year :
Same week
At present. last year.
Bank bullion ... £22,495,855 £14,876,945
Notes in reserve... ... 12,088,710 ... 3,335,800
Notes in circulation 24,853,860 ... 25,311,865
Bate of discount n per Gent. 10 per cent.
Pries of Consols 94} 361 7
The Bank of France returns show the following
changes compared with the previous return. The
cash in hand has increased £103,500, the bills
receivable £592,000, and the votes £178,400, while
the Treasury has decreased £620,000, and the pri-
vate accounts £860,000.

The Union Bank of London have announced
that at the half-yearly meeting, to be held on the
10th inst., a dividend of 7 per cent., and a bonus
of 5 per cent. will be declared for the six months
ended 30th June last, making, with the distribution
of profits in Januarylast, 221- per cent. for the year,
being the same rate as in the previous year.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway debentures
have declined I, to 30 32, but the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds remain steady at 241 25f.
During the past few days there has not been
much animation in the Foreign and Colonial Pro-
duce Markets. The dealings in sugar have been
restricted, and prices have shown little variation of
importance. Coffee has been in fair request, par-
ticularly superior qualities of Plantation Ceylon
which have brought full rates. In rice scarcely any
business has been reported, and quotations are a
shade lower, while only moderate transactions have
been entered into in tallow, and insufficient to
cause any material change in values.

With regard to the corn trade in Birmingham,
Mr. W. C. R. Cane states as follows :—Weather
until Monday night continued fine, with a
high temperature. We had then a splendid
rain, which will be of immense benefit to
the growing crops and pastures, but more
especially to the barley, which was showing serious
signs of want of moisture. The corn trade during
the week has remained in the same dull, inactive
state so long noted ; this is caused chiefly by
the continued determination of manufacturers
to work on the hand to mouth system,
and by the entire absence of speculation.
Supplies of English wheat continue most moderate.
Arrivals of Foreign are to a fair extent. At our
market to-day we had again a poor show of fine
English wheat, and such sold at the prices of last
week, while secondary were unsaleable.

The subjoined circular, with reference to the
affairs of the London, Brighton, and South-Coast
Railway, has been issued by Mr. S. Laing, M.P.:—
" Company's Offices, London-bridge, E.C.,
July 2, 1867.
"Sir,—Having consented to become chairman of the
Brighton Company in the hope of saving it from its present
embarrassments, I am satisfied that au amalgamation with
the South-Eastern Company is the first step to place both
properties on a sound footing. lam further satisfied that
the enclosed agreement is perfectly fair for both sides, and
mutually advantageous; and as it is of great importance
with reference to the application to Parliament that it
should be adopted by large majorities of the shareholders,
I beg earnestly to request that you will attend the meeting
to be held on Friday, the 12th of July next, at one
o'clock, at the Bridge House Hotel, Southwark; or, if you
are unable to attend, that you will sign the enclosed
proxy in favour of myself or Sir Charles Jackson.—Yours
faithfully,
At the meeting held to-day of the. Colonial Bank,
Mr. C. M. Marryatt in the chair, the report, seconded
by Mr. Gurney Hoare, was unanimously adopted,
and a dividend declared at the rate of 6 per cent.
for the half-year, being equal to 12 per cent.
for the year. It was stated by the chairman that
there were no fresh losses, and that the bad debts
of last year were all cleared off. The not profit for
the half year amounted to £41,121. The reserve
fund amounted to £136,000.

Two O'CLOCK.
According to Reuter's telegram this morning,
the French Rentes were 68f. 60c.

Scarcely any business is reported in the market
for Consols, and the quotations for money and ac-
count are now exactly the same, viz., 94 I for
both. The dealers and brokers, investors and
speculators, are now awaiting, with some anxiety,
the issue of the settlement.

The New Threes are 934 ; Reduced Annuities,
934 4 ; Exchequer Bills for March, 245. to 275.
prom; India 5 per Cents., 1094 ; ditto Enfaced
5 per Cents., 1034 ; ditto £l,OOO Bonds, 60s. prem.
In the Foreign Stock Market a firmer tone has
prevailed. Italian 5 per Cents. have improved 4,
to 484 4 ; Mexican Stock, 4, to 16 164 ; Turkish
5 per Cents. 4, to 304 314 ; Spanish Passive 4, to
234 24 ; ditto Certificates 4, to 154 16 ; and Rus-
sian Loan Scrip 4, to 4 4 prem. ; while Greek
Bonds have declined 4, to 14 144.
Only a moderate amount of business has been
transacted in the Railway Share Market, but prices
in most instances exhibit greater firmness. Brighton
have advanced 14 ; South-Western and Metropoli-
tan each 1 ; Midland, 4 ; South-Eastern, 4 ; and
Great Western, 4 ; while Great Northern have de-
clined 4.

In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings little
variation was apparent, Great Luxembourg being
dealt in at 11i ; South Austrian and Lombardo-
Venetian at 15f ; East Indian at 107 i ; Great Indian Peninsula at 1064 ; and Bombay and Baroda
at 100 f I.
Miscellaneous and Finance shares are without
material variation. General Credit remain firm at
5i 6 ; National Discount Company have declined
to 124 ; and Hudson's Bay Company improved to
15i ; Fore-street Warehouse are marked 13}
and Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 42f 44.
Bank Shares remain very dull. London Joint
Stock have declined to 44k, Union of Loudon to
40i, and London and Westminster to 103 ; while
Bank of New Zealand have improved to 18i.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
CIOVERNMENT exDs.
3 per Ueut. Consols
BDo. Account, July 10
per Cent. Reduced 931
ow 3 per Cent
Do. o per Cent. Jan. 1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan. 188 U
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 'lBB5
Do (Red Sea Tolo6raph), Auo., 1908
M—
h.
Exchequer Bills, £l,000
£5OO
Do. £lOO £2OO Pm.
Bank of England Stock, 5} per
Cent
Do. Account
INDIA.N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India-
n otock, 101 per Cent AprillB74 Shut Do. Account
Do 216 xd
5 per Cent. July, 188 u /
10
Do. 4 per. Cent., Oct. 1888
109
1)0. Certificates
Do. Enfacod Paper 4 per Cent
Do. 5 per Cant., Jan. 1872
1031
'DO. 4 per Cont., May 1879
Do. Deb., 5 por Cent., Aug. 1873 o. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO
O pm
1)0.114(lor £l,OOO ................. •

Juue.

a.......+....
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent —
Austrian Bonds, 5 per k.ounc, 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
De. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account 741 4 1
Do. LlOO Bonds 75
B )(mos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
°Lillian 6 per Cent —
Do. 44 per Cent —
00. 6 per Cent A .
Do. „ B
Do. „ 1867
Do. '
, Scrip, £4O paid — par
C )1, mbian, 6 per Cont.
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danisu 3 ner Cent., 1825 --
D.). 5 per Cont., 1864 ..
D .nubian Principaliti 3P, 7 per Cent
Do. Do. 8 1867
Scrip, Do. Do. " •
p, Xe'o paid dis
E iliador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
6gyptian 7 per Cent —
Do. Second Issue
Do. £lOO Bonds
DJ. Do. 1864 Bl 4
Do. £lOO Bonds B2 11
Do Government Railway Debentures BOl
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account —
Guatemala 5 per Cent .. —
It9iian 5 per Cent 1865
Do, Account
Do. Maremmana Railway —
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
Aontevidean 6 per Cent. .. —
Hoorish Imperial 5 per Cent —
New Granada l2l 1
Do 3 per Cen
Do. Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 5 per Cent 1865
Do Account 654 6
Do 41 per Cent., 1865 •
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 4 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 404
ttussian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 874
Do 44 per Cent. 1850
Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 8 pm Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 864 71
Do. 5 per Cont., 1864 904
Do. Anglo-Thitch 1866 864 7
• Do. do X6O paid poi
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cent ... . —

Do Account
Do New Donnied
Do. Account

Do Passive
Do Account 24 31 / 1
Spanish Com. Cert. of Coup.
Do Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do. Account

Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account 56
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1863
Do. 5 per Cent, 1865
Do. Account, July
Do. 6 per Cont., 1865
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Do. Account -
Do. 6 per Cent.; 1862
Do. 6 per Cont. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in London
Austnau a per Cent. Ex, 10 Florins ... --
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 23f.
Dutch z 4 per Cont. Ex. 12 Gail
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
French Rentes, 3 nor Cent.. Ex. 251.
'Mau 3 per Cont; 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 484

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 9411
Do. Account, July 10

LAW INTELLIGENOE—This D Lys

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord
Chief Justice Cockburn, and a Special Jury.)
GOLTIB V. THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
This was an action by the plaintiff, a hair-
dresser, at Barclay-road, Essex, and his wife, to
recover damages sustained by the latter while tra-
velling on the company's line. The defendants
denied that they were indebted to the plaintiffs, or
that their servants had been guilty of any negligence
on the part of their servants.

Mr. Sergeant O'Brien was counsel for the
plaintiff ; and Mr. Powell, Q.C., for the defendants.
Mrs. Rachel Gotlib, the female plaintiff, stated
that last November she vt ent by the second-class on
the company's line from the Barclay road station.
There were in the carriage with her two ladies
whom she did not know and her brother. On the
arrival of the train at Stratford one of the railway
porters opened the door of the carriage, and the
ladies got out. As she was about following them,
the carriage gave a jerk, and she was flung on the
platform. She fell very heavily, being large in the
family way. When she returned home she became
very ill, and the next day she suffered severe pain
from a contusion in the knee and other injuries
from the accident. She was soon under medical
treatment, but fortunately no premature confine-
ment took place. The injuries were serious, if
not permanent, in their character, and Mrs. Gotlib
had been unable to render her husband any
assistance in his business for some time after the
accident. She was also obliged to have the con-
stant attendance of a nurse. The company took
no notice of an application for compensation, but
when they had been served with a writ on behalf
of the plaintiff, they took out a summons against the
lady for having got out of the carriage while the train
was in motion, but up the present time the
latter was not proceeded with.

Other evidence was given on behalf of the
plaintiff.

The jury found a verdict for the defendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Guildhall, before Mr.
Justice Keating and a Common Jury.)
ABSALON V. POUNCETS.
Mr. 11. James was counsel for the Plaintiff, and
Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., for the defendant.
The plaintiff in this case is an artist, and the
defendant a gentleman of fortune, who has a taste
for paintings. Last November the plaintiff exhi-
bited a picture in water colours at the Pall-mall
Exhibition, which the defendant agreed to purchase
for £l5, and a label was fixed on it with the word
" sold" written on it. The picture was entitled
" Idlers," and was framed and glazed.
For the plaintiff Mr. R. Thackwaite, a keeper of
the pictures at the exhibition, was examined, and
stated that the defendant agreed to purchase the
picture in question without the frame.
This was denied by the defendant, who alleged
that he bought the picture with the distinct under-
standing that the frame was to be included in the
purchase-money agreed to be paid by the defendant.
The jury found a verdict for the defendant.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

LONDON, July s.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

SWANSEA, July 2. —Wind N.W.—Arrived—Kate, from
Newfoundland.

PORTSMOUTH, July 3.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Terrible, from the Westward; her Majesty's
ship Duncan, from Sheerness; her Majesty's ship Reyengii,
from the Eastward.

OFF FALMOUTH, July 4.—Wind WN.W.- Arrived—
Jantje Berg Driesten, screw steamer, from Buenos Ayres
for Amsterdam.

PLYMOUTH, July 3.—Wind W.—Suiled—Johu Temper-
ley, for Sydney.

(By Telegraph.)

GRAVESEND, Friday Morning."
Arrived, July 4.—Fern, from Nassau ; Mermaid, Cheval
de Troy, and Zurna, from Guernsey ; Baron Osy, steamer,
from Antwerp; Eleanor, from St. John's; Seine, steamer,
from Boulogne; Troubadour, steamer, from Rottordatn ;
Iglander, from Barbadoes,
Arrived, July s.—llannah and Deo, from Guernsey ;
Lord Clarendon, from Rio Janeiro; Triton, steamer, from
Boulogne.

Sailed, July 4.—Victor, steamer, for Brussels ; Salaman-
der, steamer, for Port Phillip; Busy Bee, steamer, for
Trieste ; Rhine, steamer, for Boulogne ; Talbot, for
Shanghae.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—This Duy

Market opens steady.
10,000 bales.

Sales probably about

On Wednesday last a banquet was given to Mr.
James A. Youl, at Galway, as a recognition of his success
in having introduced the salmon into the rivers of Tas-
mania, and to present him with an address signed by the
high sheriff, chief magistrates, an.l loading inhabitants.

SHARE MARRETS.—This Day.

ORDINARY SHARES AND ST( CIS.

- --
1 I Closing I Business
4haral Railways. I Paid.. 1. •e. 1
i debe.
m
st Bristol and Exeter IOU 7981
et Caledonian lOO 1(9 11
st Cambrian
- Cork and Bandon...- - - -
20 Cornwall all 3 5
st Dublin & Belfast Juno lOO 5,5 65
at Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc NO 70 72
100 &London, bail) Certi all - -
Do. 100 - - d
et Glasgow &S. Western 100 - -
at Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 100 261 261 2e& i
at Do. E. Angl. at. No. a 100 6 7
at Great North of Scotland 100 - -
at Great Northern lOO 115 111 My 14
at Du. A stock ......
at Do. B stock l9O - -
Do. New, Is. at 25 pm 10) - -
at (RS, and W. of Ireland 100 91 13
st Gt. Western -Original 14,0 43 44 43i 433 I
st Do. S. Val. itail bus. 100
at Do. South Wales - --
st Do. W. Mid.-Oxioru 100 '27 3u
at Do. Newport lOO 27 29
st Do. Hereford. lOO - -
at Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 127 128 1 8
at Landon and Blaokwall 100 - -
at Lon., Brigh.,& S Coast 100 53 53 51) 4131 41
at Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 16 17 .71 1
at Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO It 17
at Lon. & North Western 100 112 114 1131 1
at Lon. & South Western 100 75 77 ;7
at Man., Shot., & Linooln 100 46 57
st Metropolitan.... all 123 1.4 1241 51 41 6
- Do. New
at Do. Extension.... all 108 110 1091 10
100 1 Metropolitan District," all 83 90
Do. do. do. 10 - -
10 Du. and St. John's W'd 6 - -
et Midland ....a lOO in 113 1131 111 1 1
9 Do. 411 Share 7 - -
at Do, Birmin.. & Darby 100 80 82
25 Mid Kent - -
at North British .... ...
at Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun lOO - -
at Nth. Eastern-Berwick lOO 100 102
25 Do. G.N•E purchas, 16.13. - -
at Do. Leads
at Do. York lOO 92 04
at Do. Carlisle . . ... - -
25 Do. Stook. & Darling all 33 14 331
10 Do. do. 1860-61 lt 8 9
at North London
at Do. do. 1863 5 . lO - -
at Do. do. 1866
at North Staffordshire
at N. &S. W. Junction
15 Scottish Central ., 100 - -
at Soot. N. E , Aber. stook, 100 - --
23 Do. Scot, Mid. staok.. 100 4 - -
st Shropshire Union .... 100 55 67
at South Devon lOO 47 49
at South Eastern
20 Staines, Wok., & Wok all 9 10
at Taff Vale lOO 148 152
10 Do. 0 .. I 21 31,
et Vale of Neath - -
at Waterford & Kilkenny' 100 - -
10 Waterloo & Whiteha J 6 - -
at West Cornwall lOO - -

COLOSIAL GOVERNIIENT SECURITIES.

British Columbia; 8 per
cent., Deo. 31,1972
Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July
1877-84
Uo. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug
Do. sp. a. Mar. & Sept
Uo. 5 p. c. Jau. & July
Do. sp. e. Inscribed sa
Cape (*.Hope, 6 p.c.1873
Do. ApL&Oot 1840-19uf)
Do. do 1680-9 e.
Do. Jan. &July, 1890-0
Do. 5 per oent. 15 April
and 15 Oct., 1900
Caylon, Nov. 1869, 6p. t
Do. lbiti, do
Slauritins, 6p. o, 1873,
Jan. and July
Do. 1878 ...
,10. 1882, Mayls, Nov. it
Do. 1805, leen. & Aug
iov. 6 per cent
tit)
N. S. W. Gov. 5 p•c.,
Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 187 e
Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1803
New Zealand, 6p. cent
Do. 5 per cent....
Nova Scutia Gov. 6p. 0
sterling, 1875
Queensland Goy. 6p. c
d. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 1808-1,
Do. 1878 & upwards
Vlo,Gov. 6 p.c. a &July
Do. do, April & Oct

es 100'
04 97
95 98
85 97
84 86
IC4 106
105 107
104 106
lu2 108

DI "i 3
101 W 3
105 1,1

102 104
IG3 105
103 NO
105 107
98 WO
98 98
ul VS

87 88
101 102
tit 86

190
100
100
1(0
100
100

96 98
91 43

104 106

1054 lON

97i 63

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