The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

A ND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A rather active business is reported in the gene-
ral discount market, and the rates are consequently
very firm at their present level.
There were no gold operations of importance at
the Bank of England yesterday.
The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, Lon-
don, and China have declared a dividend to-day at
the rate of 3 per cent., free of income tax, for the
half-year ending the 30th inst., pay-able on the Ist
proximo.

Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
remain steady at 31 33, and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds at 25 26.
The traffic receipts on the Great Luxembourg
Railway Company for the last week show an -in-
crease of £1,397 as compared with the correspond-
ing period last year, while the Metropolitan exhi-
bits an addition of only £262 for the like period.
At the meeting of the shareholders of the Bank
of London the proposals of the liquidators were
agreed to, and resolutions adopting the report of
the committee empowering them to carry out the
project were unanimously passed. An immediate
application will now be made to the Court of Chan-
cery to give effect to the proposed arrangements.
With regard to the tea trade Messrs. Layton and
Co., in their circular, state as follows :—Since our
report of 9th inst. the tea market has continued
without any material alteration, and the home de-
mand has not been sufficiently active to induce
general buying on the part of the trade ; exporters
have, however, operated rather more freely in the
common descriptions of blackish-leaf Congou,
which may be quoted firm at fully previous rates
to a shade advance. The recent arrivals have
afforded a very poor assortment, and it is
unlikely that the few vessels now afloat will bring
anything but third-crop qualities, so that the me-
dium and fine must be selected from parcels already
in warehouse, of which the former have to some ex-
tent been held back by importers. Prices for green
teas, especially the finest qualities, have been well
maintained. The small auctions of China tea, which
commenced on the 18th instant, were brought to a
conclusion the same day ; 8,822 packages passed, of
which 6,583 were sold, all without reserve. The
sales passed without any material alteration from
previous rates : common to fair blackish leaf Congou
brought 111 d. to ls. per lb.

Two O'CLOCK.
In the market for the English Funds a few pur-
chases on the part of investors has caused a more
buoyant tone. Consols have improved 1, being now
948 for money, and 941 951 for the account.
The New Three per Cents. are 931 1 ; ditto Re-
duced, 938 4 ; Long Annuities, 20 3-16ths ;
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, March 26 ; June 20,
235. prem. ; ditto, £5OO, 265. prem. ; ditto, .£lOO
and £2OO, March 23, 265. prem. ; India Stock,
• 216; ditto, 5 per Cents., 1081 1 ; ditto, 4 per
Cents., 97 ; ditto, Enfaced paper 5 per Cents.,
1031 ; ditto, Debentures 5 per Cents., 56.
Foreign Stocks continue very depressed. Spanish
Passive have receded 1, to 231 1 ; Certificates 1,
to 14 1 ; Turkish 5 per Cents. 1, to 331 ;
Chilian scrip 1, to par to 1 prem. ; while Russian
Railway Loan Scrip has advanced 1, to 1 dis. par.
American Securities are flat, with the exception
of Erie Shares, which have improved '4l, to 401 41;
United States 5-20 Bonds have declined 1-, to 7218 ;
and Illinois Shares 1, to 79f 4.
Considerable excitement has prevailed in the
Railway Share Market, and the general tendency
of prices has again been downwards. Great
Western and North-Eastern (York) have each
declined ¢7 North-Western and Midland each 1,
trighton 1, and North British 1.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings show
little variation. San Paulo are marked 164 ; East
Indian, 110 1101 ; and Great Western of Canada,
148 I.
Bank shares, in one or two instances, are a shade
firmer. London Joint Stock have improved to
431. 41 ; Oriental Bank Corporation are steady at
43 ; and Alliance Bank, at 15 15k.
Miscellaneous and Finance Shares remain with-
out change of importance. Anglo-American Tele-
graph have declined to 181 8 ; and Peninsular and
Oriental Steam to 45 ; Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance are marked 161-, and Atlantic Tele-
graph 8 per Cents., 171.

MINING MARKET.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
Annexed are the latest prices :
North Treskerby ...... 14 14
Prince of Wales 68s Od 70s Od.
Providence Mines ... 29 30
Tincroft
West Chiverton 65 674
West P. of Wales 12s 6d 15s
Wheal Basset
Wheal B eller 25 30
Wheal Chiverton 6l if
Wheal Crebor
Wheal Grenville 26s Od 28s Od
Wheal Seton

ehiverton Moor 5l 5
Chontales Gold
Clifford Amalgamate 7f 8
East Basset l5 17
East Caradon sf 6
East Lovell 7 if
East Wheal Grenville 2 2;
Great Laxey i 18-} 19
Great Retallick
Great Wheal Vor... 171 18
Ilarke Valley 4ll 4
tiNorth Crofty

BRITISH. FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
per Ueut. Consols
Do. Account, July 10
',Per Cent. Reduced 93 i i
New 3 per Cent 93i i i
Now 21. per Cent. Jan. 1894
, Do. b per Ceut. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Teletraph), Au,,„ 1908
1908.
March. June.
Exchequer Bills, £I,OOO
Do £5OO 26 pm
Do. £lOO & £2OO 23 26 pm
Ink of England Stock, 51 per Cent
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
ILlCtlau Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 Shut
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced Paper 4•per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51, per Cent., May 1879
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Austrian Bonds, 5 per vemc, 1859
urazilian 5 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 74
Do Account —
, Do. £lOO Bonds 751
tlenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
"3 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
°Lillian 6 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent —
~110. 6 per Cent A •
DO. „ B
Do. II 1867... Bll
0 Do. , Scrip, £4O paid —PM
31. mbian,76 per Cent.
Dubs, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 ner Cent., 1825 '
, per Cent., 1864 . -
3-'.tnubian Principaliti3e, 7 per Cent
Do. Do. 8 7, 1867
Do. Do. • Scrip, £5O paid dis
Jtuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
nYptian 7 per Cent
Do. Second Issue
D. £lOO Bonds
/20. Do. 1864 BO 80
DO. £lOO Bonds Bll
, Do Government Railway Debentures B4l 1
uraek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons 141
Do. Account
• Du. Coupons
Do. Account
~1:1 la. temala 5 per Cent .. —
I 4
' iiall 5 per Cent 1865
Do, Account
Do. Maremmana Railway —
sxicar. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account

Dn. 1864 —
..DO 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
41ontevtdeall 6 per Cent. .. —
.k,oorish Imperial 5 per Cent
.04ew Granada l3
Do 3 per Con --
Do. Deferred
b Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
' e -avian 5 per Cent 1865
Do Account —
Do 41 per Cent., 1865
Do 44 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 41 per Cent., 1862
f, Do Account
-L-Jrtaguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9;60;2;3, 43 21.
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 874
Do 4 per Cent. 1850
Do 4i per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pm Cent., 1859 —
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 B7l 7
Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 9O 891
/)o. Anglo-Dutch 1866 B7 1 7 1
~ Do. do £6O paid II pm
i3ardinian 5 per Cent
8 Panish. 3 per Cent .... 3B
po Account ~,,,,I
• 4.1° New Deterred ,I —

Do. Account
Do Passive —

Do Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded l-11
Do Account .
Swedish 4 per Cent.
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 79
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do. Account
Do £lOO Bonds

Dcr 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account —
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1863
Do. 5 por Cent, 1865 33,7- : I
Do. Account, June 28
Do. 6 per Cent., 1865
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed —
Venezuela, 3 per Cent —
Do. Account
De. 6 per Cont., 186', —
Do. 6 per Cent. 1864
Divithtuds on the above payable iu ...,ondon.
Austrian o p'r Cent. Ex, 10 Florins ...
Belgian, 4i per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2%- per Cont. Ex. 12 Guil,
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
French lientes, 3 per Cent., Ex. ''.hf.
Itikan 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account '
THREE O'CLOCK.

Colsols, Money
Do. Account, July 10 ... 941

POLICE INTELLIGEffCE.—This Day.

31A_RLBOROUGH-STREET.

SHAMEFUL CRUELTY.—Henry Rumble, a young
man, living at Langley, Essex, was charged before
Mr. Knox by the Royal Society for the Protection
of Cruelty to Animals with cruelty to a horse, by
working it while in an unfit state.
Hayward, one of the officers of the society, while
in the Tottenham-court-road, saw a horse attached
to a waggon laden with hay, the horse appearing
to be in great pain. He asked the defendant if he
was the driver, and he said he was, and that he bad
driven the horse 30 miles. On examining the horse
he found it very lame, in a wretched condition,
worn out, and totally unfit for work. The defend-
ant, when he took him into custody, asked to be
allowed to go, stating that the horse belonged to his
father.

Mr. Knox said the best course would be to send
the horse to the Greenyard, and summon the owner.
The defendant said they did not work the horse
often, and the reason why he used it was because
he had to bring some hay up to pay the rent.
The defendant was remanded on his own recog-
nisance that his father might attend.

STEALING GOLD LACE.--William King, a young
man, a tailor, in the employ of Messrs. Hill, mili-
tary tailors, No. 3, Old Bond-street, was charged
before Mr. Knox with stealing 21 yards gold lace,
the property of his employers.
Mr. W. Foyle, foreman in the employ of Messrs.
Hill, said that on Saturday last he gave the pri-
soner a pair of uniform trousers to alter. Instead
of altering the trousers the prisoner ripped off the
gold lace and went away, leaving the trousers be-
hind. He was found at Barnet yesterday and
brought back to Bond-street, when he admitted
his guilt, and stated that he had sold the gold
lace.

In answer to Mr. Knox the witness stated that
the prisoner had only been employed by the firm
a fortnight, and since the robbery he had ascer-
tained that the prisoner had gone in a false name.
Wm. Masters, 80 C., said that, on receiving the
prisoner in custody, he said he had sold the lace,
telling him where he had sold it, and on his going
to the place he was informed that it had been sold
again to a Jew.
_ _

The prisoner choosing to be tried by the magis-
trate, Mr. Knox asked him if he wished to say any-
thing.
The prisoner said he had a widowed mother to
support, and it was through: misfortune he had
acted as he had done.

• Mr. Knox said the prisoner was in employ, and
had no kind of excuse for his conduct. He would
be committed for three months with hard labour.

TIIA\ILS.

UNMANLY ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—Patrick
Kennedy, au Irish labourer, was brought before
Mr. Partridge, charged with assaulting a very
respectable young woman, named Jane Elizabeth
Cole, of No. 8, Old Andrew-street, Litnehouse.

The complainant was passing alcng the Commer-
cial-road last night, at half-past eight o'clock, and
the prisoner came behind her, seized her, and tore
her clothes. She ran across the road to avoid him,
and he ran after her, and put his arms round her
neck, and. was proceeding to further acts of violence
when her cries brought several persons to her aid,
and they released her from the prisoner's grasp.
Thomas Salmon, 421. K, saw the prisoner stand-
ing against a wall, and the female crying and in
great distress. The prisoner was intoxicated and
extremely violent.
Several witnesses corroborated the statement of
the complainant, and said she was 'very basely
treated.

The prisoner said he was drunk last night, and
had no recollection of the occurrence.
Mr. Partridge said that drunkenness was no ex-
cuse for crime.
it A gross outrage had been com-
mitted, and was necessary to pass a severe
sentence to put an end to such assaults on females
in the public streets. He sentenced the prisoner
to be imprisoned for two months, and kept to hard
labour.

LIVERPOOL COTTON 111ARKE7—This Day.

Market quiet. Sales prubably 8,000 bales.

M. Benedict has kindly undertaken to conduct
the musical arrangements of tho Newspaper Press Fund
Dinner on Saturday next. Among the artistes who hare
in the most generous manner placed their services at tho
disposal of the Committee are Mdlle. Enequist, Madame
Cosenza, Madame Miss Poole, Mr. Cummings, Mr.
George Perren, and Wes 3ifrs., Weiss. The Committee are in-
debted to Messrs. Broadwood and Sons for the use of one
of their finest grand pianofortes.

Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, whose young
wife died in childbirth a few months a
to found an hospital to her memory. has determined
hasalready o
boon
been r
othaskseend; for the
action to this
on the a
the east side of projected
South-
wark Bridge-road. The establishment will ebnudildhinags
t will be a lying-in
hospital. It is the baron's intention to spend
the building ; the site costs probably as
much
more..£lo, 000 o n
TIIE TREATMENT OF FENIAN CONVlCTS.—Yester-
day morning was issued the report to Parliament
of. Mr. A. Knox, the police magistrate, and Mr. G. D. Pol-
lock, who were appointed commissioners to inqui •re and re-
port upon the treatment of certain treason-felony
in English convict prisons. The report extends over 25
pages. It is to the effect that the complaints aro ground-
less, and in some instances pure inventions. They assert
that at their visits not only were the convicts properly fed
and lodged, but exceptional pains were taken to make their
position as tolerable as is consistent with true discipline.
At Pentonville a temporary Roman Catholic chapel was
fitted up for their use, and the services of a priest were ob-
tained. This gentleman's evidence was to the effect that
the prisoners had no just ground of complaint. It seems,
however, that some of.the men are in wretched health, and
that the ordinary prison discipline is in their case very
trying to bear.
A letter has been published from Mr. W. F.
Taylor, Auditor of Public Accounts, Richmond, Virginia,
dated the 27th ult., giving a description of the present con-
dition of the finances of that State. According to an Act
passed by the General Assembly on the 2d of March, 1866,
a dividend of 2 per cont. is to be paid on the State Bonds
on the Ist of July next, and 2 per cent. on the Ist of
January, 1868, and these semi-annual payments aro to
bo continued " until otherwise provided by law."
Threduced rate thus adopted is that " which the
State, feels obliged to pay until there is a settlement
of accounts between the State of Virginia and the
new State of West Virginia," the two having com-
prised one State until the civil war, when a portion broke
off, and has since been constituted with an independent
organisation. The arrears of dividends are to be funded
on the same principle. Mr. Taylor intimates that the tax
imposed by the Legislature of his State will bo amply
sufficient to meet all the demands on the Treasury, and
that there is nothing in the futule he can foresee "to in-
duce the supposition that the interest ono the public debt
will not be regularly and punctually paid." At the same
time he mentions that for the amount of interest held by
the State in abeyance pending the question with West
Virginia certificates will be furnished. The total of the
State Debt on the 17th of April, 1861, at the commence-
ment of the war, was $34,977,298, or in round numbers
£7,000,000 sterling, against which the State holds an
interest in various railroads and the James River Canal to
the amount of $27,963,300. Certain of the companies
possess the power of redeeming their stock by paying
State bonds for it at par. The portion over which this
option extends is $11,285,718, and if the option be
exercised as it is expected to be the State debt will be
proportionably reduced. The balance of the railway
stock, &c., then held by the Government will be
$16,677,582.