The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMFROIAL I N TELL TGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

There is very little inquiry in the general discount
market, and affairs remain without change of im-
portance.

The Asia has arrived from New York, but with
only £l,OOO in specie; the Nyanza had also been
announced from Alexandria with about £45,000.

There were no gold operations at tho Bank of
England on Saturday.

In the Corn Market during the week the indif-
ferent condition of the English wheat on offer caused
a decline in the value of foreign, which ruled about
ls. to 3s. per quarter compared with the highest
point realised, the anticipated large arrivals on
the coast from the Black Sea having caused some
alight excitement to the trade.
From the manufacturing districts the accounts for
the past week have generally been of a rather un-
favourable character. At Manchester quotations
for cloths and yarns have shown a downward
movement, with very little inquiry. The woollen
trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield has
remained very quiet ; but at Birmingham, Sheffield,
and Wolverhampton the receipt of some consider-
able orders forexportation to the eastern markets has
caused a more cheerful tone.

To-day has been held the fourteenth meeting of
the, Berlin Water Works Company. The report
the directors, taking into consideration the late war
in Prussia, and the subsequent cessation of build-
ing operations in Berlin, think satisfactory. The
general revenue account yields a balance for the
Past half-year of £22,247, from which the Board
recommended a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent.
per annum free of income tax, leaving £1,887
to be carried forward. The directors, in their
last report, referred to the contemplated con-
struction of additional engines. After mature
consideration of the various tenders submitted to
them, they eventually accepted that of Messrs.
Simpson and Co., who are now actively engaged
in carrying out their contract. The new filters
also alluded to are now completed.
It has been notified that the share subscription
of the British and American Telegraph Company
will close on Wednesday next ; the quotation is
2i pm. The public will learn with pleasure that
the company has been so speedily and suc-
cessfully floated, as all are so deeply in-
terested in having every possible facility
afforded for telegraphic communication between
the Old and New World. Under so intelli-
gent, as well as respectable, a director, we can-
not doubt that the British and American Tele-
graph Company will prove as profitable to the
Shareholders as it will prove advantageous to
the people on both sides of the Atlantic. Already
on the alert with the prospect of a keen competi-
tion, it is understood that the old Atlantic Com-
pany contemplate a reduction on their minimum
tariff for messages from £lO to £5 each.

Two o'CLocic.
According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
day, the French Rentes were 69f. 370. Firm.
To-morrow will commence the bi-monthly settle-
Meta of the account at the Stock Exchange, and its
operations are influencing the departments con-
nected therewith. Foreign bonds, it may be noticed,
are very firm, and also American securities, all of
'Which have engaged much attention during the past
fortnight but English railway shares, banks, and
miscellaneous companies have been comparatively
neglected. Consols at the present moment are
Steady at 91 91f for money, and 91k 91k for the
account.

In the Foreign department a fair average amount
of business has been transacted. Spanish Passive
are unaltered in price, but the Certificates are 3
higher, at 15 3. Mexican, on the other hand, have
receded I, viz., to 18 3. Italian, likewise, are de-
pressed, being 3 down, at 543 3. Greek have risen
to 14 3. Turkish Fives are 31 3, or 3- worse than
on Saturday afternoon. Russian is 23 a prem.,
steady ; and Chiliau Scrip is still at 3 prem.
American Securities are steady. Erie Shares
have advanced 4, to aol 40. United States remain
at 723 ; and Illinois 803 81.
Railway Shares have continued very depressed.
London, Chatham, and Dover, and North-Western
have each declined 3 ; Great Eastern, Metropolitan,
Midland, North-Eastern, Berwick, and South-
Eastern, each 3 ; and Great Western 13.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings exhibit
little variation of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain very
quiet, and without any material change in values,
Alliance being dealt in at 173 ; London and County
at 673 683 ; Union of London at 453 ; Hudson's
Bay Company at 153 16 ; National Discount
Company at 13i ; and Viceroy of Egypt's Mortgage
Loan improved to 73.

MINING MARKET.
MONDAY, Two o'Clock..
The Market has been quiet to-day. The shares
chiefly dealt in have been Prince of Wales, Retal-
lick, Seton, Redmoor, Buller, Chiverton Moor,
West Chiverton, and East Russell. Annexed are
the current quotations :

Bryn Gwiog, ; Cam Brea, ; Cam Cam-
borne, 22s Od 24s Od; Central Miners, —; Chiverton
Moor, 61. ; Chontales Gold, 21 ; Clifford Amalgamate,
61 7 ; Condurrow, —; Cooks' Kitchen, 111 1`21; Drake
Wells, 21s Od 23s ; East Basset, 18 20 ; East Caradon,
511; East Cam Brea, 31 1 ; East Lovell, 91 101; East
Russell, al I; East Wheal Grenville, 11 21; Great
111°Y, —; Great North Downs, 31 4 ; Great
Itetallack, 47s Od 49s Od ; South Herodsfoot, 6 8;
Great South Tolgus, 12s 6d 17s 6d; Great Wheal Vol.,
17 171; Marko Valley, 4i 1; North Crofty, 41. 51;
North Roskear, ——; North Treskerby, 21 21; Prince
of Wales, 33s 35s Od; Prosper United, 0 0; Providence
Mines, —; Redmoor, lOs Od 12s 6d; South Caradon, 0;
South Condurrow, —s Od —s Od; South Darren, ;
South Prances, 18 20 ; South Grenville, 9s Od lls ; St.
Ives Consols, —; Stray Park, —8 —a ; Tincroft, —;
West Caradon, 101 111; West Chiverton, 62 64; West
.Frances, —; West Seton, —; Wheal Buller, 26
48 ; Wheal Chiverton, 81 9 ; Wheal Crsbor, --s —s ;
Wheal Grenville, —s —s; Wheal Seton, 1021 1071;
-Wheal Basset, 65 671; East Gunnis Lake and South Bed-
ford, —8 —B.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 Der Cent. Consols
Do. Account, March 7 9ll 1
a per Cent. Reduced 9041411
New 3 per Cent 904 1 1
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprilBBs —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
rxehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent l2 pm
Do .................. £5OO —
D 0.......... 11
. £lOO dr £2OO pm
Bank of England Stock, 64 perl Cent ... 2524 11
, INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Lathan Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874...
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1881
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced 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 por Cont., £l,OOO
O. iind(.r £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
A▪ rgentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859
Jaraznian 5 per Coat
1)(3. 440 per Cent., 1852-58-60
1863
.r,
D
-"e• 5 per Cent., 1865
)in Account —
~, Do. £lOO Bonds 744 5 41
zuen os Ayres 6 per Cent —
r, Di 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont )
o Ran 6 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent .
1)0. 6 per Cent A
Do. , B lOl
Colombian, '6
per Cent.
Eanbl, 6 per Cent.
niBll3 per Cent., 1825 —
D
D „ 3. 5 per Cent.,
D
itibian Principalities
Do.
_Account
x 13
q,liador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do.,Provisional Land Warrant —
Do Deforied
7Ptian 7 per Cent
D —.o
-Second Issue —
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do. Do. 1864 844 4
Do. 4100 Bonds B5 44 5 41
Do Government Railway Debentures Bll 801
Account

Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
..
Guttemala 5 per Cent. —
'Wiwi 5 per Ur t 1865
Do, Account -
Do. Maremmana Railway —
M.,xicar, 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
pn. ' 1864 —
Do per Cent. Anglo-French
ilontevidean i; per Cent. .. —
Uoorish Imperial 5 per Cent
gew Granada —

Do 3 per Con —
Do. Deferred
Do Land .lamtnts (Hectares)
Do. Account
Peruvian 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account 65 1
Do 41 per Cent., 1865
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren) ' —
Do 6 per Ceut., MP
Do Account
Portag,ueso 3 per Ct., 1853 '6,'7,'9,'60,'2, '3 421 4
Russian 5 per Cont., 1822, £ St. —
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent. 1859
Do 5 per Cent. 1862
Do 5 per Cent. 1864 —
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid BB4
Do. do. £23 paid 24 Ipm
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Do. Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred —
Do. Account
Passive Do —
Do Aces:int 23 1.
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Do Account
S .vedish 4 per Cent. —
Do. 41 per Cent. 1861
Do. Scrip, £6O paid
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do. Account
Do £lOO Bonds •
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account 57 64
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1863 —
Do 5 per Cont., 1865 's
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 5O
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed —
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do 4100 Bonds —
Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 314 i 4
Ditto 11 per Cent. —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
Belgian. 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2 per Out. Ex. 12 Guil. —
Do. 4 per Cont. Certificates ....
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
Italian 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 541
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 9l
Do. Account

GREAT FIRE AT TOOTING.— This Day.

This morning, between the hours of three and
four, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. T.
Weaver, known as the Rising Sun Tavern, Micham-
road, Lower Tooting, which has laid in ruins pro-
perty to the amount of many hundreds of pounds,
and caused the loss of four or five lives. The
powerful steam engines of Messrs. Shand, Mason,
and Co., were turned out, but by the time they ar-
rived the premises were entirely gutted. As soon
as the ruins were sufficiently cooled, Mr. W. Swan-
ston, the superintendent of the salvage, directed his
corps to ascertain if any persons were missing, when
they were horrified at finding some lodgers, of the
names of Smith, Cullens, Porter, and a man whose
name is at present unknown, burnt to death in the
ruins. The search for other missing bodies is now
being proceeded with ; but up to the time this re-
port left no more bodies were found. The cause of
the fire is unknown. The loss will fall on the Sun
Fire-office.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(This Day.)

The market opens firm. Sales probably 12,000
bales.

Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments

in the Civil Service.

(From the .Civil Service Gazette.)

War Office.—Mr. Robert Peel has been appointed
to a clerkship in the Commander-in-Chief's office.
Colonial Office.—Colonel Harry St. George Ord,
R.E., C. 8., Governor of the Bermudas or Somers
Islands, has been appointed to be Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the Straits battlements,
Prince of Wales' Island, Malacca, and Singapore.
Major Frederick M'Nair has been appointed to be
chief engineer in the new colony of the Straits
Settlement.

Foreign Office.—Mr. Hanson Styleman Lestrange,
attache at Mexico, has been appointed to be attacha
at Paris. Mr. Herbert Edward Henry Jerningham
has been appointed to be attaché at Paris. Mr.
Pelham Land Warren has been appointed to be a
student interpreter in China, consular service. Mr.
Augustus R. Margary has been appointed to be a
student interpreter in China.

India Office.—Mr. Robert George Crozier has
been appointed to be a clerk in the office of the
Director-General of Stores. Mr. John Munch
.aligner has been appointed to be a clerk in the office
of the Director-General of Stores.

Board of Trade.—Mr. M. A. Creighton has been
appointed to be a clerk in the Joint-stock Registry
Office. Mr. John Madden Martyn has been ap-
pointed to a clerkship. Mr. Ingralu Bathurst
Walker has been appointed to a clerkship.

Registrar-General's Office.--Mr. Samuel Hillman
has been appointed to be a statistical abstractor.

The Post-oflice.—Mr. John T. Lawler has been
appointed a clerk at Dove:. Mr. Stow, surveyors
clerk of the first class, has been promoted to be sur-
veyor.

Customs.—Mr. J. B. Farrell has been appointed
outdoor officer, London ; Mr. J. Stammers outdoor
officer, Colchester ; and Mr. A. Rusby, clerk, third
class, has been promoted to be clerk, second class,
London Docks.

Inland Revenue.—Stamp and Tax Branch.—Mr.
C. Owen Minchin has been appointed clerk in the
Legacy Duty-office, Somerset-house.
Excise Branch.—Mr. Wm. Ridley, supervisor,
Glasgow, 6th district, Glasgow collection, has been
appointed to Glasgow, Ist district, Glasgow collec-
tion ; Mr. Wm. Gott, supervisor, Glasgow, sth dis-
trict, Glasgow collection, to 6th district ; Mr. A.
Tait, supervisor, Ludlow district, Hereford collec-
tion, to sth district Glasgow collection ; Mr. Wm.
H. Cox, supervisor, Wirksworth district, Derby
collection, to Ludlow district, Hereford collection ;
Mr. M. Gill, examiner, to be supervisor of Wirks-
worth district, Derby collection ; Mr. J. Limond,
supervisor, Cork, Ist district, Cork collection, to
Gorey district, Wexford collection ; Mr. John P.
Mullany, supervisor of Cork, 2d district, Cork col-
lection, has been appointed to Ist district ; Mr. J.
Proctor, officer, Glasgow, Bth division, Glasgow
collection, to be an examiner.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(By Electric Telegraph.)
GRATEIOND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Feb. 10.—Hourab, from Calcutta; City of Lon-
don, from Table Bay.

Arrived, Feb. 11.—John Bull, steamer, from Antwerp ;
Tonning, steamer, from Geestemund.
Sailed, Feb. 11.—Vigil for Shanghai.
DEAL, Friday Morning.

Passed, Feb. IO —Minerva (screw steamer), from Lon-
don, for Mediterranean; Blumidun, from Philadelphia, for
Hamburg.

MR. THEODORE MARTIN is engaged upon a bio-
graphy of the author of the Bon Gaultier Ballads—the late
Professor Aytoun.

TilE TITLES OF DANISH AND SWEDISH PAPERS.—
WC are glad to see that our foreign correspondent
calls attention to the stupid blunder so often made in our
English journals, when quoting the names of newspapers
published in the Scandinavian languages. It is a pecu-
liarity of the Scandinavian tongues that they form the
definite article in two ways—firstly, by a separate word
placed before toe noun, and secondly (which is tho most
frequent form), by affixing to the noun itself the termina-
tion en for the masculine and feminine, and et for the
neuter. Thus—Alland, man ; Mandcn, the man ; Trte, tree;
Trait, the tree ; Bled, leaf ; Bladet, the leaf. It is therefore
as wide of the mark to say "The Dagbladet," as it would
be to say, " The La Presse," or for a Frenchman to speak
of "Le The Times." We trust some of our confreres will
make a note of this; for the English papers are much read
in the north of Europe, and the mistake is a very glaring
one in the eyes of a Dane, a Norwegian, or a Swede.