The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-04 00:00:00

1Y 0 111-Y MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

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The Stock Exchange has opened this- morning
with considerable strength, and the position of the
Funds exhibit increased firmness, while other se-
curities are exceedingly well sustained. 'To-day
being the 4th of the month, and a heavy amount of
commercial paper arriving at maturity, it might
have been reasonably supposed that the discount
market would have been firm and more active, but
this has not proved to be the case, as it is difficult
to find employment for money in the negotiation
Of first-class bills, even at 2k per cent. Consols
at the present price pay a little more than 3 per
Cent., and as they must be regarded as a
better security than any commercial bills, it may
be argued that they are still below their proper
value, especially as no disturbing element can be
anticipated in our financial situation, nor is there
anything of a character to affect us in home or
foreign politics. Agricultural prospects, it may be
added, are in favour of values at the Stock Ex-
change.
By the Atlantic Telegraph it is announced that
another steamer had left New York, June Ist, with
specie amounting to £lOO,OOO for England.
During the last few days there has been rather
inore animation exhibited in the markets for foreign
and colonial produce, consequent upon the reduc-
tion in the Bank rate of discount. A large quantity
of China tea will be offered to-day at public sale,
ihile there has been a better demand for sugar at
ghtly enhanced rates. Superior qualities of
coffee have sold readily at full values, while in rice
thet transactions have only been to a moderate ex-
?", and not sufficient to affect values. In tallow
the dealings have been to a moderate extent, and
quotations for present and forward delivery have
remained steady.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
,11.. ave advanced 1, to 30 32, and the Consolidated
alort.•
bage Bonds I, to 25i 26k.
sum of £37,000 in gold was taken to the
1,14. of England yesterday. The silver market
inains very dull. The latest prices of bullion are
baraa follows :-.Bar gold, 775. 9d. per ounce standard ;
76 gold parting, 775. lid. do. ; Spanish doubloons,
8. to 768. 6d. per oz ; Mexican and South Amer--
Zit doubloons, 735. 9d. per oz. ; United States
ataglea, 765. 24d. ; bar silver, ss. d.i to id. per oz.
6 andard ; do. contg. gold (5 grains and upwards),
11 +d• per oz. do. ; Mexican dollars, 4s. 10k1 to
'u per oz. ; cake silver, 665. id.
di At a meeting to-day of the Canada Company the
inrectors recommended a division out of the assets
dhai,lld Of £1 10s. per share, free of income-tax, as
tbil;,": way of dividend for the half-year ending
to
ue 'uth July next ; and, provided the resolution
proposed at the special general meeting on the
they
date be passed and subsequently confirmed,
Pay a further sum of £1 15s. a share as a
ll:instalment towards the repayment of the paid-
icitpital of the company.
1%10,1 the meeting held to-day of the Bank of British
taitt America the following report was sub-
faetienci :"-The Court of Directors have the satis-
-444-11 of submitting to the proprietors the
gratezed statement of accounts, and con-
of ,11,1ating them on the continued prosperity
flitth"le Bank therein exhibited. This will be
the :I.Seen by a comparison of the net profit of
Bankthe for the last four years. Thus, in 1863,
186:in0unt of net profit was £61,413 14s. 7d.; in
in g' £72,569 16s. 3d. ; in 1865, £77,877 6s. 3d.;
obt:; '6, £78,802 ss. 4d. ; and this result has been
babrned after making liberal prevision for all pro-
tire e losses. 0 The Court of Directors, under these
tterlira;stances, feel warranted in making a fur-
easel 4nc in the distribution to the
A optic,.
oared I°PB, and they have accordingly de-
(livid' in addition to the usual half-yearly
bor, end at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum, a
"4 of 11
k 3,80, per cent. This will leave the sum of
i°cludi'B. 4d. to be carried to the rest, which,
Dcee ,ag that addition, amounted, on 31st
to ktrii uer, 1866, as per annexed statement,
/low '49,273 10s. Bd., or, deducting the bonus
Iva_ declared, say £15,000, to £134,273 10s. Bd.
beilurrante for the amount of the dividend and
Win b' together 455. per share, free of income-tax,
The ,e.f°rwarded as usual on the sth of July next.
aeze:lreetors have the pleasure to add that the
dAte 1144 received from the branches up to this
at lb oßlPare favourably with those of last year
nanie period.

. • Two O'CLOCK.
daY,etrchng to Reuter's telegram from Paris
rileto-
French Rentes were 76fr. 40c. Better.
'tirther improvement of rather more than /
th teent• has taken place to-day in the market for
and iLllglish Funds ; Consols being 94}
4i for money
acee -e Present account, and 941 for the July
effect °ll4t. There is still a strong disposition to
,th Purchases.
Jodi New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 94 ;
4 ,3" 5 Per Cents., 109 fex div. ; ditto Enfaced
Prit; Cents., 86, and ditto 5 per Cents., 104.
blio Foreign Stock Market, after being very.
ist,44/44) is rather dull, and prices in a few in-
t 2 ,(811°'N a decline. Italian are 1 lower, at
b4eXiCan at 171 ; Spanish Passive
111 I.; and. Turkish 5 per Cents. 1, at 33f 1 ;
~hilmiau Scrip has advanced 1, to 1f 2 prem. ;
areellrall 1721 prem. ; and Danubian Ito 3 1 dis.
4 continued firm at 161 ; and, Spanish Cer-
teates at 151
1141,Ltho Railway Share Market the transactions
been been to some extent, and a further advance has
ocatablished in prices. North-Western have
go4T,ed I, Great Eastern, Great Western, and
,stern each Metropolitan /, Caledonian,
qr,,lleYthire and Yorkshire, and Midland each 1, and
(Be‘ Northern, Brighton, and North Eastern
%.4xrvvio_,
is.) each If.
than Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit little
iillat'l,e of importance. Great Luxemburg have
Vcved to 121. f, South Austrian and Lonabardo-
anetian to 16g. j, East Indian to 110 f 111, and
rent Indian Peninsula to 111/ 1.
Otnerican Securities arc improved, except United
ha:tea' 5 20 bonds, which are f lower, at 721 73,
jili le Erie shares have risen f, to 40f 41 ; and
hois f, to 781 79.
,414,tik shares remain in fair demand, at steady
Qa1;". Alliance, however, have improved to 184 ;
to Rar,tered Mercantile of India, London, and China
• it". ; and Union of London to 45 6.
faiiiiscellaneous and Finance shares continue in
quo arlsd, at, in most instances, fully previous

Do. 5 per Cont., Jan. 1872
Do. 5/ per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
Do. under £I,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent 7l 3/
Austrian Bonds, 5 por Cent, 1859 —
irazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 4/ per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. • 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account 7si i i
Do. £lOO Bonds - 76 51
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 por Cont.) 82
0 _ilian 6 per Cent lOOl
Do. 4/ per Cent —
Uo. 6 per Cent A .
Do. „ B
Do. „ 1867
Do. „ Scrip, £4O paid 2l i pm
0 )I,mbia,n, 6 per Cent.
luba, 6 per Cent.
iltnisli 3 per Cent., 1825
D). 5 per Cent., 186.1 ...
D inabian Principallti 3s, 7 per Cent
Do. Do. 8 17 1857 64/
Do. Do. Scrip, £35 paid dis
E luador New Consolidated, 1 por Cent —
di gvptian 7 per Cent —
Do. Second Issue
Do. .£lOO Bonds -
iio. Do. 1864 Bl 3
Do. £lOO Bonds B4f 5
Do Government Railway Debentures B5/ k
'reek 5 per Cents., 182;-5, ex Coupons
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent . —
1 alian 5 per Ceut 1865 -
.
Do, Account .

Do. llaremmana Railway sl}
Blexicat. 3 per Cent

Ditto for Account
Dn. 1864 ll
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French
Siontevideau 6 per Cent. •
Vloorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Do 3 per Oen
Pe -avian 5 per Cent 1865
Do Account 7Ol 1 I
Do 41 per Cent., 1865
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 41 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Parts,gueso 3 per Ct.,1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St BBl 1 7i
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pm Cent., 1859 541
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 B7l 1 i
Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 9O 89
D•,. Anglo-Dutch, 1866 B7l 4 8
• Do. do. ' £6O paid l4 pm
iardiuian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cent —
Do Account
Do Now Donn led —
Do. Account
Do Passive —
Do Account 241 5 44
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Do Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, o per Oent. Ex, 10 Florins
Belgian, 41 per cent.; Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 For Cent. Ex. 12 Gail,
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
French lientes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
Italian 3 per Cont. 1831, Ex. 25f. —
Do. Account 524 3 21
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 941 4
Do. Account

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Byle
and a Common Jury.)
BURY V. PICHLER.

Mr. Joyce and Mr. Bexley were counsel for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Denman, Q.C., and Mr. Thrupp
for the defendant.

The defendant is a lighterman, and the action
was brought to recover damages for injuries which
he sustained, and according to his allegations were
caused-through the negligence of the defendant, a
wine merchant in Water-lane, in the City of Lon-
don. The defendant denied that he was guilty, and
pleaded further that the accident was owing en-
tirely to the plaintiff's own negligence.
The plaintiff, in his evident stated that on the
14th of May last he was proceeding along the high-
way, when in endeavouring to pass a flap which was
lying before the cellar of the defendant in Water-
lane he stumbled over one of the spikes project-
ing from the flap, and fell with great force
on the pavement. He swore most positively
that the flap was placed so as to render it impossible
for him to have gone along the pavement without
coming in contact with it. He was eight weeks
suffering severely from contusions on the wrist and
right knee, caused by the accident, which prevented
him attending to his work as usual, and earning at an
average from £2 to £2 10s. a week.

This evidence was corroborated by two witnesses,
who stated that they saw the plaintiff fall, and
described the position of the flap.
Mr. Kaye, a surgeon, practising in the Com-
mercial-road, explained the nature of the injuries
which the plaintiff sustained, and said that his bill
for medical attendance on him was £5 ss.

For the defence only one witness was called, a
gentleman named Ayres, who is in business with
his father in Water-lane, their counting-house being
over the cellar of the defendant. Ile stated that
the defendant was entirely to blame for the accident, as
he " came along the pavement in a crab-like fashion,"
looking after a companion from whom he had just
parted. lie had no doubt that the plaintiff could
have avoided coming in contact with the flap if he
only looked before. lle said that he and his father
did business for the defendant in carting, and that
;he was placed in the gutter, so as to offer no
flap
obstruction to any passenger who exercised the most
ordinary caution.

The jury almost immediately found a verdict for
the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at £25.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, beforo Mr. Baron Piggott
and a Common Jury.)

This was an action to obtain compensation in
damages for an alleged slander.
Mr. Francis was counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Huddlestone, Q.C., and Mr. Lewis for the defen-
dant.

It appeared that the plaintiff in this case was a
dressmaker at Orton and the defendant resided in
the same place. The alleged slander was that the
defendant had come to the plaintiff's shop and found
his wife there, and had stated that she had sub-
stituted one lining belonging to him for another,
and that an inferior lining had been put into his
wife's dress.

Marion Hyde said that she was the stepdaughter
of Mrs. Hyde, and she worked with her as a dress-
maker. She remembered the 30th June. She was
at work when Mr. White came outside the window,
and said her mamma had kept his good lining and
seat an inferior article home in the dress. He said
it cost Bd. a yard. She helped to make up the
dress, and the right lining was put in it.
On the 9th July she remembered Mr. Juke and
the defendant coming to the house. Mr. Hyde saw
them first, and she afterwards repeated what be
had said in the presence of them all, and when she
had finished he said it was his pet that made him
say this. He capered about the room afterwards,
and then went away.
Cross-examined—On the 30th June he said
" Good morning, ladies," and they said " Good
morning." He said on both occasions, " You have
made a mistake, and sent me an inferior lining in.
stead of the one belonging to me, and substituted
one out of your own shop."
Miss Thomson is an apprentice to Mrs. Hyde.
Was present on the 30th June when defendant
came to the window. Her evidence corroborated
the last witness's statement.

Cross-examined—Mrs. Hyde said there could be
no mistake, because she kept all the linings wrapped
up separately.
Mr. Huddlestone—Did not Mr. White say that
possibly there might be a mistake, because one of
the young ladies might have put it in by mistake ?

Witness—No. She did not know what brought
,he answer "there could be no mistake" from Mrs.
[ y de.

Mr. Francis here interrupted, when Mr. Huddle-
stone remarked that he would lead the witness as
gently as a lamb—(laughter)—as if he allowed his
learned friend to lead the jury to believe that he
had badgered her in that case, he should stand
no chance against her blue ribbons with the jury.
(Laughter.)

Mary Bird, another apprentice, gave similar
evidence.

The case MIS proceeding w hen wo mit to prezz,