The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-07 00:00:00

NnWEY MARKET

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TWILYI O'CLOCK.

The directors of the Bank of England at their
/fleeting this day have made no change in their
terms for discount. Notwithstanding the confi-
dence felt in the present Government the unsettled
State of affairs naturally deters monetary and com-
mercial enterprise.
At the Bank of England there were no gold ope-
rations of importance yesterday afternoon.
The Hermann, from New York, has brought
£45,000 in specie for England, and a small amount
for Bremen.
Biddings for £300,000 in bills on India took place
Yesterday at the Bank of England. The minimum
Price was fixed at ls. Hid. en Calcutta and Madras,
and is. Hid. on Bombay. No tender of import-
ance was received at these prices.
Mr. Thomas Gaskell, jun., an underwriter at
Lloyd's, has forwarded circulars to his creditors.
intimating his inability to meet his engagements,
and stating that he has placed his affairs in the
bands of Messrs. Brown, Son, and Hays, accoun-
tants.

We understand that a contract was signed yester-
day by• Mr. Cyrus W. Field, acting on behalf of
the New York, Newfoundland, and L'ondon 'Tele-
graph Co., with the Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance Co. for a submarine cable between
Placentia, Newfoundland, and Sydney (Nova
Scotia). The line will be laid in the early part of
the summer. Mr. Field, havingeffected this very
satisfactory arrangement in the interests of Atlantic
telegraphy will leave for New York in the Great
Eastern on the 20th of March.
From the inactivity which has characterised the
Stock Exchange generally during the past week, the
American market has not been exempt. The absence
of business both on home and Continental account
has caused quotations of United States Government
Securities to sympathise entirely with prices received
by telegraph from New York. Since our last the
quotation for 5.20 Bonds has improved one-half per
cent., closing 734 and 73i. The difference between
this issue and that of 1865 is now about one and a
half per cent. For railroad shares the demand has
been very limited—lllinois Central are last quoted
77 to being a slight improvement, while Eries
have declined to 364 to 361.
It is stated that the London and Colonial Com-
pany (Limited) being in a state of difficulty it has
been arranged to place it in liquidation, and Mr.
Theodore B. Jones, the accountant, and Mr. J.
Spong, the late manager, will carry out the arrange-
ment with the authority of the Court of Chancery.
This company was established in 1859, and took
over the business of Mr. Robert Tooth and other
Parties connected with the Australian trade. The
depreciation in Australian assets and the depression
lo general trade will account for these embarrass-
Ments. According to the" Joint-stock Companies'
Directory" for 1867 the capital is 060,000, of
Which £200,000 is paid up. The last dividend was
declared at the rate of 12i per cent. per annum.
rhslast week's Railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :--

Oreat Western
North Western
south Western
trighton
dl and
•••
.outh Eastern
irChlat Northers
',Jar

1867. 1866.
... 67,598 67,500
...110,369 106,484
... 22,217 22,141
... 18,804 16,346
... 51,531 41,433
... 21,175 19.147
... 36,597 33,438

i,)4lcalhire and Yorkshire... 43,597 41,070
North
and Exeter... ••• ••• ••• 6,128 5,823
I,orth Eastern 70,141 66,472
▪ 83aohester Sheffield and Lincoln 20,591 19,627
Groat Eastern ... 82,229 31,560
Lo_ ••• •••
cillmon, Chatham, and Dover ... ••• 8,777 8,030
asgow and South-Western ... .... 9707 10,100.
Metropolitan
Southern and Western, Ireland ... 8,548 8,022
rt,r.opolitan 4,291 3,160
North
and Great Westein, Ireland* 5,261 5,010
',orth British 24,549 23,457
• The returns, when compared with those of the
corresponding period of last year, are in most
iostances of a favourable character. On the Great
Western there is an increase of £9B ; on the North-
Western of £3,885 ; on the South-Western of
£76 ; on the Brighton of £2,458 ; on the Midland
Of £3,098 ; on the South-Eastern of £2,028; on the
Great Northern of £3,159; on the Lancashire and
Yorkshire of £2,527 ; on the Bristol and Exeter of
£305; on the North Eastern of £3,964; on the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of £964 ; on
t)7e Great Eastern of £669 ; on the London, Chat-
,fttn, and Dover of 047 ; on the Great Southern
1111(1 Western of Ireland of £526 ; on the Metropo-
tan of £3l; on the Midland and Great Western of
Ireland
of £257 ; and on the North British of
£1,984.
At a meeting held to-day of the East India Land
Credit_ Company the report presented by the direc-
tors stated that the net profits of the company
amounted to £12,826 ls. 10d., making, with
£2,118, ss. 3d. carried forward from last account,
, 4,941 7s. ld. The shareholders will be prepared
4'...1
learn that, consequent on the severe crisis here
and in the East, the realisation of certain assets
°I • this company will be attended with loss; but,
after a most careful estimate, the directors are glad
to be able to assure the shareholders that such loss
Will not exceed £22,000, against which they have
the balance at credit of profit and loss of £14,944
7s. Id. above mentioned. After mature considera-
tion the directors have determined to postpone
the division of profits for the present, and trust in
their desire thus to strengthen the position of the
e°olPany they will receive the concurrence of the
Bnareholders. In submitting this report the direc-
tors have the satisfaction of informing the share-
holders that during the past exceptional year this
clllPally has, without any sacrifice of its property,
met all engagements, and, by prudently narrowing
all liabilities, has entered upon no business that
:414 in any way render necessary a call upon the
11.44reholders. The reduction of liability on the
:called capital continues to have the attention of
'l3°lll' Board, and they hope in a short time to lay
coef°re you a scheme for the reconstruction of the
remind
In the meantime the directors would
the
the shareholders, that as the total debt of
152_ Company is limited to the payment of the de-
ntures and deposits as they fall due, amounting
• less
than one-third of the paid-up capital,
then liability is at present virtually nominal.

Two O'CLOCK.
„_l4O particular change has taken place in the dis-
'mint
market since the adjournment of the Bank

l'enianism, trades' unions, and the inclement state
of
of the Weather have added to the previous heaviness
theiln Stock Exchange markets. There is no dimi-
Ctsan in the number of investments, but specula-
tttra have effected sales, which have further reduced
tile Price of Consols another k per cent. ; they are,
tefore now 90i for money, and 901- 91 for the
-ecount.
American Securities are flat. United States 5-20
°44s, having receded if, to 73* ; and Erie shares
4.
4, to 35i 86.
h44-tiantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
Al'e declined k, to 30 31, and the Consolidated
°,rtgage Bonds have advanced I, to 23i 241.
PO,reign Stocks have remained verYdull. Spanish
iiitvn have declined I, to 22* I ; Certificates *,
the o4i ; and Turkish 5 per Cents. I, to 301 ;
the Pilian Loan Scrip is steady at 18 dis.; while
tray
Loan Scrip has receded to 2i prem.
tra—t, very moderate amount of business has been
Bacted in the Railway Share Market, and in
seedseveral
instances depression has prevailed. Great
rill North-Western, and Midland have each
D„,ed Brighton and London, Chatham, and
141-lier each k, and Lancashire and Yorkshire
prol:,,Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln have im-
ae„' I, Metropolitan and South-Eastern each *,
reqlkxreat Western 1.
uestoreign and Colonial lines remain in limited
1,44 i at about previous quotations, Great
of jllll3°urg being marked 10k E; Grand Trunk
141anacia, 201 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 105!
; and Eastindian 106+ 107 k.
51ip,...4411: Shares are dull, but with a few exceptions
rt previous values. London and County,
saki liver, have declined to 551 56, ex dividend ;
161 ujon of London to 45 ; Alliance are marked
and Union of Australia, 47+.
'4lBcollaneous and Finance Shares continue very

inactive, and the few bargains reported have been
without material alteration in prices. Hudson's
Bay Company are marked 15Z- 16 ; Imperial Land
Company of Marseilles, 10f dis. ; Credit Foncier
of England, 2j- 3 ; and National Discount Com-
pany, 12j.

MINING MARKET.
THURSDAY, Two o'Clock.

To-day there has been a very quiet market, and
the shares chiefly dealt in have been North Crofty,
Great Vor, Prince of Wales, Seton, and Chiverton
Moor Annexed are the current quotations :
Cam Camborne, —5 ; Chiverton Moor, 81 ; Chon-
tales Gold, 21 21 ; Clifford Amalgamate, 7 7k; Cooks'
Kitchen, —; Drakewells, —8 —s; East Basset, 21 23 ;
East Caradon, 5 51 ; East earn Brea, ; East Lovell,
10 11; East Russell, 2-1 2i ; East iWheal Grenville, 2 2k ;
Great Laxey, —; Great North Downs 41 1 ; Great
Retallack, —— ; Great South Tolgus, —s —d —s;
Great Wheal Vor, 19 20 ; Marke Valley, 4 41; North
Crofty, 51 f ; North Roskear, 81 9; North Treskerby,
1i 2i ; Prince of Wales, 52s 6d 55s0d ; Prosper United, 314 ;
Redmoor, —s —s; South Condurrow, —d; South
Grenville, s —d ; South Herodsfoot, ; Tincroft,
121 131 ; West Caradon, ; West Chiverton, 58 60 ;
West Seton, ——; West Drakewells, —s ; Wheal
Basset, —; Wheal Buller, ; Wheal Chiverton,
7 71 ; Wheal Grenville ; Wheal Seton, 105 110,

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Console
Do. Account, April 10 9Ol 1
3 per Cent. Reduced BBl 1
slew 3 per Cent BBl 1 1
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 72k
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
. tnnuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, axpire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
3 I{3 Ct., March. I 4 11l Ct., June.
'lrehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Ct. 12 pin I
Do £5OO 7l
De £lOO k £2OO „ -- I--
Bank of England Steck, 61 per Cent

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 10} per Cent., AprillB74
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent B4l
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 5f per Cent., May 1879 lO7l 1
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
Do. under £I,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Irgeutine Republic, 6 per Cent —
amstrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 —
lrazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account 73
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
o...iian 6 per Cent
Do. 4f per Cent
Do. 6 per Cent A
Do. B
77
Do. „ 1867
, Do. , ~ Scrip, £2O paid
C noranian, 6 peg Cent.
..3,tba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 —
D 3. 5 per Cent., 1864 —
)4nubian PrincipalitieF, 7 per Cent
Eluador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Piovisional Laud Warrant —
Do Deforied
e. 4 Tptian 7 per Cent
Do. Second Issue
Do. £lOO Bonds
Do. Do. 1861 —
Do. .£lOO Bonds B3l-
Do Governelent Railway Debenture, BOl 1 80f
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5,,ex Coupon,
Do. Account
D. Coupons
Do. Account
G 14.temala 5 per Cent. —
It 1 ;bin 5 per Cer t 1865
Do, Account . —
Do. Maremmina Railway —
l. ,xicar.. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 - '

7o

811

Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French
11ontevideau C per Cent. • ..... •••• --
Vloorish Imperial 5 per Cent
lie v Granada l2f
Do 3 per Cen —
___

Do. Deferral
Do Laud .larrants (Hectares)
Pe •uvian 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account 65 f

Do 41 per Cent., 1835
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarreu)
Do 4} per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Portoguese3 per Ct., 185 P, '3, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 411
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B7l
Do4} per Cont. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pm Cent. 1859 —
Do 6 per Cont. 1862
Do. 5 per Cent 1864 —
D.,. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid BBl
Do. do. £25 paid 9l pm
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cent —
Do Account
Do New Deferred —
Do. Account
Passive Do —
Do Account —
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Do Account
S wedish 4 per Cent. —
Do. 41 per Cent. 1864
Do. Scrip, £6O paid
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do. Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account 561 $ 1 7 6
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1863 —
Do 5 per Cent, 1865
Do. Account
V-inezuela. 3 per Cent. —
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cent., 1862 —
).,. 6 per Cent, 1864 —
Ditto 11 per Cent. —
Dividends on the above payable in London.

Dutch 2* per °Ant. Ex. 12 Gail-, -
Do. 4 per Cont. Certificates
French Rentee, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
It‘ilah 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f.
De. Account 531
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 9o} }
Do. Account 9oi

DEBRETT'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1867
are improvements (as usual) upon the best of their
predecessors. And they are so after more than one
whole century's existence. They are beautifully
printed, as usual, and with an eye (as usual) to
the utmost accuracy both of fact and of typo-
graphy. The heraldic emblazonments are de-
rived in every instance originally from Heralds'
College in Doctors' Commons, but they have
beyond that in the majority of instances received supple-
mentary revision under the hands of the chiefs of the
families referred to in the various biographies. One im-
mense improvement peculiar to the present edition of De-
brett, this new issue of it for 1867, as compared even with the
best of all its predecessors, the edition for 1866, is the addition
of the Family Names of the Peers in their alphabetical
order. The facilities thereby supplied for instant reference,
almost, one is tempted to say, all but just perfected. Sup-
plemented again to each Peer's biography is the biography
also of his immediate predecessor. There is a biographical
notice too attached to the name of each member of the
House of Convocation. Added to all which there is now
included in this advanced and revised and all but perfected
edition of Debrett's Peerage—what has thus, for the first
time, been given in any peerage whatever—the addresses
of the Sons and Daughters of Peers. Particular interest,
again, is imparted to the second of the two volumes
under notice, by its embracing within it memoirs
of the new members of the House of Commons,
as well as of the new additions to the roll of
Baronets and Knights. As the handiest, cheapest, most
correct, impartial, and independent of all the Guides to the
Lords and Commons, as well as to all the Baronets and
Knights of the United Kingdom, Debrett always secures,
what it has for so many years eminently well deserved
the welcome due to an old and trusty favourite, a ready and
reliable remembrancer. . .

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PENNY PART Music--What Next ?—is actually
just now being issued from the Press in Weekly
Numbers, under the title of " Davidson's Choral
Cyclopaadia." What we have yet seen of the Serial is ad-
mirably well done—the music being arranged throughout
by James Brabham, and the words taken either directly
from Holy Writ or from such writers as Dr. Watts and Sir
John Bowring. As a Collection of Part Music for Singing-
Classes, Schools, Families, and Congregations, it cannot
possibly prove otherwise than most acceptable.
PRIVATE THEATRICALS.—Last night the " Tyro
Thespians" gave a performance at their very prettily-
arranged theatre in Southampton-row. The piece se-
lected was the excellent burlesque of "Kenilworth," which
was given with a dash and spirit that elicited the greatest
applause. The part of the Earl of Leicester was capitally
sustained by Miss F. Price, the Duke of Sussex found a
very captivating representative in Miss Stanyon, and Sir
Walter Raleigh was smartly hit off by Miss B. Price. Queen
Bess, by Mr. A. Spilling, was a capital bit of burlesque-
acting, and Miss Coleman, as Amy Robsart, was excellent
and telling. Miss Gibbs, as Janet, gave her part with effect;
Mr. T. Price, as Tresillian, acted with his usual ability, and
Wayland_Smith and Varney were each well sustained by
Mr. Stanyon and Mr. B. Hall. From first to last the piece
went off with the greatest éclat, and at the fall of the cur-
tain the applause of a very large audience was enthusias-
tic. The dresses were superb.

riArce, -
Great Eastern, E. Anglian, B stock 6 per cent. pt , 1031
North Staffordshire, 21
I,IN ES LEASED 6►T FIXED RENTALb
Mid. Bradford, pf. stock 881
utc Hirt RAILWAIrt-
Great Luxembourg, 10i
ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 3
FOREIGN MINES.
Cape Copper, lim., 8
St..lohn del Rey, lim., 541
United Mexican, liin.,
DOCKS.
East and West India, 124 k 5
BANKS.

Alliance, lim.. 16%
Anglo Austrian, 71
Australasia, 68
Bank of Egypt, 321 3
.liartered:lier. of India, London, and Chir a, 32
City, 14k
Colonial 39
onsolidated Bank, lim., 41
Ditto, new, 3 4
English and American, lint. 61
Imperial ottoman, lira., 8;
London and Couuty, 55f 6 54
London Joint Stock, 426 3
London and South-Western, lira., 18%
London and 0 estminster, 94
Metropolitan Bank, lim , 81 8
Midland Bank, lint., 184
National Provincial of England.
Ditto, d and issue, 391 •
Standard of British South Africa, Um., 15 14}
Unio of Australia, 47% 7
Union of Ireland, 11* i 2
Union of Loudon, 45

MISCELLANEOUS:
Anglo-American Telegraph, 14 1 1
Atlantic Telegraph,
DR o, 8 per cunt., 50 2h
Ceylon Company, 10
City of Moscow Gas, lira., 17
City Offices, lira., ill
Credit Foncier ot England, lin,. 3 2i
Crystal Palace, 23
Ebbw Vale, 0) 9
Egyptian Corn, and Trading, lira., 3
Electric Telegraph, 134
Hudson's Bay, 151 16
Imperial Land Company of Marseilles, lira., 10h Ed
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour„ 4
London Financial Association, lira., 7*
London GeneralOmnihus Company, lirn, 3 I
M dras Irrigation and Canal (guaranteed 6 per cent. by In
dian Government), 91
Nrtional viscount ompany, 121
Ditto, new, issued at 5 prem.. of which 2h is to pay, 10;
New Consolidated Discount. lira 0,1
New Zealand Loan i.nd Mer. Agency, lira., 21
Royal M til Steam„los
Te.e. raph Construe. and Mainten., lira.,
Ditto, ditto, 14 in
Universal Marine. lnsuranee, lim., 2h

The Cunard ocean mail contract will soon be ter-
minated in order to reduce the expense for conveying letters
to the United States. The India mail contract will soon
terminate for the purpose of arranging a weekly mail com-
munication with Bombay. In 1870 the Dover and Calais
and Cape of Good Hope mail contracts will terminate
12 mouths' notice is given. Iu 1869 the West India mail
contract, in 1870 the Brazilian contract, and in 1872

Pacific contract will terminate after 24 months' notice
given.