The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-22 00:00:00

MONEY 111ARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCX.

TWELVE O'CLOCK. ,
The Stock Exchange being closed, there has been
a 'very limited attendance in commercial circles in
the City.
In the Discount Market scarcely any business has
been negotiated, and quotations remain unaltered.
The report of the directors of the Royal Mail
Steam Packet Company has been issued, in antici-
pation of the meeting to be held on the 24th inst.
They recommend that a distribution be made of
£3 10s. per share out of the balance of profi
and loss account, and of £1 10s. per share as a bonus
from the insurance account, both free of income-
la/I payable by warrants to be issued on the even-
ing of the 27th inst.
lu the Corn Market to-day the attendance was
of quite a holiday character, and prices of home-
grown and foreign wheat remained unaltered.
From the various manufacturing districts the
accounts for the past week represent that business
in most departments has been exceedingly quiet at
,Alanchester ; the approach of the Easter holidays
had caused a very limited attendance, and spinners
and manufacturers evinced no disposition to extend
theirt operations. In the woollen districts of Leeds,
radford, and Halifax there has been little change,
and but few dealings have been effected in light
g°°(lB. The hosiery and lace trades of Leicester
and Nottingham, however, have shown more ani-
rah ation ; while in the hardware districts of Birming-
,ara, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton no material
_alteration can be reported in most of the principal
branches of trade carried on.
BRI,

'TISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
SATURDAY.
°
. %OVEREXERT rUNDS. "
Der (JOSE. Consols
NeDo- Account, May 9 9of i
er Cont. Reduced B9 i w 3 Per Cent New e
,7 ot per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
'''°• Per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April 885 — E,2 (Bed Sea Televa.ph), Au,„ 1908 —
'euecilier Bills. £l,OOO, a mud 4 per Ct 22 5
Doer Bills.
£5OO pm
Do.
pin
Ba £lOO & £2OO
tlk of England Stock. 6} per Cent
1"1-A-11 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
lualall Stook 10f per Cent., AprillB74 —
D0.4D0. Account D°. per Cent. July, 1880
n Per Cent., 888
Do:i,o. Certificate Oct.*
tEnfaced Paper 4 per Cent
5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
D0•°• 51 Per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Bonds, 5 per Cent £l,OOO
Do- under Xl,OOO .l
52 pm
rOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine
..il• Repub SATURDAY.
um. o
.lie, 6 per Cent _
"In liendB, per Cent, 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent
D°. llper Cent., 1852-58-60
a.
1863 —
Do Account
'ie. 5 per Cent., 1865
_ .... Do. 100 Bonds 7l
_
aluellos Ayres 6 r Cent r., 4.) 2 per Cent (Deferred 3 per Cent )
I4lllian 6 per Cent_
_
c 4 4i Per Cent
tie. 6 p.n. Cent A •
D°Do.
_ 11 B
~ 1867
Do.
oai iernbt . 11 Scrip, £2O paid 5l 41 5} dis
Cuba an, 6 per Cent.
6 per Cent
btlish 3 per Cent. 1825
nub per Cent , 1864 ..,
D an Prin : alities, 7 per Cent
Do, , ') 8 „ 1867 611 dis
Do.
Scrip, X2O paid
.. Do.
Do.
...quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent 4ql2otian 7 per Cent
°.J,. Second Issue
•uo. £lOO Bonds
79f 9
lie.' Do. 1864
81}
)20. £lOO Honda
ci uo Governnt Railway Debentures 794, 80}
rie-3k 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Pe
D° Account —
°.,,D Coupons
5i
r, 1)0. Account
_
viriaternala 5 per Cent .
j'Liztu 5 per Cot, t 1865
68
urso, Account-
lu "- Maremtnana Railway
....-,xicar. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Dr,. 1864 '
Do 6 per Cent Anglo-French
kentevidean C. per Cent.
Moorish hive ial 5 per Cent
lieB, Granada'.
D'o 3 per Cen .
Do. Deferred
Do
b Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
'ernvian 5
Accountper
Cent 1865
ID° 44 per Cent., 1865
67}
D° 4f per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 4f per Cent., 1862
p
Do Account
ertuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 401 40
&Inman 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Do 41. per Cent. 1850
12° 44
-u per Cent., 1
"„o 3 p 35 Cent., 18589 60
5 per
°.
D Cent. 1862 B7f I D 5 per Cent., , 1864 B4 Do.
D°. A.nglo-Dutch, 1866 B4l
do. £6O paid ii- 2 dis
8
Nardinian 5 per Cent
Panish 3 per Cent ...
Do Account oyarror•
Do New Deletted
Do. Account
Do Passive
... Do Acciant i
apanish Cert. of Coup not funded 2o}
Do Account
Swedish 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 574
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account
DO £lOO Bonds
Do
DD 6 per Cent., 1863 —
_
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271 i
Po. Account
_
Do, 6 per Cent., 1865
1001
-‘,"O. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed
Yenkezuela, 3 per Cent. —
191
iio. 6 per Cent, 1862
Do. 1864 —
DDitto 14 per Cent. —
ividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian osr Cent., Ea, 10 Florins
linßiian, '44 perP cent., Ex. 25f.
"Intel' 23t per Cant. Ex. 12 Gail . —
p "0. 4er Cent. Certificates .. .. . —
1 re1.1e1:1 pontes, 3 per Cant., Ex. 25f. —
o. 3 per Cent.. 1861, Ex. 25f. 8— i 74
Do. Account
THREE O'CLOCK.
ConllBolB, Money9ol f
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54 3}

-AIL-LASHING.—Every now and then the young
of certain daily sbe seen performing an
11
oPeratiopaper
mayi
tO
the which is exceedinglyinteresting and instructive
100kers-en. Some subject is served out to them
the Kohinoor diamond, or Queen Elizabeth's martin-
Zii:ee, or an Elgin marble, or an Egyptian brick, or a Byzan-
writfoio. What the young lion has got to do is, not to
tta,s7, archaeological treatise on it, but simply to
anal
N. over it for a column or two in a spirit of piety
dianloirt°°, and to lash his tail. If it is the Kohinoor
farnii.nd, he begins by recapitualing, in a tone of racy
diam'aritY with Greek and Latin authors, all the great
13„—"do that have ever existed since the world
fr-Om galt ; intermingling his narrative with quotations
Hesiod, 2Echylus, Sophocles, Euripides,
0 g", Plauts, Terence, and dashing off a few airy allu-
t"%18 to Plato's cave, the silver mines of Laurium, Corin-
libetaarro, Cleopatra's pearls, the Arabian nights, and
ii; hieiAnt.oinette's necklace. When he has finished lash-
-8 tall over the catalogue, all that he has to do is to
"toe
Itk to the Kohinoor. There it is—the Kohinoor.
not the nugget which has been extracted by pale
'3eYthia
fro n slaves, to the sound of a Greek overseer's whip,
whillic
the Roman the dark abysses of Laurium. It is not the pearl
h heti,
gourmand melted in his snow-cooled
t 'sv;eetened wine. It is not one of the famous gems
wit i I
orace tells us that ho could not afford to keep in
110' quiet Sabine farm. It is solely and simply the Kohl-
ivf°t_r' and this is not the first but the nineteenth century.
trot 7 achieving such a feat of tail-lashing, , the young lion
ttg•
•ngilletlY home to his companions, till heis wanted
°tl a similar occasion of importance. —Saturday Review.
111'14 1)
I_,LTRNING OF TILE LARGEST HOTEL IN AME-
,fIC,4*--The St. Louis Republican gives a full account
t-itt.oe total destruction by fire of the Linnoll Hotel in that
s,hh fire broke out in one of the servant,' rooms on
w °youth (the highest) storey, and rapidly spread. down-
sds until the whole building The
c a heap of ruins.
ines were powerless to stay its progress, the great height
Of the building rendering it almost impossible to throw
it
. war fairly on the roof, and when this was accomplished
was
no avail, as the fire was spreading under the roof
;Ire h could not be reached. The Republican say:—
"1-","_e Whole structure, from basement to attic, inclusive,wineeel
Nruraring public rooms, lounging rooms, stores,
Rtg,,flictos, &c., had the enormous number of 530 rooms,
'l3 hu
°, a public character were numerous and capacious
TZeond those of any other hotel edifice on
_theoven
0 0 —0
w"lnarch,
'with "tut cost of the building was
OP, the Pound (valued at $326,400), makes the whole
nle 51,276,400, not to speak of furniture, $OOO,OOO snvotritlhe
110„whioli was imported and put in. So that, whe
pert was fully completed and furnished, the whole
cost a Mali= awl three-quarters of dollars