The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-17 00:00:00

NONEY MARKET

New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan: 1873 , —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Tele&raph), Au,., 1908 —
':xchequer Bills, £l,OOO, o and 4 per Ct 2l 26 pm
Do £5OO 2l 26 pm
Do. £lOO & £2OO 2l 26 pm
Bank of England Stock, 61 per Cent
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 101 per Ceut., April 1874 219
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
'4
Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 1075
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 Cent, 1859
trazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
J)o Account 7ll 3; 41
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
D., 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
C,Litian 6 per Cent —
Do. 44 per Cent —
uo. 6 per Cent A .
Do. „ B
Do. „ 1867
Do. „ Scrip, £4O paid 24 dis
C )1 mbian, 6 per Cent.
tuba, 6 per Cont.
D tuish 3 per Cent., 1825 —
D i 5 per Cent., 1864 —
D nuhian Principaliti 3E, 7 per Cent
Do. Do. 8 „ 1867
Do. Do. Scrip, £35 paid 4 dis
E luador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
e:gyptian 7 per Cent —
1)o. Second Issue
Do. £lOO Bonds
vo. Do. 1864 B2 14
Do. £lOO Bonds 845 4 1 34
Do Government Railway Debentures B3 1 3
9-reek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Discount Market is quiet, and there is no
alteration in the terms for accommodation.
The Bank of France return for the week ending
16th inst. shows the following changes compared
with that of last week :—The Treasury balance has
increased £384,000, cash £352,000, and the ad-
vances £4,410 ; while the current accounts have
decreased £610,000, and the commercial bills
£392,010.
There were no gold operations of importance at
the Bank of England yesterday. The following
are the latest prices of the bullion .—Bar gold, 775.
9d. per oz. standard ; do. parting, 775. 11d. per oz.;
Doubloons, Spanish, 755. to 76a. per oz. ; do.
Mexican and South American, 735. 9d. to 7.13. per
Oz.; United States Eagle, 765. 3d. per oz. Bar silver,
d. to -3- per oz. standard ; do. containing gold (5
grs. and upwards) ss. 04d. to ss. Oid. per oz. Dollars,
Mexican, 4s. 110. per oz., flat ; Cake silver, ss. 5, I.
The traffic receipts of the East Indian Railway
for the
week ending the 31st of March last
amounted to £45,257 against £51,060 in the corres-
13°Ming week of the previous year.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are steady at 28 30 ex coupon, and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds at 21 22.
The following is issued by the Committee of
Bankers in connexion with the Clearing-house :
Return of Paid Clearing for the week ending May 15.
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

,onday ....

siluesday ........
" -

8,301,000

8,968,000

'oduesday

G iatemala 5 per Cent , . —
19;ian 5 per Cert 1865
Do, Account .
Do. Maremmaua Railway 5l
M. ,xicar. 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account . —

£63,774,000
Creditors of the Estates Investment Company
(Lmited) are required to send the particulars of
their claims to Mr. Price, of Gresham-street, the
niEcial liquidator, by the 11th June, the 25th of
that month g hay.n
1 been appointed for adjudicating
Upon them.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
rinted Monday, the 20th inst., a special settling
day in the A 8 per Cent. Redeemable Preference
Limited,
of the Belgian Public Works Company,
J.4mited, which are not to be marked.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the 15th of May gives the following
Rest
when compared with the previous week :
-Rest
otuilbliedeposii; .473:513445;291525 Increase... 127,855
1.4,277:48'!535
_or deposits 17,513,323 ... Decrease... 21,7 47
the other side of the account :
otl:rninent securities £12,886,314 No change.
li o _
ter securities 19,258,506 ... Increase... .£3r,610
Unemployed 9,908,150 ... Increase.— 91,, ,30
be he amount of notes in circulation is 223,184,505,
being an increase of £37,695 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £19,245,277, show-
ing an increase of £114,920 when compared with the
Preceding return.
MWith regard to the corn market at Birmingham,
thr. W. C. R. Cave states as follows :—" During
e week the trade has ruled dull for wheat, under
bin influence of large arrivals of foreign, corn-
,ned with extreme caution on the part of
lyers, who limit their purchases to sup -
y
'bimmediate wants only. The export de-
and for Californian wheat and flour of fine quality
.°lll Liverpool for New York continues, flour
Makinl,g 49g. to 50s. per sack of 2801bs, and wheat
"8. Bd. per 1001bs. At our market to-day there
ZaB a better supply of English wheat, best quality
eing sought after and selling at last week's
prices, while for secondary sorts there was little
or
no demand. Fine red, 675. to 695. ; common
rune) 60s. to 665. ; white, 68s. to 74s ; all per
qr. of 4961b5. Foreign wheat was held firmly, but
the demand was by no means extensive, millers
generally having sufficient for immediate use."
The second series of public sales of colonial wool
commenced yesterday afternoon. There was a fair
but not a large attendance. The biddings were not
very animated, and prices generally exhibited an
average decline of ld. to 4d. per lb. The quantity
arrived for these sales amounts to 213,705 bales, of
which 185,935 are from Australia, and 27,770 from
the Cape of Good Hope.
In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets
during the last few days there has not been much
Znoration. - Sugar has remained in very moderate
ajneet, while superior qualities of coffee remained
ch full values. Rice has been dull and without
mange in prices ; while tallow continued in very
„Lonerate request, and quotations generally show a
do der
tendency.

L. 1863 —
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
oontevideau C per Cent —
Nloorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada l3l-
Do 3 per Cen —
Do. Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Pe 7uvian 5 per Cent 1865
Do Account —
_..

Do 41 per Cent., 1865 _ _

Do 4i per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 4/ per Cent., 1862
Do Account
411 2
Portnguese 3 per Ct.,1853,'6,'7,'9,'60,'2,'
86
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do 4/ per Cent., 1860
53
Do 3 per Cent., 18.59
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 B6 51 6
Do. 5 per Cent., 1864
D Anglo-Dutch, 1866 B6
Do. do. £6O paid dis a par
iardiuian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cent ...,
Do Acc,,unt
Do New Detested -
Do. Account
Do Passive
Do Account 221
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
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 Cont. 1858
Do. Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account 541 1
Do £lOO Bonds 56
Do 6 per Cent., 1863
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 4Bl
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed • lOll
Venezuela, 3 per Cent.
Do. 6 per Cent, 1862
Do. 1864
Ditto 11 per Cent.
Dividends on the above pay role iu London.
Austrian, par Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 4lf per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2/ per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil,
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
French 'lentos, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
It liar. 3 per Gent. 1831. Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 5ll 1 1
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money with div 921 1
Do. Account, ex div 9Ol 1 xd

TIIE 9TH LANCERS.—The annual regimental din-
ner of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers will take place on
Monday, 20th inst., at eight o'clock.
Lord Devon has been offered, and has accepted
the office of President of the Poor-law Board, which has
boen vacated by the promotion of Mr. Gathorne Hardy to
the Home-office. Mr. Schlater-Booth will represent the
Department in the House of Commons.

FATAL COLLISION IN GRAVESEND REACH.—An
inquest was held on Monday evening on the body of
Henry Jay, the master of the sailing vessel Ada, who was
drowned by his vessel being run down in Gravesend Reach
by the Norfolk screw steamer, on the evening of the 30th
ult. The Ada was loaded with 30,000 bricks, and was
proceeding- up the river when the collision occurred.
The coroner adjourned the inquiry to obtain further evi-
dence.

Two O'CLOCK.
There is still a tendency towards improvement
at): tile markets for stocks and shares and railway
CliritieB, notwithstanding their deep depression
thffi: "Iv in the ascendant. The impression is that
ket ~
,e,1488 of property has reached its lowest mar-
pal value ; and, as it is a property of great
L4e, the attention of investors has led to numerous
fundPlir
asea tor transfer. With regard to the British
it may be mentioned that buoyancy is
enicitide:eci bY the easy position of the rates
felt in the specie movement, the confidence
tranquil- ill °or present administration, and the more
how
aspect of continental affairs. Consols area
9,1 Iv 921 + for money, with the dividend, and 90. Ifor the account, ex div.
90 11e New Threes and Reduced Annuities are
Stock' Exchequer Bills, 21s. to 265. prem. ; Bank
1.,„ 251 ; India Stock, 219 ; ditto 5 per Cents.,
13441 ; ditto Enfaced 5 per Cents., 102+ ; and ditto
745, 548, prem.
ore ~..
ltt firmir Stocks, with a few exceptions, have been
to iR„ 'OM Mexican, however, have declined i,
'tsiiaT ii Turkish 5 per Cents. I, to 31 31+ ; and
.. ,
II 0
0u _,s hll 0 per Cents. -1, to 51 51+ ; while Greek
catave advanced I, to 14+ f ; Spanish Certifi-
di I, to 141 I ; the Russian Loan Scrip I, to k
4_B. Par. the Chilian Loan Scrip +, to 3 2 dis. ;
'loci the Danubian Loan Scrip I, to 5 3 dis.
ent Only a limited amount of business has been
ae ered into in the Railway Share Market, but in
pro instances prices have shown a slight im-
-4,44,,erilent• Lamas hire and Yorkshire and South
1 —"`111 have each advanced f, and Great Northern
41
while Brighton have declined I, Midland I, and
Western ii.
Lll4'he Foreign and Colonial lines show no material
„a/3„ge• Great Luxembourg remain firm, at 10f ;
Dutch Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian, at 15i I ;
Caned at 18+ 19 ; Great Western of
nada at 14+ 15 ; and East Indian are flat, at
108 i.
VerY little. American business has bean transacted i'n
States_2o"ftiattilieg, and prices are steady. United
at 42 --"`44 remain at 721 f, and Erie Shares
mi ilbut in;
---,eois are + lower, at 76 +.
prev:e. el aneous
and Finance shares remain at about
de,,uls rates.
Credit Foncier of England are
--tu m at c,
at 90 95 ‘i i ; Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents.
Tele National Discount Co. at 12i ; and
Banks
Construction and Maintenance at 16f.
1,,_ , . hares remain very quiet without any mate-
..slaotr alte
rationr as regards prices. Oriental Bank
4‘•;6.1 Dare marked 43f ; Union of Australia,
4'
Uni°4 of London, 38+ ; and Bank of
Australia, ~
-.„,aila, 0 ,
ut 62.

At the general meeting of the Acclimatisation
Society, held on Tuesday, Mr. Frank Buckland reported
that ho had during the season 1866-.7 distributed to
various members of the Society anl others eggs and fry
of the salmonidm as follows:—Great lake trout, 3,700 ;
salmon, 15,450; trout, 11,025; making a total of 30,175
He had distributed them in consignments varying from
50 to 10,000.

• MINING MARKET.
The market
FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
prices in to-day has been very quiet, and
most cases eases rule a little lower than
(3;l4terdaY• Annexed are the latest prices:—
otivertou Moor ...... bi 51 Marko Valley
eiirales Gold ...... 3 34 North Crotty
tl ord Amalgamate 55i North Retallick
evonto. et l3asset .......... 16 18 Princeof Wales 51s Od 5256 d
etGt. Consolg.:„ Providence Mines
Car Consols,,, . 5i 6 South Caradon 340 350
14i 151
ek tt Fussell
................ -- Tincroft
9 11
114 488 ell ......... 21 21 West Carado II
ci. ' tWheal Grenville 21 1 West Seton
(`*rest L ........ 17} 18 Wheal Chiverton —6s 5
a eat Retailick ...... 41 4.1 Wheal Basset
-.teat
110 115
Wheal Vor... 171- 18 Wheal Seton
BRI—

LTISH FUNDS—
El
P3r (..;suovxliNMENT FUNDS.
t. Do Consols
...........
8 Per • Account, June 6 ........
zslevir a Cent. Reduced ...........
Per Oent ..........

•CLOSING PRICES.

92a
90

1
x
so,
rAtol1011t• 1111 l 9Cli

ANOTHER TRADE OUT R kGE.—JaMCS Davis,
forgeruan, was summoned at tho Sheffield police-court, on
Tuesday, charged with assaulting a workman named Black-
adder, employed by Messrs. S. Butcher and Co., of the Phila-
delphia works. The two men had met at a beerhouse, and
Davis asked Blackadder for a job, he being out of work. The
request was refused, and afterwards, on the complainant
declining to pay for aquart of beer for the defendant, he was
struck by Davis on the face several times. A second assault
was committed, and on this occasion the defendant threat-
ened to cut Blackadder to pieces. To the magistrates the
defendant pleaded that he was out of work, and could not
get work, and that the complainant was working under
the price. He further said that he was drunk at the time
of the assault. Davis was ordered to enter into his own
recognisances in £4O, and to find two sureties in £2O each,
to keep the peace for six months.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER A MOTHER.—At Dukin-
field, on Tuesday, George Fletcher, a collier, was charged
with violently assaulting his mother. Owing to the violent
conduct and drunken habits of the prisoner, his parents
turned him out of the house, and he had since been living
with an uncle. On Sunday he came home and was allowed
to sleep on the sofa. On Monday morning he went upstairs
with the poker in his hand, and commenced a murderous
attack on his mother, striking her on the head, arms, and
legs. The cries of the children brought assistance, when
the prisoner was found kneeling upon his mother, who was
quite insensible. He had broken the poker by striking her.
The prisoner made a rambling statement., to the effect that
his mother had been attempting to poison him. He was
committed for trial.

A TRIPLE EXECUTION.—On the 30th ult. the
city of Cincinnati, in America, was the scene of a
triple execution, the parties executed being two men named
Alex. Aulgus and George Goetz, and a lad named Case,
who were convicted of having murdered an inoffensive old
man, an utter stranger to his murderers. The only reason
for the commission of the offence was, according to the vo-
luntary confession of the executed men that the murderers
wanted to "raise money." On the gallows Goetz asked
pardon of Hughes' widow and orphans, and thanked the
priest for opening his eyes to the light of Heaven. Case spoke
a few words, expressing thanks for the kindness shown him.
Aulgus declined to speak. When motioned to the drop,
Goetz came forward firmly, A ulgus feebly, and Case danced
forward laughingly, and had to be restrained for decency's
sake. The ropes having boon adjusted, Goetz said : —"Heads
up, boys ; let's die like men." Said Aulgus, "We will do
that, George." Said Case, "I want to die at just two o'clock,
in time for the train." Case stooped down as ho spoke
and looked up, as if to judge how much of a fall he would
have, and as he did so he laughed the same chuckling
laugh that had already horrified those who saw and heard.
Said Goetz again, " Don't lot us slip the way they did
over in Newport," referring to another execution. Said
Case, straightening up, " Farewell, good-bye, all of you.
lam not afraid to die." Said Aulgus again, " Good-
bye, we are going to leave you." Said Goetz, " God have
mercy on us three sinners." White caps were then drawn
over their faces, arms pinioned behind, and at 26 minutes
past one o'clock the drop fell. The fall was seven feet,
and the necks of all three were broken. The bodies hung
25 minutes, were then cut down and coffined, and given to
friends, who had hearses ready outside the gaol.
THE MARINER'S COMPASS.—In the beginning of
the 14th century, Flavio Gioia, of Ainalphi, made the great
improvement of suspending the needleon a centre, and in-
closing it in a box ; hence Gioia in after-times came to be
considered as the inventor of the mariner's compass, of
which he was only the improver. He lived in the reign
of Charles of Anjou, who died King of Naples in 1309. It
was in compliment to this Sovereign that Gioia distin-
guished the north point by a fleur-de-lis. This was one
of the circumstances by which the French, in later days,
endeavoured to prove that the mariner's compass was a
Freud, discoyery.—Nao and queries,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

Extraordinary Accident at West Port.

(From the Scotsman.)

On Wednesday night, a most extraordinary acci-
dent, which, but for the bravery of a woman,
would have ended fatally, occurred in M'Gibbon's
Land, West Port. M'Gibbon's Land is one of
those blocks of miserable, ricketty tenements built
over the ruins of the Malt Kilns which years ago
existed on the Killie Brae, and is near West Port
Mission Church. The land is, like all the houses in
West Port, divided into dwelling-rooms for separate
families, and on the ground floor, or what seems to
be the ground floor, two families were accotntno-
dated in as many small, low-roofed, ill-lighted, and
badly-ventilated apartments. In the west apart-
ment—a room about 8 feet long by 6 feet broad—a
man named Robt. Pollock resided with his wife and
child. About seven o'clock in the evening Pol-
lock was sitting by the fireside reading a book, when,
without the slightest premonition, the hearth-
stone gave way, and he was precipitated into a
cavernous pit filled with water. The sudden and
extraordinary disappearance of her husband na-
turally caused great alarm to Mrs. Pollock ; but,
having heard the splash in the water, she rushed
to the brink of the aperture made by the fall of
the hearth stone, and with the aid of her dress
brought Pollock to the surface of the water, in
which position she supported him by seizing hold
of the hair of his head. The poor woman bravely
retained a firm hold until the neighbours, who had
been aroused by the screams of Mrs. Pollock,
appeared, and with their assistance Pollock was
rescued from his perilous position.
The cavern, whose existence was so little sus-
pected by the inflates of the house built over it,
and whose discover, was attained in so peculiar
a manner, has a most dismal and treacherous
appearance. The walls are slimy, rough, and evi-
dently very old ; and the immense pool of water
—extending farther than the eye, amid the gloom
relieved only by the light of a candle, can pene-
trate, has a stagnant .:-filthy look, and emits a
powerful and anything but pleasant odour. In-
deed, the wonder is that human beings could have
existed even fora day above such a fever miasma-
breeding hole ; and yet for the privilege of occupy-
ing the room a year's rent had to be cautioned,
while the rent was paid weekly. The water, the
surface of which was 5 feet 6 inches from the floor-
ing, was between 6 and 7 feet deep, and rested on
a bed of soft mud several feet in depth. The police
expelled Pollock and his family from the room, and
they obtained accommodation in the other apart-
ment of the first floor of the land, where already
the beds required for occupants covered every square
inch of floor surface except the hearth-stone.

MARKETS.—This day.

MARK-LANE.

There was a very poor show of English wheat here
to-day, both as to quantity and quality. For all kinds the
demand was in a most inactive state, at prices equal to
Monday.
Over 35,000 quarters of foreign wheat having come fresh
to hand, the show of samples was on the increase, and the
trade was heavy, on former terms.

Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at barely
previous rates.
The few samples of barley brought forward were mostly
disposed of at late rates.
The malt tax trade was steady, but no change took place
in prices. The supply of malt was moderate.
We were heavily supplied with foreign oats, in which a
fair average business was doing, on former terms.
Beans and peas were firm in price.
Flour, seeds, and cakes were inactive.
SHIP ARDIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 870 150 1,950 1,190
Irish
Foreign 35,270 130 50,350 1,130 sacks
Maize, qrs.

TBE SUN, LONI ON, FRILYA Y EVENING, MAY 17 1.867