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

FRANCE.

PARIS, April 4.

An Imperial decree has been published promul-
gating the declaration relative to the duty on 're-
fined sugars signed on the 20th November, Id6G,
between France, Belgium, England, and Holland.
BOURSE, April p, Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :
q per Cents 9B
Do. and month —
3 per Cents. 6B 70
Do. eud mouth 6B 60
Credit 11Iobilier 407 50
Do. end month
Credit Fourier
Do. end month 1405

Bank Shares 3525
Italian Loan 53 30
Do. end month 53 23
Alexican Loan —
Do. Bonds 143 75
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred

BAILW illn3.
For Account.
Orleans ... ... 905
Northern ll5O
Lyons and Mediterranean 9lO
Southern 566 25
Western 570
Eastern 542 50
Sardinian
405
Austrian —
Lombard 4Ol 25
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman.

102 50

MARK T S.—l his day.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.
There was a very moderate supply of beasts on sale in
our market to-day. Prime Scots, &c., were iu fair request,
but all other breeds were a dull inquiry, at barely stationary
Prices. The top figures were 5s to 5s 2d per 81bs. The
show of sheep was by no means extensive ; nevertheless,
sales progressed slowly, at Monday's decline in the quot a-
tions. The best Downs in the wool sold at 6s, out of the
wool 5s per 81bs. The lamb trade was inactive, at late
rates—viz., from 7s 4d to 8s per Blbs. Calves moved off
steadily, at previous currencies. Pigs commanded very
little attention. Prices, however, were supported.

Per 81b to sink the offal.
scisd s d s d
Crse & inf. beasts... 3 4 3 6 1 Pme era-wool sheep 5 4 5 8
Second quality do ..3 8 4 4 Prime .-,llinown ,i 0.5 10 6 0
Prime large oxen ..4 6 4 10 La•ge coarse calves. 4 6 1
Prime &Las. &c.... 5 0 5 2 Prime small d0......5 0 5 6
Crse. and int. stieep.3 8 4 0 Large bogs .3 0 3 4
Second quality do 2 5 0 :sruallyorkers. 3 6 3 Iu

Dd to 0 Od.
Suckling calves, 20e to 2:s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 223
tO 253 each.

Head of stock on sale. _
Total supply.
I
Beasts Foreign supply.
Cows. 456 Beasts 212
.. ~... ...........
Sheep 4nd lambs Cows.
Calves 1,5-0 Sheep and 1 mbs 1 2 0
Pigs. I3U Ca yes .
190 I Pigs 2,
MEAT.

- -
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. —The supplies of meat are
tolerably fair, and trado is slow, as follows : Beef,
33 Od to 4a 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ;
veal, 4s Od to
53 2d; pork, 2s 10d to 33.10 d per 81bs by the carcase.

HAY.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10s; and straw, £2 Os to £2 6s per load.
Trade inactive.

CurasERLAND.---Meadow hay. £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 4s per load.
A fair demand.
WnmensPst.—Meadow hay £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clovei,
44 Os to £5 10i Od • and straw, 42 Os to £2 4s per load.
A moderate demand'.

BETWEEN You AND ME AND THE POST-OFFICE.
—A Test Letter—g,—Fun.
BRITISH JURORS FOR THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—
Ve are requested to state that the jurors of classes met
yesterday to commence work. The Imperial Commission
insists on the completion of thia branch of the work by
the 15th of April. British jurors and associate jurors of
classes are therefore requested to arrange for one or the
other to go at once to Paris.
NATIONAL PRIZE TRIAL OF SPORTING DOGS.—
The committee of management under the presidency of the
Earl of Lichfield have definitively decided that the public
trials of pointers and setters in the field shall come off on
the 24th of April, and be continued on the a übsequent
days until the ties are disposed of. The dogs will be hunted
on partridges, and the Earl of Shrewsbury has given per-
mission for the prize trials to take place over his well
stocked manor, near Stafford. Provision is made for the
competition of 160 dogs, and money prizes to the amount
of .1-365 will be awarded for the best dogs, and cups to the
value of £3O aro also added. Most of the celebrated ken-
nels of sporting dogs in all counties will be represented,
and the affair will be conducted under very distinguished
patronage.

THE BUILDING TRADE.—The strike for an ad-
vance of wages and a reduction in the hours of labour, at
Barnsley, is assuming greater proportions, both masters
and men being equally determined not to give way. In
addition to the joiners and quarrymen the masons have
also given notice for the reduction of the hours of labour
on Saturdays—viz., to cease work at one o'clock instead of
four, and another advance of wages. The notice expires
at the _close of the present month ; but it is fully antici-
patea brill be compelled to give up work long
before that time, in consequence of the quarrymen being
out, there being not more than a week or ten days of stone
beforehand. Should no arrangement be come to there will
shortly be A
leyaal hundred linen and bogs out GI Writ.

Seizure of the Queen Victoria by a Spanish

Cruisei.

Yesterday a return of the correspondence on this
subject was presented to Parliament. The follow-
ing is the last despatch of Lord Stanley to Sir J.
Crampton, our Ambassador at Madrid :
FOREIGN OFFICE, March 30.

" have received from Mr. Consul Dunlop
a copy of his report to you of the 19th of Feb., on
the case of the Queen Victoria, and, having again
consulted the law officers of the Crown, I am at
length in a position to instruct you as to the reply
which you should make, on behalf of her Majesty's
Government, to General Calonge's letter of the 9th
of Jau. last, of which a copy was inclosed in your
despatch of the 11th of that month.

" The Queen Victoria was seized so long ago as
the 15th of January, 186 G, by a Spanish guarda-
costa, on the high seas, ani not within Spanish
waters, while on her voyage from Gibraltar to La-
raiche, her crew being first terri tied into submission ;
she was taken to Cadiz, where her crew were dis-
persed, money being given to enable them to depart
from Cadiz, and threats of violence being used if
they should remain in the place. The master of the
vessel was for a time placed under restraint, and his
papers were taken from him ; the name of the vessel
was defaced from the stern, and on the second morn-
ing after her arrival at Cadiz she was reported as
having been found derelict off Rota, at the mouth of
Cadiz harbour. This allegation, however, was after-
wards abandoned, and in the following March, with-
out any intimation of legal proceedings being pend-
ing against her having been given to her Majesty's
consul, who was in constant communication with
the Spanish authorities with a view to her release,
the vessel was condemned, for having been found
binding contraband goods found on board her sold
under a public advertisement.

" I do not think it necessary to recapitulate at
length the proceedings at Cadiz, as reported by her
Majesty's consul, or the ineffectual remonstrances
which, under instructions from her Majesty's Go-
vernment, you made at Madrid, when demanding
redress for the outrage which had been committed
on a British vessel on the high seas.

"It is enough to refer to the assurances verbally
given to you by the Spanish Minister for Foreign
Affairs, as reported in your despatch of the 7th of
June, that he greatly regretted that her Majesty's
Government should have supposed that the delay in
replying to his representations regarding the Queen
Victoria had proceeded from disinclination on the
part of the Spanish Government to do justice to that
of Great Britain, and that the matter was in the
hands of the Finance Minister with a view to the
institution of a most searching inquiry into the facts
of the case, which he agreed with her Majesty's Go-
vernment in considering to be of a serious nature.
" In his letter of the 24th of May, enclosed in
your despatch of the 24th, the Spanish Minister for
Foreign Affairs had previously assured you that he
had earnestly impressed on the Minister of Finance
the necessity of hastening as much as possible the
proceedings in order not to delay the satisfaction
due to her Majesty's Government, either of well-
founded explanations or of the punishment of those
who had infringed the law in a manner correspond-
ing to their offence, if, in fact, the result should
prove such infraction.'

" Up to the 6th of November last, however, no
such solution had taken place, and it was only on
the oth of January of the present year that, iu reply
to your letter of the 6th of November, expressing,
by my direction, the surprise of her Majesty's Go-
vernment at a satisfactory reply having been so long
delayed, the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs
announced to you that the Finance Minister and
the Council of State had discovered ' that the
nature of the matter in question did not, and does
not, admit of the action of the Executive, as it is
solely in the province of the Spanish tribunal to
decide upon the legality or illegality of the capture
of the Queen Victoria, the cargo of which consist-
ing, as it almost entirely did, of tobacco, could not
but excite suspicion concerning the true destination
of the vessel.'

" General Calonge, in his letter of Jan. 9, goes
on to say that, in view of the non-intervention of
the British consul and of the parties interested in
the inquiries set on foot at Cadiz, and although
they made no reclamation at the proper time, con-
fiscation decreed against this ship would be declared
void in equity, thus leaving open the road for the
said consul, and the other persons whom it may
concern, to present themselves and defend their
interests before the tribunal which takes cognisance
of the matter, and to claim what they may conceive
to be due to them by right ;' and further, that if
in the final result of the trial, the British Govern-
ment should consider that there be notorious injustice
committed to the detriment of the defendants, there
would then be a fitting opportunity for treating by
diplomacy.'

" Her Majesty's Government regret to say that
they can attach no weight to these tardy assurances
extracted from the Spanish Government after the
lapse of nearly a year from the time that the wrong
was done, and of more than half a year since a
prompt settlement' of the question was formally
recommended to the Spanish Minister of Finance
by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, as stated to
you by the latter in his letter of the 6th of June,
inclosed in your despatch of the 10th of that month.
" Her Majesty's Government must observe, in
noticing that part of the statement of General
Calonge in which he asserts that the British coniul
and parties interested omitted to intervene and
make reclamation, that General Calonge has been
misinformed on this subject. From the moment
that the news of the seizure of the Queen Victoria
came to the knowledge of the British consul, he
made incessant and urgent demands for the delivery
up of the vessel and cargo—demands which her
Majesty's Government regret to state were wholly
ineffectual to prevent the unlawful proceedings of
those who persisted in condemning and confiscating
the property seized.

The original capture, then, was a lawless and
wholly unjustifiable act; justice, though frequently
demanded, has been denied ; the sale of the cargo
and of the vessel was illegal ; and all the proceed-
ings taken against the vessel were not only contrary
to justice, and therefore void, but they must have
been taken with a full conviction of their illegality,
and were adopted, as her majesty's Government are
constrained to believe, for the purpose, or in aid of
the purpose, of covering or concealing the original
lawless act of the captain and crew of the Spanish
guarda-costa.

" In this state of things her Majesty's Govern-
ment must decline to accept the conclusion set forth
in Gen. Calouge's letter of January 9, that the con-
fiscation decreed against the Queen Victoria shall
be declared void, so as to open the road for the con-
sul and other persons interested to present them-
selves and defend their interests before the proper
tribunal. On the contrary, her Majesty's Govern-
ment must at once iusist on the immediate restora-
tion of the ship and cargo, or their full value, and
a proper pecuniary indemnity to her captain and
crew, accompanied by an expression of regret ad-
dressed to her Majesty's Government for the out-
rage committed on the British flag.

" You will furnish Gen. Calonge with a copy of
this despatch, which is the reply of her Majesty's
Government to his letter of January 9, and you will
express the earnest hope of her Majeky's Govern-
ment that the Government of her Catholic Majesty
will not allow this matter to assume the proportion
of a serious difference between Great Britain and
Spaiu.—T am, &c. (Signed) "STANLEY."

SINGULAR V ERIFICATION OF A PRESENTIMENT.I--
On Tuesday, at the Leeds Assizus, Matthias Carr was in-
dicted for the manslaughter of Esther Robinson, at Ingle-
ton, on the 2d of February last. The deceased woman,
Esther Robinson, was about 70 years of age, and appears
frequently to have expressed a presentiment that she should
come to her death by fire-arms. The prisoner is a lad of
about 17, who was on friendly terms with the deceased,
although he and other lads of the village were fond of
practising upon her well-known and often-expressed fears.
On the evening of the day in question the prisoner took
up an old gun, and presenting it to the deceased said, " I'll
shoot thee." The deceased, in great alarm, caught hold of
the gun, and in the struggle which ensued it accidentally
went off and killed her on the spot, thus verifying the
singular presentiment in a most unexpected manner. The
facts of the case having been made clear to the jury a ver-
dict of kirpt Guilty was roturnod.

„
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lIER MAJESTY, &c•

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 3

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Prince Louise and Princess Beatrice, drove
out yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four, at-
tended by Lady Churchill.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Christian also went out driving.
Her Majesty walked and drove this morning, at-
tended by Lady Churchill.
Prince and Princess Christian went out walking.
Princes Louise, attended by the Hon. Emily
Cathcart, also walked out.

Prince Lcopold took a drive, *attended by Mr•

Legg.
Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park.
The Prussian Ambassador and Countess de Bern-
storff arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the
honour of dining with the Queen and royal family.
Captain Von Schroetter nad also the honour of
being invited.

LI 2ERAT lIRE.

George Eliot's "Novels and Tales." Sixpenny II-

lustrated Edition.

Win. Blackwood and Sons.

A charming re-issue of these popular and cele-
brated works of fiction by " George Eliot" (nom de
plume for Mary Anne Evans) has just now been com-
menced by the Messrs. Blackwood and Sons, of
London and Edinburgh. A sixpenny monthly illus-
trated edition it is—begining, as a matter of course,
with George Eliot's chef d'ceuvres, " Adam Bede."
A pretty green cover—not the vernal green of
Charles Dickens's serial stories " those two green
leaves from England's favourite tree," as some one
very prettily said once upon a time, green leaven
put forth by him during so many past years
month by month and endeared to us al+ (the very
sight of each fresh green number, " all April to
our eyes, in its fair promise) by so many delightful
associations--but a paler, more autumnal yellowish
green—is the hue selected by the Messrs. Blackwood
for the serial reissue of four at least among the si%
substantial works already written by our English
Georges Sand—George Eliot. Those four work----
very gracefully symbolised at the four corners of the
green-cover clothing this initial number of the first
among them all in excellence—being " Adam Bede"
—" The Mill on the Floss"--" Silas Marner"_and
" Scenes from Clerical Life." Included, therefore,
in this illustrated series, the subscribers can hardly
look for either " Romola," or "Felix Holt, the
Radical." Who is there amongst us, however, who
will not welcome with delight so charming an edition
as this one, now opening up to us anew the high'
ways and the byeways traversed not only by Adam
Bede himself in the purlieus of the village of Hay-
slope, but, together with Adam Bede, Seth, his
brother, the blonde Dinah, and the brunette IlettYl
and young Squire Dounithorne, and Mrs. Bede, the
mother of Adam and Seth, and best among them all
the inimitable, immortal Mrs. Poyser ?

Elia's Essays. Shilling Edition. Bell and Dal 4,
By an arrangement with the proprietors (Messrs•
Moxon and Co.) the publishers of this extraordi
narily cheap edition of •' The Last Essays of Elie
have placed those four-and-twenty exquisite pro- -
ductions of the genius of Charles Lamb within the
reach of the million—at what rate? it may be asked,
at what cost to the million in the purchase of them
At the rate or cost of a ha'penny a-piece A. very
simple sum in arithmetic will serve to demonstrate
off-hand the fact that it is as we say. " The Last
Essays of Elia"—" Price One Shilling." And
those Last Essays, numbering (as they, do)
exactly twenty-four--it follows, according
to Cocker, that the price of each essay is a
ha'penny ! Q.E.D. Essays, too, they are, includ-
ing among them such " Old Familiar Faces" as--
" Barbara S"—" Ellistoniana " —"Old China
" Poor Relations "—" The Child Angel "—" Popular
Fallacies," and the like. Here, indeed, is a railway'
book worth picking up at the Messrs. Smith's Book-
stalls—worth paying a shilling for—worth reading--
and worth treasuring up long af zerwards for rep erusal
Again and again. " A Shilling's Worth of Non-
sense," a set of the Punch contributors some years
ago issued from the press as a whimsical mélange
for the amusement of children old and young.
But—here—in this shilling issue of Elia—it is not
a shilling's worth of nonsense that we have placed
within our reach, within reach of us all, but a shil-
ling's worth of sound good sense, of wit, wisdoult
fancy, sensibility, racy humour, and generous
human kindliness.

Le Correspondent--this month is chiefly remark-
able for its initial article, subscribed to which is the
name of its editor—Anglice its Publisher—Charles
Douniol. The paper referred to speaks De L'Ave-
nir de L'Autriche. It selects as its motto a sen-
tence from the Times of New Year's Day—to the
effect that Austria can only be saved by the strength
and character of one man, and that that man is not
forthcoming. The writer's argument, as set forth
in Le Corrorpondant upon that thesis, putting
it interrogatively thus—ls M. de Buest the
Man ? As to which momentous Question—•
where is the Irish Echo that will answer it ? No-
where else assuredly than in the breast of M. de
Buest himself !

The Fortnightly for April—" Fortnightly" so-
called, that is to say—enables Major Whyte Mel-
ville's " White Rose" to blossom more and more
after the manner of Shelley's blush-rose in the
" Sensitive Plant," that Undying Rose of which
Shelley sings—
" Leaf after leaf, to the fainting air
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare !"
Before the end of this instalment of the narrative
has been attained, the reader is conscious that
that horrible, middle-aged bla.4 roué, Mr. Vand-
eleur, has all but.eutrapped Mabel into an ac-
ceptance of his abominable suit—the deed of
treachery designed by him against poor Ainslie
having been successfully accomplished by the mil-
ler's daughter, who purloins a letter which, instead
of reachiug the hands of the unwitting Ainslie, goes
into those of the designing Vandeleur. The first
article in this present nuwber of the Fortnightly is
valuable as a historical re'sume of the progress of the
Reform Question from 1832 to 1848, that is from
the last Reform Bill to the famous demonstration
of the Special Constables.

THE REFORM BILL.—A meeting of the Liberal
party is to be held at Mr. Gladstone's residence,
Carlton-house-terrace, on Friday next, at half-past two
o'clock, for the purpose of considering whether any action
should be taken on the motion for going into committee
on the Reform Bill. We balievo that a resolution will be
proposed by Mr. Gladstone calculated to attain the objects
the Liberal party have at heart.—The Owl.

HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY CO'
rAwr.—At the Liverpool Assizes on Monday Mr. Trillion-
son, solicitor, brought an action against the Manchester
South Junction and Altrincham Railway Company to re-
cover damages for personal injuries. It was stated that
on descending from a carriage at the London-road Station,
Manchester, the plaintiff fell and severely injured his leg,
owing to the fact of there being no lights at the place. Ile
was confined to his bed for 13 weeks, and operations had
to be performed on his leg to remove pieces of the bone,
open abscesses, &c., and he now goes about on crutches
and is permanently lame. The case occupied a good deal
of the time of the court on Monday and was resumed on
Tuesday, when, after a lengthy hearing, the jury found
for the plaintifi—Damages £l,BOO.
THE METROPOLITAN POLICE.—An order has jut
been issued stating that the following partial increase of
pay would be made to the metropolitan police ;—Chief
Superintendent Walker, an increase of £lOO a year, making
£425 per year. The other superintendents are to be raised
£5O, making £3OO ; and the commissioners will select foie
the superintendents four to be raised another £25 per year,
making £325 per year. A hundred inspectors are to re'
ceive £lB ss. per year increase, and for the present there
is to be increase for the first-class sergeants who are onlY-
receiving .£lBs. per week; 200 of the second-class sergeaute
are to be raised from £1 to £l.Bs. The first-class con'
stables are to be raised from £1 3s. to £1 55.; and the
second-class from £1 2s. to .£1 35.; the third and fourth
clan of constables are not to reoviyo any incrcaPo.

X N y AItK B T

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The Discount Market is quiet, notwithstanding
an apprehension of a few failures being announced
before the close of the day, the 4th of the month.
The biddings for bills on India took place to-day
at the Bank of England. The amounts allotted
were--to Calcutta £155,000, to Madras £50,000,
and to Bombay, £120,000. The minimum price
was fixed at ls. 11id. on Calcutta and Madras,
and at 2s. on Bombay. Tenders on Calcutta and
Madras at ls. Hid. will receive about 61 per cent.,
and on Bombay at 2s. about 31 per cent. Those
above these prices will receive in full.
The last week's Railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1867. 1866.
Great Western ... ... 71,102 72,402
North Western ... -.114,303 116,225
South Western ... 25,095 25,589
Brighton ... ... 17,369 24,673
Midland . ... 50,010 53,270
South Eastern ... 21,994 26,163
Great Northern ... ... 37,901 36,298
Lancashire and Yorkshire)... ... 43,086 46,670
Bristol and Exeter... ... 6,708 6,555
North Eastern ... 69,312 71,358
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln ... 19,420 21,234
Great Eastern ... ... 31,157 36,176
London, Chatham, and Dover ... 9,372 10,820
Glasgow and South-Western ... 9,484 10,798
Metropolitan • • •.• ••• ••• 4,171 3,930
North London . 4,980 4,695
Great Southern and Western of Ireland... 9,781 8,288
Midland and Great Western 4,561 4,289
These returns, when compared with those of the
corresponding period of last year, show a consider-
able falling off in most instances. On the Great
Western there is a decrease of £1,390 ; on the
South-Western of £494 ; on the North-Western,
of £1,922 ; on the Brighton, of £7,301 ; on the
Midland, of £3,260 ; on the South-Eastern, of
£4,169 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, of
£3,584 ; on the North-Eastern, of £2,046 ; on the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, of £1,814 ; on
the Great Eastern, of £5,019 ; on the London,
Chatham, and Dover of £1,443; while the Great
Northern shows an increase of £1,603 ; and the
Bristol and Exeter, of £153.

Two '.
There has again been a little variatOionCL O
inCK the
market for the English Funds, which, to a frac-
tional extent, are controlled by speculative opera-
tions. Bat the comparatively limited supply of
stock and frequent bond fide investments keeps the
average at a correct level, foreign politics and the
abundance of money being taken into considera-
tion. Consols were flatter in the morning, but
have since returned to their former position, viz.,
to 90j 91 for money, and 91 1 for May. The
New Threes are 881- 89, and Reduced Annuities,
881 89} ; Annuities (Red Sea Telegraph), 191
Exchequer Bills for March, 20s.
p rem. •; ;
India 5
per Cents., 1091 1 ; and ditto Enfaced 5 per
Cents., 1031.
In the Foreign Market considerable depression
has prevailed. Italian have declined ,to 54 Greek 1, to 141 1 ; Mexican /, to 16 ;
1 1 S
Passive 1, to 211 22; the Certificatesi t 13/
and Russian Scrip 1, to 11 21 prem.; ,
but C 141;
Scrip has advanced 1 hilian
Scri , to 3 21 dis. ; and Danubian
p 1, to 3 21 preen ; while Turkish 5 per Cents.
remain at 28; 29.
Increased depression has prevailed in the Railway
Share Market, and the downward movement in
prices has made further progress. Caledonian,
Lancashire and Yorkshire
South E , North Western, and
astern have each receded 1 ; Brighton and
Midland each 1; and Great Eastern, Great Northern
A. Stock, and Metropolitan each 11.
The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no change
of importance. Great Luxembourg are marked 9/ ;
South Austrian and Lombsrdo-Venetian, 15/ ; East
Indian, 1081 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 1081 ; and
Great Western of Canada, 131.
Bank Shares are very quiet. Australia have declined to Union Bank of
461 ; City Bank are at
121 1 ; London Joint Stock at 411; and London
and County at 57.
For Miscellaneous and Finance Shares there
continues to be a very limited inquiry. Egyptian
Trading Company are marked 3i ; Hudson's Bay Company 161 ; Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents.
711 ; and Rio de Janeiro Improvements, 191 4.
In American Securities Erie Shares have declined
1, to 371 381 ; while Illinois have advanced
78i 79 ; and United States continue unchanged at
741 75.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have declined 1, tc 31 32 and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds 1, to 22/ 23.