The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-28 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The Money-market is particularly active, and
the rates of discount tend upwards. The best bills
are not negotiable except in special cases under 4i
and 4f per cent., owing to the increased demand
for accommodation, arising partly from the securities
held iu reserve during the past few days, and which
are now being brought forward, and also to the pro-
vision required for the engagements falling due to-
morrow and Monday in connection with the trade of
India and Australia, and the end of the quarter.
The future is encouraging, and general satisfaction
is expressed at the considerably enhanced position
the Bank of England has attained, as shown in the
following particulars of the return issued last
evening :

Active Circulation ••• —.X23,049,665
Decrease ... ... ... ... 267,035
Bullion ... ... ... ... ... ... 16,729,262
Increase 505,746
Itest ... ... ... ... ... ... 4,108,254
Increase ... ... ... ... 8,149
Public Deposits ... ... ... ... ... 6,389,183

Increase ... ... ... •• • 837,466
Other Deposits ... 17,023,547

Increase •.•
Seven Day and Other Bills

„
... ... ..• 101,792
... ... ..• b 76,995

Decrease ••• ••• ••• ••• 38,521
Government Securities ... ... 12,219,428
Increase 507,705
Other Securities 21,751,954
Decrease ••• ••• ••• ••• 371,600
Notes Unemployed 7,586,445
Increase 745,110
At the ordinary general meeting to day of the
Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency Company, a
dividend of 10 per cent. per annum was declared.
A further influx of £109,000 took place at the
Bank of England yesterday, of which £37,000 was
in sovereigns from the East.

Notice has been given that the Coupons for the
interest on the Debentures of the Imperial Land
Company of Marseilles falling due on the 30th inst.
will be paid at the National Bank.

Two o'CLocK.

At the Paris Bourse to-day, according to Reuter's
telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were dealt in at
69f. 47c.

The English Stock Market has been firm this
morning, and a moderate business has been nego-
tiated. Consols remain at 891 8 for money, and
at 891 f for the account. The settlement in the
Foreign Stock and Share departments has been satis-
factorily arranged. The New Threes are 868 87 ;
and Reduced Annuities 868 878. India 5 per
Cents., 105 ; ditto Enfaced 4 per Cents., 84 ; ditto
5 per Cents., 100 ; ditto 5. per Cents., 105 f ; and
ditto Bonds, 20s. prem. ; Bank of England Stock
for account ex div., 243.

Foreign Stocks have not been in active request.
Turkish 5 per Cents. have declined to 31f 5 ;
Greek, to 151 ; and Italian 56i 57. On the
other band, Mexican are flat at 16f f ; Spanish
Passives at 22} 4 ; and the Certificates at 14f o.
_ _

In American Securities United States are 711, 1 ;
Erie shares 471, 48 ; and Illinois 77f 78.
Atlantic and Great Western Debentures have
declined to 65 67 ; and the Consolidated Mortgage
Bonds 1, to 46 48. _ _ .

The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been to a moderate extent. London, Chatham and
Dover have improved ss. ; Great Western, and
Lancashire and Yorkshire, each 103 ; and North
British, £2 10s. ; while Great Eastern have de-
clined ss. ; North Western and Metropolitan each
1 ; and Midland South-Eastern, each 1.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remain with-
out material change as regards prices.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are very quiet.
Alliance are marked 20 ; Imperial Ottoman, 91 i;
Union of Australia, 47. Anglo-American Tele -
graph have declined to 161 ; Atlantic Telegraph
8 per Cents. paid up to 110 1121. Crystal Palace
Stock to 371 ; and Telegraph construction and
Maintenance, to 161 1.

BIUTIS II FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 Der Cent. Consols
Do. Account, Oct. 9 B9l
3 per Cent. Reduced B7 it Gi
New 3 per Cent B6} 7
New 3i 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 l2 15-16
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £1,000,3 per Cent.
Do. £5OO 1 dis
Do £lOO and £2OO
Bank of England Stock, 6} per Cent Shut
Do Account 213 id

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates

Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent B4
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 los}
Do. Deb., 5 por Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO —
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cont., £l5 pd — pm
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863

Do. 1865 —
Do Account 6Bl
Do. £lOO Bonds
D. Scrip, £65 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Chilian 6 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent
Do. 6 per Cent
Do Scrip, £75 paid
Colombian 6 per Cent. —
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 ..
Danubian Principalities
Do. Account
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Provisional Land Warrant —
Do Deferred
Egyptian 7 per Cent —
'
Do. Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds _ _ r B7

Do. 1864 B5
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. Government Railway Debentures Bl
Do. £BO paid
Creek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons 15
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
ituatemala, 5 per Cent.
Italian 5 per Cent 1865
Do. Account
Do. Maremmana Railway —
Mexican 3 per Cent
Do. Account

Dn. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
liontevidean 6 per Cent. .. —
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent —
New Granada
Do 2 per Cent —
Do. Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
eertivian 5 per Cent, 1865
no Account —
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
Do. Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Do 41. per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent. 1859
Do 5 per Cont. 1862
Do 5 per Cent. 1864 —
Elardinian 5 per Cent
~, Do. Account
upanish 3 per Cent
Do Acc,-,unt
Do New Deferred
Do Account
Do Passive —
Do Account —
BlAnish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Do Account —
's'wedish 4 por Ceut. —
Do. 4i per Cent. 1864
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do. Account ••
Do .£lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account 54 5f
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1863 —
Do 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip —
Do Account
v Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed 96}
onezuela 3 per Cent. —
Do Account —
Do 6 per Cent, 1860
Do Account
Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
13,01gian. 41 per cent, Ex. 25f.
'-'l.,te'll 2} per °Ant. Ex. 12 Gun —
-u*. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... B9
.. French pontes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
Atliial. 5 per Cont. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
DO. Account

I Business
Share Railways. Paid. Closing price. done.

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Wednesday.

The Queen went out, accompanied by Princess
Louise and Prince Arthur, and attended by the
hiss Cathcart.

LITERATURE.

Nora's Trial. Three Vols. llurst and Blackett.

Young ladies, vho form no insignificant portion
of the readers of the circulating library, will find
much to interest and entertain them in the history
of Nora's Trial. The domestic group at the " Nest,"
to which we are introduced in the first volume, is
sufficiently attractive. The impetuous but sensitive
Nora, and the bright and fascinating Fanny, are
happy girls, under the wing of a tender and charm-
ing mother. Mrs. Lennox, during the brief period
that she remains on the scene, is a most delightful
character, while Mr. Lennox, we cannot but
think, is hardly dealt with by the novellist.
From his very first introduction we are constantly
induced, by sundry hints and inuendos, to regard
him with suspicion, while in reality he is a most
affectionate father, and even in the hour of Nora's
trial absolutely refuses to submit her to the sacrifice.
Mr. Lennox certainly does not justify the evil
expectations we had been led to form of his charac-
ter and conduct. As for Nora, the heroine, whose
trial is indeed severe, but ,endured without
resignation, she learns in suffering, but the
lesson is painful to herself, and the descriptions
of her sufferings and the rebellious utterances to
which they give rise, able though the descriptions
are, are singularly distressing. We do not wish to
" spoil the. story," and therefore we shall not allude
to the particulars of the " trial" which afflicted
NOra ; we shall content ourselvesVith remarking
that the sacrifice should not have been undertaken
unless the fair martyr were better prepared to un-
dergo it. Very different is the example of, Emelia
Wyndham, not that even that admirable heroine was
justified in her sacrifice.—" Marriage," says Shak-
spere, " is matter of more worth than to be dealt
with by attorncyship." Before taking leave of
Noi.a and her trial we must quote a sentence of
practical wisdom administered to the disconsolate
mourner by the matter-of-fact Annie Bolton. She
tells her to be " a Christian, and give herself two
things to do—to love God and love her neighbour,
and she will have no time for weeping."