The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-06 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL LN T ELLIGEN

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Money Market continues easy, and although
there is slightly more demand for accommodation
this morning the rates remain at 7i, and 7/ per
cent. for the best short-dated paper.
The sum of £Bl,OOO was taken out of the Bank
of England yesterday for shipment to the
continent.

The directors of James Schofield and Sons
(limited) have issued a report, which recommends a
dividend at the rate of 12} per cent. per annum.
At a meeting of the shareholders of the London
and South Western Bank, held to-day, a dividend
at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, free of income
tax, was agreed to.
A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. C. and J.
T. Bowman, sugar refiners, of Whitechapel, took
place yesterday. The statement, prepared by
Messrs• Coleman, Turquand, Youngs, and Co.,
the accountants, was presented, showing the liabili-
ties to amount to £90,000, and the assets to
£58,000 It was resolved that the estate should be
wound up in Bankruptcy.
The Secretary of the Stock and Shareholders'
Inquiry and Protection Association thus writes
I have authority for contradicting the exaggerated
reports which have again been circulated to the
Prejudice of shareholders in the London Financial
Association in respect to the difficulties of another
railway contractor. The amount of these liabilities
is £30,000 only, against £75,000 held of undoubted
securities. Let shareholders be firm to themselves
and to facts, and they may be saved the traps
which bear speculators in these shares have laid for
them."

Two o'CLocK.
According to Reuter's telegram the French
Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted at 68f. 75c.
Ileavy.
.

The English Stock Market has been very firm to-
day, and shows an improvement since last evening
of nearly per cent. This advance is of course
compared with the prices at the close of business
Yesterday, when values receded •on account of ru-
mours respecting the embarrassment of a large con-
tractor. Consols are now 86 13-16 15-16 for money
and 87* }for the March account. The New Threes
and Reduced Annuities are 861 87 ; Exchequer
Bills, 3s. to 2s. dis. ; Bank Stock, 245; India Stock,
2101. and ditto 5 per Cents, 1021 1.
Foreign Stocks exhibit steadiness, Turkish 5 per
Cents, are 39 * ; Mexican, 201 21 ; ditto New, 181
; Greek, 121 13; Spanish Passive, 251 1 ; the
Certificates, 14* 3 ; Italian, 61* 4 ; the Confederate
Loan, 53 6 ; Egyptian Railway Scrip, 3 4 prem. ;
and Brazilian Scrip, I 1 prem. United States Go-
vernment 5-20 Bonds are 671 1; Erie Shares, 551
11; and Illinois, 753 1.
The operations in the Railway Share Market have
been very limited, and; in several instances, at
slightly reduced rates. South-Eastern, North-
Eastern (Berwick), Metropolitan, Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and Great Eastern have each declined 4.
The Foreign and Colonial lines are quiet.
Grand Trunk of Canada have improved to 423 433.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are inactive, but
generally maintain former prices. London Steam
Towing Company Shares are quoted 2 prem. ;
and Chas. Laffitte and Co., 3 33 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
° Der Cent. Consols
, De. Account, Feb. 8 — 0 per Cent. Reduced B6l 7
t.eW 3 per Cent B6i 7
''°„W 3} per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
,:1-10. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Qaratities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 -•-
-(Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
leuequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent, 3
Do. £5OO 3
Do
.£lOO and £2OO
"auk c.,f England Stock, 5 per Cent
, livrdAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
`lldian Stock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 2lo}
1.,''.3 Account
'-0- 5 per Cent. July, 1870
„uO. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 lie. Certificates —
DO., Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
ljt,O. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
',,°. per Cent., May 1879 —
4-'O. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 —
. Bonds, 0
Do. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
4,,nstrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859
Do. Loper Cent., 1852-58-60
. 1863
, Do. 1865
'-'0 Account 741 IDo Q • nn - •_I ti • ',erg:), 4,0 a pan'
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
4-',O. account
h-u„. 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
--,,"jan 6 per Cent
C4-I°. 4} per Cent —
Cubmblan 6 per Cent.
h —.a, 6 per Cent.
""aillish 3 per Cent., 1825
-12),,0. 4 per Cent., 1863 —
DatiubianpePrinci pr Cent.,aliti es 1773-77, .£25 paid
1)0 Account
„,._
-'l,llador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
t '-'O., Provisional Land Warrant
gYP, tian 7 per Cent
,)0., Second Issue 93}
'''' 0 £lOO 13onds
, Do. 1864 93 f
u 4-10 £l.OO Bonds
reek
D 0•
5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
4-',.,e• Account
-1-'O. Coupons
~ 130. Account
lia..enaala 5 per Cent.
itahan
r, 5 per Cent, 1865
-,,,,0 Account
lio 1,
la_
ican 3 per .• AtaremmCent a.na Railway —
u•rc
lio. Account
201
])0 Dn 1864 lB} 1 i•
6 per C tld An ,-10-French — ont • en ' 6
evidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid
nourish Imperial 5 per Cent
"eW Granada l3f
Do 2 per Cent
o Deferred
B_Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
(),; 6_per Cent, 1864 —
9 "0 Guaranteed, 4 per Cent
e.:;rvian 5 per Cent — ...,o. Account
DDo 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) —
°
4} per Cent. 1862
1862 —Do Account .
n,,rtbi guese 3 per Cent., 1853
'.,-'0 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
~uO. Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Po 4} per Cent. 1850
Do 4i per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent. 1859
)30 5 per Cent. 1882
Do 5 per Cent. 186-1
'''ardinian 5 per Cent
1,1.),0 XICO Bands —
8 D. 1} per Cent
Panish 3 per Cent
1)0. Account
Do New Deferred —
Do Account
0 Passive —
6 Do Account 251 1
Do Cert. of Coup not funded
-,-,0
Account l3l 14f f
"Wedish4 per Cent.
Do
I,
~„. 4i per Cent. 1864
tl:riozAsl.ice6opuzent. 1854 —
1,),J0 6 per Cent. 1858
M. 1,-,10 £lOO Bonds uo 6
.., nounnt. 1862
?c,
B 0! ,6 Per Cent., 1863
1.); 0 per Cent. 1865 —
88, SeriP, £35 paid
0 Account
vettioietztiietpla: 3 CiiitdGenuta.ranteed 39 f 1
li
° ') Per Cent., 1864 35
Ittist Dividends on the above payable in London.
Beivr", 6 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
Dot'eba.l,4l per cent. Ex 25f
1,),3- I'l Per Cent., Ex; 12. Gull —
per
Cent. Certificates —
°ll,
Bots for
TWO O'CLOCK
D, a
86 13-16 15-16
b ' 4lecount money
86 13-16 15-16
°• March
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114.aEnTIINOLOGICAL DIFFICULTY. —A curious cir-
k.lo.tri ce lately occurred relative to the skulls of
had ~_e 8113' and St. Gerard, bishop of Toul. The two heads
had uf u LI preserved in the same reliquary,. and. as the labels
fro 4411, en off, there seemed no means of distinguishing one
of 1;11 "Qe other. In the difficulty, Mgr. Lavigerie, Bishop
to 44cY, requested M. Gordon, known as an ethnologist,e
0,
,e2catnine them. That savant immediately recognised
belolle heads as that of a Gaul, whilst the other evidently.
13ged to a man of a different nation. That distinction
Wes co „
otiain llurnied by the fact that St. Gerard was of Gallic
Boo„,„ ' arid St. Mansuy a Seotchivan. Likewise, the pre-
-44_7 of four teeth in the skull of the latter, a circumstance
.rW rds found to be mentioned in one of the labels, fully
estabii,, .
—gmed hie identity.—Galignani,