The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-09 00:00:00

are still depressed by the unusual limitation of 'busi-
ness, speculative as well as on investing account.
The high rates of discount, over which the Govern-
ment have little control, is not an element in the
discussion upon the existing dullness, because con-
fidence is reposed in the present administration.
There can be no doubt that the unsettled weather
is producing an unfavourable effect upon the tendency
of values. Consols are 871 4 for transfer, and 881
1 for September, showing a decline of k per cent,
compared with the latest prices yesterday afternoon.
The settlement is expected to be satisfactorily con-
cluded, but the rate of ".continuation" is as high
as 1 per cent, owing to the present condition of the
money market. The New Threes were 86/ 1, and
Reduced Annuities 862 87 ; India Stock, 210 211 ;
and ditto 5 per Cents., 1021 1031; Exchequer Bills
for March and June, par to 7s. prem.
Foreign Stocks are generally lower. Turkish 5
per Cents. have declined 1 to 261 1 ; Mexican 1 to
161 a ; but Greek have advanced 1 to 11 12.
Italian have receded 1 to 501 1 ; and the Brazilian
Scrip 1 to 5 4 dis. Spanish Passive continues at
191 4 ; and the Certificates at 141 4. American
Securities show a general improvement. United
States 5-20 Bonds have advanced 1 to 681 4 ; Erie
Shares to 411; and Illinois* to 751.
Business in the Railway Share Market has
been moderately active. Prices opened with
symptoms of an upward movement as regards
prices, but upon the announcement that no altera-
tion had been made in the Bank rate of discount
a heavy tone prevailed. Great Western and North
Western have each improved 1 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, ; while North Eastern (Berwick),
have declined 1.
The Foreign and Colonial lines are very dull.
Great Luxembourg are dealt in at 121 13 ; San
Paulo at 132 ; South Austrian and Lombardo-
Venetian at 15 ; Grand Trunk of Canada at 204 ;
and Great Indian Peninsula at 1041 105.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are very inactive.
Alliance have declined to 18 ; London and County
to 62 ; Consolidated at 41 ; Anglo-American
Telegraph Company, 31 s ; Credit Foncier and
Mobilier of England, 31 dis.; General Credit and
Finance, 11 dis. ; and International Financial, 2 dis.
It has been announced that the directors of the
Northern Assam Tea Company have made a call of
10s. per share on the "A" issue, payable on or
before the 31st inst.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols . 87-1 / i I
Do. Account, Aug. 9 B7l
3 per Cent. Reduced B7 61 .1-
New 3 per Cent B7 Gi i t3l.
New 3/- per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
&nullities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprillBBs —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
March. Juno,
Exchequer Bills, £1,000,3 per Cent. par rpm
Do. £5OO
Do £lOO and £2OO
Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent _
Do Account —
I:::::cGouonv:77.ENT SECURITIES.
radian Stock, Di per Cent., Apri11874... 210 11
--
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. Deb., 4 per Cent, Aug. 1866
Do. Bonds, £l,OOO ll pm
Do, under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd — pm
dustrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 1865 —
Do Account
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Do. Scrip, £65 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Ohilia,n 6 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent —
Do. 6 per Cent
Do Scrip, £75 paid - pm
Colombian 6 per Cent.
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
9nnish 3 per Cent., 1825
Uanubian PrilicipLdities
Do. Account
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Provisional Land Warrant
Do Deferred
S'gyptian 7 por Cent
Do.' Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1861 B3 21 4
4;

Do £lOO Bowls B3}
Do. Government Railway Debentures 79
Do. £BO paid k
Lireek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ox Coupons

Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
r_Tuatemala 5 per Cent.
Italian 5 per Cent 1865
Do Account —
Do. Maremmana Railway —
\lexicon 3 per Cent
Do. Account
Do 1864 —
Wo 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
Slontevidean 6 per Cent., X3O paid
Oloorish Imperial 5 per Cent
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
New Granada

Do 2 per Cent
Do. Deferred
?eruvian 5 per Cent., 180

Do. Account —
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) —
Do 41- per Cent., 1862
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
Do. Account
Bassi= 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 41. per Cent. 1850
Do 4i per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pex Cent. 1859
Do 5 per Cent. 1862 BBl 8 i 71
Do 5 per Cent. 1864 9l 1
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Do. Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred —
Do Account
Do Passive —
Do Account l9l
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Do Account
Swedish 4 per Ceut.
Do. 41 per Cent. 1864
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 _
Do Account
Do 6 per Cont. 1858
Do. Account ..................... .
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account .........
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1863
Do 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip —
Do Account
Do. 4 per Cont. Guaranteed 97
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 —
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 271 7
Dividends on the above payablein Loudon.
Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2 per Cent. Ex. 12 GO,.
Do. Certificates
French Relates 8 per Cent.
Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. ....
Do. Accolint
THREE O'CLOCK.
1 Consols for money
871 /
Ditto Account, September

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF TIIM.—At the Man-
chester City Poliee-court, yesterday, a boy of ten
years, named Joseph Morrow, whose father is a labouring
mat, living in Evans-street, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, was
charged with stealing a trunk containing property of the
value of £3O. On Thursday last the prosecutrix, Miss M.
E. Bailey, of Bolton, was driveu in a cab to the Oxford-road
station, whence AO had to proceed to Brooklands, near
Altringliam, She requested the cabman to carry her trunk
to the platform, and soon afterwards she loft by train, be-
hoving that the trunk would be forwarded at the same
time. When she had completed her journey the prose-
cutrix could not learn anything of her property. On the
everting of the same day an assistant to Mr. Barlow,
draper, Oxford-road, found the trunk in an ashpit at the
rear of Mr. Barlow's premises. The discovery was com-
municated to the police, and it was resolved that the
trunk should be replaced and the ashpit kept under sur-
veillance. About 9 o'clock on the following morning
the prisoner entered the passage behind Mr. Barlow's
house, jumped into the ashpit, opened the trunk, and took
out a dress. As he was leaving, the constable, who was
watching, asked him why he had come thither, to which
he replied that he was in search of old bottles, The con-
stable then took him into custody, and reference having
been made to the trunk, the prisoner raid that two men
engaged him to carry it from Oxford-road station, and
that after dismissing him at the entrance to the passage
already mentioned, they put it in the ashpit. Mr. Walker
said he should remand the prisoner fcr a week, in order
that he might learn whether any reformatory would re-
ceive him without his going to the sessions.
k It is said that a single message was transmitted
by the Atlantic Telegrasph on Tuesday, the cost of which
was £BOO.