The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-02 00:00:00

MONEY 111 A R T

A ND

'',OI'6ATERCIAL INTELIAGENCt,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Stock Exchange was not opened to-day in
consequence of the closing of the transfer office of
the Bank for the preparation of the half-yearly
balance-sheet. Consols for money were last quoted
on Saturday 944 to 11-, and for the account 941 to
The following has been issued by the Bank of
England : "Notice i 3 hereby given, That in
order to prepare the dividends due on the sth
Jan., 1869, the balances of several accounts in the
following f ands will be struck on the night of Tues-
day, the Ist Dec., 1868, viz.:—£3 wr Cent. Con-
kted Annuities, New £5 per &lat. Annui-
ties, New £3 10s. per Cent: Annuities, 1854,
few £2 10s. per Cent. Annuities, Annuities for
f'rms of years, India £5 per Cent. Stock. On
Wednesday, the 2d December, the above-named
funds will be transferable without the dividend due
on the sth January next."
According to Reuter's telegram- from Paris to-
(I4Y, the French Rentes were 70 77. Firm.
The shipments of specie to the East by the
steamer Ceylon amount to £195,549, of which
86,245 is for India, £53,041. for China and the
Straits, £50,263 for Ceylon, and £6,000 for
Alexandria.

The Pera, from Alexandria, has brought £B,OOO,
and the Pacific, from Valparaiso and the River
Plate, is announced at Liverpool with £60,000.
Proposals for subscriptions to the guaranteed
bonds of the Charko-Azof (Russian) Railway
Company have' been issued ;by Messrs. R.
Raphael and Sons. The amount wlll be £4,319,280
sterling, bearing interest at 5 per cent., of which
£2,000,000 is offered in London, and the ren'ainder
in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Frankfort at the price of
80, or, reckoning allowances, 78k. Twenty per
cent. is payable on allotment, 30 per cent. on the
17th of December, and 30 per cent. on the 28th of
tranuary next. The 'bond capital is to be re-
deemed at par in 85 years by annual drawings coat-
tnencing December, 1870.
The Cape of Good Hope, it is rumoured, will
enter the market for a guaranteed loan, in conse-
quence of new gold discoveries in two different
directions, the one accessible from Algoa Bay, the
other from Port Natal.

The scrip certificates of the Tobacco Loan will
be ready for delivery on and after Tuesday, Nov.
3, In exchange for letters of allotment and banker's
receipt
.

The Don Pedro North del Rey Company have
received the following telegram from Lisbon re-
lative to the September produce Cleaned to 2d
Oct., 20,071 oitavas estimated produce for Sept.,
21,000 oitavas."

We are informed that the Board of the Great
Indian Peninsula Railway Company have ap-
pointed Mr. Walter Knox, formerly general traffic
manager on the company's line in Bombay, to the
Post of agent in Bombay, in place of Gen. Rivers,
Who retired some months ago:
The Great Eastern has appointed trustees to re-
ceive weekly from the first net profits of the com-
PanY the sum necessary to secure the payment re-
Rlllarly of the interest due on debentures.

call of £25 is due to-day on the Five per
Cent• Guaranteed Stock of the Manchester,
beffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, amounting to
£94,959.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Great Central
Gas Consumers' Company, Mr. Alderman Dakin
In the chair, the usual dividend at the rate of 10
Per cent. per annum was declared, and authority
was given to the Board to apply to Parliament for
Power to raise £lOO,OOO additional share capital to
meet the requirements of an increased business.
The Anglo-Mediterranean Cable has, since its
submersion between Malta and A!exandria, been
worked with accuracy and success. The result is
most gratifying, for it shows that the cable is de-
cidedly the best ever yet constructed, its capacity of
transmission being at the rate of more than twenty
Words a minute. The returns for the last fortnight
Show that the traffic will yield from 15 to 20 per
Cent• on the capital. It is expected that Sir James
Anlerson will come froth Alexandria in a few days,
and it is probable that arrangements may be then
entered into for extending the line across Suez
down the Red Sea, and so direct to Bombay.
The Great Westeru Company (says the Railway
News) is at this moment in the enviable position of
having more money than it knows what to no with.
-Ihe time was, and that not many months ago, when
it Was impossible for them to obtain a renewal of
their debentures, and the concern was on the verge
,°1 bankruptcy. By the financial arrangements,
ti,°Nvever, which they have recently made, they now
Ind them Selves in a position to pay off all the de-
Dentures as they fall due ; but such is the perversity
°I capitalists that they decline to be paid off, and
ask to have the bonds renewed at a reduced rate of
l literest• Meanwhile the surplus which remains in
the hands of the company is placed at loan with
i'ne bankers, at something like 2 per cent., to be
available in case of necessity.
irtThe traffic receipts of railways in the United
rlngdom amounted, for the week ending Oct.
„?' on 13,355 miles, to £309,676, and for the
'l) rresponding week of last year, on 13,039 miles,
to
£7762930, showing an increase of 316 miles and
of £32,746. The gross receipts on the 14 principal
t anwaYs amounted, in the aggregate, on 9,677
il
e; to £679,031, and for the corresponding week
°f
1867, on 9,425 miles, to £651,211, showing an
Increase of 252 miles and of £27,820. The total
receipts of the week show a decrease of £8,360, as
comparedtis with those of the preceding week, ending
"e 10th October.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

SATURDAY.
g UOYERNMENT FUNDS.
Per Cent. Consols
4 Ditto for ACCOUnt,:Nov..S
dew Cent. Reduced 93 24
1,1617 3 per Cent
e„W 24 per Cont. Jan. 1894
1-',„O. tor 30 yes, expire sth April 1885 —
t "0 (Red Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1908_
I'4le-quer Bills £l,OOO, 2 per Ct 2l pm
be.
• k5OO
iJo
% • £lOO & £2OO l7 pm
Mitt of England Stock, 4 per Cent
4 tie. secauat
I; nada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
er-Celonial ()minium
h,,.INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECT.TRITIEB.
-gla tftocic, 104 per Cent., April 1874...
D0.,1 Opening, for Account —
Do. 5 per Cent..fuly, 1880
'4,0.1 pel• Cent., Oct. 1888
DO. Certificates
",u. Enfaced Pape. 4 per Cent 914
j'.•°. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
1).-• 53/4- per Cet., May 1879 llOl
-.) 5 per Cent Rup Deb. 1872 —., •
Do. do. 1877 —
T 1 Do. do. 1882
-ilt, Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 _1054
1.):- Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
• under .£l,000
rOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
r pe„ ,
6 mtislo Republic, 6 per Cent ... .
o f,„ ~.
opn.£d3soSpaid
4,,,,,triancißi
t)ijail 5
per
Cont —
no. Cent. 1859
lir .. Do. 1859 —
634
no' 4i Per Cent., 1852 —
h • do. 1858....
-1-1°• do
..,o 1 1860 —
Do
t' do., 1863 684
) Per Cent, 1865 —
110 Account 7Bl
.etion .
AO : Ayres 6 per Cent.
13; 2,,Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) (:14,,-:•, per Cent.
1)0.t144 6 por Cent —
4X Per Cent
boos
I
b„ u Per Cent., B —
cu., 1867
0, , „,'',7, Per Cent., 1866
b ,4.-'l3 '',111), 6 Per Cent.
41.1„,,14.• 3 P•,t• Cent., 1825
t80;13:::8:13
clicpidieenrnlcstoi.sp,euali:lBitt6i7e s7lcr C e n t
I);...:uiliae:ce,o
~.. 844
k. -"°r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
43 • •• ••• ••
.C.)00 Bonds • •••
• '.•
• 4106 Bonds 2
De,
''''"‘u. 2)5°0.t. BonisAcleB:l4llt
82
;'
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S Bonds ........................
,i

731.
, _. ocrip, 18GS
dis
ii, Do do. ,Cl 5 pd
-tli'loverntrent 'tail wav Debentures
, 5 per Cent., 16.2 i 5, ex Coup , I-I°' Account . ........................... ..
". Volipone ............................. .
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ii,°- Aez ,Iltt ..........................
'lO 8 per °out: Auglo-Freucb ...........

Do Account -
Portliguese 3 per 0t.,181,3, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2,': 371 i
Do. de. 1,367 —
Do. do. Sceip, £2O pall —
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Do 4i per Cont. 850
Do 4i per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ... 881 91
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bond:.,
Do. do. £34 15s. d 0....
De., 1866, £lOO Bonds 9ll
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 67?- I
Sardinian 5 pbr Cent —
Spanish 3 per Oen ...
....

Do. Acc/Junt - ••
Do. 1867
Do. Account • 3l i
Do. New Deferred —
Do. account
Do. Passive —
Do. Corn. Goa. of Con,. not funded
Do. Account,
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1861
Do do, 1363
Do do, Scrip — pr.
Tur..ish 6 per Cent •
ho Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1838
Do Account
.Do £lOO Boxads —
Do 6 per Cent., •1a6.) ... 70)i
Do Account .. 7Ol 11
Do 1:10C Bonds 7-2,a
Do 5 per (3e!it., 1865
D , Account
Do 6 per Cant., 1865 671 1
.

hivideuus on the above payable in ,::,,.7,04.
Austrien o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins 514
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per CAnt. Ex. 12 Gail, —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates —
Frerich Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
__

DJ Account
Italia)L 5 per Cent. 1831,
Do. Account 541 I
CLOSING PRICES.
Consuls, Money 941 -11
Do. Account, Nov. 5....

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ASSAULTING A WIFE.—THE HUSBAND'S COM-
PLAINT.—John Conway, a mason, living at No. 39,
Great St. Andrew-street, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with assaulting his wife, Jane Conway.
The wife said that yesterday her husband came
home about three o'clock, called her bad names, and
then kicked and struck her.

In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the complainant said
the prisoner assaulted her both when he was sober
and when be was drunk. All she wanted was to
have him bound over to keep the peace.

The Prisoner said he could not keep anything
at home.

Mr. Tyrwhitt asked him whether he meant to say
that she parted with his things.
The prisoner said he could not keep a second
coat—his wife pledged everything.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that if the wife parted with
her husband's things the best thing her husband
could do was to part with her. He should order
the prisoner to find a £lO bail for three months.
ANTICIPATING THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.—Three
boys named John Lynch, Arthur Ring, and Robert
Day, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with dis-
charging fireworks in the public thoroughfares.
One of the boys said he did not know there was
any harm in it.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was hard on boys that there
was not some place where they could let fire-
works off.

The boy said he used to let fireworks off in the
country.

Mr. ITyrwhitt said that setting them off here
made all the difference.

Another boy sail that he waa very sorry, he
would not let off any more.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said the boys were anticipating the
sth of November, and he was ballad to fine them,
but it would only be half-a-crown each.

WESTMINSTER.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—
Mary Anne Skates, a poor miserable-looking woman,
was placed at the bar charged with attempting to
drown herself.

Police-constable Malson, 42 B, said that on Satur-
day night the defendant complained to him that her
husband was iatreating her. Toe constable said
that he would remain on the spot if she would go
indoors and interfere if there was any necessity, but
she refused. Shortly aft:Twards ho saw her
with her husband. They were quarrelling, and he
heard the husband sAy, "Arou • •., gccand drown
yourself." They were at this time is Cambridge-
terrace, Chelsea, near the water, and she rushed
towards the Thames, followed by her husbani and
witness. The former caught her, and they returned
to the door of their own house, where they had
more words. Witness then spoke to the husband
on his wife's behalf, and while he was doing Eo pri-
soner slipped from behind them and haStened to the
river. She threw herself off the bank, and he was
just in time to seize her by the foot, and with the
greatest difficulty he held her by it until he pro-
cured assistance. _

Mr. Arnold—Where was her husband during all
this time ?

Policeman—He was standing at the door without
making any effort to save her. He was drunk ;
she was sober.

Defendant—Your Worship, for 14 years my life
has been a burden to me. Every Saturday night
that comes round my husband gives me a biding
when he comes home. lam very sorry for what I
did.

Husband—l had a drop of drink on Saturday.
Mr. Arnold—Hold your tongue, sir the less you
say the better.
Prisoner was remanded for a week.