The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL iNTELLIGENCI,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The sharp reaction which took place last night after
regular hours o❑ a recovery in Paris prices has been
supported this morning, in spite of the market being,
to some extent, against any further rise in the funds.
The Bank returns this evening is expected to still
further show the improbability of there appearing for
the present any better mode of employing idle balances
than by temporary investments in the fuuds. Foreign
Stocks are generally dull, Turkish having alone im-
proved. American railways are flat. English railway
shares are without improvement, though they are no
lower. Foreign mines are offered.
The Money Market tends to still lower quota-
tions, ny per cent. being the common minimum for
first-class commercial paper, having short periods to
run. Though this is pay-dly in the Stock Ex-
change monthly settlement there is no demand for
advances.

Consols are. firm, at last night's recovery, being
dealt in at 94 to 94:i ex div. for money, and 94i
to 941 fur account ; New and Iteduc-d Three per Cents.,
94is to 94Z Indian Secu-rities are well maintained,
the 5 per Cents. being marked at 114 k to 1141 ;
Stock, 246 to 248 ; Exchequer Bills, 9s to 14s
prem.

The movements in Foreign Government Securities
are neither uniform nor important. Turkish have ad-
vanced to 371 to 38, and Spanish are a shade
firmer, at 37/ to 375 ; Mexican are flat, at 16k to
165 ; Greek, 14 to 14k ; Italian, 52/ to 525 ; Brazi-
lian (1865.;, 77 to 78 ; and Peruvian, 865 to 87. In
-Egyptian, the 1864 Bonds are firmer, at 80 to 82 ;
but the Railway Debentures at 915 to 925 ; and the
Viceroy's 9 per Cents., at 8714 to 871, are 4 lower.
The Viceroy's 7 per Cent. Loan is 735 to 74.
American Securities are firm. United States 5-20
Bonds are steady, at 725 to 72/ ; Erie Shares are
better, at 455 to 465 ; Illinois, ± at 97/ to 971.
English railways are a shade more settled this morn-
ing, but very inactive. The prices are :—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 128/ to 129/ ; Midland, 106 to 1065 ;
South Eastern, 755 to 76 ; and London and North
Western, 115 to 1155 ; Great Northern, 1025 to
1035 ; ditto (A), 96 to 97 ; Great Eastern, 35g to
355 ; Great Western, 53f to 531 ; Brighton, 515
to 52 ; Sheffield, 4314 to 431 ; Metropolitan, 110 to
110/ ; Caledonian, 745 to 75 ; and Chatham, 20
to 20k.
Bank Shares are steady: Agra (A shares) are
quoted at 105 to 11 ; Alliance, 13 to 12 dis.; Anglo-
Austrian, 5i to 51 ; Chartered Mercantile, 275 to
2814 ; Consolidated, 45 to 4/'; Imperial, 18 to 19 ;
Imperial Ottoman, 15 to 1 prem. ; London and
County, 52 to 53 ; London and Westminster, 71± to
712 ; Oriental, 42 to 43 ; London Joint Stock, 344
to 3511 ; Union of London, 345 to 3514.
Foreign Mining Shares are flat. St. John del
keys are / lower, at 185 to 195, and Chontales 5,
at lff to 1g ; Port Philip, 15 to 11.
Miscellaneous Securities are without movement, and
business is very limited. Anglo-American Telegraph
is marked at 22k to 225 ex div. ; Atlantic Telegraph
8 per Cent., 5 to 55 ; Hudson's Bay, 165 to 16k;
London General Omnibus, 15 to 25.
The gold taken to the Bank yesterday was £90,000,
making £602,000 since the last return.
There seems to be no reason to doubt that, in
spite of the dissent of a small minority of creditors,
Mr. M'llenry's affairs will be settled upon the basis
of ultimate payment in full, 6s 8d to be paid within
two years.
Specie to the value of £260,000 left New York
yesterday for Europe.
The biddings for £200,000 in bills on Calcutta
and Madras were held yesterday at the Bank of
England. The amounts allotted were—to Calcutta,
£183,750 ; and to Madras, £16,250. The minimum
price was fixed at is 101 d on both presidencies, and
tenders at that price will receive about 30 per cent.
Those above will he allotted in full. No tenders on
Bombay were invited. These terms show a further
diminution in the demand.
The ordinary general meeting of the Channel
Islands Telegraph Company has been called for the
26th June.

The annual general meeting of the Mid Wales Lead
Mining Company has been convened for the 18th
i"St., to receive the report and statement of accounts.
The directors of the Ceylon Company have con-
vened the annual general meeting for the 16th
bast., for the purpose of presenting the report and to
declare a dividend.
The traffic receipts of the Bahia and San Francisco
Railway Company for the week ending April 23,
shows an increase of £5Ol, and the receipts of the
Madras Railway for the week ending April 4, show at
increase of £1,281, as compared with the correspond.
ing periods of 1867. The traffic receipts of the Buenos
Ayres Great Southern Railway for the week ending
April 12, show a decrease of £l2O ; the receipts of the
Bombay, Biroda, and Central India Railway, for the
week ending April 11, a decrease of £529 ; and the
Great Luxeintnurg, for the weok ending May 31, an
increase of .£2,262 ; and the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada for the week ending May 16, an increase of
X 3,421, as compared with the corresponding periods
of 1867.
The London and North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of £2,265 over
,14,8 t year ; the Midland an increase of £2,548 ; and
Lne •
Great Northern an increase of £2,250.
Messrs. Satterthwaite's weekly circular has the fol-
t'lving :—The past week has been somewhat broken
by the Whitsuntide holidays, and consequent absence
of many members of the Stock Exchange still there has
been a decided tendency to improvement in many
American securities ordinarily dealt in on the London
market. United States 5-20's advanced yesterday to
13, but have to-day reacted to 72b to 72i in sympathy
with the decline reported on the New York market
Yesterday ; the 1865 issue leave off 71i to 71g. Eries
are without change at about 46, but for Illinois
Central shares there has been a good demand, with a
comparatively short supply, which has enhanced the
Price to 97f to 97/. The later weekly traffics of the
Atlantic and Great Western have been considered
disappointing, and the Consolidated Bonds have
receded to 31 to 32, and the Debentures to 27i to 28k.
The following is Messrs. Durant and Co.'s silk
circular for the past month :—" We have to report a
quiet market in silk during the whole of the last four
Weeks. This was not matter of surprise in the early
days of the month, when all was looking favourable
as to the crop in Europe, and all indulged in the hope
and expectation that it would he more or less in excess
of last year—but all these ideas have been gradually
given up, and the question now seems to be bow near
it will approach last year, and the cost is expected to
be largely in excess ; still we have no business. This
18 disappointing ; it may be that buyers prefer to wait
for_ something more definite than mere estimate, and
fear to repeat the false move of last year. In the
pleantime deliveries are fairly favourable—the same,
12? fact, as in April—and our aggregate stocks are
Malady identical with those of last year. Bengal
').,11k shares in the general quiet. The next periodical
"blio sales are fixed to commence on the 24th inst.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
8 Per Cent. Consols
_ Ditto for Account June 4
iS,r per Cent. Reduced 941 1 1
Net,. 2 per Cent
"7 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
A •"°•.5 per Cent,. d an. 1873
''', 'unities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Tele‘raph), Aug., 1908 —
zehoquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per 0)t14 pm
Do. £5OO
DO. £loott
33Aulebf England Stock. 41 per Cent 2471 6 8
Do. Account
1 ISDIA.N GOVERNMENT SEOURITIEF.
441 a 2tock, 104 per Ceut., AprillB7l
Do. Account
Do. .5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
,r;°- 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
T,"O. 5} per Cent., May 1879 —
'''° 51,er Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
„ Do. do. 1882 —
-'-',,k, Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 —
Vo. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
"0. under £l,000

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Ar4entine Repulic, 6 per Cent.....
Abuit.ri.an Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
4-irttilltan 5 per Cent — xd
20. 4j per Cent., 1852 7O
l',O• do , 1858....
-'O. do., 1860 —
DO• do. 1863 ~
D 0.,. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
B 00 Account 77i 1
enosA.yres 6 per Cent —
DO 2 per Cont. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
e'l. 6peCent.
.Ilian 6 pt
D 0• 41 per Cent —
U 0• 6 per Cont., B ...
T‘°•, 1867
.",,e., 7 per ,Cent., 1866
o `,JO., Scrip Z 32 paid
u tributu, 6 per Cent. -
/2,4'14311 3p u• Cent., 1823......... -
Lrl
Dubiau Principalities, i par Cent 73}
u 8 per Cent., 1867 —
Itpuador New Consolidated, 1 per Gen*.
OYptian, 7 per Gent —
)()
j),. Set oad Issue
_
,' • 4.500 Bonds
*Lie. £lO6 Bonds —
Do. 1864
Do. Account
I)°- £5,0 Bonds Bll 80i
Do. XlOO Bonds ..... 811
overnment Itailwar Debentures .... 92f 1
`4. eek 5 per Cent , 182115, ex Coups. —
ko• Account . , . 141
'"'(0. Uoupoug 64, ....

Do. Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent ..
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loaa., 10 p. Ct., .£25 p
Ito Han 5 per Cent., 1865
Do, Account
Do. Maremmana Raiway

Mexican 3 per Cent -
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French —
biontevideau 6 per Cent... .. —
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada —
Do 3 per Con
Do. Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 —
Do Account .. 861 i 7
Do 4i por Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 44 per Cent.. 1862 • —

Do Account
Portaguese 3 per et., 1853, '6, '7, 41
Do. do., I`6i
_ Do. do., Scrip, .£2(► paid

Russian 5 per Cent.,
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 8 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ............ ,
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds.
Do. do. £B.l 15s. d 0...,
Do., Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds BB}
Do. (11 £Bl 15s. do 854
Do Nicolas Railway 644
8 t,litiattu, pt.r Cent
Spa,n7sll3 per Con
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Account
Do Passive
Do Account
Do Cony. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do Account
Teri-Ash 6 per Cent.
1)0 Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account
Do £lOO Boads
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1863
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 6l*
Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent.
Do 6 per Cont., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
Dividends on the above payable in Londou.
Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2} per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil
Do Account
French Relates, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, E. 25f.
Do. Account 524
CLOSING PRICES.
Consols, Money 94f xd
Do. Account, June

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

LOOKING FOR THE BAGATELLE BOARD.—TWO sus-
picious-looking fellows, named Charles Smith and
George Jones, were charged before Mr. Knox with
being found in the house of Mr. George Fraser, the
Running Horse, Piccadilly, supposed for the pur-
pose of committing a felony.
Mr. Fraser said that about a quarter past 12 the
previous night the prisoners walked through his
house into the yard, and in five minutes afterwards
hearing a noise he went there, and found that a
ladder kept in the place bad been raised against
one of the windows. Not seeing the prisoners, he
made a search, and found Jones in the coal-hole,
and on going up stairs found Smith on the first-
floor landing, having got there through the window
by means of the ladder. On asking Jones what
business be had in the coal-hole, he said he took it
for a closet, and Smith said he was looking for the
bagatelle board. He told Smith that the way to
get to the bagatelle board was not by means of the
ladder, and gave the prisoners into custody.
In answer to Smith, the prosecutor said that he
did not see him go up the ladder, but that he could
not get where he was by any other means without
being seen.

Mr. Knox asked the prosecutor whether the pri-
soners were drunk or sober, and he said they were
sober, but shammed drunkenness.

Felix M.'Mahon, 165 C, said that on taking the
prisoners into custody Smith said that he was only
looking for the bagatelle board.
Mr. Knox said ho bad no doubt the prisoners'
object was to steal the bagatelle balls, and he should
convict them as rogues and ♦agabonds for three
months each with hard labour.