The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-30 00:00:00

United Sta,tes

55

to 53i

Wells, Fargo, and (Jo. 24 to 24i
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Merchauts'lfnion, 33 per cent 23- to 281
The Exchange R eona for dealing in Government Stocks
has been removed to the second floor of the Exchang4
Building, where the Mining Beard has hitherto met, and
the price of new membership has been raised to $5OO. Thu
increased business in this department of the Stock Ex-
change has rendered larger accommodations in the way of
space a'esolutely necessary, besidesad ling to the value of
membership. All the members of the Stock Exchange
are admitted free, in person or by attorney, .as heretofore.
The annual charge will remain, as heretofore, at $l.OO per
year. The new membership fee is to be paid by persons
no members of the New York Stock Exchange.
Hereafter on Saturday, by Joint consent, business at the
Stock Exchange, Open Beard of Brokers, Gold Exchange,
and in the Long Room; will close much earlier than
hitherto, giving the after part of the day for holyday. The
two stock boards will close on that day at 1 o'clock p.m.,
the Gold Exchange at 2 p.m., and the Long Room at 3.30
p.m. The Open Board has affixed the penalty of suspen-
sion for doing business oa Saturday after 3.30 p.m. on the
street.

The Bankers' and Brokers' Association, recently orga-
nised under charter from the State of New York, com-
menced business yesterday at 14 and 16, New-street. The
institution will be employed as a clearing house for stocks
and bonds, and until the mode of business becomes familiar
a limited nu nber of stocks aro to be passed through the
Clearing-house, those selectel for the present being New
York Central, Erie, Michigan Southern, and Northern In-
diana, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, Chicago and
North Western (Preferred) and Pittsburg, Fort Wayne,
and Chicago. This institution, by which it is seen that
the dealings in stocks may be largely facilitated, e,nd
trouble saved to dealers, and errors avoided, is organized
under the charter, which is ample, including privileges.
The Clearing house contemplates also a consolidation,
under one management and in one building, of the trans-
fer offices of corporations the shares of which are dealt iu
at the brokers' boards.

The internal organization of the Clearing-house is effec-
tive, having been arranged by some of the ablest men of
the Board, who have sought to place the best available
talent in the management, which is assisted by a staff of
(at present) some thirty clerks.
When the clearings of the stocks named shall have got
nto easy working additions to the number may be made,
till at length the dealings in the whole list will be em-
braced in the daily operations. Regal tr sales and cash
sales early in the day will be covered in the day's clear-
ings, which are to be finished at half-past 12 o'clock each
day. The charge for clearing is 20 cents for each 100
shares of stock.

The Association has a subscribed capital of ono million
dollars, of which half has already been paid in, and the
remainder is subject to call when it is nodded, or can be
profitably employed. • Tho shares are selling at about
fifteen per cent. premium. The following are the officers
of the Association : —A. B. Baylis, president ; H. M. Bene-
dict, vice-president; H. E. Alexander, manager; D. W.
Berdan, assistant manager.

NEW YORK RATES OF EXCHANGE,
June 12, 1868.
Sixty Days. Three Days.
London Bankers
London, Prime Commercial lO9 k-1094.
Paris, Bankers
Bremen, Bankers ' 79i-791
Hamburg'', Bankers 36 —36 k
Frankfort, 0.M.401-11f
Berlin and Cologne
Antwerp 5.161-5.121
Amsterdam, Bankers

Swiss
The following for the Now York City Baak Stocks :
Merchants'
America

Butchers and Drovers 135 Broadway
City - 116
New York - ,110 Irving
Manhattan
Moclianies'
Union
Phenix lOB Nassau lO5

Tradesmen's
Gallatin National
Merchants' Exchange 119 Continental lO3
Seventh Ward
State of New York ... 116 Commonwealth
Commerce
Ocean
American Exchange... 1201 Fourth National .. 1094
Bank of, the Republic... 120 Ninth National
Bank oiNorth America 111 Park 1531
Eleventh Ward .... • ... 105 LeathorManufacturers' 170
Mercantile
Fulton 156 Tenth National
.First National 205 East River
New York County l4O Pacific l6O
Marine . 144 Chatham 149
Grocers' ' 115 North River

The following were the closing quotations for the
various Public Funds of the United States in New York :
Sixes, 1868, registered 142 to 1421
Sixes, 1868, coupon
Sixes, 1881, coupon ll6l to 116 k
Five-twenties, 1862, coupon
Five-twenties, 1861, coupon
Five-twenties, 1865, coupon
Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new
Five-twenties, 1867, coupon
Ten-forties, coupon 1054 to 1054
Seven-thirties, 2d series
Seven-thirties, 3d series
The following were the closing quotations this evening
for the Railroad and Miscellaneous Stocks :
N. Y. Central 1351 Cleveland and Toledo 1071
Erie 704 Fort Wayne
Hudson
Reading
Mich. South. &N. 1.... 891 Quicksilver
Illinois Central 155 W. U. Telegraph
Cleveland & Pittsbrg. 871 Mariposa Preferred
North-West
North-West Preferred 811 Boston Water Power... 21
Canton..
Rock Island
By telegram from San Francisco, dated May 20, 1868,
we have the following quotations:--
Gould and Curry
Savage ...
Chollar-Potosi

Ophir ... ...
Hale and Narcross ...

~. 135 „
... 2,115 „

Crown Point

... 2,114 ;;

Yellow Jacket
Belcher ...
Alpha ...
Kentucky
Bullion
Overman • ...
Empire Mill ...
Imperial .
Confidence .4..
Amader •.•
Exchequer ...
Qurtz Hill
Lady Byron ...

... 1;195
.. 285 „
70 „
... 390 „

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... 205 pr share.

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THE PUBLIC DEBT OP TILE UNITED STATES.
(Cccretary M'Culloch's Monthly Statements.)
The following is the. official statement of the public
debt of the United States on the Ist of Juno, 1868:

DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST.
5 per Cent. Bonds 5220,812,400 00
6 per Cint. Bonds of 1867 and 1868 8,58?,641 00
6 plr Cent. Bonds of 1881 283 677,200 00
6 per Cont. 5-20 Bonds 1,494,755,600 00
Navy pension fund 13,000,000 00

Total 52,820,827,841 00
DEBV BEARING CURRENCY INTEREST.
Six per Cent Bonds
Three-year Compound Interest Notes
Three-year 7-30 Notes 106,610,660 0J
Three per Cent Certificates 50,000,000 00

Total 5203,117,510 00
MATURED DEBT NOT PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT.
Three-year Seven-thirty Notes, duo
Aug: 15, 1867 * . - 8947,500 00
Compound Interest Notes matured Juno
10, July 15, Aug. 15, and Oct. 15, and
Dec. 15, and May 15, 1868
Bonds of Texas Indemnity 256,000 00
Treasury Notes, Acts July 17, 1861, and
prior thereto . ' 155,211 00
Bonds of April 15, 1842
Treasury Notes, March 3, 1863
Temporary Loan
Oertifleates of Indebtedness lB,OOO 00

Tot,ll 58,834,202 00.
DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.

Unita States Notes 5356,144,212 00

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Fractional Currency' 32,531,589 00
Gold Certificates of Depo_it

Total - $10A,973,981 00
Total debt 52,643,758,566 00
AMOUNT IN TILEASURY

Coin
Currency 43,279,120 00

• Total
Amount of debt, loss cash in Treasury 5:2,510,215,886 00
The iNegoing 14 g correct §ta,t9rmat 9t the Pablic Debt,

as appears from the books and Treasurer's returns in the
Department on the Ist of June, 1868.
HUGH M'CULLOCTE, Secretary of the Treasury•
From the foregoing statement it appears that the gold-
b3aring debt during the month of May was increased
$37,449,550. The seven-thirty Treasury notes were re-
ducal $58,008,050. The three per cent. certificates were
increased $21,670,000. Tho compound interest notes, the
principal and interest of which were receivable for three
per cent. certificates, were reduced $19,701,710. The debt,
gold and currency bearing, and the matured debt not pre-
sented, was increased $3,120,079 —51,920,000, of which
increase consists of bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
companies.

The coin in the Treasury decreased $16,681,098 84.
The currency in the Treasury has increased $11,103,983 51.
The entire debt, deducting therefrom the cash in the
Treasury, wag increased $9,717,0D 18—owing
chiefly to
the heavy payments of interest during the month. TO
increase of currency, it is understood, is attributable to
rec3ipts for taxes upon incomes, and to the fact that some
largo requisitions from the War Department, which it was
contemplated would be made in May, were deferred until
June.

Wo annex the statements for April and May, 1.868

DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST. -
April. May.
Five per cent. bonds $214,464,450 00 $215,974,400 00
Six per ct bds '67-'6B 8.903,641 80 8,688,241 00
Six par ct bds of 'Bl 283,677,150 00 283,677,200 00
Six per ct 5-20 bds 1,424,405,603 00 1,442,055,450 00
Navy. pension fund . 13,000,000 00 13,000,000 00

Total sl,9-14,440.811 00 $1,963,378,291 00
DEBT BEARING CURRENCY INTEREST.
Six per Cent. Bonds $23,582,000 00 $23,982,000 00
3 -year Compound
Interest Notes 46,010,530 00 44,573,630 00
3-year Seven-Thir-
ties
3 per Cent. Certifi-
cates 26,290,000 00 28,330,000 00

Total
MATURED DEBT NOT PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT.
Matured debt not
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presented for pay-
ment 59,036,383 64 $1,075,950 00
DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.
U.S. notes
Fractional currency 32,488,689 94 32,450,489 00
Gold certificates

Total

Total debt $2,641,719,332 38 $2,639,612,622 00
AMOUNT IN TREASURY.
Coin on hand 599,279,617 61 $106,909,658 00
Currency on hand

Total cash iu Treasury $122,509,615 02 $139,083,794 00

Amount of debt less
cash in Treasury ...$2,519,209,687 36 2,500,528,827 00
HUGH 3614Curzoon, Secretary of the Treasury.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

The proposal to raise a battalion of 1,200 men in
the United States for the Pontifical army has been aban-
doned, as the American Roman Catholic bishops have been
informed by the Washington Government that-such enrol-
ment would be contrary to law.
At the dinner of the Cobden Club last Wednes-
day, Mr. Goldwin Smith, in reply to the toast of the even-
ing, "Success to the Cobden Club," said ho presumed be
had been called on to do so because he was soon to sail for
America, whither he presumed he would go charged with
expressions of the kindest and most cordial feeling of all
Cobden's disciples to the American people. He trusted,
however, no one would suspect him of turning his back
on his country, or that he would ever fail to be a good
Englishman wherever he might be. He should, how-
ever, scarcely feel himself out of England in the
United States, because, whatever the difference between
the two countries, the people still had love for Old
England at the bottom of their hearts. But however much
the States were like old England, he was sorry to be
obliged to note one great difference it was impossible to
pass by or, such an occasion. They were still Protectionists,
though he believed free trade was advancing among thong•
He asked England to be patient with American protection,
for, after all, it was but the first commercial instinct of a
nation, the instinct of unenlightened desire for gain. Even
in this country 70,000 Lancashire manufacturers petitioned
against the first movement for free trade. American pro-
tection seemed to him to spring partly from the ordinary
fallaoies on the subject, strengthened by the conduct of
England during the late war. A feeling of patriotic re'
sentiment induced a prohibitory tariff for English manufac-
tures, bnt ho ventured to say that 20 years hence
would see, not a commercial treaty, but free trade between
the two countries. The Chairman had referred to the.
Irish question. Ho should watch the coming struggle on
that subject with the keenest interest ; ho trusted it would
result in good for the mother country, and in the ascend-
ancy of those principles which his friend Mr. Cobden had
always maintained. Those who would fight the battle
had his warmest sympathy. He assured them that if vic-
tory attended their efforts it would be a victory not merely
for their party, but for their country and for humanity'.
(Cheers.)
The New York Times states that the ddvice
adopted for the new national flag for the Dominion of
Canada is as follows : -"A white field, containing a gar-
laud of autumnal maple leaves, bound with the Order of
the Garter, and surmounted with an imperial crown, the
irrrepressible beaver, and a number of maple leaves in the
centre."

The only copy of the first newspaper printed in
America, known to be in existence, is in the British
archives in London. The first English newspaper WO
printed in 1588. Copyright was first granted by statute
in England in 1709. Liberty of the press was established
in England in 1692.
The Commercial Transportation Company of New
York, to which the House of Representatives on Wednes-
day, June 10, pledged the contract for carrying the ocean
mails for twenty years, will immediately put seven new
steamers on the route between New York and Bremen.

It is said that the spoils recently sent home from
Magdala by Sir Robert Napier will almost immediately be
exhibited to the public by her Majesty's command at the
Kensington Museum.

On the 10th inst., at Calvary Church, Clifton,
near Cincinnati. U.S.A., by the father of the bride, Josiah
Messer, Esq., of Hamilton Lodge, St. John's-wood, WO
married to Margaret Come, daughter of the Right Rev. 0.
P.ll.‘llvaiue, D.D., Bishop of Ohio.

A submarine diver is soon to attempt to re-
main under water at New York from sunset until sunset
for a wager of $5OO.
A gentleman in Chicago recently advertised
for a wife, and received letters from 27 husbands, saying
he would have theirs.

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MINISTER BANCROFT AS A CAVALIER.—Tb°
Springfield Republican says :—" The eccentricities of Mr•
Bancroft, our Prussian Minister, furnish plenty of amuse-
ment to the aristocratic gossips of Berlin. The latest story
concerning him is that he is head over ears in love with
the daughter of Giacomo Meyerbeer, the great...composer'
Mr. Bancroft is nearly always to be found at the residence
of Moyerbeer's widow, who lives with her daughters and
her son-in-law, the celebrated painter, Richter, in a very
teautiful villa in the Thiergarten. One of her daughters
is not yet married, passably young, passably good looking,
has read a good deal, is a good conversationalist, and just
the sort of woman learned men like to talk with. 311.'
Bancroft is'her most constant attendant. The other day
he was taking a walk with her and the other ladies in the
Thiergarten, when a lady and two cavaliers, all mounted
on splendid horses, passed them at the full gallop. Rolf
magnificent that looks,' exclaimed Miss Meyerbeer ; 'how'
I envy that lady for being so good a horsewoman.' 101
do you not ride on horseback, Miss Meyerbeer ?' asked
Bancroft. 'Because I have nobody to ride with me, eq.
a lady, you know, cannot take rides without a cavalier.'
shall learn to ride,' said Bancroft, ' and in four weeks you
shall have a cavalier.' Bancroft kept his word. Despite his
sixty years, he took riding lessons, and on the Ist of 314
he and Cecilia Meyerbeer were seen on horseback in the
Thiergarten."
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Births.
HORNE —0 n the 29th inst., at 24, Sussex-road, Hollorrolt

the wife of William Hoine, of a son.
HODGSON—On the 29th inst., at 25, Cedars-road, Clapham"

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common, the wife of E. B. Hodgson, of a son.
OVERBURY—On the 29th inst., at Hazelwood Houfac)/
Shooter's-hill, Mrs. B. F. Overbury, of a son.

Marriages.
DAvlEs—Joszs—On the 27th inst., at E3gbaston 014
Church, Birmingham, Griffith, oldest san of the late J•
Davies, Esq., Bank of England, London, to Sidnei
Annie, eldest daughter of the late Thos. o:Jones, Esq.+
M.D., Ruthin, North Wales.
WEST—NicKs—On the 27th inst., at St. James's Churcb,
Thomas West, Esq., eldest son of the late Capt. Wet
Light Infantry, to Emily, youngest daughter of the lat
Thomas Nicks, merchant of Exmouth and London.