The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

BREADSTUFF'S AND PROVISION&

At Bost3n, flour dull, but prices quite firm, sales of wes-
tern superfine at $9 25 to 9 75, common extras $lO 25 to
11, medium $ll to 12, good and choice $l3 to 14 75, Illi-
nois and southern Ohio $l3 50 to $l5 50, choice St. Louis
$l5 to 16 75, corn meal $5 75.t0 6, rye flour $9 75, corn
western and southern yellow $1 20 to 1 28, western mixed
$1 20 to 1 24, white $1 15 to 1 20, oats 95e to $l, rye
1 20, shorts $l3, flue fend $l3 to 44, middling $44 to 46,
hay $l7 to 21, pork dull and prices easy, prime $23 to
$24, mess $2B 50 to 29, clear $3O to 32, beef mess $2l to
23, extra $24 to 25, family $26 to 27 50 ; lard 191 to 201 c ;
hams 191 to 20c ; butter tending downwards, old 25 to 30c,
New York and Vermont dairies 40 to 44c, cheese 10 to 17c,
white beans $5 25 to 5 75, Canada $1 60 to 1 90, potatoes
$1.50 to 1 65, eggs 23 to 25e.

At New York flour, state and Western, irregular and
unsettled with rather more doing for export, superfine
$4O to 9 25, extra $9 6 to 10 50, round hoop Ohio $9 80 to
13 GO, extra western $9 50 to 10 50, white wheat extra
$ll 75 to 13 25, southern without change, California $ll
80 to 23 75, wheat firm, with sales of Chicago spring No.
2 at $2 27 to 2 38, No. 1 82 46 to 2 48, corn heavy and a
shade easier, with sales of mixed western at $1 16k to
1 18, oats opened firmer, but closed dull and drooping,
with sales of western at 87/ to 881 c, beef steady, pork dull,
with sales new mess at $2B 87 to 28 50, lard a shade firmer
with sales at 18/ 19c, butter quiet, Ohio 30 to 37c, state
36 to 40c, whisky quiet, cotton moderatively active, with
sales k to lc better, middling uplands 30k to 31c, rice steady
at 101 to 114 c for Carolina, sugar firm, with sales of musco-
do at 11/ to 13c, coffee steady, molasses firmer, navalstores
quiet, oils quiet, petroleum firm, crude 13k to 14c, refined
bonded 30c4

NEW YORK RA.TES OF EXCHANGE,
May Isth, 1868.
Sixty Days. Three Days.
London Bankers
London, Prime Commercial lO9l-1101
Paris, Bankers
Bremen, Bankers
Hamburgh, Bankers 361-36-1
Frankfort, 0 M 4q-41.*
Berlin and Cologne
Antwerp 5.161 5.121
Amsterdam, Bankers
Swiss 5.161 —5J2f

(From the Wall-street Journal)
NEW You; Friday Evening, May 15.
The following were the closing quotations this evening
for the Railroad and Miscellaneous Stocks :
Cleveland and Toledo 105}
Fort Wayne
Pacific Mail 9l
Atlantic Mail 3O
Quicksilver
W. U. Telegraph
Mariposa Preferred
Ohio and Mississippi 291
Boston Water Power 2Ol.
Cumberland

N. Y. Central 127
Erie 684
Hudson
Reading
Mich. South. &N. I B5l
Illinois Central
Cleveland & Pittsbrg B3f
North-West
North-West Preferred 77
Canton so+
Rock I-land
The following for the New York City Bank Stocks :--•
Merchants

America

Butchers and Drovers 125 Broadway
,
City
Now York
Manhattan
_ _

Mechanics' 127 People's
Union
Phenix lO6l Nassau lO7
Tradesmen's
Gallatin Na.ional
Merchants' Exchange 114 Continental lO3
Seventh Ward
State of New York ... 112 Commonwealth ll2
Commerce
Ocean lO5l Central National
American Exchange... 118 E Fourth National .. 106
Bank of the Republic... 117 Ninth National lO9
Bank of North America 109 Park 145
Eleventh Ward ........ 105 Leather Manufacturers' •••
Mercantile
Fulton 153 Tenth National
First National 2031 East River
New York County 145 Pacific l6O
Marine 145 Chatham 147

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Railroad Stocks are far from active, the leadiug stock 6
being under the control of cliques, of whom the Street hag
a wholesome dread.

Miscellaneous Stocks are weak, and the business is most 4.9
confined to Pacific Mail, Canton, and Quicksilver. _

Mining Stocks continue very slow, and the variations
in price aro unworthy of notice.
Petroleum Stocks are steady, and a fair business is doing,
with special inquiry for low-priced stocks. _

Empress Stocks are heavy, and are offered in large blocl•
We quote :
Adams
American
Uuited Sta'es
Wells, Fargo, and Co 22 to 221

Merchants' Union, 35 per cent. 2B/ to 28j
The following notice, in regard to the conversion of
Compound Interest Notes, will be read with interest :--
WASHINGTON, May 11, 1868.
Notice is hereby given that all compound interest note°
intended for conversion into three per cent. temporal,
loan certificates must either be presented to the Assistant
Treasurer at New York, who has the full charge and cow
trol of the issue of such certificates, or to the Treasurer
of the United States at Waehington, who will issue coil"
ficates, which, on presentation at the office of the Assistant
Treasurer at New York, will entitle the holder to receive
such certificates in exchange. Compound interest note
intended for redemption in lawful money must be for:
warded to the Treasurer of the United States for that
purpose.

M'CuLtocir, Secretary of the Treasury
The following are the quotations for Compound Interest
Notes :

May, 1865 119; to 1191
August, 1865.... llBl to 118}
September, 1865 ll7l to 118
October, 1863 ll7l to .1171
Gold is firm, and has scarcely varied to-day, havil
opened at 1391, thence falling to 1391, and closing at 13'
American silver is selling at 51 to 61 cents below the
price of gold. Mexican dollars are still quoted at 1031 t 4
1031 in gold.

Births.

BIDDULPH—On the 31st ult., the wife of Michael BiddulPl4

Esq., ALP., of a daughter. •
CAVENDISH—On the 31st ult., at Devonshire House, 11°'
cadilly, Lady Edward Cavendish, of a son.
the
CANE - On the 30th ult., at Exeter House, Roshamptuo,
wife of Richard Du Cane, Esq., of a daughter.

Marriages.
HUDSWELL—LLOYD —On the 30th ult., at St.
Westminster, Wm. Shillito, only son of W. Iludsiveli
Esq., of Springfield Lodge, Leeds, to Eleanor,
daughter of the late John Lloyd, of Poland-street,
ford-street.
PAIGE —RORISSON—On the 28th ult., at KingslandCons
gational Church, Kingsland, William Paige, of s°l„te
lioltou, Devon, to Elizabeth, only daughter of the -
W. G. Robinson; of Stoke Newingtcn.

Deaths.
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BIDWELL— On the 30th ult., at Thetford, Norfolk, •-•
Bidwell, Esq., aged 86.
BURGESS—On the Ist inst., Mr. J. Burgess, of Aralli°l43'
Surrey, aged 85.
COVEY—On the 30th ult., at East Grinstead, Geo. c°l4'
aged 60. OA
PENNINGTON—On the 30th ult.. at 19, Green-par', Ba
Edward Pennington, Esq., aged 74. r NOW
SPEED—On the 31st ult., Mr. James B. Speed,
street, Covent-garden, aged 77. ;laford'
VIDLER—On the •
30th ult., at Merrow, near Gil-
Finch Vidler, Esq., aged 82.

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