The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-15 00:00:00

MONEY lARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL IN TELLIGX NOB,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Business on the stock Exchange continues quiet,
but there is a moderate degree of strength in most
departments, more especially in railways, concern-
ing which the present current of opinion is favour-
able. Several of the leading stocks have advanced,
in one or two cases substantially. In the Foreign
Market the principal feature is a decline in Brazilian
Stocks. The British Funds are steady.
Money is in quiet demand only. The quota-
tion in Lombard-street is generally 14 per cent. on
the last commercial paper.
The Russia, from New York, has brought
X 72,316 in specie.
Consols are steady, being quoted at yesterday's
prices, at 93k to 934 for money and account. New
and Reduced Three per Cents., 931 to 931 ; India
Five per Cents., 112 to 1121 ; Bank Stock, 248 to
250 ; Exchequer Bilis, 18s. to 235. prem.
The Foreign Stock Market is rather steadier.
There is a recovery of k in the Viceroy's 7 per Cent.
Bonds, at 754 to 76; ; and the Egyptian Bonds
(1864), at 89 to 90, are per Cent. better, and,the
Railway Loan is ; better, at 92k to 93. The quo-
tations are :—Mexican, 15,1 to 161 ; Greek, 12k to
13 ; New Spanisb, 36 to 361 ; Italian (1861), 43}
to 431 ; Turkish (1865), 32f to 321 ; Portuguese,
39k to 40 ; Peruvian (1865), 76; to 761 ; and ditto
(1862), 92 to 93.
Egyptian Nine per Cent. Bonds are steady, at
90k to 91.
The New Honduras Loan is steady, at to 11
prem.

American Securities are firm. United States 5-20
Bonds are 71i to 72* ; Erie, 48k to 49} ; and Illi-
nois, 88k to 89k.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Deben-
tures have risen 1-1, to 28 to 29 ; and the Conso-
lidated Mortgage Bonds remain firm, at 25 to 26.

Colonial Bonds are unaltered. Canada Six per
Cents, are quoted at 98 to 100. Mauritius Six per
Cents., 103 to 105. New South Wales Five per
Cents., 99 to 101. New Zealand Six per Cents.,
103 f to 104 f. Victoria Six per Cents, 110 to 111.
English Railways are steady, at the following
quotations :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1271 to
1274 ; Midland, 1071 to 107/ ; London and North
Western, 1191 to 119 ; Great Northern, 108 k to
109,E ; Great Northern A, 109 f to 110 ; Great
Eastern, 30 to 301 ; Great Western, 46/ to 474 ;
Metropolitan, 110/ to 1111 cum div ; Caledonian,
771 to 77/ ; Sheffield, 42/ to 434 ; Chatham, 194
to 191 ; and London and South Western, 84 to 86.
Bank Shares are firm. London and County is 1
better, at 53 to 54, and Union of London, f, at 34
to 35. Agra (A shares), is quoted at 11 to 114 ;
Alliance 13 to 12 dis. ; Consolidated to prem. ;
Imperial, 17f to 18. _ _ _

Foreign Mining Shares are steady. St. John del
Reys are quoted at 20 to 22 ; Port Phillip, 11 to
; Chontales, to 1 prem. .

The only variation in Miscellaneous Securities
are in Hudson's Bay, which are k lower, at 14i to
144 ; London General Omnibus, 1 to 2k ; Na-
tional Discount, 104 to 11k.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A total of £156,000 in bar gold and sovereigns
Was taken from the Bank yesterday for export.
The Madras Railway Company have paid £435,000
into the Treasury of the India Office on account of
the new issue of share capital.
The directors of the Cape Copper Mining Company
have notified an interim dividend of lOs per share on
account of estimated profits of December 31.
The suspension is announced of Messrs. M`Nab
and Co., shipbuilders, Greenock.
At the annual meeting of F. Braby and Co.
(Limited) held yesterday, the directors' report was
unanimous] adopted. After making due provision
•lfor bad debts. S:c., and writing off a portion of the
Preliminary expenses, there remained a surplus of
5,484 12s 10d, which, added to the unappropriated
balance from 1866, showed a total of £7,744 8s 10d
for distribution. A dividend and bonus equal to 12i
Per cent, per annum was declared, leaving the sum of
£2,324 is 7d to be carried forward to the next
account. The retiring directors were re-elected, and
the usual vote of thanks passed.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have
ordered Metropolitan Railway stock to be quoted
"ex interim div.," instead of 'ex div." However,
such is the disturbing character of the proceedings in
Chancery, that many of the dealers refuse to do
buainess with the dividend off, and make special
bargains " cum div."
The traffic receipts of the Lombardo-Venetian
Railway for the week ending the 28th January show
921 increase of £15,221 18s 9d, and those of the Dutch
Rhenish for the week ending Feb. 7th a decrease of
X 97.

rrAt an extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the
',germ.' es Fire, Life, and Marine Insurance Company
(Limited), Mr. Josiah J. Merriman, of the firm of
Merriman and Buckland, Cannon House, Queen-
street, Cheapside, was unanimously appointed solicitor
to the company.
The following has been received from the Committee
'of Administration of the Atlantic and Great Western

The Committe of Administration have not deemed it
advisable to notice or reply to various anonymous and other
communications which have recently appeared in the public
Prose on the subject of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway, believing that the good sense of the
creditors would preserve them from being influenced
by the undue alarm which many of these communications
appeared designed to create. A circular has, however, been
Put forth by Mr. Ridadale'a committee, containing an
extract from the opinion of Mr. J. H. Lloyd on the subject
of the relative positions of the Consolidated Bonds and the
Certificates of Debenture. As the publication of an extract
only is calculated to mislead, the Committee of Administra-
tion feel it incumbent on them to make known the
entire opinion without note or comment. It is
annexed hereto. At the present moment, pending
the receipt of thelegal opinions now being taken in America,
the Committee of Administration do not propose to take any
further action as regards the certificates of debenture ; but,
for the information of those concerned, it may be well to
state that they are distinctly advised that, if any registra-
tion of this debt in the American courts be necessary or
practicable, the proper mode is for each holder to take pro-
ceedings for the full amount of his claim (for which purpose
it would, it is believed, be necessary for each holder to
forward his original certificate of debenture to America) the
value of the collateral securities being afterwards brought to
I Recount as a set off, and that it is not at all requisite to make
any sale of the collaterals before proceeding to effect such
registration. Many allusions have been made to the
alleged insufficient representation of the debenture holders
On the Committee of Administration. That such state•
ments may be disposed of once and for all, it is only need-
ful to state that the member of the Committte who has
been generally regarded as representing this interest, holds
Personally £9,000 of these securities, besides £ll,OOO
thereof pertaining to trusts in which he is concerned."
The report of the Val Antigoria Gold Mining
follopws
Comy (Limited), dated Crodo, let February, is as
an
"Amalgam on band, 4,747 grammes. Gold remittance
'will be made by the end of this month. The walls of the
tow erusher-house are under construction, and, as far as
'fle Weather permits, our surface work connected with the
tor machinery is being urged. The lode in the adit north
yields
10 dwts. of gold Ter ton of ore. The lode in the
0. 1 winze sinking below the twenty, yields 14 dwts. of
gold per ton of ore. The lode in the 30 end south is worth
1411te. of geld per ton of ore. The wlnze on No. 2
Zoe under the 10 fathom is very regular, ore worth 12
I. of gold per ton."

BUM' FUNDS—TWO O'GLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
8 I)er ()out. Consols
a —O. Account, March 5 93
ktPer Cent. Reduced 931 1 1
Zey 3 per Cent 931 1 1
'''v 21 per Cont. Jan. 1894 —
A -"°. 5 per Cent,. Jan. 1873 —
lipuitios, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
-Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprillBBs —
1`)? (Red Sea Televaph), Au,-., 1908 —
le°loquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct.
Do
.E5OO 22 18 pm
13 1)°. £lOO & £2OO 22 18 pm
Doa of England Stock, 41 per Cent 250
. Account
1 INOIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
ntchauletoccok,lol per Cent., April 1874 —
D 5 llq 121
,°. per Cent. July, 1880
",,,0. po?.-
cater Oct. 1888
A ji, ,0. Certi
"0. Enfaced Paper 4 por Cent B7l
D°. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
D°
of per Cent., Mp ay
eb.,9 187
'-'° 5 per Ru. D 1872 —
Do. do. Cont.,
1877
pDo. do. 1889
0 Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
°. Bonds 5 per Cent., £l,000
1)°- under £I.OOO
A.ztui. FoREIGN 1, 1:2•T DS —TWO CLOCK.
1,.A
14.73tri41,/,l2,o;otpueFBl6bltc, 6 per cent 7l
...._
usupter Cent. 1859
_
u 3. 4i per Cent., 1859
D.O- do., 18:}8 _
Vs°. do., 18,ii,
,entioos. do., 1863 _
651
-"0. 5 per Cent., 1865
lio Account
Ayres 6 per Cent 751 5
Lu
84
Da 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 43

Caba, 6 per Cent.
Guinan 6 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent
Do. 6 per Cent., B —
Do., 1867
Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 —
Do., Scrip £32 paid
o ti •nibian, 6 per Cent,.
I )anisn 3 plr Cent., 1825
D tnubian Principalities, 7 per Cent 7O 69
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 67
Equador New Consolidated, 1 pcx Cent —
v'gyptiar, 7 per Cent —
Do. Second Issue
D ~..Cs')o Bonds
Do. £lO6 Bonds 92i
Do. 1864 - 8}

86

Do. £5.10 Bonds
.• 90 1 901
Do. £lOO Bonds ...
Government Bail way Debentures ..... 921
Greek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups —
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Gdaternala 5 per Cent . —
.
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., lop. Ct., £25 p
Itilian 5 per Cert., 1805 —
Do, Account ~ —
i,lo. Martunnutna itaiwey
Ho:Tic:LT: 3 wr Cent —
Ditto for Account
D. 1864 —
Do 13 per Cent. Anglo-French —
viontovid Gll.l. 6 per Cent. • • —
noorish Imperial 5 per Cent
Now Granada —

Do 3 per Gen
Do. Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 —
Do Account 76i 54 6
Do 44 per Cent. (Uribarron)
Do 44 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
PJAnguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3
Do. do., 1.67 —
Do. do., Scrip, £lO paid — pm.
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B7l
Do 44 per Ceut. 1850
Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cont., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Auglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds 894 84 91
Do. do. £B4 15s. do.
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 894
Do. do. £B4 15s. do 854
Sardinian, 5 per Cent 7O
Spanish 3 per Cen . —
Do Accriunt
Do Now Deferred —
Do Account
Do Passive —
Do Acctunt
Do Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded —
Do Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. _
Do Account
Do 6 per Cont. 1858 —
634 1
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 63159:4.
Do. 1863
Do 5 per Cont., 1865 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 , ..... . 534 4
Do I por Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent .......................
Do 6 per Cont., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864 —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....,
Dividends on the ;Mire pa.yanle in London.
French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
Austrmn. o par Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cent, Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2!i- per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil lOOl
Do Account —
Itliiali 5 per Cont. 1831, Eh. 25f. .......
Do. Account
TWO tirOLUOK.

Consols, Money ................................ 93
Do. Account, March ..................... 93

OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA

MAILS.

MALTA, Feb. 15.

The Pera, from Southampton on the 4th inst.,
arrived on the 13th at 8 p.m., and left at 6 a.m
yesterday for Alexandria.

The Ripon, from Marseilles on the 12th inst.,
arrived to-day at 4 a.m., and left at 8 a.m. for
Alexandria.

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S HARRIERS.-OR

Friday morning the Prince of Wales, attended by Lieut.-
Colonel Reppel, left London by the 11.15 a.m. train on
the Great Western Railway, for the purpose of hunting

with tho royal pack of harriers. His Royal Highness
and suite reached Langley Station about noon, and there
mounting, joined the meet, which was well .attended.
After a good deal of hard riding in the vicinity of Lang-
ley, and some excellent sport, his Royal Highness rode to
the Slough Junction of the Great Western, and returned
by the four o'clock train from Windsor.

TTIE CATTLE TRADE IN I RELAND.-A memorial
signed by about 2,000 of the principal landed pro-
prietors in the grazing districts, praying for a with-
drawal of the Order in Council of the 17th January,
1868, restricting the transport and sale of cattle
and sheep, is about to be presented to the Govern-
ment. The memorialists protest against interference
with this important trade as unnecessary. The
diseases referred to in the order—viz., the mouth and
foot disease and pleuro-pneumonia in cattle, and the
scab and mange in sheep—are not, according to their
experience, of a kind to require the stringent measures
prescribed in the order, and the enforcement of these, it
is submitted, would almost entirely stop the cattle trade.
Tun MURDER OF LORD WITARNCLIFFE'S GAME-
KEEPER,. —Yesterday, at the Barnsley Police-court,
Joseph Gregory, the fourth man charged with being
concerned in the murder of the late George Thirkill,
head gamekeeper to Lord Wharncliffe, on the 11th of
December last, was brought up for final examination.
111 r. Sugg, of Sheffield, watched the case on behalf
of the prisoners Beardshaw and English, committed
along with Cutts on a former occasion. The evidence
was simply a repetition of what was produced when
the other men charged were committed. The wit-
nesses were subjected to a severe oross-examination,
but their testimony was not shaken in any material
point. The prisoner was committed to take his trial
at the assizes ou a charge of murder and night
poaching.
RAILWAY AMALGAMATION IN IRELAND.-- The
Dublin Mail argues very strongly in favour of "the
union of the management of the three short
lines between Dublin and Belfast. Years ago
the public) expressed the strongest opinion in
favour of that unity, which is recommended
by the most manifest and important considerations.
In the railway journey from Dublin to Belfast, little
over one hundred miles, three territories aro traversed.
Three conflicting governments are at work to mar the
passenger's comfort, and increase the expense to him.
Three Boards sit upon hith, and have him at
their mercy. Thirty-five directors rule 112 miles
of road—a director for every threo miles. The
meetings of the three companies are about to
be held, and as there is also an arrangement pending
to facilitate mail communication between Belfast and
DL ounbdl
ionn
abnyd
Belfast,
th tehpe
rteisme
ne t osfeteh
me
sa
p journeyrope between
etween
oppor-
tunity for again raising the question of amalgamation
in some practical form."

A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE occurred early yesterday
morning in the extensive premises of Mr. John Hale
Thorpe, timber merchant and builder, Bowman-lane,
Leeds, and before it could be got under some
of the offices, workshops, and a portion of the
stock and tools were destroyed. It will take more
than .£3,000 to cover the whole damage done.
Fire was first seen by the watchman in the work-
shop, a building forty yards long and two stories high,
and it soon spread to the counting-house and saw mill.
Near these buildings a largo number of heavy blocks of
mahogany were piled, and but for the obstacle they
offered a large quantity of timber occupying the more
distant part of the yard would doubtless have been
destroyed. The man who discovered the fire, on
going into the counting-house, found that thieves had
been there during the night. An outer door he found
open, a gas chandelier was pulled down, a hammer
and chisel were laid on one of the desks, and the
books and fittings were strewed about the floor. It
was also evident that an unavailing attempt had been
made to break into two safes. It is supposed the
thieves set the workshops on fire from vexation
through obtaining so little booty. The losses of the
workmen, whose tools have been stolen or burnt, will
amount to about £2OO.

THE, FoRCEttY 02 SCOTCH BANK NOTES.—At the
Birmingham Police-court,- yesterday, Charles King,
retired publican, and William Breckenridge, agent,
path of Birmingham, were charged, on remand,
with having in their possession two engraved
dates for writing counterfeit notes of' the
British Linen Company, a bank in Edinburgh.
The chief facts elicited were as follows :—The
orisonors in December applied to an engraver named
Pearson, in the employ of Messrs. Storer, of Birming-
ham, to produce them some plates which were to be
fac similes of a £5 note of the bank above named.
Pearson pretended to enter into the conspiracy, and to
treat his engagement confidentially- ; but he communi-
cated the matter to his master, who in turn informed
the police. The prisoners, however, were allowed
to go on until a complete case against them was
built up. Two of the plates being eventually
finished, the prisoners waited upon a printer in the
town named Huston, and induced him, after treat-
ing him to a great deal of drink, to strike off some
impreSsions of the counterfeit plates. An order was
given for 1,000 copies. Huston, on recovering from
his drunkenness, repented of his part in the transac-
tion, and gave information to the police, who even-
tually took the prisoners into custody. Mr. Spence,
secretary to the Linen Company, said the plates were
exceedingly good imitations of the genuine notes.
The prisoners wero remanded for further evidence.

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Northern, 5 percent. rd. at 5 per cent. pm., ".07
Great Western, 5 per cent., rd., 841
FOREIGN RAILWAYEI.
Antwerp and Rotterdam, 0 1-:6
Great Luxembourg, 9
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 141
FOREIGN NINES.

Port Phillip, li
Rossa Urande, par

DOCKS. •
London and Si. Katharine, 50
BANHB;
Chartered kler. of India, London, and China, 29
Imperial Ottoman, 9t
Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim.,
London and County,
Ditto, new, 26
London Joint Stock, 341
London and 11 estminster, 68 1
Ditto, Scrip, 46
Union of Australia, 511
Union of London, 341
lIISCELLANICOUS;
Anglo American Telegraph, 191
Atlantic Telegraph, 47
Ditto, 8 par cent., 10:1
City Discount, lim, 2,
City of Moscow Gas, lim., 81
Corporation of London Bonds, 1832. 41 per cent., 101 i
Credit Fancier of England, 1im..51
Egyptian it per Cent., Viceroy Loan, gua. by Egypt. G 0vt.,91
Gen. Credit and Discount! im.. 51
International Financial 6ociety, lim., 3
London and Provincial Marine. 11
National Discount Company, 11
New Quebrads,
Oriental Gas, lim., 7
Ditto, new, 1 7-:6 1
Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 57 1
Telegraph Construct. and Maintenance, lint., 121 a
Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, lira., 41
Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan) 76 1 51

THE OXFORD MUSIC-HALL.—The burning of the
Oxford Music-hall is attributed to a smouldering cigar
having been dropped by some heedless smoker upon the
stuffing of the cushions on the balcony seats. whatever
may bo the cause the destruction of this handsome edifice
so shortly after that of ller Majesty's Theatre will hardly
fail to invite the more serious consideration of the play-
going community upon the formation of the structures in
which they night after night assemble. It is a terrible
contemplation even to conjecture the result had the fire
taken place during the performances. The Oxford Music
hall is said to have been insured for £16,400. Of this
aggregate sum the Loudon and Lancashire have £1,750 ;
London and Southwark, £1,750; North British, £5,450 ;
Royal Exchange, £3,200 ; Northern, £2,750 ; and other
offices, £1,500. It is singular that a great many persons
who had been "burned out" of work by the destruction of
ller Majesty's Theatre were employed at the Oxford.
What will be the effect of two such calamities in such a
short space of time on the mind of the theatre-hunter ?
Let us at all events hope that the architectural mind will
apprehend the obvious moral judicated by two very ex-
pensive lessons.—The Leader.