The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-01 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
OOMMEItOIAL INTELLIGENCR,

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The Stock Exchange is closed to-day, according to
custom, in consequence of the shutting of the Transfer
Offices at the Bank, for the purpose of striking the
,nilf-yearly balances.
The Bank return shows some indications of an in-
creasing demand for money, in a falling off in the
reserve, combined with an increase in private securities,
rind a diminution in the private deposits. The cir-
(lllation is consequently higher. The bullion has
slightly
enlarged, and the reserve amounts to nearly
eleven millions and a half. If this position is main-
tained, the rate of discount will not be changed, inas-
much as the reserve is moderately strong, and the
securities stand at less than the recent average. The
"lowing are the principal changes since the nrevior
return :

Increase in Circulation --
£203,986
Increase in Public Deposits
Decrease in other Deposits ...
No change in amount of (lovernment Securities.
Increase in other Securities .. 250,927
Increase in Bullion • .....—. 105,786
Increase in Rest
Decrease in Reserve . ........... . 105,299
Bullion in both Departments ......20,632,886
Reserve of Notes and Coin 11,481,781
Circulation, including Bank Post Bills 24,616,853
The followint is the return of Paid Clearing for the
Week ending Wednesday, April 29, as certified by
iqr. Geo. Derbyshire, chief inspector :-
- April 23, Thursday ..." ....... £9,921,000
April 24, Friday ...—....... 8,710,000
April 25, Saturday
April 27, Monday
April 28, Tuesday
April 29, Wednesday ....... 20,612,000

£67, 656,000
The large clearing of Wednesday arose from the Stock
Exchange settlement ; but, independently of this cir-
cumstance, the daily movements exhibit some expan-
sion of trade.
The demand for discount this morning is firm. at
2 per cent.
The Stock Exchange being closed, there is no busi-
ness to report in stocks or shares.
The following notification has been received from
the Bank of England, dated Ist May, 1868 :—Notice
is hereby given that in order to prepare the dividends
clue on the sth July, 1868, the balances of the several
accounts in the following Funds will be struck on the
night of Tuesday, the 2nd June, 1868, viz.:—£3 per
Cent. Consolidated Annuities, New £5 per Cent.
Annuities, New £3 lOs per Cent. Annuities, 1854,
New £2 lOs per Cent. Annuities, Annuities for terms
of years, India £5 per Cent. Stock. On Wednesday,
the 3rd June, the above-named Funds will be trans-
ferable without the dividend due on the sth July
next. East India Stock : Shut—Friday, 12th June,
1868. Open—Monday, 6th July, 1868.
A small failure has taken place on the Stock
Exchange.
There were no bullion operations at the Bank yester-
;_lay- The following is a review of the bullion market
°.Y Messrs. Mocatta and Goldsmid :—" The demand
for silver for the East having for the present quite
subsided, the market has become flat, and the price
1148 fluctuated between 60id and 60d, at which rates
purchases,,, have been effected for the Continent.
lextean dollars remain at 590, but without much
animation, and it is doubtful whether the large
I.l,lnounts now on the way will realise this quotation.
airj-•
hn_eere shipments of gold expected to arrive shortly from
Australia and from the United States are very large.
.nd thoisug,but a very moderate demand for exportation
American eagles and some other descrip-
..ti,otnos are purchased for transmission to France,
ost all the bar gold which is received is taken to
the Sank.”WThe Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
of etbdnes!lay, May 6, a special settling day in the Scrip
litane 81x per Cent. Debenture Stock of the Metropo-
The Railway Company—to be marked.
Committee have also ordered the New Five per
Cent, Debenture Stock of the Great Western Railway
wm
P4"Y to be officially quoted. The Committee
41n meet specially on Wednesday, May 6, to consider
ilapplication to mark the New Three per Cent.
The (1867) of the Spanish Government.
receipts of the Great Central of Belgium Rail-
'l7 from the 10th to the 31st of March amount to
24 as co beinglo3 9d, an increase of £3,039 16s 10d
toa,:wPared with the corresponding period of last
of tremittance of £470 has been received on account
ow Granada dividends.
The report of the Antwerp and Rotterdam Rail-
tiaY recommends the following mode of disposing of
dil,,,not profit of the year 1867 :-1. To distribute a
cent, of 14fr. per share, that is to say, 5-60 per
of L. 2. To devote to the extraordinary redemption
hereinafter
lionds a sum of £3,120. 3. To carry, as is
stated, to the credit of the reserve fund, a
rain amounting to £6,817 3s 9d for the renewal of
and sleepers. 4. Likewise to create a reserve
the
u Aix-la-Chapelle to Hasselt Company, and to
4..." Y to the credit of such reserve fund the sum of
--0140 I is 2d.
thehe directors' new scheme of arrangement between
Cambrian Railway Company and its creditors will
the submitted to the shareholders to-morrow, at a
trial meeting at Oswestry, after the conclusion of
s,O business of the ordinary half-yearly meeting. The
cheme proposes to give the company full powers to
la's() £47,300 and £lOO,OOO on mortgage, which sums
I.4ve, with certain restrictions, already been autho-
'lsed for the purposes of the coast and inland sectiops
of the railway respectively. The £47,300 is, when
raised, to be applied exclusively to the purposes of
the inland section.
The Port Philip and Colonial Gold Mining Com-
1-'ItlY announce a dividend of is per share, leaving
£487 to be added to the reserve and £1,740 to t!",
carried forward.

BRITISH FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
(YESTERDAY.)
, UOYERNMENT FUNDS.
4
" per Cent. Consols -1 4
01
itto for Account .4
~,," per Cent. Reduced 92,
w 3 per
I '1
Iva Cent
New 24. pr Cent. Jan. 18947
Do. 5 per Cent. can, 183
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth
AprilthJan.l,BlBBsB.o —__
Do. for 30 yrs, expire 5t
Pm
zDo (Red SeaTeleraph2),pAeurgu.t, 1908 —
eh uer Bills, £l,OOO,
--•••
D. £5OO
Do £lOO & £2OO l2
'll
Bank of England Stock. 6 per
Do. Account
India tocic, 101 per Cent.,
INDIAN Gs OVERNMENTSEc CentAprillB.4s
--
130. Account
1164 i
Do. 4 p
5 per
CCent. July, 1880
1011 -1. i
Do, per ent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
.T." 20. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent
1031 4
uo. 5 Per Cent., Jan. 1872
109
Do. perer Cent., May 1879
IDO 5 Cent Rup. Deb. 1872
~
Do. do. 1877
.r, Do. do. 1882 —
n 0,105
'-'c. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
27 22 pm
- Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO
23 pm
under £l,OOO
a POREIGN FITNDS—CLOSING PRICES._
-rgentille Republic, 6 per Cent
bArtt,tr.,ian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 VI
xd
„441aan 5 per Cent
_
ii°' 44 per cent., 1852
71
—l,°' do., 1858....
''''°. do., 18 ;0 _
N. do 1863
C
I) 5 "
_
I,° per Cont., 1865
75 4 41
'''') Account
ut,
_
10.441 6 per Cent.
Dian 6 per Cent 991
•110. 41 per Cent _
.i.,t)o• 6 per Cent B • '''o. 1867 ~
971 64 71 64
D 0 '
1011
1),,, Per ,Cent., 1866
_
031,., e?crip £32 paid
fi_
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x(
I)7losti, 3 per Cent., 1825...
Doprinci 1. • 7 Cent —
Do s pa ities, i‘ar
741
D
Out- Per Cent , 1867
tdor Nev., Consolidated, 1 per Conf —
1),,,i )00: per,Scescooundil
011s:tit Centue
_24
Optian, 7
uo• 410 C Bonds
Do
.13° ' 1864 —
D°• . £5lO Bonds —
" £lOO Bonds
..• .. 82 QreGle°'rernment Rail way Debenturos . .•• 891
tk.
.5 per Cent., 1824.-5, ox Coup ...
124 13
,„,,.(), zi.._ccouut
-,;-.„) • Coupons
•
~.-'l,lO. Account _
1104t61114, Ila 5 per Cent .. —
It i'l•l'd4.4BCloy• Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., £25 p
,144 i) per et:v.l., 1865 —744 4
"..,0, Account .
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per Cent —
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g 3 per (Jen
o°. eurenred .............
Per,,,,.. ai.d W:trrants ( hectares)
p,"144 5 per Cent. 1865
r‘o Account
• 831 1 4 4
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....._
60 41 Pox Cf4tit. (4Tribarron)
Le
,i. POl Cent., 1662 • —
, Account .
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I), iese 3 per Ct., 181)3, 6, '7, '9,'6U,'2, :, 401 „
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.0., Scrip, £2O paid
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) '•, 'count
................. „
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. 4 vent., 1862.,, .................... vi, v

TILE SPIRITUALIST CASE.

LYON v. HOME.

Tho arguments in this case have concluded to-day, and
the Vice-Chancellor has intimated that he will give his
judgment early next term.

MURDER BY A RAILWAY PORTER.

(T HIS DAY.)

This morning groat excitement was occasioned at Dover,
in consequence of a cold-blooded murder being committed
by a man named Wells, a railway porter, in the employ of
the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. It appears
that for some time past the station master, Mr. ‘vaish,
at the Priory Station, has had to complain of the
conduct of the young man in consequence of the
discharged loaded fire-arms near the offices, and
this seems to have highly incensed Wells. Mr. Walsh
having intimated to him last evening that he should
report his conduct to the board, Wells became sullen and
disrespectful, and this morning ho entered the station-
mastet's office, and whilst Mr. Walsh was engaged at
his desk with his acconuts Wells entered the room, and,
taking deliberate aim, discharged the pistol, which killed
t'le unfortunate man on the spot.

Wells was at once secured and handed over to the cus-
tody of the polio°.

RACING FixT

rRES FOR 1868.
Y.

Chester 5 Bath
Egliuton Haut 7 Wye
Winchester
York Spring
Bromyard . .......- l4 I Harpenden
Doncaster Spring
Salisbury