The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-02 00:00:00

tUNEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A full demand for d►scount accommodation is
reported to-day, and the principle bankers and bill-
brokers have been disinclined to transact business
below 6 per cent.

A further sum of X 45,000 in gold was taken into
the Bank yesterday.

We are• informed that the arrangement lately
made between Messrs. Falkner, Bell, and Co.,
bankers, of San Franciazo, and the British and
Californian Banking. Company, has been cancelled
by mutual consent.
The tenders for Qaeens:and debentures were
opened yesterday at the Union Bank of Australia;
when £29,300 were sold above the minimum of
£lO3 12e., and it was intimated thnt the directors
will receive further tenders on Wednesday for thu
balance £70,700.
The sinking fund on the Peruvian debt was
applied yesterday in the purchase of £266,000,
leaving £4,280,650 of the recent loan outstanding.
The certificates of the new issue of shares in the
General Credit and Finance Company of London
will be ready for delivery, in exchange for the
bankers' receipts, on and atter Monday next.
Mr. H. D. Cartwright, of Messrs. Leckie and Co.,
Bombay, and chairman of the Commercial Bank
Corporation, &a., has been elected chairman ; and
Mr. Lewis Balfour, of Messrs. Balfour and Co.,
Calcutta, Deputy-Chairman of the Board of Direc-
tors of the East Indian Financial Association.

The annual general meeting of the members of
the Norwich Union Life Insurance bociety was held
at the office, Norwich, on the 29th ult. The report
stated that the new business was progressing satis-
factorily, there being £273 026 insured for the pre-
sent year, against £257,826 for the preceding
year.

Two O'CLOCK.

At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Rentet'd
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 05c,
Inanimate•

The market for the English Funds to-day has
been particulaly quiet, and very little alteration has
taken place in prices. Consols remain at 90 i for
money, and 901 I for the account. The New
Threes and Reduced are 89 /; India 5 per Cents.,
1041 9 ; and Bank Sto;:k,
The alterations in the Foreign Market have not
been important, and business has been extremely
dull. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 681 1 ex
div.; do., Consolides, 48,1 ; Mexican, 281 4 ;
Greek, 25/ 1; Spanish Passive, 29d ; do., Certi-
ficates, 101 -Z Portuguese, 47'4 2. ex div. ; Italian,
67 4 ex div.; and the Confederate Loan, 64 66.
Business in the Railway Share Market has con-
tinued moderately active, but a slight decline has
taken place in one or two of the principal lines.
Midland have receded 15s, North Wester❑ 10s,
Great Northern 10s, and Lancashire and Yorkshire
bg. The Foreign and Colonial lines showing no
change of importance,
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have been in
very limited request without any material altera-
tion to report as to values.Barakar Tea, Shares are
quoted per 1 prem. ; London and Venezuela Bank
preen. ; and Ebbw Vale Company 1 to 2'prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Do Account, July 8
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent. B9 1
Now 21 per Cent. Jan. 189}. —.
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 —
A.uniuties, 30 yrs, expire .nth Jan., 1880 —
Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 7-:.

Mb.reh. June.

Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2i & 3 per Cent.
110 0500

Do £l.OO and £2OO .. 5
Bank England Stk, 51 per Ct.
Do Account..
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
Do Account
Do 5 per Cent. July, 1670
z. 1,0 Account
Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 —
Do t:ertificates
Do Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879
Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866
D , bond 8 .o.,outt .. .. —
Do under £1,000..
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES,
A.ustrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Do 1859..
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do 1863. B6l
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
J)o Account —
Do 1 pei Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) —
Chitian 6 per Cent ...
Do 3 pet Cent.
Colombian 6 per Cent —
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danieh 3 per Cent., 1825
, D 0 5 per Cent, 1864
zquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
.E/gYptian 7 per Cent lOll /
1)0, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent.l 1824-5, en-Coupons -_
Do Account
Do Coupons
Do Account.... , lll
Guatemala 6 per Cent.
Do 1839 and 1859
Italian O per Cent.(Mareunnana Railway 73!
Mexican 3 per Cent
Do Account,.....
Do Scrip £23 paid
.. dis
Do French Scrip, En 25f 90c — dia
A
Do 6 per Cen . nglo-French
17' Ditto Scrip, £23 paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada —
Do 2 per Cent. —
Do Deterred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Peruvian 41 per Cent..
Do 3 per Cent. (o.ribarren).. ... —
Do 41 per Cent., 1862
Do Account —
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account • •
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, 'BO, 6'4'2. •
Do Account .. • •••• 47a I
Do 1863 gcrip, £4O paid
Russian 5 per Cent., 18229 £ St —
Do 41 per Cent., 1850 —
Do 3 per Cent 1859
Do 5 per Cent, 1862 B7/ a I
Do Anglo-Dutch
Do Scrip, £3O paid
Sar Tinian 6 per Cent
Do Account
Bpanieh 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Account
Do PasAivo
Do Account 291
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. —
Do Account • ..
Swedish, 4 per Cent _
Do Scrip, £.30 paid — Pm
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Do Account
bo 6 per Cent. 1853
D.,0 Account 7O
uo £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cont. 1862
Do Account .. 671 81 i
Do 4100 Bonds —
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account....
Do 1863 --.
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent..... —
Do 6 per Cent, 1864
Do 11 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London
Austrian, 5 per Cent,. Ex. 10 Florins. --
Belgian 41 per Cent., En. 25f
Do Account .
......
Dutch 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail.. ......
Do 4 per Cent. Certificates .. —
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs..
Do Account. ..........
P(wuvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s.
eimontese, 5 per Cent., En. 251 —
TWO O'CLOCK.
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Consols Mon v (3., ~,
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L/erpool Cotton Market—This DAY.

b2leMarket dull. Sales probably 5,000 or 6,000

S.
L, - The
OLLEGE, LANCING, lISSEN.. first atone of the Third or Lower Middle School, in connec-
tion
of small with
farmers,otrades S. Niclas College, intended for 1,000 boys, sons
_
',en, and superior artisans, will be
laid by the Right Ron. the Earl Granville, K.G., Lord
1864 on the site recent) President. of the Council, on Tuesday, the 12. h of July,
, y
Purchased at Ardingly, near Bal-
combo, in Sui,sex.
ALTERATION OF TIIE TITREISH FLAG,--Con-
*3.tantinople, June 23.—8 y an ItuPerial order, the Turkish
commercial fl.ig has been altered Instead of the re ground and white crescent as hitherto, the colours are
green ground with a red ball in the
middle bearing a white
crescent in the centre.