The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-03 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL I NTELL IGE NCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

Busiucss was resumed to-day on the Stock Ex-
shange with a very animated spirit. The Govern-
ment Securities are firm, and holders refused busi-
ness except at improved rates. In Foreign Stocks
the quotations generally are higher, and the same
favourable report has to be made with respect to
Bank and Telegraph shares.
The rate of discount demanded in open market
to-day was a shade below 3 per cent. for first-class
bills at three months.

Consols are now at 921 1 to 921 for money;
ditto, for Ac.;ount, ; 'Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 92 1 ; New Tree per Cents, 921 21 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 1 dis. ; June,
4to 5 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
prem. ; June, 14 prem ; Bank of England Stock,
41 per Cent., 237 5 64.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, 209 ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 12 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 1 ; ditto Eufaced Paper, 4
4 per Cent., —; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 25 prem.
The principal Foreign Stocks have advanced.
Argentine are quoted 86 to 86i ; Egyptian (1864),
90 to 91 ; ditto (1860, 80/ to 814 ; Viceroy's Loan,
84 to 844 ; Brazilian, 871 to 881; Italian, 54 to 544
ex div. ; Peruvian, 81 to 814 ex all ; Spanish, 261
to 261 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 451 to 461 ; ditto
Six per Cents., 661 to 661 ex div.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 861 to 86/;
Erie Shares, 17 to 174 ; and Illinois 101 to 102.
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance are at
321 to 33 ; Anglo-American, 191 to 191 ; French
Cable, 17 to 174 ; and Atlantic Eight per Cents.,
24 to 24.

In Bank Shares Imperial Ottoman is 21 to 2f
prem. ; London and. South African, 9 to 10 ;
Union of London, 37 to 38 ; Anglo-A.ustrian, 13 to
15 prem. ; and Consolidated, 4 1-16 to 4 3-16.
In Railway Shares Caledonan are I better, viz.,
761 to 77 ; Midland, 123 to 1231 ; London and
Brighton, 461 to 471 ; Great Eastern, 38i to 381 ;
Great Northern (A), 109 to 110 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 127 k to 128 ; London, Chatham, and
Dover, 15 to 15i ; London and South Western,
92 to 94 ; Metropolitan, 811 to 81/ ; North Eas-
tern (Berwick), 126 to 1261; and South Eastern,
781 to 78f.
At Mark-lane this morning the attendance was
moderate and the inquiry dull, but the supplies on
the stands being moderate, there was no pressure
of sales, and quotations were not materially altered.
English wheat was in scanty supply, and partly
rather out of condition. Good dry samples sold
slowly at last Monday's rates. Inferior were easier.
Foreign sold the turn in favour of buyers as re-
spects Russian. Other imports stood as before.
Flour difficult to sell except at easier rates.
A withdrawal of £12,000 in bar gold for the
Continent has taken place at the bullion office of the
Bank.

The Chnbria, from New York, has arrived with
£8,055.

The dividend to be paid by the Bank of France
for the second half of 1869 will be 56f. as com-
pared with 45f. in the corresponding period of
1868.

Mr. Samuel Lovelock, the official liquidator of
the Kumaon and Oude Plantation Company (Li-
mited), has announced a return of 7s. Id. per share
on all shares on which the calls made have been
paid in full.

It is stated that interest to creditors of the late
Birmingham Banking Company will be paid on the
24th inst., and that formal notice to each creditor
will shortly be issued.

The Council of the Statistical Society have in-
vited a conference in relation to the recent circular
of the Board of Trade, with a view to improve-
ments and simplifications of the Customs return of
imports and exports, at the Cannon-street Hotel,
on Thursday next.
Letters from Mexico, via Havannah, state that a
counterfeiting
and forging establishment has just
been discovered in that city, after years of effectual
workice.., iu the creation of all classes of national
obligations, st:imps, bonds, &c., " which prove so
perfect that no one can tell the genuine from the
false." The discovery, it is said, was accidental,
and not from any official astuteness on the part of
the police. The parties were taken in the act of
work and emission, and proved to be Germans, the
names of their pretended firm being Colise, Bece-
ril, and Hefner.