The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-30 00:00:00

M ONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Consols are dull to-day at 92! for money ;
ditto, for Account, 928 I ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 92i 8 1; New Three per Cents, 921 8 1 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, —; ditto £lOO, £2OO,
and £5OO, 1 prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per
Cent., 210 2.

India Stock, 10i- per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1004 j.
In the Foreign Market prices are as follows :
Peruvian, 78 to 78i ; Brazilian, 82; to 83-i; Danu-
bian Seve❑ per Cents., 79 to 80 ; Argentine, 811
to 81; ; Egyptian (1864), 88i to 89i ; ditto (1868),
79 to 79i ; Mexican, 12 to 12} ; Russian (1822),
85 to 86 ; ditto (1866), 80} to 90f ; Orel, 80 to
80 ; Cliarkof, 781 to 79 ; Spanish, 294 to 28i
ex div. ; Turkish Five per Cents., 44 to 411 ;
ditto Six per Cents., 67i- to 63 ; and Honduras,
85 to 86.

American 5-20 Bonds are 801 ; Erie, 19f to 19/ ;
and ILinois, 93 to 94.
In the railway market prices are as follows :
Caledonian, 781 to 782 ; Great Eastern, 381
to 39- ; Great Northern, 108 to 109 ; Great
Northern (A) 107 to 108 ; Great IVestern, 50; to
514 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1251 to 126 ; Lon-
don and Brighton, 441 to 45 ; London, Chatham,
and Dover, 16/ to 17; ; London and North Wes-
tern, 1182 to 119+ ; London and South Western,
89 to 91 ; Metropolitan, 97 to 974 ; Midland, 177/
to 118; ; North Eastern (Berwick) 1051 to 106; ;
and South Eastern, 77/ to 78.
In Banking Shares Union of London are steady,
at 351 to 361 ; London Joint Stock, 311 ; Oriental,
41 to 42 ; London and Westminster, 61 to 62 ;
London and County, 491 to 501 ; Imperial Otto-
man, 1,1 to 24 prem. ; Imperial, 151 to 161 ; Con-
solidated, 41 to 44 ; Chartered Mercantile, 32 to
33 ; Anglo-Austria, 19 to 20 prem. ; Alliance, 131
to 141 ; and Agra (A), 10; to 102.
Miscellaneous Securities are steady. Anglo-
American Telegraph is marked 201 to 201; Hud-
son's Bay 121 to 13 ; National Discount, to
lif ; General Credit, 1+ to 1 dis. ; and Interna-
tional Finance, 2 to 1/ dis.
There were no gold operations at the Bank yes-
terday.

The bar silver brought by the West India packet
has been sold at 60id. per ounce, and the small
quantity of Mexican dollars at 59id., showing in
both instances an advance of id. upon the previous
rates. The large parcel of dollars advised from
Mexico did not come forward by the steamer, but
will probably arrive in the course of the next two
or three weeks via New York.
The Manchester markets have opened without
any increase of business, but higher prices are de-
manded to meet the improvement in cotton.
The Board of Trade returns for the past month
again entirely fail to harmonise with the current
complaints of commercial stagnation. The de-
clared value of our exportations shows an increase
of £1,646,505, which is equal to an increase of
11 per cent. on the total of the corresponding
month of last year, and 21 per cent. on that of
May, 1867.
By the telegram via Lisbon, of Rio news to the
Bth June, it appears that the Corute d'Eu had ad-
vanced to Lopez's position in the mountains, and
had destroyed his foundry. Lopez had with-
drawn his advanced corps.

With reference to the projected Turkish rail-
ways, the representative of the Anglo-Austrian
Bank, Mr. Carl von Mayer, and Mr. Hartung,
director of the Vienna Bank Corporation, have
gone to Baden-Baden to have interviews with seve-
ral fore'gn financiers. the conducting of the
financial operations will probably be entrusted,
amongst others, to the Credit Anstalt, the Anglo-
Austrian Bank, the Vienna Bank Corporation, and
the Frauco-Austrian Bank.

The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of £2,910 over the corre-
eponding week of last year; and the Glasgow and
South Western an increase of £537.
The unusual heat in India seems to be affecting
the traffic of sonic of the railways. The receipts
on the Lucknow and Cawnpore line of 42 milts,
for the week ending the 15th of May, were only
£319, ag.iinst £621 for the corresponding week of
last year. The falling off is officially stated to be
" due to conveyance of construction materials last
year, and to excessive heat this year."
At the annual meeting of proprietors of the
Bank of South Australia, the report of the directors
was unanimously adopted, and a dividend declared
at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, free of in-
come tax.

At a meeting of the Assam Company, the report
of the directors was adopted, and an interim divi-
dend of 2f per cent. was declared. The chairman
stated that the prospects of the crops of the present
season are good.
The directors of the Illinois Central Railroad
Company have resolved that a dividend of 5 per
cent. in cash, free of Government tax, be paid on
the 2d of August to the holders of the full paid
shares registered on the 17th of July.
In accordance with a notification from the Syn-
dicate of the Italian Irrigation Canal Company, the
secretary in London has intimated that the coupons
due on the Ist July, 1869, of the Septennial Bands
and Obligations of the company will now be re-
ceived for payment.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

GOVEILNMENT FUND 3.
3 per Cent. Coins°l3 .. 92! f 1
Ditto for Account, July 7
3 per Cent. lieductid 921 f 1
Now 3 per Cent
New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. b per Con J an. 187 3
Annuities, Su yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, axpire sth April 1885 --
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 l9l.
Exohoquor Bile, 41,000, 2/ p. Lt. March
Do. 3 do. June
Do £lOO, £2OO & £5OO 1 pm
Bank of England Stock, 4f per Cent
Da. opening
'—
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds
Intor-Colouial Omnitun
INDIAN dOVBILNMENT S.LICIJILITIEb
India itock, 10f per Cont., April 1871 —
Do. Opening, for Account —
Do.
D 5 per Cent..fuly, 1880
_ . _....

Do. 4 per Cent., 0ci,..1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Pape/ 4 per
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 .....
51- per Cent. May 1879
DJ 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872
Do do 1877

Do. do. 1882
IL.. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l,OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
luitrian
Doßonds 5 per cent
. 1859

BraziliastsPer Cent s —
OD. 4} per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do 1858....
Do. au.
1860 .... , ...... ... --
Do. do., 1863 62}
Do. 5 por Cent., 1865 —
Do Account - 2k
Brenos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
ClO4, 6 per Cent. -
o.iitutu 6 per Cent
Do. 4f per Cent —
Do. 3 per Cent., -
1 o. 6 per .cent. 1867 ............
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
ClO u), 6 per Cent
Danish; 3 per Cont., 1825
Daivbian
7 per Cent BO
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 —
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
Egyptian, 7 per Cent ---
Do Second issue
Do. £SUU Bonds
Do. £lOO Bonds • ••••
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. 15UU Bonds
Do. A. 106 Bonds
Do. 7 per Cent., 1868
..ios,-tirunlut 'Railway itoiwutureh
Greens per Cont., 182-1. 5, ex Coups
Do. Account -

Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Guatemala. 5 per Cent .. —
Honduras Gov Rail. Loan., 10 p. Ct., all pd 86
ltilian 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do. Account . -
Do Maremmana Railway 57
Mexican per Cent —
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-11.mb. ##### um,