The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-18 00:00:00

IVIONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Consols are quiet to-day, at 921 for money ;
ditto, for Account, 92i ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 921 ; New. Tkrce per Cents, 92 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, par 2 prem. ; ditto £lOO,
£2OO, and £5OO, ; Bank of England Stock, 4
per Cent., 243.

India Stock, 103- per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1002 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4
per ; ditto 5 per Cent., —; ditto Bonds
£l,OOO, 2 prem. ; ditto under £l,OOO, 2 prem.
Iu the Foreign Market there has been a reduc-
tion of 3-16 in the Italian and 13 in Spanish New
Three per Cents., Peruvian of 1865 being It better.
The bonds of the Honduras Railway Loan, 85 to
86 ; Nicolia Bonds, 643 to 65 ; Orel Vitebsk Bonds,
80 to 801 ; Moscow Jaroslaw Loan, 78 to 783 ;
Argentine Six per Cents., 84 to 84 ; Viceroy
Seven per Cents., 82i to 82g ; ditto Nine per
Cents., 914 to 954 ; ditto Seven per Cents., 1868,
78i to 78a ; Italian Five per Cents., 55:1 to 55i ;
Mexican, 121 to 13 ; Peruvian Five per Cents.,
808 to 808; Spanish New Three per Cents., 29k
to 294 Turkish Five per Cents. of 1865, 44
5-16 to 44 7-16 ; ditto Six per Cents. of 1865,
67/1 to 678.
In the Railway Share Market prices are firm.
Metropolitan stand better. Brighton, 441,
Caledonian, 761 ./7+ ; Great Eastern, 38 4 ; Great
Western, 501- a ; Great Northern, 108 k 8 ; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 1251 6 ; North Western,
118 1191 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 1174 17 ;
Metropolitan, 988 8 ; Midland 1174 1184 ; Sheffield,
554.

Bank Shares are quiet. Chartered Mercantile,
32 to 33; Consolidated, i to a prem. ; London and
County, 49i to 50i ; London Joint Stock, 31A- to
32i ; London and Westminster, 61 to 62 ; National,
40 to 41 ; ditto of Australasia, q to 7.
In Miscelleaneous Shares, Anglo-American Tele-
graphs are 201 to 28 ex div. ; Anglo-Mediterranean
Ditto, 144 to 14k- ex div.; Atlantic Telegraph, 23
to 24 ; Ditto Eight per Cent. Preference, 34 to 36 ;
Credit Foncier, 215- to 2i ; General Credit, 11 to
dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 12i to 12f.

American Five-Twenty Bonds have risen k, to
80k to 801 ; ditto 1865 issue k, to 781 to 78i ;
the Ten-Forty Bonds remain at 71f to 718 ; At-
lantic and Great Western Railway Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds at 251 to 261 ; but ditto Deben-
tures have dropped 1, to 261 to 261 ; while Erie
Shares have advanced k, to 201 to 201 ; and Illinois
Centrals 1, 951 95/...
. .

I❑ consequence of the unsettled weather the de-
mand for English wheat, of which but little was on
sale, was firm, and an advance of ls. per qr. was
demanded.

The sum of £B,OOO in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday. _ _ _

The Queen of Nations arrived at the Downs from
Sydney, brings 7,803cz. of gold, and £45,000 in
specie.
The report of the Ceylon Company (Limited),
to be presented on the 22d inst., recommends a
dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum,
which will leave £2,069 to be carried forward.
At the 25th annual meeting of the ➢J.etropolitan
Association for Improving the Dwellings of the
Industrial Classes a dividend of 4 per cent. was de-
clared, and the report stated that the Penge pro-
perty has been increased to 164 cottages, of which
114 are let to artisans in various trades.

The report of the St. John del Rey Mining Com-
pany, to be presented on the 23d inst., describes
the operations in progress for the reopening of the
13ahn and Gichocira Mines, which are estimated to
require an outlay of £46,179. On the general
worki❑g during the year there has been a slight
loss, but it is hoped henceforth, pending the resto-
ration of C3IIIMULIiCAtiOII with the parts closed by
the disastrous fire of last year, to bring the expen-
diture within the ree,!ipts.

The Universal Marin:: Insurance Company
(Limited) have announced an interim dividend of
2s. G 1. per share, being at the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum for the six months ending the 30th of
June Lis'.

The directors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland
have given notice that a dividend for the half-year
ending Midiuminer next, at the rate of 4 per cent.
oh the pail up stock, and also an extraordinary
dividend of 3us. on each £lOO share, and 12s. on
each £lO share, will be paid on the 15th of July.
The directors of the Chartered Mercantile Bank
of India, London, and China, notify that a dividend
of 4 per cent., free of income tax, for the half
year ending the 30th instant, will be paid to the
proprietors on the Ist of Ju'y.
The fourteenth ordinary general meeting of the
Alliance Bank (Limited) will be held the 15th of
July.

The adjourned general meeting of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company is to be held on the 2d of
July.

The Maritime Insurance Company (Limited), of
Liverpool, has declared a dividend for the current
half-year, at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
Tha return from the Bank of England for the
week ended the 16th of June gives the following
results when compared with the previous week :--

Hest
P*Llic deposits
Other deposits 17,155,401 ... Increase 286,082
On al) other side of the account :

government securi-
ties £14,173,667 lacrosse ... 25,391
Other securities 36,986,400 Decrease ... 314,944
Notes unemployed 10,465,500 ... Increase ... 839,265
The amount of, notes in circulation is £22,577,720,
being a decrease of £261,765 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £19,153,625, showing
an increase of £522,742 when compared with the
preceding return.
Subjoined is a comparison of the present position
of the Bank of England and the prices of Consols
and French Rentes with the corresponding week of
last year :

At Present. Same Weeklast Year.
Bullion
Reserve
Notes in circulation 22,577,720 ... 23,524,735
Rate of discount
Consols
French Routes
The following is the official return of the cheques
and bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house for
the week ending Wednesday, June 16 :
Thursday £8,070,000
. _

Friday

9,158;000

. .
kiaturaay
Monday 8,711,000
Tuesday
Wednesday '21,092,000

£69,300,000

lIRITIBIL FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
GOVEDNMENT FUNDS.
8 pex;Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
3 por Cent. Reduced 921
Now 3 per Gent
Now 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. b per Cen Jau.1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 --
Do (Red Sea Telek,raph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchegu?..y Rills' .£l,ooe, 21 & 3 per Ct
Do .£lOO, 420 & £5OO
Bank of England Stock, 4-1 per Cent
De. opening —
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
later-Colonial Uranium -
iN-Diati dOVEB.NMENT (SECURITIES
Lelia P tack, 104 per Cent.., April 1874 Shut
Do. Opening, for Account
D0..5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888

Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfacod l'apo, 4 per °Ant.. .
Do. Zi por Cert., Jan. 1872
Dp. 51 ppr Cent. May 1879
Da 5 per Cent., Itup. Deb. 1871
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —

IL beb., 5 per Cont., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l.OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
Arputine Republic, 6 per Cent,
kultrian Bonds 5 per cent

Do. 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
O. 44 per Cont. 1852
Do. do. 1858.—. .............
Do. do. 186)
Do. do MO

Do. 5 per Cont., 1865 —
Do Account B2k
.B nog Ayres 6 per bent.
150 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) —,