The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-03 00:00:00

X 0-N E Y M A7ll KE T.

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Consols declined 7 to-day, at 923 3 I for money;
ditto, for Account, 923 1 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 921 4 ; New Three per Cents, 924 1 ; Red
Sea Telegraph, 20 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, par;
ditto £lOO, £2OO, and£soo, ; Bank of England
Stock, 4 per Cent., 244.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5
per Cent., July, 1880, 1113 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1003 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4
ler Cent., ; ditto 53 per Cent., 1001; ditto
Bonds under £l,OOO,
In the Foreign Market stocks are in demand,
'with the exception of Italian and Mexican Bonds,
Which are quoted 1- lower, at .561 564 and 13 134
respectively. New Spanish Three per Cents. have
improved I, to 29 291, Thurkish Five per Cents. 91
to 44-3 44i-, and Peruvian Five per Cent. Bonds are
1 better, at 791 791.
rhe Honduras Loan is steaily, at 85 BG.
In the railway market Great Western are 1
better,, Metropolitan 3, Sheffield 1, Brighton I,
Forth Western 1, South Eastern I, Great
Northern A are I lower. The quotations are :
Caledonian, 763 7 ; Great Western, 49 3 ; Great
Eastern, 371 4 ; Great Northern, 107 108 ;
ditto A, 1063 to 1073 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
124 to 1231 ; Metropolitan, 974 to 98 ; Mid.
lanai, 115 to 1154 ; Sheffield, 543 to 551;
Brighton 45 to 453 ; North British, 34 to 343 ;
Loudon and North-Western, 1171 to 117! ; Nortth
Eastern, 1054 to 1063 ; South Eastern, 753 to 753;
and London, Chatham, and Dover, 164 to 174.
American Bonds have improved fin the Five-
Twenties, at 801 803 ; I in the 1885 Bonds, at 783
‘,83 ; and 3 in the Ten-Forty Bonds, at 713 to 721 ;
Erie Railway Shares have receded 4, to 183 19 ;
Sod Illinois Centrals are I better, at 953 96.
Atlantic Telegraph Original stock is 21 22 ; the
Eight per Cent. Preference shares are 31, 31 ; and
Anglo-American Telegraph shares, 211 213.
The sum of £23,000 in gold was taken to the Bank
Yesterday, making a total of £326,000 in the week
alnee the last return.

The Maid of Judah, from Port Phillip, has brought
1111,312.
The traffic return of the London and North-
Western Railway shows an increase of £1,572 ; that
of the Midland a decrease of £4,530. The Great
Eastern traffic presents a decrease of £4,640. In
the Case of the London and South-Western there
'8 a decrease of £3,026. The Great Northern
Railway exhibits a decrease of £3,532. The Great
Western traffic shows a decrease of £2,870. The
return of the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail-
way presents a decrease of £1,235. The Metro-
politan Extension of the London, Chatham, and
over shows a decrease of £1,235.
The biddings for £25,000 in bills in India were
received yesterday at the Bank of England. The
amounts allotted were—to Calcutta £288,400, and
to Madras £36,600. The minimum price was fixed
as before, at Is. 10f d. on Calcutta and Madras ;
and tenders on those Presidencies at Is. 100. will
receive about 59 per cent., and above that price in
lull. These results show a further diminution in
the demand for means of remittance to the East.
A very important decision has been given by the
Lords Justices in the matter of the liquidation
of the Humber Ironworks and Shipbuilding Com-
pany (Limited). The Warrant Finance Company,
Who had lent the Humber Company £25,000, bear-
ing interest at the rate of 20 per cent. per annum,
claimed to be paid dividends upon their interest
as well as principal with the rest of the creditors
whose debts did not carry interest. The Master of
the Rolls considered they were entitled to receive
dividends on both interest and principal, but the
official liquidator; Mr. Henry Chatteris, appealed
to the Lords Justices, who decided that in all com-
panies in course of liquidation by the Court of
Chancery creditors are only entitled to interest up

to the date of the winding-up order, until all cre-
ditor s have received 20s. in the pound ou their prin-
cipal money. Should there be any surplus assets
after all creditors have received their principal in
full, those creditors whose debts carry interest are
entitled to receive it.

With regard to the telegram from Washington
of Peru having granted belligerent rights to the
Cuban
insurgents, an impression is expressed that
It '8 " only one of the many reports spread to
damage Peruvian credit." It is said that when the
two Monitors which Peru bought iu New York
were authorised to leave the United Stet s was
under an express engagement from the Peruvian
(-10wernment that they would not interfere in the
Cuban question before the two vessels had reached
-rem. peace, as they cannot arrive for six or eight
months, the statement now circulated seems very
improbable.
Advices from Paris attribute the opposition in the
Italian
Chamber to the measures of the Finance
Minister to the circumstance of the National
t
auk of Italy and the Credit Mobilier having
created a general feeling of dissatisfaction and
by seeking to Monopolise Italian finance for
their own profit, a feeling which was increased by a
ease in Milan, where, on a suit against a Deputy
for
bribery, an extensive system of bribery in the
Italian Chamber was disclosed, and caused general
Indignation.
At the meeting of the Malta and Mediterranean
G'lB Company, a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent.
Was declared on the preference stock, and of 31 per
cent. on the ordinary.
The Birmingham Daily Post states that Messrs.
1,
'`.4. G. Muntz and Co., of Birmingham and London,
a fi.rnl in the copper trade, have issued circulars
anflouncing their suspension. The principal cre-
ditors are in London and South Wales, and the
,nount of indebtedness is understood to be heavy.
The same journal corrects a rumour that the firm
Is connected with Muntz's Metal Company, and
Points out that the mistake arose entirely from the
euuilarity of names.
At the annual general meeting of proprietors
of the Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Com-
Pany, a dividend was declared of £2 10s. per share,
Payable the sth of July next, free of income-tax.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
a (i OVEILVDIENT FUNDS.
Nit Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
I Per Cent. Reduced 924 i
New 3 per Cent
New 2 per Cent. Jan. 1894
A 13°' 5 per Cen J an. 1873
^u-euities, 80 yrs expire sth Jan., 1880.
130. for 30 yra, expire sth April 1885 v
x Do (Red Sea Teleaphl, Aug., 1908 2O
Itllloquor Bills, 41,000, 2f k 3 per Ct —
b Do £lOO, .£290 A £5OO —
'lnk of England Stock. 41 per Cent
D, ..........
Ca.b 1 opening ... ...................... _
/ --lun 4 per Cent. Bonds
liter-Colonial Ommtun
/ INDIAN GOTBRNMEN SECURITIE&
'll4 chock, 104 Cont., April 1874...
Do per
Do. Opening, for Account ..................
°. 5 per Cent. July,lBBo ............... 111 f
',..,0. 4 per Cent.. Oct. 1888 . 100 i
D 0• Certificates —
EO. Enfacod Paper 4 per Cant.. H.
(:). 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ....,.,..••• --
1)0. 51 per Cent. May 1879 llOl
„, '" 5 per Cont., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
O 0 do 1877 —
~ Do. do. 1882 —
u.... Dab., 5 per Cent. Aug. 1873 ~ —
uO. Beads, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
"0• under £l.OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
r4entine Republic, 6 per Cent
to itrian Bonds 5 per cent . —
Br . . to. 1E59
lralian 5 per Cent —
00• q per Cent. 1852 —
D°.,, do. 1858....
IT). do. 186' —
ii,-°. do., 1863 •
~ 671
—°- per Cent., 1865
ii 1-)0 Account Bll
'erms Ayres 6 per Cent. -
D 4 2 1-er Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent:: -
0t lia 6 , '
~, del Cent.
-r,",CO 6 par Cent
.r,"O. 41 per Cent.—
J'o. 3 per Cent.,
perlB67 961
(.3 I°. 7 Per Cent., 1866
1.) 0 tibial', 6 per Cent.
1,,!i1.51t, 3 per Cent., 1825
--'4,?''lian Principalities, 7 I.,er Cent —
1,: -u° 8 per Cent., 1867
00ador New Uonsolidated, 1 per Cent
'44.Yptian, 7 per Cent B2
J,.,)0 Second Issue
110. 4500 Bonds OM

Do. ,610) Bonds •••••
Do. 1864 —
Do. Account
Da. £5OO Bonds
Do. 110 C Ponds BB
Do. 7 per Cent., 1568
Government Railway Debentures 99i i
Greek 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups —

Do. Account
Do. Coupons ••. •
Do. Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent . —
Honduras Gov Rail. Los n.,10 p. Ct., all pd 851
ltelian 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do. Account . —
Do Maremmana Railway 5B
gaXiCaL 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French —
0 ontevideau 6 per Cent. . --
4 o ,Tish Imperial 5 per Ceat
New Granada l7
Do 3 per Cen• —
Do. Deferred
Peruvian 5 per Cont. 1865
Do Account.
Do 41 per Cent. (Ui.'iarren)
Do 44 per Cent., 1862 -. —
Do Account... —
Portxguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2.':
Do. do. 1867 —
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
ltussiati 5 ear Cont., 1822, .t: 61.
Do 41 per (7ent 185 u
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 ............ • 811
Do do, Scrip —
Do. Anglo-Dutcl,, 1864, £lOO BondL B9l
Do. do. £B4 15s. do —
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 9O
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 6ll 1
Sardinian o per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Cen ...
Do. Accf,unt
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded

Do. Account
wodish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Turkish 6 par Cent.
Oa Account
[)o 6 per Cent. 1858 _
Do_Account
i:)o £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Do .CIOC Bonds 699
Do 5 per Cont. 1965
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1860 67}
Do I per Cent., Guaranteed
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1961 —
Dividends on the aboye payable in London.
Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2% per Cont. Ex. 12 Guil 55}
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... B6}

Do. Account —
French Rentee, 3 per Cent., Ex. 2M. —
!Wien 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do Account s6f
CLOSING PRICES.
Jonsole, Money 921 x d
Do. Account, July 7 92} f zd
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NAVAL AND 311L1TARI1 INTELLIGENCE.

A general order, just issued from the Horse
Guards, notified that, in order to assimilate the
shakoes of officers to those recently issued to the
men of certain infantry regiments, a pattern has
been sealed, and is deposited at the Horse Guards,
for general information and guidance. Officers
joining regiments wearing the old-pattern shakoes
are not to have the lace or chain added until the
new shakoes are supplied to the men.
Commanding officers have been directed to for-
ward in future a copy of the regimental defaulter
sheet of each soldier recommended for a medal for
long service and good conduct, whether with or
without gratuity.
The minimum height for all infantry recruits,
whether enlisted at head-quarters or otherwise, has
been reduced from aft. Bin. to sf. 7in. until further
orders.

The bead-quarters and five companies of the 4th
battalion Rifle Brigade—strength about 17 officers,
278 men, 4 horses, 43 women, and 53 children—
embarked at Birkenhead on Monday for convey-
ance to Portsmouth, en route to Aldershott.

The Royal Artillery will in future receive the
conapevation sanctioned by Article 9 of the Re-
vised Royal Clothing Warrant, 1865, for difference
of value between dress and undress clothing at the
end of the year, instead of quarterly as heretofore.
The annual dinner of the Rifle Brigade (the
Prince Consort's Own), arnounced for Saturday,
the 12th inst., at the London Tavern, is postponed
to Monday, the 14th.
The annual dinner of the officers of the 13th

Hussars was given last evening at the St. James's
Hotel, Piccadilly. Lieut.-General J. Lawreuson,
colouel of the regiment, presided, supported by
Viscount Southwell, Sir Jas. D. Lloyd, Col. Shute,
Lieut.-Col. Tremayne, Lieut.-Col. Madocks, and
Major Jervis.
The Penelope, 10, armoured iron, twin screw
frigate, Captain Francis Martin, arrived at Spit-
head at noon yesterday from the westward, and on
anchoring saluted the flag of the Naval Com-
mander-in-Chief of the port, Sir James Hope,
K.C.B.

The Plover, 3, double screw gun vessel, Com-
mander J. A. Poland, arrived at Jellah Coffee,
from Ascension, on the Ist of May last ; she was
to sail on the 4th of May for Whydale to meet
the Myrmidon, 4, gun vessel, Commander J. H.
Johnstone. The Danae, Captain W. Graham, had
gone to St. Helena. The Plover, after shipping
the mails fur the South at Whydale, was to leave
for the Congo, to relieve the Pandora, 5, gun-vessel,
Commander J. Burgess, which vessel upon being
relieved was to sail for St. Ilelena. The Lynx, 2,
double-screw gun-vessel, Commander James W.
East, had arrived from England, and was expected
in the course of the year to go up the Niger. On
the 2d of May there was a heavy tornado at Jellah
Coffee.

The annual regimental dinner of the 60th King's
Royal Rifle Corps was given yesterday evening at
the London Tavern, Bishopsgatc-street. General
Viscount Melville, G.C.b., presided, and the fol-
lowing officers were present :—Lieut.-General Vis-
count Templeton, K.C.8., Major-Gen. Freeman
Murray, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Colonels Sir
John Jones, K.C.8., and Webbe Butler; Lieut.-
Colonels William Pearce, Harrington Trevelyan,
and Ward ; Majors Rose, Sotheby, and R. W.
Brooke; Deputy Inspector-General J. H. Kerr
Innes, C. 8., &c.

ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.