The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Consols are dull to-day at 921 4 1 for money;
ditto, for Account, 92i ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 921; New Three per Cents, 921 ; Ex-
chequer Bills £l,OOO, par 3 pm. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO,
and £5OO, par 3 pm. ; Bank of England Stock,
4 per Cent., 244.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5
per Cent., July, 1880, —; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, —; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4
per Cent., ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 8 pm.
In the Foreign Market Turkish Five per Cents.
have declined 4, to 44 441 ; Mexic tn Bonds 4, to
121 16 ; and New Spanish Three per Cents. are
3-16 lower, at 29 294. Italian Five per Cents. are
unchanged, at 564 56t.
The Honduras Loan is at 85 86.

In the Railway Share Market Caledonians are
fbetter, and Sheffield. Great Eastern f lower,
di▪ tto Af, Lancashire I, Metropolitan Brighton
North Western 1. The quotations are:—
Caledonian, 764 78 ; Great IYestern, 49 ; Great
Eastern, 37 ; Great Northern, 107 107} ;
di▪
tto A, 1061 to 1064 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
123 to 123} ; Metropolitan, 97f to 98.
Atlantic Telegraph Original stock is 211 22f ;
the Eight per Cent. Preference shares are 31, 3k';
and Anglo-American Telegraph shares, 21a 211.
Five 'twenty Bonds, 801 801. The 1885 Bonds
and Ten-Forty Bonds have improved f and I re-
spectively, at 78f 78f, and 72 721. Erie Railway
Shares have receded f, to 181 184 ; and Illinois
Centrals are I lower, at 95 91.
The sum of £123,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.
The Ituahine, from New South Wales, has
brought £70,000, and the Chile, from New Zealand,
1121,600.

The Bank of France return shows a further in-
crease of £460,000 in the stock of bullion. The
total now held is £49,577,600, but this is still
3,000,000 below the extraordinary sum touched
in August last.
The activity of the American import trade con-
tinues to increase. The total gold value of the
Roods landed at the port of New York during the
first four months of this year has been £24,000,000
against £17,000,000 in the same period of last year,
and £11,700,000 in 1867.
The Royal Canadian Bank, to the difficulties of
ich reference has already been made under this
bead, has suspended payment. The directors,
,
liabilities,
state that after payment of all known
liabilities, and making allowance for all possible
088e8, the capital will remain unimpaired, and that
hope to resume business in a short time. It is
believed that the deposits amount to £1,600,000.
liThe stoppage is attributed to the issue of Mr. D.
V-Ll)onald's circular, although the bank was em-
narrassed previously.
Jibe London, Chatham, and Dover Railway
traffic return, including the Metropolitan Exten-
siott aud branches, shows this week a decrease of
1,235, compared with the corresponding period
°f lad year ; the Metropolitan Extension, sepa-
-Ib4l a decrease of £526 ; the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, a decrease of £4,732 ; the North
Eastern,_. au increase of £1,477 ; and the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, au increase of
£1,782.

At the meeting of the proprietors of the London
and Brazilian Bank (Limited) the resolutions for
the reconstruction of the undertaking, and the re-
duction of the liability on the shares, were adopted,
With only one dissentient. •
The stoppage of Messrs. Shore, Kirk, and Har-
greaves, a firm of stockbrokers of Manchester, is
announced, owing to the failure of some of their
clients. Tho liabilities in connection with the Man-
chester Stock Exchange are stated not to be large.
The following is from the Alanchester Exami-
"r: —" The suspension of Mr. Alfred Faltin, vac:r-
eliant, of this city, is announced to-day, with lia-
bilities amounting to from £lO,OOO to £15,000. A
verY unfavourable liquidation is expected. The
failure is also reported of Mr. George Mason, Brad-
f
°l'd, with liabilities estimated at £40,000.
The directors of the Oude and Rohilkund Rail-
WAY Company (Limited) have made a call of £1
in
per share on the now shares, payable on the
29L11 inst.

Li ordinary general meeting of the Channel
ands Telegraph Company will be held on the
2
eth inst.

:return from the Bank of England for the
we*kl ended the 2d of Jude gives the following
_
when compared with the previous week :
&It .... ........
£3,137,514 ... Decrease ... £30,890
t:aldie deposits
Other deposits 17,104,288 ... Decrease 489,038
211 the other side of the account :
wo,_
4:rue:lent accuri-
,3.`,' 3 .............
xtotuer securities J7,883,262 ... Decrease ... 83,698
es Ilia raployed 8,139,195 ... Increlso ... 10,475
theb amount of notes in circulation is £23,524,545,
bull an increase of £477,365 ; and the stock of
an increase
in both departments is £17,821,023, showing
ti increase of £439,792 when compared with the
Preceding return.
of the
is a comparison of the present position
it the Bank of England and the prices of Consols
last French Rentes with the corresponding week of
4.415 t year

Same Week
At Present. last Year.
1101111104
deserve
ITO. ve 9,296,478 ... 12,775,336
n.. 'es in ciroulation 23,524,545 ... 24,226,485
—.AG of - 2 - ir cent.

Consols
of discount
va 921 94i
' r"011 Relates
, The following is the official return of the cheques
11(.1 bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house for
the Week ending Wednesday, June 2 :
Thursday £7,961,000
Friday
'Saturday 11,302,000
Monday 20,091,000
Tuesday
Wednesday 10,176,000

£70,678,000

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSI.NG PRICES•

a UOVERNMENT FUNDS.
per Cent. Consols
"ittAccount,7
a ~, o for July 921 i
lirr Cent. Reduced 92-;
Neal per Cent
t 2i, per Cent. Jan. 1894
& °. 0 per Oen J an. 1873
141uities, 80 vrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do•b for 30 yrs, aspire sth April 1885 --
tr, °,, (Rod Sea Telegraph), A eg.. 1.0, . --
i"( 39.110 B*ll £1 000 21 & 3 per Ot par
r 1 13, , ,
1)0
13s.
-°k of Pnol IStock 4} per Cent „ 244
b 4 , - ant
c,it.._ • opening
loZda 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Colonialft- Cranium
Lid. 41)IAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
1114 took, 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
D°' Opening, for Account
jj,s per Cent. July, 1880
D 0• 4 Per Cent., 888 ............... 100
..,0
• Certificates —
b°. Enlaced Pape, 4 por Cent...."
C°• 5 per Cort., Jan. 1872 ~......
.0
: 64 per Cent. May 1879 —
5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
.1.1,-, Do ' do. 1882.-
r,• eb,, ,
5 4
p peer Cent. r Cent., Au
£1 g.
00 1873 ~
°- tends , 0
0. under £l.OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.

itgeaitriautiu Bo deb 5 penceliF pntor Cent
kazilian D 5 o. per Cen 18 59
t 651
20.4/ per Cont. 1852 —
"„. do. 1858....
T\''°. do. 1860 —
17. do 1863 671
, .-11°. Q per Cont.,C 1865 —
I 3 —0 Account Bll 1
;,-,e4os Ayres 6 per Cent.
flub 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
--
0 ~a., 6 per Cont.
4,`,1140 6 per Cent —
Do. 3 or Cent.,
"c-,€'• 6 per cert. 1867 —
0 ''', c). 7 i)er Cent., 1866
1::, to Abian, per
1)44i311, 3 per Cent., 1825
411"bian Principalities, 7 per Cent —
EDo s
ev per Cont. 1867 —
litdorPti New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
4,Y,an, 7 per
'-'0 Second Issue Cent
4501. Bonds —
Da,4100 Bonds ••••• "....
1.0.
1861 —
Do. Account -