The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-12 00:00:00

ONE Y MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Consols improved to-day, at 921 for money ;
ditto, for Ac:ount, 92/ ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 921 New Tkree per Cents, 92i ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 dif. ; ditto £100,1200,
and £5OO, 2 dis. ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per
Cent., —.

Canadian Bonds, 103.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto for Account, 216 id. ; ditto 5 per Cent., July,
1880, 2114 ; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, ;
ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 6 prem.
In the Foreign Stock Market, Turkish Five per
Cents. are firmer, at 431 to 4341 ; Mexican, 121 to
124. Egyptian, 77/ to 774 ; Peruvian Five per
Cents., 79+ to 794 ; Russian (1866), 89 to 90 ;

Oriel Railway, 794 to 801; Charkoff Railway, 78
to 78j ; Spanish New 'I hree per Cents., 29 to 29f ;
Argentine Six per Cents., 801 to 804; and Italian
Five per Cents., 56 to 561.
In the railway market prices are as follows :
Great Eartern, 371 to 37a ; Great Northern, 1071
to 108 k ; Great Northern (A), 108 to 108 f ; Great
Western, 491 to 501 ; Lond and Brighton, 44f to
444 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 16} to 17 ;
London and North Western, 1181 to 1184 ; Metro-
politan, 97f to 98.

American Five-Twenty Bonds are 79f to 798 ;
and the Ten-Forty, 71 to 71k, being lower. Erie
Shares are steady, at 18k to 18 ; Illinois, 931
to 941.

Lombardy-Venetian Railway is steady, at 19i
to 191 ; and Great Luxemburg Railway, at 94
to 10.

In Bank Shares there is more request. London
Joint Stock is 10s. higher, at 32 to 33 ; and Impe-
rial Ottoman, 2s. 61, at 2/ to 2f pram. ; Alliance
is steady, at 13i to 141.

The sum of £56,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.

The Wave of Life, from Port Phillip, has
brought £44,108, and the Ceylon, from Alexandria,
£6,331.

The stoppage of Messrs. Livesey and Thorpe,
commission merchants, of Manchester, and cotton
brokers, of Liverpool, with liabilities to the amount
of about £250,000, will, it is feared, lead to the
Suspension of several manufacturers connected with
them.

The directors of the National Bank of Scotland
announce a dividend of 6 and a bonus of 1 per
cent. for the half year, payable on the 13th of
July.

The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of
the London Joint Stock Bank will be held on the
15th July.
At the meeting of the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company, the directors' report
Was adopted, and a dividend of 3 per cent. declared
for the half year, free of income tax.

The transfer books of the International Financial
Society (Limited) are to be closed from the 19th to
the 30th inst., preparatory to the payment of in-
terest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the
half year ending the 30th inst.

The annual meeting of the proprietors of the
Bank of South Australia will be held on the 29th
inst.

The annual meeting of the Southern Australian
(Land) Company is convened for the 30th inst.
The annual meeting of the Dutch Rhenish Rail-
Way Company will be held on the 29th inst., at
Utrecht, " when the balance-sheet for the financial
year ending 30th April last will be submitted for
the approval of the proprietors."
The amalgamation of the Progress and the
United Ports and General Assurance Companies is
announced as having been completed yesterday,
and the joint business will be henceforth conducted
Under the title of the latter. The subscribed capital
of the united companies is £550,203, of which
£127,661 is paid up.
The annual meeting of the Falkland Islands Com-
pany is called for the 23d inst.

At a meeting of the New Consolidated Discount
Cuinpany (Limited), the resolution passed ou the-
24th ult., that the undertaking be wound up vo-
luntarily, and that the proposal made by Mr. T. S.
Richardson, the chairman, to take over the ais.:ts
and liabilities, and pay the shareholders the par
value of their shares, was confirmed. Consequent
upon this arrangement, Mr. Richardson has taken
into partnership Mr. S. Baker and Mr. A. Russ,
and intends to carry on the business under the title
of Richardson and Co.

Bir. James Cooper, the official liquidator of the
Patent Carriage Company (Limited), has an-
nounced that the Master of the Rolls has sanctioned
the payment of a fourth dividend of 3s. in the
Pound, making lls. 6d.
The liabilities of Messrs. Felix Leach and Co ,
Cotton spinners, &c., of Enfield Mills, near Accring-
ton, are computed at upwards of £70,000.

Advices from Glasgow state that the failure of
Messrs. Murdoch and Dodderell, sugar refiners, has
been chiefly caused by the importers of sugar on
the Clyde altering credits from four to two months,
and that the estate, according to the lowest esti-
mate, will produce from 12s. to 13s. in the pound.
The works, it is stated, have been mortgaged to a
Scotch bank for £35,000.
In the colonial produce market this week busi-
ness generally has again been inactive, and the re-
duction in the Bank rate has not had the effect of
causing an increase of transactions. All good qua-
lities of sugar command ready buyers, and, the
supply being moderate, full rates are paid, espe-
cially fur bright grocery samples. West India is
Steady. Manilla, of which the stock continues ex-
ceptionally large, cannot be sold except at a further
reduction. The lower descriptions of coffee con-
tinue dull, and native. Ceylon meets with but little
inquiry. Coloury plantation of middling to good
quality has been freely taken, but the quotations
for the common and pale kinds are rather lower.
The tea-market is firm. Common cotton maintains
the advance last quoted, and the trade have made
some few purchases in medium to fine red-leaf
cDngou.

The following is the official return of the cheques
and bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house for
the week ending Wednesday, June 2 :

Thursday £9,803,000
Friday
Saturday 10,476,000
Monday 9,912,000
Tuesday
Wei:lnc:2d 7 8,423,000

£61,606,000

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

UOTERNMENT iIINDE. •
" per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
,
' Per Cent. Reduced 921 4
New
3 per Cent
21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
, Do. 0 per Con J5.n.1873 ..
'l-nullities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs expire sth April 1885 -
Do (lied Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1908 —
'l4thoquzr Bills, £l,OOO, 2} et 3 per Ct
~ 1)0 £lOO, £2OO & £5OO —
1"%41c of England Stock, 91 per Cent
13Q opening—'CanadaQ.
4 per Cent. Bonds lO3
Infer-Colonial Omnium

/ INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
4',,iia stook, 10f per Cent., April 1874 Shut
.0. Opening, for Account 206
'3O. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 -
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced rape. 4 per Cant..,.,.
00. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ,„.
Do. 51 per Cent. May, 1879 —
D.) 5 per rout., flop. Dob. 1872
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 ......
L:.. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 .„ —
Do. Bends, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
no. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING :PRICES.
4trgentine Republic, 6 per Cent Bll 1
Xu itrian Bonds 5 per cent .. —
ii
claili Do. 1E59 —
an 5 per Cent —
no. 41 per Cent. 1852 —
po. do. 1858....
I). do. 186 I
" ~ °- do 1863
n. 5 per Cent., 1865
13 0 Account
rsenOs Ayres 6 por Cent.
(~ uo 2 per Cent. (Deferred 8 per Cent )
6 '4i.) 6 pep,Cont.
o 6 per Cent —
„ii it
4-'O. 44 per Cent.l