The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-02 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

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CITY, Two °Timm

Consols are quoted to-day at 921 1 for money ;
ditto, for Ac:ount, 921:; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 921 ; New Tkree per Cents, 921 1.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 111+ 1 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 100+ ; ditto Eufaced Paper, 4
per Cent., ; ditto 5 per Cent., 1031 ; ditto
Bonds £l,OOO, 10 prem.
Foreign Stocks are without quotable Change.
Brazilian Bonds are quoted, 83 to 831 ; Chilian
(1867), 931 to 94 ex div. ; Danubian Eight per
Cent., 871 to 881 ex div. ; Honduras, 83 to 84 ex
div. ; Egyptians (1864) are 881 to 891; ditto (1868),
79 to 79i ; Viceroy's Seven per Cent., 831 831 ; do.
Nine per Cent., 95 to 951 ; Italian, 531 to 531 ;
Peruvian, 751 to 751 ; Portuguese, 331 to 341 ;
Rus,iau (1822), 841 to 85 ; Orel, 801 to 801 ;
Nicolas, 65 to 651 ; Moscow, 78+ to 780 ; Charkof,
781 to 794; Spanish, 281 to 281 ex div. ; Turkish
Five per Cents., 44a to 441 ; and ditto Six per
Cent., 65 to 65/.
The railway market is only a shade firmer than
at the close last night. The quotations are
as follows : Caledonian, 781 to 79 ; Great
Eastern, 381 to 38k ; Great Northern, 107 to
108 ; Great Northern, 107 to 108 ; ditto (A),
1061 to 107+ ; Great Western, 501 to 511 ; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 125/ to 126 ; London
and Brighton, 441 to 45; London, Chatham, and
Dover, 161 to 17+ ; London and North Western,
1181 to 119 ; Loudon and South Western, 89 to
91; Metropolitau,97 to 971; Midland, 16} to 117 ;
North Eastern (Berwick) 106 to 106} ; and South
Eastern, 771 t o 771.
Rather more business is reported in American
Securities, but the quotations of the leading stocks
show little or no change. The Five-Twenty Bonds
are 801 to 801 ; the Ten-Forties, 71/ to 72+ ; Erie,
191 to 20 ; Illinois, 941 to 951 ; Atlantic and
Great 'Western Bonds, 25+ to 251 ; and Deben-
tures, 28 to 281.
Bank Shares, although quiet, are well supported,
but the only actual change in prices is an advance
of 10s. in Union of London, the quotation being 36
to 37. London and Westminster is steady, at 61
to 62.

Corn is dull, at Wednesday's decline of ls.
The sum of £9,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.
The Bremen, from New York, has brought
£3,400, and the Bangalore, from Alexandria,
£60,000.
The City of Brooklyn, which left New York on
the 26th ult., will bring £45,000.
The Pascal, at Liverpool from the River Plate
and Brazil, with dates from Bahia to the 9th of
June, has brought £30,000.
The subscription list for the Great Northern
Telegraph Company was closed yesterday afternoon
by Alessrs. llambro, and although a deposit of 10
per cent. was required with each application, and
the whole of the remainder is to be paid up during
the month, the total of shares applied for was more
than eight times the number to be allotted.
The Chamberlain of London, on behalf of the
Corporation, has invited tenders for a 41 per cent.
loan of £234,000 to complete the purchase of land
and execution of works in connexion with the
Meat and Poultry Market at Smithfield, which
which will then have been entirely finished at a
cost of about a million. The bonds are to be issued at
par, and applications, accompanied by a deposit of
10 per cent., are to be made at the Bank of Eng-
land up to three o'clock on Wednes•lay next. The
allotment will be made rateably to all applicants.
In terms of an official decree published, all
invoices of goods exported to the Republic of Nica-
ragua on and after the Ist of July must be attested
before an accredited Consul for that Republic resi-
dent in Great Britain, and all goods imported into
that country without such Consul's certificate will
be confiscated by the Customs authorities. By the
present decree the duties will be levied ad valorem
on the cost in Europe, thus abolishing the system
hitherto observed of assessing the values according
to a local tariff and payment on the weight of such
goods.

The third ordinary general meeting of the
United llizcodut Corporation (Limited) will Le
held on the 16th in3t., when a dividend is to be
declared.

A meeting of the shareholders of the Joint Stock
Coal Company (Limited) was held at Radley's
Hotel on Wednesday, June 30, when the half-
yearly report was unanimously received and
adopted, and also a vote of confidence and thanks
to the present chairman and directors for their past
services.

A petition for the winding up of the Hop
Planters' Joint Stock Company (Limited) is to be
heard before Vice-Chancellor James on the 10th
inst.

The return from the Bank of England for the
week ended the 30th of June gives the following
results when compared with the previous week :--
Rest
Put,lie deposits
Other deposits 19,149,726 increase 2,116,770
On the other side of the account
Government securi-
ties £14,154,373 ... Decrease 85,501
Other securities 20,552,209 Increase ... 4,087,195
Notes unemployed 10,230,870 ... Decrease ... 500,840
The amount of notes in circulation is £23,393,105,
being an increase of £712,665 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £19,780,776, showing
an increase of £184,816 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 Week
Blast Year.
Reservellion
11,387,671 ~. 12979636
Notes in ciroulation 23,393,105 ... 24,771,585
Rate of discount
Consols - French Rentes
The following is the official return of the cheques
and bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house for
the week ending Wednesday, June 30 :
FThursd.ay ............................... .C 8,680,000
riday ................................. 11,956,000
Saturday.
11,465,000
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday 11,328,000
23,212,000

£75,714,000

BRITISII FUNDS—TWO O'C.LOOK.
GOVEINMENT rUNDS.
3 per.:Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
8 poi- Cent. i
Reduced
NS* 3 per Cent
............i i
New 2 por Cont. Jan. 1891 92
Do. per Cen J an. 1873
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885
June Pm --
Do (Red Sea Telegraph),
D , 2f Aug., 1908 —
Eoquer Rills, £l,OOO p. Ct. March
Do o. 3 do.
£lOO, £2OO & £5OO —
Ratak of England
D Stock, 4f per Cent
Canada 4
o. 0pening.........
Inter-Colonial Ornnnun ...
.................•
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES India sltock, 10t per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. 5
Do. Opetunp for Account.,
'per Cent. July,l880
DoDo. 4 pee Cent., Oct. 1888
. Certificates
e
Do. Eufacd Pape, 4 per C0nt..,.•
DoDo. 5 car Cast., Jan. 1872 .... ...,„ lO5 -1
. Si per Cznt. May 1879 -
DJ per Cont., Rup. Deb. 1872 ..
o
do 1877.•
Do.
do. 12
.U.;. Deb., 5 per Cont., Aug. 88
1873 ~
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent.,
.£l,OOO
o. nutter .£l,OOO
roitaimx FUNDS— TWO O'CLOCK.
Argentine Itopublic, 6 per Cent
1 uitrian Bonds 5 per cent . ••.........
78}
Do.
lea
Br izilian 5 por Cent ....2 —
O. 4i per Cent. 185 .............
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..
Do. d.) 1858 .
Do. uo• 186. .•
or Cent. ........ •
Do. do., 1863 ..
Do. 5 i., 1865 •
Do Account
.13.1-enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
CDo '2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont )
uA., 6 per Cent.
Do.Collis') 6 per •Cent .............
Do. 44
per Cent.... — 3 per Cent., ...........................