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

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Consols are quoted to-day at 924 for money ;
ditto, for Acxlunt, 92.1:; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 92i ; New Tkree per Cents, 92i
India Stock, 108 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 f ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1008 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4
per Cent., ; ditto 5 per Cent., 103! ; 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 79; ; Viceroy's Seven per Cent., 831 831 ; do.
Nine per Cent., 95 to 951 ; Italian, 53i to 53i ;
Peruvian, 751 to 751 ; Portuguese, 33/ to 341 ;
Russian (1822), 841 to 85 ; Orel, 801 to 801 ;
Nicolas, 65 to 651 ; Moscow, 781 to 780 ; Charkof,
781 to 791 ; Spanish, 281 to 281 ex div. ; Turkish
Five per Cents., 441 to 4q-; and ditto Six per
Cent., 65 to 651.
The railway market is only a shade firmer than
at the close last night. The quotations are
as follows : Caledonian, 78± to 79 ; Great
Eastern, 381 to 381 ; Great Northern, 107 to
108 ; Great Northern, 107 to 108 ; ditto (A),
1061 to 1071 ; Great Western, 501 to 51; ; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 125± to 126 ; London
and Brighton, 441 to 45 ; London, Chatham, and
Dover, 161 to 171 ; London and North Western,
1181 to 119 ; London and South Western, 89 to
91; Metropolitan,97 to 971; Midland, 161- 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, 711 to 721 ; Erie,
191 to 20 ; Illinois, 941 to 951 ; Atlantic and
Great Western Bonds, 251 to 25/ ; 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 I.s.
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 Messrs. Hambro, 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 4-1- 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 Wednesiay 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 Con,ul's certificate will
be confiscated by the Customs authorities. By the
present decree the duties wilt be levied ad valorem
on the cost in Europe, thus abolishing the system
hitherto observed of assessing the values according
to a loc 11 tariff ant payment on the weight of such
goods.

The third ordinary general meeting of the
TJuited DLoount Corporation (Limited) wilt Le
held on the 16th inst., when a dividend is to 13t,
declared.

A ru,:eting of the shareholders of the Joint Stock
Coal Company (Limited) was held at Radley's
Hotel ou 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.

Tha 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
Piddle deposits
Other deposits 19,149,726 ... increase 2,1i6,770
On the other side of the account :
Government securi-

ties £14,154,373 ... Decrease ... 85,501
Other securities 20,552,209 ... Increase ... 4,037,195
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
Bullion
£19,780,776 £22,751,121
Reserve
Notes in circulation 23,393,105 ... 24,771,585
Rate of discount
Consols
French Reines
The following is the official return of the cheques
and bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house for
the week ending Wednesday, June 30 :
Thursday
£8,680,000
Friday
1
Saturday..
Monday 11,465,000
907300
Tuesda 0
Wednesday
23,212,000

£73,714,000

13111TISI/ FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
UOVEUNMENT FUNDS.
3 per-Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
8 per Gent. Reduced 921
N 4 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Con J an. 1873
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
Do. for 30 yrs, aspire sth April 1885 - ,Do (Red Sea Telegraph). Aug., 1908 — Exchoqu:v Rills, £l,OOO, 2f p. Ct. March
Do
Do. 3 do. Juue Inl
4100, £2OO ez £5OO —
Da. opening
Bank of England Stock, 4f per Cent
Calzada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Ommuna — iNDIAN UOVERNMENT BECURITIIB
India tOck, 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Openfug for Account. —
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 pee' Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enlaced Pa pe., 4 per Cent"... —
Do. 5 p©r Cext., Jan. 1872
...
1
Do. 5 per Cent.
DJ
D May 1879 . : -
5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872
o
Do. do 1877 —
do. 1882
L.
Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 —
DDo. Bonds, 4 per Cent £1 000
o. under .El.OOO
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FOREIGN FUNDS— TWO O'CLOCK.
1 u iti:ati 13nutts 5
lt?,entine Republic, 6 per Cent . 781
per cent .
VIO. 185,
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Brazilian 5 ?er Cent
Do.
4i
Per
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ii.,,
Do. do '94
1808.... . Do. ao. ra,3 ,
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1)o. do., 186 z ................
5 per Cent., 1.865
BDo Account -31 3
:enos Ayres 6 per Cent. .......... :
CDo 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per abno, ":.
Cu »,, 6 per Cent. ..............................
ullian 6 per Cent ................ •• ............ Do. 41 per Cent
Do. 3 per Cekt., -