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 for money;
ditto, for Ac-ount, 92i ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 924 ; New Three per Cents, 921 4 ; 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, 10i 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 11,000, 8 pm.
In the Foreign Market Turkish Five per Cents.
have declined a, to 44 441 ; Mexican Bonds I, to
12 16 ; and New Spanish Three per Cents. are
3-16 lower, at 29 291. Italian Five per Cents. are
unchanged, at 561 56.1.
The Honduras Loan is at 85 86.

In the Railway Share Market C dedonians are
better, and Sheffield Great Eastern h lower,
ditto A 1, Lancashire -I-, Metropolitan i, Brighton
L North Western 1. The quotations are :
Caledonian, 76; 78 ; Great Western, 49 1 ; Great
Eastern, 37 1 ; Great Northern, 107 1071 ;
ditto A, 1061 to 1064 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
123 to 123/ ; Metropolitan, 971 to 98.
Atlantic Telegraph Original stock is 211 221 ;
the Eight per Cent. Preference shares are 3-4-, 31i;
and Anglo-American Telegraph shares, 21a 214.
Five-Twenty Bonds, 804 801. The 1885 Bonds
and Ten-Forty Bonds have improved it and 4 re-
spectively, at 781 781, and 72 721. Erie Railway
Sharea have receded it, to 181 18i ; and Illinois
Centrals are 4 lower, at 95 91.
The sum of £123,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.
The Ruahine, from New South Wales, has
brought £70,000, and the Chile, from New Zealand,
£2 1,600.

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.
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The activity of the American import trade con-
tinues to increase. The total gold value of the
goods 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
which reference has already been made under this
head, has suspended payment. The directors,
however, state that after payment of all known
liabilities, and making allowance for all possible
losses, the capital will remain unimpaired, and that
they hope to resume business in a short time. It is
believed that the deposits amount to £1,600,000.
Ihe stoppage is attributed to the issue of Mr. 1).
I'Donald's circular, although the bank was em-
barrassed previously.
Ile London, Chatham, and Dover Railway
traffic return, including the Metropolitan Exten-
tort and branches, shows this week a decrease of
3.1235, compared with the corresponding period
Of last year ; the Metropolitan Extension, sepa-
lsatc=lY, a decrease of £526 ; the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, a decrease of £4,732 ; the North
Eastern, an increase of £1,477 ; and the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, an increase of
£1,782.

At the meeting of the proprietors of the London
kid 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. The liabilities in connection with the Man-
chester Stock Exchange are stated not to be large.
The following is from the Manchester Exanzi-
tier: The suspension of Mr. Alfred Faltin, mer-
chant, 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-
°l'd, with liabilities estimated at £40,000.
The directors of the Oude and Rohilkund Rail-
Nv,,aY Company (Limited) have made a call of Y.J.
'''"& per share on the new shares, payable on the
29th inst.

The ordinary general meeting of the Channel
Id •
l'lnds Telegraph Company will be held on the
25th inst.

114 return from the Bank of England for the
lv"4: ended the 2.1 of Jane gives the following
results when compared with the previous week :--
at £3,137,514 Decrease ... £30,890
,111,11 c depositi
Other deposits 17,104,,288 ... Decrease ... 489,038
°4 the other side of the account :
*°r ernrnent semi-
.. £l4 098 276 ... Increase ... 27,478
1,4",er s ...
ri,,(6x unemployed 8,139,195 ... Increase ... 10,475
c:le amount of notes in circulation is £23,524,545,
eing an increase of £477,365 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £17,821,023, showing
44 increase of £439,792 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 Reutes with the corresponding week of
14" Year :

At Present. Same Weeklast Year.
£17,821,023 ... £21,969,738
heservo
9,296,478 12,776,336
tea in circulation 23,524,545 24,22q.485
of discount
?asols

reach Routos
The following is the official return of the cheques
,i, a bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house for
the Week ending Wednesday, June 2 :
Thursday £7,961,000
Friday ... 8,413,000
Saturday...
Monday 20,091,000
rueaday
Wecluesday 10,176,000

£70,678,000

BRITISH FUNDS-TWO O'CLOCK.

3 (40VERNmErr FUNDS.
Pet Cent. Consols
a •Dittu fur Account, July 7
92t
NlDer Cent. Reduced 921
j,":4' 2
3 per Cent
'il, 1 per Cent. Jan. 1894
A". 5 per Cen .1 an. 1873
4„unities, 60 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1889 —
"e. for 30 yra, expire sth April 1885 --
G" (Red Sea Telovaph), II lig., 1P0R.,,
—eticcpx:::r Bills, £1,009, 21 k 3 per Ot. par
1)0
ta , £lOO, £290 & J...,ut, —
-4K of England Stock, 4/. per Cent
Ca;"
Clt;'4. opening
Illt 444 4 per Cent. Bonds —
(3r-Colonial Cranium
Irteb.,):NDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
.1)."" .fllOck, 10i per Cent., April 1874... —...
bc''. Opening, fel. Account
0°• 5 per Cent..fuly, 1880
100
b
°• 4 per Cont.,, Oct. 1888
tie. Certificates —
e• Enfated Papeil per Cent.. ..
°' 5 Per Cent., Jan. 1872 .....
~. Do. Si
* Per Ocut. May 1879 llOl
0 Per Cent., Rup. Dob. 1872 —
)30 do. 1877 —
•,t)
Do, do. 1882 —
b,) • Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
r,°- Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
0. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK..
iligenritine Republic, F per Cent
an Bonds 5 per cent
bra „ Do. 1859 651
,-,4‘iian 5 per Cent
"n• 4i per Cent. 1)452 —
11°' do. - 1E08....• "°
1)°,
do. 1860
bo do', 1863 671
1.) • , por Cent., les
Ii
._ 0 Account BlO 1
.1e)Os Ayres 6 per Cent.
L kit,4 2, I
I,er Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont `
O 4, ° per Cent.
0.1:a • Cent —
n per
?. 4k per Cent
Dv.3-per Cent.,
I,OC per cert. 1867 —
0 1 • per Cent., 1866
arteubian, 6 per C
ba;Bh, 3 per Cent., 1825 . —
a. 6 '"inn Principalities, 7 per Cent —
le. ° 8 Per Cent 1867
,ltnikid ~
k.,,,..„ 2r New Uonholidated, 1 per Cent
Ara '''',l, 7 per Cent
AO.
RNlalidlEsue
Dc,
460 C Bonds —
--' . £lOO Bonds
Do. 1864 —
D 9. Account _ --