The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-03 00:00:00

MONEY- XARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL. INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Consols declined 1- to-day, at 921 i I for money;
ditto, for Acxaint, 921 1 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 921 ; New Three per Cents, 921 11 ; Red
Sea Telegraph, 20 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, par ;
ditto £lOO, £2OO, and£soo, ; Bank of England
Stock, 4 per Cent., 241.
d India Stock, 10} per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5
per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1883, 1001 ; ditto Enfaced raper, 4
per Cent, ; ditto 5f per Cent., 1001 ; ditto
.13 elds under £l,OOO, —.
In the Foreign Market stocks are in demand,
'with the exception of Italian and Mexican Bonds,
Which are quoted lower, at 56i 564 and 13 131
respectively. New Spanish Three per Cents. have
I,nlProved 1, to 29 291, Thurkish Five per Cents. 1,
to 441 441, and Peruvian Five per Cent. Bonds are
I better, at 791 791.
The Honduras Loan is steady, at 85 86.
In the railway market Great Western are .1
better, Metropolitan 1, Sheffield 1, Brighton 1,
North Western -I, South Eastern I, Great
Northern A are 1 lower. The quotations are:—
Caledonian, 76} 7 ; Great Western, 49 ; Great
Eastern, 371 1; Great Northern, 107 108 ;
ditto A, 1061 to 1071; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1,231 to 1231 ; Metropolitan, 971 to 98 ; Mid-
; ',and, 115 to 1151 ; Sheffield, 541 to 551 ;
-orighton 45 to 451 ; North British, 34 to 341 ;
London and North-Western, 1171 to 1174 ; Nortth
Eastern, 1051 to 106 f ; South Eastern, 751 to 751;
and London, Chatham, and Dover, 161 to 171.
Americanat Bonds have improved-1 in the Five-
Twenties,Bol 801 ; 1 in the 1885 Bonds, at 781
78i ; and 1 in the Ten-Forty Bonds, at 711 to 721;
Erie Railway Shares have receded 1, to 181 19 ;
and Illinois Centrals are 1 better, at 951 96.
Atlantic Telegraph Original stock is 21 22 ; the
Eight per Cent. Preference shares are 31, 31 ; and
Anglo-American Telegraph shares, 218 211.
The sum of £23,000 in gold was taken to the Bank
Yesterday, making a total of £326,000 in the week
since the last return. •
The Maid of Judah, from Port Phillip, has brought
£111,312.
The traffic return of the London and North-
Western Railway shows an increase of £1,572 ; that
of the Midland a decrease of £4,530. The Great
Eastern traffic presents a decrease of £4,640. In
the case of the London and South-Western there
i 8 a &crease of £3,026. The Great Northern
Railway exhibits a decrease of £3,532. The Great
IVestern traffic shows a decrease of £2,870. The
return of the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail-
Way presents a decrease of £1,235. The Metro-
politan Extension of the London, Chatham, and
Dover shows a decrease of E 1,235.
The biddings for £25,000 in bills in India were
received yesterday at the Bank of England. The
amounts allotted were—to Calcutta £288,400, and
"° Madras £36,600. The minimum price was fixed
as before, at ls. 100. on Calcutta and Madras;
and tenders on those Presidencies at ls. 10/d. will
receive about 59 per cent., arid above that price in
fall. These results show a further diminution in
the demand for means of remittance to the East.
A very important deci,ion has been given by the
Lords Justices in the matter of the liquidation
of the Humber Ironworks and Shipbuilding Com-
pany (Limited). The Warrant Finance Company,
Who had lent the Humber Company £25,000, bear-
ing interest at the rate of .20 per cent. per annum,
claimed to be paid dividends upon their interest
as well as principal with the rest of the creditors
'hose debts did not carry interest. The Master of
the Rolls considered they were entitled to receive
dividends on both interest and principal, but the
official liquidator; Mr. Henry Chatteris, appealed
to the Lords Justices, who decided that in all com-
Panies in course of liquidation by the Court of
Chancery creditors are only entitled to interest up
to the date of the winding-up order, until all ere -
ditors have received 20s. in the pound on their prin-
cipal money. Should there be any surplus assets
after all creditors have received their principal in
'nil, those creditors whose debts carry interest arc
entitled to receive it.
With regard to the telegram from Washington
of Peru having grauted belligerent rights to the
Cuban insurgents, an impression is expressed that
1...; is " only one of the many reports spread to
damage Peruvian credit." It is said that when the
two Monitors which Peru bought in New York
Were authorised to leave the United States it was
under an express engagement from the Peruvian
Government that they would not interfere in the
Cuban question before the two vessels bad reached
Peru. Hence, as they cannot arrive for six or eight
I°°ntbs, the statement now circulated seems very
improbable.
Advices from Paris attribute the opposition in the
Italian Chamber to the measures of the Finance
Minister to the circumstance of the National
'auk of Italy and the Credit Mobilier having
created a general feeling of dissatisfaction and
en'Y by seeking to monopolise Italian finance for
their own profit, a feeling which was increased by a
case in Milan, where, on a suit against a Deputy
'.,°r bribery, an extensive system of bribery in the
Italian Chamber was disclosed, and caused general
indignation.
At the meeting of the Malta and, Mediterranean
Gas Company, a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent.
was declared on the preference stock, and of 31 per
Cent. on the ordinary.
The Birmingham Daily Post states that Messrs.
G. Muntz and Co., of Birmingham and London,
a firm in the copper trade, have issued circulars
announcing their suspension. The principal cre-
ditors are in London and South Wales, and the
amount of indebtedness is understood to be heavy.
The same journal corrects a rumour that the firm
15 connected with Muntz's Metal Company, and
Points out that the mistake arose entirely from the
similarity of names.
At the annual general meeting of proprietors
of the Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Com-
pany, a dividend was declared of £2los. per share,
Payable the sth of July next, free of income-tax.

BRITISH FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
Govnio‘xxxx FUND,.
a Pex Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
8 per Cent. lieducod 99* f
~,,,."ew 3 per Cent
'lel, 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
, D. S per Cen J an. 1873
"amities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
9,0. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
1, tie (lied Sea Televaphl. Aug., 1908 2O
'''lolicqu2r Bills, £l,OOO, 2/ k 3 per Ct —
~ Do £lOll, £2OO & £5OO
'sank of England Stock. 44 per Cent
s.D'• Opening ...................................
nada 4 per Cent. Bonds
Inter-Colonial Omneum ........... . -
r„,„ INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
-.4l4Mack, 104 per Cent., April 1879...
1),,c). Opening, for Account ................ .. .+1
i
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 ............... 11.
4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 ............... 100
. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Pape, 4 per °Aut....«
„r)0. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ....... -
uo. Si per Cent. May 1879 llO4
Da .6 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
~ Do. do. 1882 —
"„•%. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 -
"0. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
"0. tinder £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCIi.
'B4;entine Republic, 8 per Cent
ka Arian Bonds 5 per cent ..- —
Do 1F59
lir A • •ili •
Lan 5 per Cent —
11. 44 per Cent. 1852 —
00- do. 1858 —
00. do. 1861
L'°. do., 1863 671
000.Lpoeurnt Cent., 1865
814
..,—enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
.. Do 2 pet Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont :
,que, ,
c "4, t. per Cent.
',Wan 6 per Cent —
"0. 4} per Cent..., —
Do. 3 per Cent.,
l'o 6
• per cc- t. 1867 96i
0 1)„°. L 7 Per Cent., 1866
b„,••;4l4ian, 6 per Cent.
Di"n'Bll. 3 p•ti. Cent., 1825...
n"lo'iun Principalities, 7 per Cent —
)e --`) ° per Cent., 1867
,ciuti,l•3r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
'44,Yr ',lan, 7 per Cont...
"0 SACOLId Issue . -
110..460(. Bonds