The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-10 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY.

In the Stock Exchange to-day the business doing has
been of a very moderate character, and with scarcely an
exception, the alterations have been unfavourable. At the
same time, however, no important change has taken place.
The leading railway stocks again shew a fractional reduc-
tion, and in the foreign bond market, Italian, Spanish and
Turkish are each fractionally lower. The Consol market,
however, has been firm, and prices have risen ior 92k, 921
tor delivery and the account ; Reduced and New Three
per Cents., 92k, 92i ; Bank Stock, 233, 235 ; Exchequer
Bills, 10s. to 15s. prem. ; India Five per Cents., 110,
110}; and India Bonds, 225. to 275. prem. Very few
transactions have taken place in Colonial Government
securities.

English Railway Stocks have been in limited request,)
and prices have given way. Caledonian, South-Eastern,
North-Eastern, and North-Western are each 1 lower,
whilst Midland and Great Western shew a decline
of a and it respectively. Metropolitan is quoted
at 631, 63/ ; Caledonian, 861, 871 ; Brighton, 41, 411;
South Eastern, 754, 761 ; Great Northern, 1241, 1251 ;
ditto A, 1351, 1361 ; Great Eastern, 391, 391 ; North
Eastern, 1451, 1461; Midland, 1291, 1291 ; North Wes-
tern, 129, 1291, and Great Western, 72, 721.
Indian railway stocks have been quiet. Bombay,
Baroda, and Central India, 1031 ex div. ; East Indian,
1081, 109 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 1051, 106 ; Madras,
1031 ; and Scinde, 1031, 1031; Canadian shares have
commanded but little attention. Grand Trunk, 121, and
Great Western, 151. For foreign shares there has been
but little demand; Central Argentine, 201, 101 ; Great
Luxembourg, 111 ; San Paulo, 211 ; and Lombards, 15.
In the Foreign Bond market very little business has
been transacted, and prices have ruled slightly easier.
Italian (1861) have fallen /, Spanish 5-16, and Turkish
Five-per-Cents. it. Egyptian (1868), 78, 781 ; Italian
(1861), 53k, 531; Spanish, 291, 291; Turkish (1865), 591,
599 ex div. ; ditto Five per Cents., 431, 431 ; ditto (1869),
50/, 501; Mexican, 131, 14 ; United States Five-Twenty
(1882) Bonds, 891, 891; ditto (1885), 891, 891 ; French
Scrip, 2, 1 dis. ; and German, 11, 11 prem.
For bank shares the demand has been limited. Alliance
have marked 131; Consolidated, 4 15-16 ; Imperial Otto-
man, 111, 1; Joint-Stock, 351, 36 ; London and West-
minster, 641 ; and Union of London, 381.
In telegraph shares the transactions have been re-
stricted. British-Indian Extension, 61; British-Indian
Submarine, 7 ; Falmouths, 81, 9 ; and French Cables, 13 ;
Constructions have marked 241.
Miscellaneous securities have been quietly dealt in.
General Credit and Discount, 71; Ocean Marine, 19;
Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada, 51, 6.
There have been no bullion operations at the Bank to-
day.
In the discount market the business doing has been
limited. There has :been a good supply of capital on
offer, and three months' paper has been taken at 2* to 21

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per cent.
At Mark Lane to-day wheat was dull, and ls. to 2s. per
quarter lower.
The directors of the City Bank recommend a dividend

of 7 per cent. per annum, free of income tax. They also
propose to add £5,000 to reserve fund, thereby increasing
it to £lOO,OOO. _

At the Liverpool Court of Bankruptcy on Saturday,
the affairs of D. C. Simpin and Brother, merchants, were
before the court. The unsecured debts are £60,636, the
secured debts £3,437, and the assets £23,033.
The case of Edmund and Thomas Ridings, trading as

cotton merchants in Liverpool, under the style of E.
Ridings and Co., and in Preston and Manchester as
Thomas Ridings and Co., was also before the court. The
partly-secured debts ars £173,113, £121,114 being the
value of the securities held by these creditors. The assets
are £3,426, and the liabilities £53,538.
In the matter of Henry and Edward Miller, ship-
builders, Garston, the court adjourned the case to the
18th instant. The liabilities are £24,972, and the assets
£20,006.

The Massilia, from the East, has brought £53,960, and
the Patagonia, from South America, £lO,OOO.
The Argyleshire has left Auckland, New Zealand, with
£20,020.
The British Indian Submarine Telegraph Company
(Limited) has given information that a further reduction
of lid. per ton has been made on the harbour dues
at Aden. Vessels calling merely to deliver telegrams are
not subjected to any harbour dues.
At a meeting of the Union Bank of Australia the
directors' report was adopted, and a dividend at the rate
of 12i per cent was declared.
The report of the Fore-street Warehouse Company
(Limited), to be presented on the 13th inst., shews an avail-
able total of £91,542, including a previous balance
of £15,381, and recommends a dividend at the rate
of 12i per cent., with a bonus of 3s. 9d. a share, making
a total distribution of £1 per share, which will absorb
£30,000, and the appropriation of £lO,OOO to capital, in-
creasing the amount paid on each share from £l3 to
£l3 Gs. Bd., also £lO,OOO to a reserve fund, leaving £11,542
to be carried forward.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-MONDAY.

LATEST PRICES.-AFTER OFFICIAL HOURS,

The prices under the lines indicate the business done.