The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-20 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY.

Only a moderate business has been transacted in the .
Stock Exchange to-day, and the quotations, in some in-
stances, have shewn signs of weakness, nevertheless the
bulk of the alterations have been favourable. In the rail-
way market, Great Eastern and Midland have been rather
easier, but an advance has taken place in Brighton,
North - Western, and Great Western. As regards
foreign bonds next to nothing has been doing ; but
prices have ruled firm, and Turkish have •
risen in value, Consols have been firm, and * better, at ,
92k, 92f far delivery, and 92i, 92f, for the February ac-
count. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 987 x, 92g.
Bank Stock has been done at 235, 237, and Exchequer
bills at 10s. to 15s. prem. India Five per Cents have
marked 110, 410 k, and India Bonds, 225. to 275. pm.
In the market for English railway stocks no movement
of importance has been noticed. Brighton and North-
Western have risen and respective/y, but Great-East-
ern has fallen I, and Midland, t. Caledonian is quoted at
1 87, 87i; Metropolitan, 61, 61k ; Brighton, 43, 43k ;
South-Eastern, 76, 76k ; Great-Northern A, 1351, 136* ;
Great-Eastern, 404, 41k ; North-Eastern, 1461, 1471,
Midland, 1291, 130 k ; North-Western, 1301, 130 k ; and
Great-Western, 721, 72i.
In Indian Railway Stocks the transactions have been
limited. East Indian 1101, ; Great Indian Peninsula
1061. Canadian Shares have been quiet. Foreign Shares
have sold slowly. Dutch Rhemish 221; Recife and San
Francisco 15*, *.
Foreign bonds have been quietly dealt in, but the tone
has been steady on the whole. Turkish Five per Cents.
have been I better, at 42f, 42i ; Peruvian (1865), 90, 90} ;
Egyptian (1868), 75. t, 751; Italian (1861), 534, 544;
Spanish, 294, 30; Turkish (1869), 57, 571; French Scrip,
31, ; and German, 14, 1 prem.
For Bank shares the demand has been inactive.
Alliance has marked 12k, ; Anglo-Egyptian, 22*;
Imperial Ottoman, 11k, f ; London and County, 50} ;
London Joint Stock, 35k.
Telegraph shares have been in moderate request.
Falmouths have been better, at 94, f ; British-Indian
Extension have marked 6i, 6* ; British Indian Submarine,
7} ; and French Cables, 131 Silver's Indiarubber, 481 ;
and Construction, 24k, 24g.
Miscellaneous securities have been dealt in quietly.
General Credit and Discount, 7i ; Hudson's Bay, 84.
The bullion operations at the Bank to-day com-
prised the sale of £28,000 in bar gold, and 420,000 in
sovereigns.

The discount market has been rather firmer. Fair sup-
plies of capital have been on offer, and three months' paper
has been 2i per cent.
The Clearing House return for the week ending January
18, shews a total of £83,528,000, against £71,478,000 for
the corresponding week last year.
The Patagonia, from South America, has brought
£48,000 in specie.
The liquidators of the English and. Swedish Bank
(Limited) have issued a report stating that the affairs of
Company have been fully wound up, and that they have
a balance in hand of £13,973, which will be immediately
returned to the shareholders.

The directors of the National Bank have declared a
dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, or 21s. per
share for the half year. This is an excess of 1 per cent.
over the dividend announced at the corresponding period
last year.

At a meeting of the Alliance Bank a dividend of Is. 64.
per share was declared, being at the rate of 3 per oent.

per annum.
The traffic return of the Great Eastern Railway Rhews
a decrease on the corresponding week of last year of
£2,650 ; the South-Eastern a decrease of £466 ; the North
Eastern £1,295 ; the London and Brighton, £503;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, £1,328. Lines
chewing an increase of traffic are the Caledonian, £2,830 ;
the Midland, £136; the Bristol and Exeter, DM; the
Lancashire and Yorkshire, £3,115 ; the Great Northern,
1,036; and the Great Western, £1,032.

LONDON' STOOK EXCHANGE.-TIIIJRSDAT.

LATEgT PRICES.—AyrE It 0 F FICI AL Ilolf I LI
The prices under the lines indisalye the business done.

GOVERNMEN, BBC U RITI Sti.:

nave pel Oen I Consols 921 924 Vlo4 bp o Jim k July 1840 i. 10144014
921, t, 4, $, $ lON, 4
Do for A cuount
Three per Con tßedueed 924 93g If.gyptiau /882. Ipo .. .. 80 88
971. t. 8 82
New 3 per Cent
924, 4, 994
Exchequer Bills, March 10 15pm Dalian, 160. 5P 0 —
Pm Peruvian. 1885. fi p o
Do, June lO 15pm 90/, 4, 4. 90
15s pin Portuguese 1809 3po .. 814 324
Bank Stock
237 Russian. 1862. 5 p 0.. .. 84 85
India 5 per Cents
1101, 4 Do Nicolas 4p o
India Bonds —
Elmuish674, 4
pm
Can 6po Jan&Julyll77-84 1031104.1 304, 294
Do March & Sept. 104 106 Turkish. 1854, 0p o
Do 5p o Jan & July .. 974 98/ 784
Do Inscribed Stock .. 97 99 Do. 18:5, 5p o
Dom of Can 5p o 1903 .. 98 100 42, 4x d
Ceylon 6 p c May and Do, 1865 hp 0
November 1878 lO6 108 60. 594
Mauritius Cpc Jan and U. 8.5-20 Bouds,6 po 1881 904 904
July 1873 lO2 104 904, 4
New S Wales 5p 01871-76 lOO 101 Do do 1885 594 894
New Zealand 6 pa 1891 lO6 108 894
Dospo
Do 5p o Consolidated 9941001 884
Do 6 pcliar&SeptlB9l 109 111 KrieSlia,lo,lols,allpald
Do June & Inn 1891 108 110 Illinois Central Shares .. 10941104
Viet 6pc Jan &July 1891 113 114 Atlantic and G W RCou
DoApril&Oct 1883-85 ll2 113 Mortgage Bonds —
1121, 4