The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-25 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS--TUESDAY.

During the earlier part of the day the stock markets
generally presented an animated appearance, and the
quotations improved in many instances. Sub-
sequently the demand became weaker, and a
portion of the advance was lost ; nevertheless,
the tone on the whole has not been unfavourable. Consols
opened steadily, but-closed rather easier at 94k, 941 for
delivery, and 94 3-16, 94 5-16 for June. Reduced and
New Three per Cents 92k, 92a ; Exchequer bills par, ss.
prem. ; Bank stock 234, 236 ; Indian Five per Cents.
have been done at 114, 1141, and Indian Bonds 205., 255.
prem.

The demand for English railway stocks has not been
active, but. the fluctuations in prices have been about
evenly balanced. The principal feature has been the
inquiry for North-Eastern Consols, at an advance of !I.
South-Eastern and Midland are each better, whilst
London and North-Western shews a rise of On the
other hand Great Northern A has fallen Metropolitan
I, and London and Brighton
Indian Stocks have been quiet but firm. For Canadian
shares there has been only a moderate demand, neverthe-
less in prices no change has taken place. Foreign shares
have been quiet, Lomb'ards have fallen but Great
Luxembourg have risen

The announcement that Marshal Espartero will accept
the throne, provided that he be elected by the Cortes, has
stimulated the inquiry for Spanish securities. Brazilian
(1865) Loan have risen i ; Egyptian Government Railway
Debentures, i ; Portuguese, i; and Italian (1861) i ; and
Swedish (1862), i per cent. ; but Peruvian (1865) have
fallen i.

American securities have been steady.
Twenty Bonds have risen

The Five-

In Mining Shares, the transactions have been restricted.
Assheton have fallen t, but Pacific have risen .1.
For Bank shares, there has been a firm demand, and
the late advance has been maintained.

As regards Telegraph shares, Anglo-American and
French Cables have advanced A, but Anglo-Mediterranean
have been A lower.

Miscellaneous securities have been dealt in quietly.
Hudson's Bay shares have receded It.
The sum of £46,000 has been sent into the Bank to-

day.

The Rhine, from New York, has brought £11,900.
The directors of the Chartered Bank of Australia re-
commend a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. and a bonus
of 1 per cent.

The Committee of the Stock Exchange have resolved
that on and after the 25th inst., the Metropolitan stock
shall be quoted ex-surplus Land shares.
Quietness has been the feature of the Money Market.
There has been a fair supply of capital, but the demand
for accommodation has not been active, and Three
Months' Paper has been negotiated at 2i to 3 per cent.
The Prussian, from Quebec, has brought £37,600 in
specie, and the Pereire has arrived at Brest from New
York, with £74,800 in specie.

The New Peruvian Loan for £12,000,000 will be intro 7
1 duced here and in Paris in the course of a few days.
2 A prospectus has appeared of the Northern Silver-Lead
3
and Blende Mining Company (Limited). with a capital of
£30,000 in £4 shares, to purchase for £17,000, of which
1 £4,000 is to be in cash, and the remainder in paid-up
2 shares, a mining property at New Ramsey, in the Isle
3 of man.

A dividend of 2s. in the pound, making with former
dividends Bs. Bd., is now being paid to the creditors of
Harper Twelvetrees (Limited), at the offices of the liqui-
dators.

The following from the Commercial and Shipping
Journal, forwarded by Messrs. Borradaile, Thompson,
Hall, and Co., refers to the state of commercial affairs at
Cape Town on the 18th ult :—There has been a
good deal of activity in activity, and country
buyers have put in a very respectable appearance,
buying pretty freely of most goods for the coming
winter season. We notice that country dealers are in'
much better spirits than we have known for years past;
they have shared with the farmers in the benefit of
our last season's good crops, and now look forward
hopefully to the future, in the expectation of being able
to extend their business with some degree of safety,
and with more chance of a fair profit upon thei
transactions than they have had for a long time.
With these encouraging signs of progress, however, busi-
ness is still confined to moderate limits, and very few
operations take place of sufficient importance to require
special notice. Over-trading, as it existed two or three
years ago, has ceased, and only such goods are ordered and
imported as can readily, in moderate time, be passed off
into consumption. We do not think we are justified in
in looking forward to much improvement on our present
position. In the Western Provinces our outlet for goods
is very limited, and the ground is now fully occupied.
Until there is more realised wealth in the country,
creating a more generous demand for ordinary articles of
import—to say nothing of the reasonable luxuries that
most civilised countries make use of—we do not see any
very great room for expansion, or much chance of a
largely-increased import trade, This can only be the
result of years of agricultural prosperity, and by making
the best use of our resources in the cultivation of new and
valuable items of export.

At a meeting of the Great Britain Mutual Life
Assurance Society, it was shewn that during the year,
the proposals for new assurances submitted to the
Society have numbered 852, for the sum of £253,315, and
have been disposed of as follows :-75, for £35,265, have
not been carried out ; 36. for £11,600, the directors have
declined ; .and 741 proposals have been completed,
and policies issued, for the sum of £206.450,
yielding a new annual premium income of
£6,683 13s. 2d. The sums assured has been
£206,450, against £163,983 in 1868, and £106,560 in 1867.
The yearly income of the society amounts to £64,652185. lid.
The claims and endowments paid have amounted to
£37,221145. sd. The assets of the society at the close of
the past year amounted to £834,332 9s. Bd., and the
liabilities to £711,257 14s. 10d., she-wing a surplus fund of
£123,074 14s. 10d. By the advice of the actuary,
the directors recommend that an allowance of 21 per
cent. be awarded on the premiums payable during the
present year by policy-holders entitled to participate in
the profits of the society. The rate of interest obtained
on the invested funds of the society in the past year has
averaged more than 5 per cent. The realised funds of the
society, together with the future premiums, represent an
equivalent of £123 ss. for every £lOO assured.
The sinres of the Now Rosario Mining Company are at
1-16 to 3-16 prem.

LONDON STOOK EXC 11A N G-TUESDAY.

LATEST PRICES --AFT

OVNIINMENT
Three per Cent Consols 94 941
Do. for Account ....94 941 949
Three per Cent Rdcd 921 928
New 3 per Cent
Exchequer .13illa,March, par spm .
Do., June
Bank Stock
India 5 per Cents
Can.6pcJaniaulylB77-84 10711081
Do. 5 per cent do. 99 100 .
Domin. of Can. 5p c 1903 971 981
New 8. W. 5p c 1871-76 102 103
New Zealand 6 pc 1891 ll2 114

lat OFFICIAL HOURS.
' SHCURITIES.

Do. 5 per cent 99 100
Do. 5 p c Consolidated
Queensland 5 p c 1882
Victoria 6 p c jan.Bt July 11541164
Do. 5 1) o do. 104 105

1805. 5 p c 914 914
Egyptian, 1868, 7p c 81g 811
Do. Rail. Dawn., 7 p c 1014101
Italian, 1861, 5 per cent 574 57i
Peruvian, 1865, 5 per cent 88g 886
Portuguese, 1809, 3 p c 33g 344
Russian, 1866, 5p c 93 94
Do: NicolaS, 4 per cent 6B} 634
Spanish, 1867, 3percent 3ll 314
Do., 1869, 3,per cent
Turkish, 1854, 6 per cent 86 88
Do., 1865, 5 per cent 504 504
Do., 1865, 6 per cent 731 734
U. 6, 5-20 Bonds, 6pc 1882 89 89t
Do., 1865
Do., 10-40 Bonds, spc 1904 86 86}
Brie Sha.. 100 dols. all pd. 18 18%

South-Eastern
Born., Bar., &CLlnd.g.s po 107 108
East India guar. 5p c
Grand Trunk of Canada 15 153/4
Do. Ist Preference Bonds 67 69
Great Indian Pen. g. 5p c 108 109
Great Western of Canada 163/4 163/4
Madras g. 5 pc
Scinde, Delhi, do.
Scinde, Punjaub, do lO7 108
Dutch Rhenish 253/4 26
Eastern of dance 24 25
Great Luxembourg ln 14
Northern of France
Ottom. (Smyrna to Aidin) 73/4 7
Recife and San Francisco 16 163/4
San Paulo (L.) guar. 7p o 203/4 21
S Aus. & Lom. Venetu. 15g 151

RAILWAYS.
Bristol and Exeter Bl 83
Caledonian 751 75.1
Great Eastern
Great Northern
Do. A
Great Western 721 721
Lancashire &Yorsshire 13011311
L. B. and South Coast
Lou. Chat., and Dover
Lou. and North-Western 1298130
Lon. and South-Western 91 92
Man., Sher., and Lincoln 61 511
Metropolitan 72 72
Midland
North British 37 371
North-Eastern Consols
Do. Leeds
Do. York

BANKING COMPANIES.
I a,
Agra Bank IL) A .... 101 11 10 Imperial Ottoman 41 51 pm
Alliance (Limited) .. 144 151 20 Lon. Char. of Austrlia 241 251
Anglo-Austrian .... 1618 pm 20 London and County 50 51
A nglo-Egyptu (Lim) 251 26 15 Loud° a Joint-Stock 351 361
British North•Amrcu 54 56 20 Lndn & Wstminstr 63 64
Ch.of India, Australia. 17 18 10 Metropolitan Bl 91
Char. Merc. of India 291 301 20 Midland (Limited) 1 die, par
City
Colonial
Consolidated (Linitd) 1 bra 25 Union of Australia.. 46 47
Eug., Scot., & Aust. 0 174 181 15 Union of London .. 40 41
Imperial (Limited) lBl 19

RAPII COIIPANIES.
Pd
10 Great Northern .... 11 In
25 Indo-European (Lmtd) 14 18
10 Med. Extension (L).. 5! 6i
20,50 c. Trans. France (L) 151 16
SIW. India & Panama 7 ns
'8 SECURITIES.
Pd
51. Rbbr. G P Tel. Wks. 4311 44i
100 Intr. Financial (L) 1 dis
5 Mdras Irrigton g. 5 pc 104 106
5 National Discount (L) 12 12t
50 Ocean Marine • 14 15pm.
20 Pninslr & Orntl Stm. 44 45
Telegraph Constrctn 34 34k
St Tobacco 6 pc Ln, Gua.
5 by Italian Gvrnmnt 91 93
Trust & Lao: U Owl& t pm

Anglo-American (L) 171 171
Atlantic
British Ind. Ex. (L) 3i 3 dis
British Indn Sub. (L.) 81 8
Fat, Gibraltar, &c. (L) 81
At I SCELLANEO

10 Berlin Waterworks (L) 141 141
27 Canada Company 79 81
II) Ceylon Company (L) 4 3 dis
20 Colonial ldis,lpm
10 Cred. Fonder of E (L) 21 21
100 Crystal Palace
13 Forest Warehouse (L)4.1 5} pm
71 Gen. Cred. & Dsct 1 pm
14 Gen. Stm Navigation 29 31
451lioopex's Tel. Works 2l 21 die