The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-08 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY.

There has been an absence of any important feature in
the Stock Exchange to-day. The business doing in all
descriptions of securities has been very" moderate,
and the tendency of values throughout has been
towards renewed depression. No violent fluctuations
have been noticed, there being no news irom the seat of
war likely to have any material effect ; and the abun-
dance of money assisting, in some degree, in strengthening
values. Consols have been flat, 921 92i for delivery, and
92a, 921 for November ; Reduced and New Three per
Cents, 91, 91i ; Exchequer bills, Gs. to 10s. prem. ; India
Five per Cents, 110, 110 ; and India Binds, 15s. to 20s.
prem.

Indian Railway stocks have commanded but little at-
tention. Eastern Bengal 1051', East Indian, 110, 110/,
Great Indian Peninsula, 105, 1061, Great Southern of
India, 105:1, Madras, 1051, 1058, and Scinde, 1021, 1021.
Canadian shares have been flat. . Great Western, 151.
In foreign shares the transactions have been restricted.
Central Argentine, 20k, Dutch Rhenish, 23, Lombards,
141, 141
Business in the market for English railway stocks has
been only to a moderate extent, and the fluctuations have
been trifling. Caledonian at 75/, 76; and Great Northern
A, at 134/, 135 ; are each 1 lower. Metropolitan, 661,
664 ; Brighton, 40/, 41; South Eastern, 72/, 73 ; Great
Eastern, 371, 37i ; Midland, 1261, 127 ; North-Western,
1281, 1291 ; Great Western, 71, 711; and North-Eastern,
1451, 146.
In the foreign bond market there has been a want of
animation, and prices have had a drooping tendency.
Italian (1861) have fallen 1, but Spanish (1867) have been
/ per cent. higher. American Government securities
have been dull, and the Five-twenty (1882 and 1885)
Bonds have fallen 1. Illinois Central shares are / lower,
but Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Mortgage
Bonds have fallen /.
There has not been much inquiry for bank shares.
Atlantic, 131; Chartered of Mercantile of India, bondon
and China, 261 ; City, 11/ ; Imperial Ottoman, 112 ; Lon-
don Joint Stock, 32*; London and Westminster, 60g,61;
and Union of London, 37.
Telegraph shares have been quiet. Anglo-Mediter-
ranean, New, 8a ; British Indian Submarine 71, and
Telegraph Construction, 261.
For Miscellaneous securities the demand has been in-
active. Berlin Waterworks, 15 ; Hudson's, 81, ;
London General Omnibus, 21; Peel River Land and
Mineral, 32.

The bullion operations at the Bank, to-day, comprise
the purchase of £165,000 in bar gold, and the withdrawal
of £5,000 sovereigns for Alexandria.
Bills have been in request to-day, and prices, generally,
have been lower.

A message has been received by the Anglo-American
Telegraph. Company (Limited), announcing that the 1866
cable has been broken about 70 miles. from Heart's
Content, Newfoundland. This interruption will not
sensibly affect the telegraphic communication with the
United States, as the Anglo-American and French
Atlantic cables are stiil intact.

Large supplies of capital have been freely offered in the
discount market. There has been very little demand, and
three months' paper has been taken occasionally at 2 per
cent, the general quotation being 2 per cent.
Messrs. Pixley, Abell, Langley, and Blake, teport on
the state of the bullion market, by saying that the Bank
has received during the week £598,000.
At a meeting of the Commercial Gas Company, out of
an available balance of £26,176, a dividend of 5 per cent.
was declared, after payment of which there will remain
a balance of £4,314 to be carried forward.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.—Antwerp, three months' date,
25 to 50 ; Paris, short date, ditto, three months' date,
and Marseilles, three months' date, nominal ; Leghorn,
Genoa, Naples, and Palermo, ditto, 26 80 ; Amsterdam,
short date, 11 19 ; ditto, three months' date, 12 1 ;
Rotterdam, ditto, 12 14 ; Hamburg, ditto, 13 mi ; Frank-
fort-on-the-Maine, ditto, 1202 ; Vienna and Trieste, ditto,
12 82 ; St. Petersburg, ditto, 29 ; Madrid, ditto, 49 ;
Cadiz, ditto, 481 ; Lisbon, 90 days' date, and Oporto,
ditto, 52.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY.

LATEST PRICES.—AFTER OFFICIA C HOURS.
The prices'under the lines indicate the.business done.

GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

Three per Cent Consols 921 921 DoApril & OctlBB3-85.. 110 111
921, 8,8, A 110 k, A, fxd
Do for Account
921 Brazilian, 1865, 5p o .... 89 91
Three per Cent Reduced 91 911 90*, 1, 90
911, 1, A 1 x d Egyptian ,1862. 7pc .. .. 81 83
New 3 per Cent
911, 1, A, 1, A a d 991
Exchequer Bills, March 5 10 pm Italian, 1865, 5p o
Inn , 1 a d
Do, June 5 10 pm PeruviaB2n, 1865, 5p c .... 871 881
Os, lOs pm 88, A
Bank Stock
India 5 per Cents
1101, A Russian, 1862, 5 p c.. .. 88 89
India Bonds — 881, 1
pm Do Nicolas 4p c
Can 6pcJan&Julyll77-84 10511061 681
106 Spanish. 1867, 3 pc
Do March & Sept. 103 105 281, 1, 8
Do 5p c Jan & July .. 98 99 Do, 1869. 3p c
981, i 271, 8. 0, 1
Do Inscribed Stock .. 97 99 Turkish, 1854, 6p c B4 87
Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 96 98 Do. 1865. 5p c
Ceylon 6 p c May and 431, 1. i
November 1878 lO7 109 Do, 1865.6 p c
Mauritius 6 p c Jan and 638
July 1873 lO3 105 U. 5.5-20 Bonds,6p c 1882 911 911
New B Wales 5 p clB7l-76 10011011 911. 1
1001 Do do 1885 901 931
New Zealand 6 p c 1891 lO6 109 901
Dos pc
Do 5p c Consolidated 971 981 83
98 Erie Sha, 100 dole, all paid —
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Do 6 ITCMar &Sept 1891 105 107 Illinois Central Shares lO9 110
Do June & DeclB9l 107 110 Atlantic and GW 11 Con
Viet Op c Jan &July 1891 113 115 Mortgage Bonds 27 28
1133/4 27, 8