The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-17 00:00:00

MONETARY Ir REPORTS- - ESTERDAY.

Much steadiness has been apparent in the Stock
Exchange Markets to-day. The demand for Foreign Bonds
has continued strong at a further general improvement. In
the Consol market there has been a preponderance of pur-
chaserss, and the quotations have risen A. For delivery
the price has been 94k, 94R, and for June 94g, • 94k. Re-
duced and New Three per Cents., 92k, 921 Exchequer
bills par to ss. preen.; Bank stock, 233, 235 ; India Five
per Cents., 1131, 114 ; and India bonds 20s. to 255. prem.
The market for English railway stocks has continued
steady. Caledonian, South-Eastern, Midland, and Great
Western have risen ; and Great Northern (A) has been
A better. Metropolitan has been unsettled : at one time
it receded to 72g, 72i,but eventually recovered to 73, 73k,
shewing a fall on the day of A.
Indian stocks have been quiet, but firm. For Canadian
shares there has been a moderate demand, and the quota-
tions have ruled firm. The movements in the value of
foreign shares have been unimportant.

Bank shares have been dealt in to A moderate extent,
and the tendency of prices has been favourable.
The tone of the market for telegraph shares has been
steadier. British Indian Submarine have risen fi, and
Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta, 3-16. Telegraph Con-
struction have been fi better.
Miscellaneous securities have been steadier. Hudson's
Bay have advanced it.
The sum of £lOO,OOO has been sent into the Bank

to-day.
We understand that application will be made to Par-
liament to guarantee a loan of £1,000,000 to New Zealand
to be raised by the colony, for the purpose of employing
the friendly Maories in road making and other public
works, and for the promotion of emigration.
A further general improvement has taken place in the
value of foreign bonds, in which a large business has been
doing. Egyptian have risen Peruvian (1865), ; 'New
Grenada, ; Russian (1870), ; Spanish, ; Turkish Five
per Cents, i; ditto Six per Cents, ; and Italian (1861),
per cent.

American securities have been firm. lie Five-twenty
Bonds have risen ; Virginia, ; Illinois Central, ; but
Erie shares have fallen
The Loch Katrine has arrived from Melbourne with
£ll,ooo` and the Roquette from the West Coast of Africa
with £5,300.
At a meeting of the New Granada Bondholders, to-day,
resolutions were passed appointing a committee to repre-
sent the bondholders' interests, and to act when neces-
sary in conjunction with Messrs. Baring Brothers and
Co., and the council of foreign bondholders.
There has been a fair demand for money to-day, both
at the Bank and in other quarters, and three months' paper
has not been taken under 3 per cent.
Melbourne Advices, dated April 24, state that the Gee-
long takes to Galle £440,000 in bar gold, and 66,500 sove-
reigns. The Lady Jocelyn has left for England with
£31,500, and the True Briton with £ll,OOO.
A prospectus has been issued of the Mauritius Gas
Company (Limited), with a capital of £lOO,OOO in £5
shares, for purchasing and carrying on the gasworks
already established at Port Louis, under an extensive
concession.

The Act to consolidate the different sectional ordinary
stocks of the North-Eastern Railway into one ordinary
stock came into operation on the 12th inst. The former
sectional distinctions of ordinary stocks are consequently
abolished, the whole being consolidated and converted
into one ordinary stock called " North-Eastern Consols,"
on the following basis, viz., for every £lOO Berwick Ordi-
nary Stock, £lOO North-Eastern Consols ; for every £lOO
York, £9B ; for every £lOO Leeds, £65 ; for every £lOO
Malton and Driffield, £lO ; for every £lOO Carlisle, £133 ;
for every £lOO Darlington, £136.
The traffic returns of the London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway for the past week amount to £21,775,
being a decrease of £1,592 on the corresponding period of
the previous year.

LATEST PRICES --AFT:

'ER OFFICIAL HOURS.

CI OV1: EtNMENT

SECURITIES.

Three per Cent Consols 945 941
Do. for Account
Three per Cent ltdcd 934 931
New 3 per Cent
Exchequer Bills,March, par 5 pm
Do., June
Bank Stock
India 5 per Cents
Can.6pcJan.&JulylB77-84 10741085
Do. 5 per cent do. 985 394
Domain. of Can. 5 pc 1903 974 985
New S. W. 5 p c 1871-76 102 103
ew Zealand 6 p c 1891 llO 112
Do. 5 per cent 97 98
Do. 5 p c Consolidated
Queensland 5 p c 1882
Victoria 6 p c Jan.& July 115 116
Do. 5 c do. 10351045

Brazilian, 1865, 5 p c 9O 91
Egyptian, 1868, 7p c 814 824
Do. Rail. Deben., 7 p c 100 101
Italian, 1861, 5 per cent 571 581
Peruvian, 1865, 5 per cent 87k 88
Portuguese, 1869, 3p c 34 344
Russian, 1866, 5p c 92 94
Do. Nicolas, 4 per cent 6B 684
Spanish, 1867, 3percent 3lk a
Do., 1869, 3 per cent
Turkish, 1854, 6 per cent 1014104
Do., 1865, 5 per cent 5O 50*
Do., 1865, 6 per cent 734 73
U. S. 5-20 Bonds, 6pc 1882 89k 89
Do., 1865
Do., 10-40 Bonds, spc 1904 85k 86
Erie Sha., 100 dole. all pd. 184 184

RAIL'
Bristol and Exeter BO 82
Caledonian 74 741
Great Eastern
Great Northern
Do. A
Great Western 721 72i
Lancashire &YorKshire 13011311
L. B. and South Coast
Lon. Chat., and Dover
Lon. and.North-Western 128/1281
Lon. and South-Western 90 92
Man., Sher., and Lincoln 511 511
Metropolitan 73i 74
Midland
North British 361 361
North-Eastern—Berwick 13631371
Do. Leeds —
Do. York —

South-Eastern
80rn.,8ar.,&01.1ud.g.5 pc 1071108 f
East India guar. 5p c
Grand Trunk of Canada 151 151
Do. Ist Preference Bonds 681 691
Great Indian Pen. g. 6p c 110 111
Great Western of Canada 161 16f
Madras g. 5 pc lO9 110
Scinde. Delhi, do.
Scinde, Puujaub, do lO7 108
Dutcli Rhenish 251 26
Eastern of France
Great Luxembourg l3f 14
Northern of France
Ottom. (Smyrna to Aidin) 7 7
Recife and San Francisco 16 16
I Ban Paulo (L.) guar. 7p c 20 20
S. Aus. & Lom. Venetn. 151 151

BANKING COMPANIES.

to
Agra Bank (L) A .... 10) 11 , 101 Imperial Ottoman. 4141 pm
Alliance (Limited) .. 13 14 ' 20 Lon. Char. of Austrlia 24) 241
Anglo-Austrian ".. 1416 pm 20 London and County 49 50
Anglo-Egyptn (Lim) 25 25) 15 London Joint-Stock 34) 35)
British North•Amrcu 53 55 20 Linin & Wstminstr 62) 63)
Ch.of India, Australis, 17) 18) 10 Metropolitan Bl 9)
Char. Marc. of India 30 31 20Midland (Limited) 1 die, par
City

Colonial
Consolidated (Limtd) f pm
Eng., Scot., & Aust. C 17f 18
Inipenal (Limited) lB 18

TELEGRAPH

250rutal BankCorprtn. 404 414
2511112i0u of Australia.. 46 47
151 Muon of Loudon .. 384 394

10 Anglo-American (L) 171
100 Atlantic
3 Britisli Ind. Ex. (L) 321 die
10 British Indn Sub. (L.) 8t 9
Fal, Gibraltar. &c. (L) 81 91

COMPANIES.

Pd
1 10 Great Northern .... 11 lli
25 Indo-European (Lmtd) 15 20
I 10 Med.. Extension (L).. 52 6
20, Soc. Trans. France (L) 16 14
1 51W. India & Panama 7 7
MS SECURITIES.

Pd
51. Rbbr. G P Tel. Wks. 44 45
100 Intr. Financial (L) 1111 dis
5 Mdras Irrigton g. 5 p c 104 105
5 National Discount (L) 111 12
50 Ocean Marine
20 Pninslr & Orntl Stm. 44 46
Telegraph Constran 35 35,1
St Tobacco 6 p c Ln, Qua.
5 by Italian Gvrnmnt 90 92
Trust &Lnof IT Chada Ipm