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

MONETARY REPORTS.-SATURDAY.

An increased amount of firmness has been noticed in
the Stock Exchange to-day. Business, as usual, has been
much circumscribed, but the continuance of investments
is gradually lessening the supply of stock afloat, and is
imparting a corresponding degree of steadiness to the
quotations. The principal movement to-day has been
in railway stocks, which have improved on the average
1 per cent. Foreign bonds have been free from any note-
worthy change.

The market for home' securities has been fair. Consols
have been in request, and have risen A per cent. For
delivery the quotation has been 89k, 89i, and for the
September account 89k, 90. Reduced and New Three-

per-cents 89k, 891. Bank stock 232, 234. In Exchequer
bills par to ss. prem. India Five-per-cents 107, 108, and
India bonds par. In Colonial Government securities next
to nothing has been doing.
Notwithstanding that the actual business concluded has
been very moderate, the market for English railway
stocks has been very firm, and a general advance has en-
sued. Great Northern A has recovered 3, Great Eastern
li, Great Western Lancashire and Yorkshire 1, Lon-
don and Brighton 1, London and North-Western Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 1, Metropolitan 1,
Midland North British 1, and North-Eastern 1.
Indian railway stocks have been dealt in to a very
moderate extent, and prices have shewn no change. For
Canadian shares the demand has been very quiet. In
foreign shares very little business has been doing. Buenos
Ayres, Great Southern, Salado Extension, have fallen
but Pacific and San Francisco have risen 1.

The foreign bond market has been characterised by
much quietness, and the quotations have been without
quotable variation. Turkish and Italian have been rather
easier, but Spanish and Egyptian have continued firmer.
American securities have been in request. The Five-
twenty bonds have risen i, and Erie shares i.
The market for bank shares has been firm, but business
has not been brisk. Central of London have fallen i, but
Imperial Ottoman have risen i, Oriental 1, and Union of
Australia 1.

Telegraph shares have been rather firmer. Atlantic
Eight per Cent. Stock has risen 1, and British Indian
Submarine shares have been * better.

Miscellaneous securities have been firmer. Commercial
-Union Assurance have risen Hooper's Telegraph
Works /, and Peninsular and Oriental Steam 1.
There has been a continuance of firmness in the money
market to-day. Capital has been scarce, and three
months' paper has not been taken under 6 per cent. At
the same time, however, the demand has been very
quiet.

The Scotia, from New York has brought £.509,531 in
specie. •

The bullion operations at the Bank to• day comprised
the purchase of £15,000 in bars, and the withdrawal of
£50,000, in sovereigns, for Lisbon, and of £60,000, also
in sovereigns, from France and Germany.

The sum of 14,000,000 francs, which some Paris firms
had dispatched to Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Eng-
land has been seized by the French Government, ancl all
export of bullion has been prohibited.

The stoppage of Messrs. Green, Hnmphrey, and Co.,
of Cannon-street, engaged in the silk trade, is announced,
with liabilities estimated at £30,000, and a favourable
liquidation is anticipated. The books of the firm have
been placed in the hands of Messrs. Honey, Humphrys,
and Co., who are preparing a statement of affairs, to
be submitted at the first meeting of creditors on Thurs-
day next.

At the first meeting of the Central Queensland Meat
Preserving Company, Sir William Denison, K.C.8., in the
chair, it was stated that the total receipts had been £8,959,
and the expenditure (including steam plant and supplies
shipped to Rockhampton) about £5,000. The manager and
assistant-manager are now in Australia, and operations
will be speedily commenced.
The adarices from Paris states that the Minister of
Finance is soliciting subscriptions to the Treasury bills,
which are to represent the new war loan of 500,000,000
francs. They are to be issued at par ; are to bear 5 per
cent, interest, payable half-yearly, and are to be re-
deemed at not sooner than two or three years at choice,
and not later than ten years. In consequence of the
mode of redemption, which is imitated from the Ame-
ricans, they are designated two-tens or three-tens' bills.
They may be negotiated like other public securities, and
the Bank of France is to accept them as security for ad-
vances. Subscribers before the Ist September next, the
date from which the coupons are to run, are to receive
interest on their payments to that date, and those who
may subscribe afterwards will, on the contrary, have to
pay interest. The object of these speculations is stated
to be "to preserve the entirety of the coupon." The
Finance Department is now also offering to the public'
ordinary Treasury bills at higher interest than that men-
tioned last week-3i per cent. for those of from three to
five months, 4i for from six to eleven months, and five for
a year.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-SATURDAY.

LATEST PRICES.-AFTER OFFICIAL HOURS.

The prices under the lines indicate the business done.

GCVERNIIENT SECURITIES.

Three per Cent Consols 898 893 Viet 5p c Jan & JulylB94. 96 99
891. 1. i Brazilian. 1865, 5p c .... 85 87
Do for Account
893.8 Egyptian, 1862, 7 p c.... 77 82
Three per Cent Reduced 898 898 82
894, 1, 8 Do Rail Deben 7 p
New S. per Cent
898, 8, i Italian, 1865, 5p c
Exchequer Bills, March par, spm Peruvian, 1865, 5p c
pm Portuguese, 1869, 3p c 261 27i
Do, June par, spm Russian, 1862, 5 p c.. ..
Bank
pmStock
- Do Ni64colas 4p c
India 5 per Cents — Spanish, 1867, 3pc
India Bonds — -• 241, i
Can 6pc Jan&JulylB77-84 99 102 Do, 1869. 3p c
100 241, 3f
Do March & Sept. 102 105 Turkish. 1851, 6p c —
Do 5p c Jan & July .. 90 92 81
Do Inscribed Stock .. 88 92 Do. 1865, 5p c
39, 8/,
Dom of Can 5p c 1903.. 93 95 Do, 1865, 6p c
Ceylon 6 p c May and 58, 6, 7
November 1878 lO6 108 U.S. 5-20 Bonds, 6p c 1882 833/4 84
Mauritius 6 p c Jan and 833, 41
July 1873 lOl 103 Do do 1885 828 831
New SWales 5p clB7l-76 96 98 828
New Zealand 6p c 1891 lO5 108 Do 10-40 Bnds, spc 1904 79 81
Do 5p c
Do 5p c Consolidated 93 95 Illinois Central Shares .. 96 98
94 978
Do 6p c Mar &Sept 1891 105 108 Atlantic and GW R Con
Do June & Dec 1891 104 107 Mortgage Bonds lB 20
Viet 6p c Jan &July 1891 107 110 18. 19
DoApril & Oct 1883-85.. 106 109
109, 81

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