The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-29 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY.

part from the transactions necessary for an adjust-
ment of the fortnightly account, business in the Stock
Exchange has been limited to-day. Consols have continued
arm, and a further advance of A. per cent. has taken place.
in prices. For money the quotation has been 93a, Nit
and for the 17th of April, 9314, 92g. Bank stock has
been marked 22,3 ex div. for opening. India Five per
Cents have been quoted at 113 1131,, and India Bonds at
20s. to 255. prem. Exchequer Bills par to 4s. prem.
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In the market for English railway stocks very little
business has been doing, and prices have been without im-
portant movement. Great Western have been firm, and
k better, and South Eastern and Midland have been
steady, 'but Caledonian has receded
There has been very little inquiry for India Railway
stocks, and prices bave been unaltered. Canadian shares
have been quiet and unchanged. For foreign shares the
deMand has been inactive. South Austrian and Lombardo-
Venetian have fallen. _ _

On the whole, the tone of the market for foreign bonds,
has been healthy, but the demand has not been active.
Russian-Anglo:Dutch have been firm, and better.
Turkish also have risen to per cent.

American Securities have been steady. The Five-
Twenty (1882), and 1882 Bouds have risen and the Ten-
Forty, per cent.
British mining shares have continued quiet, and a
further fall of has taken place in Assheton. Colonial
and foreign mines have sold slowly, Don Pedro laa.ve
fallen *.
Bank Shares have been dull and without chrnge.
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The telegraph market has been firmer. Britishi Indian
Submarine have risen and Falmouth, Gibraltar, and
Malta, and French Cable shares *.
Telegraph Construction shares have been unsettled. The
opening price was 354, but the quotation subsequently re-
lapsed to 342, from whence, however, there was a recovery
to 36.

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Miscellaneous securities have been quiet, at previous
quotations.
There has been a fair demand for money to-day in con-
nection with the fortnightly settlement, and the rate for
three months paper has been firm at 3 per cent.
The sum of £42,000 has been sent into the Bank to-
day.
At Mark.lane to-day wheat was firm, at an occasional
advance-of Is. per qr.
We understand that a group of Paris bankers is about
to be formed under the name of Banque-Franco-
Egyptienne, with a capital of 50,000,000 francs, for doing
business in and with Egypt.
At a meeting of the British American Land Company
the directors' report was adopted, and a dividend of £1
per share was declared.
At a special meeting of the New Grenada Bondholders
it was determined to remunerate Mr. Frederick Stacey,
the agent of the bondholders at Santa Martha, for his
services by allowing him a salary of not less than £6OO
per annum.
The failure of a Hamburg house, with liabilities of
£30,000, is announced. The liabilites will principally fall
on Bradford and Manchester.

The following are the " making-up " prices of to-day,
being the first day of. the fortnightly account :—Railways,
—Metropolitan 772, Caledonian 77" i, London and Brighton
421, South Eastern 74, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire 51k,. Great Northern A 118, Midland 12312,
London and North Western 1221, Great Western 67k,
Erie 21, Illinois 116, Great Luxembourg 12k, Great
Western of Canada 17k. Foreign Bonds,—Turkish (1865)
69, ditto Five per -Cents 46k, Peruvian (1365) 84k)
Egyptian (1868) 81/, ditto Nine per Cents 101, Italian (1861),
554, Spanish (1867) 28, Me xican 141, Five-twenties (1882) 904,
ditto (1885) 891,Russian scrip, n prem. Telegraphs—French
cables„ 151; Constructions, 34/ ; Anglo-Mediterranean,
174 ; Anglo-American, 174 ; British Indian Submarine,
111; West India and Panama, M Miscellaneous :
Yuda Namutana Milwlg, ; Don Pedro, 4k ; Hudson's
Bay, 121.
The traffic returns of 4se London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway for the week ending March 26 present a
total of £18,387, being a decrease of £5,041 when conaparei
with the corresponding week of 1860.