The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-29 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS_YESTERDAY

Apart from the transactions necessary for a settlenient
of the fortnightly account, business in the Stock Exchange
has been only to a moderate extent today, and
the quotations have- been free from auy sever!,
fluctuations. Consols have been firmer at 94, 9"
for money and the May account. Reduced and New
Three per Cents 92, 9212 i Exchequer Bills paid 55.
prem. ; India Five per Cents 114, 114 ; and India Bonds
203., 255. prem,
There has been only a moderate inquiry for English
railway stocks, and the alterations generally have been
unfavourable. Metropolitan opened firm at 77i to 73
but subsequently receded to 7712 to 77i. Midland hag
fallen London and North Western 4-, and Gres
Western On the other hand, London an'
Brighton has been 12, and Great Northern (A)
Indian railway stocks have been quiet. Canadian
shares have been flat, and Great Western have been rather
weaker. As regards foreign shares, Great Luxemburg
have been steady, but South Austrian and Lorabnru°-
Venetian have been lower.
The mining market has . been without feature of
irn
portance.
For bank shares there has been a fair demand, and
Union of Australia has risen
Rather more steadiness has been noticed in the denlslla
for telegraph shares, but the transactions have not been

extensive.
Very few changes have taken place in the value of
foreign bonds, and the business doing has not been exten-
sive. Spanish have been firm, and Egyptian have •bee 3
wJak. The new loan is quoted at to 4 prem. The new
Japanese Loan fallen to 1 dis. to par.
American securities have been firm. The Five-twenty
and Ten-forty Bonds, and Erie Shares have riser' 1.
Telegraph Construction shares have been firm, and
batter. In Miscellaneous securities, next to nothing hill
been doing, and the quotations have shewn no change °I
importance.
The Clearing House return for the week, ending
April 27, shews a total of £66,087,000 against £64,678,w"
for the corresponding week last year.
Owing to the settlement there has been a good demand
for money to-day, but, at the same time, capital 115'1.
been plentiful, and three months' paper has been taken s'
24 to 3 per cent.
The sum of £15,000 has been sent into the Bank tJ•
day.
A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Lumsden, iro9
manufacturers, Sunderland, was held to-day, at Sunder'
land. The report from the Committee of Investigati°r/
,
referred the stoppage to bad bookkeeping, and a conilvv
tion of 4s. 6d. in the pound was recommended as the least'
The debts are stated at £25,000, and the assets £2,031.
The Messrs. Lumsden offered to pay 45., which the meet"
ng after a long discussion accepted.
The Mineral Charcoal Company have declared a dill.
dead at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
. The Equitable Gaslight Company will pay a dividend
at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. •
The Anglo-Romano Gas Company announce a dividend
at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
A prospectus has been issued of the Phcenix Silver-lead
and Blende Mining Company (Limited), with a capital of
£30,000 in £2 shares, to purchase and work a property in
Rhenish Prussia, about twelve miles from Cologne.
At a meeting of the Cape Copper Company, it wag
resolved to issue 5,000 new shares at the price of 01'
being a premium of £7 per share, but the proprietoro
will have the option of dividing the payment of this sun"'
over nine months, subject to an interest of 10 per colt

per annum.
At a meeting of the City of Glasgow Life Assurail°
Company, the new policies for the year were stated t°
have been 197 for £289,970, yielding in new premiums
£10,384. A dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. `s1"1
declared. .

At a meeting of the London and Provincial Le"
Assurance Society, the new policies for the year were
stated to have been 197 for £289,970, yielding in Ile,icq
premiums £10,849. The income was £106,528, and tne
assets are £566,181. The policies in foree are 2049, f°r
£2,753,130.

The return of the Bank of England shews the following
results, when compared with the previous week :—A
de-
crease of circulation of £203,198; an increase of public
deposits of £406,921; a decrease of other deposits °f
629,665; an increase of Government securities of 225,119;
a decrease of other securities of £496,118 ; an increase
of bullion of £50,235 ; an increase of rest of £5,235 ; 31/
increase of reserve of £210,400. The circulation, including
bank post bills, is now £23,592,346 ; public deposits
amount to £8,067,145 ; and private deposits to £16,346,951
The securities held represent £31,146,171; and the stock Of
bullion is £19,974,628.. The rest stands at £3,113,755•
The railway returns for the past week are as follows
Great Northern £40,502, increase in the corresponding
period of last year £379; Great Eastern £38,988,
increase on last year £1,781; Caledonian £38,805, increase
£597 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, £21,552
decrease, £1,622. Great Western, £82,716 ; increase/
£5,244. Bristol and Exeter, £8,168 13s. 3d.; increase,
£l,OOl 2s. sd. Demerara, 4,939 d. 82c.; decrease, 217 d. 81c.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, £57,938 ; increase, £4,721.