The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-28 00:00:00

MONETARY REP ORTS.--SAT URDAY.

The stock markets to-day have been generally quiet.
Railways have been depressed, and there have
been further heavy speculative sales of telegraph
shares resulting in reduced quotations, Foreign
bonds, however, have continued firm. Consols have
been steady, at yesterday's quotations, viz., 93 to 9S
for money, and 93a to 931 for the April account.
Reduced and New Three per Cents. 91i to 92. Exchequer
bills par to 4s. prem. India 5 per cents. have been done
at 113 to 1131, and Indian Bonds at 20s. to 255. prem.
Bank stock has marked 2371 ex div. for opening.
For Colonial Government securities there has been but

little inquiry ; nevertheless, prices have been unchanged.
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The market for English railway stocks has beende-
pressed, and an almost general reduction has taken place
in prices. Glasgow and South-Western has risen 1, and
Metropolitan. ; but Metropolitan District, Midland,
Birmingham, and Derby, and South-Eastern Deferred,
have fallen 1; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
North-Eastern, York, and Shropshire Union, /; and
Gre- Western, Midland, and South-Eastern,
Injan Stocks have been quiet, and without change.
Canadian Shares have been flat, and for foreign there has
been very little inquiry.
There has been a continuance of firmness in the market
for foreign bonds. Peruvian have been in request, at a
further enhancement of f. Portuguese have been I
better, and a similar improvement has taken place in
Spanish 1867, Spanish 1869 being -72- per cent. higher.
Egyptian have been firm, at the recent improvement.
For American Securities there has been a moderate en-
quiry. The Five-Twenty 1882 bonds have risen it, but
the Ten-Forty have fallen /-. Erie shares have receded
f; but Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Mort-
gage bonds, Illinois Central shares, and Virginia bonds
have been dealt in at an advance of /.
British Mining shares have been depressed. A further
reduction of / has taken place in Assheton, and Van
shares have been 1 lower. In colonial and foreign mines
Pacific have been rather weaker.

For Bank shares the demand has been inactive, ana
prices have been without quotable change.
Telegraph shares have been dull, at a general decline.
Great Northern, China, and Japan Extension have fallen
; Anglo-Mediterranean, British-Australian, British-
Indian Extension, British-Indian Submarine, and China
Submarine ; and Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta, and
French Cable shares *.
The Money market has been rather quieter. The de-
mand for accommodation has been less active ; but three
months' paper has not been taken under 3 per cent,
There have been no bullion operations at the Bank
to-day.

£41,000 has arrived from Auckland, in gold.

The report of the Canada Company states that the
amount of dividend paid to the shareholders in 1869 was
£2 10s. per share, and a further sum of £2 was returned
to the proprietors in repayment of capital. The sale of
land did not equal that of the previous year. The average
price obtained, however, was ss. sd. per acre higher than
in 1868. In order to check the accumulation of arrears of
rent, all leases under which no payment of rent has been
made by the tenants for many years have been cancilled,
and the company have thus resumed possession of 49,069
acres.

The directors of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia,
and China recommend a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent,
per annum.

The rumour that the old-established firm of Cotterill
and Sons, of Throgmorton-street, was in difficulties, has
been confirmed. The senior pattner, Mr. William Cot-
terill, who is underliabilities for from £lOO,OOO to £120,000,
disappeared about a fortnight since. A judge's order at.
tachment to the amount of £14,500 has been issued.