The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-31 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY.

In the Mock Exchange to-day the business doing has
been only moderate, and realisations have weakened prices
to some extent. Consols have been fiat, and fractionally
easier, at 9n, 931 for money and the account ; Reduced
and New Three per Cents, 91, 92 ; Exchequer Bills, par
to 4s. prem. India Five per Cents. have been done at
113, 1131; and India Bonds, 20s. to 255. prem.
Business in the market for English railway stocks has
been only moderate, but prices have ruled firm. Tho
principal transactions have been in Metropolitan, which
has been dealt in as high as 782., but a decline to 771 sub-
sequently took place. Metropolitan District after touching
40,1-, have since receded to 391,.391. Caledonian has been
firm. Lancashire and Yorkshire has risen and North-
Eastern 1.
Indian railway stocks have been quiet. For Canadian
shares the demand has been inactive, at about previous
quotations. Foreign shares have been dull, and without

change.
American securities have been firm. The Five-Twenty
Bonds have risen but Illinois Central shares have
fallen 1.
Mining shares have been quiet, and without important

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change.
For Bank shares the demand has been inactive, at the
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rates previously current.

Telegraph shares have been dull and easier. Anglo-
Alediterranean have fallen British Indian Extension
and Reuter's

Construction and India-rubber shares have been firm:

value, with a moderate demand.
Owing to the close of the quarter there has been a con-
tinuance of activity in the demand for money. So soon,
however, as the engagements in connection with the 4th
have been met, a return of ease may be expected, espe-

cially as the payment of the dividend on the 6th will con-
siderably increase 'the supply of capital. To-day three
months' paper has been charged 3 per cent.
The sum of £46,000 has been sent into the Bank to-day.

At Mark-lane to-day wheat has been quiet, but firm.

The rumour that the Franco-Egyptian Telegraph Com-
pany is about to be withdrawn is utterly without founda-
tion.
The directors of the Great Northern Railway Company
invite tenders for £92,055 new ordinary stock, being the
balance of the total created by the resolutions of the
meeting on February 20, 1869. '
The Board of Trade tables for the month of February
are decidedly. favourable. Compared with the previous
month, the exports of British and Irish products and
manufactures shew an increase of upwards of £970,000;
whilst the total shipments in the two months exceed those
of the corresponding period last year by about £1,200,000.
During the month of February they amounted to
£14,455,379, against £13,485,026 in 1869, and
£14,340,979 in 1868. In the two months they
reached a total of £28,378,564, against £27,106,140 in
1869, and £26,593,667 in the previous year. The imports
during the month of January amounted to £14,254,764,
against £11,493,405 in 1869, and 29,489,492 in the previous
year.

A prospectus has appeared of the Netherlands Steamship
Company, with a capital of 6,000,000f1., of which
3,500,000f1. will be first issued in shares of 1,0001 each,
for performing the steam service between the Netherlands
and their East Indian Colonies, through the Suez Canal,
under contract with the Dutch Government.
At a meeting of the Home and Colonial Marine In-
surance Company, a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum was declared.

A meeting has been held of the Rio de Janeiro City
Improvements Company, and 'a dividend at the rate of 5
per cent. per annum has been declared.
A telegram received from San Francisco states that the
Eclipse Gold Mining Company has been transferred.
The traffic returns of the North-Eastern Railway for
the week ending March 26 are £82,666, being an in-
crease of £4,545 over last year. Those of the Midland are
£68,912, being an increase of £2,023.
At a meeting of the British Gas Light Company, a divi-
dend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was
declared.
Another small failure has been announeed in the Stock
Exchange to-day.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Railway
Company, held to-day, at Glasgow, the report was
adopted. The Chairman threw the blame of the dissolu-
tion of the joint-purse agreement on the North British
Railway Company. He attempted to shew that had
that agreement been carried out, it would have been
mutually beneficial. The present competition for the
northern traffic would have been prevented. He held
that the Caledonian Company, owning the greatest por-
tion of the line, were justified in. the present procedure.
A resolution proposed by Mr. 'William Robertson,
limiting the voting of guaranteed and preference share-
holders to such bills as affect their interests, was lost, as
was also the proposition that ordinary shareholders alone
have_pow,er to create new stock.