The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-22 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YEOTERDAy.

A steady feeling has prevailed in the Stock markets to-
day, owing to the belief that the mission of M. Jules
Favre has not been made without some definite object, or
without an understanding of some sort between the two
Governments. The transactions, however, have not been
numerous or extensive, though the.gndency of prices has
been favourable. The most prominent feature is th
great rise which has taken place- in Italian stock, on the
announcement that the Italian troops had entered Rome
without bloodshed. Consols closed steadily at 921, 92a
for money, and 92R for the account ; Reduced and New
Three per Cents. were 91, 91i ; Indian Five per Cents.
1094, 110 ; Indian-Bonds 15s. to-305.-preen. ; and Exche-
quer Bills 3s. to Bs. prem.
• 'Colonial Government Securities have been in fair re-
quest at unaltered quotations.
Erie Railway Shares left off at 174,15, and Illinois
Central at 1081, 1094.
• Home Railway Stocks generally have continued firm,
but without important change in prices. Great Northern
Stock has declined 4; but London and Brighton, Midland,
and North Eastern Consols have improved per cent. ;
MetroPolitan closed at 644 to 65 ; and South Eastern at
.73 to 74.
Foreign, Railways have been without animation,
-French lines having been altogether neglected ; Antwerp
-and Rotterdam have sold at 11; Dutch Rhenish, 234 ;
:Lemberg Czernowitz, 164; Reoife and San Fancisco, 16i ;
-Sambre and Meuse, 7 1-16; Lombardo-Venetian closed
at 15 to 14.
The feature in the market has been the demand for
:Foreign Government Securities, which have sheen con-
siderable buoyancy as to prices. Nearly all the move-
ments have been in an upward direction, Italian having
:risen 4, or to 534, 53g. Egyptian are better, at 76g, 77/ ;
,Spanish 1, at 281, 284 ; Turkish (1865), 4, at 53*,
lave-Twenty Bonds closed at 90-1-, 904 ; and Ten Forty
-Bonds at 85, 85*.
Joint Stock Bank shares have ruled quiet, prices re-
maining unaltered from those last current. Alliance have
sold at la Imperial Ottoman 12124, London Joint Stock
-334 33, Union of London 374.

.Only amoderate business has been transacted in Tele-
graph 'Companies' 'shares. Anglo-Mediterranean closed
at 14, British Indian Submarine at 7i, Falmouth and
_Gibraltar 10, and West India and Panama s*.
In British Mines there has been very little doing, but
the valties are withoUt quotable variation. Assheton have
sold at 6 ;'and.Tau-yr-Alt, at 2* to 2i.
HudsUn's Bay Shares have been in some demand at
.sto aely rates. The last price was 81 to 9-1 ; India Rubber
and Gutta Percha closed at 3n ; TelegTaph Construction,
at 26i to 26-i ; and Hooper's Telegraph, at 21 to 2 dis-
count.

There have been no bullion transactions at the Bank of
England to-day.
The Agamenimon has left for the River Plate with
£4.000 in specie, while the Benin has brought about
£4;000 from the West Coitst of Africa. •
The. periodical sale of bills on India was held at the
Bank of England ' to-day. ' The amount allotted was
£400,04, of which £293,000 was to Calcutta, £lOO,OOO to
Bombay, and £6,800 to Madras. The minimum was
fixed at is. 11d. Tenders on Calcutta and Madras at
ls. 10 d., will receive 33 per cent., and Bombay at that
price about percent.

The report of the directors of the North British Rail-
way Company has been published, shewing that the
' actual outlay capital account for the half-year was
£131,941 12s. 6d. against an estimated expenditure of
£157180 Os:. 10d. 1 This includes*-253,310 13:* 6d.- charged
Ito the coal bridge separate undertaking. The estimate of
the current half year is
t 2. 152,454 3s. 9d. The net revenue
.aVailable for dividend amounts to £156,424'15A: DA.," out
.of which the direCtors recompaend the distribution of diVi-
;dends in the various stocks amountingito.Cls6,622,:ls:.lld.,
leaving £152 9s. 7d. to be , curie. 4 forward. q'he
report is not,altogether satisfactory, owing to the incom-
plete means available to the company for accommodating
a large section of the competitive traffic, as well as to the
obstructive position assumed by the Caledonian Company.
"Negotiations have been opened between the two Boards
for the purpose of assigning to each company fixed pro•
portions of revenue for passenger traffic between Glasgow
and the north, thus avoiding unnecessary expense ; but nci
agreement has yet been arrived at.
The directors of the North British Railway Company
Are prepared to receive applications for the issue at par of
the company's first-class debenture stock, in amounts of
£5O and upwards, to replace debentures falling due. The
stock will be registered in the name of the applicant free
of expense, and will bear interest at 4i per cent. per
-annum from the date the money is paid to the company's
,bankers; and be payable half-yearly, on May 15th and
November 11th, in London, Edinburgh, or Glasgow.
An adjourned meeting of the creditors of the joint
estate of Messrs. James Threlfall and Son, cotton-spinners
and manufacturers, Shelley-road Mill, Preston, was held
on Monday afternoon, at the offices of Messrs:
Harwood, Banner, and Son, 24, North John-streeti
...Liverpool, in accordance with the provisions of the Bank-
•ruptcy. Act of 1869. It was resolved that their affairs be
- liquidated by arrangement, instead of in bankruptcy.
Mr. Banner was appointed trustee, and Mr. Johnston, of
Liverpool, Mr. W. H. Hincksman, of Preston, and Mr.
• John Cryer, of Ashton-under-Lyne, were appointed a
committee of inspection. - The discharge of the debtors
was granted at' the meeting. The creditors on the sepa.
rate estates of the partners also met at the 'same place on
the same day? and a like result was arrived at with-respect
to the private estates:

The traffic rettkrn_of tha Midland Railway for the week
e'iding September 18th shews an increase of £5,321.; that
t of the North-Eastern line an increase of £10,549, and that
of the South-Eastern an increase of £153.

The report of the directors of the Monmouthshire
Railway Company spews an available total of £27,812,
out 'of which the directors recommend the payment -of a
dividend of 5 per cent: on the preference stock, and' f
• per cent. on the ordinary 'stock and shares=both less
income tax.

The report of the directors of the Phcenix Gaslight and
Coke Company states that the rental for the half-year
was but slightly in excess of the corresponding period of
last year, but, as the price of gas has been raised 3d,
_Pei-
foot, the result must be regarded as favourable. The net
amount.of profit was £42,134, which, added to the last
undivided balance, made an available total of. £59,2Z1.
The directors recommend a dividend on the £2O divided
shares at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, on the,neW
stock, at the rate of 7i per cent., on the capitalised stock
at 5 per cent., less income tax, leaving a balance of
22'3,271:
The meeting of the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway

Company has been held. -The accounts chewed a net
revenue of £3,712, out of which the directors record-
mended the payment of a dividend at the rate of 2 -per

cent. The connection with the North British and Glas-
gow City Union Systems being now about completed, an
influx of traffic was anticipated.
The. Bank of Winterthen have intimated to the holders
of their acceptances payable at Paris, that they are pre-
pared to pay at their office, on presentation at maturity,
all such acceptances as may become due during the siege
of the city.

The half-yearly report of the Crystal Palace District
Gas Company, to be.presented at the meeting called for
-the 29th instant, states the available balance at £6,354,
out of which a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent is
recommended, on the original capital, in addition to divi-
dends at the rate of 6 and 7 per cent. on the pre-
ference, and ordinary 7 per cent. capitals, free of income-
tax.

The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the Glasgow and
South-Western Railway Company was held in Glasvw
yesterday, Mr. Alexander Ronaldson, Deputy Chafilman,
presiding, in the absence through indisposition of the
Chairman, Sir Andrew Orr. The report was adopted,
and a dividend declared of 54 per cent. per annum on the
ordinary and participating preference stocks of the/ com-
pany. A resolution was carried against the name of eachcandidate for the office of director, that the particulars of
his holding, both in ordinary and preference stock, be
given.

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