The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-22 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY.

The Stock Exchange has been characterised by much
quietness to-day. No news of importance has been re-
ceived from abro d, and to this circumstance is to
some extent attributed the prevalent inactivity.
In both Railways and Foreign Bonds the transactions
have been restricted, and the fluctuations have been
neither munerous nor important. Consols have
been flat at 92i to 92 for delivery and the
account. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 911 to 914.
Bank Stock, 232 to 231; Exchequer Bills, 6s. to 11s.
premium ; India Five per Cents. 1101 to 111, and India
Bonds 18s. to 235. premium ; Colonial Government
Securities have been flat, but without change.
In the market for English railway stocks the business
doing has been limited, and the fluctuations have been
trifling. Metropolitan at 64i. 654, and Great-Eastern at
38, 384, shew an advance of 4 and respectively, but
Great Northern A has been 4 lower, at 135, 1354 ; Cale-
donian, 76, 764 ; Brighton, 43, 434: South-Eastern, 75,
754 ; Midland, 127, 1274 ; North-Western, 129, 1294 ;
Great-Western, 702, 714 ; and North-Eastern, 1442, 1454.
In Indian railway stocks next to nothing has been
doing. Great Indian Peninsula 106, 4. Canadian shares
have been sold slowly. Grand Trunk of Canada 124, 2.
Foreign shares have been in limited request. Great
Luxemburg 114 ; Ottoman, 5 ; and Lombards, 144, E.
The foreign bond market has been depressed, and a
fractional decline has taken place in the value of the lead-
ing speculative stocks. Peruvian (1865) have fallen 4,
being quoted at 892, 904. Turkish Five per Cents have
been 4 lower, at 44, 444 ; ditto (1869), 4, at
51i, 514 ; Egyptian (1868), 4, at 774, 771;
and Mexican, 4, at 142, 15. Italian 1861),
are quoted at 554, 551 ; Spanish (1867), 294, 30 ; ditto
(1869), 294, 294. American securities have been quiet.
The Five-Twenty (1882) Bonds have been done at 894,
894 ; ditto (1885), 88L 88-4 ; Erie Shares, 184, 19 ; and
Illinois Central, 1094, 1104.
For Bank shares there has beenonly a moderate inquiry.
Agra A 82 ; Imperial Ottoman, 112, 4 ; London and
County 484 ; London and Westminster, 604.
In telegraph shares next to nothing has been doing.
Anglo-American, 854; British Indian Submarine, 8;
Falmouths, 10a, 4 ; Hooper's Telegraph, 41; and Con-
struction, 264.

Miscellaneous securities have commanded but little
attention. General Credit and Discount, 7 3-16ths ;
Nerbudda Coal and Iron, ; Royal Mail Steam, 54.
The subscription list of the Arivolo Mining Company
will be closed on Monday, the 24th inst., for London;
and on Tuesday, the 25th inst., for country applications.
The shares are quoted at 2 to 3 prem.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.—Antwerp, three months' date,
25 45 ; Paris, short date, ditto, three months' date,
nominal ; Marseilles, ditto, 25 50 ; Leghorn, Genoa,
Naples, and Palermo, ditto, 26 72i ; Amsterdam, short
date, 11 18 ; ditto, three months' date, and Rotterdam,
ditto, 12 oi ; Hamburg, ditto, 13 101 ; Frankfort-on-the-
Maine, ditto, 1201 ; Vienna and Trieste, ditto, 12 72i ;
St. Petersburgh, ditto, 29g ; Madrid, ditto, 481 ; Cadiz,
ditto, 49 ; Lisbon, 90 days' date, and Oporto, ditto, 52.
The discount market has been heavily supplied with
capital. The business doing in all quarters has been
limited in extent, and three months' paper has been taken
at 21f, 2i per cent.
Messrs. Pixley, Abell,. Langley and Blake thus report
on the state of the bullion market :—The arrivals of gold
have been comparatively small during the week, but there
is no demand whatever for export, and all amounts to
hand are sent into the Bank. About £98,000 has been
purchased since our circular of the 13th instant.
A prospectus has been issued of the Bellavistas Silver
Mining Company (Limited), with a capital of £30,000 in
shares of £l, to work some mines in the province of Caja-
tambo, in Peru.

The report of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, to
be presented on the 27th inst., shows an available balance
of only £8,639. The increase in the gross receipts as com-
pared with the corresponding half of 1869 has been
£29,946, and in the net receipts only £12,348, owing to
the competition carried on, the low prices of produce, and
the interruption to business from the Fenian invasion in
May and June.
A project is mooted for constructing what is called the
Great Western Maritime Ship Canal, across the counties
of Somerset and Devon. It is a scheme intended to
shorten the sea passage between the Bristol and English
Channels, found to be so irksome to the interests of com-
merce. The originator of the undertaking, which promises
to be well supported, is Mr. F.A. Owen. Mr. Owen pur-
poses to commence the canal at Combivitch, near the
mouth of the River Parret, on the Bristol Channel, and
proceed past Bridgwater, Taunton, and Exeter to Lang-
stone Point. At Exmouth Bight a spacious harbour will
probably be formed, which would be available as a har-
bour of refuge. The length of the canal is contemplated
to be fifty-nine miles.

LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE.-FRIDAY.

LATEST PRICES.—AFTER OFFICIAL HOURS.
The prices under the lines indicate the business done.

GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

Three per Cent Consols 921 921 Viet 55 c Jan & JulylB9l 10211031
921, 4 1031, 4
Do for Account
911 901
Three per Cent Reduced 911 914 Egyptian 1862, 7pa .. .. 81 83
92;, 1 Do Rail Doben 7 p .. 98 100
New 3 per Cent
911, 1 Italian, 1865, 5 p a
Exchequer Bills, March 6 11 pm 85
Is pm Peruvian. 1865, 5 p a
Do, June 6ll pm 904, 90 3
his pm Portuguese 1869 p c.. 291 305
Bank Stock - - 301, 1, 1
India 5 per Cents - - Russian, 1862, 5 p a.. .. 88 89
1101, 11. 101 881
- - Do Nicolas 4p c
India Bonds
pm 691, 1
Can 6pcJ au &Julyll77-81 10511061 Spanish. 1867. Spa
Do March & Sept. 103 105 291, 30, 291, 1
Do 5p c Jan & July .. 984 994 Do, 1869, 3p c
991, 8! 294. 1, , 1
Do Inscribed Stock . , 97 99 Turkish. 1851, 5p c
Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 96 93 82, 4, 1
Ceylon 6 p c May and Do, 1845. 5p a
November 1878 lO7 109 414, 4, 5. 34, 41
Mauritius Ip c Jan and Do, 1865 6p c
July 1873 lO3 105 634, 1, 4. 1
New El Wales 5 p clB7l-76 10111021 U.S. 5-20 Boutls,i p a 1832 834 834
New Zealand 6 p c 1891 lO7 109 895, 4, i x d
Do 5p a
Do 5p a Consolidated 98 99 831 x d
981. 1, 1 x d Do 10-40 Linda, spo 1901 861 87/
Do 6p c Mar &SeptlB9l 106 108 864, 71
Do JUlle & DeclB9l 108 110 Erie Sha, 100 dols, all paid - -
Viet Gp e Jan .& July 1891 113 115 Illinois Central Shares .. 1094111)3
DoApril &0ct,1883-85., 11041114 1101
1114, 11 Atlantic and G W It Con
Mortgage Bonds 291 301

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