The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-28 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS—Yesterday.

tienerally speaking the Stock Exchange markets have
been steady to-day, although apart from the transaction
necessary for an adjustment of the fortnightly account,
the business doing has not been extensive. Both foreign

bonds and railway stocks have participated in the pre
vailing steadiness, and with but few exceptions, the rove
ments in prices have been favourable. Consols, however'
have been flat at 92 to 92 for money and the gareh
account. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 92k, 93.
Exchequer Bills, 2s. dis. to 3s. prem. ; India Five per
Cents. have been done at 1111, 112 ; and India Bonds, 31
20s. to 255. prem.
For English railway stocks there has been a healthy
inquiry, and an almost general advance has taken Pige
in prices. The principal movement has been in Great
Northern A, which has risen 1. The other alterations
have comprised an improvement of in Great Northern'
Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, London an',
North-Western, Midland, and North-Eastern (Berwick
and Leeds), and of in Caledonian.
Indian stocks have been dealt in more freely, at stead,'
currencies. Canadian shares have been firm, and Gre3t.
Western have risen *. Foreign shares have been fin'
in value and inquiry.
There has been a fair amount of animation in the rig;
kit for foreign bonds. Mexican have been steady, 3 3CI
per cent. better. Russia Nicolas Railway Bonds, ap well
t
as Spanish 1867 and 1869, I..vve commanded a fair ;On°
of attention, and have risen per cent. Turkish 6 Per
Cents, on the other hand have relapsed per cent.
The Russian loan is quoted at 3 to 31 prem.
American securities have been rather quieter to-ay`
and the Five-Twenties Bonds have fallen per cent.
Joint Stock Bank shares have been dealt in to a
extent, and prices have been without any material change"
As regards Telegraph shares, British Indian. Subruarinda
and Falmouth, Gibraltar and Malta have been flat, D'e
have fallen and respectively, but Frencl-Cable 00141
have risen *, and West India and Panama
Telegraph Construction and India Rubher shares ha"
been quiet, and without movement of impol'tanc6
Hooper's Telegraph Works have been flat at prat,
There has been a fair, but not to say active, demand'-
money to-day, both at the Bank of England, and in Leliv
bard-street. The supply of capital has been limited's
and the rate fer three month's paper hawsbeen firm *i,
per cent.
No bullion operations have been rowslitsd at the J 32.11
to-day.
The City of Buenos Ayres, from South America llsg
brought £3,000.
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The Martinique has arrived at St. Nazaire from

West Indies, with £22,400 on English account. s
The Poonah, from the West Indies, has talon °ll

£10,500 in specie for Bombay.
It has been announced that the interest on the Marc)
Exchequer Bills will be at the rate of 2 per cent. ,At
The proceeds of the proposed new Paris loan
£10,000,000, to which we have already alluded, will,
understand, be employed in the winding up the affaire.„‘
the Caisse des Travaux (a sort of bank established by
Haussmann for raising money), in paying deficits, sad:
finishing certain new streets, boulevards, and other w°P.--
Vienna advices state that the early issue of a
garian lottery loan of thirty million florins, in tickets of
100 florins each, is reported..
A prospectus has appeared of the Cefn Consols Lead
Mining Company (Limited), with a capital of £3O,OO°P.
shares of £5, to work a lead mine in the county of Dezv
high, three miles from St. Asaph.
At a meeting of the Equity and Law Life AssurOede
Society, the new premiums for the past year were state
at £13,926, and the total assets at £736,615. AA
At the meeting of the National Life Assurance, 'Pt;
premiums on new policies issued in 1869 were stated
amount to £6.491.