The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-24 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY.

A fair amount of animation has been noticed in the
Stock Exchange to-day. In the market for railway
stocks realisations have slightly weakened prices,
but foreign bonds have tended upwards in value.
Consols have been firm at a further advance
of * per cent. For money the quotation has been
93k, to 95k, and for the April account, 93} to 93g.
Reduced and New Three per Cents., 91 to 91i ex div.
Indian Five per Cents have been done at 112} to 113 ; and
Indian Bonds, 20s. to 255. prem. ; Exchequer Bills par to
4s. prem.
In the market for English railway stocks the business
doing has been only moderate, and the fluctuations,
though by no means important, have been mostly un-
favourable. Great Western has risen f, but Caledonian,
South Eastern, and Midland have fallen f, and London
and Brighton and London and North-Western *.
Indian stocks have been very quiet, and there has been
very little inquiry for Canadian shares. Foreign shares
have been dull. Great Luxembourg have fallen f
Foreign bonds have been in request. There has been a,
continuance of purchases, at further advanced quotations.
Argentine (1868), Brazilian (1865), Mexican, New
Granada, Spanish, and Turkish (1869), have advanced
per cent.

American securities have been quiet. The Five-Twenty
and (1882) bonds have fallen I ; ditto, (1885), it; Ten-Forty,
i; Virginia bonds, 21; Atlantic bonds, i; Erie shares, i;
and Illinois Central,
British mining shares have changed hands slowly. Van
have fallen Colonial and foreign mines have been flat.
Bank shares have been in limited request at previous
quotations.

The market for telegraph shares has been quiet, and
prices have been without important change.
Hooper's Telegraph Works have been firmer at 2 to
dis. Telegraph Construction and Maintenance have been
lower at 37 to 37k.
Very few changes have taken place in the prices of
miscellaneous securities, the demand for which has been
inactive.

The money market has continued very firm. The de-
mand for accommodation has been active, and the rate for
negotiating three months' paper has been firm, at 3 per
cent.

No bullion operations have been reported at the Bank
to-day.
A telegram, dated Sydney, Feb. 28th, states that the
Aberdeen clipper Patriarch arrived out in 67 days
from England. This is the fastest passage on record.
The report of the Don Pedro Mining Company (Limited)
to be presented on the 30th instant shows that the gold
raised during the year has amounted to 201,581 octavas,
or 23,242 ounces troy, and has realised the sum of £87,999.
The cost for the same period has been £33,542, the profit
on the year's operations being £55,428. The dividends
declared for the quarters ending March, June, and
September have absorbed £38,921, leaving, with the
amount brought forward from 1868, an available balance
of £17,710. This sum the directors propose to deal with
as follows :-21,549 to the payment of a dividend of 4s.
per share free of income tax, making, with the dividends
already paid, a return of 4s. per share, or 100 per cent on
the capital of the company, £l,OOO to the reserve fund,
making the balance at the credit of that account £B,OOO ;
the sum of £1,161 being caned forward to the current
year.

The liquidators of the Imperial Land Company of Mar-
seines have issued a report, shewing that the claims
against the company, subject to reductions, stand at
£1,251,389, while the assets are estimated at £1,391,075,
including a claim against the Credit Foncier of England,
the successor and assignee of the Credit Foncier and
Mobilier of England, of £1,026,000. The liquidators re-
mark that they do not despair of making the shareholders
a considerable return of the moneys paid.
At Mark-lane to-day wheat was quiet, on former terms.
The report of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation presented at Hong Kong on the 3rd of Feb-
ruary, shewed that there was an available total of 356,280
dollars. A dividend at the rate of six per cent. was de-
clared absorbing 210,000 dollars; 100,000 dollars were
placed to the reserve fund, and 46,280 dollars to profit and
loss account.

The traffic returhs of the Midland Railway for the
week ending March 20 present a total of £67,626, being
an increase of £5,750 over that of the corresponding week
of 1869. •