The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-05 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY.

, Rather less steadiness has been noticed in the Stock
exchange to-day Realisations of profits have succeeded
the late advance, and weakness has in consequence been
imparted to prices. Railways have given way in value,
but foreign bonds, with the exception of Spanish, have
been firm, and in some instances, higher in value. Con-
sols have fallen per cent, being quoted at 92k, 93, for
delivery and the account. Reduced and New Three Per
Cents, 94 910 ; Bank Stock, 231, 233 ; Exchequer
Bills, Bs. to 12s. prem. ; India Five per Cents have been
done at 1121 to 113 ; and India Bonds, 18s. to 235. prem.
Colonial Government securities have sold quietly, but at
full prices.
The market for English railway stocks has been in a
quiet state. Metropolitan, Caledonian, and Brighton have
fallen and Great Eastern is i easier. Metropolitan,
63, 63i ; Caledonian, 76i, 762 ; Brighton, 42k, 42f ; South=
Eastern, 75i, 76i ; Great Northern A 135 f, 1361 ; Great
Eastern, 39k, 39! ; Midland, 1278, 127fi ; North-Western,
128, 1281 ; Great Western, 711, 711 ; and North-Eastern,
1441, 1142.
Indian Railway Stocks have changed hands quietly.
Carnatic, 1041; East Indian, 110fi : Great Indian Penin-
sula, 107 ; Oude and Rohilkund, 1031 ; and Scinde, 1041.
Canadian Shares have commanded but little attention.
Foreign Shares have been steady ; Great Luxembourg
have risen 1, and Lombards 1 ; the former being quoted
at 121 to 121, and the latter at 14k to 141. Recife and
San Francisco, 151; and San Paulo, 20k.
As rega-ds Foreign Bonds, Spanish have been rather
easier, on realisations induced by the opposition offered
by some members of the Cartes to the election of the
Duke of Aosta. Prices have fallen g, the 1867 being
quoted at 31k to 321 ; and the 1869 at 31k,
31k Turkish have been firm. The Five per
Cents, have risen I, or to 48, 481 ; and the Six per Cents.
of (1869) have been better, at 55 to 55/ ; Egyptian
(1868) at 791 to 791, shew a rise of 1 ; Peruvian (1865)
are quoted at 91 to 911; Italian (1861) 501 to 501; United
States 5-20 (1882) Bonds, 891 to 894 ; ditto (1885) 881
to 88fi ; Erie Shares, 18-1. to 191; and Illinois Central
Shares, 110 to 111.
The French Loan has fluctuated to some extent. At
one time it touched 31, but eventually fell to 3, sellers.
Bank shares have beeil firm, but not active. Anglo-
Egyptian, 241, ; Imperial Ottoman, 21, prem. London
and Westminster, 631; and Union of London, 381, 1.
For telegraph shares there has been more inquiry,
Anglo-Mediterranean, 13k, k ; British Indian Extension,
61, k ; British Indian, Submarine, 71, 1 ; Falmouth,
10k to 10k. French Cables, 14 to 141, and West India
and Panama, 51 to 51 ; Hooper's Telegraph Works, 51
to 5k ; Silver's India Rubber, 381 ; and Telegraph Con-
struction, 271.
Miscellaneous securities have been dealt in cautiously.
Crtsdit Foncier of England, 2/ to 21. General Credit and
Discount, 71; National Discount, 11fi.
The Liveipool Journal of Commerce announces the
failure of Messrs. Houghton and Co., cotton brokers, of
Rumford-street, with liabilities for £23,442, and assets for
£1,842. Also of Messrs Tasso Irmaos, and Co., general
merchants, and Mr. F. D. Battu, in the sugar trade, of
Pernambuco. The liabilities in the former case are
£140,000, and in the latter £42,000.
The failure is announced of Messrs. Garrett, Clark and
Company of New York, with heavy liabilities, £60,000 of
which fall on Bradford.

Silver has been firm at 63d. per ounce.
The sum of £105,000 has been sent into the bank
to-day, and £13,000 in sovereigns withdrawn for Alex-
andria.

There has again been a good demand for bills on
Vienna, but rates of exchange have shewn no material
attraction.

At Mark-lane to-day, wheat was quiet on former terms.
Money has been rather more freely offered to-day, and
three months' bills have been more readily taken at 2 per
cent. Notwithstanding that the supply of paper does not
increase to any material extent, a tendency to firmness
may be looked for, inasmuch as our resources' will in all
probability be shortly taxed by the introduction of fresh
loans.

The steamers which left New York on the 2nd instant
took out £20,000 in specie for Europe.
Messrs. Pixley, Abell, Langley, and Blake, in their
report on the state of the bullion market, say " gold con-*
times to be sent into the bank, as there is at present no
demand whatever for export."
The Anglo-Mediterranean Telegraph Company (Limited)
have declared an interim dividend of 4s. per share on the
original share of the company, and is. 7d. per share on
the new shares, free of income tax, being at the rate of 8
per cent. per annum for the quarter ended October 30.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.—Antwerp, three months' date,
25 37k, 25 42i ; Paris, short date, ; ditto, three
months' date, 25 60, 25 80; Marseilles, ditto, 25 40, 25 60;
Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, and Palermo, ditto, 26 67i,
26 72i ; Amsterdam, short date, 11 17i, 11 184 ; ditto,
three months' date, and Rotterdam, ditto, 12, 12i ;
Hamburg, ditto, 13101, 13101 ; Frankfort-on-the-Maine,
ditto, 120, 1201 ; Vienna and Trieste,ditto, 12 40, 12 45 ;
St. Petersburgh, ditto, 30, 301 ; Madrid, ditto, 49 ;
Cadiz, ditto, 491, 498 ; Lisbon, 90 days' date, and
Oporto, ditto, 521, 52k.