The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-04 00:00:00

MONETARY REP ORI S -YE STERDAY.

A quiet feeling has pervaded the Stock Exchange
markets. There has been a preponderance of sales over
purchases, and the quotations have ruled easier in wail ill'
stances. Consols have been flat and lower, at 931, 931
delivery and the present account. For June the quo
tion is 94, 943 ; Reduced and New Three per Cents, 92'k
925 ; Exchequer bills, par, ss. prem. ; India Five pe
Cents have been done at 1131, 114, and India Bonds Ve''
255. prem. ; bank stock, 233, 235.
The market for English railway stocks has been 1e"
pressed on the whole, and prices have given war, but
no case ha; the fall been an important one, with the e):*
ception of Caledonian, which has receded 1. MetropolitA
London and North-Western, and Great Western. hale

fallen /, but Great Northern A has risen I.
Indian railway stocks have been dealt in to a moderate
extent at steady currencies. Canadian shares have been
firm, and Great Western have risen ?3-. As regards forel
shares, Ottoman have been firm and better, but Sat
Anstrian and Lombardo-Venetian have fallen 1.
The traffic receipts of the Smyrna and Cassaba Rail
Company, for the week ending April 17, sheAv a total o
£1,405, against £2,050 for the corresponding period 13'4

year.
In the market for foreign bonds not much business
been transacted, and prices have shewn no materi,
change. Spanish (1869) have risen Turkish (1869),:-;
ditto 5 per Cents, ; and Italian (1861), ; but EgYPtl5
(1868) have fallen and New Granada
The new Japanese loan has fallen to 3i discount seller?.
/A. rican securities have been steady. The
rifle
nog
Tl,-;iity and Ten-Forty bonds have risen ;
Central shares and Detroit and Milwaukee
As regards British mining shares Tam-Yr-Alt 11
been firm, andl better. Colonial and Foreign mines lia`l°6

been without movement of importance.
Bank shares have been steady in value, with a mode's
business doing.
elegraph shares have been quiet, and Anglo-Auteri°l:
have been k easier. Telegraph ConstrUction shares 10-

fallen /.
Miscellaneous securities have been cautiously dealt ill'
at about previous quotations.
There have been no bullion operations at the Bank t°'
day.
The Shannon takes out £28,600 in specie, of Wll
£22,500 is silver, for the West Indies.
In the rates of exchange no materal change has takell
place.
The Manchester Courier notices the failure of lqesszl.rs
William Marshall and Company, cotton manufacture
of Todmorden. Liabilities £B,OOO to £lO,OOO. th
The traffic returns of the South-Eastern Railway for %el
past week amount to £27,266 10s. 7d., being an increase;
£2,341 na. sd. over the corresponding period of the Pr

vious year. sna
The weekly returns of the London, Brighton,
South-Coast Railway amount to £24,070, being an lac?'

of £1,301 over the previous year. Bat
A prospectus has appeared of the South-Eastern J.--ts
and Washhouies Company (Limited), with a caPital
£20,000 in £1 shares, to establish baths and washonse°
a plot of ground near New Peckham. the
In consequence of the approach of the fourth 0-whe
month the money market has been firmer to-day- J:he
demand for accommodation has been more active, and
general rate for negotiating three months' paper has 1):00-
three per cent., only occasional transactions taking

under that quotation.
American advices state that Secretary Boutwell
ordered the sale of 4,000,000 dols. in gold, and the P-ty,
chase of 6,000,000 dols. of bonds during the entre-

month.
At a meeting of the Anglo-American TelegraPli
pany, the directors' report was adopted, and a divider

ss. per share was declared. And
The report of the Vancouver Coal Mining and
Company (Limited) to be presented on the 10th WO—,
shews an available total of £6,529, and recommend%
dividend at the i ate of 15 per cent. per annum, the 13%;
ment of which will absorb £6,195, and leave a balance
-
£334.
The report of the United Mexican Mining
(Limited) to be presented on the 4th inst., shews that
profit on the old workingshas amounted to $16,805, s'inhco
has been employed in partly meeting the expenses on
new workinm