The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-01 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS—Yesterday.

The attention of the Bank has been almost entirely
absorbed by the settlement, and apart from transactions
necessary for this purpose, the business doing has been
only moderate. Consols have been quiet, at 921 to 924 for
money, and 924 to 921 for March. Reduced and New
Three per Cents., 921 to 92g. Bank Stock has marked
241 to 242. Indian Five per Cents. have been done at
1114 to 112, and Indian Bonds at 20s. to 255. prem. Ex'
chequer Bills, March, 2s. dis. to 3s. prem., and June 2s•
this to 3s. prem.
The market for English railway stocks has been dull,
and the movements have mostly been unfavourable.
Metropolitan opened at 79, and subsequently improved to,
79, but Great Northern A has fallen ; London all"
North-Western ; and Great Western, t.
Indian Railway stocks have changed hands quietly. but
at, full prices. Canadiar4res have been firm, and Grand
Trunk have risen 4, Great Western at the same time
p )rting late quotations. Foreign shares have been steady'
but the demand has not been active.

There have been no bullion operations at the Bank to•

day.
The Westphalia. from New York, has brought 217,70°,
and the Neva, from the West Indies, £192,000.
Bank shares have been quiet, and without movement of
importance.
Telegraph shares have been fiat. Anglo-Meditteranesn
have fallen 4 ; British India Submarine 4 ; and French
c Ible shares 4.
India Rubber shares have been firm and 2 better. Tele-
graph Construction have been steady, but Hooper's have
been fiat and lower.
Miscellaneous securities have been in limited request,
b it prices have been supported.
Foreign bonds have been in good request in connection
with the settlement, and all the movements have been 01
a favourable character. Argentine, at 87, 874, have ad'
vanced 2; Brazilian (1860), at 89, 90; and Chili= (1867)'
at 974, 984, each shew a rise of 4. Egyptian (1868), at 79;
791; New Granada, at 224, 23 ; and Peruvian (1863), ll'
80,811, has improved
Five-Twenty Bonds have about touched par ; the 1883
and 1883 Bonds, at 904, 9w, and Bn, 90, having risen i
and respectively ; 1887 Bonds, at 88k, 884, shew
rise of 4.
Russian scrip left off at 3 5-16th, 3 7-16th; and Chiliau
scrip at -34th, 1 prem.
There has been a continuance of firmness in the money
market to-day, The demand for accommodation has not
been active, but capital has been scarce, andthree months'
paper has been charged 3 per cent.
At a meeting of the London Tavern Company (Limited)
it was shewn that there was an available balance of 4,543'
A. dividend at the rate of 24 per cent. per annum was de"
Glared, absorbing £1,500
At the sixteenth half-yearly meeting of the shareholder.
of the Cowbridge Railway Company, at Bridgend, 11-*
J. N. Carne, D.C.L., presided. The only feature
of interest in the directors' report was a proposition
to transfer the working of the line from the Taff
Company to their own hands. The chairman said le
would be necessary to hold a special meeting to explan
fully the scheme, which was simply to create prefe"
rential shares, and ask the creditors of the comp 01
to become shareholders, which would enable them to Pa
all outstanding liabilities. Mr. Gudym Williams and
Mr. Thomas Greatorex, retiring directors, were re-elected'
Some heavy additions may now be expected to the stoeU
of bullion in the Bank of England, inasmuch as the export
inquiry continues extremely limited, whilst the arrives
daring the past few days have amounted in the agg,TeGatt
to about £600,000.
At a meeting of the Trent, Ancholme, and Grinlebi
Railway Company, out of an available balance of £1,6714
a dividend of £1 3s. 4d. was declared.
A meeting has been held of the South Yorkshire
way Company, and a dividend at t:,:a rate of 5 per cent'
per annum has been declared.
Without exception the accounts from the ag,ricultural
tricts bear favourable allusion to the condition of the whelP
plant. The late frost imposed an efficient check uPeli
its too rapid growth, an evil which caused such sad (le;
terioration in the quality and yield of last year's crop, 012:
the plant is now by no means unseasonably forward. i"
Mark-lane to-day, owing to the paucity of samples, the
wheat trade was firm but not active, at the prices
Monday last.
The traffic returns of the Demerara Railway for the
fortnight ending January 22nd, present a total of 2,069,
dollars, being a decrease of 3,004 dollars when compared
with the corresponding period of 1869.
The traffic returns of the London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway for the week ending February 28, shevi °
total of £16,690, being a decrease of £1,927, when COI.
pared with the same week of 1869.