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

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MONETARY REPORTS.-SATURDAY.

In floe Stock Exchange to-clay a quiet feeling has been
noticed. For railway stocks there has been a healthy
inquiry, and a further rise has taken place in prices ; but
foreign bonds have been depressed. Consols have been
firm, but not active, at previous quotations, viz., 93a, 9312
far money and the 7th instant, and 931, 93g-- for the May
account. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 91i, 9?.
Exchequer Bills, par to 4s. prem ; India Five per Cent?,
113,1134; and India Bonds, 20s. to 25s..prem.
As yegards Colonial Government securities, the prin-
cipal transactions have been in New South Wales, but
prices have been without change.
In the market for English railway stocks there has-been
a continuance of firmnes), and an almost general
advance has taken place in prices. Great Eastern
. has risen ; Great Northern, •1 ; ditto A, 2 ; Great
Western, -1 London and Brighton, 2; Metropo-
litan, / ; Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 1 ;
North Staffordshire, 2 ; Shropshire Union, 1-; South-
Eastern, ; and ditto deferred, 1. For Indian stocks
there has been a moderate demand, at about previous quo-
tations. Canadian shares have been firm, and Great
Western have risen *. As regards foreign bonds, Dutch-
Rhenish have risen / ; but South Austrian and Lombardo-
Venetian have relapsed
In the market for foreign bonds very little business
has been doing. Egyptian have been flat and 12 per cent.
lower. Spanish have been without change, and Peruvian
have maintained previous quotations; but Turkish have
been rather weaker.

American securities have been quiet. The Five-Twenty
(1885 and 1887) Bonds have fallen and Erie shares
Bank shares have been in limited requegt, but prices
have ruled firm. Chartered of India, Australia, and
China have risen
Telegraph shares have been more freely dealt in, and
the movements have been favourable. Anglo-American
and Anglo-Mediterranean have advanced ; British Indian
Submarine, Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta, and French
Cable, West India and Panama shew a rise of
Telegraph Construction and Silver's Indiarubber
shares have been in request, and have risen 1. Hooper's
Telegraph Works have been firmer in sympathy, and have
been done at 1 to dis.
Business in miscellaneous securities has been only mode-
rate. Royal Mail Steam have receded 1.
Owing to the approach of the 4th of the month, there
has been good demand for money to-day. Money, how-
ever, has been plentiful, and three months' paper has been
negotiated at 2,1 to 3 per cent.
Paris sadvices state that at a meeting of the Suez Canal
Company the directors shewed that on the 31st of
December last, they had in, or coming in, from different
sources 20,000,000 francs, but that the expenses for the
present year for supplementary works to the canal and
-for the coupon of January will require 30,000,000 francs.
No dividend, therefore, will be paid in July.
The Bank of England have given notice that, on and
after. Wednesday, April 6, the standard weight of gold
will be computed on assays to 1-3000th part, expressed in,
thousandths and thirds of thousandths. _ _ _

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A prospectus has appeared of the General Marine
Insurance Company, with a capital of £200,000 in £lO

shares.
We (the Railway News) understand that the report of
the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, to be issued in the
course of next week, will recommend to the proprietors
the payment of a cash dividend on the First Preference
stock for the past half-year.