The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-14 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS-SATURDAY.

In the Stock Exchange markets to-day there has been
An absence of any prominent feature. The tendency has
been mostly favourable, although, with the exception of a
fair amount of activity in Railway Stocks and
Telegraph Shares, the business doing has been
by no means extensive. Consols, owing to the
probability of cheaper money, have been firm, at yester-
day's improved quotations, viz., 92a to 921 for money, and
92 to 92i for April. Reduced and New Three per Cents.
91a to 913 xd. Bank stock has marked 210 to 242. India
Five per Cents. have been done 1111 to 112, and Indl3'
Bonds at 20s. to 255. prem. Exchequer Bills, 2s. die. to
38. prem.
ConSiderable firmness has been- noticed in the market for
English railway stocks to-day, and prices have advanced
in most instances. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire has risen 1, and Great Northern A, Whiliit Great
Western, Metropolitan District, Midland, North Eastern,
Berwick and York, have advanced 1, and London and
Brighton, London and North-Western and Metropolitan'
I. The only adverse movement has been in South
Eastern Preferred, which has fallen
Indian Railway Stocks have been steady and unaltered..
Canadian shares have been flat, and realisations bac:
weakened prices, causing a fall of tin Grand Trunk, '1
of in Great Western. Foreign shares have been fro'
The only movement has been an advance of t in Bailin
and San Francisco.

There has been very little animation in the market for
foreign bonds, and thuquotations have been without bp'
portant movement. Danubian (1867) have risen 1, but
Chilian (1867) have fallen whilst New Grenada shew a
decline of

American securities have been quieter, and some
adverse movements have been noticed. The Five'
Twenties, 1882 and 1885 Bonds have fallen I
Virginia ; Erie / ; and Pennsylvania On the
other hand Atlantic and Great Western Consoli-
dated Mortgage Bonds have advanced and Illinois
Central and Marietta, and Cincinnati Bonds 1.
Miscellaneous securities have been in limited request,
but the quotations have.ruled firm. Bolckow, Vaughan,
and Canada Company have risen 1.
British mining shares have been in request, and an ad'
ranee of has been established in Assheton and Fan-Yr"
Alt, and of lin West Chiverton. In colonial and foreign
shares very few transactions have taken place. Paci°
have marked 100, 10i.
Bank shares have been quiet, but firm. London and
River Plate have improved 1, ditto New /, and London
Chartered of-Australia I.
Business in te:egraph shares has not been extensive, but
the tone of the market has been more active. Anglo-
- and Weat Indian and Panama have in"
proved I.

Hoopei's Telegraph Works shares have been in inn"
proved request, and have risen to dis. to if prem. Tele•
graph Construction shares have been firm, and better'
but Silver's Indiarubber have been unaltered.

The supply of capital in the discount market has been
more extensive. Both at the bank and in other quartet
the demand for accommodation has fallen off, but the rate
for negotiating three months' paper has been-unaltered at
23, 3 per cent.

The Nyanza has taken out £4,250 in specie for the Ems'
The prospectus has appeared of the Metropolitan Cab
Company, with a capital of £lOO,OOO.
At a meeting of the Lancashire Insurance Company'
Wa3 shown that the fire income for 1569, had been 2113,1114
the life income £49,310, and the interest on investment
had amounted to £16,075. The claims under fire peliciel
were £53,416, ,and under life, £19,569. The income
the proprietors' fund was reported at £28,126, out of which
a dividend of 10 per cent. had been paid. The 1"
Reserve funds were increased to £68,469, and the Life
Reserve to £181,382.
Theßailwag News computes that the traffic receipts of the
railways in the United Kingdom for the week ending the
11th of March, 1870, upon a mileage of 12,544, amount tn
£130,933, being equal to £5B ss. per mile. For the zerrfr
spending week of last year the receipts were £699,899, the
number of miles ()lien 12,335, or £56 15s. per mile. it cony
parison of the two weeks shews an increase in the salt"
gate receipts of £31,034, and in the number of Wile°
open of 209.