The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-19 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS -YESTERDAY.

Uri the whole the tone of the Stock Exchange markets
has been quiet to-day, and a weakness has frequently
been manifested in the value of some securities. Consols,
however, influenced by the favourable nature of the bank
return, and of the. further large increase in the stock of
bullion in the Bank of France, have been steady at all
advance of 93. For. money the quotation has been 921 to
93, and 93 to 931 for the April account. Reduced and
New Three per Cents., 91a to 911 exd. India Five per
Cents, hauc been done at 1121 to 1131, and India Bonds
at 20s. to 235. prem. Exchequer Bills par., 4s. prem.
For English railway stocks there has been only a mode-
rate demand. Metropolitan have been flat, and have re-
ceded to the extent of g. A weakness has also been
noticed in Midland, transactions having been effected at a
fall of Caledonian has receded 1. On the other hand,
London and North-Western and Great Western, with n
moderate inquiry, have risen 1.
Very few transactions have taken place in Indian Rail-
way Stocks. and prices have been unaltered. No quotable
change has taken place in the value of Canadian Shares,
but with a slow sale the tendency has been unfavourable.
In Foreign Shares a moderate business has been con-
cfuded at about .previous quotations.
British mines have been depressed, and prices have
ruled easier. Assheton have fallen and Tan-yr-Alt to
a similar extent. In colonial and foreign shares very little
business has been doing.

There has been an improved demand for joint-stocA
bank shares, and prices have ruled firm. City have
risen
In reference to the state of the bullion market, Messrs.
Pixley, Abell, Langley, and Blake remark : " The trans-
actions in gold have been very small during the week.
There is no demand whatever for the continent, and of the
limited amounts to hand it is expected the greater part
will be sent into the Bank. An amount of United States
gold coin has been purchased for transmission to New York.
The arrivals of silver comprise £64,000 by the West India
steamer, £9,800 by the Union, from New York, and
£2,080 from Alexandria. With the exception of £5,000,
per Neva, to the West Indies, and £15,000 to Bombay,
the demand has been ehiefly for the Continent, although
owing to the rise in the Exchanges, the price is not quite
so firm. Mexican dollars : The French steamer has
brought £B,OOO on French, and £5,000 on English account ;
these amounts have been taken for China, and the price
remains of last quoted, 59id. per ounce.
A fair amount of firmness has been noticed in the
market for Foreign Bonds, notwithstanding that pur-
chases have not been extensive. Italian 1801 have risen
and a further advance of * has taken place in Spanish.
1867. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1865, have risen per cent.,
but Egyptian 1868, on realisations, have fallen
per cent.

American securities have been quiet. The Five-Twenty
bonds have fallen and Erie shares
The sum of £ll,OOO has been sent to the bank to-day.
The money market has been rather easier, and three
months paper has been taken in the general market, at 2,1
to 3 per cent.
The Holmsdale, from Melbourne, has brought £lO,OOO.

As regards the exchanges, bills on Italy have continued
in demand, and the rates have been rather lower. Other-
wise no charsze has been noticed.
At Mark-lane to-day wheat was quiet but firm.

The stock Exchange Committee have appointed Tues-
day, the 22nd instant, special settling day in Hooper's
Telegraph Works Company's shares.
Telegraph Shares have been rather firmer. Anglo-
American have advanced Anglo-Mediterranean, /, and
British Indian Submarine but French Cables have
fallen /.

Telegraph Construction shares have further relapsed
Hooper's and Silver's India Rubber have been without
change.
For Miscellaneous Securities the demand has been
fimited, at about previous quotations.

The Governor of the Bank of England announced, IA
the General Court of Proprietors yesterday, that the
directors had resolved to disuse the trade report of assays
of bar gold, expressed in carats, grains, and eighths of
grains, and to adopt a quotation expressed in thousandths
and thirds of thousandths. The effect of this resplution
will be that the pureness of gold bars sent into the Bank
will be calculated to.l-3,000th part, instead of 1-76Sth part,
as heretofore. It h understood that this new system will
come into operation so soon as the standard tables which
are in the printers' hands shall be ready to be issues.

We are informed by Messrs. Mosses and Mitchell, the
transit agents for the Suez Canal Company, that direct
steam communication between Holland and her Eastern
dependencies (Java, Sumatra, Lunda Islands, &3.), via
the Suez Canal, is bring organised at Amsterdam, under
the honorary presidency of Prince Henry of the Nether-
lands, brother to the King of Holland.
The suspension is announced of Messrs. Joseph and
Edward Laiisden, anchor manufacturers, shipbuilders
and shipowners, of Monkwearmouth. The liabilities ars
estimated at about £26,000.

A prospectus has appeared of the Tavarone Mining Com-
pany (Limited) with a capital of £50,000, in £5 shares, to
work some copper Mines about 30 miles from Genoa, to be
purchased for £16,000 in shares and 22,00 in cash.
The report of the Rio de Janeiro City Improvement
Company (Limited), to be presented on the 30th inst.,
recommends a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum, which will absorb £21,250, and leave £7,377 to be
carried fcrward.

The Great Western Railway Company have audited
applications for the company's debenture stock to be
created in substitution for the terminable debenture
debt. It will be issued at par, bearing interest at the
rate of 4i per cent per annum, or at 5 per cent. premium,
bearing interest at the rate rate of 411 per cent. per
annum.