The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-18 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY.

The stock markets to-day have been characterised by a
fair amount of steadiness, and the movements, generally,
have been favourable, notwithstanding that the business
doing has been limited. Both railway stocks and
foreign bonds have been steady at an occasional fractional
improvement. The consol market has been in a quiet
state, at 92k, 92a, for delivery, and 92 5.16, 92 7-16 for
the November account. Reduced and New Three-
per-cents, 91, 94 ; Bank stock, 232, 231; Exchequer
Bills, 65., lls. prem.; India Five per Cent., uoi, ;
and India Bonds, 18s., 235. 'prem. Colonial Government
Securities have been purchased quietly, but at full quota-
tions.

English railway stocks have been firm in value. Not-

withstanding that, the actual business concluded has been
very moderate. Caledonian stock has risen or to 761
to '761 ; Brighton, !!, or to 42/ to 43; Great Eastern, it,
or to 37a to 37i ; and North Eastern, or to 145} to
146. Metropolitan, however, has been I lower, at 1451
to 146. South Eastern has been quoted at 74 to 74i ;
Great Northern A., 134 to 1341 ; Midland, 127 to 1271;
North Western, 129 to 129} ; and Great Western, 711
to 71i.

In the market for Indian Railway Stocks the business
doing has been very moderate; East Indian Stock has
sold at 109,i, 110/, and Scinde 103.}. Canadian shares
have been flat; Great Western of Canada have fallen *,
or to 14*, 141. Foreign Shares have been quiet ; Great
Luxembourg, 112, and Lombards 141 *.
The foreign market has been steady. Not much busi-
ness has been transacted, but the quotations have ruled
firm. Italian (1861) have been it better at 28k, 282 ; ditto
(1869), 3.16, at 281, 28*; Turkish Five per
Cents., *, at 43j, 43} ; Peruvian (1865), 891,
90 ; Turkish (1869), 50-2 51; Mexican, 142,
15. American securities have been firm. The Five-
Twenty (1882) bonds are quoted at 89k, 89R ; ditto (1885),
881, 881 ; Illinois Central shares, 109*, 110*; Erie shares
have been higher, at 19, 19k.
The shares of the Arivaca Mining Company are quoted
at 2 to 4 prem.
The transactions in Bank shares have been on a limited
scale. Imperial Ottoman have been * better, at I*, 1,2

prem., Chartered of India, Australia, and China 132, and
London and Westminster 601.
Telegraph shares have been in moderate request. Anglo
Mediterranean, 14k ; ditto New, Si ; British Indian Sub-
marine, 8k ; Fahnouths, 102, k ; and West India and
Panama, 5-k. Telegraph Construction have been dealt in
at 26k, and Hooper's at 41.
For miscellaneous securities the demand has been
limited. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 13 ; Silver's Indiarubber,
38; International Financial, 3i, k ; and Royal Mail
Steam, 59-1.
The sum of £lO,OOO has been sent in to the Bank to-
day.

At Mark Lane to-day wheat was firm, and fully Is. per
quarter dearer.

There has been a good supply of money in the discount
market to-day. Business has been on a limited scale,
and three months' paper has been negotiated at 2i to 2;
per cent.

The steamers which left New York on the loth inst.,
took out £95,000 in specie for Europe.
The Scotia, from New York, has brought £40,518 in
specie ; and the Nevada, £10,400.

The following is an extract from the report of the
Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company
(Limited) :—The accounts for the six months ending 30th
June last have been duly audited, and, after deducting
interest on debentures, rebate and all charges, there
remains a net profit of £13,163183., including £331115. id.
from last year's account, from which the directors purpose
paying the usual interim dividend at the rate of 10 per
cent. per annum, £8,750, carrying forward the balance,
£4,413 18s., to the next half year's account.
At a meeting of the Belfast Banking Company, the net
profits for the year were stated to have amounted to
£46,978. A dividend of 20 per cent. on the old shares,
and of 8 per cent. on the new, was declared, in addition
to a bonus of £1 per share on the old, and Bs. on the new.
These payments will absorb £44,000. The profit and loss
account shews a balance of £68,929. The reserve fund
amounts to £250,000, in addition to the paid-up capital of
£250,000.

The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that among
the petitions lately lodged in the Bankruptcy Court for
liquidation by arrangement, are those of John Grahame,
lately in partnership, as cotton brokers, with John Ushor
Cunningham, Frederick Sig,ne Andrews, and Henry Wilson,
under the firm of Cunningham, Andrews, and Co. John
Ushor Cunningham, of the same firm, and James Macnee,
of Liverpool and Bombay, merchant and commission
agent, trading asMacnee, Thompson, and Co.

LONDON STOCK EXCILINGE.-MONDAY.

LATEST PRICES.-AFTER OFFICIAf HOURS.

The prices under the lines indicate Vlt3 b tut 11033 done.

GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

Three per Cent Consols 921 921 DoApril &0ct18.33-85.. 110 111
921, 1 Vict 5p c Jau & JulylB24 1021103,
Do for Account
Three per Cent Reduced 91 91* Brazilian, 1865, 5p a .... 891 9CI
91, k 901, 1, 90
New 3 per Cent
91*, 1 Do Rail Debeu 7 p .. 98 10J
Exchequer Bills, March 6 10 pm 991
Bs, 10s pm Italian, 1865, 5p c
Do, June 6 10 pm Peruvian, 1865, 6p 0 .... 898 9A
lls, 7s, 6s pm 908, 9)
Bank Stock - - Portuguese 1869 3 p a.. 29 2)
232 Russian, 1862, 5 p 0.. . • 878 88J
India 5 per Cents - - 881. 1
1101 Do Nicolas 4 p o
India Bonds - - 68*. 91
m spanish. 1867. 3 pol, 1 2Bl 289
Can 6pc Jan&Julyll77-84 10581068 2891 , ,
106 Do, 1869, 3p c
Do March & Sept. 103 105 28, 1, 9. 1. 1. 1
Do 5 plc Jan & July .. 98 99 Turkish. 1854, 6p o Bl 83
82
Do Inscribed Stock .. 97 99 Do, 1865. 5p o
Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 96 98 431, 8, f. i
Ceylon 6 p c May and Do, 1865. 6 p c
November 1878 lO7 109 621. 31
Mauritius 6p c Jan and U. 5.5-20 Bonds,6 p c 1332 89* 901
July 1873 lO3 105 891, k, 1, 1 x d
New SWales 5p clB7l-76 101 102 Do do 1685 881 832
102 831, 2 x d
New Zealand 6po 1891 lO6 109 Do 10-4011415, spo 19)1 868 37
Do 5p o
Do 5p c Consolidated 97 98 Erie Sha, 100 dole, all paid - -
979, 1 x d Illinois Central Shares .. 109811)1
Do 6pc Mar & Sept 1891 105 107 Atlantic and GW R Con
Do June & DeclB9l 107 110 Mortgage Bonds 309 311
Viol 6p c Jan &July 1891 113 115 311, 8, 3)f, 11