The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-01 00:00:00

➢IONETAIZY REPO I C CS.- YE ST ERD AY.

The Stock Exehange to-day has been characterised by
increased firmness. A fair average business has been
transacted in the leading securities, and the
quotations spew an advance in many in-
stances. In railways no important move has
transpired, but Foreign Bonds, particularly Spanish
and Turkish, exhibit a decided advance. The market
for Home Securities has been steady. Consols have
been firm, and ic per cent. better, at 92i to
922 for delivery and the. November account. Reduced
and New Three per Cents, 911 91i ; Bank Stock, 232,
234 ; Exchequer Bills, Bs. to 12s. preux ; India Five per
per Cents, 1112, 112 i; and. India Bonds, 18a. to 235,
prem. Colonial Govurnment Securities have been steady.
and prices have been Well maintatnod,

English r4lway stocks have been quiet:, • and wit'bout
important feature, Great Northern A has 1+30311 i„ or to
1351, 1352 ; but Metrtvpolltan- at 621,622 ; and Caledonian,
751 76}, are each 1 lower. North Eastern Consob, at
143, 143 k, are k eager. Brighton is quoted at 421,'4w.
South Eastern, at 75, 751 ; Great Eastern, at 39k, 39g ;
Midland, 120 k, 1202 ; North Western, 124 1282 ; Great
Western, 101,74
Indian railway stocks have been quiet. East Indian,
1094; Great Indian Peninsula, 1061 ; and &Me, 104.
Canadian shares have been inactive, Great Western
have been rather easier, at 14k, g. Foreign shares have
been in limited request. Great I,uxembonrg, 112; Lem-
berg Czernowits, ; and Lombards, 141,
The foreign bond market has been very firm, and a
general advance has ensued. Peruvian 1865 have been
better, at 90 to 90k ; Spanish, 1867, k, at 31k to 312 ;
ditto 1869, a, at 31} to 31R ; Turkish Five per Cents., 2,
at 45 to 451; ditto 1869, a, at 521 to 53f ; Italian 1861
are quoted at 551 to 554 ; Egyptian 1868, 78 to 781 ;
Mexicans, 142 to 15. American securities are firm. The
Five-Twenty (1682) bonds are quoted at 894 to 89g ; ditto
1885, 8S to 88g. Erie shares, 18k to 19. and Illinois
Central, 109 k to 110.

The French loan is quoted at to prem. It is under-
stood that applicants have received about half the amount
applied for.

Bank shares have been steady. Alliance, 13. E ; Anglo-
Egyptian, 24 5; Imperial Ottoman, 12i ; London and
County, 49, ; 'Union of Australia, 41g.
Telegraph shares have been in fair roquest. Anglo-
Mediterranean, 13i ; Great Northern, 11g ; French Cables
have been A better at 14,141 ; and Telegraph Constructions
have been A higher, at 28, 2&A.
In miscellaneous securities a moderate business has been
transacted. Berlin Waterworks, 14g, 15,i; Fore-street
Warehouse, 20 ; General Credit and Discount, 7i ; Hud-
son's Bay, 9 ; National Discount, 11.

The bullion operations at the Bank to-day comprised
the purchase of £14,000 in bar gold, £40,000 in sovereigns
from Antwerp, and the withdrawal of £4,000 sovereigns
for Alexandria.

At Mark-lane wheat was quiet at barely late rates.

The subscription list for the £145,000 Perpetual Five
per Cent Debenture Stock of the Devon and Somerset
Railway will close on the sthinstant for Lonlon, and the
7th for country applications.
In the discount market to-day a fb.ir amount of anima-
tion has been apparent. Capital has not been wares,
nevertheless three months' paper has not been taken
under 2a, 21 per cent.
The steamers which left New York on the 2Sth instant
took out sixty thousand pounds in specie for Europe.
The Calabria, from New York, has brought £lO,OOO in
specie, the Wisconsin £9,000, and the City of Antwerp,
from Halifax, £1,161, also in specie. The Seine, from the
West Indies, has brought £372,150.

The following has been received from the Eclipse Gold
Mining Company :—" Under date Ist October, 1870,
Captain Barratt writes as follows Since my last re-
port the force at the mine has been engaged laying track,
making and fixing whim, cuttiig ground at the 100 ft. and
160 ft. levels for turntables, &c. I hope in about a fort
night or three weeks we shall be sinking main shaft and
stopping quarts (ore), Nearly all the Fnglish machinery
has arrived, and the engineer has commenced to fix the
engine. All the work relating to the erection of the
engine and stamps is being pushed on as quickly M
possible.' "

The report of the Vancouver Coal, Mining, and Land
Company (Limited), to be presented on the Bth Novembev,
spews an available total of £4,523, including a previous
balance of £215, -and recommends.a dividend of 5 per cent,
for the half-year, or at the rate of 14 pea oenb, pet armum,
which 'trill absorb 24,130, -m1 Leave 2393 to De carried
forward. The sales of mil wco 12,289 tom, ban
decrease- of 7,434 tons from the previous- six mosithB,
owing chiefly to the depressed state of the San Fianctsco
market