The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-24 00:00:00

NONEY MARKET

AND
COMMEROIAL INTELLIGENOII,

The Bank return scarcely responds to the change
which has taken place in the discount market. For
example, the addition to the private securities is insig-
nificant, while there has been rather a large increase
in the private deposits. The reserve, too, shows a
considerable accession of means arising from deposits.
It follows from these conditions that up to the date of
the return the inquiry for money which has advanced
the terms in Lombard-street has, so far, failed to make
any impression upon the Bank, and that it is prema-
ture to look for a very early advance in the rate of
discount. The bullion continues to decline, but the
total diminution is less than the aggregate of the
withdrawals during the week. The following are the
principal changes since the previous return :
Decrease in Circulation
Increase in Public Deposits
Increase in other Deposits . .
No change in amount of (iovernment Securities.
Increase in other Securities
Decrease in Bullion
Increase in Rest 5,351
Ir

increase in Reserve -
Bullion in bath Departments ... 20,527,100
Reserve of Notes and Coin 11,587,080
Circulation, including Bank Post Dills 24,412,917
The following is the return of Paid Clearing for the
Week ending Wednesday, April 22, as certified by
i4r. J. C. Pocock, deputy inspector.
April 16, Thursday
April 17, Friday 13,911,000
April 18, Saturday 511,705,000
April 20, Monday
April 21, Tuesday
April 22, Wednesday ..... ! 8,907,000

Total £75,645,000
This is one of the largest clearings in any week
since the first publication of the return. A consider-
able portion of it arose from the half-monthly settle-
tnent in the Stock Exchange ; but, making allowance
for this exceptional case, the return indicates some
expansion in commercial engagements.
There is a good demand for money, and rates can-
ant be reported otherwise than firm, at 2 per cent.
Corn is quiet, but firm.
The English Funds are firm. Consols show an im-
provement of k, at 931 to 93k for money and account;
New and Reduced Three per Cents., 92k to 921- ;
Bank stock, 243 to 245 • India Five per Cents., 115}
to 1151 ; Exchequer Bins, 15s to 20s prem.
Egyptian Government Securities have recovered
per cent., the 1864 bonds being 80 to 81 ; Railway
Debentures, 89 to 90; Viceroy's Seven per Cents.,
70l2• to 71 ; and the Nine per Cents., 881 to 89 ; New
Spanish are 1 lower, at 341 to 35, on the death of
I\itirvaez ; Mexicans are steady, at 151 to 151 ;
tlisll
Greek,irt 121 to 121 ; Italian (1861), 48A to 4E4- ;
(1865), 34i to 34a Portuguese, Ito 1 prem.;
o
rel-Vitebsk, 781 'to 79• and Nicolai, 65k to 66k.
Th6New Honduras Loan is par to 1 prem.
ba ~ Spanish Colonial Eight per Cent. Loan fully
nt up, is 90 to 901, and the Scrip 3/ to 2/ dis.
In American securities United States Five-twenty
Pmds are quiet at 69k to 70k ; Erie Shares are 11
lower, at 45 to 46 ; Illinois, 93 to 94.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
rreinain at 29 to 30 ; but the Consolidated Mortgag€
ds have receded f, to 321 to 33.
~,The chief movement in English railways is a fall of
,etu_s in Great Eastern on the report recommending
tiw issues of stock. The present price is 32
to n
u3i. Lancashire and Yorkshire stand at
..‘:tsBtertno, 1281 ; Midland, 108 to 1081 T• South
731 to 744- ; London and North Western,
1,16 to 1161 • Great Northern, 1021 to 1031 ; dittc
44, 981 to 94 ; Great Western, 52 to 521 ; Brigh•
1.7511:27.3t0i 501 ; Sheffield, 43 to ; Metropolitan
to 111 ;
_Foreign
R;i7l4w,aCyhatham, 18/ to 19 ; and Caledo
shares are steady. en Lombardo-
uur etian is quoted at 14g- to 14k ; Great Luxem-
g,
98 to 91 ex div.
e only feature in Bank Shares is a further itn•
atev he
of 1 per cent. in Imperial, which is quoted
18i to 191. Other descriptions are without
" Tile following are the prices :—Agra (A
ration.
9/ to 101 ; Alliance 13 to 12 dis. ; Anglo-
Atow:„trliall 4 to 41 prem. ; Chartered Mercantile, 28
; Imperial Ottoman, # to ft; Oriental, 42/ to
, London and Westminster, 671 to 68 ; London
Tild Coty, 51 to 52 ; Union of London, 32 to 33;
°Mon J unoint Stock, 32 to 33.
.o,,Foreign Mining Shares are dull. St. John del
Ys remain at 20/ to 211 . Chontales are lower,
at,2- to 21 ; Port -Philip, 1i to n".
Miscellaneous securities are quiet, but prices are
without chance. Anglo-American Telegraph, 22k to
243 Atlantic Telegraph Eiaht per Cent.,
iladsinon's Bay to ; London General
nibus, to'2l
6'
dor gold to the value of £47,000 was sent into the
aik yesterday, and 1:8) 000 in foreign coin was with-
,. -
Telegrams from New York announce the departure
'esterclay of a further £200,000 in specie for Europe.
The Lady Melville has arrived from Melbourne with
"12G4,000 in Australian gold.
call of £5 per share has been made on the 4tb
3"1e8 of the Chartered Gaslight Company.
,
loan of the Indiana Southern Railway has been
Ivandrawn from public subscription for the present.
A general meeting of the English and Swedish
'-eank has been called for the 26th May, for the pur-
Pacotse of receiving the liquidator's account, showing his
3 and dealings since the winding-up of the
ec'tnpany.
A Ireland sPecial general meeting of the Royal Bank of
Tlie has been called for the 13th May.
annual general court of the proprietors of
I\/. Southwark Bridge has been convened for the sth
Bthrt3c,,for the purpose of adjourning the meeting to the
atty.
atem ordinary general meeting of Liebig's Extract
PurposeCmpany will be held on the 4th May, for the
dent
eof
aofecroeucneitssi.ng the directors' report and state-
"te_ particulars are announced of a new mining
Panyprlse, called the Humboldt Silver Mining Com-
witwith a capital of £60,000 in £5 shares. It is
h sit out upon terms which will probably meet
ncouracrement.
m
reeTolie_ report the Fairbairn Engineering Company
titiuniu.lellds a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per
The 11r
that Ivietropolitan District Railway Company notify
BtockaseriP certificates for the Six per Cent. Debenture
for tk recently issued will be ready to be exchanged
Ohaltl banker's receipts at the office, 6, Westminster
instatZers) S.W., on and after Tuesday, the 28tk
dc'str ,
°Lacially explained that the Metropolitan
4..4._return for the week ending April 19 is purely
it::retoPoloitan, and includes nolportion of the receipts
ebate
,„")t.. John's Wood. On the contrary, the
th due to St. John's Wood on the traffic arising
tetur,,"at line has been deducted from the amount
;hat ;.(1. To prevent mistakes in future, I may add
iunl4lletropolitan traffic will always be kept and re-
tthe 'lB4 at present distinct and separate, from AD4T4
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to()%ffilr 30 yYrs,''expire sth April 1885
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of England Stock, 41 pot. Cent 243k 5
1,, ,lAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
.41)'11,!,!Ocek, 10} per Cent., April 1874
Do—
-0 4 count
115} i 1
0. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
101
Do°' 4 Pet' Cent., Oct. 1888
. Certificates
1)0. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent
b 2. 5 por Cent., Jan. 1872
C 5,1 per Cent., May 1879 —
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azilia
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4.,0 5 *,
711 .1 1
, • por Cont., 1865
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tnubiati rincipalities, 7 pm- Cent —
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