9 JUNE 1866, Page 3

Arising from the announcement that the proposed Congress had been

abandoned, the Consol market opened on Monday with considerable heaviness, business being done as low as 85k. Since then, however, owing to the improving position of financial affairs, the quotations have steadily advanced, and the closing prices yesterday were as follows :—For transfer, 86, 86*; for time, 86k, I. The stoppage of the Agra and Iasterrnan'e Bank had no perceptible effect on prices.