There has been an unusually small attendance of members at
the Stock Exchange throughout the week, and the amount of business passing has been very limited. Consols have remained at 93/ to 94 for money, and 94 to 4 for the 6th of October. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 921 to ; Exchequer Bills, 15s. to 20s. premium. Indian and Colonial Government Securities have ruled steady in value, with limited inquiry. In Foreign Bonds there has been very little change. Egyptian and Peruvian Bonds, however, have been in request at advancing prices. The scrip of the Moscow-Jaroslaw Railway Loan is quoted at 2/ to 3 premium. Owing to the very favourable nature of the traffic returns, Home Railway Stocks have tended upwards in value. Caledonian and Metropolitan have been subject to considerable fluctuation, in con- sequence of heavy speculative transactions. The supply of money in the Discount Market has been on the increase, and the rate for good three months' paper, in Lombard Street, has declined to 14 to 4 per cent., but exceptional transactions have been reported at 11 per cent. The stock of bullion in the Bank of England is now 20,736,1481.; in the Bank of France, 52,060,0001.
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