The demand for Home Securities has been firm on the
whole, although at one time some heavy sales of money stock threatened to weaken the market. Yesterday, Consols closed at 94} to 94f for money and account. Reduced and New Three per Cents. have marked 92j to 92f ; Exchequer Bills, 16s. to 20s. prem. India Five per Cents. have been done at 1141. For Foreign Bonds there has been a good demand, and the movements in prices have been mostly favourable. Italian, Egyptian, and Turkish securi- • ties particularly have commanded attention, and a material im- provement has taken place in the value of the former stock. British Railway Shares have been in request at advancing prices. Great Eastern Shares have been favourably influenced by the extrication of the affairs of the Company from Chancery, and they have now reached a quotation at which they have not been for years. There has been a moderate inquiry for money for commercial purposes, at 11 to 11 per cent. for the best short- dated paper. The stock of bullion in the Bank of England is £19,358,850; in the Bank of France, £46,960,200.
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