MONEY MARKET.
Bronx Exciter/GE, FRIDAY Aermutooe.
A good demand for money has prevailed during the week. Up to yester- day the rates were firmly maintained by the activity of the inquiry, but to- day they have given way, especially among the discount houses, and the rates have been rather below the Bank minimum.
Consols closed last Friday at 931 to 1, and the variations scarcelyerceeded per cent until this afternoon, when there was rather a decided movement downwards. This was founded upon the alleged intentions of the Emperor of the French to interfere exclusively on behalf of the Christians in Syria -an intention of which there is not the remotest proof, and which has been i
distinctly denied by Lord John Russell in his place n Parliament. The real fact is, the "Bears" upon the Paris Bouraenre determined, by inces- sant sales, to gain a favourable opportunity to "got in" again, and that the whole movement is a ruse for the sake of profit. The fall in the Rente today was 1 per cent, the closing price being the lowest of the week; the last price of Consols was 93/ to 41. Railway Shares until the fall this afternoon, were from 1 to I per cent above the prices of this day week. The improvement has now been di- minished to about I per cent. The state of the traffic, and the demand for stock, exercises considerable influence in sustaining prices.
Foreign Securities have been very dull, but on the whole quotations have been fairly sustained. Turkish Stock, after improving 1 per cent, has re- ceded to the quotation of this day week through the reports of intervention. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Streatfield, Lawrence, and Mortimer, was held today, when a statement was produced, showing the liabilities to be 744,4481., and the assets 214,140/. The estate will be wound up in bankruptcy.
Closing Prices :-Aberdeen, 31* ; Caledonian, 941 t • Chester and Holyhead, 52 53; South-Eastern, 841 85f ; Eastern Counties, 56 ; Great Northern, 115- 116; Great Western, 701 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 107* ; London and North-Western, 1021 103f ; Midland, 1191 120; Ox- ford and Worcester, 45+ 46f ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 40f 41+ ; South-Western, 951 96; Great Western Canadian, 11 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 61, 7. Turkish Six per Cents, 76+ 77t ; Mexican, 20+ 21; Brazil Five per Cent, 99 100; Peruvian Four-and-a-half, 94 95; Portuguese, 44 Jr; Russian Five per Cent, 107 109; Venezuela Three per Cent, 22 23; Chili Six per Cent, 102 104; Consols, 94
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