... 1Half-Aws' Onl HOME RAILWAYS DULL.-FOREIGN STOCKS DEPRESSED.- AMERICANS IRREGULAR. Rates in the open market have opened much the same as they closed oi Saturday. There is still a fairly good demand for accommodation is the shape of short loans, but the quotation is rather easier at 4j4 to 5 per cent. The number of bills offering for discount is small, and the rate for three months' bank paper ...

... Hatf-$rID tU~s. MARKETS GENERALLY LIFELESS AND WITHOUT FEATURE. The discount rate remains easy at 434 per cent. for three monthis' bank paper, but there is no telling how soon a sharp twist up may oe experienced. Operators continue to work as if the Bank of England bad two or three more millions in grold than it actually has, and the lower the rate is allowed to fall the sharper will be the ...

... Tih7 LANDOWNERS' RELIEF BUDGET. BY A RADICAL FREE TRADER. A- old proverb says, Give a dog a bad name and hang him. In lstinns of finance the converse proportion seems to be the accepted doc rnle-give a financier a good name and to the end of time bow down Rji worship hir. In recent political developments nothing is more suikiog than the chorus of semi-reluctant approval with which Liberals ...

... WHAT IS THOUGHT OF THE PROPOSED TRUST. LONDON has a very deep interest in the crisis in the coal trade. The opinion still prevails on the London Coal Exchange-althougb, perhaps, not so generally as earlier in the week-that a strike on an extensive scale will be ':verted, but if, say, a quarter of a million of men withdrew their tools, the metro- ?? would in a fortnight or three weeks be ...

... 110NIE RAILWAYS AND FOREIGN STOCKS l)ULL.-AMERICANS WEAK.-MARKETS GENERALLY INACTIVE. The Money Market again presents a very quiet appearance this morning, an(I quotations are pralctically unaltere-. Short mioney is again in good demand at:ti commands 4 to 4 ?? per cent., the supply being anything but abundant. Thle number of bills offering for dliscount is still very small, but the (uotation ...

... Discount rates have further improvedl to dlay, I -i to ?? p r 1en t',C quotation lor theee months' drifts. 'Many brolzeis anti' ,'ltc a f'ilthter entx of Pold to-day, but fromn what we undes stand thcre is not likely to hc any tadecn until ne~t wve k, if then. Money is still very abundant, and day to day lolsu~ atre arran-ed at 'I to ',per cent. The Stock Markots arc Etill cquizet, tliy' ...

... KIT tile 0:1 itp. TilE LATEST CONVERSION FIGURES. As we anticipated yesterday, Mr. Goschen's estimate of the amount of assents to conversion ,vas well within the mark. The amount outstanding is mnow only eittg!y fivc millions, and trustees have still from a month to six wecks to send in their assents. New Consois have gone below par in the Stock Markets, and that circumstance will have some ...

... One O'ClOck. HOME RAILWAYS WEAK.-FOREIGN STOCKS STEADY.- AMERICANS LOWER. The requirements in connection with the Stock Exchange settlement having been provided for there is much less demand for money in the open market this morning, and the quotation has fallen to 3 s to 334 per cent. The discount rate is also weak, and though quoted nominally 3Yz to 3P per cent., as a matter of fact little ...

... Hat 1 I ?? I) A V * !YL -Jll 1*. £*, VL Haifr.ost OPM HOME RAILWAYS FIRM.-FOREIGN STOCKS AND ANILRICANS DULL-BREAK IN MFXICANS. The Money Market presents a very firm anpearance this morning. Day-to. day money is not much wanted, but the charge for it is 2 per cent., while for advances over the settlement the quotation is about 2, per cent. The discount rate remains firm, the m;nimum charged ...

... HOME RAILWAYS AND FOREIGN STOCKS BETTER.-AMlRICANS AND TRUN'KS FIRM. The Money market remains quiet and featureless. Tlhe dcinandl for accommodation is exceedingly simall, and rates in consequcince are eas;y at I per cent. for short money, and l 5s per cent. for thre disc ount of threo months' bink' paper. Tlic amount of fresh business entered into on' the Stock EIxdlhan'se is li mited partly ...

... III VIC (city. THE LONDON DocK COMPANIES, The proprietors of the London and St. Katharine's and the East and WVest India Doci Companies met simultaneously yesterday, and without serious dissent approved of the new scheme for a working union, so that the bilt emptyocring the same can now go forward this session. The shipping element on the board of tile Lond-on is not satisfied wvithl the terms ...

... Ball-eas! Oe. OPERATORS BUSY WITH THE SETTLEMENT.-AMERICANS FLAT. The occurrence of the Stock Exchange settlement has bad no perceptible effect on rates in the Money Market. The demand for accommodation in this connection is not large, the fresh business entered into during the past fortnight having been on a limited scale, and borrowers on securities with a margin have little difficulty in ...