... -iw-- = I~t ra, Vr 11Vw ?? II . During the days on which the London creditors of the City of Glasgow Bank had the option of coming into the arrangement for accepting a prompt payment of 20S. in the pound, without accrued interest, a little more than ,3oo,coo was paid. This sum represents the final dividend of 6s. 8d., but to have settled all the London claims about a million should have been ...

... WHATEVER may be the opinions as to the permanence of the recent revival in the iron trade-and opinions do differ on this point-there can. be but one as to the exceptional character of the year that has just closed. Financially it is remarkable as having begun in the deepest gloom and depression-a depression greater than has been felt for many a long day; while it has ended with an activity and ...

... SHARB LIST-THIS DA P. ?? The principal Stocks and Shares not quoted in this List will be fhfound in the Money Article page g. ORDINARY SHARES AN] Closin Railways. Wed Bristol and Exeter _ ,, Caledonian .- _ o.1 East London(Consolidated) ig Glasgow and South Western 95 Great Eastern .. . sg/ Great North of Scotland .. 67 Great Northern - -.22 Gt.NorthA Arec.nodiv.till ts854 Gt.NorthBJ 6p. c. ...

... THE RE VENUE. TUiE Revenue Returns lately published are even more unsatis- factory than it was expected they would prove. In the first three months of the present financial year the revenue showed an increase of about io5,ooo; in the next three months it showed a decrease of ioo,ooO; while in the last quarter it has produced 453,055 less than in the corresponding period of I878-9. The dccrease ...

... ClraVt anly Sinance. Laige movements of money at the Bank of England were to be expected at the close of the year; and the return issued for the week ended with Wednes- day, which was also the last day of the year 1879, does not fail to present wide changes in its items. During the week about 3,955,ooo has been borrowed by the general public, including bill-brokers; that being the amount by ...

... CITY OFCICE, Chllage-alley, C'orrt frill. Saturdray, Tweve r,6 rctcf. No change was made on Thursday in the Bank rate of discount, which still remains at 3 per cent. There has been a good demand for accommodation in the open market during the past week, and the terms for the best three months, bills ruled yesterday about 2Y5/ to 23 per cent. The Stock Exchange settle- mrrent, and the end of ...

... Sz,/RE LIST-THIS DA Y. 7 ?? Stocks sad Shares not quoted in this List ?? Ie * 'fOad in the Ildoney ArtClei page 9, r-:rDliNARY SHARES AND STOCKS. v; FdZi RaCvays. oing Prices Business done Pd Rae'.Sturday. , Saturday. I Brisrto and Eacoter 7 / of St 1I Lund . on (Consolidated) 19i 1 1205 Sjit li . - we d SOathwesternl 95 97 StIG,.,srgt Ejstvrn ?? .50 59 591 Sttoe Gret North of Scotland 6, Gret ...

... Trave ,TITv silynart. or~e: at call in New York is, according to this morning's telegram, as low ?? cent, which is a marked reduction on the rates current during the past nutun n stringency. The reserve-banks are not strong as yet, but the tendency j; row toxvards that strength which the return movement of legal-tender notes is *alculated to give them. For many weeks past each successive ...

... Trratre antr S inance. yoney was already very abundant in the market yesterday before the collsol dividends were paid: the chief discount houses reduced their allow- ances on deposits at call to iS per cent., and at notice to IX per cent., for SDort scarcely so much is obtainable, and an unusually large quantity of money rerains unlent. The three months' Treasury bills were allotted at a ...

... SHARB LIST-THIS DA F. &:The ?? Stocks and Shares not quoted in this List will be found in the Money Article page 9, C RDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS, Closing Prices Business done Sb. Pd. Railways' yesterday. yesterday. I B!5itoladExet0 ._ . - - [/ V Ys 3/ Sto 0 Caledonian *. -70 0077 soG70Y 7Y 7s East London (Consolidated) 20 22 21 St 't EastLoGl andsSouthWestertV 95 97 Ste e. i Great Eastern .. ?? ...

... Tra'or itty'a Siniturt. Lord Salisbury refuses to lay down -any general principle, whether of irteference or non-interference, on the part of the British Government in the case of default on the bonds of foreign Powers. As regards the particular business in hard-the prior claim of the 1858 and i862 bondholders upon the a. stourS ard other revenues which the Porte has thrown to the bondholders ...

... BORROJWERS AND LENDERS. IN the matter of borrowing and lending money there are a large number of transactions which belong purely and simply to legitimate business. One man will borrow of Government or of a land or building society for the purpose of draining and improving his estate, building labourers' cottages, or of erecting houses elsewhere. Another will mortgage part of his property in ...