... CrcY OFFICE, 23. Bseftrsurwp, S.C., I-7cfednesday, Halfpas 0X!o. MARKETS GENERALLY FIRM.--QUOTATIONS HIGHER. There is a good demand for money in the open market this morning in con, nection with the payments in the Consols market, this being the last day of the settlement, and as much as IYX to 2 per cent. is again being freely paid for short advances. The discount inquiry is on a moderate ...

... ?? Q~e tav DlTiNESS IN7 THED STOCK MARKETS, B usiness continues so limited on the Stock Ewchange that any incident boweveer trivial, teuds to depress prices. The shooting affray on the Frauco- 8Gerrnau frontier, combined with a Russian story as to a movement onr Erzerourn, served the purpose yesterday. and there was a small decline all round. Freach Renles were lower, so that the Paris Bourse ...

... THIS DAY'S MONEY MARKEn. ZLsef'u- iz : O;re. HOME RAILWAYS AND FOREIGN STOCKS EAK. -AMERICANS DEPRESSED.-TRUNKS STEADY. As was generally anticipated, the directors of the Bank of England have made no alteration in the official minimum, which consequently remains at 4 Pe' cent. In the open market there is a strong demand for money in connecrtior with the payments on the Stock Exchange, and 3fi ...

... .I III Oa Clit'.). * LISTED BUSINESS ON TSRE STOCK; EXCHANGE. Dusiness on the Stock Exchange yesterday was very contracted, through ?? uncertainty as to how the market will go. Prices, however, were fairly steady, and a moderate advance was established in the American department, where there is a continuance of purchases for investment. The expecta- tion of a 6 per cent. dividend instead of 5 ...

... _ Hralf-Mt. OiMq HOME RAILWAYS DULL.-FOREIGN STOCKS DEPRESSED. - AMERICANS IRREGULAR. Rates in the open market have opened much the same as they closed ow Saturday. There is still a fairly good demand for accommodation in the shape of short loans, but the quotation is rather easier at 4$V to 5 per cent. The number of bills offering for discount is small, and the ratc for three months' bank ...

... A SYNDICATE IN SLATE. One by one our industries appear to be doomed to fall under the sway of syndicates. The slate quarries of North Wales are, it is reported, to be united and worked as one concern ; and the writing slate manufacturers are to be similarly combined. Negotiations are now in progress with this view. Apparently, the financial mind sees money in the idea, whatever the ultimate ...

... A decrease in the cash reserve of the Bank of England is shown this Week of MoDre than £.600,ooo. The total reserve is now little above r..millions; and iii view of the October demands, which will soon be at hand, this is not a very excessive amount. WCe have now to lose no more than half a million or so by a foreign drain to make a rise in the Bank 'rate of discount this autumn very probable. ...

... At last there is some prospect. of the countries of Europe benefiting to their legitimate extent from the great oil wvells of Southern Russia. Hitherto Rtissian oil has entered very little into the general European market, though Used extensively throughout Russi- America- has had the field to itself, and has controlled the.nmarkets of the world with .:its rings.,! ButAmerican: Wrells are ...

... FIT tire Iriti). ACTIVITY INt HOME RAILWAY STOCKS. The Continental war rumours disturbed the Foreign market yesterday, but there was much activity and buoyancy in the Home Railway department, the rise in pig iron, copper, and other metals having led to an imnprovement in the EScotch and other lines likely to be beneflted; Besides this there was the gamble in Hull and Barrsley, which jumped up ...

... One ?? MARKETS FIRM.-QUOTATIONS HItGHER.-THE PANAMA LOAN. The pressure for money in the open market this morning is not quite s o great as at one time was anticipated, ard the quotation for advances for the day is no more than IXJ to 2 per cent. The discount rate for three months' bank paper is maintained at s3s per cent., but there are few bills offering. Early next week it is quite probable ...

... THEY ARE STILL CONFIDENT, AND) DECIDE TO GO ON. A meeting of the share and bond holders of the Panama Canal Company took place yesterday afternoon in Paris. It had been arranged by the com- mittee of the Panama Stockholders' Society, a newly created body, which is at the head of 4RO branches working in every town of France. Every shba eholder or bondholder became a member of it, thus binding ...

... THIS DAY'S MONE.Y MARKERlT. Cure1 o'rr'c'k- HOME RAILWAYS DULL.-FOREIGN STOCK1-S W!EAK.-AMEY1RICAeN BETTER. There is a quiet demand for money in the open market this morning, and advances until Monday are obtainable at as low asi per cent. Next week the recuirements in connection with the Stock Exchangle settlement will have to 1)e provided for, and a slight hardening of the market 1 is looked ...