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284 time. The victimised investor pays to keep them going, and the private trader loses no less heavily through having to compete with them. But because wages are thus artificially and unhealthily kept up, there is forsooth no real depression of trade!

ANALYSIS OP THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE LIST.

Amount issued.

0.2

d &03

,

sf

I

s

Gains.

1

Losses.

811,729,316

British Funds

26

14

4

2,053,191

8

15,200,148

55,511,136

Corporation Stocks

36

22

11

252,340

3

119,944

173,533,046

Colonial Stocks.

94

51

18

725,650

25

636,843

(Foreign Stocks (Cou-^

694,852,846

< pons payable in V ( London) j

113

33

55

20,077,594

25

3,583,943

254,038,864

Railways, Ordinary

66

22

10

835,279

34

15,425,874

14,968,098

Do. Leased Lines.

27

19

8

467,627

161,585,444

Do. Debentures.

69

20

43

6,800,356

"e

126,633

93,161,825

Do. Guaranteed.

47

10

36

3,497,233

1

36,300

174,713,936

Do. Preference

84

22

52

3,910,087

10

1,230,663

77,709,928

Indian Railways.

35

16

13

1,169,497

6

1,224,497

57,835,325

Colonial Railways

51

17

4

40,836

30

6,600,757

272,573,090

American Bonds & Shares

105

42

3

234,187

60

47,506,720

53,919,764

Do. Sterling

46

10

6

233.986

30

2,388,437

76,029,297

Foreign Railways.

80

25

26

1,919,514

29

3,629,470

156,932,642

Do. Obligations

59

23

22

1,158,139

14

182,877

57,681,032

Banks ....

69

24

5

167,331

40

8,719,619

35,302,096

Canals and Docks.

35

18

10

1,962,704

7

425,841

26,537,692

( Commercial, Indus- ) t trial, &c. |

119

68

10

415,685

41

1,649,136

12,569,206

f Corporation Stocks, ) 1 Colonial & Foreign J

66

7

59

200,797

...

42,698

31,517,651

f Financial, Land, and ) ( Investment j

99

36

15

1,423,852

48

2,473,699

24,065,550

Gas ....

59

20

37

2,918,038

2

109,187

11,620,699

Insurance

60

40

7

232,245

13

1,550.068

12,933,978

Coal, Iron, and Steel.

31

12

1

60,000

18

1,425,220

260,917

Mines, British

11

2

1

12,000

8

235,768

19,944,3^3 10,718,652

Do. Colonial & Foreign Shipping

54 27

12 9

10 5

250,694 108,935

32 13

5,277,058 824,730

1,423,989

Tea and Coffee

12

3

4

41,707

5

150,316

31,177,866 8,088,800

Telegraphs & Telephones Tramways & Omnibuses

49 45

8 5

22 33

8,319 923,618

19 7

1,969,110 151,602

24,504,260

Waterworks.

25

10

5

142,558

10

679,183

3,437,441,338

1699

620

535

52,213,999

544

123,576,341