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Show FOREIGN. LONDON HONEY MARKET. Effects ol the Kllver Bill and I be Eastern llllcultles on Prices. Londou, S3. The Times says the recent rise is the price of silver has been the result for the moat part of peculation. Its maintenance consequently conse-quently depeuda upos present holders being relieved of iheir purchase by actual demand. Tne Economist says the rte of discountin the opsn market bas ben firm at 1$ per cent. The rise in the price of siher U due to the pansAge f the BUud silver hill, speculative ah sorption of India council papor. and purchases hy Kuwia Irom Germany lor coinag" purposes The stock markeia have bren sub jected to very sharp fluctuations during dur-ing the week. On Thursday thn fall ol prices was almost universal. HtalB-menta HtalB-menta were circulated that Russia was massing large bodies of troops in Roumania and buying silver from Germans to a heavy amount, that our eovernment were hurrying forward preparations and that Derby would make an unfavorable statement in the house ol lords tbis evening. This Lord Derby did not do, consequently there hns been a fairly good revival of confidence and the result of the week has been moderate ira provement in most socorities. The effect ol the passage of the silver bill through the United Btates senate by more than two thirds majority was not at once apparent in American bonds. The prices at first showed a teodency to advance, probably prob-ably in sympathy with the general tone of the market, but there has since been Borne genuine selling, which caused a relapse. The lockout ol 4.000 weavers ol Oldham, if not quickly terminated, is1 likely to cause the disemployment of 30,000 operatives in other braocheB ol trade. |