What Stock Exchange payments come to on important settling-days is shown by the Clearing-House return appertaining to the last settlement. On that clay the cheques and bills cleared amounted to £61,700,000, of which about £40,000,000 was on Stock Exchange account. This brought the week's total up to £177,800,000, or £8,000,000 above the previously highest total. I incidentally referred, last week, to the immense magnitude and pre-eminent importance of the London Money Market, and certainly the London Stock Exchange equally ranks first among such institutions all over the world.   T.S

Source: The Illustrated London News, No.2254—Vol. LXXXI, Saturday, July 15, 1882, p.59