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FINANCE AND COMMERCE OFFICE OF THE EVENING TELEGRAPH, Tuesday, April 10, 1866. The Stock Market was dull and unsettled this morning, with the exception of Catawissa Railroad, which is the most active on the list; about 5000 shares of preferred sold at from 261@27A the former rate a decline of #; Philadelphia and Erie Railroad sold at 32 a decline of I: Reading at 50f@50g, an advance of t; and Pennsylvania Railroad at 57, no change; 117 was bid for Camden and Amboy; 28 for Little Schuylkill; 52 & for Norristown: 55% for Minehili; 38 for North Pennsylvania; 60 ₫ for Lehigh Valley; 40 for Elmira preferred; and 45 for Northern Cen. tral. Government bonds are in better demand. 5-20s sold at 1031@104: 6s of 1881 at 103; 7.30s at 100!: and 10-40s at 911@918. State and City loans are without change. Pennsylvania 58 sold at 86! and new City 6s at 921. In City Passenger Railroad shares there is nothing doing. 70 was bid for Second and Third; 52 for Tenth and Eleventh; 10 for Thirteenth and Fifteenth; 50 for Chesnut and Walnut; 45 for Hestonville; 34 for Girard College; and 10 for Ridge Avenue. Bank shares are in demand, but we hear of no sales. 206 was bid for North America; 124₫ for Farmers' and Mechanics'; 90 for Northern Liberties; 281 for Mechanics'; 53 for Penn Township; 54₫ for Girard; 62 for City; 60 for Corn Exchange; and 56$ for Union. In Canal shares there is very little movement. Susquehanna Canal sold at 14, a decline of #; 22 was bid for Schuylkill Navigation common: 30% for preferred do.; 54g for Lehigh Navigation; and 58 for Wyoming Valley Canal. Oil shares continue very dull. Ocean sold at 82, no change. -The New York Herald of this morning says: 'The supply of money available for use on the Stock Exchange is in excess of the demand at 6 per cent., but there are very few exceptions at 5, and them only on Governments, In the discount line first-class commercial paper is in demand at 7@7f per cent., with a more eager disposition on the part of lenders to employ capital in this way. The second grade is quoted at 8@9, but inferior signatures are out of favor, and the suspecsion ot Rich's bank in Buffalo to-day, following upon the Rochester Bank, and other recent failures, is not calculated to im prove confidence in this direction." -The New York Times this morning says:"The market for money is eyen easler to-day than at the close of last week. Large sums were left with the dealers in Government securities at 5 per cent, and other stock loans were made with ease at 6 per cent., and there is a demand for choice merchant paper at 61@7 per cent. One of our neighbors, we notice, attributes the ease in money to the "stagnation" in trade. He evidently wrote without looking into the trade figures of the week past, and without understanding that business in both foreign and domestic merchandise has not been SO active in all this spring as at present, nor the export trade so important." -It appears from a communication prepared at the War Department, in reply to a resolution of the House, that the Illinois Central Railroad Company received from the United States, for transportation of troops and supplies, from March. 1862, to April, 1865, $2,592,156, and from other roads $332,113. The Company paid to these other roads $876,436. The net revenue received by the Illinois Central Railroad Company. within the above-named period, was $2,047,833. PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TO DAY Reported by De Haven & Bro., No. 40 S. Third street