The Press.
London, England, 1858-03-13 00:00:00

' THE PRESS, MARCH 13, 1858.

ilontg Itarkti an it Initilipta.

FRIDAY EVENING.
THE return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday last, the 10th inst., shows the
following changes compared with that for the week
preceding :
Increase in Circulation £346,262
Increase in Public Deposits
Decrease in Other Deposits
Decrease in Private Securities
Increase in Bullion
Increase in Rest
Increase in Reserve

784,434
82.5,310
686,837
95,909
5,535
641,844

Bullion in both Departments
Circulation, including Bank Post
Bills
The present comparison shows the Bullion to be
higher now than for many years past, and the re-
serve of notes is also increasing in strength. So
that in these two respects the position of the Bank
is becoming exceedingly strong. The Private Secu•
rities continue to undergo a diminution, and the re-
duction will probably go on until the Bank rate for
advances approximates more nearly to that in the
open market.
The inactivity of general commerce, and the little
prospect of any considerable improvement until the
year is further advanced, are operating rather ad-
versely on the Money Market, for there is very little
demand for capital, and great difficulty is experienced
in finding employment for it at above two and a
quarter per cent. At the same time, the political
circumstances of France, from the apprehensions they
have caused, have made capitalists somewhat re-
served. So that on the one hand,if the requirements
of commerce are restricted, the enterprise of the
owners of money is, for the time, discouraged ; and
the general result is that, beyond supplying present
wants, very few engagements of any magnitude ars
entered into. Trade however is gradually reviving,
particularly the home branches; and if the political
condition and the executive prudence of France were
such at this moment as encouraged a hope of the
present embarrassments speedily subsiding, there is
no reason why confidence should not be immediately
imparted to the Money Market. At present the pre-
vailing features of it are extreme sensitiveness and
considerable distrust. With regard to the political
circumstances of our own country, there is among all
the moneyed classes, except those who hold extreme
views, perfect confidence in the capacity and prudence
of Lord Derby's Government. The objection that it
is the Government of a minority is less damaging to
it than to the parties who make it ; and certainly it
has no weight whatever with the substantial interests
of the country. If it had, the Money Market would,
by this time, have been in a very different position.
About 860,0001. in gold has arrived during the
week. Of this amount, a large proportion has been
taken for export to the Continent, some has been
purchased by the Bank, and some yet remains upon
the market. The continental inquiry is not yet sa-
tisfied. 100,0001. was withdrawn from the Bank
to day for export there. Part of the demand has
arisen from the necessity of paying for silver which
we continue to draw thence for transmission to India
and China, and some from the state of the exchanges,
which makes it profitable to remit coin ; but we
believe that there is quietly a good deal of hoarding.
There is no material difference in the Continental
Exchanges this week.
. . _ _

English Securities have on the whole been quiet,
but with occasional tendencies to depression. The
state of affairs in France, and the claims put forth
by the Government of that country upon England,
Switzerland, Sardinia, and Austria, together with
the numerous arrests officially announced, have in-
spired a sense of uneasinees utterly beyond the more
favourable influences of the market to neutralise.
Railway Shares hive suffered most, the downward
tendency being in this case azcelerated by diminished
traffic receipts, and by the fortnightly settlement
which concludes on Tuesday. A few Foreign Stocks
have improved, but to no great extent.
Consols, which loft off this day week at 961 to j,
attained, upon purchases by the Government broker,
to 97i, the highest price of the week; but on Wed.
nesday, and again yesterday, a reaction was pro-
duced by the intelligence from France, and last night
the closing price was 96i to 97. This morning they
opened at 961 to f, and the market was dull during
the greater part of the day ; but at the close they
advanced to Otli to 97 upon the receipt of a tele-
graphic despatch from Paris, to the effect that all
causes of difference with this country bad been
remo‘ad,

Railway Shares since last Friday have fallen from
one to two per cent. The decline was precipitated
In most cases by the reduced traffics having stimu-
lated the dealers to get out of stock, and by the pubi=c,
who have recently absorbed a great deal, not coming
forward as buyers, or only to a very limited extent.
The excessively low fares charged on the great lines
running to the north are certainly prejudicing invest-

ments, even at present prices; bat if the political
atmosphere were clear, the reaction would be very
great, for the traffics are only temporarily depressed.
Colonial and French shares are lower, but Indian
descriptions are steady.
The Foreign Market has beau very quiet, and no
change of consequence has taken place in it.
Joint-stock Banking Shares, and those of some of
the Dock Companies, have been rather largely dealt
in for investment. Miscellaneous descriptions un-
altered.

The monthly return of the Bank of France, made
up to yesterday, the 11th inst., was published in the
Moniteur this morning. It bears evidence of the
comparative inactivity of commerce by a diminution
of 1,541,6011. in the discounts, and of a demand for
money on the part of the public by an increase in
the amount of advances on stocks and shares. The
circulation is now 22,530,5601., or 377,5141. less in
the amount shown in the previous return ; but the
bullion now amounts to no less than 13,509,0911., or
2,194,928/. more than in March. This addition has
been wade apparently in the ordinary and regular
course, as the item of premiums paid upon purchases
of gold and silver has disappeared from the present
account.

The Provincial Trade Reports, though showing
dulness compared with the activity which distiu-
guished the early part of last year, are growing more
favourable. The American trade is improving, and
a little more is doing for India and Australia ; but
the general course of improvement points more to
an increase of home rather than of foreign demand
for our principal manufactures.

BOYLE—On the 9th inst., at 12, Lower Leeson-street, Dublin,
the wife of David Boyle, Esq., Barrister-at Lew, of a son.
BP ANDREW—On the Sth instant, at Brighton, the wife of
Captain J. D. WAtilrew, 78th Highlanders, of a daughter.
MONA ELL —On the Stb instant, at Paris, Berthe, wife of the
Right Hon. W. Monsell, of a son.
MARRIAGES.

HOME—SPIERS—On the 9th instant. at Whitehouse, near
Edinburgh, Sir George Home, Bart., of Blackadder, to Ann
Oliphant, daughter of the late Graham Spier', Esq.
STEWART —WNEILL—On the 6th instant, at Edinburgh,
Lieut. Duncan Stewart, R N., to Margaret Ferooza, daughter
of the Right Hon. Sir John G.C.B.

AYLMER—On the sth instant, in Dawson-place, Admiral Fred.
Whitworth William, Baron Aylmer. K.C.8., aged 81.
BROWN—On the 6th instant, at South Barrow, Kent, Caroline,
widow of General Samuel Brown, aged 86.
CAREY—On the 4th instant, at Guernsey, Nicholas Carey, the
Very Rev. the Dean of Guernsey, aged 86.
FOSTER—On the 7th instant, at Belle Vue, near Hennebon,
France, Jane. relict of the late Lieut.-Colonel Foster, Com•
mandaut of Delhi, East Indies, aged 82.
HUN l'Elt —On the Bth instant, at Blackheath, Eliza, relict of
the late Alderman Wm. Hunter, Lod 76.
TRAVERS—On the Bth instant, in Green-street, Grosvenor-
square, Benjamin Travers, Eaq., F.R.S., Seeleant-Surgeon to
the Queen, aged 7b.

BOMBARDMENT OF CANTON.
Canton in the possession of the Allies.—The above news,
and the consequeut resumpUon of trade, enables the EAST
INDIA TEA COMPANY to quote their prioes for their 61b
begs at 2s. 2d. per lb. Coffee in the harry at 11d.—Warehouses
9, Great St .Helen's Churchyard, Bishopsgate.

BEDSTEADS, BATHS, AND LAMPS.
WILLIAM 8. BURTON has SIX LARGE SHOW-
ROOMS devoted exclusively to the Separate Display of Lamps,
Baths, and Metallic Bedsteads. The stock of each is at once
the largest, newest, and most varied ever submitted to the
public, and marked at prices proportionate with those that have
tended to make his establishment the most distinguished in this
country.
Bedsteads from Its 6d to 901 Os each
Shower-baths from
Lamps (Moderateur) from 6s Od to 71 7s each
(All other kinds at the same rate )
Pure Colza Oil 44 6d per gallon
FENDERS, STOVES, and FIRE IRONS.
Buyers of the above are requested, before finally deciding,
to visit WILLIAM S. BURTON'S SHOWROOMS. They
contain such an assortment of Fenders, Stoves, Ranges,
Fire Irons, and General Ironmongery, as cannot be approached
elsewhere, either for variety, novelty, beauty of design, or exqui-
siteness of workmanship. Bright Stoves, with bronzed wasp
mentsand two sets of bars, 41. 14s. t 0131.135.; ditto, with ormolu
ornaments and two sets of bare, 51. 6s. to 331. '-Os.; Bronzed
Fenders, with standards, from 7s. to Si. 121. ; Steel Fenders
from 21. 13s. to 111.; ditto, with doh ormolu ornaments, from
21.165. to DU. ; Fire-irons, from ls. 94. the set to 41. 4s.
The BURTON and all other PATENT STOVES, with ra-
diating hearth plates.

GASELIERS in GLASS or METAL.—The
increased end increasing use of gas in private houses has
induced WILLIAM S. BURTON to collect from the various ma-
nufacturers in metal and glass all that is sew and choice in
Brackets, Pendants, and Chandeliers, adapted to oflioes, pas-
sages and dwelling•rooms, as well as to have some designed ex-
pressly for him: these are ON SHOW over his SIXTEEN
LARGE ROOMS, and present, for novelty, variety, and purity of
taste, an unequalled assortment. They are marked in plain
figures, at prices proportionate with those which have tended to
make his Establishment the largest and most remarkable in the
kingdom—viz., from 12s. 6d. ( two-light) to 161. 165.

WILLIAM S. BURTON'S GENERAL FUR-
-1111 IRONMONGERY CATALOGUE may be had
gratis, and free by post. It contains upwards of 400 Illustra-
tions of his illimited Stock of Electro and Shefbeld Plate, Nickel
Silver and Britannia Metal Goods, Dish Covers and Hot-
water Dishes, Stoves, Fenders, Marble Mantelpieces, Kitchen
Ranges. Lamps, Gaseliers, Tea Urns and Ks Wes. Tea Treys,
Clocks, Table Cutlery, Baths and Toilet Ware, Turnery, Iron and
Brass Bedsteads, Bedding, Bed Hangings, do. dm., writ Lists of
Prices, and Plans of the Sixteen large Show Rooms at ae,
Oxford-street, W.; 1, la, 2, and 3, Newman-street; and 4,3,
and 6, POrT74-place, London, Established 1829,

261

OLARKE'S NEW PATENT PYRAMID,
V NIGHT LAMPS : Tin at Is.; Lacquered or Mynas& Wit.
each, for burning the NEW PATEN l' PYRAMID NIGHT
LIGHTS, the moat convenient, safe, and economic& yet intro.
duced—Sold by all Grocers and Lamp Dealers; and wholesale
by S. CLARKE, 56, Albany-street, Regent's Park, and bj
PALMER and CO., Clerkenwell, London, E.C.

TJEATING'S PALE NEWFOUNDLAND
11. COD-LIVER OIL, perfectly pure, nearly tasteless, and
free from adulteration of any kind ; having been analysed, re•
ported on, and recommended by Professors Taylor and Thom.
son, of Guy's and St.. Thomas's Hospitals, who, in the words of
the late Dr. Pereira, say that " the finest oil is that most devoid
of COLOUR, ODOUR, and FLAVOUR," characters this will be found
to possess in a high degree. Half-pints, Is. 6d.; Pints, Is. U.;
Quarts, 4s. 64.; and Five-pint Bottles, lOs Od., Imperial Ides-
snre.-79, St. Paul's Chitrehyard, London.

DAVIES'S CANDLES, 64d. and 7d. per lb. ;
genuine Sperm, 25. ; Transparent Wax, 2s. 24. ' • best
Wax, !Led.; fine British Wax or Sperm, le. bid.; German Wax,
Is. W.; Botanic Wax, Is. lid. ; Patent Wax or Sperm, Is. 14d.
per lb. ,• Composite, 2ed., 104 d., and lied.; Moulds, Eted.;
mer's Metallio, one or two wick., 9d. ; Magnums, W.; Yellow
Soap, Us., 42a., 46a, and 40s. per 112Ibs. ; old Brown Windsor,
Is. ad. per packet; common Brown Windsor. Is.; Honey, lit4d.;
White Windsor. 16.4 d.; Rosa, as.; Almond, 2s. 6d.; Colas Oil„
4s. 64. per gallon ; French, 4s. ; genuine Sperm, Bs. 6d.
(or Cash, At M. P. DAVI F.S and SON'S.
63, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, Charing-cross, London. W.C.

110 YOU WANT LUXURIANT HAIR,
WHISKERS, &c. i—COUPELLE'S CRINCTRIAE is
guaranteed to produce whiskers, moustachios, eyebrows. &c.. in
two of three weeks with the utmost certainty, strengthen weak
hair, prevent its falling off, check greyness in all its stages, and
reproduce the hair in baldness, from whatever cause, price 2s.
Sold by all Chemists in the world; or will be sent post free, on
receipt of 21 penny postage-stamps, by Miss Conpelle, 89, Castle-
street, Newman street, o:ford-street, London. A toilet guide
sent post free for four penny postage-stamps. " It completely
restored my hair."— Miss Davis. " My whiskers are now grow-
ing freely."—H. Merry, Esq.

DEAFNESS.—The only medal awarded at
If the Great Exhibition of 1451 (for Acoustic Instruments)
was to F. C. REIN, for his new ACOUSTIC INSTRUM 1? NTS
for the DEAF. They are made of different power, to suit em-
treme and every degree of Deafness. To be procured only of
the sole inventor and maker, F. C. REIN, lod, STRAND.
nearly opposite Exeter-hall, where the Instrument can be tried
and numerous testimonials seen ; amongst many. one from the
Right Hon. Sir John Patteson, one of her Itulesty's Privy
Councillors.