The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-10 00:00:00

3/0 ,?t7..P 31,4 1? K T AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Bank of England return completed to the
Bth January shows some rather importantvariations.
The bullion has been further slightly increased, but
there is a decrease in the reserve of notes. The
Public deposits, owing to the payment of the usual
half-yearly dividends, show a large diminution, but
a Considerable addition has been made to the private
balances. The other items of the balance-sheet
Present little variation requring special report.
bubjoincd are the particulars :
Active Circulation .
Increase ..
Bullion .. • • ••• ••
Increase .. • •
Rest .. •• •• ••
Increase ..
Public Deposits • • • •
Decrease .. • •
Other Deposits.. .. • •
Increase .. • • • •
Seven Day and other Bills ..
Increase .. • •
Government Securities
Increase ..
Other Securities • .
Decrease
Notes unemployed ..
Decrease

.. £20,353,615
188,075
.. 16,046,017
84,578
3,232,385
51,301
4,542,974
2„ 802 809
18,206,488
.. 3,170,426
.. 733,060
• . 811,410
.. 12,768,618
1,206,946
.. 18,156,887
604,171
.. 9,505,300
121,425

To-day a call of £l_ 55., amounting to £90,000,
became dae on the Great Northern 5-I per Cent.
Preference Shares.

Great excitement prevailed in the Liverpool
Cotton Market yesterday, and prices advanced fully
id- per lb. The sales amounted to 25,000 bales.
The Glasgow, which left yesterday for New York,
took out 1,260 bales, and the steamer North Ameri-
can also conveyed a large quantity of cotton.
Since the reduction in the Bank rate of discount
the
moneymarket has presented a much easier ap-
pearance, and first-class bills can be negotiated as
low as 21 per cent. The release of the dividends
has largely augmented the available supplies.
A small quantity of gold, viz., £5,000, was sent
into the Bank of England yesterday.
The Athenian, from the West Coast of Africa,
has brought £B,BOO in specie.
The failure has taken place of Mr. U. U. Martin,
'wholesale cheesemonger, of Thames-street, but the
liabilities are supposed to be limited.
During the last few days the progress of business
in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets has
been more active, the favourable accounts from
America having stimulated operations in most of the
Principal staples. Sugars have been in good de-
mand at enhanced rates, while coffee, cocoa, and
rice have fully maintained previous values. For
saltpetre there has been a steady demand, and quo-
tations show an upward tendency. Tallow, how-
ever, has continued dull ; P.Y.C., on the spot, having
declined to 495. 6d. to 50s. per cwt.
The half-yearly meeting of the Commercial Dock
Company has just been held—Mr. R. Carter in the
chair—when the directors' report, recommending a
dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free
uf income tax, was declared. It was stated that the
business of the company has been of a satisfactory
character during the past year. The imports of
Wood gcods have been large, and the Docks have
received a fair share of that business, the stock of
Wood being in excess of that at the same period
last year. The granaries have been well occupied
throughout the year.
A large amount of business has been transacted
again today in the market for Public Securities,
and renewed indications of buoyancy have been pro-
duced by a continuance of speculative purchases,
and the confident feeling engendered by the ar-
rangement of the American difficulty. Consols
have been 93i d and 934 4, but have since declined
to 93A
# for money, and 934 4 for the account. The
tNew Threes and the Reduced are steady at 931-1 ;
xchequer Bills, March, have improved to 17s.
and 19s. prem. ; ditto, June, to 20s. and 225.
rem. ; Bank Stock is firm at 239. and 240; and
India 5 per Cent. is 1064 4.
Foreign Securities have exhibited continued
buoyancy, but the dealings have not been so
numerous. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 81 and 82 ;
ditto, 1858, 714 to 724 ; Mexican are firm at 28,4 ;
Spanish have improved to 514 ; Brazilian to 1004 ;
and Italian to 63! 644; Venezuelan remain at 234.

In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been moderately active, but prices generally have
shown less firmnees. Great Westerns, Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, and Midlands have declined
53. ; Caledonian, 155,; and Lancashire and York-
thire, £l. North Eastern (Berwick), and South
-Easterns, however, have improved 55., and Eastern
Counties and Great Northerns 10s.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the
'variations have been unimportant. South Austrian
and Lombardo-Venetian are steady at 18/ ; Dutch
Rhenish at 151 ; and Bahl% and San Francisco at
161 t• Grand Trunk of Canada have declined to
201 21; East Indian improved to 1011 /; and
Great Indian Peninsula, to 1011 1.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares re-
'3lained without material change in values.

"lank Stockßutinsa FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
239 40
aa Per Cent.ißeduced Annuities 93a i f
IPer Cent. Consols Annuities
`dew 3 per Cent. Annuities 93s i lit
-Pl",v 21 per Cent. Annuities 77a
'lntruities, 30 rs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditt ro
Stock yrs,
for 30 Y , expire sth April, 1885 2 5
259-16 7-16
India
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent. lOO 99a
Ditto 51 per Cent . .. 106
I)" to Bonds £l,000
Consols for Account, Feb. 6 931 I i
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
March. I June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 17 19 20 22
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small —

I 20

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
qrazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Acco nt
~Pardsh 3 per Cent
Turkish 6 per Cent. —
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds:
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
-Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s BBl

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

TAE SILK ROBBERY.—At the Central Criminal
Court this morning, the trial of the persons accused of
stealing a large pi ‘ntity of silk was resumed. The case is
not expected to finish before late to-morrow evening.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT ST. MARTIN'S-HALL.
*—The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the three unfor-
tunate men, Wood, Sabey, and Coglin, were resumed this
afternoon. There was no doubt about the cause of the
.deaths of the men ; the only point to be settled was whether
there,had been any negligence in providing for the safety
of the workmen. The inquiry was proceeding when we
went to press.

ACCIDENT TO COLONEL TAYLOT,,, M.P,—An acci-
dent that providentially is not of a serious nature, has
occurred to Colonel Taylor, M.P. for the county of Dublin
lie had been on a visit at Emo Park, and was out shooting
with a large party, when in loading his gun it accidentally.
went off and shot off the top of the thumb of the right
hand. One of the party, Lord Naas, who was with him, at
once proceeded to Portarlington, where Dr. Fisher
promptly gave the necessary surgical assistance, and the
gallant colonel with his friend were enabled to come up to
town, when Col. Taylor was at once placed under the care
of Surgeon Smyly. The gallant colonel is so great a favou-
rite with all classes that any accident to him would be
sincerely regretted.—Satoiders' News.

Snip ON FIRE AT SEA.—Captain Graham, of the
Anglo-Saxon, reports that on the 25th December, at 5 p.m.,
in latitude 44 30 N:, and longitude N W., he saw a light
on the horizon to the south east, like the reflection of fire.
Ile steered for it, and on nearing found it to be a burning
ship. At 6 p.m. passed dead slow about half a mile to
windward, and could plainly see by the reflection that there
Vas no person on,board. When passing the burning ship
" two lights not far off, which he thought might be her
boats with the crew. He made towards them, and found
they were two ships under sail. Ho then returned to the
shi and steamed round her at a distance of from one mile
10
seven,and continued to do so for six hours, thinking that
1f the crew were not taken off he might fall in with them in
their boats. At 12.20 pm. he bore on his course, having
seen no signs of the boats, and supposing that the crew must
have been taken off by the two ships that were seen near
the
wr('ck. The ship was one mass of fire from the main-
mast to the stern. It was thought that the two ships were
probably
°bably Federal privateers who had fallen in with a Con-
cotton-laden ship for Britain, and taken off the
ere, and bitrnt her,