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

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NE WS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Bank of England return completed to the
Bth January shows some rather important variations.
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 reguring special report.
Subjoined are the particulars :
Active Circulation £20,353,615
Increase • • 188,075
Bullion ~ .. • • . • 16,046,017
Increase .. • • • • 84,578
Rest .. • • • • • • 3,232,385
Increase .. • • • • • • 51,301
Public Deposits 4,542,974
Decrease .. • • .. 2,802,859
Other Deposits.. .. 18,206,488
Increase .. • • • • .. 3,170,426
Seven Day and other Bills .. 733,060
Increase .. • • • • 80,410
Government Securities •12,768,618
Increase . . 1,206,916
Other Securities .. 18,156,887
Decrease 604171
Notes unemployed .. .. 9,505,300
Decrease 121,425
To-day a call of £1 55., amounting to £90,000,
became due on the Great Northern 51 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-

call also conveyed a large quantity of cotton.

since the reduction in the Bank rate of discount
the money market has presented a much easier ap-
pearance, and first-class bills can be negotiated as
low as 2.1 per cent. The release of the dividends
has largely augmented the available supplies.

A small quantity of gold, viz,, £6,000, was sen
into the Bank of England yesterday.

The Athenian, from the West Coast of Africa,
lias 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. It. Carter in the
chair—when the directors' report, recommending a
dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free
of 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 goods 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 to-day 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 931 and 931 1, but have since declined
to 93: for money, and 93 for the account. The
I\tew Threes and the Reduced are steady at 931 ;
Exchequer Bills, March, have improved to 17s.
and 19s. prem. ; ditto, June, to 20s. and 225.
prem, ; Bank Stock is firm at 239 and 240; and
India 5 per Cent. is 1061
Foreign Securities have exhibited continued
buoyancy, but the dealings have not been so
numerous. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 81 and 82 ;
ditto, 1858, 711 to 72±; Mexican are firm at 281 ;
Spanish have improved to 511 ; Brazilian to 1001 ± ;
and Italian to 631 64/ ; Venezuelan remain at 231.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been moderately active, but prices generally have
shown less firmness. Great Westerns, Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, and Midlands have declined
68. ; Caledonian, 155.; and Lancashire and York-
£l. North Eastern (Berwick), and South
zasterns, 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 181 ; Dutch
Rhenish at 156 6 ; and Bahia and San Francisco at
164. 1. Grand Trunk of Canada have declined to
24 21; East Indian improved to 101± 1; and
Great Indian Peninsula, to 1011 1.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares re-
illained without material change in values.

-11 ank Stock
Per Cent.fßeduced Annuities 931 4 4 3
4 per Cent. Consols Annuities
4
yew 3 per Cent. Annuities 934 kt 4
ew 24 per Cent. Annuities
'3./inuities, 30 yrs, expire ,Sth Jan., 1880 —
Indibitto
S for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 9-16 7-16
Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent. lOO 99f 4
Ditto 51 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 991
Ditto Bonds £l,000
Consols for Account, Feb. 6 935 t 4 4
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
March. 1 June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 17 19 22 20 22
Ditto £5OO ..
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Srazilian. 5 per Cent
Ditto Account
Mexican' 3 per Cent
Ditto Acco,nt
.. 284 1 I
Peruvian 3 per Cent
Ditto (Uribarren), 44 per Cent. .. 96
Ditto 3 per Cent -
Ditto Account .............
Portuguese •3
per C. ent., 1853. .
Ditto Account i 464
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St 995
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent.—
_Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
724 4 2 4 2 14
Ditto £lOO Bonds;
74f
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian 5 per Cent. Ex. 10 Florins 47
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 . 644 34
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 44 per Ct. Ex. 4s. 885

THREE O'CLOCK,
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tuts DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam . 11 18/ 11 181
Antwerp . 25 472 25 572
Brussels — 25 472 25 57k
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles .. •
...
Frankfort on M.aine
25
.1814.71 25 521
Vienna -
14 1181
40 14 50
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin 32i 321
.
Madrid
Cadiz 4 "---. 48# 48a
Leghorn — 25 70 25 75
Milan — 25 65 25 721
Genoa — 2.5 6.5 25 721
Naples
Palermo • 1181 119
Messina
Lisbon —51 a
Oporto --511 52
l'"eign. Gold •in Bars (standard) ... • ), £3 17 0
Mexican Dollars
)1 0 4 11#
, .. ~ 0 5 ih
Silver in Bars (Standard)
80 „ 6 0 0
South American Doubloons

ACCIDENT TO COLONEL TAYLOR, M.P,—An acci•
dent that providentially is not of a serious nature, has
°ccurred to Colonel Taylor, M.P. for the county of Dublin
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
baud. One of the party, Lord Naas, who was with him, at
;lice proceeded to Portarlington, where Dr. Fisher
r°l4lDtlY gave the necessary surgical assistance, and the
gallant colonel with his friend were enabled to come up to
to?
111, When Col. Taylor was at once placed under the care
llrgeon Smyly. The gallant colonel is so great a favou-
-I:t6 With all classes that any accident to him would be
114cerely regretted,--AYamlfrs' New.