The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY IVEIVS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Some satisfactory features are exhibited in the
Bank of England return completed to the 23d of
May. The bullion, owing to the fa'iling off in the
demand for the Continent, and the arrivals from
Australia and the United States, has been largely
augmented, while the increase of notes consequent
upon the more easy state of the money market,
shows an addition of nearly three quarters of
a million. The policy of the directors in reducing
the rate of discount is fully warranted by the large
reduction in the other securities. The pubiic de-
posits show a small augmentation, while in the
private deposits an increase to a large amount is
perceptible. In the other items there is no parti-
cular variation requiring special notice. Subjoined
is an analysis of the balance-sheet :
Active Circulation ..
Decrease
Bullion ..
Increase
Rost

.. £21,223,290
.. 381,775
.. 15,844,195
.. 316,845

Increase
3Pablic Deposits
Increase .. • •
Other Deposits • • • .
Increase .. • •
Seven Day and other Bills ..
Decrease ' .. • .
.Govern.ment Securities

3,287,026
• • 6,604
• • 7,066,533
• • 81,190
.. 12,569,818
344,166
694,115
. • 62,70$
.. 9,728,943
No alteration.
19,936,674
329,366
• •
8,346,100
723,510
ll•

ether Securities
Decrease ..
If etas Unemployed
Increase ..

A niodorate demand for money is reported in the
gener P.l market, and choice bills are negotiable at
3i per cent., the bankers and brokers being dis-
posed to make a slight concession in order to re-
sume business.

Tho foreign exchanges, yesterday afternoon,
exhibited no material variation.
Ab out £64,000 in gold was sent into the Bank
of En gland yesterday.

Th e steamer Masselia, which leaves to-morrow for
Bombay, will take out £5,000 in gold, and £14,650
in oil ver.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday the
demand was very inactive, and prices had a down-
ward itendency. The sales amounted to about 6,000
bales.

Th e official returns relative to trade and naviga-
tion for the four months ending the 30th of April,
1860, have just been published. From these it ap -
pears that the total declared value of the exports
from the United Kingdom for the four months was
X 41,834,347, against £41,851,524, showing an in-
crease of X 17,177 compared with the like period in
1859, the increase is perceptible in beer and ale,
cotton manufactures, cotton yarn, and British
spirits, while there is a decrease in coals and culm,
haberdashery and millinery, hardwares and cutlery,
linen manufactures, machinery and silk manu-
factures. The importations of the principal
articles have been larger as regards cocoa,
coffee, raw cotton, fruits, provisions, spices, sugars,
tallow, tea, tobacco, wine, and sheeps' and lambs'
wool; there was a diminution in live animals,
wheat, flour, hemp, raw silk, and timber.
The shipping accounts exhibit an increase in the
amount of tonnage employed in the foreign trade
of the United Kingdom for the four months of
241,227 tons for the entries inwards, and of 81,346
tons for the clearances outwards.

In the coasting trade for the four months
273,774 tons more were employed than in the cor-
responding period of 1859, for the entries inwards
and 368,618 tons for the clearances outward.
The market for Public Securities has been quiet
to-day, and the quotations have not undergone any
Inattrial variation. At first there was a little
heavineaq, but the closing quotations showed in-
creased firmness, Consols being 95 to 951 for money,
and 951- a for account. The New 3 per Cents. and
the Reduced are steady at 931 y. India Loan re-
mains "106 s j ; and the Reduced are 961. Ex-
chequer Bills`a._l4. to 9s. prem.
In the Foreign Stocx Imq i ness has been
quiet, and prices are tolerably steady.
6
per Cents. are 75 to 751 ; ditto New, 571 to 58t;
Spanish are firmer at 481 ; and Mexican at 214 ;
Portuguese are rather flatter at 441 z ; Buenos
Ayres 6 per Cents. are marked 8%,
The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21
prem.; the Thames and Mersey ditto, 1.1 prem. ;
and the Universal ditto, 4 .7-; prem.

A very limited business has been transacted in
the Railway Share Market, and a slight decline
has taken place in several of the principal under-
takings. Lancashire and Yorkshire, North-Western,
and North-Eastern (York), have receded ss. ;
Great Northern, North-Eastern (Berwick), and
South-Eastern, 10s.; and Bristol and Exeter, £l.
IR the Foreign and Colonial Markets the
transactions have been unimportant. Lom-
bardo-Venetian declined to 12 ; Grand Trunk
of Canada to 3111 32, Great Western of Canada to
121 2, East Indian have improved to 1011- 102.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con•
tinue dull, Union of London have receded about 55.,
London Chartered of Australia improved 55.,
Australian Agricultural declined 10s. and Scottish
Australian Investment advanced £l.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93/ 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities -
India Stock ..
Ditto +5 per Cent. .
Ditto Debentures, 1858 —
Ditto 1859 96a
Consols for Account (6th June)
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
Brasilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 4/ per Cent. Scrip, 1860
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Mexican 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 18.53.. . 44/ a
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money
Ditte June Account

TIIIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON', May 20.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; fresh breeze, with heavy showers of rain, and
occasional sunshine.

PORTSMOUTH, May 25.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed—Her
Majesty's steamer Ariadne, for the Downs.
OPF COWES, May 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—New
York, steamer, from New York.
CARDIFF, May 25.—Wind W.—Sailed—Joseph San-
matt, for Callao ; Margaret Jane, and Gundon Rebow, for
Bilboa.

SOUTHAMPTON, May 25.—Arrived--Athens, screw
steamer, from the Cape of Good Hope. Sailed—Sedge-
More, for the Cape of Good Hope.
FALMOUTH, May 25.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived—Cinq
Mai, for Moulmein.
QUEENSTOWN, May 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—lda,
from Trinidad.
WATERFORD May 24.--Wind S.W.—Sailed—Thames,
for Quebec.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning.
Wind W., with occasional showers.
j Arrived, May 25.—William, from Rouen ; Whim, from
41T3' A.thens, steamer, from Cape of Good Hope; Lien-
'.pteamer, from Dublin, for London.
Caralig't„lviay, 25.—Malvina for London ; Mary Ann fo
' anny, for Newport'. Havre, steamer, for Havre; ;
Wonder, steamer, for Jersey.

SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Wind W.S.W., tide five hours ebb, weather fine.
Arrived, May 25—cadiz, steamer, from Cadiz.
Arrived, May 26—Devonshire, from Mauritius ; Caroline,
from iionstraP; Eagle, from St. Lucia; Jane and Mary;
from Terce
from ira ; Dart, from Caen ; Lucy from Guernsey ;
Leda, ts; Johanna, from Nieu Dieppe; Vesper,
from Dantsic ; Nordetern from Libau ; Asia, from Bar-
badoes • Zuma, from Guernsey • Almuth, from Thisted
Commodore, from Lagos; Margaret, from Demerara
Arab, from Manzanilla.
quis of Argyl
tl,;
Sailed—Maror Sydlley. Holland, for Ostend Henrich Chrisopher, for Konigsberg.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Wind W.S.W., fresh.
Passed—Eclipse, from Madeira, for London ; Carnatic,
from Vancouver's Island ; Caronin, from Jamaica, for Lon
don ; Java, barque, from westward, for London ; Dorothea.,.
from London, for Aspinwall ; Lady Hilda, from London, for
Barbadoes ; Charch, ship, from New Orleans, for Bremen.
Elizabeth Dawson, from Sunderland., for Genoa, at anchor.
outside the Goodwin, with loss of foremast and damage,
being run into by tho American ship John Ravenell, from
Charlestown, for Cronstadt.

Le Comte Adalbert de Talleyrand-Perigord and
the Count Langlos have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn-street.