The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-16 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Bank of England return completed to the
13th June is of a rather satisfactory character. The
stock of bullion has been increased by nearly a
quarter of a million, while the relicrve of notes has
been strengthened by over half a million. The other
securities, owing to the advances made upon Go•
vernment Stock during the closin-g of the transfer
books, show a slight addition, but a large increase
is shown in both public and private deposits. The
active circulation consequent upon the collection of
the revenue exhibits a falling; off. The various
items and the changes they pr.( 'sent are exhibited
in the subjoined table :--
Active Circulation
Decrease
Bullion
Increase .. • •
Rest • • • • • •
Increase ..
Public Deposits
Increase ..
Other Deposits
Increase .. • .
Seven Day and other Bills
Decrease ..
Government Securities
Increase ..
Other Securities • •
Increase ..
Notes Unemployed ..
Increase

.. £20,967,435
.. 300,195
.. 16,194,569
.. 231,467
.. 3,233,519
7,251
.. 8,429,226
.. 676,427
.. 12,411,115
.. 239,516
.. 659,243
20,907
.. 9,764,106
5,103
.. 19,819,863
356,522
8,942,475
554,470

Full rates are still in demand in the Discount
Market, and an increased business is reported. The
expected introduction of 'new loans has rendered
capitalists more reserved, while, at the same time,
it may have had some effect upon the inquiry for
accommodation, although the angmented supply
of bills now on offer is mainly due to the extensive
payments on Revenue account.
About £39,000 in gold was sent into the Bank
of England yestetday.
The foreign f,xchanges yesterday afternoon ex-
hibited a furtl',er decline in the rates on Vienna
and Trieste.

A call of £3 per share, amounting to 90,000, is
due on Monilay the 18th inst. on the Severn Valley
Railway skiares.

In the "Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday a fair
amount of business was transacted, and prices were
unaltered. The sales were estimated at 7,000 bales.

Since Monday last the imports of specie hare
been about £589,775 and the exports £71,260,
exclusive of the following shipments direct from
London to the Continent during the week ending
Thursday last :—Gold coin—Oporto, 1,180 oz. ;
Boulogne, 260 o*. ; and Belgium, 600 oz. Gold
bars—Gibraltar, 5,052 oz. Silver coin—Boulogne,
2,000 oz,

The Market for Public Securities presents a very
heavy appearance, owing to some large sales of
New Three per Cents. An unfavourable effect is
also produced by the expected negotiation of
new loans. Consols, consequently, are rather
depressed, being 931 ex dividend. The New
Three per Cents. are steady, at 931 ; the
Reduced, 931 d ; India 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper
is 971 ; ditto Debentures are 964 ; and Ex-
chequer Bills are par to ss. prem.
Business in the Foreign Stock Market is very
quiet, and prices are rather depressed. Turkish
6 per Cents. are 761 to 771 ; ditto New, 591 to 601 ;
Russian 44 per Cents. have receded to NI and 974,
and Buenos Ayres Deferred to 241; Spanish Pas-
sive are 17 ; Brazilian 41 per Cents. (1852) are 87;
and Sardinian have improved to 83.

The Ocean Marine Insurance shares are 11 d pm. ;
the Thames and Mersey ditto, 11 1 prem.; and the
Universal ditto, 1- 1 prem.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
inactive, and the variations in prices have not been
important. Bristol and Exeter declined 1 ; Edin-
burgh, Perth, and Dundee, 1 ; Midland, 1 ; and
Scottish North Eastern, 1 ; Great Northern, and
South Western, advanced -1-; and North Western,
and South Eastern, 1.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
shown very little activity. Great Luxembourg are
dealt in at 61; San Paulo at 1; ; East Indian at
104 y ; Grand Trunk of Canada 30 and 301 ;
Great Western of Canada, 11 111.

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
are flat at barely previous quotations. Oriental
Bank have declined ss. ; Bank of Australasia, ss. ;
and Union of London improved ss. ; Crystal Pa-
lace have receded to 311.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 933 1,
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock.
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto A per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 1858
nits Bonds £l,000
Consols for Account, 10th July .. 933 1-
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
D r n £5OO 1 5 pm par
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brasilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1852
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —
Ditto Deferred
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St ..
Ditto 44 per Cent 97-1 6}
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent...
Ditto Passive
Turkish 6 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
—...

Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for Account, ex div. 93a f

T.HIS DAY'S SIIIPPLYG.

LONDON, June 16.—Wind this day at noon—North-
East; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather.
PORTSMOUTH, June 15.—Wind S.—Sailed—Venus, for
the Coast of Africa.
PLYMOUTH, June 15.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Wellesley,
for Australia.
FALTMOUTH, June 15.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—
Bomerges, from Moulmein.

CLYDE, June 16.—Wind S.W.—Sailed--Abbey Craig,
for St. John's, N.B.
GRIMSBY, Jun• 15.—Wind S.—Sailed--Sophia, for
Hayti..

OFF HURST CASTLE, June 16.—Arrived—Pera, steamer,
from Alexandria.
QUEZNSTOWN, June 15.—Arrived—Strathfield saye,
from Moulmein; Flora, from Iquique ; Shooting Star,
from Mazatlan.
TROON, June 16.—Wind
Sepimann, from Rio Janeiro.
:TORBAY, June 14.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived—Copen-
hagen, from Antwerp for Buenos Ayres.

(HY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning.

Wind N.E.
Arrived, June 16—Havre, steamer, from Havre.
Sailed—Pet, for Scilly ; Atalanta steamer, for Jersey.;
Enterprise, for Cardiff.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Wind E. ; tide three hours' flood ; weather light and
fine.
Arrived, June 15—Sir Bevis, from Calcutta ; Phillip,
from Leghorn.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Wind easterly ; light.
Passed, June 15—Chancellor, barque, from Shields for
Constanstantinple ; Maria Theresa, from Shields for
Naples.
Passed in tow—Witch of the Wave, brig, from Callao
for Loudon.

Bost .Rooms.—For our own part, we think
iirnekd
there is something perfecty terrifying
into a fine, stately drawing-room, the
thepo fire-irons
barm
shining with unnatural brightness
arranged in stiff angles, evidently never appro-
priated to their purpose—the tables most geometrically
studded with glossy, unread volumes of rubbish, and tie
besilked and betasselled sofas looking as if they were in-
tended for anything but sitting on. We give an involun-
tary shudder as we are left to gaze upon costly chimney'
ornaments and japanned screens, whiie the lady of the house
is, most probably, making a rush to execute the metamor-
phose of dress and cap. We would much rather have been
introduced to the common parlour, where we should have
beheld some signs of social vitality, and thawed ourselves
into good-humoured cheerfulness ; but then and there we
might have seen a basket of stockings and socks undergoing
the process of repair ; the youngsters might have been lug-
ging the chairs about, and left a tailless horse and wheelies'
cart in the foreground. We might have formed suspicions
that bloaters had ben e among the matin condiments, and
oh most dire of all ! we might have found the mistress in
a somewhat rumpled morning wrapper and a " fright of a
cap ;" still we should greatly prefer the risks of breaking
our neck over Noah's ark, sitting down on a heap of un-
darned hose, and encountering a fifth-rate head-gear, to the
petrifying, spirit-damping fifteen minutes we are often
sentence to in a " best room." The children, if there
happened to be such humanising things in the esta-
blishment, look upon the walls with a sort of reli-
gious awe. They never" play" in the " best room ;"
they never dream of clutching at the splendid bell-rope •,
they never have the most remote idea of making Lord
Mayor's coaches of the embroidered footstools; they never
,
think of playing at 80-peep" behind the richly-fringed
damask drapery ; they never dare to speculate u to whether,
with a stout pin, they could piek out the eyes of the queer
little man on the Inkiian cArd-box ; mirth and mischief are
thoroughly mesmerised, and the little darlings sit or stand
as though their life-tide had been suddenly manufactured
into the "best starck."—Eliza Cook's " Tottinis from my