The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-14 00:00:00

MONEY MAR KET A ATD CIT Y NE I'l S.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Bank of England return, completed to the
11th January, as usual at this period of the year,
shows some important changes. The payment of
the half-yearly dividend has diminished the public
deposits by about three millions and a half ster-
ling, while the private deposits, from the
same cause, have been augmented about two
millions. The other securities, in consequence
of the repayments of loans made upon stock
during the shutting of the transfer books,
have been lessened by nearly a million and a quar-
ter sterling, and the reserve of notes, owing to the
increased circulation, shows a moderate falling off.
The bullion, through the demand for the continent,
and the non-arrival of supplies from Australia and
the United States, together with the extra demand
Caused by the distribution of the dividends, has
been decreased to the extent of about a quarter of a
million sterling. In the other items of the balance-
sheet there is not much change of importance ; they
Will be seen in the subjoined table :
Active Circulation ..
Increase ..
Bullion
Decrease ..
Rest .. •
Increase •
Public Deposits
Decrease
Other Deposits
Increase

.. £21,831,320
• • 6,225
.. 16,224,129
.. 236,695
.. 3,250,728
.. 40,786
.. 5,564,925
.. 3,594,631
.. 15,543;469
.. 2,134,142

Seven Day and other Bills .. 812,439
Increase ' .. 16,844
Government Securities .. 10,963,822
Increase .. 40,040
Other Securities .. .. 19,892,930
Decrease 1,199,979
Notes Unemployed 8,170,740
Decrease .. 294,850
A farther sum of about £13,000 in bar gold was
'Withdrawn from the Bank of England.
The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon ex-
hibited no change of importance.
The dividend to be proposed by the Directors of
the Union Bank of Australia, at their meeting on
the 16th inst., will be at the rate of 16 per cent. per
annum.

The first instalment of 10 per cent., amounting
to £280,000, will hare to be paid on the Canadian
Loan on Monday next.

A call of £3 per share, or £90,000, is due on the
Severn Valley Railway Shares to-day.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday a fair
demand prevailed for most descriptions, at about
Previous quotations. The sales were estimated at
8,000 bales.

Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £283,102, and the exports £46,000, ex-
c2nsive of the following shipments direct from Lon-
ton to the Continent during the week ending
41111113 day last :
sold coin, Calais
Belgium 1,250 „
Ciolcrbars, Hambro' 36 „
Gibraltar and Cadez
1,950 „
'BII,Z coin, Calais
Hambre'

'Silver bars, do.
to "re firmness has been exhibited in the Market
of
he
Securities to-day, chiefly in consequence
the better feeling with regard to Foreign politics,
alld,the improving tendency of the Paris Bourse.
Console have been 9511 for money, 951 for ac-
count, but the market is now rather flatter, the
lotions
quotations for February being 951 1. The trans-
have been very limited as usual towards the
08° of the week. The New'Shares and the Re-
duced are steady at 951 ; Bank Stock is 228 t 3
X 29
; India New Loan is 1031 to 1042-, and Ex-
chequer Bills 28s. to 31s. prem.
Business in the Foreign Stock Market has been
Inoderately active, and prices are steady. Turkish
6 per Cents. are 771 to 781, ; ditto New, 641 to
85 ; 'and the 4 per Cents. have advanced to 1042 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents. to 44 -1-; Venezuelan 11 per
Cents. to 14,-1 ; Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents. to 83
; and ditto Deferred to 22k.
The Ocean Marine Insurance Company's shares
Its 11 to 1 prem., the Universal ditto a dis. to par,
the San Paulo Railway to t dis., the New Bank of
t
21'keYa to dis., and the Canadian Loan 21
went
iltThe dealings in the Railway Share Market have
fever limited, but in several instances prices
Vette 'vi more firmness. Great Northern, Great
kki sot% Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western,
dadllth Eastern improved ss. ; Brighton, 10s.,
7,1121 th British, 15s.
arter. 'Poreign and Colonial lines are also a shade
Titi Lombardo-Venetian realised previous
68.• Paris
tOlO
s., and Grand Trunk of Canada, £l.
tee,.
-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
(111°ttion
U In very limited request, at about yesterday's
s.

it BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
kit Stock
NLer Cent. Reduced Annuities 951 }
Cent. Consols Annuities
3
Licii Per Cent. Annuities
b.T
4 Sthek
Cent.
it, u per lO4 1 3
ur,7 to A
Debentures, 1858
InA-..'4315 for Account (Feb. 8)
—4ll Stook for Aeounnt
It
1„, to, 1859, 5 per Cent.
1).-4.quer Bills, £l,OOO, lid .
itte Small, 11a.
11 FOREIGN FUNDS—.CLOSING PRICES.
84i 3
1141108 Ayres, 6 per Cent
?obi tto Deferred 22}
itbtu:Suese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
L'eman, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
kiitto 41 per, Cent. 98 v..
t .2t.to, $ per Cent., 1859 5 6 1
~,g,l4ll::::linkiiittitist::l:6, per Cent B4
Pallith 3 per Cent. 44i
33f
78i 8
efirLpeoeeafnenr Deferred, ed , 3 per Cent.
65,1
1011
Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
V wezuelan 3 per Cent
Ditto lf per ce t
Be eiml)fli Wend:on the above payable in London.
I*--) -.2 per Cent., En. 251. 99

TWO O'CLOCK.

- - _
Consols, Money 951
Ditto Account (Feb.) ..

ZONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN

RAILWAY MEETING.

(THIS DAY.)
special general meeting of the proprietors of the South-
t" %tern Railway was held this day, at the Waterloo-station,
South-
t"
the Purpose of agreeing to the proposition for the amal-
Ckteation with this company of the Portsmouth Railway—
tAtain Mangles in the chair.
The report, which has already appeared in The Stan,
been taken as read,
a„' he CRAIRMAN said he exceedingly regretted to have to
tionnce that the present meeting must be adjourned. It
tlaa not until six o'clock last night that he was informed
ti:4lt it was impossible to have the deed prepared in
alrto lay it before the shareholders at the meeting
led for that day. The delay was occasioned by circum-
eTneea over which the directors had no control—the cause
lull the impossibility of arranging in time to suit all the
let gentlemen engaged in a consultation which it was
fra°lutelY necessary to hold. Although the report of the
and was short, their deliberations had been long
Within anxious, and they had struggled hard to keep
p the bounds that had been submitted to the pro-
:eters. There was no essential difference in tho
illia if the agreement with which the proprietors were
tented. (Hear, hear.) They had been settled, but
'eo4 had not yet been drawn up. Under these circum-
uatn."B he moved that the present meeting should adjourn
Saturday the 28th inst., at two o'clock.
Slcvd.r., seconded the proposition.
fix I.' IiEItAPATH wished to know why Saturday was
;14 11Pan, as it was a very inconvenient day.
v TITE said, on the contrary, ho thought Saturday was
ill.? Convenient one. (Laughter.)
pt a Motion for adjournment, after a few words from Mr.
.'relitty was agreed to. .

V'
180ount Palmerston left town yesterday after-
on for his seat, Broadlands, Hants.
T
eh , and Lady Lyveden are expected in town
-rtao Y
next week from Farming Woods, Northamptonshire.
41:1'6 Earl and Countess of Scarborough have left
'irk George's Hotel.
An :1E A.BANDONMENT OF THE SHIP MADRAS.—
cuinuquirY, directed by the Board of Trade, into the cir-
ttedsrces attending the abandonment of the barque
held as) J. Davies, from London for Sierra Leone, was
of Lon. Thursday, before Local Marino Board of the port
the ,„ °n• Mr. Henry Green presided, and Mr. Ingham,
tiZatistrate, assisted the board in conducting the inves-
eted; n• Slr. Tuke, solicitor, appeared to watch the pro-
w tilnge on behalf of the owner, Mr. Hilbery. Mr. Brown,
kin e 3103%1 Exchange Insurance Company, also attended.
in was abandoned November 27, and afterwards scuttled,
tue_der that she might not occasion damage to other
in 18. It was also alleged that the captain had been in-
not Pbeerate. The court were of opinion that the ship had
hoard been prematurely abandoned, but would report to the
of Trade upon the conduct of Captain Davies..