The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-25 00:00:00

NONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Bank of England return, completed to the
22d August, shows several alterations. The
bullion has been augmented to a moderate extent,
While the reserve of notes exhibit an increase
of considerably over a quarter of a million. To
the private balances there is the large addition
of a million sterling, while the public deposits,
"ring to Government disbursements, have been
sensibly diminished; and the other securities, in
consequence of the increased demand for money,
have been augmented by nearly half a million. In
the other items of the balance-sheet there are no
Movements of importance. Subjoined is our usual
table of the principal variations :
Active Circulation .. .. .. 121,360,580
Decrease .. • • .. .. 212,315
Bullion .. • • • • .. .. 15,680,840
Increase .• •• •• •• 133,091
Rest .. •• •• •• •• 3,532,936
Increase . 11,982
Public) Deposits • • • • • . 5,598,755
Decrease .. •.. • • • • 357,464
Other Deposits • • • • • . 13,816,364
Increase . 1,053,930
Seven Day and other Bills .. .. 724,018
Decrease .. .. • • • • 46,236
Government Securities 9,643,398
160,875
Decrease .. .. • • • •
Other Securities .. • • • . 19,816,415
Increase .. •• •• •• 476,415
Notes Unemployed .. • • • • 8,062,050
352,670
Increase .. • • • • • •
There is rather less demand for money in the
general market ; 4 per cent., however, is the
general charge for first-class bills. The increase in
the " other securities," shows that the Bank autho-
rities have obtained a large share of discount busi-
ness.
A sum of £60,000 in gold was sent into the
tank of England yesterday.

The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon ex-
hibited no change of importance.
The steamer Ellora, which leaves on Monday,
Will take £3,000 in gold to Alexandria, and
£30,000 to Bombay.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday there
Was a fair demand for most descriptions at about
Previous rates. The sales were estimated at 8,000
bales.
Notice has been given that the allotment letters
of the East India Irrigation and Canal Company
Will be issued on or before Wednesday next, and
that immediately after the necessary steps will be
taken to procure the quotation of the shares in the
°lfioial list of the Stock Exchange.
A. meeting took place yesterday of the creditors
Messrs. William Francis and Co., hide and
leather factors, who suspended in June, when the
liabilities were stated at £69,721, and the assets at
£10,951. It was finally agreed to accept a composi-
tion of 4s. lid. in the pound, 3s. 1-1-d. to be paid at
once, and the remaining is. by two instalments of
Gd. each.

Since Monday last the imports of specie have
amounted to £249,992, and the exports to £43,000.
The market for Public Securities is exceedingly
tat, but there is very little alteration in prices, and
the dealings have been limited. Consols are 921
fnr money and account: • The October quotation
18921, 938. The New 3 per Cents. are' flat at
; the Reduced at 93k. India New Loan has
receded to 1037 1; ditto 5 per cent. Enfaced Paper,
to 96Z ; and Exchequer Bills are ls. to 4s. prem.
In Foreign Securities the dealings have been
limited, and prices are rather firm. Turkish 6 per
Cents. are 731 to 74; ditto New, 591 601, and the
I Per Cents. remain at 1001 ; Spanish at 43 ; ditto
Deferred at 39.1 40; ditto Certificates have im-
Proved to 51 to 6, and Portuguese to 43g.
The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21, prm. ;
the Thames and Mersey, prm.; and the Uni-
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
inactive, and the few transactions recorded show
a further decline in prices. Eastern Counties,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, North Stafford, and South-Eastern
have receded ss. ; Midland, 10s.; and Great
Northern and North British, 15s.

In the Foreign and Colonial markets the trans-
actions have been very limited. East Indian have
declined to 991 ; and Great Western of Canada to
121.
. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
balls dull, at barely previous quotations.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
ti !, al* Stock
; Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 931 3
Per Cent. Consols Annuities
r„e,w, 3 per Cent. Annuities
',ma Stock. .... • —
Ditto 6 per Cent . .
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto
5 per Cent 961
u:tto Debentures, 1858
kiittO Bonds £l,OOO
,„ )itto under £l,OOO
`Jollsols for Account, 6th Sept 921
Exchequer
Bills, £l,OOO, . lid
Date £5OO 4 pm
FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 .. . 431
'''Pattish 3 per Cent ...
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred .. •.. 40
Ditto Account
°Panish39l
Cora. Cert. of Coup. not funded.. 6 54
itirkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, theer Cent. ........ 100 i
Dividends on above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent...
Ditto Certificate's, 4 per Cent. ........ 1011
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account. September

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Aug. 25.—Wind this day at noon—South- St!
L(
westerly; rather fresh breeze, and continuous rainy st(
Weather.
Bitixmot, Aug. 24.—Wind W. —Arrived—Martin
Luther, from London for Quebec, with three hands sick fast,
on board.
s
CARDIFF, Aug 24.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Jane
iiendriek, from Hong Kong ; Queen Hortense, from the
Cape of Good Hope ; B. Gardner, from Callao ; Kate
-minter, from Rio de Janeiro.
HULL, Aug. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—William Bate-
man, from Quebec.
GALWAY, Aug. 25.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Prince St
Albert, from New York • left on the 14th, sad St. John's, si
Newfoundland, on the 18th. si
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 24.—Wind W.S.W., blowing
hard.—Arrived—Maria Adolphine, from Amsterdam for
Batavia; her Majesty's ship Herald, from Plymouth.
Sailed—Her Majesty's steamer Colusses, for the west- s,
ward.

(ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
81
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning.
Wind W.S.W.; rain.
Arrived, August 24—Alliance, steamer, from Havre. s,
Sailed, Aug. 24—Havre, steamer, for Havre; South- Si
Western and Dispatch, steamers, for Jersey.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRANESEND, Saturday Morning.
Wind w.s.W ; tide, three hours' ebb; weather very
cloudy.
Arrived, Aug. 25—Prince Albert, and Duke of Cornwall,
from Guernsey; Flying• Fish, from Marseilles; Advance,
from Caen.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Wind W. S.W., fresh.
ltinchored—Wyvern, for Azores ; Buchanan, for Algoa
; Parga, for Leghorn—all for London.
,c
Passed—Albion, of Guernsey, from the westward for the
northward; Persia, from London for Quebec.

THE MAILS.

MAILS DUE.

-
Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South-
gept. 19
• • .. • • Sept. lE

. _
Do. (via Marseilles) b`.
Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. .. Aug. 30.
Canada, &c. (via Londonderry) .. .. .. Aug. 29.
Cape of Good Hope, &C. • • • • .. . . Sept. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Sept. 1.
Do. (via Marseilles) Aug. 26,
Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. .. Aug. 25.
India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &e. (via Southampton) Sept. 1.
Do. .(via Marseilles) Aug. 26,
India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .. Aug. 25.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. .. Sept. 3.
Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, &e. • • • • Sept. 5.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Aug. 25.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. Aug. 26,
Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto • • • • .. Sept. 1.
United States, California, Bte. .. .. • • Aug. 30.
Western Coast of Africa Madeira, Teneriffe .. Sept. 10.
West Indies and Pacifie,'Carthagena, Cuba, eve. Aug. 28

A YouTHFUL HERO —The silver medallion of the
Royal Humane Society was yesterday presented to William
Slattery, 14 years of age, of 9, Royton-street, Deansgate,
Manchester, for his intrepid exertions to save life on the
evening of November 25, 1859. Entirely regardless of his
own danger, he ascended twice to a room on fire in a lodg-
ing-house in Spinningfield, Manchester, the first time
bringing out two infant children, and the second their
mother, all of whom were encircled by flames, which he
aided to extinguish. The children did not long survive, but
their, mother recovered. We are informed that about £5
was subscribed for Slattery by the watch committee of the
Manchester corporation, at the time the above-named tes-
timonial was presented to him.