The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND C

CITY, Two o'CLocic.
The Bank of England Return completed to the
Ist February shows some important changes, and
fully bears out the soundness of the policy of the
Directors in raising the minimum to 4 per cent.
There is a large decrease in the bullion, amounting
to over half a million sterling, while the Reserve of
Notes has been diminished by about three-quarters
of a million. The Other Securities, owing to the
active demand for mosey, and the apprehension that
a further rise in the rate was imminent, have been
largely increased ; but a considerable reduction
will, no doubt, take place, owing to the repayment
of the bills due to day (the 4th of the month). The
Public Deposits show a small falling off, but the
private balances have been necessarily augmented
to a considerarable extent by the large advances
obtained. The Government Securities have also
been diminished. In the Active Circulation there
is a slight augmentation. The other items of the
balance-sheet show no variation of importance;
they will be seen in the subjoined table :
Active Circulation .. Z 21,906,340
Increase •• •• •• •• 279,460
Bullion 14,942,502
Decrease •• •• •• •• 616,594
Rest .. 3,324,479
Increase .
.• •• •• , , 29,344
Public Deposits 5 309 759
Decrease .. 219,969
Other Deposits •• •• •• 14, 484, 676
Increase 404,929
seven Day and other Bills .. 784,119
Decrease 76,647
Government Securities •• •• 10, 171, 190
Decrease . • 240,213
Other Securities • • • • . 20,773,681
Increase 1,273,924
Notes Unemployed .. 6,846,370
Decrease .. 869,370

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday busi.
ness was moderately active, and prices steady,
The sales were estimated at 7,000 bales.

An active business is reported in the Money
Market owing to the preparations for the bills due
to-day, the 4th of the month.
There were no bullion operations at the Bank of
England yesterday.
In the Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon
the quotations for Viennia and Trieste were rather
more favourable.

At the forthcoming meeting of the Bank of
Egypt the directors will propose a dividend of £1
15s. per share free of income tax.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £441,176, and the exports, £327,619,
exclusive of the following shipments direct from
London to the Continent during the week ending
Thursday last :
Gold coin, Calais
Boulogne
Silver coin, Calais
1) Canaries 1,600 „
Boulogne
The transactions in the market for public secu-
rities to-day have been limited, as usual at the close
of the week, but increased firmness has been appa-
rent, Consols having advanced to 94/ a for money,
and to 94Z- 95} for the account. Fresh speculative
purchases have been effected, and greater confidence
is felt in the prospects of monetary affairs. The New
3 per Cents. are firm, at 94/ 95 ; the Reduced are
steady, at 94/ I; India New Loan remains heavy,
at 1031 ; ditto 4 per Cent. Enfaced Paper is marked
831; ditto 5 per Cent., 97/ 98 ; and ditto 53- per
Cent, ditto is firm, at 104 ; Exchequer Bills hays
improved to 235. prem. ; and Bank Stock is 230.

A fair amount of business has been transacted in
the Foreign Stock market, and prices, in a few in-
stances, show an advance. Turkish 6 per Cents.
are 781 to 781 ; ditto New, 66 to 661. Brazilian
5 per Cents. have receded to 10211 Buenos Ayres
Deferred to 221; and Dutch 4 per Cents. to 1011.
Mexican is firm at 211, and Russian 41 per Cents.
at 98 ; ditto 3 per Cents. are heavy at 651.
The Ocean Marine Insurance shares are 11 to
21 prem.; Universal ditto, I I prem.; the Bank of
Turkey is I I dis. ; and the Canada Loan, 21 1
prem.

In the Railway Share market the dealings are
limited, but prices are well maintained. North
Western, south Western, Brighton, and Lancashire
and Yorkshire, have improved about ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines are inactive, but
late prices are maintained.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares are
dealt in to a moderate extent at previous rates.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 94
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
*dia. Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaeod Paper, 4 per cent B3a
Ditto 6 per Cent.
Ditto 5} per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 1858 97}
Ditto, 1859
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
')itti under £l,OOO
C mole for Account
xch)quer Bills, £lOOO, lid 23
Ditto £5OO

Ditto Small, lid.

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
razilian 5 per Cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —
Ditto Deferred
Equador New Consolidated
Nlcziean 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
aussia.n, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41 per Cent. .. — 9 B
Ditto, 3 per Cent., 1859 6sk
Sardinian, 5 per Cent B5.
panish 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Ditto Deferred 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Spanish Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded 4l
Curkish 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in Londox.
Ditch Exchange, 12 Guil. 2f per Cent —
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 941 ir
Ditto Account (March)

TILE PRINCE OF WALES IN THE
HUNTING FIELD.

On Friday, the 27th ult., the South Oxfordshire
hounds met at Menmarsh Guide-post, to which
meet his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, look-
ing every inch a sportsman, trotted up on his grey
hack, and found one of his clever hunters
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Oxfordshire would prove a blank, but as the day
advanced there was a change for the better. The
noble master of the hunt the Earl of Macclesfield,
who hunts his own hounds, trotted to Water-
perry Wood, one of the many covers belonging to
that "fine old English gentleman," J. W. Henley,
Esq., who is no less distinguished as a cou*ty
member than he is as a preserver of foxes and a
lover of the noble and national sport. Here a fox
of the right sort was unkennelled and went away
like a shot, but thu Earl, with his accustomed
alacrity, clapped the hounds close to roynard's
brush. Over Waterperry Brook they went to
Holton Wood and right through it, but the fox
was unfortunately headed in his attempt to break
from that covert. He then took a turn round the
wood, and made his point over the Stanton-road
into the Shortover pleasure grounds, leaving the
mansion to the right, then ran the valley
nearly to Littlemore, the hounds at this
point running as if they could see their
fox up the hill to the right, and shot over to
the village. of Horspath ; leaving that to the right,
he pointed as if for Sandford Brake, but altering
his course he ran to the new enclosures, where
posts and rails, single and double, were too nume-
rous and by no means agreeable to the field. The
hounds hunted their fox beautifully, and Lord
Macclesfield and the Prince rode stride by stride
over the valley in and oat the rails side by side, as
if they were running in couples--up the hill—all
went over the heavy ploughed land, to the Garsing-
ton road when a check, and a welcome one,
although but short, occurred ; one of his lordship's
quick and judicious casts soon brought all on the
line of the old fox once more, when they ran him
merrily across the Denton fields, leaving the village
to the left, over the Denton woods, and pointed for
Chislehampton ; but poor reynard's strength began
to fail him, when he tried all his cunning, but it
was of no avail, for the hounds pressed him to the
Chislehampton road, and he was finally run into
in the village of Garsington, after the best run of
the season, the time being 1 hour and 20 minutes.
His lordship presented the Prince, who was well
up at the death, with the brush, a compliment which
his Royal Highness appeared to appreciate, and no
doubt will preserve as a pleasurable reminiscence
of his first day with the South Oxfordshire hounds.
His Royal Highness rode well and boldly, and his
appearance in the field was hailed with great de-
light, and may be regarded as an epoch in the his-
tory of this truly.national sport.