The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-21 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NE U'S.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Bank of England return completed to the
18th inst., shows some remarkable changes, the chief
feature being the large increase in the reserve of
notes and the consequent decrease in the circulation
caused by the return of the notes lately with-
drawn by a large discount establishment. In the
private deposits there is an increase of nearly
a million sterling, while the other securities
have been diminished to the extent of about three
quarters of a million sterling. The decrease in the
bullion is of an unimportant character; but a fa-
vourable feature in the return is the retention of
the amount of Government Securities, which re-
main the same as on the previous return. The
various items of the balance-sheet, and the .changes
they present, are shown in the subjoined table :
Active Circulation .. £21,816,665
Decrease .. .. 1,650,590
Bullion 14,624,686
Decrease _ 12,416
Rest ..

.. 3,211;759
• • 11,262
.. 5,838,581
39,554
.. 15,512,425
.. 941,708
.. 686,537
• • 19,292
.. 9,728,943
No alteration.
.. 22,790,338
.. 744,050
.. 6,548,560
1,626,475
The Foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
Were generally a trifle lower.

Increase .. • •
Public Deposits
Decrease ..
Other Deposita • • • •
Increase .. • •
Seven Day and other Bills ..
Decrease .. • • • •
Government Securities •4

Other Securities
Decrease ..
Notes Unemployed
Increase ..

A dividend of 71 per cent. per annum has been
declared by the Scottish Provincial Assurance
Company.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday a fair
amount of business has been transacted, but prices
Were heavy: The sales amounted to 10,000 bales,.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £212,732, and the exports £527,122,
Lxclusive of the following shipments direct from
ondon to the Continent during the week ending
Thursday last :—Gold coin, Rotterdam, 260 ozs.;•
ditto, Hambro, 400 ozs.

A quiet tone has pervaded the Stock Exchange
markets to-day, and very little alteration has taken
place in prices. Upon the whole quotations have
been tolerably steady, although at the present'
moment a little flatness is apparent, Consols being
94-.1 Ifor money; and 94gz, I for account. The New
3 per Cents. and the Reduced remain at 931 Z.
India Stock is firm at 221, ditto New Loan is
steady at 1061 1, ditto 5 per Cent. Enlaced Paper
at 981, ditto 51 per Cent. ditto is flat at 1039, but
the Debentures have improved to 969 971. .
Only a very small amount of business has taken
place in the Foreign Stock Market, and prices are
steady. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 761 -to 761 ;
ditto New, 611 to 62. Mexican remain at 211
and Russian 3 per Cents. at 66.
The Oaean Marine Insurance Shares are 2& I
prem. ; the Universal ditto, Z- ; and the Victoria
Loan is 10511.

Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. give the following
Is the prices of American securities :
Redeemable. Prices
*United States 6 per Cents.... 1867-1868
Do. 6 per Cent Bonds
Maryland 5 per Ct. Str. Bonds
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. Str
Bonds
Pennsylvania S per Ct. Stock -
Alabama 5 per Cent. Bonds -
sentudri 6 per Cent. Bonds lB6B-72
Ohio 6 per Cent. Stock lBB6
Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Bonds 1877
Tennessee 6 per Cent. Bonds. Divers
Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds
Virginia 5 per Cent. St. Bonds 1888
Illinois
5 per Cent. St. Bonds
Central 7 per Cent.
Illinois Central 6 per Cent.
Illinois Central 7 per Cent
(Freelands)
Igo. shares, 60 dols. paid .

914 92,1,
- 95± 961

101/ 102}
82 84
75 77
90 92
97 98
86 87
79 81
84 85
82 84

1875 79 80
1875 75 77

1860

90
41 dis

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
inactive, but prices have shown more firmness.
tristol and Exeter, South-Western, and South-
Eastern, have improved ss. ; Brighton, and Mid-
land, 10s.; and Great Northern, £l.
In the Foreign and Colonial Markets there was
very little animation. Bahia and San Francisco
improved to 61, and Sambre and Meuse declined to
6. East Indian are steady at 1011, 102 ; and Great
Indian Peninsula, at 991 1. Grand Trunk of
Canada brought 341 341; and Great Western of
Canada, 131.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares re-
main at about former values. London and County
have improved 55.; London and Westminster, ss. ;
and South Australian Land, 10s.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
aper Cent. Reduced Annuities 93 R I
per Cent. Consols Annuities
qv sw 3 per Cent. Annuities
andia Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent. 9Bl •
, Ditto 5} per Cent lO3l
Ditto Debentures, 1858 ..
Ditto, 1859
,Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO —
Ditto under £l,OOO
,eonsols for Account (May 9) 941
4achequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid 7 p
Ditto £5OO lO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
alexiean 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account 2ll I
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
,Ditto, 3 per Cent., 1859 65
-Lundell 6 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account _

Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 94f
Ditto Account

SIR JOHN LAWRENCE'S VISIT TO GLASGOW.-
akt a meeting of tho council, held on Tuesday, the Lord
rrovost said that before proceeding to the business of the
bleating, he might intimate that Sir John Lawrence had
44nt him a letter stating that he would be in Glasgow, he
Izpected, in the course of September, to receive the free-
'Loin of the city.

A strange affair has occurred at Avesnes (Nord).
The dead body of a man was found a few days ago in the
.hver Helpe, at the adjacent village of Avesnelles, and was
Le•ken. to the hospital. There, one Payen, and inhabitant
of the town, having examined it, declared that the decease*
Was his brother-in-law, a man named Petit, who had mys-
teriously disappeared six weeks before. On that
declaration, the death of Petit was duly registered, and the
torpso was buried. Payen paying the expanse of the fune-
ral. But to the astonishment of this latter, he the next
;iv met in the street alive and merry the aforesaid Petit I
21 answer to questions Petit said he had gone away from
"Q, 9 town in the exercise of his trade of dealer in rabbit
stins. Who the deceased was has not been ascertained.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A SENTRY.—A private
aithe 73d Regiment named Hurley, stationed at Chatham
~,4arracks, attempted to commit suicide while on guard in
`'hatham dockyard on Thursday. The man was posted as
!entry at the lower guard, when the report of a rifle was
beard. On the sergeant proceeding to the spot it was dis-
Overedi that Hurley had discharged his rifle at his head,
but the ball had passed nearly perpendicularly across his
Forehead, which it had only slightly injured. He was im-
kediately conveyed on a stretcher to the garrison hospital,
and as soon as ho has recovered will be tried by court-mar-
tial for mutilating himself. It is stated that Hurley on
'ki.Yrevious occasion attempted to commit suicide by drown-
`4,.g himself, and it would seem that he is a man of rather
^eak intellect.

The French army has just lost another of its
`eterans of the first Empire, Col. Menche de Loisne. The
I %eased, born in 1768, was appointed a cadet in the Wal-
's•ll. Guard, in the service of the King of Spain, in 1783,
and was present at the blockade of Gibraltar. He com-
tilanded a company of the Walloon Guards with the rank
colonel. When Napoleon entered Spain in 1808, he im-
'ediatelv joined the banner of his own country, and was
411 t
rged y Napoleon with orga nising a regiment of
Oltniards. He took part in most of the battles in Spain
u7tureen 1808 and 1814. During the Hundred Days, he
Os entrusted with the command of Calais, and finally re-
'tett from the service after the Emperor's departure for St.
m
na.
, eSTEAMSHIP BUILDING ON THE CLYDE.—
`cialars. Todd and Macgregor have just completed a paddle
t"'atner 200 feet long, 22 feet in breadth of beam, and 11
pt depth of hold. The boilers are tubular surface con-
llsers, and the diameter of the paddles is 171 feet. The
lamer, which has been named the Mona's Isle, is in-
71ed for the Liverpool and Isle of Man station. A line
Rerew steamers, constructed for Messrs. Burns and
kelver, and intended for the Liverpool and Moditer-
qtean trade, are now far advanced ; in fact, two—the
t43'toPus and Marathon—have already been a short time
route. Three others will shortly follow. The
clef
are all precisely alike, and tho dimensions of
them, the Hocla, will serve as a guide to the
2f,—length, 289 feet ; beam, 36 feet ; depth of hold,
fre,.,,Lfit. The engines are of 300-horse power, and
(at"' the fine lines of the steamers they are expected to
Netu,a high speed. A steam crane or hoist is supplied to
14R Mil), and the apparatus cannot only be applied to load-
-14 41d unloading, but also to weighing anchor and pump-
14'An iron screw steamer, named the Carron, 176 feet
4, 26 feet beam, and 14i feet deep, with engines of 100-
ittle Power, has just been launched by Messrs. Barclay,
44, and Co. of Stobcross. The Carron is intended to
de de with goods between London and Grangemouth, in con-
'the TA with the Carron Company's fine fleet of steamers.
kte:Plcer Balclutha, built by Messrs. Caird and Co., and
:31101.treci for the Adelaide and Melbourne line, will leave
'Attu for the Australian seas. Five iron barges recently
11444:4 b y Messrs. J. Reid and Co., of Port Glasgow, and
494 I
plit for the navigation of the ndus, are about to be
tO liwraehee, when they will be reconstructed.