The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-29 00:00:00

MONEY .211AiiliE2' AND CITY .2sl EMS%

CITY, Two o'CLocii.

The changes exhibited in the Bank of England
return, completed to the 26th inst., are not of an im-
portant, although in some instances they are of
rather an unfavourable, character. The bullion
shows a diminution, while there is also a slight de-
crease in the reserve of notes. In the other securi-
ties no material alteration has taken place, but the
private balances have fallen off to the extent of
nearly a quarter of a million. The public deposits,
as usual at this period of the year, have been
slightly augmented. The various items, and the
changes they present, are shown in the subjoined
table :

Active Circulation .. £20,823,490
Decrease .. 34,010
Bullion .. .. 16,255,951
Decrease 123,807
Rest • • • • • . 3,790,286
Increase
__5,308

Publie Deposits - : : : 7,092,681
Increase 127,215
Other Deposits 12,9737222
Decrease .. .. • • 206,712
Seven Day and other Bills .. • • 721,132
Decrease .. .. • • 31,337
Government Securities 9,663,511
No alteration.
Other Securities 19,559,349
Decrease .. .. • • • • 15,729
Notes Unemployed .. 9,133,595
Decrease .. 82,365
Although the demand for money has slightly in-
creased, the market appears quiet, and the sales
continue easy. The general inquiry has been
augmented by loan transactions at the Stock Ex-
change, advances being in request at 31 to 4 per
cent., which has the effect of sending borrowers to
the Bank of England.
The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon
were generally rather lower.
A mil of £5 per share, amounting to £500,000,
is due to day on the East Indian Jubbulpore Rail-
way shares, and of £5, or £250,000, on the F
Extension, but owing to the large amount paid in
advance it is believed these calls will not exceed
£120,000.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday a
fair demand prevailed for most descriptions at full
rates. The sales amounted to 12,000 bales.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been £1,616,900, and the exports £229,336.
There has been a heavy market for Public Secu-
rities to-day, although very little movement has
taken place in prices, Consols being 931 for money,
and 931 I for the account. The transactions
for transfer, as well as on speculation, however,
have been very limited. Exchequer Bills are par;
India New Loan, 1031; and ditto Bonds, 6s. dis.,
being all depressed.

In the Foreign Stock Market the dealings have
been of a moderate character, and prices are toler-
ably well maintained. Turkish 6 per Cents. are
731 ti ; ditto New Loan, 551 561; Buenos:Ayres,
941 ; ditto Deferred, 29.4- 30 ; Equador, 121 ;
Mexican, 211 ; Russian 41 per Cents., 931 ; Vene-
zuela, 231 24 ; Spanish Deferred, 39k; and ditto
Passive, 221.

The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are lt 2
prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, -I,- .2- prem. ; and
the Universal, I prem.

The Railway Share Market has continued dull,
and for several of the principal lines a further
slight decline has been apparent. Great Western,
North Western, and North British have declined
ss. ; Eastern Counties and Midland, 10s. ; and Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 15s. North Eastern
(Berwick), advanced 15s. ; and South Wales, 10s.
The Foreign and Coldbial undertakings have
shown very little variation, with the exception of
Grand Trunk of Canada, which have declined £l.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
flat. Ottoman Bank have receded 55., and Crystal
Palace have improved 10s.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Con.sels Annuities
India Stock.
Ditto 4 per Cent
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO , .. 6 d
Consols for Account, 11th Oct .. 93
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 1/d
Ditto £5OO par
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 4/ per Cent. 1860 87,1 7
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto Deferred
Equador New Consolidated
Mexican 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St ..
Ditto 41 per Cent 931
Spanish 3 per Cent..
Ditto New Deferred

Ditto Account
Ditto l'assive
Turkish 6 per Cent • •
Ditto Account
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 93k 93

COAL EXCHANGE MUSEUM.

Comparatively few persons are aware that there
exists in the City of London a Museum, which,
although restrictive in its objects, is not without
interest, as affording information on one of our most
important national products—COAL.
A few years since some members of the Corpora-
tion, and several influential gentlemen connected
with this particular branch of commerce, proposed
carrying this very useful design into effect, and a
room was set apart in the Coal Exchange as a
Museum for the reception and exhibition of speci-
mens and models illustrative of the coal trade and
coal districts of Great Britain. The principal
abject of the collection is to afford to those en-
gaged in the trade, as well as the public, an oppor-
tunity of seeing and examining the various kinds
of coal, and the several other substances used
as fuel in all parts of the world ; also to offer
facilities for inspecting models of machinery, and
other valuable, useful, and interesting inventions
applicable to coal mining, and diagrams and maps
of the geology of the various coal fields.
The utility of such exhibitions, in an industrial
and commercial point of view, is now generally
acknowledged, and it has been the object to render
the collection of real practical value, as a means of
reference and information to all persons who are in
any way interested in either the production, the
consumption, or the natural history of fossil fuel.
The Museum already possesses an interesting col-
lection of fossil plants, and specimens of different
varieties of coal, and some models of machinery,
which have been presented by gentlemen interested
in the success of the undertaking, and which it is
.hoped will be still further increased.
The objects chiefly desired for exhibition in this
Museum are the following :—Specimens of coal
derived from the coal fields of all parts of the
world; specimens of substances employed as sub-
stitutes for coal, or mineralogically allied to it ; the
fossils of the coal strata ; models of mines, of min-
ing Machinery, and of collier ships; specimens of
implements used in coal mining; diagrams and
plans of coal mines ; maps of coal fields ; specimens
of substances manufactured from coal, or similar
material, and of the implements used in such manu-
facture.
ears lectures have been
During the past two y
delivered once a month by Professor J. Morris,
F.G.S., on various subjects connected with the
natural history of coal and coal mining, and which
lectures will be occasionally continued. Under the
present arrangement the Museum is
each .ope
monthn to the
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public on the first Monday in
Mining Journal.

SWEARING-IN OF TELE NEW SLIERIFFS.—A Court
of Alderman was held yesterday, for the purpose of swear-
lupin the Sheriffs of London and the county of Middlesex
for the ensuing year, viz. Mr. Alderman Abbiss and
Andrew Lush, Esq. The wi g their year
der-sheriffs, dinin
of office, will be Mr. Eagleton and Mr. Gammon, the two
gentlemen who OW the same office last year.
On Thursday Miss Caroline Paget, fourth daugh-
ter of Mr. C. Paget, one of the representatives of Notting-
ham, was married to Mr. W. Mellor, son of the other member
far that borough.' The wedding took place at Ruddington,
Notts, where the residence of the bride's father is situated;
and the health of the happy couple was proposed at the
breakfast by Mr. Baron Channell.

WORKHOUSE MEAT.—Mr. Robert Jackson, a
butcher, has been convicted in the sum of £5 for supplying
putrid meat to the Nottingham workhouse for the use of
the inmates. Another butcher was summoned for a similar
offence, but the charge against him was not pressed. Mr.
Lambert, the poor•law inspector, has held a lengthened
examination into the conduct of Mr. Harrison, the master
of the house, in receiving the bad meat ; but the decision
of the commissioners upon the report of their officer has
not yet been oommtudoated to the board of guardians,