The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-19 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTP.T.T.TGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The Bank of England weekly return of liAA:ties
and assets, cornplat d to the 16th inst., ii of a lass
satisfactory character. The private securities show
a small increase, and the bullion has been decreased
to the extent of about one hundred thousand
Pounds sterling. The reserve of notes, however,
li% been increased about a quarter of a million.
The public deposits have increased to a consider-
able extent, showing that the revenue collections
have been actively carried on ; and in the private
deposits there is a decrease of about one hundred
thousand. The active circulation shows a falling
off of about three hundred thousand pounds ster-
ling ; in the other items of the balance-sheet there
is little variation requiring special observation.
They will bo seen in the subjoined table :

ACti-e circulation
Decrease
Decrease
Nest
Increase
Public deposits
Increase.......
Other deposits
Decree, e
Bftmen-day and other bills
Decrease
wow rnment securities
Increase
Other securities ..
Increase
Notts unemployed
Increase

£19,457.405
333 210
17,919,450
101,494
3,161,071
2,569
6,062.680
414,130
13,654 427
99,927
784.130
11 628
10,630,123
51,479
14,643,140
21,949
12,229.180
295,110

Accounts from Liverpool report that the Cotten
Market yesterday manifested a very steady appear-
ance, and prices of all descriptions were without
any material alwra'ion. The sales amounted to
10,000 bales, 3,000 of which were taken on specula-
tion and for export.
The following are the particulars of the specie on
boar' the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
Steam vessel Northam, which leaves on the 20th :
Madras (silver) 023,830 0 0
Madras (sovereigns)
Calcutta (silver) 149,640 0 0
Penang (dollar,4)
JEL)ng Kong (silver) 25,877 0 0
Shanghai (dollars) 1,525 0 0

Total £202,375 0 0
A further importation of specie, viz., 76,6441., is
a4tounced by the Maidstone, from Victoria.
There were no gold withdrawals from the Bank
Yesterday, and it is imagined that the recent sup-
Plies from Australia will suffice, at all events for
the present, to meet the requirements of exporters
to the Continent. The whole of the remit anco by
the Norfolk will be absorbed, but it is not yet
tbentioned to what purpose the amounts brought
139 the Indemnity and tLe Maidstone will be
4PPliec.l. It will been seen from the table given
above, that the efflux of silver to the Ea't has in-
creased, and the diversion of gold to the Continent
for the purchase of the requisite quantity of silver,
win be augmented in proportion.
The demand for money continues steady, but the
terms are easy.
The market for English Securities is very flat,
abd business is inactive. Sales preponderate, and
there is evidently a want of confidence among the
aPeculators, although it is difficult to find any sub-
litaAtial reason for a decline in prices. Consols
for the account, ex dividend, are 95i 1. The New
Threes and the Reduced are 951 if. Indian De
bentures are 99E1 ; and Exchequer Bills, 30s. prem.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about 870,3781., and the exports 304,3701.,
,tlelusive of the following shipments direct from
4iondon to the Continent during the week ending
Thursday last 1—

Gold coin Boulogne 7BO ounces.
Silver do p•
Foreign Securities are dull but prices are firm.
Turkish 6 per Cente. are 957 3/4 ; Spanish Deferred,
2714 ; Chilisn 6 per Cents., 105 ; and Buenos
4Yres Deferred, 18a. ; Brazilian Scrip is discount.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred. Bonds, 51 64 ; Alexi-
% 3 per Cents., 201 ; Peruvian 41 per Cents.,
86 88 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 65 67 ; Portuguese 3
r. Cents., 46 47 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 111
4 •
•18 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 101 103 ; Spanish 3 per
cents 45/ ; and ditto Deferred, 27i 1.
44i

In the Railway Share Mat ket titis morning tivt
transactions have been extremely limited, and the
toiations in prices have not exceetiel about I per
Caledonians, Lancashire and Yorkshire,
giatchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, North B.itish,
441 North-Eastern (York), declined 53. Great
western, North-Western, and Midland, improved
8• _ The foreign and colonial lines are very quiet.
'l.ollthern of France have receded [Os., and Est
Indian ss. Great Western of Canada improved
44,1)014 ss. For Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous
*hares there his been a very limited enquiry.
140•
ndon Joint Steck have improved about ss.
• ectric Telegraph 102. ; and National Discount
Company about ss.

btl fIiII FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES —THIS DAY.
(Prom the Official List:)
ilia k Stock
IThree per Cent. Reduced Annuities CSI i
evf Three per Cent. Annuities
Wis. Loan Debentures
~. Ditto Bonds, £lOOO .. .... ..........
'lensols for Account
'4tchequer Bi.ls--- March. Juic.
klooo
•• 30 I 17 20
£5OO — 20
Litto,
leheriner onds, 1858, 3,1, per Cent. - -
1859 B
100 i
FOREIGN FUNDS. -THIS DAY.
klienos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.
'bitto Deferred 3 per Cent
it to 6 per Cent
11._ ,isli 6o,ds, 3 per Cent.l)ltto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
1, Ditto Account 274 5
!Irkish Bonds, 6 per Cent.
'Ditto Account
Dividends on the at)ove payable In London.
1: WO O'CLO( B.
%wok for account (July 8) 955 i ad.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government emi-
rnt ship Alfred, 1,278 tons, Captain Coseey, sailed
el Liverpool on Thursday, the 17th inst., for More-
bee Bay, New South Wales, in charge r f Surgeon-
"ePetintendent J. Hayden Brownfii'i, with 76 married
,(IttPles, 126 single men, 60 single women, 38 boys be-
. Ween the ages ot 1 and 12. 42 girla between the same
-,t,014, six male infants and 10 female, making a total of
al
"1 souls, equal to 378 rtatute adults.
zihWes (Ncrthern, Whig) underetand that Mr. William
errnan Craeferd has been summoned to appear be-
el
the parliamentary committee at present investigat-
2Et the distress in Donegal, for the purpose of giving
blidence on the question. Mr. Crawford left town last
Ight (Wednesday) for London. We anticipate that be
t/t},lll be able to lay some important ieformation before
4400ramitteo.
I.4epresentations are made of the necessity of extend-
sig to the principal outposts the plan by which the
etwarehousing rf tobacco in London has been thrown open
Public competition. A letter from Newcastle-upon•
Yee complains that holders of tobacco at that place,
Zueepelled to bond it in the Cu,toms' warebouse, find the '
b'eat charged extravagantly high. Bales, it is said, are
tent,
lying at the Victoria Decks at a charge of El per
removed
per annum upon the value of the golds, which, if
leleved t i Newcastle to suit the convenience of owners,
'meld cost 17 per cent.
SOUTHAMPTON, June 18.—The screw steamer 80.
h_
la. Captain Trautwarn, sailed hence to-day, at 2
rm., for New York, with over 400 passengers and is
;I'V, cargo. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Dsr-
4ert, Captain T..ylor, having been thoroughly repaired
N 1 refitted, leaves on Monday next to resume her in-
ternational service on the West India station. The
Ohabria and Valetta steamships are both ex;.iected
Cere on Sunday, the former with the Australian and
e latter with the Bombay mails. The Northam leaves
b'unday with the outward mails for Calcutta,bins, &o.
CROSSED CHEQUES.--Communications continue to
received suggesting sn methods by eisb.iiali bankers may be
Prot tt tcted from the danger e! paying cheques from which
%sings have been ereeeJ, this corresposideut pointa
1„Ilt, that crossiegs might be it ade by means of a etarr p
should produce perforations. Another, that
Leclues intended to be paused through the clealieg-
hrlee might be printed in red, the others being in
sti;ege Neither of these methods, however, would
ti fecititiee fee the casual holder of a free cheque to
it u in a l , I
I.tE6g;
.eg the sub
woq uentrds and" Company ,"g toe.ra way
or by makinv
g
special to hie own banker. The true plan consists
et
efithe use of chemical paper, and if barkers do not
fev e to resort to this there reed he little sympathy
an losses they may sustain. They can teaLe it
110`°11dition with their customers that cheques drawn
I°l4 Plain paper shall not be paid, or that they shall be
lig. Only through a banker.• Should they consider it
alu4tttnit their interests to impese this restriction, they
tie to eccept the respensibiliey in such cateei, few in
em, of ex!icieing a little extra vigilance.—lnue,