The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-28 00:00:00

mow.Er MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The Bank of England return completed to the
25th lust. shows some rather favourable features.
The bullion, owing to the recent arrivals and the
diminution in the shipments to the East, has been
slightly augmented. The reserve of notes exhibits
an addition of more than a quarter of a million.
In the public deposits there has been a large in-
crease, but the private deposits, as well as the
active circulation, shows a falling off. The other
securities consequent upon the easy state of the
money market and the less active demand for dis-
count accommodation, have been reduced to the
extent of about a quarter of a million sterling. In
the other items there is little change of importance
to notice, and they will be seen in the subjoined
table :

Active Circulation
Decrease ..
Bullion ..
Increase ..
Rest 4 • • •

.. £21,222,175
.. 167,120
.. 17,407,969
.. 212,001
.. 3,219,964
3,683
• •
.. 6,684,168
.. 401,865
.. 17,017,706
.. 273,234

Increase
Public Deposits
Increase .
Other Deposits
Decrease .

Seven Day and other MIN ..
Decrease . • •
Government Securities • .

76,5,906
• • 12,641
11,281,376
No alteration.
.. 19,298,574
.. 259,558
.. 9,9.58,660
.. 327,570

Other Securities • •
Decrease .. ..
Notes Unemployed ..
Increase .. ..

The alterations rather strengthen the expecta-
tion that a decline of at least. I per cent. will
shortly be announced in the Bank rate, but the de-
mand for accommodation on commercial account,
and for the settlements at the Stock Exchange,
may cause rather more activity in discount circles
during the next fortnight.
The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon ex-
hibited a slight decline in the rates on Vienna and
'Trieste, but on 'Hamburg a slight advance was
apparent.
There were no bullion operations at the Bank of
England yesterday.
The Liverpool Cotton Markot yesterday closed
with more animation, and 10,000 bales were sold
at previous quotations. On the Stock Exchange a
fair amount of business was transacted, and prices
continued to improve.

Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £773,156, and the exports £201,750,
exclusive of the following shipments, direct from
London to the Continent, during the week ending
Thursday last :—Gold coin (llambro'), 12,795
ounces; Boulogne, 1,190 ounces ; Rotterdam, 10,000
ounces ; bars (Bremen), 5,000 ounces; Cadiz,
3,100 ounces; Boulogne, 600 ounces. Silver coin,
(Boulogne), 4,400 ounces; Hambro', 10,000 ounces;
bars (llambro'), 208,000 ozs. ; Belgium, 34,000. ozs.
There has been very little animation in the
market for public securities to-day. Speculation is
dull, and the investments as usual on Saturday
have been limited, but the Funds have been steady.
Consols are 921 w for molicy, and 9.21 2 for the ac-
count, being fractionally higher than on the pre-
vious afternoon. The public are still buying
prior to the closing of the transfer books.
The New Threes and the Reduced Annuities are
steady, at 91,:i IndialLoan Debentures have im-
proved to 94, and ditto Bonds Bs. to ss. discount.
Exchequer Bills are firm, at 21s. to 225. prem.
The New India Loan Scrip continues firm at 2 to
1; discount, being 931.
In Foreig❑ Securities the transactions have been
restricted, and prices are not quite so firm,
Turkish t per Cents. being 64 to 66; ditto New,
6.1 to st; ; the 4 per Cents. have receded to 1011;
Venezuelan 5 per Cents. to 371; Peruvian 3 per
Cents. are steady at ; Mexican has improved to
161; and Russian 5 per Cents. to 102.
In the Railway Share Market a further slight
improvement has taken place, several of the prin-
cipal lines showing an advance of about to 1 per
cent. Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western,
South Western, and North Eastern York have im-
proved 58. ; Great Western and North Eastern
Berwick, 10s., and Midland, 15s. ; Eastern Counties
have declined 55., and Great Northern, £l.
The Foreign lines have been exceedingly quiet.
Lombardo-Venetian Old Shares are steady at 5:
51, and the New at 54- 51, and Paris and Orleans
have improved to 47.
In the Colonial Markets East Indian have ad-
vanced to 97; 98 ; Great Western of Canada to 14 ;
and Scinde to 181.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
a shade flatter. Union of Australia have receded
to 49,1 ; London Joint-Stock to 301; South Aus-
tralian Land to 36.

nitinsii FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
a per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9li h 1
3 pur Cent. Consols Annuities
Nuw 3 per •Cent. Annuities
I zulia Stock
Ditto Debentlims
93
Ditto Loan Scrip
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account (June 7) 921
March. June.
1 xeliequer Bills, £l,OOO, 10 2l 1
Litt° £.500
Ditto Small, lid.
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Mexican 3 per Cont.
Ditto Account
I'4lll%llin 4} per Cent
bat° 3 per Cent.
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 pot Cent lO2
Turkish 6 per Cent 65 41
Ditto New Loan - 4 f
Ditto Guatanteed, 4 per Cent.
Venezuelan 5 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in Loudon.
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money ................ 921
Consols for Account, J uno .• • • 921

The 01 lel
gold from the 141•Rii Bank have received £70,000 in
ilt, . %list.
T Atlantic
Company's ship Ar Royal Mail Steam Navigation
sail from Galway fur tit, carrying her Ms sty's mails, will
York on Saturday, M,''',4t. John's Newfoundland, and New
TASMANIAN Ext/Y02,„8.
.AT , The
female emigrants selected liiN. first party of
Agency left Gravesend on Saturday last i n the ship Oriental,
The French Government has
the ships of the line Imperial and itr given orders that
Ardeuti, and Souverain be iminedia-k711"'• with the frigates
is i Y prepared for sea.
ne
The army of the Eastnn diutely to be in-
crowed from 80,000 to 160,000 then.
Cardinal Du Pont, Archbishop
°f 13ourges, died
yesterday morning. in his palace at bourge, Ifin Eminence
was 66 years of age.
INTRODUCTION OF GAS TO IfoNG-KoN,.-- -,
glad to lea that them is some prospect of. ,'re are
learn
nuag-Kong
1
being lighted byl.t•us, a proposition to that effect having
intro_ having been
made by an American company, which has i
duced gas to Mauritius and the avannah. 'Phis
has been sent into the local government, but it wirn"m I
to bo sent home before an answer can be given, sal-ii require
derstand that, the terms asked are rather high, ' we un-
having pro
bably been drawn up in ignorance of the price of coal here. -
It lies been remarked that the introduction of gas would
be dangerous, owing to the probable carelessness of Chinese
servants, but there is no ground for the fear. The proba-
bility is, that the Chinese would be very careful in the
matter—more so at !east than the Indians of Calcutta and
the negmes of Havannah, where no catastrophe has ensued
from the use of gas.—Chula Mail.
THE GREENLAND FISHERY. The
head Du
on her
ndee
steamer, from this fishery, p
passed Peter
way to Hall. She loft the ice on the loth inst., was beset
nearly the whole season, and comes homo clean. H
leost
r
captain reports of other vessels as follows :—" !intuit,
34 April, hands saved; Alert, seen the 20th April ; Dublin,
clean 24 May ; Gem, reported 1.1 to 20 tons oil ; Intrepid,
clean and beset, 4th April ; Kato beset; Perseveraneobeset ;
l'oliu• Star, 11,0(10 seals and on her way home; Resolution,
clean 14th May ; Victor ditto; A. Harvey, beset ; Me-
linki, reported lost; Vulcan, beset ; 'ray, Abram, and
Jane, clean; Chase (screw steamer) of Ifull, at Lerwick,
clean ; Diana, clean, beset 12th May, and the Wildfire,
clean same date, both of Hun.
EXTRAORDINATLY SCENE IN A CHURCH. The
curate of the parish church of St. George's-in-the East
}Provided some evil ement for the congregation of that church
'y opposing the Rev. Hugh Allen, a rather popular evan-
gelical preacher, who, a few weeks since, had been elected
by the vestry as "wetting lecturer," and had been licensed
in that eapaeit ya
by the bishop. Ile was to preach for the first
t Olio last Sunday,nd the church was besieged longof before
tile door,. were opened by upwards td.:1,000 persons, both
"Pc's. When the doors were opened the rush was tremen-
"J., and in a very low minutes every part of the sacred
cdiliee was tilled by an anxious eongregation. Ono of the
curates was seatisl al the lower inirt of the steps leading to
the pulpit, and the llev. Mr. Allen walked down ono of the
side aisles towards the vestry-rooni, and found it locked.
He had brought his gown will' him, and he robed himself
In Ibe (introit and proceeded towards the pulpit. His course
was interrupted by the curate, who intimated that he had
'''' right to the use of the pulpit, without the consent of the
toot or, and could not be allowed to preach. The reverend
gentleman produced his licence, and expostulated, but in
vain, and a great portion of the congrega
hi,.tion commenced
t 0 ill:Lg. The
Rev. Mr. Alton not being able to obtain access
e pulpit, was invited by the churchwardens to the read-
rig k dem
. , and immediately went there. The It4w. Mr. Allen
crieneed by reading the Litany, and an intimation being
theiv?li that the citrate was no longer keeping guard over
. pulpit,)i lie immediatelv left the muling-desk, ascended
the
act us
and read the bishop's licence, authorising hint
iNs",,I.A ..tho.evening lecturer. He then delivered a sermon,
i i 1 1143 ltsteued to with great attotiou.
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