The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-31 00:00:00

CITY, Two O'CLOCK,

Active Circulation ..
Increase .. ..
Bullion .. .. ..
Decrease .. ..

•• 120,828,475
.. 182,865
.. 16,810,054
.. 191,686
.. 3,156,573
• • 7,617
• 9,804,730
229,704
.. 13,071,410
• 238,814
.. 703,603
.. 52,504
• 10,92.5,157
No alteration.
.. 19,907,580
.. 320,584
. 9,780,980
.. 331,035

Rest ..
Increase • • • .
Public Deposits . ,
Increase • • • .
Other Deposits • •
Decrease ..
Seven Day and other Bills
Decrease • .
Government Securities

Other Securities
Increase ..
Notex Unemployed
Dedrease

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday a
steady demand prevailed for most descriptions at
previous rates. The sales were 8,000 bales. The
Railway Share Market closed quietly, and quota-
tions were a shade lower.

The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon exhi•
bited a slight decline on the rates on Amsterdam.

A call of £2 per share is due to-day on the Lan
cashire and Yorkshire and East Lancashire Pre
ference Shares.

The progress of commercial affairs during the
past year has exhibited a decided improvement in
trade, operations in most departments of business
having been , conducted on an extended scale.
Credit has been remarkably well maintained, as
money has been plentiful, and care has been taken
to avoid speculative enterprise, which if encouraged
might have led to disastrous results. It is satisfac-
tory at the end of the year to be able to record such a
gratifying recovery from the depression which
followed the late crisis; and, judging from present
indications, there is every reason to anticipate a
further amelioration during the next twelve
months.

The subjoined are the fluctuations in some of the
principal Stocks and Shares during the present
year:—

• Highest. Lowest.'
Consols 96 ....88*
Rachequer Bills
RAILWAYS.

Brighton
Caledonian
Eastern Counties
Great Northern
Great Western ..
London and North-Western.... 99i .... 83
Midland - .... 90
Lancashire and Yorkshire
.... 83
Sheffield, Manchester, &c.
South-Eastern
South-Western
North-Eastern (Berwick) 951 .... 81
Ditto ditto (York)
Nortkern of France
East Indian

There has been very little business in the English
Stock Market to-day, and foreign securities and
railway shares have been equally quiet., Consols,
however, have been steadily supported at 951 I. The
reports from the Bourse, and the expectation that
the Congress, after all, will terminate successfully,
also adds to the strength of the market, which pre-
sents a firm but quiet appearance. The New Three
per Cents. are firm at 951 ; the Reduced Annui-
ties at 95Z-1 India Loan Debentures (1858) at 98f ;
ditto (1859) at 981 I. The Bonds are 7s. to 9s.
prem. ; ditto New Stock 1041 4 ; ditto Enfaced
Paper, 96k ; and Exchequer Bills are 28s. to 30s.
prem.

Business in the Foreign Stock Market is mode-
rately active, but prices in a few instances show a
slight decline. Turkish 6 per cents. are 761 to 771,
ditto New 661 to 64, Mexiean remains at 221, Rus-
sian 41 per Cents. have receded to 1001, Spanish to
451, Chilian 41 per cents. to 86-1, and Dutch 21 per
eents. to 66/, but the 4 per cents. are firmer at
1011.

Some rather unfavourable features are exhibited
in the Bank of England return, completed to the
28th inst. The bullion has been slightly diminished
owing to the demand for the continent, and the non
arrival of remittances from Australia. The in-
creased demand for money, consequent upon the
close of the year, is shown in the augmen-
tation of the " other securities," which have
increased over a quarter of a million
sterling. The public deposits have been added to
by about a quarter of a million ; this, however, is
usually the case just previous to the payment of
the half-yearly dividends. In the private deposits
there is a falling off to about a like amount ; and
the reserve of notes has been considerably dimi-
nished. In the other items of the balance-sheet
there is no material change to notice. They will
be seen in the subjoined table :

Share

8 8,
764 7
114 12
7
10265 104
91 P 5

oi 7

8 8,
14 15.
58 59
39 41
27 29

821 1%3,
3oi 31'

99 100

167 108
95 96
133 135
112 114
691 701
60 62

245 210
18 r
1 18 p
100 1004
65 456
1144 1154
134 14
981 801
94 084

84 9,
38 39
loot iic)
87 89

104 11

59 61
Ed 3
63 GI

95 951
11 1 d
481 49 ;
79 79}
107 109
4 3f d
81 91
35 36
14 16
84

1116 lis
281 201
gs
47 49
34 d
431 (4
8-t 8524
72 74
64' 66
6 8
36 37

554 561
2 34p
d Cpl
63 65

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