The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-18 00:00:00

DI ONEY MARKET

AND
CO-2,TLIERCTA INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotton
MarktA yeiterday closed with a firm appearance,
and there was a slight improvement in prices.
The sa.ies' were estimated at 8,000 bales, 2,000 of
Which were taken by the exporters and speculators.
The Ra:tway Share Market closed, quietly, and
without; animation, at previous prices.
The Bank of England weekly return completed
for toe week ending the 11th inst., is generally
considered very satisfactory, and as the next st ►te-
Dent is expected to be even more encouraging there
is a prospect of a further decline iu the minimum
rate of discount before long. It is alleged the sub-
itet of an 'alteration of 1 instead of per cent. was
dicussed at the Bank meeting on Thursday in
consequence of the extensive falling off in the
amount of the " other securities." The reserve of
notes and the public deposits have been influenced
by the dividend payments, and the increase in the
bullion, for the same reason, is not so laige as might
have been imagined owing to the large amount of
gold recently sold to the authorities. The princi-
pal items and the changes they represent are sub-
joined

Active Circulation
Increase .
113tillion
increase

. £19,962.215
. 493,680
▪ 11,592.160
75,304
▪ 3,458,539
.
Increase
Public Deposits
Decrease
Other Deposits
Increase
Seven-Day and other Bills 740,688
Increase
Government Securities
Decrease
Other Securities
Decrease
Notes unemployed.. 5,451,180
Decrease

Rest

Subjoined is the official account of the specie on
hard the Indus, which will be despatched on
Monday to India and China :
Bombay (silver)
Madras (silver)
Calcutta (silver)
Penang (si:ver)
Singapore (silver)
Do, (gol..1)
Hong Kong (silver)
Shanghai (silver)

. £153 885
. 14,250
158,500
2,558
~ 40,045
.. 1,500
~ 90.858
.. 79,215

Total £540,811
This shipment is not so large as most persons
expected, and it will be observed that the amounts
destined for China ara very small. Several orders
however, could not be completed in time for this
'vessel, and it is, therefore, supposed that the ex-
ports on the 20th will be more extensive.
The rates of exchange for bills drawn on the
thief cities of the Continent yesterday afternoon
were rather less favourable.

About 45,0001. in Australian gold was sold to
the Bank of England yesterday.
The official return of the exports of the precious
metals from the port of London for the week
ending Thursday last is as follows

Gold Coin ... Hamburg ... 400 Om.
~ , ... Belgium ... 60 „
Silver doin ... do. ... 400 „
The demand for money in Lombard-street is
rather active, but the terms aro easy and in some
eases below the Bank minimum.

A rise of tog per cent. has taken place in 1
the market for public stocks and the tendency
of the quotations is still further toimprove. Business 1
has been dull; but the favourable Bank return,
the prospect of a further reduction in the rate of
discount, and the satisfactory statements in the House 2
of Commons last night relative to the revenue, have
Prompted a few purchases, and hence the increa-
sed firmness. Consols have been 91i and 914 I.
for money ; while for the account they have been
92 to 92.. The New 3 per Cents. have been 91
to 92i ; and the Reduced, 91/ to 92. Bank Stock
is 214 to 214 ; and India Stock, 2151 to 2171. Ex-
chequer Bills have been 4s. to is. discount.
P"eign Stocks are also firmer, and a moderate
amount of business has been transacted. Turkish
6 Per Cleon2t:, have been 951 and the 4 per ,
• Spanish Threes are firm at 40k.
New Deferred 25i, and the Passive 51. Russian
581 per Cents, have been 1091, Peruvian 80i to -
and Mexican have risen to 221.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks:.Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 6} ; Mexican,
22 ; Peruvian, 80 82 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 54
56 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 444 5i ; Russian 5
Per Cents. 109 111 ; ditt) ,A per Cents., 96 98 ;
SPenish 3 per Cents., 40 ; ditto Deferred, 25i h
ditto Certificates, si• 6.
There has been a moderate business done in

Railway Shares, and in most instances an advance
of about to per cent. has taken places in prices.
Caledonian, Great Northern, Great Western,
South-Western, North-Eastern, York, and Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton, advanced 53. ; and
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland, and North-
Eastern (Berwick), 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial Undertakings were

quiet, and showed very little alteration in value. 1"
East Indian, Northern of France, 'Grand Trunk
and Great Western of Canada, each brought yes-
terday's rates. li
Joint Stock Bank Shares have exhibited a slight t
improvement. City Bank advanced 10s., London ij
and County. 55., Union of Australia 10s., and
Union of London ss. •
In Miscellaneous Shares business ruled dull.
Australian Agricultural improved about 11.

33111T1S a FUND 7..—CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY
( from the Official List:)
Business done.
Bank Stock
8 Per Cent, Reduced Annuities
3 Per Cent Console Annuities 9ll 4
Nedia w 3 per Cent. Annuities 92
215 14
17A 2ifi
In Stock
1 .tin fiends, ,tamo ....
nitto, under £looo.
( ()Laois tor Account ....
ILLehequcr Bills, 24d.
P.l000
—..
£500
Small
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Danish Bonds, 3 pet Cent., 1825
Ditto 5 per Cent.,
Mexican 4 per Cent
Ditto Account ... 22a
Permian Bonds, 4i per Cent
Ditto Account Boi 14
Russian Bonds, 1E22, £ St., 5 per Cent lO4
Sp eith Bonds, l per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto New deferred, 3 per Cen'.
Ditt... Passive 5$
S )attish Committee Cart. of Corp. not fun. 5i
T irkibh ,olis, ii per cent
Ditto Account 951 i
Ditto Guaranteed, A per Cent.
Ditto Account
1021
. Dividends on the above payable ,r , . nom.
Dutch Ex 3),aaage, 2t per Ceu;., 12 Guilders 64 x a
TWO O'c E.OOK.
.................... 91i i
92/4

~ 15 d
.. 92

1011

Commis, money ..
Consols for Account

A further sum of 48,0001. American gold was sold to
the Bank yesterday.
There was en active demand for silver yesterday, and
the amount already enizaized to be sent by the overland
mail of the 20th is 520,0001.
The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 30th inst.
for the hire of two or three screw steamers, to convey
about 1,500 men from England to Hong Kong.
The specie by the West India mail yesterday is
185,0001., of which 110,0001. is gold. The next arrival
will be the Parana, about the Ist of August, which is
txpccted to bring 400,0001. in silver from Mexico, the
last letters having stated that a conduota with that
amount was on its way to Vera Cruz.
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The annual Exhibi•
tion of this society commences at Salisbury on Tuesday
xt ; and the South-Western directors have made most
liberal arrangements for the accommodation of the put lie
on theii line, constant trains running between London
and Salisbury throughout the day at reduced fares ;
whilst return tickets will be issued, available from the 20th
to the 25th July. Arrangements have also been made for
giving constant communication between Basingstoke
and Salisbury, Winchester and Salisbury, Portsmouth,
Gosport, and Southampton, &c., in each case the return
tickets being available from the Monday to Friday.
• RATTING IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. —At the
early sitting yesterday a rAt trotted with perfect non-
cbs.lance across the floor of the House of Commons from
the Opposition to the Ministerial side, apparently unuo-
'Leed even by the vigilant eye of the Sergeant-at-Arms.'
The super-sagacity attributed to the race might suggest
Some reflections. Was this feat intended by way of en
eluractr'eraent to new members, to show that ratting
might be accomplished with ease and impunity ? Or was
at merely an assertion of the rights of the mus genus to
look at a speaker, as a cat may look at a Sing