The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-02 00:00:00

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NONEY MARKET AND CITY 7%'E WS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The Bauk of England return, completed to the
30,11 January, is of a favouralile character, and
shows a decided improvement is the general
resources of the establishment. The partial ces-
sation of remittances of specie to the United States
has caused a slight addition to the stock of the pre-
cious metals, and in the reserve of notes there is
also an increase tot' about £lOO,OOO. The other
seeurities have been diminished to a small extent,
and an augmentation has taken place in the public
balances. In the other items of the balance-sheet
the variations are not of an important character.
They will be seen in the subjoined table :

Active Circulation £19,985,460
Decrease .. • • 49,670
Bullion .. • . • • • . 11,617,616
Increase .. • • • • • . 96,036
Rest .. 3,370,828
Increase .. • • 10,567
Public Deposits 3,581,447
Increase .. . • .. .. 633,010
Other Deposits • . 12,587,039
Decrease . • .. .. 543,254
Seven'Day and other Bills .. 633,428
Decrease' 19,521
Government Securities 8,447,430
No alteration.
Other Securities 20,171,156
Decrease • • 64,904
Notes Unemployed .. 5,332,200
..
Increase 103,900
No alteration of importance was exhibited in the
Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon.
There were no bullion operations of public inte-
rest at the Bank of England yesterday.
The steamer La Plata left to-day for the West
Indies with £lO,BOO in silver.
The Indus, which leaves on Monday the 4th inst.
for India, China, &c., will take out £18,086 in gold
and £97,532 in silver.
There is a brisk demand t'or money, numerous
commercial securities having to be liquidated to.
day, while a still larger supply of bills will arrive
at maturity on Monday.
Increased animation was exhibited in the Liver-
pool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices were
steadily supported. The sales were 10,000 bales.
The meeting of the General Steam Navigation
Company will take place on the 26th inst. for the
declaration of the dividend and to transact the
usual business.
A meeting has been convened of the Thames
Haven Dock Company, for the purpose of receiving
the directors' report, &c.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been £335,800, and the exports £307,500.
The Royal Mail steamship Africa, which sailed
from Liverpool for New York, took £13,338 in specie.
Sir Edmund Head, Governor-General of Canada, is
among her passengers.
The market for Public Securities has been flatter
to-day in consequence of a few speculative sales, but
the fluctuation has only represented k per cent.,
Consols being 91i 92 for money, 92 to 92fr for the
7th inst., and 921 / for March. The New Threes

improved to 911 921-; the Reduced to 921-; and
Exchequer Bills to Bs. and 3s. dis. India 5 per
Cent. Stock is quoted 991; ditto 5 per Cent.
Enfaced Paper receded to 931 ; and ditto Bonds to
20; dis. ; but the Debentures are firm at 951.
There is very little alteration in the Foreign
Stock Market, and the dealings have been rather
limited. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 74 to 71; and
ditto New Loan, 561- to 57; Mexican have im-
proved to 231 ; but Peruvian are heavy at 961, 97 ;
Sardinian receded to 814 d ; and Spanish Deferred
Were steady at 44 1.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been rather extensive, and most of the principal
undertakings have shown a further slight improve-
ment in the rates. Bristol and Exeter, Caledonian,
North Western, and North Eastern (Berwick),
have advanced 55.; and Great Northerns, Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, Midlands, and South Easterns,
10s. ; London and Brighton; and Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, have declined 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial markets have bees
moderately active, and in some instances prices
have also tended upwards. South Austrian and
Lombardo-Venetian are steady at 13 to 131-; Grand

Trunk of Canada have improved to 23c24 ; and
• Great Western of Canada to HI 111 ; East Indian
realise 98'; and Great Indian Peninsula, 95.
Joint Stoek Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have

been in limited request without any material
change in values. Red Sea Telegraph, however,
have improved to 161 17.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
!tank Stook
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities . 921 2
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 921 1/
India Stook
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 4 per Cent 931
Ditto Debentures' 1858 —
Ditto 1859
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO —
Ditto under £l,000
Consols for Account, Feb. 7 * . 921
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 11d
Ditto £5OO 4 3
Ditto Small

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Peruvian 44 per Cent
Ditto Account
Sardinian ö per Cent. ..
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent.
Ditto New Deferred 4Ol I
Turkish 6 per Cent .
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
_Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Console, Money
Ditto Account

Ditto March ditto .
921 i

THE WEATHER.