The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-13 00:00:00

_MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The Bank of England return, completed to the
11th of September, shows some rather sactisfactory
changes. The bullion, owing to the arrivals from
Australia and the Continent, has been augmented
by about half a million, while there is a large
addition to the reserve of notes. The public and
private deposits show a considerable increase, and
there is a diminution in the other securities of over
a quarter of a million sterling. The other items
of the balance-sheet present no features of im-
portance; they will be seen in the subjoined
table—.

Active Circulation .. £19,852.830
Decrease .. 446,080
Stock of Bullion 13,649,402
Increase .. .. 331,301
Rest .. 3,7 88,270
• •• ••
Increase . 4,509
. ••
Public Deposits .. . 4,868,009
Increase .. 583,524
Other Deposits.. 12,357,680
Increase 160,867
Seven Day and other Bills .. 702,958
Decrease 11,059
Government Securities .. 10,450.800
Increase 90,000
Other Securities .. 17,372,545
Decrease .• •• •• •• 329,540
Notes unemployed 7,626,885
Increase .. 952,495
The monthly return from the Bank of France
has also just appeared. It exhibits a reduction of
£1,646,000 in the discounts and of £360,000 in the
bul.ion.
About £60,000 in gold was sent into the Bank
of England yesterday.

The Seine has arrived from the West Indies with
£132,854 in specie.

Advices from Australia report the departure of
the following gold ships for this country, viz., the
S vriftsure with £204,868 ; the James Wilson, with
£76,232; and the Lincolnshire with £207,112.
During the last few days only a moderate amount
of business has been transacted in the Foreign and
Colonial Produce Markets. Tea, however, has
maintained full prices, while a slight improvement
has taken place in the value of sugar. Coffee and
rice have continued in good demand at late quota-
tions. For fruit and spices the inquiries have been
on a limited ec Ile, and saltpetre has been dull. The
operations in tallow have also been on a limited
character, at slightly reduced rates for both pre-
sent and forward delivery. _ _ _

Increased activity prevailed in the Liverpool
Cotton Market yesterday, and prices were rather
higher. The sales amounted to 15,000 bales.
The transactions in the English Stock Market
to-day have led to a partial reaction, a pressure of
sales chiefly speculative having caused a decline of
/ per cent., Consols being 931 1 for transfer, and
93!,- / for the account. The recent advance has
induced many of the operators who bought at
lower quotations to realise profits, and hence the
tendency towards reaction. The New Threes are
flat at 911 92 ; the Reduced at 911 92 ; Exchequer
Bills, March, at 2s. die. par ; and June at 4s.
prem. ; !India 5 per Cent. Stock is 1031 y ; and
ditto 5 per Cent. Rupee Paper is steady at 961 1.
Business in the Foreign has been tolerably active,
and prices are firm. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 81/
821; ditto 1858, 67/ 681. Mexican have again
advanced, viz., to 231 ; Grenada Active to 16/ 1 ;
Russian 41 per Cents. to 91/; Dutch 21 per Cents.
are 641; and Chilian 41 per Cents. 821.
The operations in the Railway Share Market have
been very limited, and mostly in connection with
the arrangements in progress for the liquidation.
Prices, however, owing to a few speculative sales,
have slightly given way. Great Westerns and
North Eastern (Berwick), have declined ss. ; Edin-
burgh, Perth, and Dundee, Great Northern, North
Western, and North British, 10s.; Lancashire and
Yorkshire and Midlands have improved ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remain dull, at
previous quotations.

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
show no change of importance. London Joint-
Stock and Union of London are a shade higher, and
Peninsular and Oriental Steam have improved 10s.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICK
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92 l& i i
3 per Cent. C0n5,.,18 Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9ll, 2 la
India Stock -
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Consols for Account, Oct. 10 . . 94 4 3/
March. June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d 2 die par 7pm
D tto £5OO .. 7 pm
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.

Chilian 6 per Cent. —
Ditto 41 per Cent
Equador New Consolidated
Mexican 3 per Cent 23 2/ 31 3 2/
New Grenada Active, 31 per Cent.
Peruvian 41 per Cent .. 97 8
Ditto 3 per Cent
Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7,'9, and
.'6O 461
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St • •
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent .. • . ---
Ditto New Deferred 42h 1/
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded.. 6
I urkish 6 per Cent
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account ..
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 2.5 f.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil.
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s B6l 7
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols Money 931 i
Ditto Acoount

DISSOLUTION OF THE RAILWAY COMPANIES I
qj
ASSOCIATION.—At the ordinary monthly meeting of this Ito
association held yesterday, Mr. Hodgson, M.P. (in the ab-
sence of the chairman) dissolved the association. The ac- I ,t'
counts of the expenditure from the 31st of March last, I :I;
amounting to £l7l, were passed and the meeting broke up.

THE METROLITAN RAILWAY WORKS.—On Wed• i et:
nesday another section of these works, extending from about I et,
the centre of Oldham-row to the end of ,he House of Cor- I
8.1,
rection, and Guildford-place, was commenced by the con- St
tractors, in continuation of that portion of that works where 1
the recent accident occurred. On Saturday a panic oc • i
curred among some 20 families occupying several houses in
Guildford-place, who left them in alarm, but who soon after
resumed occupation on being assured by the district sur-
veyor and the railway people and police that their appre-
hensions, at any rate for the present, were ill-founded.
The works, notwithstanding the temporary contretemps
that have occurred, are proceeding day and night upon this
the most critical contract on the line, arising from the
dilapidated nature of the property—although to the severe
inconvenience of the public traffic and the residents. The
majority of the men so succes-fully rescued from a watery
grave on Saturday are again at work, but it is said that one
or two of them are severely injured.

STEAMERS TO AMERICA.—During the present
week no less than four of the finest steam ships afloat—one,
the wonder of the world, the other a new steamer, just
launched—left the Mersey for America. On Tuesday the
Great Eastern sailed for New York ; on Wednesday the
new steamer City of New York, of the Inman line, for the
same port; yesterday (Thursday) the screw steamer Jura,
of Allan Brothers' line for Quebec; and to-morrow (Satur-
day) the Cunard steamer Persia, for New York. That com-
munication on the most extended scale is kept up between
Liverpool and America there is no doubt, and that they are
the fastest vessels in the world.
THE MURDER ON BOARD AN AMERICAN SHIP.—
Yesterday morning an adjourned in nest was held by Mr.
Carter, at Rotherhithe, on the body of William Dixon, a
seaman on board the American ship Bosphorus, lying in the
Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe, who was stabbed by John
Speller, a fellow seaman, on the afternoon of Friday last.
The evidence given was in substance the same as that
taken on the examination of the accused at the Greenwich
police-court on Saturday, and twelve of the jury, after a
short consideration, returned a verdict of "Wilful murder"
against Speller. One of them, hem ever, refused to sign
the inquisition for any other verdict than that of man-
slaughter.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN.—On Thurs-
day, the Rev. Charles Grant, a clergyman of Bristol, who
was remaining at Flower's Temperance Hotel, Walcot-
street, Bath, and who was in a weakly state from an attack
of paralysis, whilst dsscending the stairs, slipped down and
injured the back of his head. Mr. Hoblyn, surgeon, and
Dr. Mac Dermot were called in, but he died from the effects
of the injury on Friday morning. The deceased had in his
possession at the time £2,150, £350 being in cash and the
remainder in dock bills. His nephew, a solicitor of London,
has since been communicated with, and was present at the
inquest, which was held on Saturday. A verdict of acci-
dental death was returned.
The accounts from Blackburn state that the run-
ning of shorter time has already been commenced in several
establishments, and will be immediately followed in several
others. A general meeting of the trade is called for this
evening to consider the expediency of reducing the hours of
labour.