The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Bank of England return completed to the
20th March, shows some very favourable changes.
The bullion, owing to the arrivals from the Con-
ment, has been largely augmented, while there is
an increase of upwards of half a million sterling in
the reserve of notes. In the public deposits there
is a large increase, while the private deposits show
a d,iminiation of about a quarter of a million. One
of the chief features in the return, however, is the
augmentation in the Government Securities.

In the other items of the balance-sheet there is
no alteration of importance. The changes will be
seen in the subjoined table :

Notes issued- £26,304,620
Increase .. 385,645
Rest .„ 3,825,441
Increase .. • • • • • • 8,6.57
Public Deposits .. 8,224,094
Increase .. .. 1,585,210
Other Deposits .. 11,452,251
Decrease .. .. 239,430
Seven Day and other Bills .. 576,812
Increase . 7,606
Government Securities 10,599,072
Increase .. • . 1,119,343
Other Securities 19,707,299
Decrease .. . • .. 313,718
Reserve of Notes .. 7,453,425
Increase .. . 569,780
Gold and Silver Coin OS .4 871,805
Decrease 1 ,326
stock of Bullion .. 12,701,425
Increase .. 372,283
Active Circulation .. .. 18,851,195
Decrease 184,135
There is a brisk inquiry for accommodation in
the general discount market, at 61 to 7 per cent.,
and the Exchange Loans are also in increased
demand. The favourable character of the Bank of
England return has attracted attention, but the
changes were fully anticipated in consequence of
the reduction in the minimum on Thursday last.
About £20,000, in gold, was sent into the Bank
of England yesterday.
In the Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon
a decline was exhibited in the rates on Amster-
clam, Antwerp, Vienna, and Trieste.
The America, which sailed to-day for Halifax
and Boston, conveyed £86,700 in specie.
There was rather less activity in the Liverpool
Cotton Market yesterday, but the recent advance
Was maintained. The sales were 10,000 bales.
A cell of £1 per share, amounting to £46,154,
is due on Monday on the London and Blackwall
Railway, New, shares.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £146,600, and the exports £285,000.
A heavy tone has pervaded the market for
Public Securities to-day, but very little business
has been transacted either for money or account.
Consols have been 91t I for transfer, and 92 to 924
for the account. India Stock is firm at 221 and
222; ditto 5 per Cents. at 1001; Exchequer Bills,
Lid. per diem, at 7s. dis.; ditto 2d., remains 7s. to
2s. die.

Foreign Securities have been dealt in to a
moderate extent, but prices generally are rather
, depressed. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 741 75 ; ditto,
1858, 541 to 55 ; and the 4 par Cents. have re-
ceded to 100, and Mexican to 241 ; Russian 5 per
Cents. are 1011 and 102 ; Sardinian are firm at 821,
and Spanish Deferred at 411 7.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been of a very moderate character, but a slight
improvement has taken place in prices. Edinburgh,
Perth, and Dundee, and London and Brighton
have advanced 10s. ; and Great Northern, Great
Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, London and
Blackwall, and Midlands, ss. Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, Norfolks, and South-Eastern declined
58,

In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
has been very little business transacted, and prices
have shown no change of importance.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
been in fair request. London and Westminster
have advanced ss. ; London Chartered of A ustralia,
ss. ; and Bank of Anstralisia Shares, ss. ; National
Discount Company have declined to 31; and Van
Diemen's Land brought 10.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
India Stock 66 Pe
Ditto 5 per Cent .. . lOOl
Ditto Debentures, 1858
Ditto 1859
Consols for Account
lid. I 2d.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 7
I 7 d
Da, a .. 7 d I d

IttO, Small ....
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Mexican 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account ......
ItUssian 6 per Cent. 1822, £ St .. 102 It
Ditto 4i per Cent.
Bardinian 5 per Cent. ..
6Panish 3
itto No
Dw Deferred 4lk 1
miliciab. 6 par Cent ..
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK..
Consols, Money 914 i
Ditto Account

2.HIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, March 23.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather.

TORBAY, March 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Enter-
prise, from Havre_for Havannah. Sailed—Eugenie, for
Porto Rico.

FALMOUTH, March 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Her-
cules, from Baltimore; Eliza Jenkins, from Cardiff for
Pernambuco.

PORTSMOUTH, March 22.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—
Telose, from London for New Zealand ; Lucy, from Shields
for St. Thomas.

PENZANCE, March 22.—Wind N.—Arrived—Effort,
from Huelva for Liverpool.

Fowny, March 22.—Wind N,W.—Arrived—Arabia,
from Rio Janeiro.

COWES, March 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Eva, from
Guayaquil.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, March 23—Courier, and Wonder, steamers,
from Jersey.
Sailed.—Water Sprite, for Morlait; Star, for Guernsey.;
Alliance, steamer, for Havre; Dispatch, steamer, for Jer-
BeY; Dream, for Newport.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, March 23—Belgium, from Ostend; Mercury,
arom Boston.
Sailed, March 23—Glance steamer, for Canaries ; C.
Garcon and Son, for Lisbon; Amelia, for Cardiff and Ha-
vannah.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed, March 22—Staghound, from New York; John
Duncan, from Callao ; Cleveland, from Kong Kong—all
for London.
Anchored —Margaret, schooner, frcm London for Nantes;
Solid, from Sunderland for Havannah.
The George Marston, London, proceeded to Ramsgate
to stop a leak.
V.

ICE- CHANCELLORS COURT.— Vice-Chancellor
Stewart thisof
morning dismissed the appeal of Kidd against
Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque. Vice.
Chancellor Rind
Haynes vir ersley delivered judgment in the case of
V. aYnes, he was of opinion that the land in
question passed to
osertvepraldivisees under plaintiffs will.
PROTECTING
strate at Marlborough. ER,—Mr,
. Mr. Tyrwhitt, the magi-
Police Court, this morning,
granted Mrs. Jane Tour ory a
protecting
forotec ting order on her goods
as she had not seen her husband the last three years.
THREE FURIES.—Last night three women stole
a piece of calico from the shop of
Mr,the property
Jones, of High-
street, Poplar. On his endeavouring to
recover
onlyr
erof thee
they attacked her most unmercifully, and
p onet
women was captured by the police with the
possession. She pleaded guilty to the theft' thisoy in 1
her
morning
at the Thames Police Court, and was sent to prison for
four months.
THE BAL MASQUE.—This morning two me,
named Thomas and Davis, and two women, Mary Ann
and Margaret Thompson, were charged with
attempting to steal the watches of two gentlemen who had
been amusing themselves at the Bal Masque, at her
Majesty's Theatre, last night. They were remanded.
CHARGE OF INDECENT ASSAULT.—PEARSON y.
ANDRIEUX.—At the Secondaries' Court, this morning,
the damages sustained by the plaintiff in this case were
assessed at the sum of £5, and a verdict for that amount

was returned.
SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, AVENUE-ROAD, ST.
j°}lN'S-WOoD.—Last evening an entertainment was given
at the Eyre Arms, St. John's-wood, in aid of the funds of
this valuable institution. The pupils of the school sang a
selection of concerted pieces from Handel and Mozart, and
performed on the piano-forte some of the compositions of
Beethoven, Mendelsohn, and Benedict, in a manner alike
creditable to them and to their energetic and able instruc-
tor, Mr. Edwin Barnes. The entertainment was concluded
by a lecture on China and the Chinese delivered by J. M.Croft, Esq.
There was a numerous attendance, and it is
in
.contemplation, we believe, to give a series of such enter,
t aTments in aid of the funds of this institution, the charitable
object of Which cannot be doubted.