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

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COINIMItC,TAL INTELLIGENC2.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotton
Market yesterday closed with a firm appearance,
and there was a slight improvement in prices.
The sales were estimated at 8,000 bales, 2,000 of
whieh were taken by the exper:;ers and speculators.
The Railway Shane Market closed quietly, and
Without animation, at previous prices.
The Bank of England weekly return completed
4°l*the week ending the 11th inst., is generally
enniidered very saisfactory, and as the next st tte-
:3°l4 is eXPeCtfcl to be even more encouraging there
8a prospect of a further decline in the minimum
rate of discount before long. It is alleged the sub-
jan-alteration6Ct of an-alteration of 1 instead of 4 per cent. was
a
mienea•?.d at the Bank meeting on Thursday in
e°4Bequence of the extensive falling off in the
amount of the " other securities." The reserve of
notes and the public deposits have been influenced
Y the dividend payments, and the increase in the
bullion, for the same reason, is not so large 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
4,„ Increase
LBullion
increase

. £19,962.215
. 493,680
, 11,592.160
75,304
Rest . . ....... 3,458.539
- Increase . 47.728
Public Deposits
Decrease
Other Deposits
Increase
Seven-Day and other Bills 740,688
Government
Increase
Securities
Decrease
Other Securities
Decrease
Notes unemployed
Decrease
Bubjoined is the official account of the specie on
loard the Indu3, which will be despatched on
Ilonday to India and China :

Bombay (silver) - ---
•
Madras (silver) ✓
Calcutta (silver)
Penang (silver)
Singapore (silver)
Do. (golf)
Hong Rol g (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 s) large as most persons
expected, awl 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
chief cities of the Continent yesterday afternoon
Vere 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
tletals from the port of London for the week
eliding Thursday last is as follows
Gold Coin ... Hamburg ... 400 Oal.
, Belgium 60 ~
Silver doin do. 400 „
The demand for money in Lombard-street is
tattler active, but the terms are easy and in some
cases below the Bank minimum.
A rise of ±to per cent. has taken place in
1113 Market for public stocks and the tendency
Zr_ the quotationsis still further to improve. Business
4'43 been dull ; but the favourable Bank return,
the„l Prospect of a further reduction in the rate of
discount, and the satisfactory statements in he House
°f Commons last night relative to the revenue, have
e11)11)ted a few purchases, and hence the increa-
sed firmness. Consols have been 911 - and 91/
92 to 9 ; while for the account they have been
.
n g ,
The New 3 per Cents. have been 91g
t° 21. ;
and the Reduced, 91/ to 92. Bank Stock
h2ll to 2151 ; and India Stock, 2151 to 2171. Ex-
e3uer Bills have been 4s. to ls. discount.
a _ Voreign Stocks are also firmer, and a moderate
Mount of business has been transacted. Turkish
6
per Cents• have been 951- and the 4 per
t..).!nts. 1021, Spanish Threes are firm at 40k.
"5
Litrtv Deferred 251, and the Passive si. Russian
Byer Cents. have been 1092, Peruvian 804 to
-II! and Mexican have risen to 22i.
Btone following are the nominal prices of Foreign
eks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 61 ; Mexican,
„,
; Peruvian, 80 82 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 54
6
Portuguese 3 per Cents., 441 5i ; Russian 5
8„r, °,611t8.) 109 111; ditto 41 per Cents., 96 98 ;
A!"'11'811 3 per Cents., 40 ; ditto Deferred, 25i i;
mato Certificates, 5i 6.
oThere has been a moderate business done in
ailwaY Shares, and in most instances an advance
o about to per cent. has taken places in prices.
_aleclotlial), Great Northern, Great Western,
"enth-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
Vet, and showed very little alteration in value.
Last Indian, Northern of France, Grand Trunk
414 Great Western of Canada, each broughtyes-
terday's rates.

Joint Stock Bank Shares have exhibited a slight
Itaprovement. City Bank advanced 10s., London
alla County 55., Union of Australia 10s., and
*Union of London ss. .

In Miscellaneous Shares business ruled dull.
Artfitralian Agricultural improved about 1/.

II 1•ITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES--THIS DAY.
elk Stock (Front the Official List.)
Business done.
• 214 15A
-Per t 91 2i 4
eat. Reduced Annuities
Der Cent Consols Annuities 9l#
Ins '
. 3
a Per Cent. Annuities 92 1i 2,-3/4
1
uaa. Stock
...,.,, ~,eds, .c. won
)itto. under £lOOO
0),sols for Account
Eich•equer Dille, 2td• ..•...
£1 000
1 4 d
. •••••
XOOO .
par 2 d
%mail
• ....... . •
, PRICES OF FOREIGN' FUNDS—THIS DAY.
u.trazilin 5 per Cent.
A.), nieb. Bonds, 3 pet Cent., 1825
'fie itto 5 per Cent.,
lean 3 per Cent
Ditto count
Peruvian Ac
Bonds, 4i per Cent —
bitto Account
ilus3ian Bonds, 1622, 4: St., 5 per Cent 1094
P
S •
-unh Roads, 3 por Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred, 3 pef Cur.
Pitt, Passive s#
S Knish. Cc mmittee Cart. of Catp. not fun. 5#
Tarkibit konttet 6 par cent
Ditto Account
95# i
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
• Ditto Account . .
Dividends on the above payable q• . ocon.
batch Ex.:Lange., 2t per Cen;., 12 Guilders 64 x d
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, money
92A
Console for Account

. 15 d
~ 92

4 farther sum of 48,0001. American gold was sold to
the Bank yesterday.
There was en active demand for silver yesterday, and
The amount already enisaised to be sent by the overland
taail of the 20th is 520,000/.
The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 30th inst.
or
the hire of two or three screw steamers, to convey
about 1,500 men from England to Hong Kong.
I,,The specie by the West India mail yesterday Is
25,000/., of which 110,0001. is gold. The next arrival
7111 be the Parana, about the Ist of August, which is
PEcted to bring 400 0001. in silver from Mexico, the
last letters having stated that a conducta with that
mount was on its way to Vera Cruz.
.t. 410TAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The annual exhibi-
tion of this scciety commences at Salisbury on Tuesday
; and the South-Western directors have made mostotb
eral arrangements for the accommodation of the public
Wtheir line, constant trains running between London
ct Salisbury throughout the day at reduced fares ;
to the
return tickets will be issued, available from the 20th
!; 25th July. Arrangsments have also been made for
`viers constant communication between Basingstoke
drio's Salisbury, Winchester and Salisbury, Portsmouth,
Portoand Southampton, &c., in each case the return
ticks+. ,
availabls from the Monday to Friday.
i"TTINGs IN THE House GIP COMDIONS.—At the
ehr sitting yesterday a rst trotted with peffect non-
th:l',;eee across the floor of the House of Commons frs4re
tic YPposition to the Ministerial side, apparently nine-
The:i even by the vigilant eye of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
" suPer-sag,acity attributed to the race might suggest
me isflections. Was this feat istended by way of en
sni,r,agetnent to new members, to show that rattieg
it tt he accomplished with ease and impunity I Or was
10011:14elf an assertion of the rights of the mus genus to
at a RI siker, as a oat may look at a King