The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

MONEY DIAR,KET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCF.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday there
was a fair demand, but the market was quiet. The
sales were 6,000 bales, 2,000 of which were talien
for export. The Railway Share Market was rather
better, and clo?cd with a steady aspect.

The Bank of England Return for the week ending.
the 11th inst., as was fully anticipated, exhibits
Some important and unfavourable features. They
have excited no uneasiness, because it was w&1
known that the pre=isure, during the period em-
braced, was exceedingly severe, both as regards the
demand for aceommodati,,n and gold. Besides,
it is believed that the general position of the
establishment has been materially strengthened
since the date of this balance-sheet ; a con,iderable
addition has been nude to the bullion, and the in-
quiry
for loans has not been quite so urgent. The
payment of the dividends has caused a decline in

the public deposits, but there is an augmentation
of a million :,:terling in the pr:vate depo its. The
next return will no doubt show an improvement in
most departments. The princip.il items and the
changes they present are as subjoined :
Active Circulation
Increase
Bullion .

,752,045
214,340
4,064,612
279,108
Rest
Decrease
Public Deposits
Decrease
Other Deposits.
• Increase - 1,062.045
Seven-Day arid other Bills 717.287
Decrease .. 25.762
Government Securities

Decrease

Decrease
Other Securities
Decrease
Notes unemployed

312,848
18,984,640
2.665,147
3,044,120

Decrease

463,355

The official return of the exports of the precious
metals from the port of Loudon for the week end-
mg Thursday last is as follows :
Gold Coin ... Boulogne ... 1,000 Oz 3.
... Hamburg 4,164 OZ9. & 8201.
Silver Coin ... Rotterdam 8,200 Ozs.
„ Gibraltar ... 8,000 Ozi.
91 ••• Hamburg ... 1,000 Ozi.
Some of the Cortineutal exchauges yesterday
afternoon were rather weaker, and bills were in
good demand.

Financial affairs in France are being watched
with interest. Yesterday it was announced that
the premium on gold at Paris had been raised
to 6 per mile. The object of this change
is to enable the Bank to procure supplies of that
Metal, the late reduction to 4 per mile, and the
restrictions imposed in Threadneedle-street hav-
inZ withheld the supplies whic'a the adminis-
,tration of the Bank of France require to
Keel) up the stock of bullion at a satis-
factory total. As it may be presumed
from this that gold will now again be withdrawn
from this side, the alteration has revived a feeling
of anxiety. The proposed doubling of the capital
of the Bank of France, which it is said will take
place forthwith, is likewise engrossing some
attention in monetary circles. Such a move-
Meat, it is contended, is necessary in order
to provide sufficient bank:ng facilities for the ex-
pansion of trade, and the functions which the estab-
lishment is consequently called upon to perform.
About 10,0001. of Australian gold was taken into
the Bank of England yesterday.
The Funds opened with a very feeble appearance
owing to the alteration in the premium for gold in
France, and a decline of per cent. took place, but
there has since been more firmness. Consols have
been 92i and 921 i 93 for transfer. The account
prices have been 93 to 93-1, and 931 at which they
closed. The New 3 per Cents. have been 911 92,
the Reduced 91e the March Exchequer Bills 7s.
discount, and the June ditto 10s. discount. Bank
Stock was dealt in at 21.2 to 213.

Foreign Stocks have been very dull. Turkish
6 per Cents. have been 941 and Sardinian Bonds
are 90i ; Spanish Threes, 42 ; and ditto Certifi-
cates, 61 1 per c'nt.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6i 7 ; Mexi an,
231 ; Peruvian 4i per Cents., 78 79 ; do. 3 per
Cents., 54 5 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 441 51 ; Rus-
isian 5 per Cents., 104 6 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 95 7 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 41i ; ditto Deferred, 24i 5;
ditto Certificates, Gi ; ditto Passive, 5i 6.
A very limited amount of business haibeen done
In Railway Shares, and previous rates have in most
instances been barely supportel Caledonian, East-
ern Counties, and Great Western declined ss. Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, Brighton and South Eastern,
1.,,?'•) and North-Western, South-Western, and
The. North-Eastern, York, improved
about 11. Grand Trunk of Canada, Paris and
-Lyons, and Northern of France, have receded ss,
to 1.08.

Mining Shares have ruled very dull, and but
little variation in price 3 can be quoted.
Joint Stock Bank Shares have also been in limited
request. London Joint-Stock improved ss. ; Otto-
plan Bank, South Australia, Uoion. of London, and
Western of London, brought previous rates.

The Miscellaneous undertakings have exhibited
210 change in prices requiring a report. j

13 ttITISH FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES -THIS DAY.

( from the Official List;)

~,,q, - - done
Sauk Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
Per Cent. Consols Annuities 92,i i 3
Aew 3 per Cent. Annuities oli i 2
LodAnnuities, expire sth .fan. 18h0... 24 7.16
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan., 1860 2g
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 lB
inch% Bonds, £l4lOll
Ditto tinder £,lOOO 5 10 d
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 24d. March. ( June.
£IOOO
X500
Small • 6 d par I 10 6 d
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Snanith Bonds, 3 per Cent.
IPanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6a I
Tutkith Ronde, 6 per cent 9-
Ditto Account ...... 94i i x d
utviOends on the above payable in Lon i( n.
TWO ('CLOCK.
92i i-
-93 A

Conmols, money...
Ditto for account

REFUSAL TO SUPPORT A STRIFE.—A deputation from
the committee of the turn-outs from Hollins' mill, at
Preston, went to Blackburn on Tuesday to solicit sup-
port. The Blackburn committee hell a meeting, and
Passed a resolution to the effect that they would not
euPport the men on strike at, Preston, and that they would
not even call another board meeting on their behalf.
The consequence is, that the committee at Preston
4470 been compelled' to reduce the allowance to those on
strike as follows :—To weavers and winders, is. 61 ;
and tenters, 91. Theie is no prospect of a settlemant
'Gt.
A. RARE BIRD.—A. female specimen of the harlequin
dock, which is perhaps the rarest of all the visitors to our
"ftat, Was killed on the 7th inst., at Maxstoke-castle, near
C°leelaill, in Warwickshire, by Mr. J. S. Dogditle. It is
;very rarely the case that birds of this kind stray so far
'llland• In this instance the duck had been swimming
about with four Canada geese for four or five days in a
Pond in Maxstoke-park, and did not even offer to fly
sr hen Stones were thrown at her. Yarrell only recoris
1. instances of specimens of this species being obtained
Imtngiand. It breeds in Iceland, Greenland, and the
tat northern parts of the American continent. The
is now in the bands of Mr. Franhltn, of B:rmieg-
wn, for preservation.
•
~UTAL TREATMENT OF A CHILD AT MANCHESTER.
esterday morning Robt. Matthew, railway labourer,
eha brought before the magistrates at Manchester,
sears with throwing his own child, a girl about three
old, in the fire. It was stated that he and lon
the were on a vi it at the house of his wife's sister, on
11"? 4th inst., and it was whilst in her house, in the
beLlg,ht,ourliood of Rochdale•road, that he put the child
• t'ind the fire. Its back was shockingly burnt, and it
bdoubtful if it will survive. He was drunk at the time.
tnagi,trates committed him for trial.
S A NOBLE SACRIFICE.—On the day of the polling for
tbth E,SeX, a patriot, whose moustache had long been
admiration of the ladies and the awe of little boys in
".ueleasford, was teasing an elector to vote for the blue, till
At last the rather yellow-tinged pssessor of the suffrage
ev,
cl4imed, " Web, go and get shaved, I am for Sol th."
4, 0 sooner said than done. The moustache fell, curling
''Pri and all, before the ruthless raz.n. ; and then return-
ijgi then
out,
most barefaced manner, the zealous partisan
"iaimed the fulfilment of the bargain. It was honestly
incarriedcd
tut, and the patriot, after seeing the vote re-
rd
, timed from the polling-booth, proud of having
Br. Ina whity-brown moustache a not unavailing
nrlaen upon the altar of his country.—Chelinsf"a
wtroniae.