The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-13 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

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CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Bank of England return, completed to the
10th of April, is of a satisfactory character ; some
lather important variations, however, are apparent.
The Bullion, notwithstanding the demand for coin,
arising from the payment of the dividends, shows
a slight augmentation. The Reserve of Notes,
from the same cause, has been slightly diminished,
while there is a decrease of nearly three millions in
sthe Public Deposits; the Private Deposits have
been Proportionally increased. There is also an
extensive falling off in the Other Securities. The
Payment of the dividends on Bank Stock has caused
a diminution in the Rest of about £700,000 sterling.
Another important feature in the return is a de-
erease to a large amount in the Government Secu-
rities, The other items of the balance-sheet, and
the changes they present, are shown in the sub-
Mood table :
Notes issued .. .• £26,848,700
Increase .. .. 180,240
Rest 3 167 563
•• •• •• •• •• , ,
Decrease .. • • .. 691,240
Public Deposits •• •• •• 41902,527
Decrease .. .. 2,921,142
Other Deposits 13,201,791
Increase .. .. 1,566,311
Seven Day and other Bills .. .. 653,155
Increase .. .. • • 46,860
Government Securities • . • • 10,222,938
Decrease .. .. • • • • 385,086
Other securities 18,816,006
'Decrease 1,402,057
Reserve of Notes 6,690,360
Decrease .. .. • . • • 154,130
Gold and Silver Coin 748,732
Decrease •• •• •• 67,938
Stock of Bullion .. .. 13,122,432,
Increase .. 122,302
Active Circulation .. .. 20,158,340
Increase • • • • • • 334,370
Only a small amount of gold, viz., about £7,000,
Itaa sent into the Bank of England yesterday.
A general decline was exhibited in the Foreign
exchanges yesterday afternoon.

At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Phineas
Abraham, West India merchant, who suspended on
the 28th of last month, it was resolved to wind-up
the estate under inspection. The liabilities were
!Anted at £49,528, and the assets, £32,491.
To-day a call of £2 per share, amounting to
£50,000, became due on the Great Southern of India
Railway shares.
The Kooria Mooria has arrived from Aus-
tralia with £40,000 in gold.

Soon after the English stock market opened
this morning, it recovered from the depression
caused yesterday :afternoon by some unfavourable
tumours, now proved to be unfounded. The rail y,
however, has not been maintained, a further de-
aline being reported on the Paris Bourse. Consols
have been 911 to I for money, and 92* for account,
they are now 91* to and 911 8 respectively. The
New 3 per Cents. and the Reduced receded to
89t 90 ; Bank Stock to 226* and 2281 ; India
ditto ;improved to 222 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Rupee
Paper was heavy at 931 ; but Exchequer Bills
were bnoyan t, viz., 3s. dis, to par.
The annual meeting of the Agra and United
Service Bank has just been held, at which it was
stated that the nett profits for the year to 31st
December last amounted to £130,345 14s. 4d.,
Which, added to the unappropriated balance of
the previous year, will be £142,647 14s. 6d. From
this two half-yearly dividends at the rate of 10
Per cent. have been declared, to the last of which
4 bonus of £1 per share was added, making
the distribution for 1860 equivalent to 12
Per cent. Out of the remaining surplus, £lO,OOO
has been placed to the credit of the Reserve Fund,
increasing it to £200,000, at which it is intended to
lea it stand until the business of the bank should
increase sufficiently to warrant its further augmen-
tation. A balance of £12,647 14s. 6th remains
to be carried to the next account. After some dis-
cussion the report was adopted, and the retiring
-directors and auditors re-elected. The remunera-
tion of the latter was increased to £3OO.
The dealings in the Foreign market have been of
a moderate character. Turkish 6 per Cents, are fiat
at 694 to 701 ; ditto New 1858, at 521 to 531;
lexican, 23* 1 ; Grenada Active, 152- ; and Portu-
guese, 46; Chilian 4* per Cents. are firm at 83 ;
and Brazilian 5 per Cents., 981.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about. £486,300, and the exports £217,000.
Business in the Itailway,Share Market has been
moderately active, but the chief dealings have been
connected with the arrangements in progress for
the, liquidation, and prices generally have not
shown any material variation, Great Westerns,
and Lancashire and Yorkshire have improved 55.,
Midlands 10s. ; Great Northerns, and North
Eastern (Berwicks) have declined 55., and Brighton,
and Stockton and Darlington 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
remained in moderate request, at about previous
values. Northern of France are steady at 381 ;
Grand Trunk of Canada have improved to 201 ;
Great Indian Peninsula and Bombay and Baroda,
however, are a shade flatter.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares
barely maintain previous rates. London Joint
stock have receded 55.; Crystal Palace Stock ss. ;
and Royal Mail Steam £l.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9O 891
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9O 89A / 90
India Stock. .. 222
Ditto 5 per Cent .. •
I iDitto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto 51 per Cent lOOl
Ditto Debentures, 1858 —
Ditto 1859 961
e oasols for Account, May 9 .. 911
43tchequer Bills, £l,OOO, ltd.
i, FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
'
f,„ razilian 5 per Cent
vailian. 6 per Cent —
Ditto 41 per Cent,'
Mexican 3 per Cent 23 I
New Grenada Active, 3i per Cent.
Peruvian ili per Cent —
Ditto (Uribarren), 4t per Cent.l B2
Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853 .. 46
Turkish 6 per Cent .. 70 691
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
:Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. .
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.

Cone°ls, Money 911 i
Ditto Account 914 i

THE WEATHER.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS.

-This Day,
between 8 and B. E. M. D. F. C. I. S.
9 a.m.
------ — —•—
Nairn 3014 45 44 S.W. 3 9 in. 2
Aberdeen
Leith.
~.11erwieg 3012 46 43 W.N.W. 1 1 f. 1
rOrtrush
Shields
Galway 3016 47 46 N.N.W. 4 9 f. 2
Bearborsugh 30,10 45 44 N.N.E. 3 8 0. 4
Liverpool
Valentia
Queenstown 3Oll 47 46 W.N.W. 2 7 f. 1
Yarmouth 3035 45 44 N.N.E. 4 5 m. 5
London 3O 34 48 44 N.E. 2 9 o.
toyer 3025 46 44 N.E.' 8 7 o. 6
Portsmouth
Portland
Plymonth
Penzance ...., 30'35 51 4B E.N.E. 1 9 0. , 1

EXPLANATION.-B. Barometer, corrected and reduced
to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.
Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true—
not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
,(1 to 9). I. Initials :-1) , blue sky ; c., clouds (detached) ;
Z, fog. • h,, hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0.,
bvereast' (dull) ; r., rain ; s , snow ; t., thunder. A letter
repeated augments=thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb-
ance (1 to 9).

MONEY ORDERS.—In the last 20 years the post-
offices of the United Kingdom have paid 92,008,30 money
elders ; the sum thus paid was £177,779,046. The losses
by irrecoverable arrears due from postmasters and others
have been but £5,392, and nearly £4,000 went in two bad
debts at Barnet and in Jersey ; since 1850 the losses have
been less than £3OO ; sums amounting to 4282 remitted on
keney order account have been lost in transmission through
the post-office, and sums to the amount of £291 have been
Paid on false signatures and afterwards made good to the
proper parties. The whole loss in the 20 years, £5,965, has
been taken from the proeeeds of unclaimed money orders.
A curious event occurred on the Boulevard des
italiens on Tuesday. A well-known red republican hap-
Pelling to meet General Changarnier, extended his arms and
Stied, "Representatives of France, deliberate in peace I"
the pompous exclamation which the general used in the
I+egislative Assembly just before the coup d'ctat, when an
attack by Louis Napoleon was apprehended. The general
_!ra a for a moment bewildered at thisunlooked-for resuscita-
/zwl of what he considers his finest mmentent oratoirc.