The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-19 00:00:00

11102 V EY MARE_ET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Bank of England return, completed to the
16th inst., shows some rather favourable features.
The bullion, owing to the late arrivals from Aus-
tralia, the United States, and the West Indies, has
been augmented by about a quarter of a million,
the total now amounting to about nineteen millions
and three-quarters. The reserve of notes has also
been added to by nearly half a million. In the
other securities the alteration is unimportant, but
the public and private deposit') both show a slight
increase. The active circulation has been slightly
diminished. In the other items of the balance-
sheet no material variation can be reported, and
the changes will be seen in the subjoined table :
Active Circulation .. 220,489,345
Decrease •.. 129,140
Bullion . 19,747,154
286,149
Restlncrease .. • • 3,359,321
Decrease 6,269
Public Deposits' 7,620,255
Increase 290,968
Other Deposits ' 14 538 898
•• 7 7
Increase • • " • • 6 63,912
Seven Day and other Bills 799,948
Increase .. • • 6,335
Government Securities .. 10,6.96,1:4.7

• •
Other Securities •• •No 'alteration.
16,442,466
••
Decrease • . " • • 70,343
Noes Unemploywl • 13 049,935
_ •• •• •• •
Increase . 424,900
The Money )aarket still presents a quiescent
'PPearance, but, as several heavy payments will
8°4311 have to be made, an increased demand is
anticipated. Choice bills of short date are still
negotiated at 2 per cent. or a fraction higher.
In the foreign exchanges, yesterday afternoon, a
slight advance was recorded in the rate on Vienna.
At the Bank of England, yesterday, there were
no bullion operations of importance.
The particulars of specie to be taken out by the
Ceylon, which leaves on the 21st for India and
China, are as subjoined :
Madras (gold)
Calcutta (silver)
Penang do.
Hon g-kon g do.
Shanghai do. .

. £2,365
. 80,650
. 1,500
. 42,430
. 48,336

Total .

175,281

In the Liverpool Cotton Market, yesterday, a fair
amount of business was transacted, 8,000 bales
having been sold at the previous advance. The
Railway Share Market closed quietly, and prices
Were unaltered.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £462,153, and the exports £175,281,
exclusive of the following shipments direct from
London to the Continent during the week ending
Thursday last :—Gold coin, Boulogne, 520 ounces;
gold bars, Hambro',l,soo ounces ; silver coin, Bou-
logne, 6,600 ounces; silver coin, Hambro', 1,100
Ounces.

The meeting of the Great Northern Railway
Company passed off on the whole more peaceably
than usual. There was, however, some discussion
in i espect to the late Chancery proceedings, the
disputes with the other companies, &c., but it did
not prejudice the ultimate adoption of the report,
and the dividend recommended was £6 2s. 6d. per
cent• per annum on the original undivided stock,
and the A and B stocks likewise.

There has been a very dull and heavy market for
English Securities to-day, although the variation
los been very limited. Consols have been 951 I for
Money and account, showing a decline of 3 per cent.
e°Mpared with yesterday. Speculation is inactive,
and very few real transfers of stock are reported.
The New 3 per Cents. are firm at 954 961, and
the Reduced at NI ; Exchequer Bills remain at
368' to 395. prem. ; and India Bonds at 15s. to 18s.
Prem.

Business in Foreign Securities has been rather
restricted, and prices remain without material
alteration. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 90 to 904 ;
ditto
New Loan, 80 to 804 ; and ditto Scrip, 2d
Issue, 54 to 5 dis. Chilian Loan is 3to 2 dis. ;
Portuguese are steady at 46, and Spanish at 444.
Sardinian have been dealt in at 814, Equador at
164, Dutch 24 per Cents. at 66, and ditto 4 per
Cents. at 1014. The New Austrian Loan is 1-1, to
discount.
There has been but little activity exhibited in
the Railway Share Market, and the few dealings
reported show a further decline of about 4 to
Brighton,
per cent.l Eastern Counties, Great Western,
South Devon, and South Eastern,
have declined 10s. ; North-Western and North-
Eastern (Berwick), 55.; Caledonian and North
British, £1; and Edinburgh, Perth, and Dun-
bee, £1 10s. The foreign undertakings have
rep very quiet. Paris and Lyons have
unproved. ss. ; and Lombardo-Venetian have
declined 58. The Colonial lines are also de-
pressed, Grand Trunk of Canada have declined
I.e)s. ; Great Indian Peninsula 10s.
Joint-Stock Bank Shares have been inactive, at
former rates ; and in the Miscellaneous Share Mar-
ket no material alteration has taken place.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3
a Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 96/
Now Cent. Consols Annuities
',lew 3 per Cent. Annuities 96 k 5/
Cools for Account 951 1
March June.
F
'lchequer Bills 2d. & 11d.. 36 9 36
Ditto X. 500 ' £l,OOO,
36 9 36
Ditto Small, 1/(1
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
E 161
pc_illaclor New Consolidated
Q urtaguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
'',,a-rdinian, 5 per Cent Bll
°Panish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent 9l
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto 2d Issue
Ditto Account
,
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent... 66
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 951 1
Consols for Account

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

CURRENTS OF THE OCEAN.—On the 13th inst. a
bottle was picked up at the back of the Isle of
isyir a yigebotp,eontainin,,,,, a paper, of which the following
:—" Thursday, 21st day of October, 1858.
—lsis, yacht, W. H. Cosway, Es , from Alicant,
bound to Cowes, laying to in a gale of wind; short
of provisions ; lat. 46.22., long. 6.55 ; left Alicant
on the 3d October, 1858. Wm. Hearly, master;
Xoseph Booker, mate ; John ,smith, cook, and
nothing to cook."—On the above being received at
the Custom-house, Cowes, Booker was sent for. He
remembered the circumstance, and said that he
*wrote the account, but had certainly never calcu-
lated on ever seeing the paper again, much more
that it would find its way to Cowes.
At a special meeting of the West Cowes Local
Board of Health, on Monday last, the following
resolution' proposed by Mr. James Moore, and
seconded by Mr. Michael Ratsey, was carried
unanimously :—" That this board, approving of
the Cowes and Newport Railway Bill, as BOW pro-
posed to be amended, shall present a petition to
Parliament in favour of the undertaking."

STEAM FLOATING BRIDGE TO CONNECT EAST TO
EST CowEs.—The plans of Mr. Hodgkinson being
approved, it has been resolved by the directors to
accept his tender to construct it. The directors
is considered
to have it ready by the Ist of May, but it
Considered more than probable that it will be
the Ist of July before it will be at work.

MADLLE. VICTOIRE BALFE.—By a telegram st
"hied, we are happy to announce a most triumphant
debtit of Madlle. Victoire Balfe as Aniina, in " La Sonnam-
lada," at tho Grand Teatro Reggio Turin. So great was
iker success that she was called before the curtain three
times after each act.
THE GREAT GLOBE.—The followingare amongst
the numerous the distinguished personages who have visited
Great Globe, and the beautiful and highly interesting
Dioramas of Japan, India, China, and the Sepoy Rebellion :
--Prince Lucien Bonaparte, Lady Clarendon, Lord Hyde;
Lady Sidmouth and party, Hon. Miss Gifford, John James
tecl.) and party, Mr. North and party, Mr. Barnes, Mrs.
Gage and friend, Mrs. Howard, Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs.
or
mistagme,aMhorsne.
yG.able, Mrs. Penson and party, Mrs. and
The Court of Sardinia has gone into mourning
for 20 days on account of the death of the Archduchess
Anne Maria of Saxony, hereditary princess of Tuscany,
and cousin german to King Victor Emmanuel.
A St. Petersburg letter says :—" The speech of
the Emperor Napoleon has been well received hero, and is
considered pacific. Tho Journal Francais of this city ex-
presses the opinion that the knot of existing complications
is Lombardy."