The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Bank of England return, completed to the
23d February, shows a further addition to the
amount of bullion, the total now amounting to
nearly £20,000,000 sterling ; the increase, com-
pared with last week, being nearly a quarter of a
million. The reserve of notes has also been
augmented to a moderate extent, but owing
to the general slackness of trade and the ab-
sence of speculation, the other securities show
a falling off. The public and private deposits have
both been slightly increased, but the active circu-
lation has been less extensive. The return, alto•
gether, however, may be considered of a satisfactory
character. The various items and the changes they
Present are shown in the subjoined table :
Active Circulation .. • . £20,338,485
Decrease .. . • . • 150,860
Bullion .. 19,952,548
Incrcaso .. 205,394
Rest .. • . 3,302,224
Decrease .. • • .. 57,097
Public Deposits • • • • .. 7,819,784
Increase .. 199,529
Other Deposits 1.1,617,172
Increase .. 78,274
Seven Day and other Bills .. 749,788
Decrease . • • • • • • • 50,160
Government Securities •. .. 10 6967 147
No alteration.
.. 16,256,758
• . 185,708
.. 13,226,830

Other Securities
Decrease ..
Notes Unemployed
Increase ..

176;845

The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon exhi-
bited a further improvement in the rates on Vienna
and Trieste.

At the Bank of England yesterday there were
no bullion operations of public interest.
The Orissa will take out £323,690 in silver, for
Bombay, and .£B5O in gold for Alexandria.
In the cotton market at Liverpool yesterday a
fair amount of business was transacted, and prices
re mained without any material alteration. The
sales wore estimated at 7,000 bales.

The official returns relating to trade and naviga-
tinn, for the month ending January 31, have been
published. From these it appears that the total
declared value of the exports from the United
Kingdom for the month was £9,593,423, against
£7,221,600 compared with the like month in 1858,
showing an increase of £2,371,823. The increase
is perceptible in beer and ale, cotton manufactures,
earthenware, haberdashery and millinery, hard-
wares and cutlery, linen manufactures, linen
yarn, silk manufactures, thrown silk, woollen
manufactures, and woollen and worsted yarn.
There is a decrease in leather, machinery, railway
iron, British spirits, and sheep and lambs' wool.
The importations of the principal articles were
larger as regards live animals, copper, oats, tallow,
Corn, flax, fruit, raw silk, spices, brandy, unrefined
sugar, tallow, tobacco, and sheep and lamb's
wool. There was a diminution, however, in
cocoa, wheat, flour, raw cotton, hides, palm
oil, potatoes, tea, timber, and wine. The shipping
accounts exhibit an increase of the tonnage employed
in the foreign trade of the United Kingdom for the
mouth of 82,786 for the entries inwards, and of
47,689 tons for the clearances outwards. In the
coasting trade for the month, 102,20 tons more
were employed than in the corresponding month of
1858 for the entries inwards, and of 119,144 tons
for the clearances outwards.

Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £171,080, and the exports £324,540,
exclusive of the following shipments direct from
London to the Continent during the week ending
Thursday last :—Gold coin, Hambro', 40 ozs.;
Belgium, 3,000 ozs.; Oporto, 880 ozs. ; ditto,
2,000 sous.

The half-yearly meeting of the Norfolk Railway
Company was held to-day, at which a dividend on
the consolidated stock of £1 16s. 6d. per cent. for
the half-year was declared out of the balance of
revenue received by the Eastern Counties Railway
Company. The quota of net profit awarded
to the Norfolk Company out of the joint
revenue of three associated companies—viz., the
Easters Counties, the Eastern Union, and the
Norfolk Companies, was £47,904 Bs. ld., being an
increase of £786 as compared with the correspond-
ing period of 1857. The dispute about the inter-
pretation of the contract between this and the
Eastern Counties Company is still unsettled. After
some discussion the report was adopted.

The Money Market continues very easy, and the
terms remain without the slightest variation.
In the English Stock Market a decided improve-
ment has taken place. A general feeling of
satisfaction has been created in all de-
partments of the Stock Exchange by the
explanations given by Mr. Disraeli last night upon
the subject of foreign politics. An advance has
Consequently taken place in values, and Consols,
soon after the commencement of business, ascended
to MI 77 and 96, but the latest price is 951 for;
money and account. Bank Stock is firm at 230
the New Threes at 96'-: ; and the Reduced at
96- ;. Exchequer Bills are 355. prem., and ditto
advertised 345. India Stock is steady, at 219 and
220, and ditto Loan Debentures at 981 4.
Business in the Foreign Stock Market is rather
inactive. Quotations, however, exhibit an upward
tendency. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 90t to 911-;
ditto, New Loan, 80 to 80.1 ; ditto, 2d issue, 51 to 5
Buenos Ayres 5 per Cents. have advanced to
80; Peruvian 41- per Cents., to 94 and 941 ; Dutch
21 per Cents., to 651 ; Sardinian, to 801 ; and
Russian 41 per Cents., to 100. The New Austrian
Loan is 1 to 4 discount.
_ _ _

In the Railway Share Market the transactions
have been on a very limited scale, and chiefly con-
nected with the arrangements now in progress for
the liquidation of the half-monthly account. Prices
generally are firmer, the advance, compared with
Yesterday, being about to 1 per cent. Caledonians,
Eastern Counties, Great Northerns, Great Westerns,
South Westerns, North British, and Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhampton, have improved 10s. ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland, and North
Eastern (Berwick), 155.; and North-Western and
South Eastern, £l. The Foreign and Colonial
undertakings have been very quiet, but quotations
are firm. Lombardo-Venetian have advanced to 6
fur the old shares, and to 83- for the new ; East
Indian, and Great Indian Peninsula have each im-
proved about 15s.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
inactive. Union of London have improved 55., and
Ottoman Bank declined ss. National Discount
Company are at 41, and Red Sea Telegraph, 81.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 961-4 a
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 96i 1 t
India Stock
Ditto Debentures 9Bf I
Consols for Account 9st I, 6
March. June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & lid.. 35 i
Ditto £5OO ...................... 35 p _
Ditto Advertised ................ 34
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent .......... c• . • •
Ditto Account
94
Peruvian 4t per Cent ...... •
Ditto Account
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Sardinian, 5 per Cent BOl
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. 2f per Cent 6SJ
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money 9sk
Consols for Account

C OVENT-GARDEN IMPROVEMENTS.—The Metro-
politan Board of Works are taking the necessary steps to
obtain possession of the property required to be taken down
to clear the ground for the formation of the new street from
St. Martin's-lane, opposite the end of Cranbourn-street, to
Covent-garden. Two compensation cases have been de-
cided by juries ; in one case, the claimant, a leaseholder,
claimed a sum of upwards of £2,600, and after a long trial
the jury assessed the compensation at less than one-third—
£7so. In the second case a leaseholder claimed £3,034,
and the jury struck off two-thirds of the claim, and reduced
the amount to be paid to the sum of £1,050.—Building
News.
IFALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—A return now
before us gives a list of the " false balances" used in the
city of 'Westminster, in the Brentford division of Middle-
sex, in the Gore Hundred, and in various districts of the
metropolis. The list of cases in which convictions took
plaeo, find tim,, Were imposed fills a Parlittinentfiry paper of
25 pages, but, as the names of the delinquents are not pub-
lished, we fear that little good will result. The public are
indebted for the return to Mr. John Locke, M.P. for South-
wark, who did not, however, so extend the motion as to
cmPrellead the tradespeople of the Transpontino districts.