The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-23 00:00:00

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
The return from the Bank of England, completed
to the 20th inst., shows some rather important
features. The increased demand for specie for
shipment to the Cor.tinent has caused a diminution
in the bullion to the extent of nearly a quarter of
a million sterling. In the reserve of notes
there is a falling off of over half a million, but
the other securities, owing to the repayment of
loans, and the easier rates of discount in the open
market show a diminution of fully half a million
sterling. In the public deposits there has been a
slight augmentation, but the private deposits, owing
to the employment of the dividends show a large
decrease, viz., about one million and a-half.
The active circulation also has been considerably
increased ; the various items, and the changes they
present, will be seen in the subjoined table :
Active Circulation .. $22,064,840
Increase 352,310
Bullion 17 699 527
•
Decrease • .. • 242,264
Rest • • • • 3,308,220
Increase 33,166
Public Deposits • •
4 0 572
• • , • .S 9 9
Increase • • 110,77779
Other Deposits 14 932 9g5
Decrease .. 1,431,803

wren Day and other Bills 858,019
Decrease ~ 5,188
Government Securities .. 11,270,680
Decrease 150,000
Other Semitic; • 17,254,439
Decrease 548,472
Notes Unemployed 9,489,050
Decrease .. 611,475
Money continued in moderate request, but the
applications at the Bank are still exceedingly
limited. Except for commercial purposes there is
very little inquiry, but the specie movement, which
shows an unfavourable tendency, may exercise an
adverse influence, and impart increased firmness to
the market.

Another parcel of £12,000 in gold was with-
drawn from the Bank yesterday for exportation.
In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
a slight decline was apparent in the rates on
Vienna, Trieste, and the quotations on Paris;
Amsterdam, however, was rather higher.
Accounts from Liverpool report that the Cotton
Market closed quietly, and 8,000 bales were sold at
Previous quotations.
The official returns relating to trade and navi-
gation, for the six months ending the 30th June,
have just been published. From these it appears
that the total declared value of the exports for the
'dx• months was £63,003,159, against £53,467,804
in the like period of 1858, showing an increase of
X 9,555,355. The increase is most perceptible
In beer and ale, cotton manufactures, earthen-
Ware and porcelain, haberdashery and milli-
IlerY, hardware and cutlery, linen manufactures,
linen yarn, railway iron, silk manufactures, British
-wines, refined sugar, and woollen and worsted
manufactures; there is a decrease, however, in cot-
ton yarn, machinery, salt, soap, and sheep and
lambs' wool.
The importations of the principal articles were
larger for the six months, as regards live animals,
bristles, rum, cotton, cochineal, flax, hemp, quick-
silver, unrefined sugar, tea,wine and sheep and lambs'
-wool. There was a diminution, however, in cocoa,
copper, corn, flour, rice, spices, tallow, and tobacco,
The shipping accounts exhibit an increase in the
amount of tonnage employed in the foreign trade
of the United Kingdom for the month at 95,372
tons for the entries inwards, and at 201,459 tons
for the clearances outwards. In the coasting trade
there has also been a considerable augmentation in
the tonnage of vessels employed both for the entries
inwards and the clearances outwards ; for the for-
Iner it amounted to 440,168 tons, and the latter to
307,243 tons.
tlncreased weakness is apparent in the Stock
ehange Market. The English Funds are par-
ularly heavy. At the commencement of busi-
ness a fall of about a per cent. took place, and the
Only cause that could be assigned for this sudden
,movement was an increased supply of stock, corn-
Dined with the expectation of an immediate and
extensive loan on Indian account. Consols, which
closed yesterday at 941 95, were quoted 94i
They have since rallied to 941 •Z-, and the latest
quotation (two o'clock) shows a recovery to 94
-1-
for.lneney and account, chiefly in consequence of
„,all Improvement on the Paris Bourse. The New
.Ithrees and Reduced receded to 941 ; India Loan
Debentures to 941 ; ditto Bonds to 6 dis. Exche-
quer Bills were steady at 275. to 30s. prem. Bank
Stock is heavy at 221 223.
In the Foreign Stock Market business has been
Moderately active, and prices, in most instances,
alloß' a further decline. Turkish 6 per Cents. are
79 to 80 ; ditto New, 69 to 70. Grenada Active
has receded to 17 ; Mexican to 18-Z t-; Portuguese
Brazilian
431 ; and
Russian 41 per Cents. to 981 99.
Peruvian
5 per Cents, are steady at 103 1 ;
3 per Cents. at 691; Spanish 3 per Cents.
at 44; ditto Deferred at 314 ; and Dutch 4 per
Cents. at 1001.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
be en exceedingly limited, and in most instances a
further slight decline has taken place. Eastern
Counties, London and Blackwall Bri hton Man:
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln o' gßritis, and
h
North Stafford, have recede North,
ssrth •
and Cale-
donian, 10s,
10s Midlands have aveimproved ss. to The Foreign and Colonial lines are
very inactive. Lombardo-Venetian have declined to 9Z- Old shares
, and the New to 9 and
94. Paris and Lyons, to 331, and Dutch Rhenish
to 9t. East Indian are steady at 97 to 98. Great
Indian Peninsula at 941 1 Great Western of
Canada realised 15 to 151 and Eastern Bengals
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
dull at barely previous quotations.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock . .. . . . 221 3
b3lper Cent. Reduced. Annuities 941 1
er Cent. Consols Annuities ........ 94i I t
AGINv 3 .per Cent. Annuities • 941 t
Dittlndia Stock ... ..._, .
Ditto Debentures, 1858 •
94i
o Bonds, £l,OOO ... d
( oneole for Account (Aug. 9) 941 1 i
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 1111 29 7 30
bitto f,500
29 7 30
Ditto Small, lid.
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Rrazilian 5 per Cent.
Danish, 1825, 3 per Cent.
Ditto 5 per Cent
Grenada New Active, 31 per Cent.
Me
Ditto Accoxican 3 per
unt Cent.
... . ................. . 18/
Peruvian 41 per Cent
... Ditto 3 per Cent.
...... ...............
..............
Ditto Account
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per den. ...
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent.......
—43 i
Ditto 41 per Cent. .... .... .
Spanish 3 per Cent 9Bl 9
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent Cent
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
_
Ditto New Loan
1
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London..
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent —
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 941 I
Ditto Account

MINES.—In Mining Shares, notwithstanding
the great rise in copper ore, and the improved
appearance
of the metal markets generally, business has been dull, in
comparison with. last week, though some of the dividend
mines have been in demand, and have advanced in price.
Of s peculation there is very little going on, except among
the Jobbers themselves, and the disposition of the public
seems to be to remain quiet during the hot weather. Wheal
Margaret shares advanced to 60, and leave off at 59 to 61,
and firmer. Wheal Uny shares have been more in request,
and advanced to 8i 9 ; it appears that a shaft is in course of
sinking on one of the north lodes, which is now 17 fins.
deer), and at the bottom good stones of rich cre, embedded
in gossan, have been broken this week ; there are one or
two other points of interest in this part of the mine, and it
faris to be hoped something will soon be met with ; the com-
y have expended a large amount of money without, so
,the succees they have deserved. Tvoole shares are
quiet, with scarcely a quotation, but we understand the
Mine is looking better in the bottom level, and'has sampled
248 tons this time. East Basset have advanced to 175,
180, and more business doing.—Mining Journal of this day.
CHLOROFORM AS A MOTIVE POWER .—The
French paddle-steamer Galilee, now lying in Yarmouth
harbour, has an engine and boiler on board for trying the
propulsive power of evaporated chloroform, and we are as-
sured by the engineer and the first-lieutenant that, so
as the experiment has gone, there is in the use of chloro-
form a saving of 40 per cent, in fuel Mining Journal.
THE CLEARING OF COUNTRY CHEQUES.—A meet-
ing tear
held yesterday at the Ring's Arms Hotel, West..
gold
minster, at which Mr. Wm. Gillett was presented with a
watch and a cheque for 400 guineas, in acknowledg-
ment of his services to country bankers by establishing the
Clearing of country cheques.,