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 .. Z 20,338,485

B Decrease .. • 4
.• • • • 15520860
ullion .. .. 19 9 548

Increase .. ..
Rest • • • • . •

. . . . ' 205,394
3,302,224

.. .. _ „
Decrease .. • • •. 57,097
Public Deposits .. .. .. 7,819,784
Increase .. .. .. .. 199,529
Other Deposits .. .. 14,617,172
Increase •• •• .. .. 78,274
Seven Day and other Bills .. .. 749,788
Decrease .. .. .. v. 50,160
Government Securities .. 10,696,147
No alteration.
Other Securities .. .. .. 16,256,758
Decrease .. .. .. .. 185,708
Notes Unemployed _ .. .. 13,226,00
Increase .. .. .. _ 176,845

Tlie foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon exhi-
bited a further improvement in the rates on Vienna
and Trie'ste.

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
remained without any material alteration. The
sales were estimated at 7,000 bales.
The official returns relating to trade and naviga-
tion, 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
tan, British spirits, and sheep and lambs' wool.
The importations of the principal articles were
l
arger as regards live animals, copper, oats, tallow,
corn, flax, fruit, raw silk, spices, brandy, unrefined
migar, tallow, tobacco, and sheep and lamb's
Wool. There was a diminution, however, in
e°e„ °a, wheat, flour, raw cotton, hides, palm
on, potatoes, tea, timber, and wine. The shipping
accounts exhibit an increase of the tonnage employed
14 the foreign trade of the United Kingdom for the
Month of 82,786 for the entries inwards, and of
47,689 tons for the clearances outwards. In the
were trade for the month, 102,289 tons more
;ere 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,
e...Xclusive of the following shipments direct from
'London to the Continent during the week ending
r-riirsday last:—Gold coin, Hambro', 40 ozs. ;
Belgi
lim, 3,000 ogs.; Oporto, 880 ozs.; ditto,
2,000 sow.
Tile 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
l'evenue of three associated companies—viz., the
Eastern Counties, the Eastern Union, and the
Norfolk Companies, was £47,904 Bs. id., 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 dm
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
t° 661 y and 96, but the latest price is 951 for;
money and account. Bank Stock is firm at 230
the New Threes at 96: 2 ; and the Reduced at
961 Z. Exchequer Bills are 355. prem., and ditto
advertised 345. India Stock is steady, at 219 and
220, and ditto Loan Debentures at 981 t.

Business in the Foreign Stock Market is rather
Inactive. Quotations, however, exhibit an upward
tendency. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 901 to 914;
ditto, New Loan, 801 to sot ; ditto, 2d issue, 51 to 5
Buenos Ayres 5 per Cents. have advanced to
80; Peruvian 41 per Cents., to 94 and 941-; Dutch
2i per Cents., to 651; Sardinian, to 801 ; and
Russian 41 per Cents., to 100. The New Austrian
14an is 1 to 1 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 Ito 1 per cent. Caledonians,
Eastern Counties, Great Northerns, 01.04 Westerns,
South Westerns, North British, and Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhampton, have improved 10s. ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland, and North
Eastern (Berwick), 155.; and NorthlVestern 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 81 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 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
Now 3 por Cent. Annuities 96j i I
India Stock

Ditto Debentures 9Bl I
Consols for Account....
March. J

Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & 11d 35 1 _
Ditto £5OO. 35 p I
_
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent
Ditto Account ... . .................. 80
Peruvian 41 per Cent .................. 94
Ditto Account .. .. . ................. 91f
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent.........
Ditto 41 per Cent. .................. 100
Sardinian, 5 per Cent. .................. 801
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}
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money 9si
Consols for Account

COVENT-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 ease, the claimant, a leaseholder,
claimed a sum of upwards of £2,600, and after a long trial
tho jury assessed the compensation at less than one-third—
z7so. In the second case a leaseholder claimed £3,034,
and the jury struck off two-thirds of the claim, and reduced
We amount to be paid to the sum of £l,oso.—Building
News.
IP ALSE'WEIGHTS AND MgAsußEs.—A return now
'idol.° us gives a list of the " false balances" used in the
city of Westminster, in the Brantford division, of Middle-
sex, in the Gore Hundred,i and in various districts of the
metropolis. The list of cases in which convictions took
place and fines were imposed fills a parliamentary 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, 14.1). for South-
wark, who did not, however, so extend the motion as to
comprehend the tradespeople of the Transpontine districts.