The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-26 00:00:00

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NONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Bank of England return completed to the
23d January shows some rather important features.
In the reserve of notes there is a small increase,
and the other deposits have been diminished by
more than three quarters of a million sterling. The
active circulation has been reduced by over a guar.
ter of a million ; and the public deposits show an
addition of nearly a quarter Of a million. An un-
favourable feature is a further decrease in the bul-
lion of about a quarter of a million, and there is
also a large falling off in the private deposits. The
various items and the charges they present are
shown in the subjoined table :
Active Circulation .. £20,035,130
Decrease .. .. 363,090
Bullion .. .. 11,521,580
Decrease .. 253,783
Rest
.. 3,360,261
Increase •• •• •• •• 25,080
Public Deposits
Increase .• •• •• •• 202,118
Other Deposits 13 130 293
•• •• •• ,
Decrease .. .• .. 1,303,663
Seven Day and other Bills
.. 652,949
Decrease .. • • 38,037
Government Securities . 8,447,430
Decrease 336,291
Other Securities .. 20,236,060
Decrease 887,518.
Notes -Unemployed
.. 5,228,300
Increase
.. 146,675
A dividend and bonus together at the rate of
14 per cent. per annum has been declared by the
directors of the National Bank.
At the forthcoming meeting of the Electric
and International Telegraphic Company a dividend
will be proposed of 31 per cent. for the last six
months.

The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon,
exhibited an advance in the rates on Vienna,
Trieste, and Paris; Antwerp, however, was rather
lower.

About £20,000 in Australian gold was sent into
the Bank of England yesterday.
The steamer Delta which leaves to-morrow the
27th, for Bombay, will convey £8,925 in gold and
£229,745 in silver; the whole of which is on private
account.

Increased dulness pervaded the Liverpool Cotton
Market yesterday, and previous values are barely
supported. The sales were about 8,000 bales.
The suspension has been announced of Messrs.
Ede and Co., merchants, of George-street, Mansion-
house, with liabilities estimated at £lOl,OOO. The
assets, however, are expected to realise a good
dividend. '

Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £302,500, and the exports £526,600.
In addition to the above, the Canada, which left
for New York, took £53,130 in specie.
The English Stock Market has been dull and
heavy to-day, a *line of 1 per cent. having taken
place, in consequence of speculative sales. Consols
have been 911 for money, and 911 for the
account; but they have since recovered to 94
and 911 respectively. The New Threes and the
Reduced were steady, at 91i -'1; India Stock receded
to 2161 ; ditto 5 per Ceut. Loan, to 991 ; and
Exchequer Bills to Bs. and 4s. dis.
Very little business has been recorded in the
Foreign Securities, and prices were rather de-
pressed. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 691 to 701 ;
ditto New, 55 to 551 ; and the 4 per Cents. are
steady at 1011 102; Mexican at 221 and
Buenos Ayres Deferred at 291 ; Spanish have re-
ceded to 471 48 ; and Sardinian to 81.1.
The transactions in the Railway Share Market
have not been verrextensive, and a slight depres-
sion has taken place in values owing to speculative
sales. Caledonians, North Westerns, North Eastern
(Berwick), and South Easterns have declined ss. ;
Great Northerns, ,10s. ; Midland, 155.; and Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, £l. Bristol and Exeter, and
Great Westerns, have improved ss.
The Foreign and Colonial Markets have remained
very inactive, without any material variation in
prices. Sambre and Meus. realise 81 ; Great Wes-
tern of Canada have improved to 101 104; and East
Indian declined to 972.
Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
continued in fair demand, at about previous rates.

BRITISH FUNDS,--CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll f
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9lt a
India Stock OO .. 2l6f
Ditto 5 per 'Cent 99}
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 5f per Cent
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Ditto 13ebentures, 1859 951
Consols for Account, Feb. 7
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 10
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent
Ditto Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent ..
Ditto Account 221 1
Sardinian 5 per Cent. ..
Spanish 3 per Cent...
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent ..
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account .. 551 41
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK..
Consols, Money . 9ll 1
Ditto Account

ERRATUM.—In the notice of Valdez's work on
Africa, in yesterday's impression, the word " novels" was
eabstituted for " travels," in the first sentence.

SERIOUS INDISPOSITION OF MISS GODDARD.—
The celebrated tragedienne, Mrs. Caple, better known to the
theatrical world as Miss Goddard, is now lying dangerously
ill, at South Shields. Her health and spirits have been
gradually sinking, ever since the death of her late huslY.nd,
1/1 June last, and exposure to the recent severe weather has
served to accelerate the present attack. In the early part
of the week her life was despaired of, but through the skil-
fnl treatment of Dr. Ridley, her medical adviser, hopes are
now entertained of her ultimate recovery.—Era.
LONDON SCOTTISH RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.—The
Gazette of last night contains a notice of the appointment
of General Lord Clyde as honorary colonel of this corps.
The shipments of specie for Bombay by the Delta
will represent £238,670, of which £8,925 is gold and
£229,745 silver. No remittance is made on this occasion
on account of Government.

The fourth Royal Dramatic performance took
place at Windsor Castle on Thursday last. The play was
"Richelieu." Mr. Phelps sustained the part of the Car-
olinal; Mr. Hermann Vezin, the Chevalier de Maupraut ;
Mr. Marston, Baradas; and Miss Heath, Julie.
The sale of the copyright of the Illustrated
Bows of the World, a Sunday paper set afloat three years
ago by a joint-stock company, was disposed of yesterday by
auction. It was knocked down for £1,370. The purchaser
teas Mr. Tallis. The second lot, 146 steal plates of pub
lished portraits, was bought by Mr. Furber for £328 10s.

The Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Com-
pany being unable at present to carry out their contract,
and provide vessels for carrying on the mail service be-
tween Galway and America, the Postmaster-General has
consented to suspend the operation of the contract until the
26th March, thus giving the company two months' time
for preparation.
The principal business of the different police-
courelief from the poor-bexes.
A terriblo
on conflagration took place yesterday
morning tlae premises of Messrs. Green, cocoanut fibre
was
manuf
totally destroyed actarars, Greenwich. A. great part of the promises
.
The suspension was announced this morning of
Messrs. Edo and Co, merchants, of George-street, Mansion-
house, in ccnsequence of their correspondents in the Levant
£.
being unable to realise en securities in sufficient time to
cover their acceptances, amounting to 101,000 In a few
days a 'statement will be prepared for the satisfaction of the
creditors, and meanwhile Messrs. Ede and Co. express a
conviction that there will be more than sufffeient assets to
satilify every claim on their estate.
THE HORRIBLE CHILD MURDER IN NEWING-
TON—ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUEST.—Last night
(Friday) Mr. W. Carter, the coroner far the divi-
sioneastern of Surrey, resumed, at the County
Terrace
Tavern,
New Kent-road, the adjourned inquest respecting the cir-
cumstances attending the death of a female child, found
ehoekingly mutilated in Trinity churchyard, Newington.
The jury, after consulting, returned a verdict of wilful.
Murder against some person or persons unknown.
THE FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION NEAR WOLyEit_
liA3l£TON—Yesterday an inquest was held in Wolver:
liampton on the bodies of the two men, John Legge and
Joseph Elwell, who were killed on Tuesday evening by the
explosion of a steam boiler at the Wolverhampton division
of the Rough Hills Colliery, near that town. After taking
5,°020 further evidence, the inquiry was again adjourned,
to afford art opportunity for the examination of the engine-
tenter, Evers, who gave up the engine and boiler to Legge
Znii (six o'clock on the day of the explosion, but who is now
ned to his bed from the injuries that he received.
—oovarßow beginning to be entertained that he will not