The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCF.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
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In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday there
was a fair demand, but the market was quiet. The
sales were 6,000 bales, 2,000 of which were taken
for export. The Railway Share Market was rather
better, and closed with a steady aspect.
The Bank ofEngland Return for the week endin
the 11th inst., as was fully anticipated, (Xhibits
some important and unfavourable features. They
, have excited no uneasiness, hecause it was well
known that the pressure, during the period em-
braced, was exceedingly severe, both as regards the
demand for accommodation and gold. Besides,
it is believed that the general position of the
establishment has been materially strengthened
since the date of this balance-sheet ; a considerable
addition has been made to the bullion, and the in-
quiry for loans has not been quite so urgent. The
payment of the dividends has caused a decline in
the public deposits, but there is an augmentation
of a million Sterling in the private deposits. The
next return will no doubt show an improvement in
most departments. The principal items and the
changes they present are as subjoined :
Active Circulation
Increase
Bullion
Decrease
Rest
Decrease
Public Deposits
Decrease
Other Deposits
Increase
Seven-Day and other Bills 717.287
Decrease .. . . 25,762
Government Securities
Decrease
Other Securities
Decrease
Notes unemployed I. 3,044,120
Decrease ~ 463,355
The official return of the exports of the precious
metals from the port of London for the week end-
ing Thursday last is as follows :
Gold Coin ... Boulogne ... 1,000 Ozs.
, .. Hamburg t. 4,164 Ozs. & 8201.
Silver Coin ... Rotterdam ... 8,200 Ozs.
Gibraltar ... 8,000 Chi.
..: Hamburg ... 1,000 Ozs.
Some of the Cortinental exchanges yesterday
afternoon were rather weaker, and bills were in
good demand.
Financial affairs in France are being watched
With interest. Yesterday it was announced that
the premium on gold at Paris had been raised
to 6 per mille. The object of this change
is to enable the Bank to procure supplies of that
metal, the late reduction to 4 per mille, and the
restrictions imposed in Threadneedle-street hav-
ing withheld the supplies which the adminis-
tration of the Bank of France require to
keep up the stock of bullion at a satis-
factory total. As it may be presumed
from this that gold will now again be withdrawn
from this side, the alteration has revived a feeling
of anxiety. The proposed doubling of the capital
of the Batik of France, which it is said will take
Place forthwith, is likewise engrossing some
attention in monetary circles. Such a move-
ment, it is contended, is necessary in order
to provide sufficient bank:ng facilities for the ex-
pansiod of trade, and the functions which the estab-
lishment is consequently called upon to perform.
About 10,0001. of Australian gold was taken into
the Bank of England yesterday.
The Funds opened with a very feeble appearance
owing to the alteration in the premium for gold in
France, and a decline of I per cent. took place, but
there has since been more firmness. Consols have
been 92i and 921, 93 for transfer. The account
prices have been 93 to 931 and 93 at which they
closed. The New 3 per Cents. have been 911 92,
the Reduced 91 1, the March Exchequer Bills 7s.
discount, and the June ditto 10s. discount. Bank
Stock was dealt in at 212 to 213.

Foreign Stocks have been very dull. Turkish
6 per Cents. have been 94! 1, and Sardinian Bonds
are 90i ; Spanish Threes, 42 ; and ditto Certifi-
cates, 6g per cent.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, GI 7 ; Mexi an, 2
23i ; Peruvian 4i per Cents., 78 79 ; do. 3 per 1
Cents., 54 5 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 441 ; Rue-
Man 5 per Cents., 104 6 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 95 7 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 411-1 ; ditto Deferred, 244 5; 1
ditto Certificates, 6i ; ditto Passive, 52 G. I 1

A very limited amount of business hasbeen done
la Railway Shares, and previous rates have inmost 1,
instances been barely supported. Caledonian, East-
ern Counties, and Great Western declined ss. Lan- l'
eashire and Yorkshire, Brighton and South Eastern,
1°s•I and North-Western, South-Western, and
Midland, 15s. North-Eastern, York, improved
about 11. Grand Trunk of Canada, Paris and
Lyons, and Northern of France, have receded ss.
to l.os.
Mining Shares have ruled very dull, and but li
little variation in prices can be quoted.
Joint Stock Bank Shareshave also been in limited
request. London Joint-Stock improved ss. ;0: to- I
ram). Bank, South Australia, Union of London, and
Western of Landon, brought previous rates.
The Miscellaneous undertakings have exhibited I;
ito change in prices requiring a report.., li

BRITISH FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES-THIS DAY.

(From the Offietal List:)

113M,Y1..., dope
Sank Stock . 212 13
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Oonsola Annuities.., ,)94 i 3
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9lB i 2
Lodg Annuities, expire 6th fan. 1860... 2A 7.16
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan., 1860 2?,
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 lB
India Bonds, iatiou
Ditto, under £lO6O 5 10 d
Consols for Account ... . 934 :3 i
Exchequer Bills, 24d. March. I June.
4000
400 — 110 d
&nail .. 6 d par I 10 6 d
PP.ICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cant.
Ditto Account ...
Spanish &wig, 3 per Cent.
tiPanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6s A
Turkieh Bonds, 6 per cent 934
Ditto Account ....
Lit.idende on me above payable in Lou t n.
TWO O'C LOC K..
Consols, money 92i 4
Ditto for account ... .. 'J3 i

REFUSAL TO SUPPORT A STRIKE.—A deputation from
the committee of the turn-outs from Hollins' mill, at
Preston, went to Blackburn on Tuesday to solicit sup-
port. The Blackburn committee held a meeting, and
Passed a resolution to the effect that they would not
auPport the men on strike at Preston, and that they would
net even call another board meeting on their behalf.
Tile consequence is, that the committee at Preston
have been compelled to reduce the allowance to those on
strike as follows :—To weavers and winders, ls. 6.1. ;
and tenters, There is no prospect of a settlement
3,14.
.A- RARE BIRD.—A female specimen of the harlequin
duck, Which is perhaps the rarest of all the visitors to our
"'at) Was killed on the f th inst., at Maxstoke-castle, near
Culasbiil, to Warwickshire, by Mr. J. S. Dugdale. It is
very rarely the case that birds of this kind stray so far
inland. In this instance the duck had been swimming
about with four Canada geese for four or five days in a
W°ll4 in Maxstoke-park, arid did not even offer to fly
hen Stones were thrown at her. Yarrell only records
six instances of specimens of this species being obtained
In England. It breeds in Iceland, Greenland, and the
rii.°Elt northern parts of the American continent. The
hrd a how in the hands of Mr. Franlilin, of B:rming-
as for preservation.
BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A CHILD AT MANCHESTER.
--Yesterday morning Robt. Matthew, railway labourer,
was
brought before the magistrates at Manchester,
ebuarged with throwing his own child, a girl about three
''‘.e,a,rB old, in the fire. It was stated that he and his
jL"e were on a visit at the house of his wife's sister, on
,ia 4th inst., and it was whilst in her house, in the
behind
of Rochdale-road, that he put the child
• euind the fire. Its back was shockingly burnt, and it
;:;,(10ubtful if it will survive. He was drunk at the time.
The magistrates committed him for trial.
hA. NOBLE SACRIFICE —On the day of the polling for
eath E,ser, a patriot, whose moustache bad long been
admiration of the ladies and the awe of little boys in
Chelmsford, was teasing an elector to vote for the blue, till
at last the rather yellow-tinged possessor of the suffrage
° sooner
Well, go and get shaved, I am for Suiij th."
t. said than done. The moustache fell, culling
iIPB and all, before the ruthless razir ; and then returo-
t
claimed
the fulfilment of the bargain. It was boneelly
ecarried out, and the patri,,t, after seeing the vote re-
lair, turned from the poling-booth, proud of having
aa„ whity-brown moustache a not unavailing
re'rinne upon the altar of his country.—Chainsioni