The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-16 00:00:00

BY ALARKE7' AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Bank of England return, completed to the
14th inst., shows somo favourable changes. The
bullion has bee❑ increo;ed by the limited amounts
of the remittances to New York, and the arrivals
of gold from the Continent. The reserve of notes
shows an addition of about half a million, and the
securitiel discounted have been diminished by over
a quarter of a million sterling. Both the public
and private deposits show a slight augmentation,
and there is a decrease in the active circulation.
The other items of the balance sheet present little
change of importance; they will be seen in the
nbjoined table.

Active Circulation
Increase ..
Stock of Bullion
_ Increase ..

.. £20,103,520
.. 243,425
.. 12,647,658
.. 287,213
.. 3,528,877
• • 8,42.5
.. 3,926,955

Rest .. • :
Increase ..
Public Deposits

Increase .
Other Deposits
increase
Seven Day and other Bills ..
Decrease ..
Government Securities

• • 83,192
.. 12,092,801
.. 273,821
725,776
• • 11,979
.. 10,000,800

Increase . • • .
Other Securities • •
Decrease .. ..
Notes unemployed ..

.. 'lOO,OOO
.. 17,632,471
.. 277,179
6,`88,460

Increase .. 503,730
About £52,000 in gold was sent into the Bank of
England yesterday.

The Suffolk has arrived from Melbourne this
morning with £127,000.

The Hibernian, which left yesterday for Quebec
and Montreal, took £25,150 in specie.
A call of £3 per share has been made by the
directors of the Bahia Gas Company, payable on
or before the 4th proximo.
_

The directors of the Southampton Docks Corn-
Pony recommend a dividend at the rate of 3 per
cent. per annum for the half•year.
A fair demand was experienced for most descrip-
tions of cotton in the Liverpool Market yesterday,
and prices were steady. The sales were 10,000
bales.

During the last few days there has been a mode-
rate amount of business transacted in most descrip-
tions of Foreign and Colonial Produce. At the
public sales of tea late rates were well maintained.
Sugars sold readily at a slight advance for good and
fine descriptions, and rather higher prices have been
current for coffee and cocoa. Rice has been dull ;in
fruit and spices only moderate transactions have
taken place at former terms. Saltpetre and tallow
have been in fair demand. P.Y.C.; on the spot, is
quoted 45s to 458 6d, and last 3 months 45s per cwt.
The dealings in the English Funds to-day have
baen very circumscribed, but some of the Indian
stocks have continued in favour, and in some in-
stances have exhibited a further improvement.
Consols are buoyant at 902 & for money, and at
9011 for the 10th proximo. The New Threes and
the Reduced are steady at 901 d ; Bank Stock is
flat at 233 and 235; India 5 per Cent. Loan is
firm at 1002 a ; and the new Scrip at 100 i 1012.
Very little business has been transacted in the
Foreign Stock Market, and the principal feature
has been an important decline in the value of
Turkish Bonds, the Old 6 per Cents. having receded
to 771 78 ; ditto, 1858, to 681 69 ; and ditto £lOO
Bonds to 69i. Equador are steady at 131; Bra-
zilian at 99 ; and Spanish Passive have improved
to 16.

The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been rather numerous, and a decided improvement
has taken place in prices. Caledonian and Great
Western have advanced ss. ; Bristol and Exeter
and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 10s. ; North West-
ern, Midland, and West Midland, 15s. ; and Great
Northern, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
coln, £l.
The Foreign and Colonial lines are also at
slightly advanced prices. Bahia and San Fran-
cisco, Great Luxenibourg, and Sambre and Meuse
have improved 55.; Grand Trunk of Canada, £1 ;
and Great Indian Peninsula, 10s.
Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
been in moderate request, at about previous values.

B ILITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICE.i.
Dank Stock
3 rwr Cent. Reduced Annuities 9oa a /
1 per Cent. Consads Annuities
mew 3 per Cent. Annuities
x wlia Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
I)ittoLoan Scrip, 5 per cent . .
fli-,
' co Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
~
litho 5 per Cent.
Ditto 51 per Cent.
__ -_-

'ill-0 Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 96k-
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859..
CoNsols for Account, Sept. 10
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
Mar. 2d p. day. June 31 p. ct.
Ezebenner Bills, £l,OOO, 25 l4 9 dis 2 dis 3
Ditto £5OO .. 8 dis
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent .. 99
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852 BB
Equador New Consolidated
Guatemala 5 per Cent 65
Mexican 3 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Peruvian 41 per Cent .. 981
Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent...
Ditto Passive
Turkish 6 per Cent .. 771
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Ditto Guaranteed. 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f 9sf. 50c.
Ditto 3 per Cent
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols Money 9Ol a
Ditto Account

COURSE OF EXCHANGE..—Tnis DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 1 12 11
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 621 25 70
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 72/ 25 771
Frankfort on Maino — 119 1191
Vienna
Trieste - 14 20 14 30
Petersburgh — 33 331
Berlin —
Madrid -..
Cadi7 -
Leghorn —
Milan —
Genoa —
Naples
Palermo —
Messina —
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro —
New York —
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard),...per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars „,.. „. 0 0 0
Silver in Bars (Standard) )1 0 5 05
South American Doubloons

48i
481
25 80

484
481
25 90
25 824
25 85
391
1171
118
521
621

25 771
25 75
391
117;
1171
52t
521

THE NEW ACT ON VOLUNTEERS TOLL EXEMP-
TioN.—The new Act to exempt the volunteer forces of
Great Britain from the payment of tolls has just been
printed. This statute, it is hoped, will settle the vexed
question, and all that remains is to make public the penal-
tie& incurred by infringing the Act. It provides that any
toll collector or other person who shall take, demand, or re-
ceive any dues, duties, pontage, or toll, for or in respect of
any volunteer officer or soldier, horse, or other beast, car-
riage, waggon, or cart, entitled to exemption under this
Act, shall forfeit and pay for every offence a sum not ex-
ceeding £5. Further the Act declares any person who shall
falsely and fraudulently represent himself to be a volunteer
()facer or soldier, with the intent to evade payment of any
dues, duties, postage, or toll to which he would otherwise
be liable, shall forfeit and pay for every offence a sum sat
exceeding £5. The Act is not to extend to Ireland. It
Came into operation on Tuesday, the 6th inst., when it re-
eived the Royal assent.

THE RISE OF THE ROTHSCHILDS. When
George 111. came to the throne there was a little boy a
Frankfort who did not dream of ever having anything to
do Personally with the sovereigns of Europe. He was in
the first stages of training for the Jewish priesthood. His
name was Meyer Anselm Rothschild. For some reason or
other he was placed in a counting-house at Hanover,
and he soon discovered what ho was lit for. He began
humbly as an exchange-broker, and went on to be the
banker of the Laadgrave of Hesse, whose private fortune
he saved by his shrewdness, when Napoleen overran Ger-
many How he left a large fortune and a commercial
character of the highest order, and how his five sons settled
in five of the great cities of Europe, and have had more
authority over war and peace, and the destinies of nations
than
the sovereigns themselves, the world pretty well
'4"B. Despotic monarchs must be dependent on money-
lenders unless they are free from debt, and can command
unlimited revenues for untold purposes—which is never
true of despotic sovereigns. Constitutional rulers are free
from the responsibility and the difficulty, and our sovereigns
areb Supplied by Paaliamentary vote, and need not stoop to
borrow, Yet there is room for a Rothschild in London,
Ilvhdere loans are negotiated for all countries, and which is a
it
of central office for the financial limp of the world..--
41in 4lartineau in " Once a Week."