The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.


CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The continued withdrawal of sovereigns from
the Bank of England for transmission to America,
has given rise to the impression that increased firm •
tress will be speedily experienced in the general
discount market, and the meeting of the Bank of
England directors is awaited with some
anxiety, because it is thought that they may
deem it advisable to adjust their minimum quotation
at a higher point. This expectation has had the
twofold effect of stimulating the demand for accom-
modation, and of inducing capitalists to ask in-
creased terms for the negotiation of commercial
bills. In the Stock Exchange there is an ample
Supply of money, and the rates for loans on stock
range from 4 to 4/ per cent.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday the
demand was very limited, and prices of all descrip-
tions were id per lb. lower. The sales were 4,000
bales.

The half-yearly interest on Brazilian 5 per Cent.
and the 41 per Cent. Bonds, and on Sardinian 5
per Cents. will be paid on and after the Ist prox.
About £lO,OOO in gold was sent into the Bank
of England yesterday, but 190,000 sovereigns were
withdrawn for transmission to America.

The Foreign Exchanges, yesterday afternoon,
were, in most instances, rather higher; the rates
OL Austria, however, exhibited a considerable de-
cline.

Gold at Paris and Hamburg is now about 3.loths
per emit. cheaper than in London,
The steamer Etna, which left Liverpool to-day
for New York, took out £298,746 in specie.
There has been a very quiet market for Public
Securities to-day, and the few transactions recorded
have not led to any change in prices, Consols being
91:1,- for money, and 91i 92 for the account. The
Market nevertheless continues heavy, owing to the
efflux of gold from the Bank and the expectation
that the rate of discount will be advanced. The
New Threes and the Reduced are heavy at 892 it,
the New 21 per Cents. are 75,1, and Exchequer
Bills are firm at 4s. dis.; India 5 per Cent. remains
at 1011

Business in the Foreign Market has continued
very quiet. Mexican have improved to 23 231 ;
Brazilian 41 per Cents. to 881 ; Portuguese are
steady at 471. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 701 to
71; ditto 1858, 551 to 561; ditto £lOO Bonds 59.
The chief transactions in the Railway Share
Market have been in connection with the arrange-
ments in progress for the liquidation ; speculative
sales, however, have preponderated, and a slight
downward movement has taken place in prices.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western and
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln haveldeclined 55.,
and Worth Eastern (Berwick), South-Eastern and
West Midland, 10s. Caledonian have improved
about ss.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have also
Chown some slight variations. South Austrian and
Lombardo-Venetian have improved to 16 and 161,
and Bahia and San Francisco realise 10 ; East
Indian have improved to 991; 1001 ; and Great In-
dian Peninsula to 97 and 971; Great -Western of
Canada have declined to 11, and Grand Trunk of
Canada are steady at 20.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
have been in very limited request. Oriental Bank
kayo receded ss. ; Peninsula and Oriental Steam
advanced £1 ; and Royal Mail Steam declined ss.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
2 per Cent. Reduced Annuities . 89a /
3 per Cent. Consgs Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities B9i i i
New 21 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 lsa
ludia Stock
,
Ditto 5 per Cent .. . . ...
101 a Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
94
Cools for Account, June 6
Exchequer Bills, 11,000, 11d 4 3 dis
Ditto £5OO 3 6 die
Date Small
_ FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING- PRICES.
*razilian 5 per Cent •
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1860 BB -a, 'lexicon 3 per Cent .. 23/ 3
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1653.
t,. . 47
Spanish 3 per Cent.. ...
Ditto New Deferred .. —
Ditto Passive
Turkish 6 per Cent ..
Ditto New Loan
Ditto 4100 Bonds ' 59
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Tinzur (rn LOCK.
Vonaols, Money 9la 1
017...

SHE MINISTER FBOIII THE UNITED
STATES.

His Excellency Charles Francis Adams, the
Zewly-appointed Minister from the United States
to the British Court, was one of the passengers by
the Niagara, which arrived at Liverpool on Monday
forenoon. He was accompanied by his wife and
daughter and two sons. Immediately on landing
they proceeded to the Adelphi Hotel, where shortly
afterwards he was waited on by his worship the
Mayor. He was also waited on by a deputation
From the American Chamber of Commerce in Liver-

Pool, by whom he was presented with the following
adrircas

44 To His Excellency Charles Francis Adams, Minister of
the United Stites of America, to the Court of St. James.
" We, the President and members of the American
Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool, consisting of English-
men and Americans engaged in commerce with the United
States, desire to tender our hearty congratulations to ycur
Excellency on your arrival on our shores. We rejoice
especially to welcome one bearing the honoured name of
Adams—a family which has already given twe Presidents
do their country, and which gives promise in your own
:person of attaining the eminence already acquired by your
predecessors. While we sincerely deplore the unhappy
differences which have sprung up in the United States, we
cannot but express a hope that even yet they may be ex-
tinguished without giving rise to those embittered feelings
which are unavoidably engendered by civil war. We shall
st all times joyfully co-operate with your Excellency in any
measures that may be calculated to promote sentiments of
good will between England and America; and to perpetuate
those feelings of amity which have so long and so happily
prevailed between the two countries. Signed by order and
on behalf of the American Chamber of Commerce,
"S. B. GUION, President, pro tern."
Ilia Excellency replied as follows:

"Mr. President, and gentlemen of the American Cham-
ber of Commerce--I heartily accept your cordial greeting
on my arrival in this great city. It is now more than 40
ears since I left these shores. I was then a boy, and now
I am past the age of middle life ; but the interval of time
has produced far greater changes in the relations between
the country I now represent and the kingdom of Great
Britain than any I can trace relatively in myself. As I
watched the process of discharging the letter-bags from the
steamer is whisk I had just made my passage, and reflected
how often the same process is now repeated by means of
such admirable nautical despatch, I felt in its full force the
ever-increasing magnitude of the commercial relations be-
tween the two countries, and the importance of aiding by
every practical method in developing them to their fullest
!extent. The progress of your city, gentlemen, manifests
the groat expansion of the same idea. Long may it con-
tinue, by cultivating the arts of peace, to present the strong-
est inducements to the preservation of harmony between
the two nations. I come here desirous only to develope the
fraternal feelings to which you have been pleased to allude
in your address to me. Such I believe to be the wish of
the Government of the United States, which has sent me,,
as well as a very large portion of the people, irrespective of
any personal differences that may now unhappily prevail
among them. Permit me here to concur with you in the
hope and the trust that time and trial will bring round a
better state of feeling there, so that we may all once more
unite and co-operate in the blessed work of promoting the
Prosperity of the civilised world. Not doubting that this
would he joyfully hailed by you in your respective useful
vocations on this side, I can only pledge to you all my in-
dividual efforts to contribute to the same result."
His Excellency left Liverpool by the 3'40 train en
route for London.

TILE mAi LS.

MAILS DUE.
Australia' Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South-
ampton)

. May 19.

Do.
Brazil and Cape Verds
Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, Bc..
Cuba and Mexico
Canada, &o. (via L'clerry).. • • ' • • • May 29.
Cape of Good Hope, scc.
.. • • .. .. May 15.
China, Penang, and Singapore ?via' S'a.mpto.n.) jlNnlanye 19.1
Do
Gibraltar (via Southampton) •'lsl •
(.via arseilles) May 13.
India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via •SoUtha.ropto.n.) l‘MiasYv 1199
Do. (via Marseilles) - - •
India (Bombay), (via Southampton) May 13.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. •
. .. May 26.
.. May 20.
'Lisbon . • • • • • • • • ' .. May 11
Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. May 11.
Do. (via Marseilles)
.. Jane 4.
Vigo, and Oporto .. • • • • " • . May 11.
United States, California, &c. .. • • • . May -.15
Western Coast of Africa, Madeira, Teneriffe .. Overdue
West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &o. May 14:

(via Marseilles) May 13.
.. June 4.

MARRIAGE OF THE DAUGHTER OF THE BISHOP
OF :BATH AND WELLS.—Yesterday the marriage of the
Hon. Miss Emily Dulcibella Eden, daughter of the Eight
Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells,
was celebrated at Wells Cathedral, when she was married
to Mr. Edmund Henry Dickenson, second son of the late
Mr. William Dickenson, of iiingswekton House, near
§oraerton.