The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-21 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLooK.
:Clio Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
quietly, but steadily, with. a moderato dine tied.

the sales were 5,000 bales. In tho Railway Share
Market there was a good business transacted, and
prices of all the leading stocks advanced.
The general appearance of the Bank of England
Return, which is completed for the week ending the
14th inst., is of a highly satisfactory character, the

alteration it exhibits showing a considerable im-
provement in the situation of the establishment. In
the first place the bullion has been augmented, de-
spite the efflux to the continent ; but it must
be reaolleet ed. that it was in the week
re resented by this balance-sheet when the large
arrivals of Australian gold took place. The next
favourable feature is the augmentation in the re-
serve of notes, but at the same time there is an
increase in the other securities. The latter move-
ment, however, is attributed to the revenue pay-.
ments, the addition to the public dep(.sits exceeding
half a million sterling. The measure just adopted
by the authorities for extending their loan opera-
tions is therefore fully justified by the increased
strength of their resources. The principal items
and the changes they preent are contained in the
following table :
Active Circulation
Decrease
Bullion
Increase

~. £18,796,415
•76,790
.. 10,259,660
280,414
Rest
Increase
Public Deposits
Increase
Other Deposits
Increase
Seven-Day and other Bills 790,644
Increase
Government Securities
Increase
Other Securities
346,111
Notes unemployed
Increase

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
„ Bars
Belgium 8,000 Ozs.
Silver Coin
PP PP
„ Bars
There is no alteration to report in the Money
Market to-day, the demand being steady at full
rates.

Tile report just issued by the North London
Railway Company states :—" After deducting all
outgoings and interest on the debenture debt, the
net balance amounts to 23,3891., which sum is
sufficient to pay a dividend at the rate of five per
cent. per annum for the past six months, leaving
7881. to be carried forward. The net balance on the
31st December, 1855, was 18,1551. The dividend

was at the rate of four per cent. per annum, and
1481. was carried forward.
A very limited business has been done to-day in
Public Securities, and the quotations have ruled
heavy. It might have been expected from the
favourable Bank return that an advance would have
occurred, but the approach of the settlement
and the impression that Consols have tempo-
rarily reached their highest point checks buoyancy
and produces some weakness. Consols for transfer
have been 931 for account 931 94, and for April
94i I. The New 3 per Cents. have been 94i
the Reduced 931 941, and the 5 per Cents. 1131.
Bank Stock is 220. Exchequer Bills are par to
3s. premium, and India Bonds par to ls. premium.
The dealings in the Foreign market have not ex-
tended to more than half-a-dozen securities, and
quotations are without any change of importance.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 95 to 951, and the 4 per.
Cents. are merely nominal. Spanish Committee's
Certificates are 6,1 A. Russian 44 per Cents. are
971 98, and Portuguese 3 per Cents. 44&. Dutch
2i per Cents. are marked 65.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6& 7 ; Mexi-
can, 22 221 ; Peruvian, 80 81 ; Ditto 3 per
Cents., 55 56 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 44 46 ;
Russian 5 per Cents., 109 111 ; ditto 4i per Cents.,
96 98; Spanish 3 per Cents., 4014 ; ditto Deferred,
24i 25 ; ditto Certificates, 6 6 ; ditto Passive,
'- 6.

The Railway Share Market has been rather
active, and dealings in most of the principal lines
have been at nightly improved prices. East
Anglian, Eastern Counties, Lancashire and York-
shire, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Mid-
land, South-Eastern, North-Western, and South-
Western, have each advanced about ss. Edin-
burgh, Perth, and Dundee, and Great Western
receded 55., and Edinburgh and Glasgow and
North British 10s. The French lines have been
depressed ; Paris and Lyons declined ss. The
Canadian also ruled lower. Grand Trunk of
Canada declined 41, and East Indian
No dealings of any importance have been effected
in British, Foreign, and Colonial Mining Shares,
and prices are almost nominal.
Joint Stock Bank Shares are very inactive, but
the business reported has been at rather higher
rates. London and Westminster advanced 55.,
and Ottoman Bank ss. Miscellaneous Shares show
no variation in prices requiring notice.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
lAnsineea done
Bank Stock .. 220
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 938 49
3 p 3: Cont. Consols Annuities -
Nc w 3 per Cent. Annuities 94h #
5 per Ceut. Annuities ' ll3l
'Alin Bonds, X;1000. * ••••• 1 p par
Ditto, under £lOOO 2 d •
Consols for Account .. 938 4
Exchequer Bills, 24d
£IOOO
£5OO 4 1 p
Small
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cent.
L'ItICFS OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841
Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent
ussiau Bonds, 1K22, E St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto, 4i par Cent.
!•:panisii Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6g p c
Tu.kib.h ;,:ouds, 6 per cent 9si
Ditto Account 9SA
en le the above •avable in LOrmcn.
!hitch Exchange, 2i per Cent., 12 Guil_ 65
TWO O'CLOCK.
931
~ 91

Consols, money.,
Ditto Account ..

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Feb. 21.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.—
Fresh breeze and fine. _ _

PORTSMOUTH, Feb.. 20.—WindS.W.—Sailed—H.M.Str.
--, for Woolwich.
FALMOUTH, Feb. 20.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Sa-
lonica William, Landscape, Maria Burns, Ocean Spirit,
and Arab, from Ibrail ; Louisa, Adelaide, S. A..
DARTMOUTH, Feb. 20.—Off the port.—Go Forward,
from St. Michael's.
PETERHEAD, Feb. 19.—Wind S. W.—Sailed—Clara,
for Greenland.
GLOUCESTER, Feb. 20.—Arrived—Charon, from Ibrail.
QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 19. —Wind N.E.—Arrived—Queen,
from Paraiba,t.nd left for Plymouth.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 20.—The Hebe, at Newfoundland,
reports having fallen in with the Hebe, of Plymouth, a
derelict, off the banks of Newfoundland, and learnt from a
board fastened to the rigging that she had been struck by
an iceberg.
NEW YORK, Fab. s.—The British brig Nile was on
Lovell's Island, off Boston yesterday.
FAYAL, Jan. 16.—The Star, of Newfoundland, from
Bardadoes, for St. John's, put into Flores on the 11th
Dec. leaky, and with loss of two men overboard.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning.

Wind S.
Arrived---Vliele, from Seville; Forest King, from Cal-
dera ; Trinity Yacht, and Emma, from Zante ;llora, from
St. Michael's ; Spirit of the Times, from Pernambuco ;
Loranzo, from Genoa.
Sailed—Persia, steamer, for New York.
QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 19.

Wind N.E.
Arrived—Queen, from Paraiba; Usworth, from Taga.u-
rog ; Glencoe, from Syria.
Sailod—Anno Hall, for Antwerp.

Wind S.
Arrived--Sophia, from Seville.

DUBLIN, Feb. 20.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BIr.TESII TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Saturday, 9.30 a.m.Wind S. W. ; tide last hour's flood ; weather fine.
Arrived—Hand of Providence, from Antwerp.
DEAL, Saturday, 9.21 a.m.
Wind W., light.
Passed-- -H.M.S. Dee, from Portsmouth, for Woolwich ;
Ipswich Lass, from London, for it. Michael's.
Passed, 20th—European, screw steamer, from London
for Limerick,