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

rd'ONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
quietly, but steadily, with a, moderate demand.
The sales were 5,000 bales. In the 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 recollected that it was in the week
represent-ed 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 depr sits exceeding
half a million sterling. The measure just adopted
by the authorities for extending their loan opera-
tions is therefore fully justified bey the increased
strength of their resources. The principal items
and the changes they pre:ent are contained in the
following table

£18,796,415
76,790
10,259,660
280,414
Rest
Increase
Public Deposits .
Increase
Other Deposits
Increase
Seven-Day and other Bills 790644
Increase
Government Securities
Increase
Other Securities
Increase
Notes unemployed
Increase

A.eti VO oires.labion
Decrease
Bullion
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 ......... Belgium
„ Bars ......... Boulogne
' ........ Belgium
•
Silver Coin ......... Boulogne

... 1,250 Ozs.
... 9,080 Ozs.
... 8,000 Ozs.
800 Ozs.

7)
~ Bars
There is no alteration to- report in the Money
Market to-day, the demand being steady at full
rates.

The report just issued by the North London
Railway Company sta'e3 :—" 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 can iel 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 reachel their highest point checks buoyancy
and produces some weakness. Consols for transfer
have been 931 s, for account 93,1 94, and for April
94-a A. The New 3 per Cents. have been 941 -a,
the Reduced 93i 94k, and the 5 per Cents. 1131.
Bank Stock is 220. Exchequer Bills are par to
3s. premium, and India Bonds par to is. 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 954, and the 4 per
Cents. are merely nominal. Spani-h Committee's
Certificates are 6g 1. Russian 41 per Cents. are
97/ 98, and Portuguese 3 per Cents. 44k. Dutch

2i per Cents are marked 65.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6i 7 ; Mexi-
zan, 22 22f ; Peruvian, 80 81 ; Ditto 3 per

Cents., 55 56 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 44 46 ;
Russian 5 per Cents., 109 111 ; ditto 4 per Cents.,
96 98; Spanish 3 per Cents., 401 4 ; ditto Deferred,
24i 25 ; ditto Certificates, 6 6k. ; ditto Passive,
6.

The Railway Share Market ha 3 beoa rather
active, and dealings in most of the principal lines
have been at .lightly improvol prices. East
Anglian, Eacitorn 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 Gla,s,gow 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 is:, and East Indian
No dealings of any importance have been effected
in British, Foreign, and Colon;a1 Mining Shares,
and prices aro 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 OSiczal List.) .
Pa+lneeb done
Salk Stock

3 per cent. Reduced Annuities 934
3 ne Cent Consols Annuitio9 o3i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 94h
5 per Cent. Annuities ll3i
LI2 Ain Bonds, .11000
Ditto, ander £lOOO 2 d
Consols for liccount .... 934 4
Nsehequer Bills, 2,0
£lOOO .
2500 4 1 p
Small _
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 38 per Cent.. 9Bl
VRICES OF FORETGN FUNDS AT ONE O'OLOOK
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841
Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent
Russian Bonds, 1t122, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto, 46 per Cent. 97i 8 •
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6s p
Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent 95 _
i'itto Account
ends -3. tt,e above nayablo in Lon,:t n.
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cont., 12 Gull 65
TWO O'CI,OCIi.
▪ 93i
• 934 94

Consols, money
Ditto Account

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

'LONDON, Feb. 21.—Wind this day at noon, S. SP.--
Fresh breeze and tine.
PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 20.—Wind
--, for Woolwich.
FALMOUTH, Feb. 20.—Wind W.S.W.— Arrived—Sa-
lon;ca 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. W.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Clara,
for Greenland.
GLOUCESTER, Feb. 20.—Arrived--Charon, from Ibrail.
QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 19. —Wind N.E.—Arrived—Queen,
from Paraiba, and left for Plymouth.
LIVERPOOL, Fob. 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.
FATAL, Jan. lb.—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 —Vilele, from Seville 'l,l Forest King, from Cal-
dera ; Trinity Yacht, and Emma, from Zante ; Dora, from
St. Michael's ; Spirit of the Times, from Pernambuco ;
Lorenzo, from Ginoa,
Sailed—Persia, steamer, for New York.
Wind N.E. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 19.
.A rrived—Q ucen, from Paraiba; Us worth, from Tagan
rog ; Glencoe, from Syria.
Sailod —Anne Hall, for Antwerp.

Wind S. DUBLIN, Feb. 20.
Arrived—Sophia, from Seville.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH 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 St. Michael's.
Passed, 20th—European, crow steamer, from London
fAT, T.imn.4nip

1857

SHARE MARKETS—(This Day.)

RAILWAYS.

Paid

Closing Pricey
this day.

Business done
this day.