The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-18 00:00:00

lONEY M ARKET.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The *B,:nk of England return, completed to the
1 6th inst., is of a rather less favourable character.
There is a slight falling off in the bullion, but the
reserve of noi:es has been augmented to a moderate
extent. The payment of the dividends has caused
a further de crease in the public deposits, and there
is also a considerable faking off in the private
balances. The variations in the other items of the
balance sheet will be seen in the subjoined table:—
Active Circulation .• £21,420,975
Increase 272,635
Bullion .• .. 16,743,434
Decrease .. 00 00 00 138,506
Rest .• • • 3,085,467
Increase .. 5,322
Pul;:ic Deposits • • • • 5,225,131
Decrease .. .. • • 400,182
Other Deposits.. .. 15,710,260
Pecrease .. • • • • • • 625,909
Seven Day and other Bills .. 627,488
Decrease .. • • • • • • 46,277
Government Securities • . 11,210,755
Increase .. _ • • • • 50,000
Other Securities .. .• 18,018,133
Decrease _ 70.5,905
Notes unemployed 9,1"6,210
Decrease • • • • • • 395,795
A close holiday has been observed in the City
to-day, as usual on Good Friday.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

YESTERDAY.

Ea-ok Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities ' 921 11 1
Arinuities, 30 yrs, expire Rh Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5l 5-16
India .:ruck
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Pitto .5 per Cent. l,'3/ 1
Ditto 51 per Cent lOBl
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 1001 1
Din, :fonds Xl,OOO
!)itto under £l.OOO
Consols for Account, May 8 94 1
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent 2l
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1860 921 3
Italian, 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway)
Ditto Scrip
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Acco ,nt
Imperial Moorish Scrip 9ll
Russihn .5 per Cent 1822, £ St 9Bl 91
Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860
"ardinign 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent
I );tto Account
Ditto New Deferred —
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account •
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London. •
Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Gu11...
Ditto Account
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861
THREE O'CLOCK.
931 4
94

Consols, Money
Ditto Account

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YROT2RDA.T.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 184 .11 181
Antwerp . 25 50 25 55
Brussels — 25 50 25 55
Bamburgh — 13 8 13 8/
Paris
Ditto
karseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 119 1191
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa ..
Naples
Palenito
Nlessina
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
Now York
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South A.merican. 1 ou loons

491
49k
25 521
25 50
25 521
40k
120
120

25 471
25 45
25 45

119 k
1191
52i
53

BANE OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria
nap. 32, fur the week ending on Wednesday, the 16th day
01 April, 1862:

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
dotes issued ..—..X30,517,185, Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 15,897,185
' Silver Bullion ....

£30,517,185

X 30,547,185
BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Proprietors' Capi- Government Sem-
_ tal £14.553.000 rities (including
nest
rublie Deposits (;n- nuity) £11,910,755
eluding Exche- Other Securities lB,OlB, 33
quer, Savings' Notes
Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver 846,249
Missioners of Na- Coin
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 5.225,13?
Other Deposits 15,710,260
seven Day and
other Bills 627,488

£39,201.317
M.

£39,201,347 s•
.RSHALL, Chief Cashier. s

-April 17, 1862.

A PROBABLE CHRONOLOGY.

1860. Mr. Armstrong, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Invents rifled ordnance that will knock any ship to
Pieces. He is knighted, and the Admiralty is be-
bighted. 1861. The Admiralty recovers, and in-
'tents iron ships that resists any known cannon
balls. 1862. Sir W. Armstrong invents a gun that
klashes the iron ships into blacksmithereens. The
admiralty collapses. 1863. The Admiralty re-ex-
Panda and invents platina ships fastened with dia-
mond cement, and Sir W. Armstrong's balls fly to
Pieces like bon-bons. Mr. Gladstone doubles the
income tax. 1864, Sir W Armstrong invents brazen
thunderbolts (supposed to be the original Jupiters)
and in a pleasing experiment sends the greater part
of the British fleet to the bottom of the sea. 1865.
The Admiralty invents torpedo vessels which sail
Mader water, and below any range of guns. Sir W.
Armstrong tears his hair and swears in the New-
castle dialect. 1866. Sir W. Armstrong invents a
'Vertical gun that discharges Greek fire straight
down, and a second time he destroys the greater
Part of the British fleet. The Lords of the Admi-
ralty are about to hang themselves, when a thought
Strikes them, and they don't. Mr. Gladstone again
doubles the income tax. 1867. Dr. Cumming, who
has for some weeks been having in his coals by the
Sack only, suddenly proclaims the Millennium. As
there is now to be peace everywhere, the Admi-
ralty does not invent anything, but waits to see.
In orrler to test Dr Cumming's veracity, and to find
out whether lions will lie down with kids, the Zoo-
logical Society (against the advice of their excel-
lent secretary, Mr. Sclater) let loose their biggest
lion while a charity school is in the gardens. As
the lion, instead of lying down with a kid, only lies
down to digest him, the Admiralty thinks there is
some mistake somewhere and determines to invent
4 new fleet. Mr. Gladstone once more doubles the
income-tax. 1868. The Admiralty invents a stone
fleet, with cork keels, and defies Sir Wm. Arm-
strong. 1869. Sir William Armstrong invents
the Hannibal, or alp•shell, which contains the
ttrongest vinegar, and melts the stone ships. Hav-
ing for the third time destroyed the British fleet,
he is raised to the peerage as Lord Bomb. 1870.
The Admiralty invents an aerial fleet, which sails in
the clouds, out of shot range, and the. First Lord
takes a double sight at Sir Wm. Armstrong. Mr.
Gladstone a fourth time doubles the income-tax.
1871. Lord Bomb invents a baloon battering-train
50d in an experimental discharge brings down all,
the British fleet into the German Ocean. 1872.
The Admiralty, in desperation, invents a subter-
ranean fleet, which is to be conveyed by tunnels to
511 the colonies, but Mr. Gladstone blandly suggests
that, as everybody now pays twice his income in
,taxes, the people may object to further imposts un-
less some proof of economy is given. Government
therefore stop the pensions of 100 superannuated
discharge some extra night porters at the
Treasury. and bring in estimates for the subterra-
nean fleet. 1873. Lord Bomb invents his typhmons,
or earthqueke shells, and suffocates the British fleet
In the Tasmania Tunnel. Mr. Gladstone a fifth time
d;ubler., the income tax. 1874. ThsEmperor of the
rE ell proclaims the Millennium, which of course
ltbrlnaliately occurs ; no more war ships are wanted
and the collectors remit the quarter's income tax
11:::)t Yet due. Lord Bomb invents his volcano fire-
, (3tis in honour of the occasion, and by some acei-
'etit burns up the public.—Punch.