The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-12 00:00:00

120,928 185,263 51,819

Total

62,773

It will be observed that of these staples the stock
both here and abroad is smaller than at the corre-
sponding date of 1852, and the proportions of the
Colonial in Great Britain were 12,791 against 11,244
tons of coffee, and 65,049 against 89;620 tons of
sugar. The imports both of sugar and coffee were
this year, up to the Ist inst., much smaller both
here and on the continent than in 1852. The total
for Great Britain was, of Colonial Sugar 14,300
against 23,264 tons, and of Foreign 4,421 against
4,127 tons. At the other ports above enumerated,
the supply was about 10,000 against 20,000 tons.
Of Coffee the imports into Great Britain this year
have been, 285 tons of Colonial, and 422 of Foreign
against 411 and 628 tons in the first month of 1852,
and the total imports into the ports of Hamburgh,
Bremen, Holland, and Antwerp, are 5,518 against
13,058 tons, an immense disproportion.
Accounts from Dantzic state that during the
year 1852 there were exported to England, 17,806
lasts of Wheat. The exports to all countries, in-
cluding England, were 26,495 lasts in 1852, and
32,897 lasts in 1851. The stock at the end of 1852
was 14,602 lasts, and at the close of 1851 it was
14,350 lasts.
Several of the energetic merchants who carried
on the Customs Reform movement recently have
given their adherence to tl'ie no less important
movement for the establishment of Tribunals of
Commerce, by subscribing towards the funds needed
to promote the cause. The very moderate amount
of 1,000 guineas is asked. The foreign houses that
have experienced the benefit of such institutions
abroad have come forward freely in support of the
new committee.
There is in the Bank of England weekly return,
made up to the sth inst., the anticipated reduction
of bullion, 342,0001. being the amount of decrease.
The employment of the paper of the Bank was also
smaller, but this arises from the additional sums
paid into the credit of Government, for both the
reduction in the balances of private depositors and
the addition to the securities indicate a. continued
steady demand for accommodation. The alterations
in detail, as compared with the previous week, are
as follows :

Active circulation
Decrease
Notes unemployed
Decrease
Bullion
Decrease
Rest— Increase
Public Deposits
Increase
Other depos":s
Decrease
Seven day and othe: Bills—Decrease
Go 7ernment securities -Decrease
Other securities
Increase

£22,695,410
288,040
9,338,820
172,540
18,700,812
342,023
89,991
5,568,205
332,212
12,606,230
459,963
538
35,962
13,705,812
51,647

Although no decided alteration °cow .-;:ed yester-
day afternoon in the rate of exchange :for bills on
Paris, the improvement of former post-days to 25
27i 30 for 90 days' paper was maintained. 011
Hamburgh Bills were negotiated at a considerable
improvement, viz.-13 6/ to 7i, the accounts from
that city stating that there was a brisk demand for
drafts on London, and a short supply.. Amster-
dam rose to' 11 18i and 19f ; Frankfort to 1198 ;
Trieste to 11 12 and 15.
The amount of bullion exported from London
direct during the week to Thursday last was
21,670 ounces in gold, all to the Continent, and
65,936 ounces in silver.
Owing to the share settlement, the Stock Ex-
change remains open until three o'clock this after-
noon.

The English Funds have been very firm, but
with extremely limited dealings. Consols bring 99g
to 99i for transfer, and 99i tog for account. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been
marked 1031 to g, and the Three per Cermt. Annui-
ties 1001 to f. Exchequer Bills of March have
been at 525. to 565., and India Bonds at 60s. prem.
Foreign Securities are neglected, bat not flat.
The Austrian New 5 per Cent. Bonds, are now
quoted in place of the Scrip, being at 97k. The
Turkish Loan is supported at premium. Mexi-
can Bonds have been quiet at 23f to g. Grenada
Deferred are at 11f. Sardinian Stock has been
quoted 94, and French 41 per Cents.. have been
done at 105, with the Exchange at 25 15. _Rus-
sian Stock is firm. •
Railway Shares have been again birioyant, and
the settlement of the account is all in favour of the
speculators for a rise. Great Southern and
Western of Ireland Shares have been up to 1/. and
1/. 10s. Norfolk are 1/. better. South Eastern
have risen to 11, and York and North Midland
1. French Shares are also firmer, Grand. Junction
having advanced 4j Strasbourg 1, and Northern /
to 1.

The Shares of the Land Companies have been
duller, with little doing.
The Gold Mines are steady, and the Banks
rather tending upwards.

BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK 171IIS DAY.
(From the Official Lid.) _

- Business Gone.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ... IC3i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3f per Cent. Annuities
India Bonds, £lOOO —
Ditto, under £ICO3 OO
Consols for Account 10th March 99
Exchequer Bills lid. Ma-...ch. Juno.
£lOOO.. 56 2
£5OO —
Small -- -------

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent..
Grenada Bonds, Deferred,
Mexican 3 per Cent 234-
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, 4i per cent lO3l §
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 i p
French Routes, 4i per Cent] losf Ex. 25f 15c

Consols
Ditto March Account

TWO O'CLOCK.
99
.99i

A REVEREND DEFAULTER IN THE STOCK
EXCHANGE.

Yesterday morning a very extraordinary scene was
exhibited in the neighbourhood of the Stock Exchange.
A clergyman covered with rotten eggs and flour was
seen making his way from the building, through a mul-
titude of young fellows, who seemed to have no com-
passion at all for the reverend sufferer. Amidst hooting
and hissing, he contrived, with the assistance of some
sober persons who seemed to take no delight in the fun,
to bundle him into a Hansom's cab, from which he or-
dered the driver as quickly as possible to drop him
at a hall door in Great Ormond-street. It was in vain
that several of the bystanders advised the disguised
minister of religion to stop at the Mansion-house, and
inform the Lord Mayor of the stinking purgatory
through which he had been obliged to pass. He
refused to be under the slightest compliment to his
lordship, or any of the fraternity of magistrates in
the City, and away went the cab as soon as the crowd
had sufficiently gazed at him to be able to identify him
if ever he should visit the same neighbourhood again.
Upon inquiry amongst the participators in the filthy
joke it was ascertained that the well-powdered and
strong-smelling clergyman had been for a considerable
time in the habit of writing to some of the most emi-
nent brokers to make large purchases in railroad stock
and other securities, and upon the fall of the market,
when the day of settlement arrived, leaving them corn-
completely in the lurch ; that in several instances the
gentlemen who had depended upon the respectability
of his address and position in society had been obliged
to pay differences incurred by him in his bargains to
the amount of several hundreds of pounds ; and that
upon comparison of notes his orders from I)orsetshire,
where he has resided, had been issued in the most ex-
tensive and reckless manner to some of the most busy
houses in the City, every one of which had to com-
plain of the robbery thus committed by the reverend
speculator. We were given to understand that he was
in the habit of employing one house to buy and
another to sell the same stock ; and that in some in-
stances he had recommended himself to brokers by stat-
ing to them that having attended the dying moments of
dear friends of theirs, who described them as persons on
whose activity every reliance could be placed,he was
determined to employ them in laying out a few thousands
he had by him to advantage. The impudence and
perti-
nacity with which he conducted himself are represented
as exceeding all credibility, and his presence had for
some days been looked for with eager_ exp ectation by some of the young visitors to the Stock Exch ang e Yes-
terday happened to supply them with an P rtTuiliety of
paying their respects to the reverend jobber,-1
ment he appeared in the precincts of the build ing' sonimo-
e
of the sturdy lads who have been in the habit of
crack-
ing jokes upon strangers formed an immediate n
lcci ua. t-
ance with him, contrived to shoulder him into thepullpit
from which the Government broker makes his purchases,
and pelted and then powdered him, so that his clerical
habiliments looked as if they had undergone the miller's
vengeance for the pltuider of his sa,elto.