The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1854

MONEY MA RKE

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The Cotton and Share Markets at Liverpool yes-
terday (being Good Friday) were cloged.
Accounts from New York report a dull stock
market. Money was rather tight. Freights were
quiet. Breadstuffs were in limited request. Fo-
reign manufactures were in good demand, and the
supply was adequate, but the prices realised were
not altogether satisfactory.
Advices of the 14th inst. from Copenhagen report
that H.M. frigate Amphion was ashore near Dragoe,
and that all attempts to get her off had, up to that
time, proved fruitless.

The account of the Bank of England, made up
for the week to the Bth inst. presents numerous
changes, all referable, more or less, to the divi-
dend and other quarterly payments. The sum to
the credit of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was
largely drawn upon, while the balances of indi-
vidual depositors were greatly increased. The
increase in Government Securities represents pro-
bably, the loans upon deficiency bills. The dis-
counts, it will be perceived, were less in amount,
but there was a further withdrawal of bullion.
Compared with the previous week, the changes are
as follows
Active circulation..
Increase
Bullion
Decrease

£22,410,850
726,610
14,140,599
309,119
Rest
Decrease 602,919
Public Deposits 2,683, 754
Decrease 1,762, 034
Other Deposits 13,819, 988
Increase 2,782,835
Seven-Day and other Bills
Increase 75,450
Government Securities 13,939,132
Increase 2,331,516
Other Securities 15,720,271
Decrease 802,455
Notes unemployed 4,968,755
Decrease 1,029,500
The amount of silver exported from London
direct during the week to last Thursday was
188,827 ounces, and of gold, 4,020 ounces, nearly
all to Harnburgh.

There has not been an active market for public
Securities, but the transactions are at steady prices
generally. Consols have varied from 87i to 87k
for transfer, and from 87g to for account. The
New 3k per Cents. have been 87A to 87i. Bank
Stock continues firm at 214 to 2141. East India
Stock is worth 225 to 230. Exchequer Bills have
been at par to 45., and India Bonds at 2s. premium.
Foreign Stocks have been mostly nominal, and
not higher in value. Spanish Threes have been
quoted 36, and Mexican 231 to 24. Brazilian Old
Bonds have realised 94. Russian 5 per Cents. have
been at 92, and Dutch 4 per Cents. at 85/.
The Railway Share Market has been flat, mainly
from paucity of business, and Great Northern,
Great Western, Midland, and some of the other
principal lines have been dealt in at lower rates.
The French shares are nominal.

The Gold Mining Shares are heavy, and the
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China
have been done as low as ss. per share, or 1/
discount.

The Miscellaneous shares are rather cheaper.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
(From the Official List.)

Pusineg,
'tank Stock . ............ 2141 14
per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 oer Cent. Consols Annuities 874
New 3. per Cent. Annuities 874
Stock
[robs Bowls, £lOOO . ,
Consols for Account 18th April B7j
Exchequer Bills, 2d,
21000
4 p par
PIItIOE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 92
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 79
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 36
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Cu11..,,.Gu1l
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates .....
HALF-PAST TWO
Consols

Ditto April Account...

87i

AMERICA.

Yesterday morning the United States mail steam-
ship Pacific, Captain Nye, arrived in the Mersey,
with the usual mails from the United States and
British North America. The Pacific, which was
to have sailed from Nev York on the Ist inst., did
not leave that port until the following day (in con-
sequence of the heavy fog), and has brought, be-
sides the mails, 170 passengers.
The United States mail steam-ship Baltic, from
hence on the 21st ult. for New York, was passed.
on the 3d by the Pacific.

On the 29th the American mail steam-ship
Franklin arrived out.

Nothing had been heard up to the departure of
the steamer of the City of Glasgow, which sailed
hence on the Ist of March for Philahelphia.
The Washington Union (official organ) predicts
war with Spain.

Business less active. The money market was
much higher-1 to li per cent. per month. Stocks
depressed and gloomy.
Breadstuffs down and the closing very dull.
Flour selling slow at seven dollars.

The cotton market was dull and down a quarter
cent. There was no demand for provisions except
at reduced prices.

Freights were rather lower. Exchange on Lon.
don 1084, ditto on Paris 5.15.

BIRTH AND PEDIGREE OF "CHARLIE" NAPIER.—The
commander of the Baltic fleet was born on the 6th of
March, 1786, and is the eldest son of the Hon. Charles
Napier, of Merchiston Hall, in the county of Stirling,
and captain in the royal navy, by his second wife,
Christian, daughter of Gabriel Hamilton, Esq., of West-
burn, Lanarkshire. The gallant admiral is grandson of
Francis, fifth Lord Napier. Sir Charles entered the
navy before he was 14.
PRESENT TO THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.—A deputation
of Arabs of Algiers, consisting of Hadji Mohammed
Raruaaut Mufti Hanefi, Ahd-er-Rahman-Ouldidamin-el-
Benain, principal Iman of the Great Mosque, Ahmed
Boukandoura, assessor of the Imperial Court. and Ahmed-
ben-Abd-el.'Etif, a notable inhabitant, are about to
arrive in Paris, to offer to the Emperor a magnificent
flag, which has been prepared for the native riflemen of
the colony. On ene side of the flag is an imperial eagle
with a crown, the letter "N" in a crown of oak, and
the arms of Algiers, consisting of a lion and a palm tree.
On the other side is a poetical inscription in Arab, of
which this is the translation :—" This standard will shine

n the fields of glory, and will fly to success with Divine
assistance. It has been executed by the IVlusselrnans of
Algiers, and is offered to the native soldiers who form
part of the French troops which are sent to the assistance
of the Ottoman empire, The year 1270 (1854)." The
style in which the flag is executed and embroidered dues
the highest credit to the native artists. Gall fpiani.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES.—The barge OW,letS and
carriers on the Severn and the canals communisticg
with it, and extending the traffic into Gloucestershire,
Herefordshire, and Worcestershire, have complained
loudly of late of robberies committed on board their
vessels, and consequently some little stir has been occa-
sioned at Gloucester by the apprehension this week of
eleven persons farmers, labourers, and watermen.
charged with robbing a vessel, the S dety, lying at Glou-
cester-quay, of four sacks of wheat, a sack of linseed, a
sack of vetches, and a barrel of plaster of Paris. The
parties apprehended were William Dolby. J. Harman,
and G. W. Manley of the Safety, and H. Brown (farmer),
Elias Brown (farmer), Jeremiah Organ (farmer), and
Thomas Morfield, William Nicholls, George Panting, and
Richard Darke (labourers). Of these Darke. Nicholls,
Manley, and Panting were discharged, but the others
were fully committed for trial at the next Glou-
cestershire Assizes. It appeared that the articles were
placed on board the vessel to go into Herefordshire, on
Saturday, the Ist April, and that the vessel lay in the
Severn that night. Alter nightfall a boat wl3 seen to
go to the vessel, and then the men in her rowed away in
the direction of Sandhurst, a village about three miles
out of Gloucester. The stolen grain appears to have
been taken to the house of Morfield, and he sold it at a
suspicious price to the farmers and others. Wheat,
worth 10s., was sold at ss. per bushel, and these farmers
and other parties are charged with receiving it, knowing
it to have been stolen. Some of the grain was placed in
cider casks in the cider house, with a barrel of cider on
each side ; and it appears that a portion of the plaster
of Paris was sold to an old woman for flour, and that
she did not discover the difference until she experienced
a difficulty in making her bread rise, The farmers were
admitted to bail.
DARING ATTEMPTED ROBBERY IN THE STRAND.—
Shortly before six o'clock yesterday morning, a most
daring attack, for a second robbery within the last few
months past, took place in the premises of Messrs. Low,
Son, and Benbow, perfumers to her Majesty, near the
New Church, in the Strand. Not long ago a large
quantity of valuable combs and other property was taken
from warehouses of the said firm, and never since re-
covered. The discovery of an other attempt took place as
follows :—lt appears that the son of Mr. Bastow, of
No. 3, New Church Court, in the Strand, had occasion
to go to his situation between six and seven o'clock, and
when Mrs. Bastow called him she was surprised to find
a large number of valuable combs wrapped up in a piece
of dirty cloth in her passage, and on further inquiry it
was ascertained that Messrs. Low and Co's warehouses
had been entered, which warehouses adjoin the backs of
the first three houses in New Church-court. The police
were instantly communicated with, and a most search-
ing inquiry took place. from which suspicion is attached
against a party whom it would he necessary to eapture,
but at present, from prudential motives, their names are
not made public.