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

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 £22,695,410
Decrease 288,040
Notes unemployed ,
9, 338 820

Decrease 172,540
Bullion 18,700,812
Rest— Decrease
342,023
Increase
89,991
Public Deposits
Increase . 332,212
Other deposits

Decrease 459,963
Seven day and other Bills—Decrease 538
Government securities—Decrease 35,962
Other securities 13,705,812
Ingteage 51,647

Although no decided alteration occurred yester-
day afternoon in the rate of exchange for bills on
Paris, the improvement of former post-days to 25
27 30 for 90 days' paper was maintained. On
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 toll 18f and 19i ; Frankfort to 119 k ;
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 99it for transfer, and 99i to I for account. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been.
marked 103 k to t, and the Three per Cent. Annui-
ties 100,1 to I. Exchequer Bills of March have
been at 525. to 565., and India Bonds at 60s. prem.
Foreign Securities are neglected, but not flat.
The Austrian New 5 per Cent. Bonds, are now
quoted in place of the Scrip, being at 971. The
Turkish Loan is supported at premium. Mexi-
can Bonds have been quiet at 23f to g. Grenada
Deferred are at Hi. 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 buoyant, 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
French Shares are also firmer, Grand Junction
having advanced Strasbourg 4, and Northern f
to _ _ _

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 THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock .. . 227 k
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO4 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 31 per Cent. Annuities... lO3l 4 ?,,,
India Bonds, £lOOO —
Ditto, under £lO3O 6O
Consols for Account 10th March 99i
Exchequer Bills lid. March. Juno.
£lOOO 56 2
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent..
Equador Bonds 5
Grenada Bonds, Deferred,
Mexican*3 per Cent
Peruvian 6 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, 4i per cent ...... 1031
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 94. 4
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 22 i
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 4i p e
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852. i p
Swedish Loan 2 d
French Routes, 4i per Cent) losf Ex. 25f 15e
Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent 65
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols
Ditto March Account B9a

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 com-
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 Dorsetshire,
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 ho conducted himself are represented
as exceeding all credibility, and his presence had for
some days been looked for with eager expectation by
some of the young visitors to the Stock Exchange. Yes-
terday happened to supply them with an opportunity of
paying their respects to the reverend jobber. The
mo-
ment he appeared in the precincts of the building, son
of the sturdy lads who have been in the habit of'crack-
ing jokes upon strangers formed an immediate acquaint-
ance with him, contrived to shoulder him into the pulpit
from which the Government broker makes his purchases,
AB I pelted and then powdered him, so that his clerical
habiliments looked as if they had undergone the millex's
vengeance for the plunder of his auks.