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

The _Miscellaneous shares are rather cheaper,

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICE
( From the Official List. )

BII4IIIPRo ,innf
............ 2141 14
874 si
225 30
2p
87, 5 3

ink Stock ..........
! per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent, Consols Annuitic,2
New 3.1 per Cent. Annuities
In lia Stook
!Tillie Bonus, £lOOO . .
Consols for Account 18th Apri`
Exchequer Bills, 2d
1000
..... 4 p par
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
ilrtzilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
lesicau 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. X St 92 90
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent... .....
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 36
oivAlendi on the aNyve p4yAbie in London,
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull
Ditto 4 per Cent. Corthieates

Consols
Ditty April Account

THREE O'CLO(N,
87.
874

AME RICA.

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 New 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 1 i 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 108', ditto on Paris 5.15.

BIRTH AND PEDIGREE OP " 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 be was 14.
PRESENT TO THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.—A deputation
of Arabs of Algiers, consisting of Hadji Mohammed
Raruaaut Mufti .Hanefi, Abd-er-Rahmati-Ouldidamin-el-
Benain, principal Mann 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 arid a palm tree,
On the other side is a poetical inscription in Arab, of
which this is the translation :--4' This standard will shine

he fields of glory, and will fly to success with Divine
assistance. It has been executed by the Mussul►nar,s 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)." Tile
style in which the flag is executed and embroidered does
the highest credit to the native artists.- Galignani.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES.—The barge owners and
carriers on the Severn and the canals communicating
with it, and extending the traffic into Gloucestershire.
Herefordshire, arid Worcestershire, have complained
loudly of late of robberies committed on board the►r
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 Safety, lying at Glou-
cester-qua,y, of four sacks of wheat, a sack of linseed, a
sack of vetches, and a barrel of plaster of P:klis. 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 was 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 another 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 aseertainel 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 be necessary to capture,
but at present, from prudential motives, their named are
not made public,