The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-09 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two CC:LOCK.
Consols are 93* 1 1 for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 934 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 914 2 ;
New Three per Cents, 92 18 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, par; ditto £lOO, 1200, and £5OO, par;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1134 4; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1004.
In the Foreign Market there is a rise of * in
Italian, and 1-16 in New Spanish Three per Cents.
Prices are follows :—ltalian Five per Cents., 55
651 ; Mexican, 141 15 ; Greek, 114 12 ; New
Spanish, 31 311 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 41 411 ;
Peruvian Five per Cents., 79 791 ; Honduras Rail-
way Loan, 82 83 ex coupon.
The Danubian Commission Guaranteed Loan is
4, 1 prem.
In the Railway Market Caledonians are better,
Great Eastern 4, Great Norther A I, Metropo-
litan 1, Midland 4, Brighton 1, South Eastern 4,
all better. The quotations are as follow :
Caledonian, 791 to 801 ; Great Western, 49
to 494 ; Great Eastern, 374 to 371 ; Great
Northern, 107 to :4; ditto 109 to 4 ; Lanca-
shire, 123 to 1234 ; Metropolitan, 1021 to 102; ;
do. Extension, 1004 to 1011 ; Midland, 1164 to 4 ;
Sheffield, 56 to 564 ; Brighton, 481 to 4 ; North
British, 35 to ; North Western, 1154 to 1154 ;
North Eastern, 1024 to 103 ; South Eastern, 754 to
76 ; Chatham and Dover, 161 to 164.
American Five-Twenties are 834 83/ ; the Bonds
of 1885 are 82 821 ; and the Ten-Forty Bonds 73/
74. Erie Railway shares are unchanged at 24 24j,
and Illinois Central, 961 97.
Atlantic Telegraph Original Stock is 26 27, the
Eight per Cent. Preference shares, 34 31, and
Anglo-American Telegraph shares, 224 22 4.

The sum of £lOO,OOO in gold was withdrawn
from the Bank yesterday, chiefly from Brazil.
The Suffolk, from Melbourne, has brought
£81,216; the Rhuddlan Castle, £42,600; the Ocean,
from Geelong, £.16,904 ; and the Cambrian, from
the Cape of Good Hope, £4,000—making a total of
£144,720.
The Bank bullion is now reduced to a point lower
than has been touched for nearly two years and a
half. When it was last at its present amount the
rate of discount was then also 4 per cent.
At the meeting of the proprietors of the Delhi
and London Bank, the report was received, and a
friendly committee was appointed to examine the
accounts and confer with the directors. It was
also suggested that the board and the committee
should consider the advisability of reducing the
liability on the shares.
A memorandum from the Varna Railway Com-
pany intimates that the direct postal service with
Constantinople via Rustchuck commenced on the
sth instant.

Thp Stock Exchange Committee have ordered
the first issue of 55,000 shares, being part of an
ultimate total of 120,000 shares by the British
Inndian Submarine Telegraph Company (Limited)
to be quoted in the official list.

It appears from a notice just issued by the Im-
perial Russian Sinking Fund that on the let Jan.,
1869, there remained in circulation of the Russian
Three per Cent. Loan of 1859 an amount equal to
£6,458,900 sterling, besides 64,000 silver roubles.
The number of the bonds redeemed in the year
1868 are at the same time published.
The London, Chatham, and Dover Railway
traffic return, including the Metropolitan Extension
and branches, shows this week an increase of
£2,046, compared with the corresponding period of
last year ; the Metropolitan Extension, separately,
an increase of £747 ; the North Eastern, an increase
of £2,496 ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire, an in-
crease of £473 ; and the Manchester, Sheffield, an d
Lincolnshire, an increase of £2,949.
At a meeting of the Imperial Gas Light and Coke
Company a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum was declared.

At a meeting of the Surrey Consumers Gas Com-
pany, a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per an-
num was declared.

The return of paid clearing for the week ending
April 7, issued from the Bankers' Clearing-house,
is as follows :—Thursday, April 1, £13,745,000 ;
Friday, 2d, £.10,9 16,000 ; Saturday, 31, £14,139,000;
Monday, sth, £10,438,000; Tuesday, 6th April,
£10,702,000; and Wednesday, 7th, £10,075,000 ;
total, £70,045,000.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ended the 7th of April gives the following
results when compared with the previous week :--
Rest £3,113,358 ... Decrease £576,177
Palle deposits
Other deposits 18,803,252 ... Increase 1 323,950
On the other side of the account :
Government securi-
ties £14,970,798 ... Decrease ... 28,255
Other securities 18,480,653 ... Decrease ... 1,650,157
Notes unemployed 7,264,780 Decrease ... 597,515
The amount of notes in circulation is £23,975,030,
being an increase of £362,505 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £17,225,105, showing
a decrease of £347,918 when compared with the
preceding return.
Subjoined is a comparison of the present position
of the Bank of England and the prices of Consols
and French Rentes with the corresponding week of
last year :

At Present. Same Week
last Year.
Bullion
Reserve
Notes in circulation 23,974,030 ... 24,611,045
Rate of discount
Consols
French Rentes 7of. 30e. 691. 12c.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
8 per Cent. Reduced 9ll 2
New 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cen J all. 1873
Annuities, SO Trs, expire sth Jan., 1881.
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Teleh,raph), Aug., 1908 —
Exenequor Bills, £l,OOO, 2i per Ct.
Do £5OO
Do. £lOO & .£2OO
Bank of England Stock, 4f per Cent I—
D.. opening ...
Canada 4
per
Cer;.i.............d; 00000000000000000000
Inter-Colonial Utnntura ..L....7: OO
INDIAN UOVIDINMENT O SzoD 0000000000 OO
India
Stock, 101 per Cent., April '
1874
Do. Opening, for Account ...... ...
o. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 ........................... 1-13/ I
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 ............. 100 i -
Do. Certificates
ro..
5E npfearc eoderPta„pja
n 4.
1:11812°°,11.t.....,: -----
-
Do. 51 per Oent. May 1879
Da 5 per Cent., Rup.
Deb.
1887772 ._...
Do do
1882
Do. do.
E t Bonds,Deb.,
4r 57: per Cent.,
Cent.,nt.
, Aug.
010873 —
Do. under Ll,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Do, Scrip :£45 paid ..
Anitrian Bonds 5 per cent —
Do. 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent. 1862 —
Do. do. 1858.
75}
Do. do. 186) -
, Do. do 1863 69
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account BOl 1
B lenos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent er Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cuba, 6 .
(Lilian 6 per Cent
no. 4i per Cent
•.•
Do. 3 per Cent., .
.•
Do. 6 per cent. 1867..
95
'
Do 7 per Cent., 1866
_ o nban, 6 per Cent lo2i
C 1 1
i
uan'sh- 3 Per C t -
_ ~ ~ en ~ 1820 ..
lian.hian Principalities .7
1.71:' Cent 761
1)0 8 Per Cent., 1867
' BBi
E7r4.3arn,N27erd'ousolidated, 1 per Cent
E
Datts,c,fild
lea
1)0, fsiit 140ind8,1910
Do. £100) Bonds ...
; ........................................ . :::: 88131
Do. 1864 .....
Accou t
D 0.441507
131300nngss
........
D
English 5crip,d01.68....: - 6-/
Do
_reGoverrnmeni Railwa;4l.)4esbeptidtures
v ek o per Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups —
T. per
to.
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0it0unat0kue:i5icaG10n,i)eitr.a..6:1:i.:i..................*:::::::::::......: --
,„.„ . Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd 811
`4 1.1 Per Cont., 1865 ...... m

Do. Account .

Do Mxrommana Railway
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 _
Do 6 per Cent. Ang,lo-French
itontevideau 6 per Cent. ..
Moorish imperial 5 per Cent -
Now Granada l7l 1
Do 3 per Cen, 374
Do. Deferred .
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1855
Do Account .. 791
Do 41 per Cont. (Ui:')arren)
Do 41 per Cent.. 1862 -. —
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853,'6, 7,'9,'6U,'2.':, 351
Do. do. 1867 854
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Russian 5 per Cont., 1822, £ St
Do 4} per Cent . 1850 .. B9
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent~ 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bondk._ 91
Do. do. £B4 los. do. .. --
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 9ll
Do. do £B4 I.s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 651
Sar liniau 5 per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Con . --
Do. Ace,,unt ...
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred —
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. Com. Cert. of Coui. not funded
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Do do, Scrip —
Turkish 6 per Cent.: ., ~ . —
Do Account .._ .. . 854

Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account
Do .£lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account

Do .£IOC Bonds 69i 70
Do 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1860 651
Do 4 por Cent., Guaranteed
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. Acetnnt
Do 6 per Cont., 1862
Do 6 por Cont. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in London
Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins ...
Belgian. 44 per cent. Ex. 25f.

Dutch 2i per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... —
Do. Account
French Rentes, 3 nor Cent., E. 25f. —
I taint:, 5 per Cent. 1861, Ex. 25f.
Da Account 55
CLOSING PRICES.

Oonsols, Money 931
Do. Account, May 6 931-

CENIRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(7 his Day.

OLD COURT.
THE ALLEGED ADMIRALTY FRAUD.

Rumble, an engineer on half-pay, and Janes Gambier,
a clerk in the Admiralty, wore indicted with conspiracy to
defraud Mr. Maxwell, a timber merchant, of £3O; there
were other counts varying the indictment.
The facts of this case aro doubtless familiar to our
readers from the full reports that appeared in The Sun dur-
ing the time the prisoners were under examination at Bow-
street Police Court before Sir Thomas Henry. It will be
recollected that it was there stated that the particulars of
a contract for a quantity of elm timber had been
published, and after that it became known to Rumble that
a person named Maxwell, a merchant residing in L, m-
bard-street had sent in a tender for 300 tons. After that
Maxwell received a visit from Rumble, who stated that
he could ensure the acceptance of his contract upon his
giving a sum of money to the amount of £3O. Mr. Max-
well, after Rumble left went to the Admiralty, and
from certain inquiries ho found that his ten-
der had been accepted, irrespective of Rumble,
but he (Maxwell) was directed to appear to fall
in with the proposal of Rumble. An appointment
was made by Mr. Maxwell with Rumble, and a detective
having been placed so that he could not see a visitor, on
the arrival of Rumble at Mr. Maxwell's room he (Rumble)
told the prosecutor he knew his contract had been accepted,
and that information he had received through a friend in the
Admiralty with whom he had to share the money for ob-
taining the acceptance of the contract. The prisoner
Rumble was afterwards seen in company with Gambier,
and from what then transpired both parties were taken
into custody.

A great many witnesses wore called, including Sir
Spencer Robinson, Comptroller of the Navy, Admiral
Dundas, Storekeeper-General, Mr. Buxton Financial
Secretary to the Admiralty, all of whom declared Rumble
was quite unknown to them, and that neither of
them had the slightest influence in inducing them to ac-
cept any contract. A great many Admiralty clerks were
also examined, but the description of the routine of the
Admiralty contract department seemed quite to puzzle
the lawyers. It appeared that after a contract was ac-
cepted ono clerk would then read it, one would have
to write the intimation of its acceptance, one would then
have the copy of it, one would got it delivered to fold,
another ono would put it into an envelope, another ono
would hayu to fasten it, another one would have to enter
it, and after the letter had gone through the whole of the
routine the messenger would have it delivered in time to
post, and then would commence a further correspondence
to carry the contract out. The chief point against the
prisoner, who held an appointment in the Admiralty of
over £5OO per annum, was that ho had been seen in fami-
liar conversation with Rumble outside Somerset-house,
on frequent occasions, and that on his being taken into
custody, a diary was found upou him containing an entry,
"R from £10."
The case is not expected to conclude to-day.

POLICE lIVTELLIGENCE.-7his Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ROBBERY THROUGH ALLEGED POVERTY. —William Penis,
porter in the employ of Mr. T D. T. Sparrow, brush-
maker, of 89, Piccadilly, was charged before Mr. Knox
with stealing two sovereigns, the moneys of his master.
The evidence showed that the prisoner, who has only
been in the employ of the prosecutor a few days, was en-
trusted with two sovereigns to pay at a newspaper office
for the insertion of an advertisement, but instead of doing
so he kept the money and absented himself, and subse-
quently wrote a letter to the prosecutor stating that he
was sorry for what he had done, but that poverty had led
him to steal the money, and on Alfred Brook, 111 C
taking him into custody, he said that if the constable went
to his lodgings he would find one of the sovereigns, which
he did.

In answer to Mr. Knox, the constable said tbr4 he had
ascertained that the prisoner had hitherto borne a good
character.

The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was committed for a
month.

THAMES.

S G G LIN G. HEM PENALTY.—Abrabam S ollefleld,
the steward of the Dutch steamship Batavier, was brought
before Mr. Benson, charged with smuggling 151bs. of
foreign manufactured tobacco and slbs. of cigars, found
secreted on board the vessel by a Custom-house officer,
named Bird.

Mr. Beverley, from the Customs' Solicitors' Office, pro-
secuted on behalf of the Crown, and said there had been a
great many cases of smuggling from the Batavier, which
traded between London and Rotterdam.

The prisoner at once pleaded guilty, and said the
obacco and cigars were his property.
Mr. Paget said all he had to do was to sentence the
prisoner to pay £lOO to the Queen, and to be imprisoned
until it was paid. He had no power of mitigation, and
any appeal for mercy must be made to the Board of
Customs.

WETMINE.
jniar
DANGEItOITS COMPANI S
ONSHlp.—STWißniattl Groom was
charges
egsedS uwlliiivhana.n unprovoked and violent assault upon
Complainant, a respectable-looking man, bet wean
60 and 70 years of age, said that he met with the
defendant last night, and, at his request, had
some drink
his eob With him. Finding that he was losing
riety, he refused to take any more, and telling the
defendant so left the tavern at Chelsea where they had
been enjoying themselves. He had not proceeded far
when he suddenly received a violent blow in the face,
which blackened his eye and knocked him down.
The prisoner Was remanded.

application PzTrrioN AGAINST
Smith,"
made in tho
JUDGES' CHAMBERS.------------------
TIIE WESTMINSIER ELECTION: T
MIL W. H. SMITH.—An
petition of H.
Beal against AV. H.
of the petitioner for the repayment ,;i 711 h the part
deposit.—Mr. Justice Willes said he supposer Xl,OOO
were £lO,OOO. Neither Mr. Ford nor Mr. Batten gave theCeosts
amount, but his lordship said be supposed they were .7
much,—Mr. Ford said rt man of moderate means Would
-3
have been utterly ruined by such a petition., His lordship°il
thought the costs were collateral and not interlocutor
He would, however, write to Baron Marton on the subject.
The matter stood over accordingly.

Her Majesty's return to Windsor Castle to-day
from London has been postponed, owing to the indisposi
tion of Prince Leopold.
THE No RIVICII MYSTERT.—Mr. Stanley, Sheward's
solictor, left Norwich this morning, for the purpose of pre-
senting to the Home Secretary the memorial praying for a
commutation of sentence.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
Prince and Princess Teck, and suite honoured the perfor-
mance of "Black and White" at the Theatre illoyal
Adelphi last eyeuieg.