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

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
COUSOIS are 931 8 i for money; ditto, for Ac-
count, 931 ;
Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 2;
New Three per Cents, 92 11 ; Exchequer Bills
£l,OOO, par; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, par;
Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —.
India Stock, 14 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
ditto 5
per Cent., July, 1880, 1131 1; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 100 k.
In the Foreign Market there is a rise of 1 in
Italian, and 1-16 in New Spanish Three per Cents.
Prices are follows :—ltalian Five per Cents., 55
651 ; Mexican, 141; 15 ; Greek, 111 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
it 1 prem. _

In the Railway Market Caledonians are / better,
Great Eastern 1, Great Norther Ai, Metropo-
litan 1,
Midland 1, Brighton }, South Eastern
all better. The quotations are as follow :
Caledonian, 79 to 801 ; Great Western, 49
to 491
; Great Eastern, 371 to 371 ; Great
Northern, 107 to :1; ditto A, 109 to 1 ; Lanca-
shire, 123 to 1231 ; Metropolitan, 1021 to 1021 ;
do. Extension, 1001 to 1011 ; Midland, 1161 to 1 ;
Sheffield, 56 to 561 ; Brighton, 481 to 1 ; North
British, 35 to ; North Western, 1151 to 1154 ;
North Eastern, 1021 to 103 ; South Eastern, 751 to
76.; Chatham and Dover, 161 to 161.
American Five-Twenties are 831 831 ; the Bonds
of 1885 are 82 821 ; and the Ten-Forty Bonds 73/
74. Erie Railway shares are unchanged at 24 241,
and Illinois Central, 961 97.
Atlantic Telegraph Original Stock is 26 27, the
Eight per Cent. Preference shares, 31 31, and
Anglo-American Telegraph shares, 221 22 1.
The sum of £lOO,OOO in gold was withdrawn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.
The 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

perial Russian Sinking Fund that on the Ist 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 :—Thtirsday, April 1, £13,745,000 ;
Friday, 2d, £10,946,000 ; Saturday, 3.1, £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
PuLlio deposits
Other deposits 18,803,252 ... Increase 1323,950
On the other side of the account :
Government securi-
ties £14,970,798 ... Decrease ... 28,255
Other securities 38,480,653 ... 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 stook 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 :

Same Week

At Present.
last Year.
Bullion
Reserve

Notes in circulation 23,974,030 24,611,045
Rate of discount
Consols

French Rentes 7of. 30e.

69f. 12c.

BRITISH FUNDS-TWO O'CLOCK

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account,
8 per Cent. Reduced 914 2
New 3 per Cent
New 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cen J an. 187 3 —
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880. —1
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequor Bills, £l,OOO, 24 per Ot.
Do £5OO
Do. £lOO & £2OO
Bank of England Stock, 44 per Cent _I—
Do. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds
Inter-Colonial Ornnium
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
India Stock, 105 per Cent., April 1874...
Do. Opening, for Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates ..... ... ......... . 1004
Do. Enlaced Pape, 4 per Cent ...
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 .
Do. 5} per Cent. May . 1879
Da 5 per Cent., Rnp. Deb. 1872 ..
Do
do. 1877
Do. do. 1882
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug.
010 ....873 ~.... --.
Do, Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l,OOO

FORZIGN FUNDS--TWO O'CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ...... 79 I i
Do, Scrip £45 paid .. —
Auitrian Bonds 5 per cent —
Do. 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent ---
Do. 41- per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do. 1858—... 7si
Do. do. 1860 —
Do. do., 1863 69
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account BO I
B ienes Ayres 6 per Cent. ...... 91i
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent:)
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
(Lilian 6 per Cent —
no. 4} per Cent ".
Do. 3 per Cent.,
—"Do. 6 per cent. 1867
951
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
C llombian, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825......... —
•uannbian Principalities, 7 per Cent 761
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 .• 88i
Equador New Ocnolidated, 1 per Cent.
EgYPtian, 7 per Cent
Do Second Issue —
Do. .£5Ol, Bonds Bll
Do. £10) Bonds ..... 83-1-
ID°. 1864 —
Do. Account
Do. £5OO Bonds
Do. flOO Bonds
87
English Scrip, 1868
77 61
Do do. :X45 pd
Government Railway Debentures 9B dis
Greek 5 por Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups —
D.o. Account
D •o. Coupons
ia
.9'roud ' Do. Account
5 ounp Cent ..
ter —
f—
i uras Gov Rail. Loan., 10 p. Ct., all pd 81.1-
""au 5 per Cent., 1865 —

)o. Account .
___
...

Do AlRremmana Railway —
Mexican 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do 5 per Cont. Anglo-French —
aontovidvau G per Cent. .. —
lictrish Imperial 5 por Cent -
New Granada l7l i
Do 3 per Oen 37i
Do. Deferred
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account .. 791

_
Do 41 per Cent. (I.ll:',arren)
Do .12 per Cont., 1862 ...... —
Do Account
Pertsguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2 ':, 854
Do. do. 1867 351
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Russian 5 ~er Cent., 1822, £ St
Do 41. per Cent . 1850
Do 4t per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds., 91
Do. aO. £B4 15s. do. ..
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 9ll
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 651
Sardinian 5 per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Cen ..
Do. Account 331
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred —
Do. Account
Do. Passive —
Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded

Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loau
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Do do, Scrip Py...
Turkish 6 per Cent.! ,,._ . —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 •••
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 6t 70
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 186 n 65
Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florius
Belgian 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 4 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil., —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
Do. Account —
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
I tq.lian 5 per Cent. 1851, E. zsf.
Do Account SS
TWO O'CLOCK.

;onsols, Money 93--
Do. Account, May 6 93k f,

CENIRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(7 his Day,

OLD COURT.
THE ALLEGED ADMIRALTY FRAIJD.
Rumble, an engineer on half-pay, and James Gambier,
a clerk in the Admiralty, were indicted with conspiracy to
defraud Mr. Maxwell, a timber merchant, of £3O; there
were other counts varying the indictment.
The facts of this case are doubtless familiar to our
readers from the full reports that appeared in The Sun dur-
ing the time the prisoners wore 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 fur 300 tons. After that
Maxwell received a visit frcm Rumble, who stated that
he could ensure the acceptance of his coctract upon his
giving a sum of money to the amount of .£3O. Mr. Max-
well, after Rumble left .a ent to the Admiralty, and
from certain inquiries he found that his ten-
der had been accepted, irrespective of Rumble,
hut be (Maxwell) was directed to appear to fall
in with the proposal of Rumble. An appointment
was made by Mr. Maxwell with Bumble, 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 wore taken
into custody.
A great many witnesses woro 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 one 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 get it delivered to fold,
another one would put it into an envelope, another one
would have to fasten it, another ono 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 hold an appointment in the Admiralty of
over £5OO per annum, was that he 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 upon him containing 'an entry,
"R from Mxl. £10."
The case is not expected to conclude to-day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7his Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY THROUGH ALLEGED POVERTY.—WiIIiam Denis,
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-pov.erty 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 that he had
ascertained that the prisoner had hitherto borne a good
character.

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