The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-27 00:00:00

THAMES.

AuDACIoUs BURGLARY. John Smith, Thomas
Donovan, and John Sullivan, three rough-looking fellows,
well known to the police, were brought before Mr. Wool-
rych, charged with breaking into an unoccupied house, in
Princes-square, Rateliff-highway, and stealing 2 cwt, of
lead from the roof.

Last night, at half-past 12 o'clock, a police-constable
named Barrett, No. 158 11, saw the prisoner, Donovan, on
the top of an unoccupied house in Prince's-square. Bar-
ret went to the rear of the house and found an entrance
had been effected by forcing and breaking down a door.
The policeman immediately ascended the stairs, got on to
the roof, and found Donovan secreted behind a stack of
chimneys. While securing him, the prisoner Smith jumped
(,n to a scaffolding in front of the house which is now under
repair. Smith descended*the scaffold poles, and reached
the ground in safety. He was immediately seized by a
constable named Tack, No. 110 H. The prisoner made a
determined resistance, but his efforts to escape were fruit-
less, and he was secured. A search was then made through
the house, and Sullivan was discovered up a chimney of
one of the upper rooms. He was pulled down by the legs
and sent with the other prisoners to the statton•house.
All the lead had been stripped from the roof of the house
and rolled up ready for removal. It weighed 2001bs.
Inspector Deudy said the prisoners were well-known
thieves. Smith had been twice convicted of felony, and
whenever he had been out of prison he was always lead
stealing.

Mr. Woolrych—ls the owner of the house here ?
Bennett—No, sir; he is in the country.
The prisoners made various excuses for being in the
house, and said they had stolen no lead.
Mr. Woolrych said he intended to treat this case as a
felony, and the owner of the lead must attend. Ito re-
manded the prisoners until Wednesday.

The nest steamers to arrive from America are the
Hammonia, the City of Baltimore, and the North Ameri-
can, all of which were to leave on the 18th. It is asserted
that in Ministerial quarters there was a strong expectation
that a battle would be fought at some spot between Rich
mond in Virginia and Washington before the 22d May.
Accounts from California to the Ist of May state
that, owing to the difficulties of insurance, the steamer
olden Age, to sail from San Francisco for Panama on that
day, would take only £lOO,OOO, of which £27,000 was for

3101VEY MARKET AND CITY NEW

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
During the past week the state of trade in the
manufacturing districts has continued dull, the in-
tervention of the Whitson holidays having caused
almost a suspension of operations. At Manchester,
Leeds, and Bradford manufacturers have confined
their dealings to immediate requirements for the
home markets. The hosiery trade at Leicester has
continued flat, with little prospect of improvement
at present. In the hardware districts there has
been no change of importance. The gun trade,
however, at Birmingham, has shown more activity
owing to the demand for America.
A moderate amount of business was concluded in
the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday, and
paces were steady. Thr; sales were 8,000 bales.
The half-yearly in ;,crest on Russian 41 per Cent.
Bonds of the loan cif 1860, will be paid on and after
the Ist proximo,
About £24.,000, in gold, was sent into the Bank
of Englan'l on Saturday.
A meeting of the Commercial Dock Company
will take place on the 14th proximo, for the pur-
P°Bo of declaring a dividend and the election of a
director.
.

The inquiries for discount accommodation con-
tinue moderate, and bills are still freely negotiated
on lower terms in the open market than at the
sank of England. There is an abundant supply of
capital for all the ordinary requirements of trade,
and credit being well maintained, except among the
Greek interest, the mercantile community experience
mo difficulty in obtaining assistance at the current
Quotations. The exportation of gold to America,
however, is still creating some anxiety, as it may
yet exercise an important influence upon the value
of money.
Continued quietude pervaded the Market for
Public Securities, but the quotations 'are steadily
maintained notwithstanding the extensive ship-
oients of gold to New York. Consols have remained
at 911 afor money, and 911-1 for the account.
The New Threes are firm at 891 t, the Reduced at
89 ; Exchequer Bills are steady at ss. to ls. dis.,
ditto advertised 2s. dis. to par ; India 5 per Cent.
Loan at 1011 .1.

In the Foreign Market the dealings have been
extremely limited, and prices show little variation.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 711 72 ; ditto, 1858,6641;
Mexican are flat at 22i ; and Spanish Deferred at
431-.

In the Railway Share Market the operations have
been on a very limited scale, but prices have shown
increased firmness. Great Westerns, North-
Westerns, South-Westerns, and Midlands have
imProved 55., and Great Northerns 108. ; Lancashire
ftnd Yorkshire declined ss. ; and London and
Brighton, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and
North-Eastern (Berwick) brought previous rates.
The Foreign lines have been dull. Great Luxem-
burg were dealt in at 71,- -1-, and West Flanders
Preference Shares at 91.
In the Colonial Market Great Indian Peninsula
advanced 10s., and Bombay and Bahia, 10s.
Joint Stock Bankand Miscellaneous Shares have
continued in moderate request, without any:material
change in value. London Chartered of Australia
brought 23k; Union o f London, 254 ; Crystal
Palace Stock, 32k 1; and Electric Telegraph, 951.
BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES,
per Cent. Reduced Annuities B9l
mew
3 per Cent. Annuities B9l 1
India Stock
••••
Ditto 8 per Cent
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent.
"Ditto 51 per Cent lOO
Ditto Debentures, 1858 96 1
C, cia.sols for Account, June 6 .. 911
&tutu( Stock for Account
.. Ditto 5 per Cent.
'le.-11eqtter Bills, £l,OOO, 2d 5 dis
Ditto £5OO 1 dis
Ditto Small ... 5 dis
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICE
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto 1860 .. ..
0ak......
kexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853.
ai) 48 71
inien 3 per C6nt..
Ditto New Deferred
...Ditto Account
.c 431 1
urkish 6 per Cent
..
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
1
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Renter', 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f 94f.
biatch 2i per Cent. Exchange 12 Gull.
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols Money 9l/ /
Ditto Account 9ll

COST OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLIIII
, ARMIES,

A Field-officer, writing to a contemporary, says :
On the 27th of March last the Times discoursed on
is the tremendous fact that the catalogue of the
French army contains 6,871 captains, which at 100
meet to a company, gives a total of 687,100 soldiers
'Wider arms."
In a letter which you published on the following
I:!iorning I ventured to dispute the accuracy of this
dreadful announcement; and I put the effective
strength of the French army in 1860 at 358,408
men.
In an article, prefaced by an awe-inspiring
army is distributed--334.310 men, with 69,809
horses in France, and 65,690 men with 15.896
horses in Algeria." A fall of 287,100 men from
the wondrous " total" of last March !
(Raving in minute detail laid before us the figures
whence derived we are not told) of the French
army, I hope your contemporary will favour us with
the arithmetic of the Russian and Austrian hosts.
Before we condemn the disproportionate hugeness
of French armaments, it is right that we should
know what number of troops the other great mili-
tary powers can set in line. According to the Times
correspondent at Vienna (letter published April 9,
1861), " the effective force of the Austrian army is
Computed at 400,000 men." This is probably near
the mark. But what of Russia? Is her army far
short of 500,000 men ? What is Prussia doing in
the martial way P Is France, the only active ally
of Italy, to disband at this particular moment ?
Messrs. Roebuck and Horsman would doubtless
answer " Yes."
The French budget de guerre, and the English
army estimates, are so differently drawn up, that
it is no easy matter to institute an exact com-
parison between them. The limes, however, sees
no difficulties ; by adding various items to the
French war budget, your contemporary makes our
neighbours pay £20,159,624 for their 400,000
soldiers, our 146,044 troops costing us £14,606,751.
Again, by throwing into the French accounts
£3,934,416 (purporting to represent the difference
between the conscripts' labour at their own calling,
and their pay as soldiers, at 6d. a head per diem),
the limes succeeds in swelling the French army ex-
penses to £24,094,040. As your contemporary casts
n° Weight of a similar sort on the English estimates,
I've are to assume, I suppose, that on this side of
the water the value of the recruit's " labour at his
°lvn calling and his pay as a soldier" are identical.
The Times does not notice the fact that the cost
of the police (gendarmerie, upwards of 20,000 men)
s included in the French budget de guerre.
tln short, the comparison attempted by your con-
emporary is by no means satisfactory, and will
carcely, I should imagine, " dissipate, as he ex-
dlesses it, " the many illusions among us as to the
disproportion between the cost of the French and
English armies!'
There are people who perceive about the preten-
tious manifesto in question a strong War Depart-
inent flavour. But, be that as it may, its ex
eathedra assertions will be received as a godsend in
Pall-mall and at the Horse Guards. At " White's"
there will be rejoicing over its figures • and poli-
tical quidnuncs will swallow its facts" 'for gospel.
Is it not calculated to check the inconvenient rest-
lessness of parliamentary economists, and to "ut
p
down" the vulgar indignation now brewing in
nnuntry on the score of military extravagance?the
To show, however, that your contemporary was
not always quite so confident as he seems to be at
Present, that we get our money's worth for our
appeal of his, which was given to the world so
„TelY as the 22d January, 1861 :—" It has been
vain cry for years that if members of Parlia-
Illent would only work in this soil (army estimates)
lar,
'act of crying about the streets like frozen-out
mldeners, they would dig up hundreds of unknown
vitLaes, and reduce the estimates by several millions,
'Lout impairing the efficiency of the service."

I.
rr d
Herbert has appointed Msjor-General Sir
tho Wargar, to be permanent Undtr Secretary to
Dellartment, for the military division of tho la"

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