The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-05 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND-REDUCTION OF
THE RATE OF DISCOUNT.

CITY, flaylpast Three.

The Bank of England has just reduced the rate
of discount i per cent. The Board meeting did
not break up so early as usual.

The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this date are in round figures as under :

Great Western
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton .-
Midland
South-Eastern
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
North-Eastern

1855.
£23,341
53,405
1,314
11,255
24,036
13,754
10,144
18.054
18,008
26,861

1854.
.C 22,853
52,830
11,434
10,521
24,897
14,288
10,088
17,022
17,583
26,636

TATTERSALL'S.

(THIS EVENING.)

NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
4to 1 agst Quince
7to 1 agst Banhains (8 to 1 taken freely)
9to 1 agst Crown Pigeon (offered)
10 to 1 agst Dr. O'Toole (taken)
20 to 1 agst Early Bird (taken)
sto 2 agst Quince and Benhains (taken)
GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
12 to 1 agst Jonathan Martin (taken).
20 to 1 agst Spencer (taken).

CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Muscovite (taken).
25 to 1 agst Mortimer (taken).
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
6to 4 agst St. Hubert (65 to 40 taken).
4to 1 agst Lord of the Isles (taken).
DERBY.
6to 1 agst St. Hubert (taken).
10 to 1 agst De Clare (taken).
20 to 1 agst Wild Dayrell (taken).
20 to 1 aget Dick Hatteraick (taken to 1500

HARROW RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII)
HUNTERS' STAKES.

Ironbrace
HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE

Janus

Diana

Eight ran.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, April I.—To-morrow the Conference
will meet again ; but, as M. Drouyn de Lhuys will
probably be here on Wednesday next, it is under-
stood that the discussions, till his arrival, will not
embrace any very essential point of difference. It
is also very natural that Baron Bourqueney, the
present single representative of France, should de-
cline the responsibility of entering into matters of
difficulty at the present moment, so to speak, when
the French Minister for Foreign Affairs is about to
enter the conferences in order to take an important
part in their deliberations. Under these circum-
stances, we are almost warranted in supposing that,
until M. Drouyn de Lhuys has arrived, the most
important considerations will remain in suspense.
There has been some gossiping in our city about the
probability of Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer being also
expected here, in the capacity of a special plenipo-
tentiary, either to replace Lord John Russell at the
Conferences, because it is rumoured that his lord-
ship cannot possibly prolong his stay here after the
Easter holidays, or to act as an additional ad latus.
In authentic quarters nothing whatever is known
of an intention on the part of her Majesty's Go-
vernment to send out Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer ;
and as regards Lord John's protracted stay in this
city, there can be no doubt that his lordship, how-
ever anxious to return home, will certainly remain
at his present important post until his mission is
fully completed—that is, until the bases for the
conclusion of a treaty of peace have been agreed to
by the Conference, or until the Conference is dis-
solved, and the present negotiations are entirely
broken off.

Many different versions are given of a speech
which Raron Bruck is said to have addre sed to a
deputation of the Bank a few days since ; but the
truth of the matter is, that the Finance Minister
said little more than that he should be unable to
make any fixed plans for improving the finances,
and with them the currency, until it became clear
whether peace was to be concluded or the
war continued. The able statesman expressed his
conviction that, if Austria escaped without war,
her finances would be in order in a very few years.
Baron Bruck now inhabits a magnificent suite of
apartments in the " Old Mint," which was once
the residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy, the
famous contemporary of the first Duke of Marl-
borough. Cardinal Schwarzenberg, the Prince-
Archbishop of Prague, and the Archbishop of
Vienna are still at Rome etdeavouring to settle
the terms of the Concordat with his Holiness, but
it is believed that the Papal chair demands more
than this Government is willing to grant.