The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-18 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,

Of the magnificent performance at the Royal
Italian Opera on Saturday, of Rossini's last, and
perhaps greatest, achievement as a maestro, his
grand five-act opera of " GuglielmoTelVour notice
is unavoidably postponed. For the present, it will
be sufficient to say, that the first representation of
that great masterpiece this season at Mr. Gye's
establishment was in every way worthy of the work
itself, and of the establishment. The evening bad
a twofold attraction, it being not only set apart as
the first night of " Guglielmo Tell," but as the first
night also of Signor Wachtel's appearance in that
opera as Arno:do. Ic was the test of his capabilitie3,
and that test we has' en to say at once, by anticipation,
he passed triumphantly. Himself taking the toyer's.
p, le in lieu of his emieeat predecessor in it at,
Covent Garden, Signor 'l'amberlik—the Patriot
Chteftain found a substitute for M. Fdure in Signor
Grtziani, and Walter another for Herr Formes
in Herr Schmid, that remarkable new basso pro-
Tondo, who promises to tale rank in the estimation
of the operatic w ntld, here, in London, as the
first legitimate successor of the mighty Labiache.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince !tared and the
Princess Helena, alteaded by Lady Caroline Bar-
rington, the Hon. Mortimer West, and Lieut. Haig,
honour( d the pertormances during the evening
with their presece2—their Royal Highnesses oc-
cupying the Queen's box. Amongst the rest a
the distinguished company present were the
Dachess of Manchester and Viscount Mandeville,
the Marquis of Hartington, the Marquis of stio
the Marchioness of E!y, the Marquis or Salis-
bury, the Countess of Fife and Lady Anne
Duff, the Earl and Lady Constance Gros-
venor, the Earl of Dudley, the Earl Gran-
ville, the Earl of Coventry, the Earl of Ux'''
bridge, the Countess Dowager of harringtout
the Earl and Countess of Westmorland and Ledi
Emily Kingscote, Viscount Sydney, Lsdy Alfred
Churchill, Lord and Lady Colville, Lady SandYs
and the Hon. Miss Sandys, Lady Panmure and 2,1 r
Power, Lady Gooch and Miss Gooch, Lady Palk
and Miss Palk, Hon. Reginald Yorke, Hon. William
Napier, Hon. otw ay Toler, Hon. Frederick Leves°ll
Gower, Captain the Hon. J. C. and Mrs Vivian'
Hon. Henry Eliot, Major the Hon. Henry Gage,
Sir James and Lady Anne Mackenzie, the Italian
Consul General and Mrs Heath, Colonel Farquhar'
son of Invereauld, Captain and Mrs Browne, Car
tain Berkeley, Colonel Martin, Captain Fludyer,
Colonel Airey, Captain \Vigram, Colonel Minchin,
Captalu Knox, Admiral Ryder Burton, Mr White-
side and the Misses Whiteside.

The Mayor of PortsrnoutL has issued the folloW-
tug notice:--" The Mayor has ranch pleasure in
informing the inhabitants that General Garibaldi will visit
Portsmouth for the purpose of reoviving the address of hte
corporation. Public intimation will ba given in regard t
the presentation of the a.;:drees o s soon as General Garibaldi
is enabled to fix the day of his visit." o

XONEY MARKET

AND

COILIMZUCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The discount market is still influenced by the
receot advance in the minimum of the Bank, and
there is Only a moderate demand for accommodation
at the new rate.
About £3,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
on Saturday.
y The City of Washington has arrived from Nev
York with £5,700, and the Alliance from Geelong,
kith 454,828.
The Anglo FrcnclA Mexican Loan has been an-
calla'd in London by Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and
0,, and the International Financial Society, and
Paris by the Socie! a Generale de Credit Mobilier.
The amount required is £12,365,000, issued in e 6
peri cent, stock at the price of 63, representing
11,79000 sterling, in bonds to bearer of £l,OOO,
boo' £2OO, £lOO, and £5O each, with others of
ttoiler amounts for the Continental market. Of
the „total) £8,000,000 bonds are to be negotiated for
F3leitican, and the remaining £4,365,000 for the
each Government in payment of expenses in-
;aulrred
the expedition. Interest is to corn-
e„e,cea from the Ist April, and the subscription can
end over to February next. Discount at the rate
0:L
vi 6 per cent. will be allowed for payments in ad-
eance) and the stock is to be negotiable in Paris
C 4 the other French markets as welt as in London.
From the proceeds of the loan a sum sufficient for
two years dividends is to be retained, and an amount
18 al5O to be kept for the " next four half-yearly
payments of interest on the Three per Cent. Mexi-
can Bonds held under the decree of October, 1850,
a" on the New Three per Cent. Bonds representing
ton Capitalised arrears of interest thereon, as agreed
by the holders of the existing bonds at their
ccent meeting in London " There is to be a sink-
lag fund equal to 1 per cent. per annum from Ist
April, 1869, The subscription lists are to be opened
t‘
a London, all the departments of France, Turin,
Madrid,Z and Amsterdam, and the 231 inst. is the
this
at which they will be closed so far as regards
'Llie Market and Paris.
Proposals have been issued to-day for a Russian.
c 44410 Dutch 5 per cent. loan for £6,000,000, or
'crine 70,800,000 stock. It is introduced by
Messrs,l B4ring Brothers and Co., of London, and
eesrs. Hope and Co., of Amsterdam. On the £lOO
bonds the payments, amounting in the aggregate
f
'c 85 per cent., will extend to Jan. 18, 1865, and
otl the £B4 15s. bonds £72 is required in the same
h reriad- Discount at the rate of 5 per cent. will be
allowed for prepayments.
The Continental Union Gas Company requires a
capital,. of £400,000, a large portion of which it is
stated to have been already subscribed. It is formed
carry on the business of extensive works now in
fall
operation, with exclusive privileges, in Stns.
:114' Cette, Nismes, Vienne, Roanne, Beaucaire,
1
; 461, Albi, Milan, Genoa, Parma, Modena, and
itleBoundria. The shares are of £25 eaoh, and the
rakers are Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, of
,
4hreadneedle street.

Two O'CLOCK.
~;4-t Paris this morning, according to Reuter's
telegrams,r the Three per Cent.Rentes were 68f.:15c.,
63
'50., 67f. 90.3. Very great excitement, and still
continues.
The opening of the English Stock Market indi-
iated a firmer tone, and shortly afterwards an
ProVement of -A. per cent. took place, but the
advance was ultimately lost upon a few sales, mad
Consols are again 911- for money, and 916 I for
th e
Recount. The New Threes and Reduced uAn-
nuities are 89: ; Erchequer Bills, 10s. to ss. dis. ;
1041 1054 ; Eufaced 5 per Cents., 1031 ;
and Debentures, 994.
Ihsiness in the Foreign Market is active, and
prices. have varied to some extent. Turkish 6 per
1862, are 7114 ; do., Cansolides, 521,- 53;
'itsican, 47Z ; do., New Loan, 14 ; Spanish
Passive, 344 a ; do., Certificates, 121 s ; Greek, 25i;
and the Confederate Loan, 54 56.
In the Railway Share Market business has been
tattier more animated, and prices have shown an
upward movement. North Western, Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, Metropolitan, and South
Eastern have improved 55., and Midland 155., while
Great Eastern and Great Northern have declined ss.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings exhibit
little change of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in fair
c'zlnest, and in several instances exhibit a slight
advance. The new shares of the National Bank
lire dealt in at 4t) 411.

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BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 'OVERNMENT FUNDS.
per Cent. Consols
aDitto May 5
,0 Account, ..........
),\,Per Cent. Reduced
88991
Ii w 3 per Cent.
Iteil° e 1 per Cent. Jan. 1894........
,!,!,
t,,,lltuties, 30 yrs expire .sth Jan., 1880
Ditto for 30 yrs' expire sth April, 1885.
EDitto (Red
lehequerßilblesa'Tefegrap4h) Aug. 1908. 2O
Ditto , £l.OOO, 24 i 3 per Cent. 10 5 dui
. 10 5 die
tan Ditto £lOOl5OO and . £.2.0.0 ......... . 10 6 die
1' England Stk, 4/ per Ct.
1
at.°
1,7 Account.. ....................
I
tif 15" N GovERNNIENT SECURITIES.
blita.6t°ek 101 per Cent., April 1874....
bi,',''° 6 per Cent. July, 1870
tit° Account
1 tc)....,4 per Cent, 1888 —
IT, "0 Certificates
blilo 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 --
tlit‘to Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent.....
ajt° 6 per Cent., Jan. 1872 lO3/
h '") 6i per Cent., May, 1879 —
:0
ltte Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861
, Ditto ditto Aug., 1666 99k
.0".'"') bonds El,OOO
't4) Under £l,000
44?0REIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
-".an Bonds, 5 per Cent —
tra,4„ Ditto 1859 =
.lan 5 per Cent
'"ltto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
till. Ditto 1863 B7/
.i1!'10a Ayres 6 per Cent .......... =
Obi,l.tto, £lOO Bonds ..................
bTin 6 per Cent. —
~, Cent
eotobian 6 per Cent
0.4410 r
leperonsolidated, 1 per Cent —
MPtian Cent .... 101
l',3„.4'itto, Second Issue
',.,eek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account 25 I 41 5k
12,' , ,
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y,l)itto Account lli
1.4.41i5.n 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway,
''exican 3 per Cent
,Ditto Account....
Zooftsh Imperial 5 per Cent
e‘": Granada
.oitto Account ..

bitto
—2-- per Cent. —
Ditto Deferred ....
Ditto Land Warrants _
(Hectares) —__
•
.„-3Qvign 41 per Cent ,
uitto Account.. •.
l'itto 3 per Cent.(uribarren) —
I)ittc, 4i per Cent, 1862
.......... --
-,-,.
h "140 Account ..............
t 1853
,ort,„,,t,es, 3 per Con-, .
....... • • •Q 49
-12ittZ, Account ........... ;„ '607 62,'u
I
tt.° 3 t. Cent , 1856, '7l 'II
...
......
pm
A "itto Scrip (1863) £3O patd .
_.t..., 9l
•%••lelan 5 per Cent., 1822, £ 6 -
bitto 4 per Cent., 1850
89a
Ditto 3 per Cent 1859
"itto 6 per Cent, 1862 ..........
_.."4 4
4;,llraian 6 per Cent B6t
e "ttto Account
P 411,4411 3 per Cent
Tllt4o Account
—4O New Deferred
Olt t w
b; ' 0 Account
6tto p,,,,,1ve
..
35 41 J
4,„lt,t° Acr.ount
.1-Pit'tsti Cf,r't. of Coup not funded
121
Sw,° A.. czount
turp'l6, 11 4 per Cent
4);,.',811 6 per Cent. 1854
Lit
4'o Account 9O/ i
69
J) 6 per Cent. 1863 Itto
69!
bi„ <1 ccount
bit.l4'4l £lOO Bonds..
b 1140,, ) 6 per Cent. 1862
Account
.. 711 4 I
71f
Nl_ Ditto 1863
elar,'" quaratteed, 4 per Cent.
231
:if tuela 3 per Cent.
1)1.40 Account
"t n
bi ;.° v per Cent., 1862
--
11).`") Account .........................
Di ii
per Cent ...........
A bividends on the above payable in Lon a.
-`llSt '
10 Florins. •--
Zil Pert, 5 per Cent.. Ex. -‘.
t,t644 41 per Cent., Ex. 2°"" .. 11j„."12i per Cont., Ex. 12 Guil.. .... _
bit",_"" 4 per Cent. Certificates .... _
liali'o per
1:;_i•11, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs..
ti,,1140 Account
pe-totttese, per Cent.
251 Ex. 4s. 11111,1 Dollar Bonds, ,i 1 per Ct.
THREE O'CLOCK,
00h
008 M0,0
ittO AccolaYnt...l