The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-26 00:00:00

ing loan.

About £87,000 in gold was purchased by the
Bank authorities yesterday.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £300,500, and the exports £25,000.
On Monday, the 28th inst., a call of £2 per share,
amounting to £200,000, becomes due on the East
Indian Railway H Extension shares.
The traffic receipts of the Northern of France
Railway for the past week amounted to £47,510,
against £45,158 last year.

In the Liverpool Cotton. Market yesterday a fair
amount of business was transacted, and prices were
very firm. The sales were estimated at 8,000 bales.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

Two O'CLOCK.
The Massalia, sailing on Monday with tho Bom-
bay mails, will take out £130.680 in specie.
A further decline of g per cent. has taken place
in the English Stock Market to-day, owing to
continued sales based upon the impending loan for
Russia. Consols have receded to 93-a a for money
and the Bth pros:, bat are now 93-1. The New
Threes and the Reduced are flat at 92 al; Exchequer
Bills, at 17s. to 20s. prem. ; India 5 per Cents. are
steady at 1088 2.

The dealings in the Foreign Market have been
of u moderate character, and prices have been
depressed. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 80 1; ditto
1858, 70 ; Mexican have receded to 311 ; Italian
to 678 68 ; Spanish to 53734 ; ditto Passive to 19 -L--;
ditto Certificates to 811; and Venezuelan to 23,1 ;
Moorishts per Cents. are 91. The Now Turkish
Scrip is 1,1 -1 prem. ; and the Egyptian, 1-} prem.
The preparations for the half-monthly liquida-
tion occupied the chief attention of the Railway
Share Market to-day, and prices in some instances
exhibited more &rates's. North Westerns, and
Manchester, Sheffield, rand Lincoln improved 55.;
and Caledonian and Lamcashire and Yorkshire, 10s. ;
Eastern Counties, however declined ss. ; and Great
Northern, and North Eastern (Berwick), 10s.
The Foreign Vines are a shade firmer, with the
exception of Smith Austrian and Lombardo-Vene-
tian, which have declined to 208 21; Great Luxem-
bourg improved to 151; Sambre and Meuse to
11-} 114.

The Colionial undertakings are fiat. Grand Trunk
of Canr.da have receded to 231; Great Western of
Canao.a to 14; East Indian are steady at 1031;
and Great Indian Peninsula to 101 Z 102.

Joint-Stock Bank Shares remain very dull. Lon-
diYa and South African realise lot ; London and
County, 40 ; Bank of Egypt, 23 ; London and West-
2ninster, 791; and Union of London, 32 .
The Alliance Bank shares are 4 prem. ; Im-
perial, a 1 prem. ; Northern Counties, 3 a prem ;
and British Columbian, 1 1 prem.
In the Miscellaneous Share Market, Electric
Telegraph shares improved to 100 and 1001 ; Lon-
don General Omnibus Company brought 1-7, 12;
and Van Dieman's Land, 9i.

BRITISH FUNDS---CIOSING PRICES.
3'per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 931 /
New 3 per Cent. Annuities ~ 92 /
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 3-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent. loBf 1
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 51 per Cent .. lOBl
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 1001
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001 1
Consols for Account, May 8 934
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent 2O 17
Ditto £500
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent .. —

,
Ditto, 5 per Cent., 1839 & 1859 99/
Italian, 5 per Cent (Marenimana Railway)
Ditto Scrip .. - 2 a
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Imperial Moorish Scrip 9l
'Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent .1858 ... 70 /
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Venezuela, 3 per Cent .. 231 8.,
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Excliange 12 Ga. .. --
' Ditto Certificates, 4 Td er Cent.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861

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TWO O'CLOCE.
Consols, Money ..
Ditto Account

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAI.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 18 11 185
Antwerp — 25 475 25 ' 525
Brussels — 25 475 25 525
Ramburgh — 13 8 13 85
Paris
_ _

Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 119
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn — 25 50 25 62/
Milan — 25 50 25 55
Genoa — 25 b 0 25 55
INTaples
Palermo — 1191 119/
Messina
Lisbon — 52/ 63
Oporto — 52/ 53/
Rio Janeiro -
Wow York
Poreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz -£317 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Dou loons

25 50
25 50
119 k
13 65
13 65
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GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty's
Emigration Commissioners chartered yesterday the Rajaf-
than, of 627 tons, belonging to Mr. T. Teighe, of London,
for the conveyance of emigrants to Brisbane, Moreton
Bay, Queensland, at the rate of £l4 7s. per statute adult.
Tbis vessel to be ready to sail from Birkenhead any day
the Commissioners may direct between the 12th and 23d
of June next.

IN TERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.--The sum received
for the sale of season tickets already exceeds the sum re-
ceived for the corresponding period in 1851. The sale yes-
terday at Exeter-hall exceeded P 41,000. Meyerbeer arrived
in London yesterday, and will be present at the opening.

THE POLICE AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBI-
TIoN.—On the reassembling of the House of Commons on
Monday the civil estimates will be moved. In the police
estimate an additional sum of £21,521 is required to be
voted to meet the expense of the police employed at the
International Exhibition.

LONGEVITY.—There died a few days ago, on the
estate of Latheronwheell, Caithness, a man named Kenneth
Murray, aged 110 years. He retained the use of all his
'faculties up to the time of his death unimpaired, being able
to read the smallest print without the aid of spectacles. He
had not a grey hair in his head at the time of his death.—
Scotsman.

People wonder how the fastish M.P. could get
involved, in four years, with a quarter of a million at his
command. The sum, in the case in point, was, we learn,
'originally not more than £100,000; but we rejoice to learn
that a heavy rent property must come to the absentee ere
long, and let us hope when he is a wiser man.—Dublin
Freeman.

MEYERBEER AND ATIBER.—Her Majesty's Corn-
• niissioners for the International Exhibition of 1862 having
• sent special invitations to Meyerbeer and Auber to be pre-
sent at the opening ceremonial on the Ist of May, when the
overture of the former and the march of the latter will be
performed, under Mr. Costa's directions, Meyerbeer has ac-
cepted the invitation, and will arrive in London this day
. (Saturday); Auber, who, 60 years ago, was a clerk at a
'vine merchant's in the metropolis, has never visited Eng-
land since that period, and being now in his 81st year, is
linable to undertake the fatigues of the journey, and has
k been compelled to decline the honour of the invitation.
Ileyerbeer, who is in excellent health, will arrive from
-Berlin in time to see his Prophete and Dinorah at the
Royal Italian Opera.

DOUBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT BRISTOL.—On
Tuesday afternoon, the train 'which leaves Bristol about
half-past 4 o'clock for Paddington, wag brought to a stand-
still near Shrivenham, in consequence of the crank. axle of
he engine breaking. A fresh engine was telegraphed for
from‘Didcot, and it proceeded with the train till it nearly
reached the Twyford station, where, by a singular coinci-
dence, an accident of a precisely similar character occurred
to the second engine. Great alarm now prevailed amongst
the passengers, the 8 p.m. train being due, but the engine
Was fortunately stopped in time to prevent a collision. Both
trains were then attached to the engine, and arrived in
roondon, about 12 o'clock.