The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Dec. 26.—The market has been rather
firmer, and the business done up to this time shows
a slight improvement on the closing rates of Wed-
nesday, Threes, for the Account, being now at 69f
75c. The Railway Share Market without anima-
tion. The market closed as follows :

lt per Cents. 97 54
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 90
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 1122 50
Do. end month 1125 -
RAIL'

Bank Shares 3380
Credit Foncier 1387 50
Piedmontese Fives
Italian Loan 72 30
Russian

Austrian

Spanish Threes..., 54
Home Debt

Orleans
Northern

rAYS.

Cash. Account.
1070 —,. 1070
1038 75 .. 1040

New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1151 25 .. 1155
Geneva ..
Southern BlO .. 810
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 373 75 .. 372 50
Austrian
Lotrbard
North of Spain
Saragossa 657 60 .. 658 75
Ditto to Barcelona

7HE CAPE MAIL.

PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY.

The Royal mail steamship Briton arrived here
this evening with the above mail and 27 passeEt,
gers.

She left the Cape of Good Hope on the 21st, St.
Helena on the 30th ult., and Ascension on the 4th
instant.

Governor and Lady Wodehouse were expected
to return in a few days from their tour in the
western province.

General Wynyard was daily expected from Gra-
ham's Town. The Colonial Secretary was still on
his tour through the eastern province.
All was quiet on the frontier.

The civil war in Transvaal had ceased. The acting
President Van Reusenberg had triumphed over the
ex-President Schoemah and the rebel Landdrost
Stein, who with M. Pretorius, President of the Free
State, had taken refuge in that state. It was ex-
pected that the Transvaal Government would de-
mand their extradition as traitors. Pretorius was
not trusted by either party. This civil NN ar had
excited more amusement than apprehension.
the siege of Potchefstroom, which occupied I.!,ree
days, there was one killed and three slightly
wounded.

Fears were entertained of hostilities between the
Free State and the Basutos throne,. the lawless in-
tolerance of the Boers.

The colony in the northern sand north-eastern dis-
tricts was still suffering fre,m protracted drought.
Oidium had re-appekred in some vineyards, and
the vines had been much injured by hailstorms.
Trade had improved, though still languid.
Harvest prospects had brightened considerably.
The Dutch church at Malmesbury fell on Nov. 15.
Continuous rains had sapped the foundation.

Public works, which had been more or less inter-
rupted by the severity of the weather, were being
vigorously pig shed on.

The railway works were almost completed at
Klapmuts.

The Wynderg Railway was progressing favour-
ably.

The Duteh &formed Church Synod was still
sitting.
The ship Melbourne, which was lost at the mouth
of the Gouritz river, had become a total wreck.
Of her cargo, valued at £120,000, little would be
saved.

Her Majesty's ships Narcissus and Severn, which
arrived November 19, were in Simon's Bay. The
Rapid had left for Mozambique, and the Racehorse
and the Rattler for China.

A telegram arrived just as the Briton left the
Cape, announcing the loss of the Pioneer, of the
Livingstone expedition, up one of the rivers.

ELECTION OF THE JUNG OF GREECE.

The voting of the Greek subjects residing in
London, for the election of the King of Greene, has
terminated this day, at the offices of the Consulate-
General of Greece.

One hundred and thirty-nine members of the
Greek community have registered their votes, all,
without exception, for Prince Alfred of England,
Of these, 129 have voted without indicating any
alternative, 6 have nemed " Prince Wilhelm of
Denmark," 3 a " republic form of Government,''
and 1 " Joseph Garibaldi," in the event of Prince
Alfred not accepting the throne of Greece.

Correct extract.
A. C. lONIDES, Consul-General of Greece.
17, Gracechurch•street, Dec. 14 (26).

LORD ASHBURTON.—Upon 'inquiring a t his
lordship's residence in Piccadilly, last evening, we were
informed that his lordship was somewhat better.
A GOODS TRAIN ON FIRE.—Ou the arrival off
an
goods train from London at the Peterborough stationa
early hour on:Sunday morning it was found that otriee of the
trucks was on fire. Several men were called tat)s
promscpetnlye,
there being plenty of water handy, the
fldraemwa g o was done
extinguished, but not before considerbie
either by fire or
al goods, and was
to the truck, and the goods all spoiled
water. The truck was loaded with gene!"
is not sup_
posed It
labelled from London to Bradford. It is believed that the
fire was caused by a spark from tile engine.
considerable.
Ed:nye. veryo a
cConshristmas-
posed that the amount of daraa
—Stamford Ma cut y.
R SERIOUS RAILWAY
day a serious robbery was efficted on the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway. By one of the early morning trains into
Yorkshire, a number of cash-boxes were sent from the head
offices of the corePaahcontaining the wages of the employes
at the stations along the line. On the train reaching North
Dean it was discovered that three of the boxes (those for
Bradford, Haitax, and Wakefield), containing £1,200,
(chiefly in gold and silver) had been abstracted. The guard
did not miss them till he reached North Dean, and it is sup-
posed they have been taken from his van during his tempo-
rt.ry absence at one of the previous stations.