The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-01 00:00:00

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

1862. 1861.
North-Western £84,471 .£83,139

South-Western

Brighton 22,467 15,410
South-Eastern

Great Northern

Slanchestpr, Sheffield, and Lincoln 14,231 16,703
North British 6,513 6,510
Great Western of Canada 10,614 11,167

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.
YISTERDA.Y.

Bank stock
3:per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92k 2 k
New 21E per Cent. Annuities 7B
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 3-16 5-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto '3.1 per Cent lOBl i
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 1001 I
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001
Ditto Bonds £l,000
Ditto under £l,000

Consols for Accounts May 8 93i
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent 2O 18 17
Ditto £500

Ditto Small

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent 93}
Italian, 6 per Cent (Maremmana Railway)
Ditto Scrip
Imperial Moorish Scrip 9ll
.Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853..
Ditto Account• 46
itusmian 6 per Cent 1822, X St 961 51 7
intro per Gent. 1859 .. 60i
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account

-/-
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent sot /
Ditto 6 per Cent, 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 1862 (Scrip) 2l i 1
Ditto Guaratteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 24 per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil.
Italian, 6 per Cent., 1861

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

CALLS. TO THE BAR, LINCOLN'-INN.—The under-
mentioned were yesterday called to the degree of barrister..
t-law by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, viz.:—Her-
bert Hardy Cozens-Hardy, Esq., 8.A., London (holder of
he Studertship of Hilary Term, 1862) ; Charles Henry
Prance, Esq., M.A., Oxford; Edward Alfred Hadley, Esq.,
M.A., Cambridge; Frederick Tomkins, Esq:, M.A., Lon-
don, and D.C.L., Heidelberg; Alan Cameron Bruce, Esq.,
M.A., Oxford ; Charles Oliver Frederick Cator, Esq., 8.A.,
Cambridge; Robert Dobie Wilson, Esq , MA., Oxford ;
Walter Baily, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge ; Edward Campbell
Browning, Esq., 8.A., Oxford ; Francis Phipps Onslow,
Esq., 8.A., Oxford • and Robert Wilmot Bradshaw, Esq.,
8.A., Oxford. . _

INNER TEMPLE.—The undermentioned gentle.
men were yesterday called to the bar by the Hon. Society
of the Inner Temple :—John Harrison, Esq., M.A., George
Follett, Esq., M.A., George Emerson, Esq., M.A., Wm.
Waldron Ravenhill, Esq., M.A., John Charles Bethune,
Esq., LL.B., Horace. Smith, Esq., 8.A., Charles Evans
Newbon, Esq., 8.A., Marmaduke Wm. Whitaker, Esq.,
8.A., Charles Simpson Samuell, Esq., Richard Lewis,
Esq., Wm. Robert M'Connell, Esq., 8.A., John Edmund
Wentworth Addison, Esq., 8.A., Thos. William Fletcher,
Esq., M.A., and Montagu Stephen Williams, EFq.
CAPTAIN ROBERTSON'S RETURN TO THE CUR-
RAGR.—Captain Robertson arrived at the Curragh on
Monday and resumed the command of his troop. His re-
ception by the men was most enthusiastic. On making his
appearance to take the command three hearty cheers evinced
the estimation in which he is held by the men of his regi-
ment. It is said that they would have drawn his carriage
from the Newbridge station had they known of his arrival.
THE CORONERSHIP FOR MIDDLESEX.—The
Bench of Middlesex. magistrates having resolved that a
petition be presented to her Majesty in Council, praying
that the Western division of the county may be divided
.into two districts as to the office of coroner,Mr. Humphreys,
the coroner for the Eastern division, has protested against
such division, and claims the right in the event of the death
or resignation of Mr. Wakley, to be coroner for the Western
division, as he is elected a coroner for the county, and can
act as such, either in the Eastern division or the Western
division, as he has done on many occasions. Mr, Wakley's
fixed salary is £l,BOO a-year, Mr. Humphreys', £1,500.
Mr. Humphreys' protest was to be put in writing, and
referred to the Committee of Accounts and General
Purposes.

gENTREI BUT WITTY.—A barrister who was re-
markable 47 coming into court with dirty hands, observed
that he had bon turning oyez,. Coke. " Coke I" exclaimed
a w aggish LrotNr,
"I shou,d have thought it was coal I"