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 :
ft per Cents .. 97 54 Bank Shares 3380
Do. end month.... Credit Fonder 1387 50
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 90 Italian Loan 72 30
[slew 3 per Cents .. Russian
Do. end month.... Austrian
Credit Mobilier..., 1122 50 Spanish Threes 54
Do, end m0nth....1125 Home Debt
HAIL'

-AYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern .... lO3B 75 .. 1040
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1151 25 .. 1155
Geneva 365 .. 370
Southern BlO , .. 810„—
Western
Eastern .. ~
Sardinian 373 75 .. 372 50
Austrian
Lour bard 586 25 .. 588 75
North of Spain
Saragossa 657 60 .. 658 75
Ditto to Barcelona

7IIE CAPE MAIL.

PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY.

The Royal mail steamship Briton arrived here
this evening with the above mail and 27 passen-
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 Wee 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
Steyn', 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 war had
excited more amusement than apprehension. At
the siege of Potchefstroom, which occupied three
days, there was one killed and three slightly
wounded.
Fears were entertained of hostilities between the
Free State and the Basutos through the lawless in-
tolerance of the Boers.

The colony in the northern and north-eastern dis-
tricts was still suffering from protracted drought.
Oidium had re-appeared 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 pushed on.
The railway works were almost completed at
Klapmuts.
The Wynderg Railway was progressing favour-
ably.
The Dutch Reformed 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 KING OF GREECE.

The voting of the Greek subjects residing in
London, for the election of the King of Greece, 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 ne med " 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, Glacechurch-street, Dec. 14 (26).

LORD ASIIBURTON.—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.—Oa the arrival of a
goods train from London at the Peterborough station at an
early hour on Sunday morning it was found that one of the
trucks was on fire. Several men were called to the scene,
there being plenty of water handy, the fire was promptly
extinguished, but not before considerable damage was done
to the truck, and the goods all spoiled either by fire or
water. The truck was loaded with general goods, and was
labelled from London to Bradford. It is believed that the
fire was caused by a spark from the engine. It
sup-
posed that the amount of damage done is very considerable,
—Stamford Mel cloy.
SERIOUS RAILWAY ROBBERY.—On Christmas.
day a serious robbery was effected 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
Ycontainin,g the wages of the employes
at the the line. On the train reaching North
stations of
a the
n o
Dean it was discovered that three of the byes (those for
sttcsErnagn
Bradford, llalfax, and Wakefield), containing £1,200,
(chiefly in gold and silver) had been abstract ed. The guard
did not miss them till he reached North Dean, and it is
sup-
posed they have been taken from • during, his
his van
rary absence at one of the previous gtationo.