The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-19 00:00:00

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A vtr'' small amount of discount business has
been in progress to-day, as commercial transactions
have been materially reduced, as usual during the
holidays. The rates have exhibited continued
easiness owing to the excessive supplies, and bills
are still negotiable as low as 21 per cent.
At a meeting of the proprietors of the Bank of
Victoria, which took place in Melbourne, on the 4th
February last, a dividend, at the rate of 10 per cent.
per annum, was declared.

Three vessels have been 'announced from Aus-
tralia—viz., the Yorkshire, with £51,560 ;
£54,000; and the Owar Pasha, £81,268. The
Stsxonia, from New York, has brought £lO,OOO in
specie.

Since Monday last the inaporta of specie have been
about £336,000, and the exports £278,000.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY.

Two O'CLOCK.

Business in the Stock Exchange Market to-day
has been very much restricted, and the attendance
has been small. Consols have been 938 for money,
and 938 94 for the account. The New Threes and
Reduced remain at 9218 ; Exchequer Bills at 18s.
to 21s. prem.; and India 5 per Cents. at 1081 1.
There have been very few transactions in Foreign
Securities, and the only movement of importance
has been the decline in -Mexican Stock, dealings
having taken place at 321, and subsequently at
311, the latest price being 311 Z. Turkish 6 per
Cents. are 802 81; ditto, 1858, 702 71; and the
New Scrip 21 a prem.; Italian are 671; Spanish
Certificedes are firm at 81; Portuguese at 461, and
Brazilian at 101.
Tile Egyptian Scrip is 1 1 pmt.
In the Railway Share Market to-day the opera-
tions continued very limited and little change of
importance took place in prices. Eastern Counties,
Great Northern, and Midland, improved about ss. ;
and South Western declined ss.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings exhibited
little variation. South Austrian and Lombardo-
Venetian realised 204 ; Great Luxemburg, 144 141 ;
East Incian, 104 a ; and Great Western of Canada,
121.

Joint Stock Bank Shares were neglected. Otto-
luau brought 26 ; and Charter of India, Australia,
and China, 208 21. •

Tin Alli ince Bank shares are 41 5/ prem.; Im-
perial lk y prem. ; Northern Counties 31 41 prem. ;
and British Columbia 2k -11 prem.
In the Miscellaneous Market Electric Telegraph
shares declined to 99, ~.nd Rio de Janeiro Improve-
'tent realised 351 26k.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3per Cent. Reduced Annuities
per Cent. Consols Annuities - 4
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92± i i
India Muck
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 92
Ditto 5 per Cent
_Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 100 i i
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1004 f
Ditto ditto Auce. 1864 or 66 1001
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent 2l 18

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Equador New Consolidated
-Italian, 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway)
Ditto Scrip
blexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Acco nt .. 321 1,1 k
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853.. —
Ditto Account ..
-qussian 5 per Cent 1822, £ St —
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 .. 6li !
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. —
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money -
Ditto Account

Notice of marriage has been published at the
tnairie of the rue d'Anjou-Saint-Honore, between M. Gus-
tave Chaix d'Est-Ange, son of the Procureur-Imperial of
the Imperial Court of Paris, and Mademoiselle Jeanne
,Sipierre.

TEL POPE.—A private letter from Rome, under
date April 7, says :—" Reports are continually given of the
illness of the Pope. He was, however, out in his carriage
on Saturday, and yesterday took part in the service at the
'Sistine Chapel. The city is becoming very full on account
of the approaching Holy Week."

The subject of iron armour for ships and the best
Xaode of piercing it is every day occupying public attention
more and more in Paris. It is said that at a trial made at
Vincennes on Monday with a newly-invented rifle cannon
th 3 ball traversed iron plates 12 inches thick.
Captain Dabry, who accompanied the French
expedition to China, has brought back to France a valu-
able collection of alimentary, industrial, and medicinal
Plants, which he has presented to the Society of Acclima-
tization, making an announcement of the gift in a letter
dated the 21st March, which the President of the Society,
t. Drouyn de Lhuys, read at its last meeting. Those
Wants have been confided to botanists and skilful horticul-
turists, charged to examine their nature and aid in their
acclimatization.

THEATRICAL MARRIAGE.—On Wednesday last
air, George Benjamin Gastin, professionally known as
George Belmore, the well-known Comedian, of the St.
James's Theatre, was united at Tottenham Old Church, to
kiss Alice Maudo Mary Ann Cooke, the youngest daughter
of Mr. William Cooke, recently the proprietor of Astley's
Amphitheatre.—Era.

PUGILISM.—NOLAN AND THOMAS.—The match
between these men, they having, it will be"recollected, con-
tended a fortnight back for £4OO, has been definitely settled.
The backers of Thomas asserted they could prove the
friends of Nolan sent for the police ; they have, however,
failed in doing this, therefore the stakeholder had no other
alternative than to order the men to meet again on some
future occasion. All bets made on the event are therefore
°ff, and must be returned to each party.
A. Turin letter of the 15th says—We had here a
Very early spring in March, and warm weather, almost
'Ammer like, in the early days of this month, but the
atmosphere cooled lately in consequence of long-continued
rains, and we had yesterday a very sharp and heavy fall of
'3lslow, a very unusual phenomenon in North Italy at this
time of the year. All the fruit trees were already in
blossom, and the forest trees were mantled with green.
This morning was fine and bright, but wintry cold before
811nrise."

The Press of Vienna of the 15th says :—" A
meeting was held at the Post-office yesterday to count and
examine the letter which had been stolen by a man named
and which were found at his residence. The
number is much greater than was at first supposed. There
have been conveyed to the Post-office five sacks, four feet
long by three feet wide, completely filled with them. Up
to yesterday evening 50,890 had been counted, and those
Which. were examined during the day have been to-day dis-
tributed. The letters which had ben opened have an
qncial seal affixed to them. Some are dated two and three
sears back."

MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS AND VACANCIES.—Sir
Charles Hastings, M.D., Universt cyof Edinburgh, has been
appointed Honorary Consulting Physician to the Kidder-
Minster Infirmary, Worcestershire. Dr. R. Barnes, M.D.,
University of London, F.R.C.P. London, M.R.C.S. Eng-
land, Assistant Obstetric Physician at the London Hospital,
gas been appointed lecturer for this session on midwifery
and the diseases of women and children, at St. Thomas's
Itospital, vice Dr. Charles Wailer, M.R.C.P., London,
14i D, Erlangen, deceased. Mr. Henry Ebenezer Hutchings,
C. 5.111 R. England, L.S.A. London, has been appointed
;Ouse surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, vice
NI% Wm. Blasson, M.R.C,S. England, L.S.A. London, re-
Zigned... Mr. John Andrews, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A. Lond.,
gas been appointed surgeon to the County Gaol, Salisbury,
Niee Mr. -Wm. Andrews, F.R C.S. Eng. (Hon.) deceased.
The
following appointments of medical officers for the St.
Thomas's Union, Devonshire, have ern made—viz.:—.Mr.
Francis Henry Collings, M.R.C.S. Eng., for the Broadelist
district ; Dr. Robert Brent, M.D., St. Andrew, F.R.C.P.,
M.R.C.S. Eng., for the district of Colyten Raleigh;
alr. William Coles Hunt., M.R.C.S., Eng., L.S.A. Lon.,
t°l' the district of Bampforde Speke and Upton Pyne; Mr.
43nard Edye, M.R. C. S., Eng., L. S.A Lon., for the district
lieavitree and St. Leonard ; and Mr. Edward Morgan
t'addicombe, M.R.C.S. Eng , for the district of Netherexe,
,_lteNve, and Stoke Canon. Mr. Christopher B. N. Dunn,
„,1.11.C.5. Eng., has been elected medical officer for the
district of the Belper Union, Derbyshire, vice Mr.
''iicholas Hathaway, M. R. C. S., Eng., resigned. Mr. Ed-
"ard Francis Weston, M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.M., L.S.A.
nid., surgeon to the Stafford County Lafirmary, has been
:nppointed medical officer for the Seighford district of the
Stafford Union. Mr. Thomas Moore, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S A..
1"
41,9ric1., has been elected vaccinator for Cradley, Stourbridge
jlui
Worcestershire. There are now two vacancies for
4'43'si Jans at the North Staffordshire Infirmary, Newcastle-
1111der-Lyrne—one by the death of Dr. Wood, and the other
'1 the appointment of Dr. Wilson Fox, M.D. Univ. Lond.,
Lond., as Professor of Pathological Anatomy at
blliversity College, London. The death of Dr. Alfred
Ziehardson, M.D. King's Coll. Aberd., L.R.C.S. Edin.,
q'S.A. Lond. (from fever caught in the discharge of his
11".tY as Poor Law Medical officer), causes a vacancy for the
ivratern District of the St. George-in-the-East Union,
--`4lcilesex.

MONEY MARKET. f SHARE MARKET---THIS DAY.