The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-15 00:00:00

South-Eastern.,..

19,181 16,252

Caledonian, and Edin. and Glasgow 16,468 14,763
Great Northern
__ ... 17,770 15,625
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Lancashire and Yorkshire
York and North Midland

Newcastle and Berwick } 31,854 25,601
Leeds Northern

Most of these returns are encouraging, but those
which strike most are the Brighton, Midland,
North-Western, and the York lines.
Rail way Shares have been more dealt in, and
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland, and one or
two others, have advanced. Foreign shares are
dull.
The Gold Mines have been heavy. Agua Fria
lower. The Banks are firm. Crystal Palace are
better.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
( Prom the Oficial List. )

Business done
I per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9IA 4
New 3i per Cent. Annuities 9li 2 la
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 5-16
India Bonds, ZlOOO .
Consols for Opening 19th July
Exchequer Bills, 2,',d.
£IOOO
.tisoo par 4 p
Small par 4 p
Exchequer Bonds Scrip

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 pe: Cent. £ St 984
Ditto 4A per Cent B6t
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 194
Ditto Passive (Converted)
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gull 6O
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .
HALF•PAST TWO.
Consols for Opening 19th July ..... 91. E x d

SHOT-PROOF BATTERIES.—An offer has been made to
Government, by a scientific gentleman, to construct an
entirely new description of battery, which will be both
shell and shot proof. The invention is, it is said, applic-
able to all our ships of war, but particularly so to gun
and rocket boats. The subject is now under the con-
sideration of the Ordnance.

THE ISTHMUS OF CENTRAL AMERlCA.—A.Rtatement
has been lately been published in the San Francisco
papers illustrating in a remarkable manner the correct-
ness of the favourable anticipations expressed on the first
opening up of the transit across the isthmus of Central
America, via the river San Juan and Lake Nicaragua,
the practicability of which was pronounced by many
authorities to be a delusion. It appears that, although
the Panama line has been the established route to the
Pacific, suprorted by the subsidised mail steamers both
of England and the United States, the aggregate of
Californian passengers, by whom the Nicaragua route,
conducted only by private enterprise, is preferred ex-
ceeds the entire total of those who proceed by way of
Panama. The number that crossed Nicaragua from the
Ist of January to the 27th of April last, the latest period
to which the returns have been made, was 9.539, while
for Panama, it was only. 9,134. Analog .ms reiti:t, are
also §i44 to be observable with regard to the transmission
of specie? the remittances via Nicaragua, showing a Con-
stant increase.

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1 LATEST FOR WA -1% 6.

THE WAR.
REJECTION OF THE AUSTRIAN
ULTIMATUM.

A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated yes-
terday evening, says it is not doubted that Russia
has rejected the Austrian summons.

CONSTANTINOPLE.

A telegraphic despatch of June 5, from the
Turkish capital, says Reschid Pacha has provi-
sionally left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He
is replaced by Chekib Pacha. Kiamil Pacha, Pre-
sident of the Council ad interim. Kernel Effendi,
ambassador to Berlin. Karadia, ambassador to
the Hague.
17,000 Anglo-French troops have been sent to
Varna.

The first division of French troops is daily ex-
pected at Constantinople.
The combined fleets are at Baltschik-.
The Turkish squadron is at K3varna.
The Rev. Mr. Cannon, who has just returned
from Schumla, is the bearer of two letters in Greek
from the Bishop of Schumla, or Panslava, to the
Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, in which the Greek prelate disclaims all
sympathy with the Czar, and lays much stress upon
his fellow-feeling, and that of his co-religionists,
for the success of the British and French arms.

RETURN OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA
TO BERLIN.

A telegraphic communication from Berlin, of
June 10, mentions that the King had returned from
Tetschen. The news that the Russians were trans-
ferring their head-quarters to Jassy has caused a
great sensation. The party of the Extreme Right
(pro-Russians) sees in this movement a commence-
ment of the evacuation, but this opinion does not
seem to be shared in by others. The Prin6e of
Prussia will receive at his cast].) of Babelsberg,
near Potsdam, the deputations sent -to him from
various parts if the kingdom, the number of which,
on the 9th, already amounted to 70. It is not
known whether the Prince will take part or not in
the approaching festivals at Berlin.

PRUSSIAN MISSION TO ST. PETERSBURG,
The Moniteur publishes a despatch from Vienna,
dated yesterday, in the following terms :
The Austrian Government congratulates itself
with respect to the results of the interviews at
Tetschen.

The Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin have agreed
to answer the objections of the Bamberg Conference
and to remove the difficulties to which they give
rise.

Colonel Mauteuffel is about to set out for St.
Petersburg, bearing a despatch from the Prussian
Cabinet, in support of the sutnrnons addressed to
Russia by Austria.

TYRANNICAL CONDUCT OF THE RUSSIANS
IN LESSER WALLACHIA.
Under dale of Widdin, 30th May, the Moniteur
says :—The Russians, on leaving Lesser Wallachia,
pillaged everything. They seized the archives and
public moneys ; they robbed the convents and
churches of all their precious monuments. The
Commander of the Ottoman troops, Halim Pacha,
has re-organised the administrative service of
Krajova. At his call the majority of the employees
returned to their posts ' • the proprietors who had
emigrated with their families returned to their
homes. A Wallachian journal, the first number
of which appeared at Krajova on the 25th of May,
enumerates all the acts of violence committed by
the Russians, and makes an energetic appeal to the
nation in favour of the Ottoman authorities.

AUSTRIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE
BLOCKADE OF EPIRUS.
CORFU, June 3.—The two Austrian men-of-war
sent to the coast of Epirus have commenced cruis-
ing from Avlona. to Prevesa.