The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-04 00:00:00

BANE SHARES.

Bombay Bank ... Its. 33 per ct. pm
Oriental Bank, R 5.1,000 each (500 paid up) „ 24 per ct. dis
Commercial Bank ... „ 1.4 i per ct. dis
Agra Bank ... (Rs. 500) ... „ 9 per ct. pm
Bank of Madras ... ( „ 1,000) „ 4 per ct. pm

GOVERNMETIT SECURITIES.
rer cent. transfer loan ... Rs. 117 per 100 Sicca
5 percent. loan 1825-26 ... Rs. 1021 per 100 Sicca
5 per cent, loan 1829-30 ... Its. 102 per 100 Sicca
4 per cent. loan 1832-33 ... Rs. 85 p.n. 100 Sicca
4 per cent. loan 1835-36 .. Rs. 81 per 100 Co.'s
5 prr cent. loan 1811-42 .. Rs. 98 to per 100 Co.'s
4 per cent. loan 1812-13 ... Us. 81 per 100 Co.'s

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.

The Queen and his Royal Highness walked this
morning in the Home Park and Slopes, and the
younger members of the Royal Family took their
usual early exercise in the Home Park.
His Royal Highness, accompanied by their Royal
Highnesses the Due de Nemours and Due d'Aumale,
and attended by Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps and
Captain the lion. A. Gordon, went out shooting in
Windsor Park.
The Baron Andrian and Mons. and Madame Van
de Weyer, arrived at the Castle yesterday, on a visit
to her Majesty and his Royal Highness.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary, his Serene Highness Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, Viscount Clifden, and Cap-
tain F. Seymour, are expected to arrive at Windsor
Castle this afternoon.

The royal dinner party yesterday included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Panny
Howard, and Sir George Couper.
The Queen's private band attended yesterday even-
ing in the Castle, and performed the following
pieces :
Overture—" Die Genueserinn" Lindpaintner.
Quartetto, No. 6, Op. 18, in B flat :
Allegro con brio; adagio ma non
troppo ; scherzo allegro; adagio—
"La Malinconia ;" allegretto quasi
allegro (two violins, viola, violon-
cello : Messrs. Sainton, Day, Hill,
and H. Chipp) Beethoven;
Finale, Ist Act—"ll Don Giovanni" Mozart.

Their Roy al Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary laft their residence at Kew
yesterday afternoon for Windsor Castle.
Mr. C. K. Murray bad an interview with Lord
John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in
Dow ning- street.
Count Schimmelpenninck, the Netherlands Minis-
ter, left town on Tuesday, on a visit to the Right
Hon. Baron Parke, at Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire.
Mr. Montgomery Martin had an interview with
the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere yesterday, at the
office of the Board of Trade. Dr. Bowring had also
an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman.

At a meeting of the General Board of Health at
Gwydyr House, yesterday, Lord Ashley in the chair,
a deputation from Birmingham, consisting of the
Mayor, Aldermen Phillips and Martineau, and the
Town Clerk, had an interview, and presented a pe-
tition from the rated inhabitants, praying for the
application of the Public Health Act to that town.
Mr. Ward, M.P., and Admiral Dundas, had an in-
terview yesterday with Lord John Russell.
The School of Design had a meeting yesterday, at
the office of the Board of Trade.

THE WEATHER.—Since our last we have had
more wintry weather than heretofore. Saturday was
gloomy; with some frost both in the morning and at
night. On Sunday the sky was lowering, and some rain
fell in the morning. On Monday morning there was a
singular sunrise, the eastern sky being brilliantly co-
loured with the tints of the ruby, and intermingled with
streaks of yellow and green. This seemed to forebode
" a downfall," but the day passed over, and still it came
not. In the evening there was a keen east wind, and the
temperature became much lower. The night was frosty;
and the the temperature, which on Friday was as low as
27 deg. Fahrenheit, and on Monday stood at 29 deg.,
tell yesterday morning down to 24 deg., the wind being
still easterly. Yesterday was fine and frosty, and the
barometer rising ; so that we may expect the frost to
continue. The following telegraphic returns of the
weather, at nine o'clock yesterday morning, show that
frost prevails all over the country :—Glasgow, N. very
cloudy; Edinburgh, N. by W. intenselycold; Newcastle,
S.E. fine; Skipton, S.E. frost; York, S.E. hard frost ;
S.S.E. hard frost; Leeds, S.E. cold; Normanton,
S.E. cold; Bradford. S.E. frost; Liverpool. S.S.E. hard
trost; Rotherham, E. hard frost; Chesterfield, E. hard
frost; Derby, N.W. by N. hard frost; Nottingham, E.
hard frost; Leicester, N. hard frost; Lincoln, N. hard
frost; Peterborough, E. fret zing; Durham, N. fine; Nor-
wich, S.E. by S. fine; Yarmouth, N.N.E. fine; Lowes-
toft, E.B E. hard frost; Rugby, IV. favourable; Bir-
mingham, S.E. frost; St. Ives, N.E. fine; Cambridge.
E. hard frost; Ely, N.E. hard frost; Brandon, E. hard
frost ; Ipswich, E.S.E. fine ; Gloucester, SE. frost;
Chelmsford, S.E. fine; Chesterfield, N.E. hard frost;
Hertford, N. hard frost; London N.E. hard frost; Gos-
port, NE. hard frost; Portsmouth, N.E. hard frost;
Southampton, N.E. very cold and clean—Manchester
Guardian of yesterday.
THE VACANT ALDEItMANIC GOWN.—Yesterday
an influential meeting of the Livery of the ward of Dow-
ate was held at the Hour Glass Tavern, Upper Thames-
tree% C. Prior, Erq., in the chair, at which it was re-
solved to support R. W. Carden, Esq., citizea and cutler,
as a candidate for the ward, vacant by the death of
Alderman Johnson. The friends of Jeremiah Pilcher
Esq., late Sheriff of London, are actively canvassing tho
ward, it being their intention to go to the poll.