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

BATIK SHARES.

Bombay Bank ... Rs. 33 per ct. pm
Oriental Bank, R 5.1,000 each (500 paid up) „ 24 per ct. dis
Commercial Bank ... „ 14i per ct. dis
Agra Bank ... ... (Rs. 500) ... „ 9 per ct. pm
Bank of Madras ... ( „ 1,000) ... „ 4 per ct. pm

GOVERNIIERT SECURITIES.
5 per cent. transfer loan ... Rs. 117 per 100 Sicca
5 per cent. 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 per 100 Sicca
4 per cent. loan 1835-36 .. Rs. 81 per 100 Co.'s
5 per cent. loan 1841.42 .. Rs. 98 to per 100 Co.'s
4 per cent. loan 1842-43 ... Rs. 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 Hon. 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 Fanny
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-i.
"La Malinconia;" allegretto quasi
allegro (two violins, viola, violon-

cello : Messrs. Sainton, Day, Hill,
and H. Chipp) Beethoven.
Finale, ht Act—"ll Don Giovanni" Mozart.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary left their residence at Kew
yesterday afternoon for Windsor Castle.
Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview with Lord
John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-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 atillit 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.,
fell 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 oyer the country :—Glasgow, N. very
cloudy; Edinburgh, N. by W. intensely cold; Newcastle,
S.E. fine; Skipton, S.E. frost; York, S.E. hard frost ;
Hull, S.S.E. hard frost; Leeds, S.E. cold; Normanton,
S.E. cold; Bradford, S.E. frost; Liverpool. S.S.E. hard
frost; 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. freezing; Durham, N. fine; Nor-
wich, S.E. by S. fine; Yarmouth, N.N.E. fine; Lowes-
toft, E.S E. hard frost; Rugby, W. favourable; Bir-
mingham, S.E. frost; St. Ives, N.E. fine; Cambridge,
E. hard frost; Ely, N.E. hard frost; Bradon, E. hard
frost; Ipswich, E.S.E. fine ; Gloucester, S.E. frost;
Chelmsford, S.E. fine;
Chesterfield, N.E. bard frost;
Hertford, N. hard frost; London N.E. hard frost; Gos-
port, N.E. hard frost; Portsmouth, N.E. hard frost;
Southampton, N.B. very cold and clear.--Manchester
Guardian of yesterday.

THE VACANT ALDERMANIC GOWN.—Testerday
an influential meeting of the Livery of the ward of Dow•-
gate was held at the Hour Glass Tavern, Upper Thames-
street, C. Prior, Esq., in the chair, at which it was re-
solved to support R. W. Carden, Esq., citizen 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 the
ward, it being their intention to go to the poll.