The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-22 00:00:00

Foreign Securities are generally rather lower.
Turkish 6 per Cents., after being 98k g-, have de-
clined to 98. Spanish Deferred Bonds are 24k -1.
Peruvian 4i per Cents. 774, and the 3 per Cents.
54. Mexican Stock is heavy at 22i Chilian 3
per Cents. are 69, and Brazilian New 4/ per
Cents. 94/. Sardinian Bonds are per cent. lower,
viz., at 951, and Russian 4-1 per Cents. rule flat
at 94 to 951. Dutch 21. per Cents. are firm at
64 to 641, and the 4 per Cants. at 93g.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7i i; Mexican,
22i 3 ; Peruvian, 77 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 531
41 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Russian
5 per Cents., 104 6 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 94 6 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 45 4 ; ditto Deferred, 24j- ;
ditto Certificates, 51 6 ; ditto Passive, 7 4.
Railway Shares are dull, and prices generally
tend downwards. Great Northern have receded
fully 108. ; Lancaghire and Yorkshire, 1/. ; North
Western, 1/. ; Midland, 1/ ; and the others in
proportion. As regards the Foreign undertakings
there is a general decline, and the Colonial parti-
cipate in the flatness which pervades all other de-
scriptions of securities.

Mining Shares are very inactive, Batiks are at
nominal rates, and the Miscellaneous are neglected.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
i /writ. the 4 Iffiesal

n done.
Rank Stock . .
3 per ()ut. Reduced Annuities,,,
3 .t 1 bent. (,Oni4OiS Annuities 93.A 2i 31
,1„,„ tnnrities
Lore Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1560... ,1 3-16
Ditto -0 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859 2i 15-16
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l7 1-16 6
India Stock
En £1.1130
Ditto, under £lOOO ................. 8 d
Consols or Account ............ 931 1
Eicheque, 'tills, ?id March. June
-1060
£5OO l4 p 1 d par 3 d
.............. , ... 5 2 p P d par
Ditto Bonds, 31 per Cent
Ditto, 1559 ................
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account ........................
Ditto New, 1852, 41 per Cent.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent lOl
Ditto per Ceut
Cd n, 3 ncr .
Ditto Account 224
Peruvian Bouts 41 per Cent . 771
Ditto 3 per Cent
Russian Bonds, 1522, St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41 per Ceut.
Sardinian Bon:ls, 5 per Cent. ......... ..-• 95.
Ditto Account
Oltb, 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per (lent.
Ditto Account
Dirk ; per cent -
Ditto Account
Dividends on the abov, stii: in London.
Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent., 12 614 4
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, money 93 a
Ditto Account (May 8) 93/

THE MEN BURNT AT BALAKLAVA.

1, Wbitehall.yard, April 21,1856.

Sir Joseph Paxton presents his comp'iments to the
editor of The Sun, and will feel much obliged by his
giving insertion to the following extract of a letter just
received at this office from the Crimea :

" Commissariat Branch Army Works Corps,
Balaklava, April 5.

"Dear Sir,— I beg herewith to return the letters and
papers of those unfortunate men burnt on the 17th ult.
" It may be a satisfaction to their relatives to know that
they were decently buried, ant that I am having a head-
stone, with their names cut in it, to respect the spot where
they lie.—l am, &c ,
(Signed)

" F. WAKEFIELD,
" Principal Superintendent.