The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-25 00:00:00

THE NEW RUSSIAN LOAN FOR EIGII7

MILLION STOCK.

The prospectus just issued states as follows :--t-

" Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., and Hope and Co.,
beg to state that in conformity with the annexed translation
of the Ukase of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, dated
May 27, 1860 (old style), and in compliance with the in-
structions ef H.E. the Minister of Finance, they are ready
to receive applications for the loan therein authorised of
18,000,000 (eight million pounds sterling) of stock, bearing
4t per cent. interest, on ths following terms and condi-
tions :

" Bonds in due form executed in St. Petersburg, will be
issued in sums of £lOO sterling, or 1,180i1; £5OO sterling,
or 5,900 fl ; and £l,OOO sterling, or 11,800 fl ; respectively,
with 20 half-yearly dividend warrants payable June Ist and
Dec. Ist (new style) of each year, at the counting-house of
Messrs. Baring Brothers, and Co., in London, or Messrs.
Hope and Co., in Amsterdam, and with an authorisation
to claim fresh dividend Warrants without charge.

" The half-yearly dividend warrant will be respectively
for, £2 ss. or 26.558. on each bond of £lOO or 1,18011. ; for
£ll 5s or 132.751 on bonds of £5OO or 5,90011. ; and for £22
10s. or 265.5011. on bonds of £l,OOO or 11,80011.
" The amount of the bonds will be also reimbursed, with-
out charge or deduction, either at the counting-house of
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., in London, in pounds
sterling, or Messrs. Hope and Co., in Amsterdam, in
florins, at the choice of the holders, and an annual sinking
fund of one and a half per cent. (4 per cent.) on
the principal, will be applied to their repayment at par.
"The bonds to be reimbursed will be annually drawn by
lottery in St. Petersburg, and the first reimbursement will
take place at par in London or Amsterdam on Ist June,
1862 (new style), when bonds to the amount of £120,000
sterling, or 1,416,00011., will be repaid at par ; and a like
amount will be reimbursed annually.
" All the bonds will thus be repaid at par, and they bear
interest, in favour of subscribers, from Ist June, 1860.
" The subscription price is 92 per cent., say at the rate of
ninety-two pounds sterling for every hundred pounds stack
In London ; or in Amsterdam at the rate of 90 per cent, at
the Exchange of 12 florins per £1 sterling.
" The payments in London will be as follows :
£lO per cent. must be paid two days after allotment, to
Messrs. Martin and Co., Lombard-street,
15 per cent on 16th July,
~ 10 „ „ on 15th August,
~ 10 „ „ on 17th September,
I, 15 „on 15th October,
~ 10 „ „ on 15th November.
~ 22 „ „ on 17th December,

X 92 per cent.

" The half-yearly dividend duelst December may be
deducted from the final payment.
"The failure to pay all the instalments regularly, forfeits
all previous payments.
" Subscribers may pay up all or any of these instalments
under discount of the respective maturities, at the rate of
three per cent. per annum. Scrip receipts will be delivered
with as little delay as possible, on the pr duction of the
bankers' receipt of payment of the instalment, and the
t o,N
n,ds will be issued with the least possible delay.
() applications for this loan will be received after two
o'clock
p.m. on Saturday, the 30th June.
"London, 22d June, 1860."

The Patric says : " A comet has been very visible
for some days. It is situated in the N.N.W., between the
Great and Little Bear. Its nucleus is about the size of a
sta
a r of
ed the second magnitude, and its tail is long and fan-
shp."
The directors of the Eastern Counties Railway
have forwarded the handsome subscription of one hundred
guineas to the fund for the relief of the:widows and orphans
of those who were unfortunately lost in the gale at Yar-
mouth ant Lowestoft.
COLNE VALLEY RAILWAY.—The extension of
this line from Halstead to Haverhill has been commeiced,
the first sod having been turned during the past week by
Miss Gurteen, daughter of one of the directors. It is pro-
posed, if possible, to further extend the line from Haverhill
to Cambridge. _

THE TOITETII PARK WIFE MURDER.—The jury
(at Liverpool on Saturday) returned a verdict cf wilful
murder against Thomas Rollinson, who murdered hie wife
by striking her on the head with a hatchet or saucepan.
The evidence of medical witnesses described three distinct
fractures of the skull.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY.—It iS stated that the post
of paymaster of Civil Services, vacant by the death of Mr,
Charles Grey, worth £1,200 a-year, will not be filled up,
tb. office being doomed to abolition.