The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-27 00:00:00

19k.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1858.
Great Western

1859.
26,882

North-Western
South-Western
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire .. 23,673 23,750
23,036 19,607
North-Eastern
Bristol and Exeter
East Lancashire 6,309 5,207
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
North Stafford
Oxford
vrlJl.3OC+O/P 0,0 A.
Dublin and 1
WicklOw 1,204 1,119
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5,451 5,094
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada 5,199 8,212
In the Railway Share Market a rather active
business has been done, but most of the transactions
have been in connection with the arrangements
now in progress for the settlement of the account.
Chester and Holyhead, Great Northern, Great
Western, North British, and North Eastern (Ber-
wick), improved ss. ; and Caledonian and Midland
10s. ; Brighton and North Western have declined
ss. ; and -Lancashire and Yorkshire, 15s. The
Foreign and Colonial undertakings have also
shown a slight upward tendency. Paris and Lyons
advanced ss. ; Northern of France, 10s. ; Grand
Trunk of Canada £1; and East Indian, 10s.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
been at lower quotations. Bank of Australasia
declined 155.; London and Westminster, ss. ;
Union of Australia improved t ; Peninsular and
Oriental Steam brought 82k.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 961 t
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, aspire sth Jan., 1860 —
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Apr., 1885 lBl,
India Stock
Ditto Debentures 991, f
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account 951, 1
March June,

Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & 1.1 d.. I 35
Ditto Small, lid. - —"36
Exchequer Bonds, 1859, 31 per Cent lOOl
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto 1858, 41 per Cent. 941 1
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent' BOl
Chilian, 6 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Mexican 3 per Cent. l9k
Ditto Account
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent ll3l
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Sardinian, 5 per Cent. B5 41 5
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 3Ol 30
Turkish 6 per Cent 9ll 901 11
Ditto New Loan - 9a k
Ditto Account
Ditto 2d Issue
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 5 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
THREE O'CLOCK,
Consols, Money 951
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Consols for Account, Feb. 8 951

Mr. Bentley will publish, almost ionmediately, in
one vol., " Life of Charles James Fox," by Lord John.

Russell.
EAST WORCESTERSHIRE ELECTION.—We under-
stand that Mr. Pakington, son of the First Lord of the
Admiralty, has consented to stand for East Worcestershire

on the Conservative interest.
Denis Shea, charged -with being a member of the I
Phcenix Club, has been discharged from the gaol of Cork
by a special order from Dublin Castle.
A French political offender, exiled to Cayenne,
who escaped six months ago, was on Saturday arrested in
a coffeehouse at Brussels, on the charge of bearing a false

name,
SIR E. B. LYTTON.—The mainsprin of his
career is ambition. He was early smitten with the passion
to excel, the unconquerable desire to make a great name
and position for himself in the world. But his ambition
was not of a narrow, selfish kind—the mere lust of power
and desire to rule; it was the more generous ambition of
the scholar and the statesman, the philosopher and the
poet, as its working throughout sufficiently proves. lie
was resolved to become great, to distinguish himself
amongst his fellows by wise words and noble works. But
he early recognised the truth that greatness can only be
obtained by breadth and force of intellect ; and exercise
being the condition of strength, he devoted himself with
quenchless ardour to the cultivation and development of
his mental powers. And the notion of culture he formed
on leaving college, and which he has preserved faithfully
in the main ever since, is a catholic and true one. In order
to secure depth and harmony of mental power, he deter-
mined to devote himself to a life of blended thought and
action, and this determination is the germ of his literary
and political career. In one of his vacation rambles while
at Cambridge he first dreamt the dream of authorship on
the banks of -Windermere, and before leaving college the
dream became a reality. On the other hands, he distin-
guished himself as a speaker in the political club of the
Union, and was elected president of that undergraduate
Parliament. He seems, however, to have been a better
writer than speaker, and literature at this time had greater
charms for him than politics. Nevertheless he did not lose
sight of the hope inspired by his ambition of distinguishing
himself in Parliament, and eventually taking part in the
government of tho country.—Literary Gazette.