The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-19 00:00:00

The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon
exhibited a slight advance in the rates on Vienna,
Trieste, and Amsterdam; Paris, however, was a
shade lower.
About £40,000, in bar gold, and 30,8100 sove-
reigns were withdrawn from the Bank of England
yesterday, for the United States.
The Royal Mail steam ship Arabia which sailed
from Liverpool to-day for New York took £226,177
in specie.
The Ceylon, which leaves to-morrow, the 20th,
for India, China, &c., will take out £45,822 in
gold, and £168,784 in silver. The Government
remit £25,000 to the Mauritius.

Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £103,000, and the exports £591,800.
A firm, largely engaged in trade with Constan-
tinople and other places, is reported to be in
difficulties.

The English Stock Market is dull but steady,
Consols being 911 i for money, and 91.1,- a for the
account. Very little business, however, has been
transacted. The New Threes were steady at 911 I ;
the Reduced at 911 i ; India 5 per Cent. Loan was
at 1001 1; ditto Debentures, at 951 1; and Ex-
chequer Bills were flat at 7s. to 2s. dis.

NO variation of importance was reported in
Foreign Securities, and business was moderately
active. Turkish 6 per Cents. were 701 to 71;
ditto New Loan 54 to 57; ditto £lOO Bonds
'Were steady at 57,1 ; Mexican at 201 21; Russian 5
Per Cents. at 1041 ; ditto 3 per Cents. were firm at
60141. ; and Portuguese at 45.
Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co., report the prices
of American Securities as follows :

Redeemable. Prices.
Milted States 6 per Cents 1867-1868
O. 5 per Cent Bonds
tentucky 6 per Cant. Bonds lB6B-72 88 90
Pennsylvania 6 per Ct. Bonds 1877 84 85
rain ois Central 7 per Cent.
Illinois Central 6 per Cent.
Increased heaviness has prevailed in the Railway
Share Market, the decline in most of the principal
undertakings amounting to about 1 to 11 per cent.,
Owing to a pressure of speculative sales. Great
Northern, North Western, and South Eastern have
receded 10s. ; Caledonian, South Western, and
Midland 15s. ; Great Western, North Eastern (Ber-
wick), and West Midland £1; Lancashire and
Yorkshire £1 10s.; and Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln £2.
The Foreign and Colonial Markets have remained
very quiet without any material variation in prices
Grand Trunk of Canada have improved 10s., and
Great Western •of Canada ss.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
also shown a decline in values.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll }
!per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9l 11 /
Aznuittes, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire 6th April, 1885 l6/
India Stock
Ditto 6 per Cent lOOl /
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO l3 die
_ Ditto under £l,000
liolksols for Account, Feb. 71 9l}d}
41z...,e).1equer Bills, Zl,OOO, lid
Mato small

, FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
akezlean 3 per Cent ..
~.Ditto Account 2Ol 1
prir Grenada Active, 31 per Cent.
irvian 41 per Cent 95
°,ttuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853. —
~utto Account
akussian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St .. 1041
I Itish 6 per , Ditto 3 per Cent, 1859
'ltr„ Cent —
-uitto Account 7Ol t
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK
Console, Money
Ditto Account
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WIND AND WEATHER REPORT.

THIS DAY, J.
./31rtningba, N.W.; dull
,rie -Drihten, N.W.; cloudy
W • fine
%Ambridge: 'S.w. ; dull
Cardiff, N; -
Derby, S. ;'dullDoncaster, N.E. ; fine
Dublin S.S.W.. ,• wet
uundee, N. 8.; hazy
kdinburgh, S.W.; dull
s'lllraoutht..S.W. ; dull
Glasgow S.W. ; damp
Goole, S.E. ; fine
Gravesend, calm ; fine
•tiarwich, N.W.; frost
liartlepool, N.W. ; dull
kolynead, S.E., light breeze;
cloudy

LN. 19, 9 A.M.
Inverness, N.E. ; fine
Leeds, E. ; mild
Manchester, S. ; fine
Middlesborough, S. ; fine
Milford Haven, S. ; cloudy
Newcastle oa Tyne, S.W.;
cloudy
Newmarket, S.W. ; dull
Norwich, E.; fine, frosty
Peterborough, N.W.; cloudy
Sheffield, E. ; dull
Southampton, S.E. ' • cloudy
Stockton on Tees, S.E.; fine
Sunderland S.. • fine
West Hartlepool, S.E. ; fine
Weymouth, calm ; cloudy
Whitehaven, S.; damp
York, S.W.; very fine
`A.TIONS, JAN. 18.
Marseilles, E.S.E.; fine
Paris, calm ; cloudy
St. Petersburg, calm ; clear
Stockholm, N.N.W.; foggy
Strasbourg, W.N.W.; cloudy
Toulon, E.N.E. ; fine
Turin, S.S.W. ; fine
Vienna, W.; cloudy

CONTINENTAL ST.
S.S.E.; cloudy
Cherbourg, S.; rain
Copenhagen, W.S.W. ; fog
b_unkirk, calm ; fog
ltavre, S.S.E. • snow
Leghorn, N.E.; fine
Leipsie, N.W. ; cloudy
layons, N.; cloudy
Madrid, E.S.E.; fine

6.POR TING INTL' LL 11l ENCE.

_ -
BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY.

CHESTER CUP. _2sto 1 aget Industrious (offered, take 30)
33 to 1 agst Chere Amie (taken)
40 to 1 agst Wild Rose (taken)
40 to 1 agst Satellite (taken)
50 to 1 agst Light (taken)
50 t. 1 agst Ben Webster (taken)
50 to 1 agst Horace (taken)
60 to I agst First Lord (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
6to 1 agst Kettledrum (taken)
7to 1 aget Diophantus (taken)
7to 1 agst Klarikoff (taken)

tillstllieatitOW ESCAPE OF THE ARCHDUKE AXe le
si
--,—We read in the Austrian GaZette—
, v
',4Y 'venlig, at 9 o'clock, the special train which brought
ildulte Ferdinand Maximilian to -Vienna, and in
Were Lieutenant Field-Marshal de Schmerling,had
Count
Bftebelles, and other members of his highness's suite,
ff t Berlin but half an hour when the saloon carriage caught
t ilrough the over-heating of the hot-air stove. The
ti7e) fed by combustible materials, spread rapidly, and
effe e•onnection with the other carriages of the train was cut
;Count de Bombelles, at the peril of his life, clambered
to the roof of the carriage, and his cries were at last heard
et d
tlttle eqine-driver, who immediately brought the train to
, adetill. With some difficulty the velvet hangings were
thel
, and the furniture thrown out of window, and
The4re was extinguished with tho aid of water and snow.
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4carriage was detached, and the archduke having taken
l*t izlguntlier, the train pursued its igurneY."