The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-03 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--THIS DAY.

Amsterdam 11 163 Gibraltar •• •• • •
Ditto, three months .. 11 18% Leghorn 29 45
Rotterdam ............ 11 18% Genoa
Antwerp •••••••••• • • •• 25 47i Milan .• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Brussels •• •••••••• • • 25 473 Venice ••• • •• •••• •• ••
ilamburgh ............ 13 8% Naples . ..• 43
Altona .. • • ....... ..... Palermo ..... 130
• • .... 25 2734 Messina .. 130%
Ditto, three months .. 25 673 y ! Lisbon .......... •• 623,Marseilles 25 673 ' Oporto .......... 52%
Bourdeaux ............ Rio Janeiro ..... .......
Frankfort-on-Maine .... 119% Buenos Ayres.... • ..
Berlin New York,6o days' sight
Vienna 10 31 Philadelphia ......
1r1e5te................ 10 31 num or BULLION, rim oz.
Petersburg .. 37 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 10
Madrid . 49% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0
Cadiz .•..• • • •• 50 Mexican Dollars 0 0 0
Barcelona .• •• •• •• ••-• New Dollars 0 0 0
Seville— •• .......... Silver in bars 0 0 0

The North. British. Mail states that there is no truth
in the statement published in the New York papers that
Mr. Isaac Buchanan, of Hamilton, was killed by the
accident on the Great Western Railway of Canada.
SACRILEGE AT DEPTFORD.—Tbe church of St. Paul,
Deptford, was forcibly entered on Wednesday night,
and the whole of the sacramental plate, valued at up-
wards of 1501., stolen. The church is surrounded by
iron railings, and stands a great distance from the public
roadway. The rectory-house, however, is adjoining,
and the robbery was therefore of a very daring cha-
racter, an entrance by the outer door being effected by
means of skeleton keyth, an inner door being afterwards
forced open. The thieves then succeeded in reaching
a heavy iron chest, in which the plate and parchment
writings of the church were deposited. The 'chest was
firmly imbedded in masonry, notwithstanding which
At a meeting of the General Screw Steam Shipping
Company on Wednesday, a committee of three directors
was appointed to superintend the winding up of the
off
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contrived to remove it, and to get clear
company's affairs. The Bosphorus, the only ship now
remaining in the company's hands, is to be put up to
public auction on the 9th of April, unless previously
disposed of.
It is now estimated that the shipments of specie by
the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Colombo, with the
India and China mails of the 4th, will amount to at least
700,D00/., principally silver. An impression seems to
be gaining giound that from this date the shipments are
likely to become less heavy. At all events, the arrival
by La Plata yesterday will partially meet the demand
for the next fortnightly, steamer, after which the sum to
be expected from Mexico will be calculated to lessen the
activity of purchasers on the Continent.
How Mu. MACAULAY WRITES HISTORY.—The best
portraits are perhaps those in which there is a Flight mix-
ture of caricature, and we are not certain that the best
histories are not those in which a little of the exaggera-
tion of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Some-
thing is lost in accuracy, but much is gained in effect.
The fainter lines are neglected, but the great character-
istic features are imprinted on the mind for ever.—
Macaulay's Essay on" Machiavelli.",