The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-27 00:00:00

Several guerilla bands have entered Maryland.

The Government has accepted 60 per cent. of the
bids for the 40,000,000 dols. loan at from par to
30 hundredths. The balance has been taken above
that figure.
Money easy. Gold declined this afternoon to
115/ per cent. per cent. premium.
Stocks slightly firmer. New York Centrals,
119/ ; Illinois, 121; ; Erie, 971; 5 20 Bonds, 1081.

Cotton slightly firmer. Middling Upland, 115 c.
Flour, wheat, and corn advancing. Provisions
steady. Petroleum Crude, 40 to 42. Refined, 66.

CANADA.

QUEBEC, OCt. 10.

The General Convention of Delegates from the
five provinces assemble to-day to inaugurate their
proceedings. Their deliberations will be conducted
with closed doors in the Parliament House, which
has been fitted up for their reception. It is probable
the Conference will last a fortnight.
The delegates to the formal Conference are as
follows :

NEWFCIINDLAND.—Hon. Mr Carter, Speaker of
the House, and the Hon. Mr Shea, Attorney
General. These gentlemen attend unofficially.
NOVA SCOTIA.—The Hon. Mr Henry, Attorney
General—and the Hon. Messrs. Supper, Archibald,
M'Cully, and Dickey.

NEW BRUNSWICK.—The lion. S. L. Filley, Pro-
vincial Seeretary—and the Hon. Messrs. W. H.
Steeves, Mitchell, Fisher, Chandler, Gray, and
Johnson (Attorney General)..
PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND..--The Hon. Mr
Palmer, Attorney General—the Hon. Mr Pope,
Colonial Secretary—Messrs. Davis, Coles, Havi.
land, Hamilton, Gray, M'Donald, and Whelan.
CANADA.—Sir E. T. Tache, Premier—Hon. J.
A. M'Donald, Attorney-General, C.W.—Hon. G.
E. Cartier, Attorney-General, C.E.—lion. Alex.
Campbell, Commissioner of Crown Lands—Hon. I'.
D. M'Gee, Minister of Agriculture—Hon. A. T.
Galt, Finance Minister—Hon. George Brown, Pre-
sident of the Council—Hon. C. J. Chepais, Commis-
missioner of Public Works—Hon. Oliver Mowatt,
Postmaster-General—Hon. James Cockburn, Soli-
tor-General, C.W.—Hon. Mr Langevin, Solicitor-
General, C.E.—and the Hon. William M'Dougall,
Provincial Secretary.
The Governor-General will hold a drawing room
in the Parliament House to-morrow, and a grand
ball will be given in honour of the delegates from
the maritime provinces, on Friday evening, in the
same building.
The Rossin House, which was burnt down in the
autumn of 1862, is at last to be rebuilt. For this
purpose an influential company has been organised,
and all the stock, with the exception of £B,OOO, has
been subscribed. The prospectus mentions that
the total coat of reconstruction will not exceed
96,000 dols. An offer has been made to rent and
furnish the hotel by a responsible citizen.
A collision has lately taken place on Lake Erie.
When off Fairpoint, the propeller Ogdensburgh,
with four passengers and a crew of 28 persons, was
ran into by the schooner Snow Bird and sunk. She
was laden with flour and grain, which, together
with the vessel
fortunately saved.
f were insured. All on board were

Indications of coal oil are said to exist in the
neighbourhood of Hamilton city, in that portion of
Barton township lying between Albion Mills and
Limestone Hill, Boring is being
vigorously prose-
cuted under the direction of Mr Fiskett, of Ennis-
killen notoriety. It is thought by some that the
region referred to w:11 equal the " Oil Springs',
themselves in productiveness.
Seven of the persons who were engaged in the
Lake Erie piratical raid are said to have been ar-
rested at St, Catherines, C. W., by order of the At-
torney-General. They will be delivered up to the
United States authorities in conformity with the
Extradition Treaty.
We have had a very heavy fall of snow in Que-
bec, an unusual thing at this season of the year.
The indictment preferred against Birney, the
engine driver of the train on the occasion of the late
Belveil accident, has been ignored by the Grand
Jury at the Montreal Assizes.

QUEBEC, Oct. 12,

It is understood that the resolution declaring the
desirability of a Federal Union was unanimously
adopted by the Convention yesterday.
The second resolution, it is said, if Confederation
succeed, contemplates the jurisdiction of general
subjects to the Federal Government, and of local
subjects to the Provincial Government, and the
admission of the North West Territory, Columbia,
and Vancouver's Inland.

Oct. 14.
The Canadian Union conference meets with.