The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-21 00:00:00

buoyant tone prevails in all departments. The
cause of this change is of course due to the better
feeling engendered in monetary circles, and the
hope that effAirs will continue to progress. Consols
for money are 883- I, and for the account 881 89.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 861
87; March Exchequer Bills, 9s to 6idis., and June
do., 18s to 128 dis.; India 5 per Cents., 1044 d ;
and Enfaced 5 per Cents., 100.

The Foreign Market presents a much firmer ap-
pearance, although there is very little business in
operation. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, arc 69/ e ;
do. Consolides, 49.4- ; Mexican, 26 ; do. New,
24a b ; Greek, 21a ; Spanish Passive, 29 ; do.
Certificates, 13 1; Portuguese, 46i ; and the
Confederate Lean, 61 65.
LI the Railway Share Market business has been
rather dull, Lu. quotations generally are well sup.
ported. Cr .at Western and Lancashire and York-
shire have each improved ss. ; and Great Eastern
and North Western each 10s. Caledonian, how-
ever, have declined 51.

The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no
material alteration.

B.tnk and Miscellanecus Shares are in several
instances rather firmer. Alliance being dealt in at
33 36; European at 831 9; London and Brighton
at ; London Joint Stock at 411-; Union of
London at 501 ; Hudson Bay Company lit 151 15t ;
General Credit at 61 ; Joint Stock Discount at
41 5; and N ttional Discount at 121 13.

BRITIISU FUNDS—CLOSNG PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
IDo Account, Nov. 12 BB4 9
3 per Cent. Reduced B9l 4
New 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire bth J an., 1880 —
1)o for 30 yrs, expire .sth April, 1685 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1C)06

March. June.
Exchequer Bills' £l,OOO, 4 & 31 per Cent. 6 9 12 18
Do £5OO

Do £lOO and £2OO ..
Bank England &a, öi p©r Ct.

Do Acc-ount
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Endiq Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1871 —
Do 'Account
Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888

1-)o Certificates
Do Account —
Do 1 pei Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) —
Do 4± pei Cent.
Do Enlaced Paper, 4 per (Ant
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879
Do 4 per Cent., Aug. .1695
Do bonds t 1.000
Do under £1,000..

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
lustrian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ..... ...
Do ,1863
Baenos Avres 6 per, Cent —
Do Account....
Jhqian 6 per Cent. lOO
Do 41 per Cent
olombian 6 per Cent —
lila, 6 per Cent. -
1/o 5 per Cent. 1864
Danish 3 per Cent.' 1825 -
Do 5 per Cent, 1864
tilqualor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent ---
Do, Provisonal Land Warrant —
Egyptian 7 per Cent —
Do, Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds
Grzek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Do Account

Do Coupons 9
Do Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent

Do 1839 and 1859 .......
Italian 5 per Ceut.(Mareuainaua Railway)
&lexicon 3 per Cent ....
Do Account
Do 1564..
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo• French
Ditto Scrip, £33 paid
Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis x d
.ioorish imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Do 2 per Cent.
Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1864 —
Do do Aug., 1866 —
Peruvian 41 per Cent. , .
Do 3 per Cent. (17ribarren).. -

Do 4i per Cent:, 1862
Do Account

Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account „ 461
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '60,.62,'3„ 46! I
Do Account $ 9604 -
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 41 per Cent., 1850 ., 81
Do 1860
Do 3 per Cent 1859 —
Po 5 per Cent, 1862
Do Anglo-Dutch ..-„.
Do Scrip, £55 paid
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Do Account B2l

Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Account
Do Passive
Do Account 292
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. —
Do Account ..
Swedish, 4 per Cent ..
Do Scrip, £6O paid pm
Curkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account 6B
Do £lOO Bonds
1)o 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds.. .
. 701 70
Do 1863
. .

Do Guaratteed, 4 per Cent.
Do 1863 Scrip, £lO paid
Venezuela 3 per Cvut.
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Po Account 551
Do 6 per Cent,, 1861. Cit
Dividends on the above payable in London,
Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins.
Belgian 4i per Cent., Ex. 25f
Dutch 21i per Cent., Ex. 12 Ouil.,
Do 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Writes, 2 per Cent
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex 25 francs.. E-1$
Do Account 641
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. Is.
Piedmontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 251

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Do Account

The Gold Diggings in Vancouver's Island,

The steamer Alexandria arrived last evening
from Sooke, and was the happy bearer of the most
gladsome intelligence to ail interested in the future
of this country which it has yet been our good
fortune to piece before our readers. No sooner had
the steamer hauled alongside than the announce-
ment flew round of a 70 dollar nugget being on
board, and that good diggings had been struck on
Leech river, This splendid specimen of gold ap
pears to be entirely pure. It is of an oval shape
with a smooth surface, and about the size of a small
hen's egg. Oa being weighed it was declared to
contain 4oz. 6dwts., or 73 dollars 20 cents. On
Saturday last four men, named Samuel Booth,
George Munro, John Tyril, and William Dyer, call..
ing themselves the " Industry Company," left Vic-
toria by the Enterprise, and reached the Forks of
Sooke and Leech rivers on Monday at noon, They
proceeded by mistake to the Lakes whence the
Suoke river takes its rise, and returned to the Forks,
camping that night about half a mile up Leech
river. On Tuesday morning early, Booth and
Alunro started up the creek to prospect. They went
up about three miles, until they reached a steep
canyon, through which the water rushed with great
rapidity, and, finding it difficult to get through,
they retraced their steps t.o the camp. Hearing
that good prospects were obtained close by, they
then prospected the right bank of the river, about
a mile from the Forks. A pick was struck into
the slate rock on the right bank, and, at about the
depth of six inches, they struck a magnificent oval
shaped nugget of pure gold, comiuted to be of the
value of 75 doll. Munro hastened back with the
miner's licensee, to his companions, Tyril and Dyer,
who were left in charge, and, during his absence
(about an hour and a hall), they had washed out
about 15 dols:more of the same coarse gold. Munro
and Booth then Lurried down Sooke river to come
to Victoria for provisions.—Briiish Colonist (Vic.
toria. August 4.)

GENTIO.T, ROSECTANZ AND TUE LADIES.—In tt
special order issued lately from Missouri head-quarters,
General Rosecranz intimates that he has got possession of
the letters of some young ladies, and states what he intends
to do wish them : —" The letters of Miss Bryant and Miss
Mayfidd will be published to warn thoughtful parents and
teachers, whether Christian or not, of the tearful downward
course of the youth of our Etate, when educated girls of
respectable parents write such letters, and express sympa-
thy wiih cutlaws, thieves, end murderers, more degraded
than the savages who murder the inhabitants of our fron-
tier settlements,"