The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-23 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The market has been rather quiet. Prices, how,
ever, are well maintained, good common congou being
quoted 120. to 13d. per lb.
suGAR.—The dealings, which have been extensive, wore
prn
•acip aHyof a speculative character, and prices exhibited
a further improved tendency for good hnd fine descriptions
of West India. In the refined market higher rates are also
current, common testers being quoted 47 per cwt.
COFFEE.—Only a moderato business has been done, and,
both Plantation and Native Ceylon continuo at about pre..
vious rates.

RICE •—• The market has been very dull: without any
material change to record on values.
TALLOW.—Business has been rather inactive, quota-
tions, however, continue steady, P.Y.C. on the spot being
445, 6d., December 445., and spring delivery 458, per cwt.
•

Bank of England Return,---Yesterday.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 21st day
ct Oct., 1863:

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
:Notes issued ........28.577.215' Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 13,927,245
Silver Bullion ....

£28,577,215

£28,577,244

BANKING D
Proprietors' Capi-
tal ............. 414,553.000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

,EPARTMICNT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weigh tAn-
nuity) £10.945,363
Other Securities 19.986,156
Notes
Gold and Silver 718,024
Coin

counts) 4,417,83i
Other Deposits— 15,271,262
Seven Day and
other Bills 747,101

....--......,........•
X 38,149,724

£33,149.723
M. 1

,RSHALL, Chief Caslaez

Oct. 22, 1863.

SHIPPING—This Day.

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LONDON, Oct. 23.—Wind this day at
West; light breeze, and fine weather.
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BY ELECTRIC TELEGRA„%aiday
0011— North.
Morning.
PLYMOUTII, X
, .. Company's screw
The East India and London SniPP‘a Bird, which left
steamship Golden Fleece, Commans„ed the Nore on Wed••
Gravesend on Tuesday, at 2 p.m., on
~ Thursday, at $• a.m ;
nesday, at 7 ran., and the WilP—evening in a dead calm,
was off Plymouth at 6 the samedo and Calcutta,
ISlginient ; Sir Percy Douglas
r.. 1 118 passeners, among
under full steam, bound t:
She hr.s a ful trgneral wire jr&c:Tod lope, Major Lord
whom there are, tor the ,-,a
Richard H. Browne 96r!A d family, and several other
1 ...._,I an
and family, Captain Nei!
military officers.
AGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
22_Adelaide, from 'Minorca ; Minstrel Morning.
(I 3 " G
Ny;in; Windermere, from
RAVESEND Friday
Oct
Boy, from tow Cronstadt. QUebeo ; Cruiser
Arrived,
and Nautilus, _

REA.I4, Friday Morning.
passed' Oct. 22—Gustave `Pala, screw steamer, from
in screw steamer, for Bordeaux; Tan tivy,
Falmouth—both lions London •
, MellmuneTrader, from
fg'iriields, for Plymouth,
A.actiored—kookalin, schooner, from Shields, for China.
west,k.l(TdrL ova
tid
be nj

uiugTuesday night THE COAL PIT ACCIDENT AT COLEORTON, NEAR
DLEICESTER.--DISCOVERY OF THE MISSING BODIES.
the men who were engaged in making
rdescents of the Califat No. 2 pit at Colrorton, which was
in
undated about a fortnight since by the giving way of a
" coal wall," came across the bodies of the two missing men
(Jeremiah Rose and Thomas Bird). They were discovered
about
700 yards from the bottom of the shaft, up the incline
towards where the breach was made into the old Linby
Hall workings. They were close to each other, and Bose
was in a sitting position, with Bird's head resting in hislap.
They had evidently betaken themselves to that positi,cn
when the lights became extinguished, and, all hopes of
escape being ;despaired of, they sat themselves down in an
exhausted state. It is possible that they
may have died
from the effects of the foul air or "choke dames but it
would seem, from the above circumstances, that they died
from sheer exhaustion. The inquest on the two bodies
took place yesterday, and was adjourned to a future da'e.