The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-26 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Tay.

1, The market opened rather steady.
'ably about 5,000 bales.

Sales pro

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A PRISONER.—On Sunday
:I'ening Eli Sykes, who was sentenced last Tuesday
the Leeds gaol delivery to death for the murder of
Hannah Brook, his sweetheart, and Sarah Brook, her
140ther, at Batley, near Dewsbury, made a violent attempt
thel emiiniit suicide in Leeds Gaol. The chaplain of the
hson, after an interview with him, had left the door of
:Icell open. The prisoner took advantage of this, and
14(ienly rushed out in spite of the efforts of a turnkey to
!atrain him. He passed rapidly up the corridor, ascended
lawas stairs to the uppermost balcony, and threw himself
:aadlong into the area below. As his legs are fractured
little' his head and other parts of his person greatly injured,
,0 hope is entertained of his recovery. This case bears
life similarity to that of Victor Townley, who took the
4cocif the lady who had rejected his suit, and, after sen-
koa of death had been commuted, killed himself in the
• attempted by tho culprit at Leeds.

PREFERENCE titiAttie:.
Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 5 per cent. pm., 106}
Great Western Orig. 4i per cent pf., 91
PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
Great Eastern 4a per cent. pr.,
Ditto, 5 p -r cent., 95
London and S.-Western 4i per cent., 97}
LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL S
Chester and Holyhead, 55e
London and Chatham, 4i per p Cent., 88
London and Qreenwich,
Ditto, Preference. 110
Midland, Bradford Pref. Stock, 92
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Great Luxembourg, 161
Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 10i

FOkLEIGN MINER.
Frontino and Bolivia G'old,"lim.,l2e
Scottish Australian, um. a

BANKS.
Agra and Masterman's, Bra., 57} 8
Alliance, Hut.. 291
Bank of London. 141
Consolidated Bank, Um., 101
Imperial Ottoman, 14
London and Brazilian film.), 49}
Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, lira., 6}
Union of Australia, 54/ it
Union of London, 541

DOCKS.
London and St. Katharine, 79i
Ditto, Debenture Stock, 89
MISCELLANEOUS.
Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 31 2t
City of London Real Property, ,im., 4
Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England, 81
Crystal Palace, F 5
Fore-street Warehouse, lim., ilk
Gen. Credit and inance of London, lim..
Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lim., 71
International Financial;:iociety. lim., 61
Interational Lr.nd Credit, lim..
Joint Stock Discount, lim., 9 8/
London General Omnibus Company, lim., 3i
Ottoman F;nanciA A esoc;aton, 121
Overend, Gurney, and im., Zit
Peninsula and Oriental Co.,iteam, 74
Quebrada Land, and Mining, lim., 41
Royal Mail Steam, 110}

Mrs. Governor W. L. Marcy, and her son-in-
law, E. H. Pendleton, and family, of Cincinnati, are
spending the winter at Nice.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT EASTERN
RAILWAY.—A very serious accident• occurred at the St
Ives station on Saturday morning to an official named
William Lambert, who was at the time engaged in un-
coupling the trucks of a goods train on one of the sidings.
Lambert was in the act of passing under the buffers when he
tripped and fell. His foot eaught against the metals, and
the train being in motion the flat part of the wheel passed
over his foot, crushing it into the earth. The poor fellow
was taken to his home, where ho was attended by Dr.
Adams and Dr. Doane, who are endeavouring to save his
foot from amputation. Lambert is a tall man, and his real
duty was signalman at the station; he had nothing to do
with the coupling of trucks. He is the father of a large
family, and to make the case more distressing one of his
children is not expected to live through the day,