The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, J ULY 21, 1869

JOINT-STOCK B ANKS.

Closing Business
Share NAME. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 104 1i 1
19 Do B lO 24 34
50 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 201 214
20 Anglo-Hungarian 8 11 2 9i
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 .51 41
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 10 12
20 Do issued at 2 pm....., 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lim.
25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39
10 Bank of New Zealand all 16 17
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, .nd China all 13 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India
London, and China. all 32 31 30 }
20 City 1 ) 11 12 111
100 Colonial '2s 38 41
10 Consolidated, lim
50 Delhi and London, lim
50 East London, lim
20 English and American, lira 10 ... ..•
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro, lim . 10 pr 1p
20 English, Scottish, and Ails.
tralian Chartered - all 64 17 101
281 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation ~ all 36 33
281 Do n0w......... 54 2/ 24
100 Imperial, Una 2O 15 16
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 21 zi 13} i
s 5 lonian. all 19 22
25 Do new 5 6 3
Lad Mortgge of India, lira 4 04 31 i
100 Dos p. c. Debs.l36l, 30 all 76 76 80
100 London Banki of Mexico
and South America, lira. 20 7 6 in
100 London and Brazilian, lira. 45 30 27
20 Do new 71 0 41
100 London & River Plate, lim. 40 6 8
25 Do new 10 If 2 p 114
20 London Chart. of Australia all 2s; 2.if
20 London and C0unty........, 20 491 001
50 Do now, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd. II ... ..
London Joint 5t0ck........, 1 311 324
Loudon and South African al 8; 9 t
100 London &S.-Western, lira, 20 13 11
50 London & Venezuela, Km_ 121 . ...
100 London and Westminster. 20 61 62
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O ... ...
100 Merchant, lim 25 6 5
10 Metropolitan, lim all 7/ 74
00 Midland, lim .
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lim l5 3d 1p
00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ...
10 Do . . 42 ... ... 41
50 National. 3O ... ..
20 New South Wales all 41 43
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 4 t 42
50 Provine. Bank. Corpo., lira lO 61 51
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 9) 92
10 Do new, all ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, Ihn 25 14 1 i
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 47 ti
100 Union of Ireland, lim
110 Union of Loadou l3 371 381

TILE GREAT METEOR.

The great meteor which Mr. Herschel described in the
Times on Monday was seen by the Duke of Argyll. His
Grace writes to the Times :—" On last Friday night I hap-
pened to be looking at the sky at the moment of the
appearance of the great meteor which is described by Mr.
Herschel. As the night was clear, I had an unusually
perfect view of the whole course of the meteor. It began
in a thin streak of red sparks, very liken common rocket, but
as it advanced, which it did with immense velocity, the light
became more and more brilliant until it rose to that of an
intense white heat.' It gave off jets or sputterings of
light along the whole of its Course, and from both sides of
its body. These were partictilarly remarkable when the
meteor was at its maximum of splendour. Its disappear-
ance was extremely sudden, as if its substance were
wholly consumed. For a second there was left a train of
sparks. I could hear no sound. It began not far from
the zenith, and the dirt;ction of its path was from N.N.W
to S.S.E., but the whole course was very short."
Another observer of the meteor writes :—" Its path was
not continuously illuminated, but appeared broken, for
quite half the length of its flight, into a train of brilliant
sparks. Its termination was marked by an explosion and
a display of incandescence which lighted up the objects
around us as in full moonshine. The smaller meteoric
bodies into which the principal mass became divided were
very quickly extinguished, end I looked in vain for the
luminous track in the heavens which sometimes lingers
after these brighter kinds of meteoric displays."