The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-27 00:00:00

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

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Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9l-3- A
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 921- 1
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock .. -
_Ditto 3 per Cent .
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 5 per Cent
'Mao Debentures, ISSS 96
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO —
Oitto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account, Nov. S 92:4 1
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lld
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent ........ • .. --- .
Ditto Vs per 'Cent. 1560 Ssi
Mexican per Cent 2l
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SD!
Sardinian 5 per Cent...........
Spanish 3 per Cent...... ...........
Ditto New Deferred
ct 97 tl.
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded.. ..... of
Turkish 6 per r',nt . .
Ditto Account ......
701
...... 4
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Ditto A-coot:tut
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 3 per. Ex. 251 ... 65f. 25e.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Console, Money 921 924
Ditto Account
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TRANSMISSION OF WEEEAT.—The American ad-
vices report a further increase of activity in the transmis-
sion of wheat from the West under the influence of another
rise equal to about is. 6d, per quarter at New York. On
the whole there is every sign that our dealers will find, as
on former occasions, that they have hitherto undorreb:,d
the extraordinary capability of the United States to send
us supplies. In other respects there is no importcnt intel-
ligence. The money-market remains easy, specie is accu-
mulating, and confidence in the restored railway traffic is
well maintained. The formal completion of the first sec-
tion of the Atlantic and Groat Western line, which is ulti-
mately to connect the Erie Railway with the entire
networarail-
of the west and south, was to take place on
They lst of next month. According to the New York Tri-
&tile the remainder of the work is being rapidly pushed,
and,
"so far as finished, it has been well done in every re-
spect."
GOLD COINAGE IN AMERICA.—The experiment
of a small gold coinage in America appears to have ended
the dollar pieces were first intro-
unsatisfactorily.
duced, shortly afteli%:tnheenCalifornian discoverte,, they wer
eagerly sought in.all quarters and since that' period thee
Off at the various mints has
value of the quantity struck
amounted to an aggregate of L 3,600,000. But they arr,
at
now so unpopular fromgteheir smallness that they pour
rapidly back into the hands of the Government toll actors
•
and the Secretary of the Treasury has just ordered 1600,C00
worth to be remelted and converted intoi double eagles. It
is expected, therefore, that no more will be issued. They
are especially annoying, it is said, to the Custom-house and
Sub-Treasury officials, since, whenever any amounts are
exchanged, they must be collated one by one, the facility
with which they can be counterfeited and tampered with
rendering it unsafe to determine their number by weight.
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IRON-PLATED SHIPS.—On Wednesday evening
Admiralty issued letters to the following iron-ship
building firms, calling on them to send in tenders on or
before the sth of November for the construction of two
iron-cased frigates, viz. :—Messrs. Samuda, Messrs. West-
wood, Baillie, Campbell, and Co., and the Thames Yard
Company, all of London; Messrs. Napier and Co., of
Glasgow; Messrs. Laird, of Birkenhead; and Messrs.
Palmer, of the Tyno. These two new ships are to be as
nearly as possible similar to the Warrior, now in the course
of building. The ship which it is intended to construct at
Chatham dockyard will be also of the same class.—Army
told Navy Gazette.
SERIOUS 13oILER EXPLOSION.—About one o'clock
Yesterday afternoon three men were seriously injured by
the explosion of a boiler, in the waggon shop of the Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire Railway Company's locomotive
works, at Miles Platting, near Manchester. The boiler
was ono of a pair of 30-horse power horizontally fixed.
Each is about 23 feit long and 6 feet diameter, and manu-
factured by the company. The one which burst (both ends
_giving way) was the one nearest the engine, which was j 118 i
1 ug stFrted aniz after tae Mauer hour,