The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-19 00:00:00

Do. 1859 CI•
Brazilian 5 per Cent lOOl
`)o. li per Cent., 1859 —
Do. do. 1858..... —
Do. do., 1860 —
Do. do., 1863 69
De. 5 per Cent., 1865
t)o Accoun'
B..enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
1)o 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Cu'ia, 6 per Cent.
C.Alian 6 per Cent —
r,o. 4i per Cent —
Do. 3 per Cent.,
Lo. 6 per co-t. 1867 9's
t o. 7 per Cent., 1866
C lo nbian, 6 per Cent.
Dan sn, 3 per Cont. 1825
Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent —
Do 8 per Cent., 1867
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
Egyptian, 7 per Cent •••
Do Second Issue ••
D0...f5A Bonds —

Do. .£IOJ Bonds
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Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. X 590 Bonds -
Do. -£lO6 Bonds 9Ol
English Scrip,-1868, 7l
Do do. do. .£45 pd —
Government It tilway Debritures 951 f
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups —
Do. Acccunt
.Do. Coupons
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Do. Account
...
Guatemala 5 per Cent .. —
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., lop. Ct., all pd
It.) intu 5 pet Cert., 1860 —
,)o. Account .
Do th,rommana liailway —
ilexicai.-. 3 per Cent -
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do A per Cent. Anglo-French —
4 ontevidean 6 per Cent.
doorish Imperial 5 per Cent
Sew Granada l5
Do 3 per Cem 36
Do. Deferred
P,ot,iguese 3 per fit., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2,'s 36}
Do. do. 1867 —
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, .#: St
Do 41 per Cent , 1859
Di 11 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO 80ndE.,,,, 901
Do. do. I'B4 13s. d 0...,
Do., 1866, .£lOO Bonds
Do. do £B4 13s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway ... 66k
Sardinian 5 per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Cen .:.• ----
Do. Acc~unt
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred —
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded ...
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864

Do do, 1868
Do do, Scrip
Turkish 6 per Cent.
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
• Do 6 per Cent., 1862
DO Account
Do XIOC Bonds 64
Do 5 per (feat. 1865
Account
Do G per Cent., 1860 GO
Do 4 per Cont., Guaranteed
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. loc.:nit
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Do 6 per Cont., 1862
Dividends on the above payable iu Loud°,
Austrian o psr Gent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian. 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.

Dutch 2* por °Ant. Ex. 12 Gull„
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
Do. Account
French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
It ditty, 5 per Gent. 1831, 25f.
DJ Account 531
CLOSING PRICES
Cort o!s, Money 92,1
Do. Account, Feb. 4 .. 92/

-RAIL TVA Y COLLISION A 7 TVALLIA.II-

GREEN-THIS DAY.

This morning, between twelve and one o'clock,
considerable sensation was created in the neigh-
bourhood of Walham-green, in consequence of a
fearful collision of railway carriages filled with
passengers. The station-master and other offi-
cials had the passengers extricated as soon as pos-
sible. Surgical aid was sent for, and promptly
attended, and the injured persons were conveyed
to their homes after their injuries had been seen to.
Mrs. Morgan, a lady from Sheffield, who was on a
v:sit to her friends at Clifton Villa, Camden-square,
was found to have had both legs broken, besides
other injuries. She was taken to St. George's
Hospital.

A 3/.4 DEC A 1317 A 7 ED ON THE METRO•
POLITAN RAILWAY.—(This Day.)

This morning the headless body of a young man
named George Whittington, a platelayer, aged
eighteen, was found on the metals at the Praed-
street junction of the Metropolitan Railway.
It appears that the unfortunate young man
was at seven o'clock this morning sent by his
ganger to screw up some of the rails. The
ganger finding he did not return to breakfast
became anxious, and went in search of him. On
arriving at the junction he saw the body of the
deceased lying across the metals of the down
lines, with the head entirely severed from the body.
At the crossing one of the boots of deceased was
found, giving rise to a suspicion that the deceased,
in endeavouring to escape train, had caught his
foot against one of the rails. The mutilated body
was conveyed to St. Mary's Hospital, where, iu
addition to the decapitation, it was found that
both legs were broken. The body awaits the
inquest.

THE HAMBURG-AMERICAN COMPANY AND THE
UNITED STATES MAILS.—A memorial, of which the fol-
lowing is a copy, has been signed by some of the London
merchants, and presented to the First Lord of the Trea-
sury :—London, 7th January, 1869. Sir,—We wish to
draw your attention to the extraordinary conduct of the
Post-office as regards the new arrangements for the mails
to the United States. The arrangements existing in
11368 for the despatch of the mails on Monday by
the Bremen boats, on Wednesday by the Inman
boats, and on Saturday by the Cunard boate, have
been continued for 1869, and very properly. On the
other hand they have not renewed the contract with
the Hamburg-American Company, whose boats left every
Friday, and which are among the very fastest afloat, and
they have concluded a new contract with the Cunard
Company for a mail by their slow cargo boats on Tues-
day. If these latter were capable of performing the voy-
age with anything like reasonable speed, there would be
nothing to be said on the subject, except that the sum
paid for the service was exorbitant, being, we under-
stand, some £30,000 a year (in addition to the sum
paid for th 3 Cunard New York service); but when
we sae this large sum given for the conveyance of
mails by slow cargo boats, we can only say that it is a
scandalous waste of public money. And this becomes
still more evident, when it appears that the contract
with the Cunard Company, and the Inman Halifax
are the only ones where a fixed sum is paid —all the other
contracts f .r the American mail service are paid for the
weight actually carried ; thus the mercantile public send
more letters by the fast boats than by the slow boats ; so
that every other line, being paid for according to the ex-
cellence of its work, has every inducement to maintain a
high rate of speed, which is entirely wanting in the case
of the Cunard Company ; indeed, in the case of their slow
cargo boats for the Tuesday's service, they cannot at-
tain a high rate of speed if they tried, and the mails
sent by the Inman boats on Wednesday will always
reach their destination before those sent by the
Cunard slow cargo boats on Tuesday. The steamers
of the Hamburg American Company are, as above
stated, amongst the very fastest afloat; and leaving
Southampton for New York every Friday, they offered a
most desirable opportunity for the mercantile community
to avail themselves of ; but for reasons known only to the
Post-office officials they have no contract for the mails
this year, and have consequently gone to Havre instead
of Southampton as their port of call—thus those inte-
rested in the trade have the mortification of seeing these
fast and sidendid ships driven from a British port, solely
through the perversity of the Post-cffice. It is right
to add, that the mails of the United States from New
York to this country aro carried by most of the same
strainers as those employed by the British Post-
offi2e, but the United St des Poet office pays only
fifte,.n cents currency (about sixpence sterling) per oz.,
whilst the British Post-office pays one shilling per oz.
to the Bremen and Inman direct New York line, and a
large fixed sum to the Canard line and the Inman Halifax
line. From this it is evident that the rates paid by the
British Post-office are at least double those paid by the
United States Post-office for the same services. It would
be a great boon to those interested in the American trade
if the Hamburg-American CJinpany could be induced to
resume the weekly voyages from Southampton, carrying
the Friday morning mails, and we presume that they
would be willing to do so on reasonable terms, especially
as this company actually has the mail contract for 1869
with the United States Government, bringingthe Tuesday
mail from New York.—We are, your obedient servants.