The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-04 00:00:00

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Dent. Consols
uo. Account, Oct. 8 94/
3 per Cent. Reduced 921 f
New 3 per Cent 92 f
New 2f per Cent. Jan. 1894 761
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Innuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan. 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telet,raph), Au,., 1908 —
March June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 2 per Ct — pm —pm
Do £5OO —pm —pm
Do. £lOO & £2OO 2B pm pin
Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent
Do. Account
INDIAN LIOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1.180
Do. 4' per Cent., Oct. 1883
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 5/ per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. 5 per Cant., Rep. Deb., 187.2 —
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
Doi Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
Do. under £1,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent _
A,ustrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 4f per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
..io. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do Account 741 3} 4
Do. £lOO Bonds
Buoaos Ayres 6 per Cent
Dl 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cabe., 6 per Cent.
Cailian 6 per Cent 99}

Do. 4} per Cent —
Uo. 6 per Cent., B •
Do., 1867
Do., Scrip, £64 paid
Do., 7 per Cent., 1866
Do., Scrip, £2O paid
0,1 mbiau, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 ner Cent., 1825
Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent —
Do 8 per Cent., 1.67 —
E tuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
,4,,-yptian,7 per Cent —
Do. Sec, Ltd Issue —
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Uo. Do. 1864
Do. .£5 ',O Bowls B3f 41
Do. £IOC Bonds Bs} 61
Uo Government Railway Debentures B6± 6 1 51 61
..rsek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do. Account

Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent .. —
Italian 5 per Oct t., 1865 —
Do, Account
Do. Maremmana Railway
Maxicaz 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
Do. 1861
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French
Ilontevideau 6 per Cent. . —
litoorish Imperial 5 per Cent
Now Granada
Do 3 per Oen —
Do. Deferred

Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
PeruTian 5 per Cent. 1865 —
Do Account 67 6f
per Cent., 1865
Do 4
Do 4
per Cent. (llribarren)
Do 4.1 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6,'7, '9,'60,'2,'3 391
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B5
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds —
Du. do. £B4 15s. do.
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds B6l 31 61 1
Do. do. £B4 15s. do —
S.irdinian, 5 per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Cent —
Do Acc,Junt
Do New Deferred —
Do Account
Do Passive
Do Accieunt
Do Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do Account
:urkish 6 per Cont., 1854
Do Account -
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Do .£lOO Bonds
Do. 1833
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
DJ Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 5Ol
D ) 4 por Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. —
D , Account -t._
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in Louaot.
Austrian 0 per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 41 por cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch if per °Rut. Ex. 12 Gail
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... B5l
French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251.
Ibiliat, 5 per (lent. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 46 51 6

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THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 94i 1
Do. Account, Oct. 8

711 E ALLEGED ASSASSINATION IN
BLOOMSBURY.

We regret to state that on inquiry at the Uni-
versity Hospital to-day with respect to the condition
of M'Donnell, the report of the surgeon was very
unfavourable. The wounded man had passed a
quiet night, but some very unfavourable symptoms
had begun to develop themselves. M'Donnell also
is in a very low and desponding condition ; and,
unfortunately, the hopes that were at one time held
out for his recovery have now become very faint
indeed.

The Alleged Death from Noxious Vapour
on the Metropolitan Railway.

THIS DAY.

Dr. Lancaster this morning attended at the Ele-
phant and Castle, King's-road, Camden Town, to
proceed with the investigation on the body of Eliza-
beth Stainsby, whose death, it was said, had been
caused by the noxious vapour generated in the tun-
nel of the Metropolitan Railway. The inquiry had
been adjourned in order that certain scientific
witnesses might examine into the condition of
the air in the tunnel, and the witnesses he (the
Coroner) was prepared to call were perfectly ready
to go on, but, as it had been intimated to him that
those gentlemen who had been engaged by the Rail-
way Company to examine and report upon the
matter had not concluded their experiments, he
should therefore again adjourn the inquiry until
the 30th instant.

SALE OF FAT STOCK AT MENTHoRE.—There
was a large attendance of dealers and butchers at
thi sale of fat stock on Wednesday at Mentmore, the seat
of Baron Meyer do Rot:160blld. The beasts wero smaller

than those usually sold at the baron's sales in former years.
There were 50 lots of prime fat half-bred wethers, ditto
beeves, ditto ewes, and fat down ditto, the whole realising
nearly £9OO, averaging 51s. per sheep ; butchers from
Aylesbury, Luton, Leighton, and other parts being the
greatest purchasers. Sixty-two lots of prime fat Here-
ford oxen, Welsh runts, shorthorn oxen, and other boasts,
made over £1,200, averaging per beast £2O 10s.; the price
of sheep computed at from 4s. Bd. to ss. per stone of 81b.,
the bullocks at fully ss. per stone. Mr. Slater, of Kensing-
ton, was one of the largest purchasers, buying 17 bullocks
for more than £4OO.

ATTACK ON A VOLUNTEER ARMOURY.--On Wed-
nesday morning a most audacious attack was made by a
body of men, supposed to be Fenians, upon the armoury and
ammunition magazine of the Harrow Rifle Volunteer Corps
(the 18th Middlesex). This armoury is in a barn on the
farm of Mr. Chapman, at Roxteth, close to the town of Har-
row. The family of Mr. Chapman were aroused at about
3 o'clock on Wednesday morning by the explosion of fire-
arms, and on examining the barn it was found the door had
been blown off. The volunteers in tho neighbourhood were
promptly under arms for the defence of their arms, and the
police searched the neighbourhood for the perpetrators o
this serious offence. It is stated that several suspicious
characters have been seen during the past week hanging
about the neighbourhood, where, as may be expected, the
greatest excitement prevails.

CURIOUS CHICKENS.—A favourite hen of • the
Dorking breed was accustomed to lay its eggs in a pig-stye,
but day by day the eggs were carefully removed for fearof
the pig devouring them. At length the hen began to show
the usual signs of incubation, and as she went clucking
about the stye the proper proprietor producod a litter of
pigs. Instantly the hen became possessed with the notion
that the adoption of these strange progeny would satisfy
her maternal cravings, consequently she took possession of
them, spread her wings over as many of them as she could
gather under her, and fluttered about in a state of joyful
excitement. This she continued to do for nearly three
weeks, until the poor hen was nearly stripped of feathers
from the little pigs poking and rubbing in and out between
her wings., and very nearly exhausted. It was a very
curious sight to see her hoisted between two of her pro-
geny, or, a little later, seated on one of their backs, frantic
with apprehension, as they rushed round the stye in the
enjoyment of their different gambols, utterly regardless of
the frightened clucking of their adopted mother.—People's
Magazine.