The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-06 00:00:00

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Do. Scrip, £6O paid ' dis
Turkish 6 per Cont. 1851 —
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Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do. Account - -- 6
Do £lOO Bonds I .
Do. Account . 4.,:.....
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
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Do Account
Do £lOO Bond
Do 6 per Cent.,
Do b per Cont., 1865
Do. Account 3Ol 301 11 301
Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 —
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed —
`T,,nozcola 3 per Cont. -
Do A:100 Bonds
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i ) ,-, . 6 per Cent, 1862 —
Ditto II per Cent. •• —
Dividends ou tho above payable iu Londou.
Awitoisn, 5 ror Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
INgian, 4} per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 'i* per o.ut. Ex. 12 Gni!, —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... ....... al —
French Itentes, 4per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Italian 3 r,r Cont. 18 il, Ex. 251.
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THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money 90!
I) Account

COITESE OF EXCHANGE.--I ast Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 16
Ditto 3 Months. 11 181
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 35
Brussels — 25 35 •
Hamburg — 13 81
Paris
Ditto 8 Months. 45 321
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1191
Vienna — 13 10
Trieste — 13 i 211
Petersburgn
Berlin
Madrid — 47
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples — 26 80
Palermo
Messina

11 17
H 19
11 19
25 40
25 40
13 9
25 20
25 40
25 40
120
18 15
13 17i
311
6 26

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481
26 90
26 90
26 90
2G 90
26 90
26 90

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(By Electric Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Sailed, Feb. 6—lnternational, for Canaries ; Albert Ed-
ward, for Port Philip ; Cid, steamer, for Bilboa ; Albion,
steamer, for Ostend.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Anchored—Roxburgh Castle, from Trinidad, for London;
Corcyra, screw steamer, from London, for Malta.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENClL—(rliis Day.)—An
arrangement was come to this morning between the parties
in the case of Kearns v. Storks, which prevented the
necessity of carrying on the suit, which has for the last
three days occupied the attention of the Court.
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE.-L-CAM-
BRIDGE, Tuesday Evening.—At a meeting of the Univer-
sity Boat Club this evening Mr. Griffiths, the president,
proposed that the usual challenge bo sent to Oxford, and
the proposition was carried ~with enthusiasm.
FALLING DOWN A PIT SIIAFT.—On Saturday,
at the West Silkstone Colliery, Robert Hoyland and Thomas
Mellor were in the act of being drawn out of the pit, and
when near the top of the shaft, from some unexplained
cause the engine reversed, the engine man lost all control
and the unfortunate men, with the chair, fell to the bottom
The arms and legs of one of them wore broken, and both
are frightfully mutilated.
LNCOME TAX ENLIGHTENMENT. —The income
tax returns are very suggestive and:-instructive as to the
general progress of the country in prosperity. From those
contained in the tenth report of the Commissioners (just
published) it appears that the increase of the value of lands,
&c. (comparing 1864 with 1853) has been at the rate of
1.16 per cent. per annum ; houses, 3.50 ; gas-works, 11.45
and railways, 7.57. On the other hand, the improvement
in profits of trades and professions in the same period has
been at the rate of 4.58 por cent. per annum. In Ireland
the improvement in this respect was only at the rate of .93
per cent. per annum.

SHOCKING MANSLAUGHTER BY A NEPHEW.—Lato
on Saturday night two brothers, named Colley, with a son
of ono of them, were- drinking in a public-house at Tib-
berton, a village near Worcester, where a quarrel arose
between the uncle, William, and the nephew Thomas.
They disputed on the way home, and on arriving there
the hither of Thomas took the part of his son against his
brother. A row ensued, in the course of which Thomas
took up a "dolly" and struck his uncle such a severe blow
on the head that he died from the effects yesterday
morning.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL -
WAY.—As the 10.30 goods train from Swansea to Ponty-
pool, on the Great Western line, was travelling at its ave-
rage rate of 12 miles an hour, on Saturday last, it met with
an unexpected accident. About seven miles from Merthyr,
and adjoining Quaker's-yard, there is a blind siding, to
which a new man, we aro informed, has been lately ap-
pointed. Ms duty was to lock the points to this blind sid-
ing, but this, it is stated, was not done, and in consequence
an aperture of half an inch was left. Into this aperture
the great wheal of the locomotive dashed, but in
passing through it broke the pivot of the point, and the
result was the points were at once firmly closed, and the
carriages sent along the main line. Then followed one of
the most singular accidents on record. Tho carriages, pre-
vented from following the locomotive, and thrown into the
right track, exercised a resisting power on the engine, and
running, as it were, at right angles, pulled the locomotive
on its side, just as a restive steed brought masterly to a
pause is not unfrequently thrown on its back. The poor
engine driver, Phythian, and Evans, the stoker, were
killed instantly, and for ten or eleven yards the locomotive
ploughed into the earth.—Cambrian Daily Leader.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The directors of
this company yesterday determined to recommend
to tho proprietors at the general meeting on the 23d inst.
to declare a dividend for the half-year to the 31st Decem-
ber last, at the rate of £8 per cent. per annum on the ori-
ginal stock of the company, giving for the half-year £1
per cent, to the original stock; £3 per cent. to the B stock ;
and £5 per cent. to the A stock. These rates will make
thO dividend for the whole year 1866 as follows, viz.:—
£6 10s. per cent. on the original stock ; £6 per cent. on
the B stock; and £7 per cont. on the A stock.
ACCIDENT ON THE STAGE.—A " ballerina" of the
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Tll E LATE CATASTROPHE OFF No RIKIFLEET. After
the lapse of there weeks, one of the bodies of the nine un-
fortunafa men who perished on the night on the 20th of
December, while proceeding in a small boat from Northfleet
to their vessel:, the Rose Winans cigar ship, has been
picked up. The recovery of this first body has given some
melancholy satisfaction to the relations of the other unfor-
tunate sufferers, as some fear was entertained that the
bodies might have been carried out to sea. The accident
happened, however, during the early part of the flood, and,
as the body was found higher up the river, it is believed that
the other remains will soon be cast up. As handsome
rewards aro offered for the recovery of the bodies, tho
boatmen have commenced dragging the river.
REPRESENTATION OF BOSTON.---Mr. T. Parry is
still the only candidate in the field to supply the vacancy
about to bo occasioned in the representation of Boston by
the retirement of Mr. M. Staniland. Mr. Parry is a mode-
rate Liberal. A requisition to Mr. Gourley, of Sunderland,
inviting that gentleman to come forward, has received a
considerable numborof signatures, and waste be forwarded
to Sunderland yesterday.
HOW TO GET MEASURED FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.—If
you want a shoo to fit you comfortably, next time you are
measured for a pair, stand upon a piece of paper, and get
the shoemaker to trace with pencil the outline of each foot ;
each foot, I say, because two feet aro never alike in size and
shape, though they belong to the same person. They are
more than right and left ; they aro unlike. Don't suppose
that you can bo measured for a pair by the most careful
measurement of one. Insist on having the outlines as well
as the girth and length of each foot taken, and then, if the
maker is an honest man, he will send home a pair of boots
which, with their turned-in toes, will look unpromising
when off, but when once on will prove not only the most
becoming, but the most comfortable you ever wore.—
Leisure Hour,
GERMAN :GYMNASTIC SOCIETY, LONDON.--lye
gather from the annual report just published that
this society has made fair progress duhroinagl,
htloiewolvasetr,yoeualry.
There are now 1,180 members, of w
410 are Germans. The receipts in 1866 amounted to
£1,343, and the property of the society is now valued at
£2,233. The gymnasium cost altogether £9,562, which
were raised principally by shares and mortgage deben-
tures. The building is the property of the Gymnasium
Company (Limited), the first company of that
kind started in England, but the society by
buying up the shares and liquidating the other liabilities
of the company, will acquire the Gymnasium as its own
property in course of time. £1,783 have been paid off in
this manner hitherto. There exists in connection with the
society a fencing and boxing class, a swimming club, a
ladies' class, a singing club, and an amateur band of some
fifty members. There is, moreover, a library of nearly
2,000 volumes, and altogether the society is in a most
flourishing condition.
I 'The Government of Coburg-Gotha has just an-
nounced that it has given orders for the elections to
take place on the 12th, and for the meeting of Par-
Oiament ou the 24th, of the present month.