The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-02 00:00:00

MINING MARKET.
MONDAY', Two P.M.

Business in the market has remained very quiet,
and prices in several instances rule a shade flatter.
Prince of Wales, Great Retallick, Great South Tol-
gus, North Crofty, and Seton are the shares chiefly
inquired for. Lunexed are the closing quotations :

Carn Brea, —; Chivertott Moor, 5t 6; Cliental's
Gold, 11 III; Clifford Amalgamated, 4 6; ; Bast Bass";
; last ()armlets, At 6 ; Nast L•vell, 8 8 ; East Russell,
—a —a; lersontine and Bolivia Gold, 19s Od 20a Od; Great
Law, 17 15 ; Great Retalliok, 21 3 ; Groat Wit al Tor,
14 18 ; Marks Talley, 6i 0}; North Crotty, 2i 2i; North
Trukerby, 53s ed 15s; Fria*" of Wales, 49s 51s; South
Basset —; South Caradon, —; South Frances,
29 31; Tineroft, 12i ; West Caradon, 9i; West Chi-
verton, 66 68 ; West Scion, 195 205; Whoa'. Basset, —;
Wheal Grenville, 23s Od 35a; Wheal Mary Ann, —— ;
Wheal Beton, 90 95 ; Great South Tolgus, 20s 233 6d.

PWNDS —TWO O'CLOCK.
EICYBANMENT FUNDS.
3 par Unit. Consols
Do. Account, Dec. 5 !MI
par Cent. Reduced 93 }
New 3 per Cent 93} 3
New 3} per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cent. an. 1873
nnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1881' —
Do. for 80 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Televaph), Au..,
Marcie. Jane
:chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 k2} per Ct 2B 31 pm
Do £5OO 2B 31 pm
Do. £lOO k £2OO 2B 31 pm
Bank of England Stock, 44 per Cent 244} 4
Do. Account
INDIAN jOTE.S.NMENT
ladiau Stock, 104 per Cont., April 1874 225 8
Do. Account

Do. 5 por Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Eufaced Paper 4 per Cent
Do Dab., 6 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per. Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l,000
YOIJIGN It2l.Dll—T WO O'CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. q per Cent., 1852-51-60
Do. 1163
Do. 6 per Cent., 1866 • —
uo Account 75
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cuba., 6 por Cent.
C.,ilian 6 per Cent —
Jo. 4} per Cent 67
00. 6 per Cent., B •
Do., 1867
Do., 7 per Cent., 1866
Do., Scrip, £32 paid • —
CJL mbian, 6 per Cent.
Danisn, 3 ner Cent., 1825
DAnubian Principalities, 7 per Cent 64f
Do 8 por Cent., 1867 66}
li tuador New UonAolidated, 1 per Cent —
uggyptian, 7 per Cent —
Do. Second Issue ••
D .. f5OO Bonds
Do. £lOl Bonds B7i
7i I

1861

Do. 45 )0 Bonds —
Do. £lOO Bonds
Government Railway Debentures .....
Guatemala 5 per Cent . —
ft tiian 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do, Account
Do. Maremmana Railway... 5O-
l xicar. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864
Do $ per Cont. Anglo-French —
Ilontevideau 6 per Cent. . —
Moorish imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Do 3 per Con —
Do. Deferred
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account 723/4 i 1} 2k
Do 4A. per Cant. (Uribarrel)
Do 43/4 per Cent.: 1862
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 40k 1
iussia.n 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B6
Do 43/4 per Cent. 1850
Do 13/4 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, .£lOO Bonds —
Do. do. £B4 15s. do.
De., 1866, £lO9 Bonds B7- }
Do. do. £B4 15s. do 843/4
Sa-dinian, 5 ptsr Cent —
Spanish 3 per Con —
De Acc,,unt
Do New Deforroct
Do Account

Do Passive
Do Acctant,
Do Cum. Cert. of Cou,.. not fu <d d l9 1
Do Account.
url;isit 6 por Cont., 1854
Do Account
Do 6 tw,r Cont. 166 ti
Do Account
Do .£IOU Bonds
Do 6 per Ceut., 1862
Do Account
Do .£IOC Bonds 631 4 31
Do. 1863

Do 5 per gent., 1865
D..) Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 b2
Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in Londot.
Austrian a par Cent. Ex 10 Florins ... 49/
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch ilk per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil„
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex, 25f.
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 461 4
TAO 011FLUOL.
Consols, Money 944 1
Do. Account
Do. January • • 931

[Tk. following,appooroel la sir LM et &Luisa of Satur-
day. orosiag.l
CITY, 4.30 P.M.

The market for Consols has closed for the week
in a dull and quiescent state. The latest prices are
941 1 for money, 931 for the sth December, and
931 4 for the settlement in January.
The directors of the Panama, New Zealand, and
Australian Royal Mail Company have issued a
notice this afternoon to the effect that they do not
propose convening another general meeting this
year. The accounts, as the shareholders are aware,
are made up once during the twelve months, and
are presentscl at the annual general meeting,
held in May or June ; therefore, a meeting at
at this period of year is only required when the
operation of an ad interim dividend is to be sub-
mitted for consideration. The receipts for freight
and passage money on the Panama line, which, for
the three months from December to March, averaged
£2,900 a month, have since been maintained at the
monthly average of £4,300.
The following are the closing quotations of some
of the principal Foreign Stocks :—ltalian, 461 4 ;
Greek, 121 4 ; Mexican, 15/ 16/ ; Spanish Pas-
sive, 241 1; ditto Certificates, 19 19}; New 3 per
Cents., 351 ; and Turkish 5 per Cents, 331

Gold amounting to about £lO,OOO in sovereigns,.
from Buenos Ayres, has been taken into the Bank
of England to-day.

The following were the closing quotations of
some of the principal railway companies' shares this
afternoon. Caledonian, 74f Great Eastern, 30k
31; Great Northern, 106 107 ; Great Western, 44!
to 45} ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 123 to 1231 ;
Brighton, 52 to 53 ; Metropolitan, 119 to 1191 ;
Midland, 112 to 1121 ; North Eastern Berwick, 99
to 101 ; and South Eastern 67i to 68.

THE CAB DRIVERS AND THE STREET REGULATION
ACT.—To-day nearly all the metropolitan cabs had bills
posted on them headed " No Lamps," announcing a meet-
ing to be held to-morrow evening, and advising all drivers
to be home by 4 o'clock, so after that hour to-morrow
evening those requiring cabs will, no doubt, find some
difficulty in procuring them.

WHISTLING PlGEONS.—Walking in the vicinity
of Pekin, one is often surprised to hear a sharp and shrill
whistling, which appears to come from a great height, and
to proceed from pigeons, which may be seen flying in close
bands over head—birds to which one knows nature has
denied the power of song. Tho explanation is, that of
Pekin a large number of vultures and other birds to
prey wage a continual war upon the pigeons, and t o
prevent their destruction the Chinese have invented a
kind of whistle of various forms, manufactured with
little gourds or with small pieces of the rind of
bamboo fastened together, in which they make openings
intended to produce long whistling sounds when the
wind blows through them. These whistles, which are
exceedingly light, are furnished with a small tongue of
wood pierced with a hole, by means of which these instru-
ments are attached to the tails of the pigeons. This opera-
tion, says a traveller, is performed especially upon those
pigeons which in their flight aro found at the head of the
bands ; the rapidity of their course causes the air to strike
the whistle, which thus produces a prolonged sound and
drives off the birds of prey, which are frightened by the
noise, the cause of which they do not understand. At
one of the meetings of the Societe d'Acclimatation, this
ingenious whistle was exhibited by 31. Champion, one of
the members of that society. Lady Dorothy Neville has
fitted some of these whistles on to pigeons at Dangstoin
The sound is that of many /Eolian harp; playing simul-
taneously, and is very and ►rater.