The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-28 00:00:00

1880 91 92

Dealings in the Railway Share Market have not
very extensive, and prices have shown rather
less firmness. Caledonians, Great Westerns, Lan-
!ltshire and Yorkshire, Manchester, Sheffield, and
-111coln, Midlands, North British, and South
'4etern have each declined ss. •
The Foreign Market remained exceedingly dull;
Antwerp and Rotterdam brought 54 ; and
Recife and Francisco, 91.

In the Colonial undertakings there was not
mach 'variation. Grand Trunk of Canada remained
Deady at 24 ; East Indian ex div. brought 981;
and Great Indian Peninsula ex div., 96.
• hint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
Irr► ere neglected. Oriental Bank, Union of Aus-
lralia, and Oriental Inland Steam realised previous

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
3NPer Cent. Reduced Annuities 921 1 1
eW 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
Ditto Debentures, 1858
b. Ditto 1859 96 1
(tto Bonds £l,OOO
,„ )itto under £l,000
`i_oasole for Account, Jan. 10
‘mclia Stock for Account
b Ditto 5 per Cent. for Account lOl3/4
`‘Xehequer Bills, £l,OOO, ila
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK
1311ailian 5 per Cent
t uitto 41 per Cent. 1860 B6l
litenos Ayres, 6 per Cent. 961
iitelican 8 per Cent .. 21,1
assian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St —
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent
'"Arkish 6 per Cent 7ot
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for Account, ex div. 923/4 f

The Nationalites of Turin of the 23d says :
field has been very intense for some days past, and this :ttc
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morning the thermometer fell to 13 deg. centigrade below stc
tero (about 7 deg. 25 min. Fahr.) stc
Tho Belgian Government has just accorded a st(
age gold medal to Mme. Von Oltefen de Silva, a cele. :4
rated Dutch tragio actress, in acknowledgment of her st(
having performed at Brussels in the course of the national at!
fetes of September.
SNOW-BALLING.—Four young men were yester-
day fined by the magistrate at Bow-street Police-court et,
terns varying from ss. to 205., for assaulting the police in
k James's-park.
GAs EXPLOSION.—A fearful explosion of gas

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Lok place on Wednesday, at the Glasgow and South-
Western Railway station, Bridge-street, Glasgow. The
booking-office was completely destroyed. No lives were 'I
lost, but some persons were seriously injured. st
THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUN-
TIES Riinvey.—The further hearing of the case " Stokes
v. the Eastern Counties Railway," was resumed this
Morning before the Lord Chief Justice, in the Court of etc
Queen's Bench, Guildhall, and was proceeding when we etc
Went to press. stc
A 'somewhat singular fact is mentioned in the etc
Russian journals : several ladies regularly attend the t
lrctures of professors of the university of St. Petersburg, std
and take notes like students. std
The South-Eastern Gazette states that in a neigh- at'
houring county a clergyman told a mother that all unbap-
Used children "become hobgoblins after death," and are
not permitted to go to heaven. The same paper states that
at Elham a clergyman refused to read the Burial Service
over a child that had not been baptised, and would net even
Permit it to be buried in the churchyard till after dark.
PROFITS OV THE DOCK WAREHOUSE SYSTEM
AT LIVERPOOL.—The profitsfrom the warehouses built by
the Mersey Dock Board around the Albert, Wapping- and
Stanley Docks, have ,during the past year amounted to
the sum of £22,200, which has been passed to the credit of
the General Dock Estate account.
GANG OF COINERS CAUGHT.—On Saturday
evening, as detectives Brown and Thomson were passing
along Gallowgate, they observed Wm. Smith, a "landshark,"
Who is well-known among his thievish associates under the
cognomen of " Sulphur Joe," in company with another ques-
tionable looking fellow. Suspecting that Smith might have
something upon him which belonged to some other body,
they adroitly took him into a close unobserved by his com-
panion, who doubtless wondered where he had gone. On
searching Smith's pockets they found eight counterfeit
florins upon him, and accordingly at once sent him to the
nearest police station. The detectives then lost no time in
visiting Smith's house, at 122, Gallowgate, and there they
found a complete set of coining apparatus, of the newest
and most scientific kind, which had apparently been re-
cently in use. Among the apparatus were two galvanic
batteries, bottles of acid, &e., and which, doubtless, had
been in requisition to electro-plate the coins after being
cast. The detectives had just finished a complete overhaul
of the house when the other man entered, and owned
that the apparatus found belonged to him. He was,
of course, then taken into custody, along with Smith's
Wife; and the three prisoners were on Monday remitted to
the sheriff for examination. The second man is unknown
to the Glasgow police; but he seems an old thief. He gave
the name of John Thomson, remarking that that was only
one of his names, and the name that he had generally seen
in the newspapers referring to him. He is an Englishman
about 40 year of age, dark complexion, and stout made.
The &mins are good imitations of the genuine coin, and
any One who has recently received counterfeit florins ought
to communicate with the authorities in South :Albion-
treet.