The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-27 00:00:00

roraliaN. FUNDS--CLOSING PIIICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent —
Atmtrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
Br.iziliau 5 per Cent —
D.). 1 por Cent., 1352-53-60
Do. 1863
DJ. 5 per Cont., 1865
Pc Account —
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do 2 per Cent. (Defernd 3 per Cent ; 39}
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
C.kilian 6 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent
Pa. 6 per Cent., B .
Do., 1867
Do., 7 per Cent., 1866, —
Du., Scrip, £32 paid
C ,1 inbiaii, 6 per Cent.
Danisn 3 ner Cent., 1825
D.inubian Principalities, 7 per Cent 631 3
Do 8 par Cent., 1867 65
B tuador New Consolidated, 1 per Gen,—
elgyptiar, 7 per Cent —
Do. Second Issue .....,
D . 1-5 in Bonds
Do. £lO6 Bonds B7l 7
P. 1861
Do,
.15 in Bowls Bl
Do. £lOO Bonds ~.„ 851 61
Government Railway Debentures.... 92 1i 2 11
Guatemala, 5 por Cent .. —
It iliau 5 per Cont., 1865 —

Do, Account
Do. Maretutuana Railway —
hi xicar. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French —
lionteviclean C per cent. .. —
&loorish Imperial 5 per Cent .
Now Granada l2l
Do 3 per Con —
Do. Defer-ad
Du Land Warrants (Hectares)
Poravian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account —

Do 4 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 4} per Cent.. 1862

Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 41 401
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B6 51
Do 44 per Cent. 1850
Do 11 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Auglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds —
Do. do. £B4 15s. do— —
Do., 1866, £lOO Bends... 874 61 74
Do. do. £B4 15s. do —
Sardinian, 5 per Cent —
Spau:sh 3 per Con
Do Account
Do New Defurrea 331 4 31
Do Account
Do Passive 234 1 4
Do Account
Do Corn. Cert. of Corr .. not feuded
Do Account
Turkish 6 per Cent., 1854
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account ••• -
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 691
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 64 1 3
Do. 1863 —
Do 5 per Oent., 1865
D ) Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 5ll 1
D ) 1 per Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. lO
Dividenas on the above payable in Loudon.
Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins ...
Bllgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 251.
Dutch 24 per Cont. Ex. 12 GO, —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. .
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
D,, Account
1:o 6 per Cunt., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Italial. 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 2sf.
Do. Account —
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 944 i
Do. Account

LATEST CITY INTELLIGENCE.
CITY, HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK.

Since two o'clock no change has taken place in
the value of Consols, which continue at 941 for
money, and at 934 for the account, ex dividend.
Bar gold to the amount of £57,000 has been
taken from the Bank, and 6,000 sovereigns have
been received there from Lisbon.
_ _

Ia the Foreign Market the progress of the
liquidation has gone satisfactorily. Contangos in
this department have been easy. Italian have de-
clined since two o'clock, at 464 ; but Spanish
Passive have improves 4 to 231 244 ; and the 3 per
Cents. 4, to 344 35 ; Greek remain at 13 4 ; Maxi-
can at 16 ; and Turkish 5 per Cents. at 334 4.

Anicrical securities, after the rise of this morn-
ing, are steady. Illinois have declined /, to 851
861, but Eries are unchanged at 47 49, and United
States 5-20 Bonds at-70f 4.

The following were the closing quotations this
afternoon of some of the principal railway companies'
shares :—Caledonian, 71 to 72 ; Great Eastern, 30
to 301 ; Great Northern, 104 to 106 ; Great
Western, 44f to 44 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1211 to 1214 ; Brighton, 50k to 51#; Metropolitan,
116 k to 117 f ; Midland, 110 k to 111 ; North-
Eastern (Berwick), 98 to 100 ; and South Eastern,
651 to 651.

ASTRAL SCIENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Having observed in " ZadkieN Almanac
for 1868" that persons aro recommended to petition
Parliament for an alteration in the laws which
prohibit the practice of astral science in Britain,
and having observed in the Queen's Speech that
some legal changes are to be made during the next
session, I am desirous to know whether the desired
change is likely to be made or not. Reference to
my " Plea for Urania," and later still, my " As-
trology in a Nutshell" and " Curiosities of Occult
Literature" will show that my affairs have been, and
are, seriously deranged by my past con-
nexion with the subject, and I think, as a
matter of common justice, I am entitled to
know from some competent person what course
is to be taken. During last session I forwarded to
the House of Commons a petition for inquiry
through Mr. J. S. Mill, M.P., consisting of 100
clauses, asking for an instalment of justice, and an
examination of Commander Morrison, R.N., editor
of " Zadkiel's Almanac," who calculated my na-
tivity in 1849.—1 am, Sir, yours obediently,
London, 26th Nov., 1867. CHR. CooIE.

THE LINCOLN GOLD 1111NES,CALICO ORES

We extract the following from the .Atla, Cali-
fornia, of October 10th, 1867 :—We had an idea
that the curious calico ores worked at the Lincoln
Mines, and at Quail Hill, are something new under
the sun, an addition to the many singularities
nowhere found but iu California. We find,
however, that there is just such a formation, and
just such calico ores in South America. This may
be important to us, as leading to some better esti-
mation of the practical value of what we have.
The calico ore mines of Chili being in every respect
similar to those we recently described as being
worked in California. They have been worked by
the family of Don Emanuel Portally for a century.
They are located seventy-eight miles south of
Santiago, Chili, and thirty miles east of Roucuaga,
Provice of Santiago, western slope of Cordilleras.
The mine is called Leona, and similar to the
Lincoln mines and that at Quail Hill. The
vein matter at the Leona mine is several hundred
feet wide. It has been long exhausted
above the water level, and the present workings are
to a great depth below ; there is much less water
than in any other mines of equal depth ; the prin-
cipal production is silver. Silver is also a portion
of the product at Quail Hill and at Lincoln. At
the lowest depth worked in the Chili mine the ore
has not changed its character; the sulphurets bolo w
are decomposed, as they arc above the water-level.
Should this be the case in our California calico ore
belt it will be a great addition to its value ; the
Leona ores, like our own, are of low grade, but they
mine cheaply. The yield in their rude arrastres has
averaged over $3 to the ton ; the quality is without
limit, and the mine has proved a source of perma-
nent wealth. The deposit at the Lqoua mine has
an extent of two miles. We aro not advised
respecting other deposits ou the extension of that
mineral belt, but in Calaveras and Placer bounties
the same calico ores have been found at several
points; and, while many places may prove barren,
there is every encouragement for prospectors to
search along the whole eighty miles between the
extreme points at which it has been well proved to
be workable—viz., at Harpending Lincoln Gold
Mines in Placer, and at Quail hill in Calveras.
At this latter place the mill, now about to make its
regular clean up, will soon give us exact figures as
to the actu d profit of working calico ores by the
present process, which, we may be assured, will be
greatly improved by future experience.