The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-18 00:00:00

Colombian, 6 per Cent.
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.Juba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 _
Do. 5 per Cont., 1864 ___
D tnubian Principalities

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Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do.,ytovisional Land Warrant

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E2,7ptian 7 per Cent.
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1)o., Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds
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Do. 1864 B3l.
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Do .f,lOO Bowls
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Do. Government Railway Debentures Bl
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9r.,ek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex C,,upou,

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G tateinala 5 per Cent.
It ,;iau 5 per Cent 1865
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Do. Mareturnana Rail way s6}
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M xioar. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
1864
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Do 5 per Gent. Anglo-French
lontevidean 6 per Cent.
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
\yew Granada

Do 3 per Con 36
Do. Doferrad
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Parovian 5 per Cent., 1865
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Do 44 per Cent., 1865
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Do 44 per Cont. (Uribarren)
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Do 6 per Cent., 186') —
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Portaguose3 per Ct., 1853 '6,'7,'9,'60,'2, '3, 43}
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lussian 5 per Cont., 1822, X St —
Do 4} per Cent. 1850
Da 44 per Cont., 1860
Do 3 pet Cent. 1839
Do 5 per Cent. 1862
Do 5 per Cent. 1864 BBl
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid B7
Do. do. £lO paid l4 i pia
Sardinian 5 per Cent . —
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ipanish 3 per Cent
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Do Now Deferred —
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Do Passive —
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Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
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S wedish 4 por Cent. —
Do. 44 per Cont. 1864 -
Do. Scrip, £6O paid
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
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Do 6 per Cent. 1858
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Do £lOO Bonds
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Do 6 per Cent. 1862
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Do £lOO Bonds
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Do 6 per Cent., 1863 —
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
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Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Account —
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed lOl
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —
Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 3Ol
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Ditto 11 per Cont. —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
Belgian._4% per cent., Ex. 25f ---

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Dutch per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil ,
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
French Routes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 2M. —
Itgiian 3 per Cont. 1851, Ex. 251.
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TWO O'CLOCK.
Console, Money 9Ol
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A YEAR'S RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—There are upon
an average at least four persons killed in a week
upon the railways in the United Kingdom. The
total in the year 1865 was 221, and the variation
in the annual number of late has been very small.
There were 216 in 1862, 184 in 1863, 222 in 1864.
Still more striking is the regularity in the number
of passengers killed ; in every one of the four years
it was either 35 or 36 —one to every ten days. The
number of passengers injured has varied greatly;
it was 536 in 1862, 401 in 1863, 706 in 1861,
1,039 in 1865, a few accidents in 1865 having
affected a large number of persons—one at Col-
ney Hatch, causing injuries (the greater number
very slight) to 250 passengers, one at Wernyss-
bay hafting 74, n rya fvui vt,ticta iu ju.z. ILis -.enrrift
40 or more passengers in each instanc •. There
were killed on our railways in the year 1865 3d
passengers, 122 servants of companies or contractors
(an incomplete return), 9 persons at level crossings,
46 trespassers, and 8 other persons. Of the 221
deaths, only 49 were occasioned by the accidents
which occurred to trains in the course of the year,
30 by accidents occurring to passenger trains, and
19 by accidents to goods trains; 13 passengers
lost their lives by their own fault ; almost twice as
many (23) were killed by accidents beyond their
own control ; 21 of the 23 were killed through pas-
senger trains getting off the rails. Of the 1,039
passengers injured in 1865—the largest number ever
recorded—only five brought it upon themselves by
their want of caution; 802 were injured in 65 colli-
sions of trains, 74 in 11 trains getting off the rails,
71 in seven trains turned wrong at points, 12 from
breakage of parts of carriages or engines, 75 from a
train running into a station at too great a speed.
One passenger was killed through falling while
rashly getting over buffers of carriages in motion
at a station ; five lost their lives in getting out of
trains while in motion ; two in attempting to get
into trains in motion ; and five in incautiously
crossing the line at stations. These are the 13 pas-
sengers returned as killed by their own want of
care. A boy, not a passenger, lost his life through
attempting to ride on the foot-board of a carriage
before the train had stopped ; and a girl who had
come to meet some friends who were passengers
was run over and killed while crossing the line with
them. This danger cf crossing, or partially cross-
ing, is forced upon the public in some instances
even at busy and confusing stations. Four passen-
gers were injured in getting out of or into trains in
motion, and one in incautiously leaning out of win-
dow near a tunnel. A passenger on an Irish line was
killed by leaning out of a carriage window as the
train was leaving a station, his head coming in con-
tact with the pillar of an arch, which was then (not
now) only 5i inches from the window ; this is set
down as death occurring from a cause beyond the
passenger's control. A person riding on the step of
a carriage to speak to a passenger fell off and had
his leg crushed. One accident, which occurred in
the night on the Midland Great Western of Ireland,
is expressly distinguished as caused by malice ; a
rail had been unscrewed and displaced ; one person,
a passenger, was injured on this occasion. Ten
other accidents resulted from passenger trains
getting off the rails, but the cause is not stated.
In one collision trains met on a single line—a
passenger train and a coal train ; three persons
were killed and fifteen injured. Of the nine per-
sons killed on public level crossings, three were
a child, a deaf boy, and a farm servant driving
sheep across the line. In the course of the year
three persons placed themselves before approaching
trains, and wilfully ended their lives by submitting
to be run over. In the six years, 1860-65, 1,382
persons were killed and 4,460 injured on the rail-
ways of the United Kingdom.
The directors of the Bank of England have not
altered their minimum rate of discount, and the
money market generally is at present in the same
condition as before.
To-day there has been a meeting of the Alliance
Bank, Limited. The directors' report, which Naas
adopted, stated that the net profits of the bank for
Spain, and Russia still laboue? Upon the who,
18G6, although in itself a year of calamity and gloomle,
a year of tempests and shipwreck,
disasters in the commercial world, a year of tremen-
dous strife in Europe and of changes unprecedented
since Waterloo, yet may probably be looked back
upon in days to come as a year beyond all others
pregnant with the blessings of peace, prosperity, and
freedom not only to Europe, but to mankind.
The screw frigate Forte, 29, 2,364 tons, 400-
power, unarmoured, is in the hands of the ship-
wrights and engineers belonging to the master ship-
wright and factory departments at Sheerness dock-
yard, who are bringing her forward for commission
early in the present year. There is still a deal of
work remaining to be completed on board, and it
will be some time before she is ready for the
pennant,

PREFERENCE samcss AND STOUlkb.
Great Northern, 5 per cent.. 191 101
Great Western, 4 per cent irred 70
South Eastern (Reading Ar.ns., £1.0,6), 22i

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Nottingham and Grantham R. and C. 9t;

FORM UN RAIL WA 10.
Antwerp and Rotterdam, 9;
Dutch Rhenish, 201
Ditto (all), 24g
Recite and San Francisco. 11m.; qua. 7 parierit.. 10
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 154 a
West Flanders,

FORICIGN MINES.
Don Pedro, North Del Roy, 11
St. John del Rey, lim., 524

BANKS

Alliance, lira.. 1-1
Australasia, 61 t
Bank of British Columbia, 13
City, 14h 14
Consolidated Bank, lira., 5 41
imperial
tt
Scotch,
ch,aandui, 0
Australianm Chartered, 18
Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim.. -
Do.osopaeordeent. Debentures, 1._61, for 30 years, 811
LLoonnddon and County, (36 7,
London Joint Stock, 41 4}
London and South-Western, lim., 171
London and II estminster, 971
MISCELLANEOUti.
Anglo-American Telegraph, 151 I
Atlantic Telegraph,
DU o, 8 per cunt., 721
Berlin Water Works, lim.. 12}
Ditto, new. 5,
City of Moscow Gas, lim , 181
Company of African Merchants, 11m., 21
Ceylon Company, 91 4 I
Continental Union Gas, lim. 91
Credit Foncier of Mauritius, 7
Ditto, 6 per cent. perpeti. deb., 102
Credit roncier of Engiann. Una., 3 2}
Crystal Palace, 30
East India Irrigation and Canal, lc)} i
Ebbw Vale, 111
Egyptian Com. and Trading, lira., 515
Fairb dm Eng neering, 5
Fore-street areliousu, lira., 131
Gen. Credit and Discount, lim..
International Financial Society, iim., 21
International Land Credit. 11w., 41
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour),
Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 33
London and Provincial Marine, ie
London General Omnibus Company, lira, 31
idras Irrigation anl Canal (guaranteed 5 per cent. by In-
dian Government), 191
Milwall Iron Works, 11
Freehold Land and Dock, 81
Notional Discount a.ompany, 141 11
North Britten Australasian, 41 6
North British and Mercantile Insurance, 16
Ocean Marine Insurance), 211
Peninsula and Orenial steam, 70
Ditto, new. 70
Royal Mail Steam, los 10
Submarine Telegraph, 80
Telegraph Constructiun and Maintenance, 11m..
Ditto (.£l5), 12, h
Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, lira., f
Universal Marine, insurance, Rua., 2/
Van Diemen's Land, f,/
Viceroy of Egypt, Mortgage, Loan,_7ol