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

Colombian, 6 per Cent.
Ouba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Do. 5 per Cent., 1864
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th £lOO Bonds
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Ur?ek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupon
wo. Coupons
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Gl:item:dn. 5 per Cent.
It .;iau 5 per Cent 1865
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Do 41 per Cent., 1865
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Do 6 per Cent., 1862
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Portugueso3 per Ct., 1853 '6,'7,'9,'60,'2, '3, 43}

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Do 41 per Cont. 1850 ' B7/ I
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pet Cent. 1859
Do 5 per Cent. 1862
Do 5 per Cent. 1864 BB
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid B7
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Sardinian 5 per Cent

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Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
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Do. 41 per Cent. 1864
Do. Scrip, £6O paid
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Do 6 per Cent. 1858
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Do 6 per Cont. 1862
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Do 6 per Cent., 1863
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
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Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed lOl
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 304 1 11
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Ditto 11 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent, Ex. 10 Florins
41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch iA per Cent. Ex. 12 Gui!
Do. 4 per Cont. Certificates ..... —
French 'lentos, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
Italian 3 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 251.
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THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 904
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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 1864,
1,039 in 1865, a few accidents in 1865 having
affected a large number of persons—one at Col-
uey llatch, causing injuries (the greater number
very slight) to 250 passengers, one at Wemyss-
bay hurting 75, and four others injuring some
40 or more passengers in each instanc.?. There
were killed on our railways in the year 1865 36
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-
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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 5k inches from the windov, ; 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 was
adopted, stated that the net profits of the bank for
Spain, and Russia still labour? Upon the whole,
1866, although in itself a year of calamity and gloom,
a year of tempests and shipwreck, a year of grievous
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.