The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-13 00:00:00

Do. Government Railway Debentures. 814 51.
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons 13;
iio. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Gaatemala 5 per Cent. —
It3llan 5 per Cent 1865
Do, Account
Do. liaremmana Railway —
Nlexicat. 3 per Cent
Uo. Account
D'. 1861 —
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
Slontavidaan 6 per Cent. • ••• —
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
gew Granada
Do 2 per Cent
Do. Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
'eruvian 5 per Cent., 1865 -
Do Account —
Do 4i. per Cent. (Uribarren)
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Do 4i Per Cent., -1862
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 431 I
Do. Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 4i per Cent. 1850
Do 4f per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent. 1859 —
Do 5 per Cent. 1862 —
Do 5 per Cent. 1861
Sardinian 5 per Cont

Do. Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Account
Do Passive 2ll
Do Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded l3i
Do Account
Swedish 4 per Cent.
Do. 4} per Cent. 1864
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Do. Account
Do 6.per Cent. 1858

Do. A-ccount
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1863
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed
Ditto 1} per Cent.
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
1864

Do. 6 per Cent,
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 p3r Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2} per Clout- Ex. 12 Gail„
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Italia), b per °Ant. 1831, Ex. 2sf.
Do. Account
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TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money B9f
881 1 ex div.
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LAW INTELLIGENCE,—This Day.

BAIL COURT.

.Sittings in Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Blackburn and

a COmmon Jury.)

ABSOLON T. STATHAM-ACTION AGAINST A MEDICAL MAN.
This case was resumed this morning. It was an action
brought by the plaintiff, Sarah Absolon, to recover from
the defendant compensation in damages for an assault in
administering chloroform against her will, and extracting
six of her teeth. The defendant pleaded, first, not guilty,
and secondly, that what he did was with the leave and
license of the plaintiff.
Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Telford Salter
were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr.
Murphy for the defendant.
Mrs. Absolon, who was brought into court upon crutches,
and was accommodated with a seat on the bench, said that
she was 34 years of ago. She had been an out-patient of
the Royal Free Hospital, and was treated by Dr. Gant.
She had also been to Guy's, where she was treated for
nervous debility. She was often requested to take chloro-
form, but always refused. She never suffered from scro-
fula. She was sent to Margate to bo treated for swollen
glands, in consequence of defendant pressing her throat
Dr. Statham had always acted very kindly towards her
since this affair. Ile had paid money for her. She told
him she was unable to work. She was under sixteen years
of age when she was married.

At the close of the evidence for the plaintiff, Mr. Gif.
lard, Q.C., opened the defendant's case.
The case was proceeding when we went to press.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Baron Martin and a
Common Jury.)
CANTON V. BIRD.

This was an action by the plaintiff, Mary Canton, to
recover compensation for injuries alleged to have been sus-
tained through the negligence of their servants, to which
the defendants pleaded not guilty.

Mr. Prentice, Q.C., and Mr. Bingham Daly appeared for
the plaintiff; and Mr. Jones, Q.C., and another learned
gentleman, for the defendants.
The plaintiff had been housekeeper to a gentleman
named Langton, who lived at Imlen Villa, Hammersmith,
and the defendants, Messrs. Bird, are builders in a very
extensive way of business in the neighbourhood.
The plaintiff in her evidence stated that on the 3rd of
October, 1865, two workmen of the defendants' named
Ivans and Porter had been engaged at the villa in
repairing and decorating the apartments, and were em-
ployed that day in the breakfast-room and left about six
o'clock. She and a fellow-servant fancied that they
felt a strong smell of gas, and went into the breakfast-
room carrying a lighted candle. An explosion immediately
took place, and she was burned severely on her head,
face, and other parts of her body, the effects of which
were still visible. She had been confined three weeks in
the hospital and was unable to attend to her business for
three months. There were no other persons in the apart-
ment during the day, and the accident, which occurred
through an escape of gas from one of the chandeliers, must
have been caused by the workmen in question who
neglected the necessary precaution.

The evidence failed to establish the plaintiff's case, and
she was accordingly nonsuited.

MARKETS.---This Day.

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 10s to £4 ss; clover,
£4 10s to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s per load.
Trade quiet.:
CUMRERLAND.—Moadow hay, £3 lOs to £4 lOs Od; clover,
£4 108 to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 18s to .£2 5s per load.
A moderate demand.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 lOs to £4 5s ; clover,
£4 10s to .£5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to".C2 4s per load.
Trade slow.

COLONIAL.

Tn.—The public sales of China continue to proceed
without animation ; 5,714 packages passed, of which 5,598
have been sold, all being without reserve. New season's
Monings, in boxes, sold at 2s. 24d. to 2s. 3d., and black leaf
congou at ls. 2d. to Is. 2id. per lb.

SUGAR.—There has been a good demand for refining
descriptions, and prices show an upward tenclency. In the
refined market goods continue very scarce, and full rates
are current. Common to fine grocery lumps are quoted
425. 9d. to 455., and pieces 31s. to 375. per cwt.
COFFEE.—A large quantity of Ceylon is announced for
public competition during the week ; superior 'qualities,
however, maintained full rates, while inferior descriptions
area shade cheaper.

RICE.—The high rates still demanded by holders has, in
a great measure, checked business, but cleared descriptions
sell readily at full quotations.
- TALLOW.—The tendency of the tallow market has been
towards firmness, and prices to-day rule 3d to 6d per cwt.
higher for distant deliveries.

TELEGRAPHY.--The Leeds Mercury publishes the
following story as an instance of the many singular appli-
cations of telegraphy :—" A gentleman, whom we will call
Mr. M., residentin London, is employed there to " manage
the wire" for a Glasgow journal—that is to say, he ar-
ranges the news to be sent down each evening by the wire
which that newspaper employs by special arrangement with
ono of the companies. The principal office of that company
is at the top of several flights of stairs in one of those im-
mense buildings, erected to furnish office accommodation,
which abound in some quarters of the city. After a certain
hour in the evening the telegraphic clerk who sends off the
' copy' by wire is the sole occupant of this mansion, with
the exception of the porter who attends the door, which
after the hour referred to is generally shut. This function-
ary, who is not often found nodding, got into this abnormal
Homeric state a night or two ago, and so profound was his
slumber that not all the fantasias which Mr. M.- performed
on the door—loud enough to have wakened the Seven
Sleepers, and even louder than the works of some of our
modern composers—could arouse him. It was, of course,
out of the question to attract the attention of the clerk at
the roof of the establishment. Mr. M. fortunately, however,
hit on the following expedient for letting the porter know
that ho was waiting for admission. He wont to an adjoin-
ing telegraph station, and sent a message to the company's
office in Glasgow, requesting the clerk there to telegraph
to tho clerk in the London house, and instruct him to go
downstairs to rouse the porter. This was done with per-
fect success in about 20 minutes. In that time, therefore,
persons at a distance of over 400 miles succeeded in awaken-
ing one who was only separated from the employer by a
door, and who, even.at that short distance, was deaf to all
persuasion,"

i'KEFICRENCE SkLARICS,
London and S.W., Portsmouth perpet. anna, ol

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Dutch Rhenish, 19
Ditto (all), 24
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 18
FOREIGN MINES.

Port Philip,
St. .John del Rey. lim., 0
Yudanamutana of South Australia, liit.,l f 1
BANK&

Alliance, Um.. 181
Consolidated BanK, lim., 5
English and Swedish, Bin.. a
Imperial Bank, lim..
Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 21
London and County, 63 2i 1
London Joint Stock, 42
Oriental BanK Corporation, 93 21
Union of Australia, 48
Union of London, 941

28. 6d, 21

MISCELLANEOUS.
Anglo-American Telegraph, 141 1 /
Anglo-Mexican Mint, lo}
Atlantic Telegraph, 45
Dit o, 8 per cent., 821
Commercial Union, Insurance.
Credit Fonder of Englana, lim 3a 1 I,
Crystal Palace, 3B 7
East India Irrigation and Canal, 10
Electric Telegraph, 135
Gen. Credit and Finance of Londln, lira., 41 1
Hudson's Bay, II
International Financial Society, lim., 31
Land Securities, lim., Ik
London tieneralOmnibus Company, lim, 81
M ideas Irrigation and Canal (4 per cent, guaranteed by In,
dian Government),
Ditto all), 18
Nr.tional Discount Company, 111 I
Ditto, new, issued at 5 prem., of which 31 is to pay, 9/
Ocean .0 arine Insurance), 20i
Telegraph Constructivn and Maintenance, Bin.,
Ditto (Rh), 14/
Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, lira., 51
Universal Marine, Insurance, lim., 2}

Captain Chipman's emigrant train, numbering
nearly four hundred persons, including men, women, and
children, arrived at Salt Lake City on the 16th of
September. •

A LEARNED ANTI-REFORMER.--According to
the Caledonian Mercury, Professor Blackie has been asto-
nishing the modern Athenians by a lecture against repre-
sentative institutions. Besides this he made a speech at
the Working Mon's Club, in which he challenged either
Bright, Beales, J ones, or M'Laren to discuss with him the
subject of democracy, promising that they would find him
" a sharp customer." His advice to the working men was
to put no faith in Reform Bills or demonstrations, by in-
ference to be no politicians, and to find fault, not with
the Government—Whig or Tory—but always to blame
themselves." One sentence will perhaps serve as sample
of the rhapsody which amused the audience immensely :
" Cultivate music—Scotch music—a good song is better
than all Reform Bille or Presbytery speeches,"