The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-31 00:00:00

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Do. Account, May 9 B6 /
3 per Cent. Reduced B5l
New 3 per Cent 854 4 4 I
New per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 l3/
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908

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March.
Exchequer Bills, £1,000,3 per Cent. 5 10
Do. £5OO lO
Do £lOO and £2OO
Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent
Do Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 2lOl
Dc. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced Paper 4 por Cent
Do. 5 per Cent, Jan. 1872
Do. 51 per Cent, May 1879
Do. Deb., 4 per Cent, Aug. 1866
Do: Bonds, £l,OOO 8
Do. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd — pin
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent --
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 1865 —
Do Account 6Bl 9 i
Do. Scrip, £45 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 31f
Milian 6 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent —
Do. 6 per Cent
Do Scrip, £5O paid
Colombian 6 per Cent.
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Danubian Principalities
Do. Account •

iquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent --
Do., Provisional Land Warrant —
Do Deferred
6gyptian 7 per Cent —
Do., Second Issue B3
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do. 1864 Blf 2+ 1
Do £lOO Bonds Bs+ 5 f 6
Do. Government Railway Debentures —
Do. £5O paid
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
(ivatetnala 5 per Cent
Italian 5 per Cent 1865
Do Account —
Do. Maremmana Railway —
Mexican 8 per Cent —
Do. Account
Dr) 1864 l6 f
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French
ffontevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
New Granada
?eruvian 5 per Cent., 1865
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren). —
Do 4+ per Cent., 1862
Do 2 per Cent —
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 44
Do. Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 4+ per Cent. 1850
Do 4+ per Cent., 1860

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Do 3-pei Cent. 1859 .
Do 5 per Cent. 18G2 ~
Do 5 per Cent. 1864
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Do. Account
Spanish 3 per Cent •
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Account

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Do Passive 2Ol
Do Account 2Ol, +
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Do Account l4l i
Swedish 4 per Cent. —
Do. 41 per Cent. 1864
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Do Account —
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do .£l.OO Bonds 5B
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 62
Do 6 per Cent., 1863 —
Do 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip —
Do Account
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed
Venezuela 3 por Cent. —
Ditto account —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
1)0. Account
Do. 1864 3Ol 2 30i
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian, I+ per cent., Ex. 251
Dutch 21 per Cont., Ex. 12 Gail —
Do I per Cent. Certificates
French Routes 3 per Cent. —
Italia:. 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f
Do. Account ......................... ~-
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for money .................... , ......... 871 i
Do. Account, June 6th........... . B6f 1 x d

Liverpool Cotton Market. —This Day.

Market opens with a good demand at steady
rates. Sales, probably 15,000 bales.

A BABY BARONET.—Some months back died Sir
Allred Joseph Doughty Tichborne, the last baronet
of Tichborne, Hampshire, a young
man of 26, who had
figured in Basinghall-street before his death. By his wife,
a young daughter of Lord Arundell of Wardour, he left no
children, and great were the local lamentations at the ex-
tinction of an old Hampshire family and the transference
of the estates to that of Lord Dormer, as was understood ;
fur were not the Tichbornes in Hampshire before the Con-
quest at the mouth of the Itchen, whence their name " de-
Itchenbourne," or Tichborne ? and was it not a Sir John
Tichborne, High Sheriff of the county, who, on hearing of
Queen Elizabeth's death, posted to Winchester and pro-
claimed James 1., who created him a baronet and knighted
four of his sons? It seems that Sir Alfred left his widow
enceinte ; and the son, whose birth was announced yester-
day morning at Fencoto Hall, in Yorkshire, is now 12th
baronet of Tichborne.

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S CITY CASKET.—The
casket in which the freedom of the City of London
is to be represented on the 7th of June next, to his Royal
Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, is from a design by the
same artist who wrought out the elaborate casket of gold
presented to the Prince of Wales on the occasion of his
marriage. In this instance, however, the old tradition of
having the box entirely of gold has been departed from;
for the Common Council decided that it should be emble-
matical of the great profession to which his royal highness
belongs. It was therefore determined that the casket
should be of oak, carved from a beam of the old roof re-
cently removed from Guildhall. There was,we understand,
considerable competition among the principal jewellers for
the honour of making this fine work of art, but Mr. Ben-
son's design was selected. The casket is about 16 inches
long by 10 inches high, oval in shape, and in the cinque
cento style. It is difficult to describe the minute tracery
of carved work, or the fine gold ornaments, in high relief,
with which all parts of it are covered. A superb gold and
enamelled ornament, forming the City arms, surmounts the
apex of the casket, and in the centre (in front), on an
enamelled gold panel, the prince's arms are blazoned in
colours; two small panels of dark blue, on either side, con-
tain the prince's monogram, with the Admiralty anchor.
On the back of the box, in a rich gold framework, small
raised letters of pure gold, in blue enamel, form the follow-
ing inscription :—" Phillips, Mayor. Presented by the
Corporation of London, with the freedom of the City, to
his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, Thursday, 7th June,
1866," On the inside of the lid, on a chased gold panel, is
engraved, "This casket is carved from the oak taken from
the old roof of Guildhall." On the outside, at each end,
are beautifully carved masks; and between the tripodial
supports of oak and gold, on which the casket rests, are
winged seahorses, exquisitely carved• and enriched. It is
impossible in a mere description to convey an adequate
idea of its general effect—of the rich coloured contrasts
which the dark oak, the enamelled plaques, and the
tinted gold ornaments afford. All its cornices are of gold,
with alternate wreaths of oak leaves and acorns ; and
altogether, more than 30 ounces of pure gold are employed
in these decgrations alone, The oak carvings are by Mr.
Rogers,

85f 1 ; Annuities, 1885, 13f 4 ; Exchequer Bills,
10s. to ss. dis ; for March and ditto, ss. to 3s. dis.;
Bank of England Stock, 247 k 248 ; India Stock,
210 f ; ditto 5 per Cents., 106 f ; ditto Enfaced 5
per Cents., 101; ditto 4 per Cent. Debentures, 99/
1001 ; and ditto Bonds, Bs. dis.
In the Foreign Stock market quotations are
generally lower. Spanish Passive, 20k ; the
Certificates, 14k ; Greek, 11 12 ; Mexican, 181
1 ; ditto New, 15} 16 ; Turkish 5 per Cents., 30/
; Italian, 41f ; and Brazilian Scrip, 6 5 dis. ;
United States 5-20 Bonds, 661 67 ; Erie Shares,
78f 79 ; and Illinois, 65f 66.
The operations in the Railway Share Market
have been on a very restricted scale, but prices
generally have remained steady. Metropolitan
have declined £1; while Midland have advanced 55.,
and South-Eastern £l.
In the Foreign and Colonial lines there is also
little variation. Dutch Rhenish are steady, at 18 ;
Grand Trunk of Canada are at 191 20; and East
Indian have declined to 102/ 103/.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are quiet. Alli-
ance have improved to 18f 191 ; Agra and Master-
man to 23 24 ; London Joint Stock to 65/ 661 ;
and Union of London to 491 501 ; Credit Foncier
and Mobilier of England are 2/ 21 dis. ; General
Credit, 2f dis. ; and National Discount Company,
7 7+ prem.