The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-24 00:00:00

Do .£lOO Bonds —
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Milian 6 per Cent —
Do. 3 per Cent.
Do. 6 per Cent A —
De Scrip, X 75 paid
Colombian 6 per Cent. —
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 2 per Cent., 1825 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 ...
Danubian Principalities
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Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do.' 'Provisional Land Warrant —
Do Deferred
'igyptian 7 per Cent —
Do., Second Issue —
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Do £lOO Bonds B2 1
Do. Government Railway Debentures Bl
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Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
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Do. Coupons
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'l:den-1;11a 5 per Com. —
t9lian 5 par Cent 1865
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Do. Marommana Railway
%lexicar. 3 per Cent
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P. 1864 lll
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French —
Jlontevidean 6 per Cent ..
noorish Imperial 5 per Cent
\I ew Granada
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Do 2 per Cent 334
Do. Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
'eruvian 5 per Cent., 1865
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Do 44 per Cent. (llribarren)
Do 44 per Cent., 1862
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
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Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Do 44 per Cent. 1850
Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent. 1859
Do 5 per Cent. 1862 9l
Do 5 per Cent. 1861
3ardinian 5 per Cent
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9panish 3 per Cent
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Do New Deferred
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Do Passive
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Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
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Swedish 4 per Cent.
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JO. 4i per Cent.
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
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Do 6 per Cent. 1855
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Do 6 per Cent. 1862
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Do 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip...
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Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed ............... 971
Venezuela 3 per Cent. ........................
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00. 6 per Cent, 1864........................28
Ditto 11- per Cent. ....... . ...................
Dividends on the above payable In Loudon.
Austrian, 5 psr Cent., Ex. 10 Florins ...
INgian. 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch i 4 per ('Ant. Ex. 12Gui!.. —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .....
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
Italian 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 25f.
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TWO O'CLOCK.

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Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day.

The market opens rather quiet, with prices id. to
id. lower than the quotations of Friday. Sales will
probably be 6,000 or 8,000 bales.

DREADFUL EXPLOSION AND PROBABLE Loss OF
FIVE LIVES.—This (Wednesday) morning an ex-
plosion of a serious character took pla3e on the premises of
Mr. Laidlaw, china firework manufacturer, Shirwell's-yard,
Mile-end. At the time of the explosion four young women
and a man were at work in the preparing shop. From
some unexplained cause a portion of the fireworks ex-
ploded, prostrating the females and the man, setting their
clothes on fire, and blowing out several parts of the build-
ing. The whole five were found to be terribly injured,
who were removed to the hospital, but there is not the

least hope of the recovery of any of them.
WIG STEALERS.—The reason why Racine put off
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ordering his son's wig is obvious enough, when we find
that the price of one of the fashionable colour was 1,000
French crowns. Thi3 gentleman whom Sidney Smith. in
reference to the length and redundancy of his curls, ac-
cused of growing Lair for sale, might have driven a profit-
able trade at that time. Down to the period immediately

preceding the French Revolution, which introduced crops
a la Brutus, the wigs commonly worn by English gentle-
men in the streets cost from 30 to 40 guineas ; and Rogers,
appealicg to Luttrell in our hearing, thus described a

mode of theft as practised in London within their common

memory. The operator was a small boy in a butcher's
tray on the shoulders of a tall man ; and when the wig was
adroitly twitched off, the bewildered owner look round for
it in vain—an accomplice confused and impeded under the
pretence 51 assisting him, and .the tray-bearer made off.—
Edinburgh Review.
BARNED'S BANK.—Yesterday the case of Barned's
Banking Company, which carried on business_at Liver-
pool until the recent financial crisis, was again before
the Chief Clerk attached to Vice-Chancellor Stuart's
Court. Mr. Emmanuel stated that on a previous occa-
sion an order had be en made that the shareholders
might inspect the books and accounts of the company,
and make certain other investigations which they con-
sidered necessary for the purposes of their defence
against the call which had been made. The official
liquidators had promised to give certain information, but
up to the present time it had not been supplied. It was
this which led the applicants to ask for further time to
carry out the spirit of the order they had already ob-
tained, and make a searching investigation for them-
selves. A Clerk from Messrs. Freshfield, Newman, and
Co. who are the solicitors to the official liquidators
asked that the whole matter might be adjourned until Mr.
Ch urch, the chief clerk to the Master of the Rolls, in whose
court the cause was set down, returned. The defendant
had delivered to his clients a set of interrogations rat her
than a request, as stated, for examination of the books. In
addition to this, they had had for an entire month the
result of the investigation of the special examiner. Mr.
Emmanuel said that if the information was not supplied to
his clients, then they require time for further researches.
IThe Chief Clerk, after some discussion, adjourned the con-
sideration of all three summonses till the 22th October.
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last sitting a
letter was read from Father Sacchi, of Rome, on the
spectrum analysis of stellar light. In examining a large
number of stars, he says he was struck with the uniformity
of their luminous constitution. He distinguishes three
different types : one commonly called the type of white
stars like Sirius, kc. ; another comprises the stars whose
light produces red or orange-coloured bands in the spec-
trum ; and to the third belong the stars producing very
narrow bands. In the first type he has found an excep-
tion : Gamma Cassiopeia, which, instead of having a dark
band at F (a point of the spectrum well known to those
who possess a map cf it) has a luminous one instead. Of the
stars pertaining to the second type, Alpha Herculis is the
most remarkable. It is of the third magnitude, and yields a
spectrum, the bands of which appear in relief like the pil-
lars of a long colonnade. The stars of the third type might
be appropriately called solar, their spectrum bearing the I
' strongest • resemblance to that of the sun. Another re-
markable circumstance is this, that each of these types
appears to be dominant in some one or other of the celes-
tial regions. Our readers may remember our giving an ac-
count of M. Grimaud De Caux's papers, in which he main-
tains that cholera is contagious, and ought to tie prevented
y means of strict quarantine. We also gave abstracts of
the replies which his papers elicited, and in which every
one of his arguments was demolished ; besides which, we
suppose our readers are themselves personally aware, as we
are, of facts in direct opposition to M. Grimaud's views.
Nevertheless, he has thought proper to address another
paper to the academy, in which, after attempting to cover his
retreatself
as
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owing to me." This, in summer, would be refreshingly
cool. - Galignani.
A TOWN COUNCILLOR CONVICTED OF POACHING.
—At the County Police-court, Macclesfield, yesterday,
William Carr, soap and candle manufacturer, and a mem-
ber of the ,Macclesfield Corporation, was charged with
trespassing in pursuit of game on land in Marton, belong-
ing to Mr. A. H. Davenport, of Capesthorne Park. Richard
Davenport swore that ho was ploughing in a field on the
afternoon of September 26, when ho saw the defendant
and Mr. JamesHodgkinson, of Congleton, got over a fence
into a clover field, with a dog, when they spread them-
selves out and started a hare, which the dog killed, and
the two men took it away with them. The defence was
that Mr. Hodgkinson, against whom a similar charge had
been withdrawn, was the guilty pertion, and that the
defendant had permission from the tenant of the land (his
relative) to pass over the clover field, as the nearest way
to some land held by him. The bench said they considered
the case proved ; and, as the defendant had bee n convicted
before, he would be fined 40s. and costs, or to be impri-
soned for one month.
THE LONG VACATlON.—Yesterday the long vaca-
tion ended, and this day declarations will be served in
actions in which the parties appeared. The Chancery vaca-
tion will end on the 28th int?